Author's Note: Brianna & torib613: For always kicking me in my pants and believing in me…this next chapter is for you two! And for those that are confused and don't understand that there isn't incest as everyone thinks…there is no incest! It's really SECOND COUSINS between Neal and Emma…which honestly for a ROYAL family is NOTHING…it's actually legal in all 50 states in the USA...this chapter will HIGHLIGHT what I've written as somehow some of you have not read in previous chapters- Like Chapter "36" which is an Author's Note! Also, I'm going to be depressed for the next four years. I'm sorry if this offends you, but it is absolutely the truth. I also hope me continuing this story brings me some joy as of right now I really have a heavy heart.
**********************Alternate Enchanted Forest Past*****************************
James stared at the red headed woman in confusion.
"What do you mean you're not my 'real' mother?" He finally asked.
Cora let out a deep breath and then began to slowly make her way towards James.
"In my quest for…vengeance…and a crown…I've done some truly horrendous things. One of those things was making a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to provide me with a child to…" Cora stopped talking and moving as she realized just what she was about to say.
"To…what?" James tried to force her to continue.
Looking at everywhere but at James she finally built up the courage to look him in the face.
"To pass off as King George's son."
It took a few seconds for the words to really sink in…and when they did…he began to laugh.
"You're trying to say that King George isn't my real father like that's some kind of news." James continued laughing until the somber look on Cora's face remained the same.
"It's not just that King George isn't your real father. It's that the farmer isn't your father either…and I am not your real mother, or Ruth for that matter. Though…I did give birth to you both."
Now THAT confused James.
With a furrowed brow of confusion he said, "Excuse me? What?" A few seconds pass as if he's waiting for her to laugh or chortle. But when nothing but a look of solitude remains on her face does he continue his inquiry. " How's that possible?"
Cora braced herself again as she gave more details about what happened in the past.
"Rumpelstiltskin arranged for me to buy you from your real mother while you were barely formed. Using magic…I became a sort of…surrogate. You grew inside of me and you became…mine."
James face showed how shocked he was from the information. He didn't even know magic could do such a thing.
"It's extremely dark magic to use. But…I didn't care. I was willing to do anything to get what I wanted. And I couldn't get what I wanted…without producing a male heir."
James mind took a second before he understood exactly what had happened. He smiled.
"Two for the price of one. A bonus you didn't want. And it ruined your plan."
Cora looked away from James' face, but nodded.
He huffed out a laugh. "Typical." He says with obvious anger in his voice.
"Everyone always wants something. You know HE taught me that. Odd...he's always been right about that." James stares at Cora in a way she had never seen. As odd as it was to see two people with the same face, it was also odd to see different facial expressions.
David had never looked at her the way James was now.
"I wanted everything." Cora admitted without hesitation.
James gave a small nod. Thankful that she wasn't even denying her intentions.
"But now...all I want is..." Cora stopped as the emotions in here finally gave way. The tears that she always suppressed reaching the surface of her eyes.
"All I want is to know you." Cora whispered the words, "I want...whatever time I have left to be with my sons...and my daughters."
The word 'daughters' caught James attention immediately.
" You mean to tell me..." James began but Cora quickly continued.
"They don't know about Zelena. She's...she's my first born. Your older sister."
"She's not my older anything." James said coldly.
Cora looked directly into his eyes and for the second time moved closer to him. James jerked back at the first touch of Cora's hand against his face after her admission.
"You may not be mine, but i gave birth to you. For a time your heartbeat was the same as mine. You...and your brother...are as much a part of me as Regina and Zelena. My love for you is the same. My pain...for what I let him do to you..." James finally jerked away from Cora's eyes and hand, "Is the same." Cora ended in a whisper.
James's jaw ticked as his anger overwhelmed him then.
Anger at this woman, that somehow his life was nothing but a wrong move on a chess board. A complete an utter mistake. Something that wasn't supposed to be.
"He always said I was useless. Always tried to prove him wrong... and now I know he was right the whole time." A humorless laugh left him.
He never expected the hard slap across his face, but instantly he grabbed Cora's hand and held the hand tightly.
"Don't you ever say those words again!" Cora said with an anger that left him staring into fierce brown eyes. Eyes that he now knew belonged to the Queen.
"You...were wanted! You were always meant to be. You deserved more than what this life has given you and the blame falls to no one...but me." Cora said as tears fell down her face.
James felt his grip on her slip as her words did something to him.
