A/N: Okay so the italics in this chapter are going to be memories from Jefferson. So glad you guys are enjoying and keep the reviews coming! Also, I had to change my poll so make sure you vote in the new one so I can get your opinions. Enjoy!

Jefferson:

I sat up and took in my surroundings. I was no longer in Wonderland. So where the hell was I? I was in a lavish bed and across from me was a large television on a dresser. I moved to the nightstand right next to me and grabbed the remote, turning the television on. I needed to know where I was. And then it suddenly dawned on me that I had no idea how I knew half of the things I knew like the television and the remote. A weather report came on for a town called Storybrooke.

That witch did it. She cast the curse. So why was I here? I was nowhere near the Enchanted Forest. I was in a completely different world, but Aurora and Grace were in the Enchanted Forest. I quickly got up, found the closet and put some clothes on. I began to look around the large mansion in hopes that at least one of them was there. I got to a room and inside there were many of the hats that I had made while I was in Wonderland. There was a window right across from the door and right next to it was what looked to be a telescope. I moved to it and slowly put my eye to it. When I saw what it was pointed at I gasped and backed away. I had to look again though. It was Grace. She was having breakfast with our neighbors from the Enchanted Forest. Her parents.

I moved away from the telescope, not being able to take any more of this. I had a huge house, but no Grace or Aurora. Aurora. I looked into the telescope and slowly moved it around. I could see Granny and Red, but in this world her name was Ruby and they owned a diner. What the hell was Red wearing? I ignored it and continued to explore the town. Jiminy Cricket who here was Archie Hopper was walking his dog Pongo down the street and that's when I saw her. Aurora was walking down the street with Snow. I adjusted the telescope so I get a closer look at her face. She threw her head back laughing and all I wanted was to be right next to her, hearing that melodious laugh. Suddenly she stopped and I saw that Regina had stopped the two. Regina. She did this. She caused all of us to be separated. I felt a burning rage through my entire core. I was going to get back at her. Somehow. One day.

I sat up in bed, gasping at the dream replaying my first day in Storybrooke. I looked to my right and Aurora was moving to sit next to me on the bed. "Hey." She said while rubbing the back of my head, comfortingly. I looked up at her and knowing that she was there had calmed me, causing my breathing had slowed down. "Bad dream?" She asked.

I nodded and she pulled me in for a kiss. I loved her. And those years without her were the most torturous in my life. When I pulled away I stroked her beautiful face and she smiled at me, that's when I noticed she was completely dressed. "Where are you going?"

"Grace came in a little while ago." She told me. "She said she wanted to go on a walk with me. I didn't want to wake you up." She said as she picked up a note she had left on the pillow and crumbling it. She turned back to me and touched my face. "Are you sure you're going to be okay?" I nodded and she leaned down to give me another kiss. I hungered for more when she pulled away, especially after that dream, but Grace needed her. "I love you." She said seriously.

I nodded back to her, knowing there was no one else for me, but her. "I love you." She gave me one last smile, got up from the bed and walked out of the room. I fell back into the bed, not being able to fall back to sleep from the haunting memories from what Storybrooke had held for me twenty-eight years ago.

Aurora:

It was chilly so I put my hands in my black trench coat Jefferson had bought me a few months ago. Grace had a matching one and she was also wearing it. "So your grandmother took you?" Grace asked after I had explained everything.

I nodded and she looked up at me. "Cora is dead now though." She continued to look up at me as we slowed to a stop. "She can't hurt you anymore or any of us."

"Papa was worried about you." I nodded, knowing how worried he was. "Why did Cora do that?"

I shrugged and we began walking again. "She didn't have her heart which made her very selfish. Even more selfish than my mother. You can't truly love someone without your heart."

"What happened to Regina?" She asked as she reached out for my hand. I gave it to her and we continued walking through the forest. It scared the hell out of me that I was going to end up like my mother with Grace. I wanted to break the cycle of the Mills women.

"I don't know." I answered honestly. "I haven't talked to her since everything that happened."

"So why was Regina the way she was when she was with you?"

I shrugged. "I guess she grew up with Cora not fully loving her because she never had her heart. She grew up thinking that love was doing whatever you can to make sure that person has the best life when really that's not love at all."

"So what is love?" She asked me.

That was a very difficult topic to talk about with an eleven year old. I took a deep breath before beginning. "It's taken me a while to get a clear definition of what love is." I told her. "And I think love is different for everybody, but to me love is taking the back seat." She looked at me confused and I knew she had no idea what I meant by that. "It's like letting the person you love do what they want and be a part of that, but giving them enough freedom to figure out what they want by themselves. But you're always there to catch them when they fall or be a helping hand."

