The rest of her day passed by uneventfully. Surprisingly uneventful. She wasn't prepared for things to be so quiet after Robin left, or so dull. In the absence of life, she was finally left with no other choice than to return to the library and collect a few books for reading. It was boring and she was unfocused, continuing to think about baby Robin and how she ached to have her back. She was smart, of course she knew that it wasn't an ache she felt for baby Robin so much as an ache for what she knew could never come to pass. It was Gideon, her own baby. Though he was here before her, fully grown, to her, he'd only been a newborn a week ago, and her arms still felt empty without his form cradled in them. She loved Robin, but she wanted her baby, not someone else's.

Her cell phone ringing in the other room was the perfect excuse for her to stop pretending to research and get up to do something else for a few moments. On her way, she wiped her eyes on the back of her hand and shook her head at how ridiculous she was being, longing for the impossible. Tears wouldn't help anything, she had to focus on what she did have. Gideon in any form was all she wanted.

"Get a hold of yourself," she muttered before picking up the phone and finding Rumple on the other end. "Rumple! How-how are things going?" she questioned, happy for the distraction and wandering back out into the front room. The sun was nearly down and the lighting was better there.

"I'm on my way back to the shop. Anything from Gideon or my mother?" he questioned without answering hers.

"No, quiet day, Zelena came by to have me watch Robin for a while, but nothing otherwise. I'd have called you if there was something."

"I'll be back in a bit, why don't you-" but she lost her focus on what she was supposed to do when three figures appeared at her door, and the bell chimed to admit them. Emma, Regina, and Zelena were there, and the first two didn't look happy. "Rumple, I've got to go, I'll talk to you soon," she stated quickly, snapping the phone closed in the presence of the women. The women…where was the girl.

"Is everything alright? Where-where's Robin?"

"With Granny," Zelena answered. "They're here to see you, and I thought it best not to make her watch."

"Me?! What are you talking about?"

"Actually we're not so much here to see you as we are here to see the Blue Fairy," Regina commented.

It took a second for her words to sink in and for her to realize the impact of them, but when she did, her eyes firmly fell upon Zelena.

"You told them," she breathed feeling exposed. So much for their secret being safe with her.

"What surprises me is that you didn't," Emma snapped looking at her. "She only did what you should have done days ago." Without further notice, Emma turned and the three women walked around her and into the back room. The shock of it all had her stranded there in the front for only a few seconds, until she heard someone in the back, possibly Emma sigh in dissatisfaction and shook herself out of it. No, she wasn't about to let them think that this was her fault or that this was a burden to carry. Rumple had done a good thing; they needed to understand that.

"It looks a lot worse than it actually is," she explained moving into the back with them.

"Worse than it is?! Belle, she looks half dead!"

"Well, she is. Dead, I mean, only not completely because she's a fairy."

"Gideon-"

"It wasn't Gideon," she insisted before Emma could go on. "It was Rumple."

"Rumple?!" Regina piqued before looking down at her in confusion. "He's never liked her, but he's never wanted her dead."

"And he doesn't, he did it for Gideon," she stated, her voice raising so that she could have her say instead of talking over the rest of them. It would all make sense if they'd only let her explain. "The sword that Gideon used to try to kill Emma-"

"The one from my vision?" Emma questioned. "The one that was broken? It was under lock and key in my office since this happened."

"Not anymore," she corrected. "Gideon was using that sword for a reason. He believed it was necessary in order to take your powers. But since it was broken the only way to reforge it would have been to take the magic of the person who had created it in the first place."

"The Blue Fairy," Regina muttered catching on.

She nodded. "Rumple didn't want Gideon to blacken his own soul, and he was afraid that if he did it, then he really would kill Blue, so he did it himself."

"He gave the sword to Gideon?" Emma blanched. "The one he needs to kill me."

"He had to!" she shouted back at Emma. "The Blue Fairy isn't dead, he didn't drain her entirely just took enough of her magic to make it look like she was dead, but if Gideon had done it…please, you have to understand…this is a lot more complicated than you think."

"How?" Emma questioned frustrated and unmoving.

"She has Gideon's heart."

Emma's eyes widened, and the arms she had crossed in front of her chest dropped quickly. "What? You're sure about this."

"Regina suspected it and told us then the Black Fairy confirmed it."

Emma and Zelena both looked at Regina. "You knew this."

"Suspected, after you said he left a flower behind."

"Gideon is being used," she interrupted, drawing the conversation back to him. "He's innocent just like I've been saying. He needs help! And…Rumple is certain the Blue Fairy can be revived, he's up at the sorcerer's mansion researching how to get her magic back so that we can wake her up right now."

"He did this without knowing how to wake her up?" Emma commented.

"Time was crucial, and it was imperative that Rumple convince him he'd destroyed her. There wasn't time to find a cure for what he did."

"Well, lucky for you we might have a way to wake her," Zelena insisted, finally speaking up. She stared at her in amazement.

"You do? What is that?"

"It's a long story," Zelena sighed. "But the short version is that I no longer have magic, and because of it we have a little crystal that is packed with light fairy magic, fairy magic Mother Blue here should be able to absorb."