"I failed you. I failed all of you. I...I was..." Cora was openly crying now and James had never felt empathy before. He had been taught that it was a weakness. That it was faulty and pathetic to place ones self at the level of a peasant.
"I was so stupid." Cora's whispered words gasped out as she crumbled against his hold, her body weakened by her admission.
James just looked down and watched at first as Cora openly cried in front of him.
Time seemed to pass slowly, but with each second James found himself affected by the sound and sight of Cora crying. His mind went over what he had learned in these few minutes. And a question began to nag him.
A question that he was terrified of the answer.
"Why did she sell...us. Our...real mother. Why did she sell us to you?" James asked.
It took Cora few seconds to clear her throat, but when she did the only thing she could say was, "I don't know."
James closed his eyes and pulled back from Cora. Cora could see instantly that he didn't believe her.
"Honestly! I don't know James! Rumplestiltskin made the deal with her...and then I with him. I honestly don't know! All I can say is that I would do it again in a second."
James spun back around and glared at Cora.
Cora reached for his face again.
"I never once regretted making the deal. I never once cared who she was or her intentions. All I knew is that I was thankful that I could call you mine. Despite what I did...I'm thankful that it didn't work out the way I wanted. because you wouldn't be here...right now...hating me and wanting to curse me for what I did. You...you are my son. And i love you. And I will never be able to apologize for what I did. I'm not sorry. I'll never be."
James stared into her eyes and something in him seemed to calm at her words.
Cora say the flash of wonder in his eyes.
"He's never said..." James stopped himself, but Cora saw the pain in his eyes and knew she needed to know. Whatever it was, she needed to know.
"Tell me." She said caressing his face again and staring into his blue eyes.
"He never...never said those words to me. He... never said he loved me." He shook his head and looked away as his own eyes watered and hated himself for it.
Cora saw the flash of pain in his eyes and knew that he had been in pain for such a long time.
And nothing could have made herself feel more horrible. Nothing could have hurt her more.
"James...look at me." Cora grabbed both sides of his face and lifted his head up to look at her.
"I will remind you every day of my life from this moment forward. I love you. You have always been loved. And if you can judge the others feelings for you by Sarah alone - you would know that your brother and sister love you too. Stay here. Stay with us! Be part of a family that wants you...and loves you." Cora whispered the last words as James tried to stop himself from crying and failed miserably.
But Cora was there.
She immediately encircled her arms around him, holding onto him soo tightly which made him hold her back just as tightly. It didn't matter the height difference between the two. It was like he was a little boy once more, or maybe for the first time.
For the first time in so long James felt his defenses lower and his heart that had been so wounded since he was a child fill with something he couldn't name.
That's how they stayed for several minutes. And they would have stayed that way if a sudden sound of little feet running into the room didn't bring them back to the now, then small arms wrapping around both of their legs made them pull back and look down at none other than Sarah.
James and Cora pulled back futher from each other with smiles on their faces.
"Can uncle James come and play with me?" Sarah asked innocently as James quickly wiped the tear that had been threatening to fall and laughed as he looked down at this rambunctious little girl that had somehow managed to turn his life upside down.
When Regina and David had been asked to leave the room before, James had placed her down to allow her to leave with her mother and had looked at both her mother and James with a pout that had made him feel slightly bad.
Seeing the huge smile on her face at that moment told him that if this little girl accepted him wholeheartedly and without question as her Uncle, who was he to shatter her hope.
Looking over at the woman that gave birth to him he smiled, pulled away from the hold of her hands in his he swept up Sarah who gave a melodic laugh.
"How about you show me where those stables are?!" James said as a huge grin spread across his face.
"Mommy brought Daisy to be with Rosey!" Sarah informed James with a huge smile.
"Oh she did?" James asked wondering why when immediately Sarah answered.
"She followed Rosey, and mommy said it would be mean to keep her away from Rosey. They just want to play together." Sarah said with her wide innocent eyes.
And yet the words stuck with him as he realized that Sarah's mommy...his sister...she wasn't just talking about the horses.
Was that how she felt...about him? That she...just wanted to know him...did she really feel that way? Was it possible to look at her as a sister. Despite knowing the truth of it now?
"Sarah...I told you not to come back in here!" Regina said as she finally appeared in the doorway and into the room once more.
James couldn't help but look over at her and with a small smile say "It's alright."
James turned his eyes back to the little girl in his hold and just stared at her as his heart filled with a lightness he had never felt before.
He could do it.
He could be an uncle. And if he could do that...why not a brother?
