Chapter 46: The List

"What are you thinking?" Henry asks quietly.

Both he and Crystal are huddled around the TV in the living room, watching the coverage of the hunt for Belle. Even though the house is hidden by a magical cloaking spell, there were also protection spells cast, all the curtains and shades are drawn to give them a sense of security that no one is peering in through the windows. The constant "live" news reports have put them on edge... it's bad enough that Belle is being hunted by the police, but now they are implicated in the crime, even if their faces cannot be seen distinctly.

"I don't really know," Crystal shrugs. She downs a bottle of water. "It's obvious that we can't walk around freely any longer."

"Like we were able to do that in the first place?" the young author asks skeptically.

"Point taken, but with the risk of being recognized so much higher now, I honestly just want to stay in the house and wait for everything to blow over."

"You know we can't do that. We may have managed to save one member of the family, but the rest are still out there in this city in god knows what kind of conditions."

"I know..." she sighs. "The Black Fairy has made her move, now we have to counteract it."

She then stands up and in a puff of smoke transforms into someone totally different. Her hair is now blonde with dyed turquoise tips, her blue eyes are now brown, and she wears biker leather with knee-high boots and fishnet stockings.

"Too much?" she asks.

Henry tries not to cringe. "A little, but at this point, we might need to turn into hipster goth bikers."

The two smile over the shared joke. Then a thought enters Henry's mind.

"Do you think that we can just find a city directory and try to find them in there?"

"You mean like a phone book?"

"You sound very old," he teases.

Crystal sticks her tongue out at him playfully. "Just because you were born after the new millennia, doesn't make me that much older than you. There were still phonebooks in 2001. I was a later nineties kid so don't pull that."

The two of them laugh again. The daughter of Rumpelstiltskin then conjures up a Stygian phone book, which is still extremely thick despite the population of tiny Storybrooke most likely being the only permanent residents.

"Do you think the curse changed their identities completely or recycled old ones?"

"Well, my mom Regina is working as a bartender at The Rabbit Hole since the Black Fairy is the mayor."

"Shut up really?" Crystal gasps. Her mind flashes back to her being in the bar with Aurora and Ashley/Ella. She didn't see Regina there and she's kind of bummed that she didn't see the former Evil Queen, the woman who truly understood what it was like to have darkness inside of oneself and she also filled the surrogate mother role for Crystal as well. "When were you there?"

"I was there with Violet the day after the curse was cast."

"You found Violet?"

"Y-yeah, I kind of ran into her by accident. Fiona forced me to go back to school in the afternoon the curse hit, and I saw her go into the boy's bathroom. Turns out there's a hole in the foundation that she uses to sneak out and smoke behind the school."

"Doesn't really sound like Violet."

Henry swallows and nods, fighting back tears. "Anyways, she took me on her motorcycle, that she named after her actual horse Nicodemus, the one who liked pumpkin. We then went to the bar and Violet paid my mom for some booze and then she took me to the impound lot to meet her gang buddies and drink."

"Sounds like my Friday nights back in New York," Crystal nods remembering her days in gangs. "Only there was a lot more fighting. And Regina was there?"

"Yeah, and she looks nothing like you'd remember. She wears jeans and leather boots."

"Seriously, no pantsuits?" Crystal says in disbelief. "Then again, who'd wear those in a bar, you're asking to get mugged."

"And she doesn't remember me at all. She's still hung up on Daniel's death, not Robin's, and she hates Fiona because apparently her chauffeur struck and killed him."

"At least she doesn't hate Snow any longer."

"Bonus," he shrugs, still hurt that his own adopted mother couldn't remember him. It breaks his heart that she's still a hateful person as if she can't ever escape that fate. "I felt like you feel with no one remembering you at all."

"It does sting doesn't it?" she says quietly, glad that their feelings are shared. "But the weird thing is, I was at The Rabbit Hole the other day too, and Ashley and Aurora work there."

"We must've just missed each other," Henry says, his eyes wide with surprise about how close they were to actually meet earlier than the reunion at Granny's. This could have benefited them somewhat in the scheme of things.

"Yeah, I was kind of on a mission to save Philip and close that missing person's case," she adds. "Well that's four people, plus Philip Jr. and if Regina has a job and roof over her head, she's not in any immediate danger like Belle was," Crystal says. She rips out a piece of paper from the back of the phone book and gets a pen. She writes out a list of their loved ones and friends. She crosses out Belle's name and puts a check next to it, meaning she was safe, despite being frozen in the moment. She crosses out Regina, Ashley, Aurora, Philip and baby Philip too, meaning they were found and relatively safe. "I know you hate it, but she doesn't have to be high on the list right now."

Henry wants to open his mouth to protest, but he does see her reasoning. Plus getting this cursed Evil Queen to believe that she has a son would be very difficult and would require more planning on their part.

"Archie works at the hospital with Emma," she continues, crossing their names out. "Daddy dearest lives with you in the penthouse..."

"Under Robert Gold," her little brother adds.

"Okay."

"And Gideon lives there too."

Crystal swallows a lump in her throat, having wanted desperately to have met her own half-brother by now. She shakes the sadness from her mind and continues.

"What about Snow, David, and Neal?"

"That might be where we can use the phone book," the young author says taking it from the coffee table.

"What was Snow's original curse name?" Crystal asks.

"Mary Margret Blanchard," Henry answers, beginning to go through the B section.

Sure enough, he finds her name.

"Seriously? Fiona was that lazy?' Crystal says in disbelief.

"Easier than making a new identity."

"Point taken. Where does she live?"

Henry reads out the address that Rumple's daughter records, next to her curse name.

"What about David?"

"His name was Nolan," Henry says, switching sections. Sure enough, he finds the name

"Laziness to the max," Crystal smirks.

"And it looks like he's married to Kathryn."

"Who's that again?"

"She's King Midas's daughter, Abigail and her real love is Fredrick."

"Seriously, change it up a little bit... this is so easy. And hopefully, this means that Neal is probably with either of his parents."

"Don't be so confident," Henry warns. "This is probably going to get harder."

"We know that Granny still has her place," Crystal continues. "And August is around."

"Do you think he'd remember anything?"

"Probably not."

"What about the wicked witch?"

"Zelena? She's never had a curse name before, except when she pretended to be a mid-wife."

"Do you think she'd have Regina's last name; they are sisters after all?"

Henry searches and does find an apartment address with the matching name. Crystal records it.

"That leaves Killian..." Henry concludes.

He looks under Jones, but there's nothing. He does a quick scan through each page, hoping that the hook-handed man kept his first name and it's his last one that changed. The young teenager's heart sinks lower.

"He's not in here at all!"

"That's a problem," she says.

"Do you think the Black Fairy..." he stops mid-sentence and shudders.

Crystal swallows heavily. "Let's not think about that. Let's just have hope and go look for him."

"How?"

"Remember the underground vault we found?"

"Yeah."

"I'm guessing his hook is in there and if not, we use his severed hand..."

The two grimace in disgust.

"Let's hope the hook is still there," Henry agrees.

"Now for disguise. Do you want to be a vaping hipster? Or an emo with bangs?"

A/N: Sorry if this chapter is a bit boring, but Crystal and Henry do need to plan out their next move. Don't think that finding Killian is going to be easy though, Fiona still has some tricks up her sleeve to smoke out Belle and the others.