Grace looked up at me. "Is that how you wish Regina loved you?"

I nodded and pet her hair. "Yeah, that is how I wish Regina loved me."

Grace hugged my legs as tight as she could sensing that I need comfort and I hugged her back. "I love you Rora." She told me.

I held her tighter and closed my eyes, thinking about how much I loved that little girl. "I love you Grace."

Suddenly my phone began to ring and I pulled away from Grace and gave her a smile that she returned before I answered the phone. "Jefferson," I answered.

Jefferson:

I had been tracking Regina all day in hopes of having a small conversation with her about Storybrooke and about Aurora and my daughter. All day I had been getting as much information about this place as possible. The Huntsman here was Sheriff Graham. Rumplestiltskin was Mr. Gold and owned a pawn shop along with the rest of the town. James was a John Doe coma patient who wasn't waking up any time soon. Snow here was Mary Margret and was a grade school teacher, who actually taught Grace whose name here was Paige. Aurora was named Rose and was Mary Margret's teaching assistant and roommate. She was also dating Victor Frankenstein who was known as Dr. Whale. And from what I could tell there were two strangers in Storybrooke which was making Regina go crazy. The two were sitting a few seats down from me at the bar and looked to be father in son.

I was completely distracted though when Aurora walked in with Victor. She wore a bright smile as the two got into a booth and she was facing away from me. I couldn't help, but stare at her or feel a rush of jealousy seeing Victor with her in that clean, lacy white dress. She looked beautiful. I would never be able to wake her. In Wonderland I had dreamed night after night that I had somehow made my way back to the Enchanted Forest and somehow finding a way into the palace to place a kiss on her lips and wake her from her yearlong misery.

Not long after that Regina walked in and she began talking to the two strangers. I couldn't hear exactly what they were saying, but I knew that smile. Regina was pretending. The two then got up to leave, but before they did the little boy gave her something. She was looking at it with a slight smile on her face. I moved closer to her and looked at the keychain the boy had given her. "Look at you." I sang out as she jumped and looked to me. "Getting all sentimental."

"What are you doing here Jefferson?" She growled out.

I shrugged. "Just having a nice meal." I said giving her a fake smile that she returned.

"Must be agonizing." I turned my head to the side, waiting for more elaboration. "Being so close, yet so far from the one you truly love." She turned to look at Aurora and I looked also. She had leaned in to kiss him and I felt my heart tighten. She laughed at the expression on my face and I turned back to look at her, seething in my anger. Her smile went away and she moved closer to my face. "What do you want, Jefferson?"

"You know what I want."

"Well," She sighed out. "What you want in unattainable so pick something else."

"There is nothing else I want."

She turned to me with her bitchy look. "Then why are you wasting your time here?"

I moved closer to her face as I stood up. "This isn't over." I walked out of Granny's swearing that I would get Aurora and Grace back one day.

David, Gold and I were making our way into Regina's vault where Cora was keeping her things when she was alive. Grace and Aurora were with Mary Margret, Emma and Henry. We were trying to find out what Regina had planned while everyone else was comforting Mary Margret and her broken heart. When we got down into her vault the place had been ransacked, most likely by Regina. "Well it appears we just missed our dear queen." Gold told us.

"What is this place?" David asked.

"They are Cora's belongings." Gold said going to the back of the dark, damp room as David and I followed. "Looks like Regina is planning to use one of her spells on Mary Margret." He turned back to us. "Search around. Maybe we can find something."

David and I split up as I moved to the back of the room and David looked at the clothes on the floor. Behind a changing tent there was what looked to be a holder for spell ingredients. Two things were missing and I came out from behind the changing tent. Gold looked at me with his eyebrows knitted in confusion. "Something's missing."

David got up from where he was on the floor and moved towards us as Gold took what I had in my hands and set it down on a nearby table. "Kymira blood and viper's eye." He said while studying the ingredients

"What kind of curse do you need those for?" David asked in a fearful voice.

"It's the curse of the empty hearted." He said looking to us. David and I looked at each other, sharing a worried look, knowing that we were headed for trouble.

Aurora:

Grace and Henry were playing while Emma and I were standing by the bar. "How's she been?" I asked her.

Emma shook her head. "She won't eat, she won't talk and she won't get out of bed."

I turned back to look at her, knowing I should have been a better sister to her. "I should have come before this."

"Why didn't you?" Emma asked as she shifted uncomfortably.