Looking up he looked at who would be his sister...and saw the look of ...longing...sadness in her eyes as she looked at him.
Was it even possible for her to want to know him? Years of his father's words swam in his head.
Looking over at Cora he saw the same look in her eyes.
Finally after all these years he could have a mother if he stayed here.
If he stayed he would have what he knew had been missing all this time.
Looking back at Sarah he smiled brightly and adjusted her in his arms a little.
"Sarah and I are going to go make sure that Daisy is cozy in her new home. Maybe feed her and Rosey."
"Rocinante." Cora and Regina said together with a pointed look at James, and then both smiled widely at him.
"I think that's a great idea." Regina said as she looked at her brother.
James smiled back at her.
It didn't matter that Regina wasn't really his blood. What mattered to him was that here he could have a family.
It wouldn't take but a few days for him to know he loved David - and Regina - as siblings. How natural it felt with both of them. He had not known a feeling like it in his whole life.
James became a son to Cora, a brother to Regina...and eventually Zelena. And he became an uncle to Sarah...and oddly a brother-in-law to Snow.
He had something that people searched in just one other person for.
True Love.
It was more than he had ever had.
***********************************Storybrooke Current Day****************************************************
Sarah stared angrily at Malcolm and then back at her sister - all forms of her - and then watched shocked as David and Mr. Charming dragged her mother from her sight.
"Sarah you can't marry him." Malcolm tried again in a calmer tone though still agitated.
"Mal I have no choice! Right now I need to marry that man to keep my sister's kingdom from being ravaged by a man that cares only about power!" Sarah tried to reason with the only man she had ever loved.
"I won't let you! Especially since you're already married Sarah! I'm not allowing you to marry that man no matter how good and selfless your reasons are!" Mrs. Charming yelled out causing both Mary Margret and Snow to look at her in almost wonder.
Sarah threw her head back and squeezed her eyes shut as she spoke, "How is it possible that you haven't known me an hour and you're already arguing with me?!" Sarah almost screaming out at the end.
Both Cora's looked at Mrs. Charming and were shocked at the fact that she seemed to stand taller as she stared at Sarah.
"Because if these two," pointing at Mary Margret and Snow, "love you even a fraction of what I think they do...I'm not going to be the weak link!" Mrs. Charming said firmly and with a conviction that made both Cora's instantly like this version of Snow White.
"You do!" The Queen's mother said with a look of pride on her face.
But when Mrs. Charming's eyes landed on them she flinched physically. Guilt instantly radiated from her eyes at them.
And they knew. Both Cora's knew in that one second that this Snow, had killed them. The other version of themselves that should have been there, but wasn't.
They knew by just the look in her eyes.
"Your love for me doesn't change what will happen when we go back and King George's men are at OUR GATES SNOW!" Sarah screamed out the last three words, unable to stop the anger at any version of her sister not seeing how it was impossible for her to go back on the engagement.
"Well it's not happening. It's out of the question." Mrs. Charming said with all the confidence of a royal it made Sarah huff out a laugh.
"Oh is it?" Sarah said with a clear look of anger on her face. Quickly without waiting for someone else to speak she went over to her Snow and lifted up the dress she was wearing.
"THIS is what happens when King George THINKS you were threatening him!" Sarah fought Snow's hands as she tried to lower her dress, but the huge red scar was visible to everyone in the group and it truly shocked Emma and Ms. Swan.
"What the hell!" "Are you serious?!"
"DAMN IT SARAH!" Snow screamed angrily finally pulling away from her sister and staring daggers at her, but Sarah's eyes were on Mary Margret and Mrs. Charming.
"I love you Snow! And you will be Queen one day! The people may look to mother right now, but they KNOW you will be next in line. And if we don't stop Grandfather now...you won't have a Kingdom. Because he will burn it down to the ground!" Sarah tried to explain as the horrified face of Mrs. Charming and Ms. Swan continued to be on Snow who was still fixing her dress.
"Sarah I love you! I can't let you do this!" Mary Margret said with tears in her eyes, knowing what Sarah had said about how her future didn't matter earlier reverberated in her mind.
Mrs. Charming turned startled eyes at the woman that was obviously a younger version of herself, but could see the way this other version of herself was looking at Sarah, and couldn't believe that she herself knew she felt the same.
How was that possible?
"Sarah please..." Malcolm's plea making all of the Snow's glance over at the man, clearly hearing the pain in his voice. It looked like he had cleaned up his face a bit, but still looked a mess.