"What?" The crystal was easy enough to believe, after all, there was a time a mushroom had been the answer to everything! But Zelena giving up her magic…was that true?

"It's an idea," Emma clarified. "We can't be sure if it'll work until we've tried it because we can't be sure what Rumple did."

"Listen, Emma…" she sighed taking a step forward because she could hardly believe what was happening. They were talking about waking the Fairy and getting the last piece of information they needed to destroy the fairy. But destroyed or not there was still more that she needed. Gideon's heart! Emma couldn't lose sight of that. They had to get his heart and rescue whoever was still left in that realm. "I'm not proud of what I did, but I did what I thought was best for my son."

"We both did," she looked over her shoulder to find Rumple behind her, back from the mansion, he'd come in the back door and what staring at the other three women in horror. "What are you doing here?"

"We're here to help you. You're welcome" Zelena stated almost too happily.

"Help me with what?"

"Your little fairy problem, which you don't seem able to solve," she replied.

"The Blue Fairy," Regina clarified. "We might be able to wake her." She watched as his face dissolved into obvious irritation and he stared at the nun on his cot. She felt her stomach twist. In an ideal world, this was not how she wanted him to find out about all this, but she was aware it was probably her fault. When she'd hung up the phone the way she had he'd probably sped right over.

"Unless…you found a way," she suggested hopefully, forcing him to look her over instead of concentrating purely on them. He wasn't happy. Though whether it was about Zelena and Emma or what he'd found at the mansion it was difficult to tell. It might have been both.

"Not yet, but I will," he admitted. She nodded, understanding exactly what was behind that statement. He hadn't found anything, but he was so determined he would that he didn't want their help. Stubborn like Neal…it ran in the family.

"But we might not need to wait, Rumple, if you'd just…let them try."

He didn't move a muscle as he watched her, stared at her, silently demanding that she stop this and side with him once more. She understood that. She felt it too. After these last few days and everything that had been said about them and their child, it was hard to accept help. But last week it had been hard for her to accept help from him, someone she'd sworn she would never be able to forgive, someone she'd never wanted to be in the same room with ever again. But they'd come so far this week. From never wanting to speak with him again to all too easily taking steps toward him and holding his hand in her own again. It was something she hadn't tried in a while, an ability she didn't think she possessed anymore, to simply take his hand and comfort him and get him to see reason. And yet here she found herself, ready to give it another try. For Blue, but especially for Gideon.

"Look," she whispered. "I realized today just how much we missed out on with Gideon, and that's time that we will never get back, but now that he's come here I refuse to let her steal any more of our time with him!"

Just as she felt her own face contort and harden, she watched as his own softened. The hand that she held limp in her own a moment ago suddenly flexed over her fingers as he nodded before looking up at the women.

"Get on with it," he urged. Rumple let go of her hand, and she glanced over at the women behind her.

Regina pulled something from her pocket, it looked like a crystal, not a piece of one, but a perfect and pure whole one she'd seen drawn into her books and had even caught glimpses of in the mine what felt like decades ago. It was dark, hazy in the shadow of Emma's hand, but she watched as Emma held the object over Mother Superior's chest and squeezed. Slowly it began to glow bright and then crack and crumble, turning to white dust that fell from her hand and landed on the Blue Fairy before disappearing into her clothes and she assumed her very flesh.

She didn't question why or how, she didn't give her time to open her eyes and wait to see if it worked, instead she reached out quickly and placed two fingers against her neck, checking her pulse just as Rumple had demanded of her earlier this morning. She held her breath for a few seconds as if her own breath might distract her from what she felt. Slowly but surely, she felt it there, a small predictable drum moving beneath the surface of her skin. And soon after, the rise and fall of the Fairy's chest.

"You did it," she smiled up at Emma. "Her heart's beating again!"

"Then it's only a matter of time before we wake her up," Rumple scowled behind her, for reasons she understood all too clearly. Waking her up meant information and information meant something he might not want to hear. But they both knew, though the other's might not, that it was inevitable at the moment, they knew what needed to be done.


So, here's the thing, I absolutely loved writing the 6x18/6x19 chapters they were meaty, and I suspect that was part of the problem with the actual episodes. I felt like there was a lot missing from them. A lot. Now, some of the stuff missing, like this scene, I get why it is missing. It's because the stuff we're missing here is already stuff we've seen and know. It's just that pesky matter of catching everyone else up. Rumple has to learn that Belle watched the baby, the others have to learn about what happened with Blue Belle has to learn how they can help, etc. That all made sense. It's what comes next that didn't make a lot of sense to me. When 6x19 opens and there's a Dragon Egg, it just seemed so random! I kid you not, I went back and watched both episodes and the deleted scenes expecting to find something in there with it, but nothing! And then the movement of people, and who is there, and what they know, etc...it was just too much to put into one chapter. Therefore, the rest of the chapters this week, are just that. It's what I felt were the missing scenes from here, to...well...there. Of course, I've also been working to build up to the dragon egg so that it's not totally random, but I think these next few chapters will really help tie it all together.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Grace5231973, Fox24, Rumbellefan, and Paintbrush123 for the reviews you left me. I really excited for these "fill in the blank" chapters, and I can't wait to hear what you all have to say about them! Peace and Happy Reading!