I opened my mouth to say something, but I had no idea what I was going to say. I have no idea why I didn't come over before. Maybe Mary Margret had freaked me out after what happened with Cora. Don't get me wrong. I was happy the woman was dead, but I didn't want Mary Margret to kill her the way she killed her. Mary Margret was too good to stoop to that level. "I don't know." I answered finally.

The door opened and David, Jefferson and Gold walked in. Jefferson went right to me and I hugged him as tight as I could. Watching him get his heart ripped out and I being kidnapped a few days ago had made us more passionate than ever. "What did you find out?" Emma asked David.

"Regina's casting a curse." David told her as I pulled away from Jefferson to look at the others. Grace ran over to us and grabbed onto Jefferson as we listened.

"It's called the curse of the empty hearted." Gold informed us.

Emma looked at me fearfully and we both turned back to Gold. "What the hell does that do?" She asked in a fearful voice.

"In theory, it has the power to make someone love you."

My head turned to the side. "Doesn't that break magic laws?" I asked as Gold looked to me. "You can't bring someone back to life. You can't force someone to love you."

He nodded. "Yes, but this particular spell can make someone think that they love you. And if you're as desperate for love as Regina appears to be you might just believe it."

Jefferson looked at me and I knew we both had the same thought. "She's gonna use it on Aurora and me isn't she?" Henry asked as if he pulled the thoughts out of our heads.

Grace looked up at me fearfully and I gave her a slight smile. I wasn't going to leave Grace again. "Hey buddy," David said as he ushered Henry towards the stairs. "Why don't you go back upstairs, let us handle it?"

"No!" He said running from David and going back to Emma. David put his hands up in defeat and moved to stand next to Jefferson and I. "Emma, you said you were gonna be honest with me." He looked to the rest of us. "Now, why is Regina using this curse?"

"Because it's the only way she can get everything she wants." Jefferson told him. "That she can get you and your sister."

"But if all she wants is-"

"Your mother is a complicated woman." Gold told him. I scoffed. She was the most complicated woman I knew. "She wants your love, of course, but she also wants vengeance on Mary Margret." I looked to the bed and she was moving around, probably trying to avoid our conversation.

"How does the curse give her both?" Emma asked.

"Because the last ingredient she needs to enact the curse is the heart of the person she hates the most."

All of our eyes grew wide. "You have to stop her." David demanded, moving closer to Gold.

"I don't have to do anything." I turned to him eyes wide. Here we go again. "On the contrary, I belief warning you fulfills my debt."

"Not even close!" David said moving even closer. He was getting close to being hysterical. "This is my wife's life we are talking about!" I put a comforting hand on his arm, giving him a small smile which seemed to calm him down a little.

"Not to mention your grandson's!" Emma yelled.

"Yeah, well, wars have costs."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Nice." I said now feeling the same level of anger David was at.

"Well this is a blood feud dearie, one that goes back a very, very long time. The only way you can end a blood feud is by the spilling of more blood. That is the only way I know how to eliminate your Regina problem."

"By killing her?" Jefferson asked.

"Is there no other option?" I asked looking to Jefferson and then back to Gold. I felt Jefferson's eyes on me, but I was ignoring it. My mother was acting drastically lately and if it got any worse she would have to be dealt with properly.

"I'm afraid not."

"Stop!" Henry yelled, pulling me out of my thoughts. "Listen to yourselves. You're talking about killing my mom. You used to be heroes. What happened to you?"

I looked at Jefferson guiltily. "Henry." Emma began, but he ran out the door and Emma moved to follow him. She turned back to us before walking out the door. "No matter how this plays out we need to keep him as far away from it as possible."

"She's right." Gold said as we all turned to him. "Cora was dangerous because she didn't have a heart. Regina is even more dangerous because she does." I looked to Jefferson again and he pulled me in for a hug, knowing I needed a little comfort right now.

Jefferson:

We were all on Mary Margret protection duty as Emma took Henry to be with Neal. I was sitting at the bar with Aurora and she seemed really distracted. "Are you okay?" I asked her after a while.

She looked at me and nodded. "Yeah."

"Do you really think the only answer is killing your mother?"

She shrugged and looked to me. "You heard Gold. There is no other option."

"Well," I began as I turned to her. "We can find another way."

"I couldn't help, but overhear," Gold said walking up to us. "But if anyone is going to kill Regina it should be Aurora." I looked to Aurora and it seemed like Gold had her under a trance. She was hanging on his every word. "She took the love of your life away causing you to be under the sleeping curse for a year and leaving your future step daughter without either of you. She terrorized your sister and brother-in-law for years. She killed your father." I could see a small little sparkle in Aurora's eyes and I knew she loved the idea Gold was planting in her head. "It should be you."