"Malcolm if you ever loved me at all you'd step aside and let me protect our son and my family." Sarah stared straight into his green eyes and knew that what she herself wanted didn't matter.
The only thing that mattered was protecting the people she loved. Especially him.
Malcolm said nothing as he could see in her eyes that there was no persuading her from her decision. She had always been as stubborn as a mule.
Without a word Malcom just stared at her as if he knew one more word could destroy whatever he had left with the only woman he ever loved.
"Sarah you need to listen to me. I know I'm not your Grandmother...but know I only want the best for you. And marrying that man..." Cora's voice inflected on the word 'that' making Sarah wince.
"Grandma...I don't want to marry him...but I have to. If King Midas joins forces with King George we'll be outnumbered three to one. As peaceful as our kingdom has been under mother's rule we've had no need to increase our armaments. Midas has the gold...and George has the men and position. Uncle James leaving disrupted his plans to marry into Midas' wealth, and now we have absolutely nothing to offer Midas but the limited goods we produce in the Kingdom! Richard has not just the men but weapons. We NEED Richard."
Emma and Ms. Swan looked at each other. Something nagged at them that Sarah wasn't saying something. After all...they were 'the savior' and normally was the one having to save everyone.
Hearing Sarah say that she had no choice disturbing the two deeply. But Emma felt the pain more deeply as she knew that Sarah was truly her Aunt.
An Aunt that apparently was about to marry a man she didn't love to protect the people of her Kingdom. Or to be really specific, the people that lived in Storybrooke.
They were living a parallel life without knowing it.
The thought made her incredibly uneasy.
"Look...right now we have a baby version of Snow and a prepubescent version that can't know what happens in the future or everything and everyone we know...will change. Our main focus right now needs to be figuring out how to send them back...along with Queen Eva who I have a feeling is not going to remain quiet or..." Sarah was interrupted by Mrs. Charming.
"What?! My mother is...she's here?!" Mrs. Charming's eyes seemed to glow with emotions.
Ms. Swan's eyes were wide as she heard the news but when she looked over at Emma and saw the scowl on her face she felt the tiny fissure of joy that had been building in her sizzle out completely.
Emma looked over as she knew her older self would have been looking at her and gave her a dead face look that she knew would convey that Queen Eva was NOT the person she thought she was.
"Snow..." Sarah began in an apologetic matter.
"I can't believe it! Where is she?! Is she alright?! How..." Mrs. Charming began but Mary Margret reached over and grabbed her arm causing her to look at the younger version of herself and she saw the pain in her eyes...and felt her joy become pain and disappointment.
"She was at Regina's home earlier...but she's...she's not like you...we remember her." Mary Margret said slowly.
"Mom. She slapped a child version of you across the face!" Emma said with a look on her face that clearly said her mother was understating things.
"What?!" Mrs. Charming exclaimed with shock clearly showing across her face.
"Not to mention how she's been disciplining the baby version of you. In all honesty she would have been dead this second if it wasn't for the fact that she's from the past and could ruin everyone's future." Cora said as the anger she felt after seeing the way Eva had hurt the baby in front of them and the glaring evidence on the baby even as they were here. Which reminded her to check on the baby.
"Cora I tried to kill you not a few hours ago. Why would you feel..." Mary Margret asked trying to hold back her tears and guilt.
Cora looked over at Mary Margret and without a second of hesitation moved past Mrs. Charming and reached up and grabbed Mary Margret's face. "Now you listen to me. Don't you dare feel regret or even ashamed of what you did. If you only knew what I had wanted to do to you as a child... What I did to your mother is not the only crime against me. And after today...the idea of being like her is..." Cora stopped herself from saying words she know would hurt Snow more than she already had.
For her to admit to anyone let alone to herself that she had physically abused her own daughter as Queen Eva had made something in Cora feel revolted.
"I'm soo sorry Snow." Cora simply said.
Mary Margret couldn't stop the tears from coming and could do nothing when Cora pulled her into a huge hug.
Sarah felt herself smiling but one look at Mrs. Charming and she knew that yet again, things must have been different for her as the look of horror on her face as she stared at the scene in front of her.
Of course when Mary Margret opened her eyes she was facing Mrs. Charming. Even with tears streaming down her face she instantly knew that in this timeline - she must have succeeded in her duplicity.
Mary Margret wanted to pull away out of shame when she watched Queen Cora reach out and touch Mrs. Charming's shoulder.
Mrs. Charming tensed immediately but one look at the warm eyes of Queen Cora and knew that the older Queen had figured out everything.
Queen Cora embraced Mrs. Charming and found herself being crushed back by the woman that had killed another version of herself. Mrs. Charming began quietly crying as she realized just how much she had needed redemption for what she had done.
"It's ok sweetheart. You protected the ones you love. You did the right thing." Queen Cora said as she rocked Mrs. Charming with her and shushed her as her sniffles and gasps left her nose and lips.
Sarah fought her own tears and looked over at Snow - who was crying at the sight of the only woman she had ever called Grandmother rock these other two versions of her adult self and reassure them.
"If this doesn't convince you that Grammy really loves you nothing will." Sarah said and gave Snow a small crooked smile.
Snow huffed out a laugh and nodded her head. Years of insecurity of how Cora truly felt about her being put at ease in a way that words had never been able to before.
"Sarah..." Malcolm said softly, trying once more to speak some sense into the woman he loved.
"Malcolm...there's nothing left to say." Sarah cut him off with the raising of one hand in a 'stop' position. With that she moved towards him and passed him going back into the diner and towards Neal who was still thankfully feeding the baby, oddly singing softly to the baby which intrigued Sarah as she had done the same with her son as a baby.
"Everything ok? Papa left here with Doctor Whale going to GG's house. Said he knew why she fainted after he poked his head outside when you guys were out there." Neal said as Baby Snow slapped her hands down on the counter as he shoveled the last spoonful of pasta into the baby's mouth.
"He does?" Sarah immediately asked, beyond curious that her son would say he knew why.
"He also said he was sending the other two...of himself...to help Amphi with reintroductions."
"Good God that's going to be interesting! Neal, as important and as dependent as Baby Snow is to us, if you wouldn't mind finding Mary Poppins and instruct her to..." Sarah began and was stopped when Emma and Ms. Swan grabbed her.
"What did you just say?" Emma immediately asked in her low squeaky voice that barely made her lips move, thinking she had not heard the name that she had just heard.
Ms. Swan also stared at Sarah as if she had grown a second head, along with Neal who looked just as flabbergasted as both women.
"Did she just say Mary Poppins?" Ms. Swan asked with an incredulous yet impressed look to Princess Emma.
"Of course. She's only been the Royal Nanny since Aunt Sarah was little. She always took care of me when Mom and Dad were...occupied." Saying the last word with a grimace showing disgust.
"Ewww!" "Ewww!" Came identical squeals of disgust from Ms. Swan and Emma.
Emma nudged Sarah. "And where were you?"
Sarah raised one eyebrow. "As far away from the 'EWWW' as possible, and keeping relations with other kingdoms. Something that you've now taken the responsibility of yourself!"
"That's what Baelfire and I were doing when mother and Aunt Sarah went missing. We were in a distant kingdom called Arendelle. Which...um...reminds me..." Princess Emma said as she glanced over at the diner door and then with a guilty look on her face looked over at her aunt.
Sarah winced and kept her eyes closed. "Please tell me Ingrid didn't..."
"Follow them back to The Enchanted Forrest along with her whole family...of course not. Because Queen Ingrid doesn't think you saved her life and ensured her Kingdom for her future nieces Anna and Elsa. Not to mention help with the people of Northuldra. So naturally the Arendellian Queen would never feel an obligation to make sure the one person in all the realms that had saved her from herself was in any trouble that she could prevent."
Sarah couldn't help the smile forming on her face as she saw the woman speaking who she had befriended as a child and had grown into another aunt for her as the years had passed.
Protocol of greeting another royal were tossed aside as Sarah rushed over and crushed Ingrid in a massive hug which caused Ingrid to laugh merrily as she shed a tear at finding Sarah safe and sound.
"You get into more trouble then my girls Sarah! I beg you to please stop. Our old bones can't take the trekking." Gerda said from beside the two hugging.
Sarah laughed as she pulled away and launched into Gerda's arms who squeezed her back just as tightly.
"This is too much of a habit Sarah! I would expect aging to stop childish adventures from you...but I should know better by now." Helga said with a little smile as Sarah turned and launched herself at Helga as well.
"What are you three doing here?! Tell me you didn't leave Arendelle unguarded because of me!" Sarah exclaimed as she pulled away from Helga's hug and looked at the three sisters.
"No Aunt Ingrid and I put up an ice wall and guards to protect our kingdom." Elsa said as she and Anna walked in with the diner bell ringing as she did.