"You need to get away from her." I said while standing up and Aurora looked at me with her eyes expressing anger. "You are not going to turn her into a killer." I growled while pushing him back.

"She already has the potential." He told me and then we both looked back to her as she looked back and forth at the two of us. "All she needs a pushing factor."

"He what?!" We all heard David yell. We all looked to him and he was on the phone. "We'll be there soon." He got off the phone and looked to us as he threw his jacket on. "Henry ran away."

"What?!" Aurora and I both yelled.

"We have to go."

I looked to Grace who had stopped coloring on the ground and was looking at all of us. I got down to look at her. "You have to stay here with Mr. Gold and Mary Margret okay?"

She nodded and I pulled her in for a hug. "Why do I have to stay here?" Gold asked as I stood up.

"Because someone has to watch Grace and Mary Margret." I told him as I moved closer to him. "And I really don't want you anywhere me or my fiancé after what you just told us." I whispered harshly to him.

"Jefferson." Aurora called from the front door. She already had her jacket on and was waiting next to David.

I turned back to Gold and he moved closer to me. "You know it's true." He whispered. "What you see now is an innocent cocoon, just waiting to hatch into a savage beast, just like her mother."

I glared at him one last time before following Aurora and David out the door. I refuse to see Aurora turn into her mother. Just because history repeated itself with Cora and Regina didn't mean it still had to continue with Aurora. She was too good and I would die before she turned bad.

We met up with Emma, Neal and Ruby at the diner and Ruby began to track him. She had tracked him to the mines and we began to walk through them. "Henry!" Emma called out once we had gotten down into the mines.

"Henry!" Neal followed.

"Down here." Ruby said as she sniffed the air. "He was in here."

"Why would an eleven year old kid run to the mines?" Neal asked in a confused voice.

"It wouldn't be the first time." I told him.

"Almost got me killed in the process." Aurora mumbled under her breath, just loud enough for all of us to hear.

"I think I know what he was looking for." David said as we saw him kneeling down by the crate of dynamite. "The dynamite the dwarfs use for blasting."

"What the hell would he want dynamite for?" Emma asked confused.

"To get rid of magic." Neal said knowingly.

"Wait," I began. "What?"

"At the diner he said that someone should get rid of magic."

"So he's gonna blow it up?" Aurora asked looking back to the crate.

"Where would he even go to do that?" Neal asked looking at all of us.

"I know." Emma said. "The well."

We all looked at each other for a moment and ran towards the well as Emma explained to Neal why that was the best place. When we got there Regina was standing next to Henry. "Hey!" Emma yelled at her. "Regina! Get away from my son!"

"He's not yours!" She bit back. "He's mine, and after I cast this," She said holding up the scroll with the curse on it. "You will never see him again."

"That's never going to happen." David told her.

"You want to kill Mary Margret?" I asked. "You have to go through us."

"Okay." She said as she made a fireball grow from her hands and we all got ready to fight her.

"Stop!" Henry yelled jumping in the middle.

"Henry, get out of the way!" Neal yelled as he tried to push his way past all of us to get to Henry.

"Not until someone helps me destroy magic!"

"There's no way to get rid of it." Aurora told him. "You can't just blow it up."

"Magic isn't the problem, kid." Emma said while glaring at Regina. "It's her."

"It's not just her!" He yelled at us. "It's everyone! Look what magic did to Mary Margret." David looked down at the sound of his wife's name. Henry turned to look at Regina. "Look at what it did to you. It's ruining everything. It makes good people do terrible things."

"And bad people." Emma growled at Regina.

"Please," Henry said looking over at Regina again. "It's gonna destroy my family. Help me get rid of it."

"I can't do that Henry, but there is something I can do." She moved her hand which still held the fireball and dropped the curse in it.

We all watched as it burnt up and then the fireball disappeared from her hands. "Thank you." Henry breathed out. He ran back to Emma and she gave Regina an angry glare before we all walked away.

After all the craziness died down I took Aurora and Grace back to the house. After Grace went to bed I snuggled up with Aurora as we watched a movie and ate ice cream together. Something had been bothering me since I talked to Gold. "Hey Aurora," I began as she looked away from the TV. "Promise me that you'll never kill anyone ever again."

She nodded. "What Gold was saying back there was him trying to get under your skin." She told me. "I promise to you that I will never kill again and I will not go bad."

I nodded and pulled her face to mine. "I love you."

She gave me a small kiss with a smile. "I love you." She pulled away and turned back to the TV as I watched her. She had to stay good. She just had to.