Anna squealing and launching herself from the doorway at Sarah who laughed and hugged her back as they stumbled down laughing at finally seeing each other after soo long.
"Oh God help us all. They're back together again." Snow said from behind the trio of Emma's.
Mary Margret and Mrs. Charming looked at Snow who gave them a 'I'm not exaggerating' look that made them both instantly worry.
"Anna! You are not to get into trouble here! All we need is you and Sarah getting into even more trouble than normal!" Gerda scolded her daughter who removed herself from Sarah as Elsa helped her sister and Sarah up.
Elsa embraced Sarah which made Sarah jump up and wrap her legs around Elsa making both immediately begin to laugh as they toppled down to the ground yet again from Sarah's weight. Of course this made Gerda roll her eyes instantly as she knew her warning had fallen on deaf ears.
"Gerda! I never get to see them! The little mischief we get into is hardly anything!" Sarah protested as she was helped up by Anna who also hoisted Elsa up.
"Little mischief?!" Queen Ingrid said indignantly with an incredulous look forming on her face.
Sarah's smile fell, "Ok more than little."
Queen Ingrid raised one eyebrow and glared at Sarah.
"Where's your husband Nicholas?" Sarah asked Ingrid with a raised brow causing Ingrid to blush almost instantly.
"Mom...she looks just like the ice cream lady." Henry said suddenly as he recognized the woman glaring at Sarah.
Both Emma's finally realized why the woman looked so familiar. It's because she was.
"That's right! Any Given Sundae! Just down the street." Emma said as she approached the woman who looked at her with such affection.
"Ingrid was included in the curse here?! I thought only our Kingdom was cursed here." Sarah said as she looked over at Mrs. Charming and Mary Margret who looked as confused by this information as she was.
Ingrid looked between the people in front on her trying to understand what they were saying. "So...there's another version of myself here...like Snow and Emma?" Ingrid asked pointing at the obviously younger version of Snow White and older versions of Emma.
"Apparently so. Which just made this all the more interesting." Sarah said with a serious look on her face, as if she was thinking for a moment as she tried to put a puzzle together in her head.
"Well I'm sorry to be the one to inform you that I am not the only one that knows of your predicament...or lack there of Sarah. I sent word by pigeon to some of the other Kingdoms that are in our alliance." Queen Ingrid informed Sarah as she added another log to the fire, which made Sarah toss her head back in a semblance of defeat.
"Great." Sarah stated simply and lifted her head back up. "Mama is going to kill me."
All of the Snow's nodded their heads as they stared at their sister.
"Mama?!" Baby Snow suddenly asked as she looked around for Regina, making everyone suddenly move into action as they knew the Baby was likely to throw a tantrum without Regina there.
"So I'll head back to the apartment and pick up a few things for Snow to change into. We've been in the same clothes for a few days now. Everyone else head to mother's house." Sarah instructed when Mary Margret and Mrs. Charming's brow furrowed and instantly began to say 'wait wait.'
"You've been in the same clothes for days? When's the last time you bathed?" Mrs. Charming asked.
Sarah looked at Snow who remembered clearly and said, "A week before we came here."
Mrs. Charming looked at Mary Margret with a shocked face. "You haven't made them shower?!"
Mary Margret winced as she realized she had shown Sarah just recently where to go to the bathroom indoors. Of course she hadn't known about the shower. Quickly confirmed by Sarah and Snow simultaneously asking with the question...
"What's a shower?"
"OK! Definitely going to take you back to the apartment and get you clothes with Aunt Sarah while Mary Margret and umm...Mrs. Charming here show Snow what a shower is, and Sarah will learn from you!" Emma directed her slightly older self as her Aunt Sarah had not but a second ago done.
Neal turned and placed the now searching Baby Snow into Ms. Swan's arms who glanced at Neal worriedly for a second before giving him a smile as his own remained on his face as he made the baby laugh with a funny face.
"And you can take her to be changed too." Neal said as he turned his head to give Ms. Swan a wider smile as her face fell as she understood why Neal had handed her the baby.
"You know..." Neal looked over at the grown Snow White's in the room and then back at the Emma's, "technically she's my mother in law. Don't think it's really my place."
"Thank you!" All of the Snow's said together in gratitude, realizing that panic had set in as Neal had mentioned that the baby needed to be changed.
Neal nodded with a wink.
Ms. Swan looked down at the baby version of her mother as she had seen in the church earlier and couldn't help but smile at the chubby cheeked little baby that looked so ridiculously cute that Emma raised the baby in the air and then down to give a big 'mmmmaaaa' kiss onto the baby's face, which caused the baby to squeal with laughter and kick her feet and wave her arms around.
"Hand her over." Emma said with a smirk which became a full blown smile as the baby laughed at the two identical women who were passing her between each other.
Emma lifted up the baby and gave her a 'mmmmaaaa' kiss just like Mrs. Swan had - causing the baby to squeal and kick like she had a second before.
"Ok ok! Please stop giving me kisses before I change my own diaper thank you very much!" Mrs. Charming said as she reached for the baby herself and instantly felt the same strangeness that Mary Margret had when she had held the baby, but slowly got over it as she experienced the same awe as Mary had.
"It's weird...isn't it?!" Mary Margret commented as they began to make their way out of the diner following Mrs. Charming.
"But completely incredible." Mrs. Charming said smiling widely as Mary Margret nodded her head in complete agreement. Snow following the two as she smiled at the sight of the baby version of herself. James and Prince David following behind to make sure nothing happened to them.
Sarah rolled her eyes at the two versions of her sister and then she looked over at Malcolm who was still being scrutinized by Cora and Queen Cora.
Sarah looked over the man who was once her other half. He looked horrible. His clothes were disheveled, he had a beard which he had never kept when they were together, and he looked like he hadn't bathed in years.
"Emma..." Sarah said causing all three versions of Emma to look at their aunt, "could you please show your Uncle the same courtesy being showed to your mother and I. It looks like he needs it more than we do. And please find Mary Poppins and ask her to come find us at Mother's home."
Malcolm felt like she had slapped him, but said nothing as Emma said "Sure Aunt Sarah. Hey kid!" Emma looked over at where Henry had been sitting, " Want to help me find Mary Poppins?"
All of the Henry's were suddenly right beside Emma.
"Are you kidding me?!" "We've been waiting for you to say something!"
Laughing all of the Emma's exchanged a look of pride.
"I'm sorry about everything Henry." Malcolm immediately apologized for what had happened earlier in the day and on the island. He had had no choice to do the Shadow's bidding. And this was the first time that he had been able to do so after everything that had happened.
The older Henry looked at Malcolm and shrugged his shoulder. "It's ok. It wasn't really your fault. Everyone makes mistakes. And...you're family. Family comes first." The older Henry said with a little smirk.
Malcolm gave Henry a little smirk as a surge of pride filled his chest towards the young lad.
"Um...let's get you cleaned up and in some new clothes Uncle Malcolm." Emma said his name a bit more easily as she smiled at the man.
"Where's Aunt Lena?" Sarah asked suddenly.
"I sent her back to watch after your sister at the hospital. As a matter of fact I'm leaving to go there now. I'm going to make sure everything is alright and your mother doesn't have to worry about her with both of us staying the night there." Queen Cora informed Sarah.
"Are you sure Grandma? I'm sure I could spend the night..." Princess Emma immediately offered as she bounced a sleeping Henry in arms.
"Sweetheart you have enough on your hands! Besides Henry, you're going to have to help your mother control your siblings." Queen Cora said as she went over and smoothed Baby Henry's hair down.
Princess Emma rolled her eyes showing that she indeed was use to having to do just that.
"I can go if you want..." Neal offered which caused a chorus of 'No!" from Ms. Swan and Emma.
Neal looked over and gave a huge smile, "Oh come on!"
Both were blushing as they realized just how obvious they were with their jealousy of a small child's affection towards him.
Of course neither would ever admit to it. Not a chance!
"Actually...I'd really prefer if you did watch after her. You were the one that kept her calm when she was in pain. She's going to listen to you more than she is Lena." Queen Cora explained her reasoning making everyone nod as the matriarch of the family had spoken.
Then Queen Cora turned and pointed at Malcolm while staring at Emma, "And make sure he shaves that atrocity off."
Emma tried to hide her laugh by smiling and just barely was able to.
"Who is he?" Anna whispered the question into Sarah's ear as she placed her head on Sarah's shoulder.
Sarah let out a huge sigh. "My one."
Anna's smile instantly fell and shock filled the usual jovial face as she immediately understood what Sarah meant.
Sarah shook her head and turned. "Ladies if you will please follow me we need to see why my mother...all three versions... fainted earlier."
With that Sarah extended an arm to the diner door to go out of when another person walked through the door that she had not seen in a very long time!
"JOHN!" Sarah screamed and rushed to crush the man who laughed merrily in a huge hug.
"You have your work cut out with that one Cora." Adolpha said as she exited the kitchen and watched shaking her head at the way Sarah seemed to latch onto the man.
Cora glared at Adolpha. "You're one to talk! Explain how after rushing to get married to avoid working at the tavern with father - because you wanted a 'better life'- you end up opening your own tavern?"
Adolpha looked at Cora and glared right back. "You're never going to get over that are you?! I was a child Cora!"
Princess Emma quickly moved to place herself between Cora and Adolpha seperating the two with her body. "Grandma please don't fight with your sister! Not with everything else that's going on."
Emma and Ms. Swan's eyes bulged as the new info came tumbling out of the Princess' mouth.
Sarah pulled back from John with a look on her face that showed just how over everything she herself was.
"Sarah...did I just see three versions of your sister walking down the road? I couldn't tell with the sun setting." John said as his frame surrounded Sarah despite pulling back from her.
Sarah smirked and looked down as she pulled further away clasping his hands.
"Yes my dear Earl, that was indeed."
John pulled back and held Sarah's chin with two fingers. "Always an adventure with you Sarah."
"Earl?" Ms. Swan asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Where are my manners. Emma I'd like you to meet a new ally of ours. John's family has been friends with Victor's...I mean...Doctor Whale's family for over three generations..."
"Sarah...please...you know I do not like the formalities." John stopped Sarah before a full on introduction was given.
Sarah just rolled her eyes and gave him a cheeky little smirk as he did the same with her.
Turning back to Emma, Princess Emma, and Ms. Swan she began once more.
"John is the Earl of Greystoke. John Clayton...my niece Emma."
"John Clayton..." Ms. Swan repeated the name as she looked at the very handsome man.
"John Clayton!" Both Henry's exclaimed with wide eyes as they both whipped back around and looked at the tall long brown haired blue eyed man and his enormous stature.
"What am I missing kid?" Emma immediately asked as both Henry's seemed to be gobsmacked at the man before them.
"Ta...Tar...it's..." "It's...the jungle...he's..." Both tried to get the words out.
John tilted his head as he realized what the younger men were trying to say. "I believe he knows the name my adoptive family gave me."
Emma lifted one eyebrow at that weird info after what her Aunt had just told her.
"They called me Tarzan."
Ms. Swan closed her eyes and shook her head, "Ok this is just too much for me."
Emma most definitely was feeling overwhelmed with all of the new revelations. God, all of these people! And how they were all connected! How the hell did her Grandmother do it! She would have turned evil just having to deal with all of these people!
Shaking her head she knew nothing was going to get done if she didn't focus. She really wanted to go find Regina...her Grandmother...and find out WHY exactly she had fainted. Because she knew it had to be something incredibly important. With the way her mother had seemed to freeze at the sight of King Richard. Something even her father knew about since he instantly had acted.
Whatever it was...she needed to find out from her Grandmother exactly why because she doubted her parents were going to tell her.
Something about the way the slightly older version of her mother instantly sided with the other two making her think all three were trying to keep a secret and were barely able to.
A pillar of green smoke appeared next to Sarah, and Zelena was there once more.
"Sorry to interrupt, but Little Snow is asking for Regina." Zelena said as she looked around the diner and felt disappointed when she didn't see any of the Regina's.
"And you left her alone?" Cora asked as she looked at her daughter. Then without waiting for response used magic and whisked both herself and Queen Cora away.
"Oh dear God! She uses magic here." Zelena said in horror as she watched her mother and her double disappear in a cloud of magic.
Sarah tilted her head as she suddenly had a thought. "Why does it do that? I mean...why a cloud of colored smoke? How does that make sense?!"
Zelena turned a furrowed brow at Sarah, then her face showed she was in thought, then a scowl formed on her face as she slapped the back of Sarah's head.
"OW! What was that for?!" Sarah exclaimed as she rubbed the back of her head looking at her aunt with a hurt look.
"Why didn't you tell me she uses magic?" Zelena snapped angrily at her with her teeth grit as she usually did when she was angry.
"It's not like I knew! I found out when she tried to take out my heart!" Sarah exclaimed with a bit of anger on her own.
Zelena's mouth dropped open but quickly recovered by quickly shutting it. "You mean to tell me my mother tried to kill her first born grand daughter...and you're just now telling me this?!"
"She didn't have her heart in." Sarah said with a shrug, completely over the situation.
"You know I'll never understand how you're not afraid of dying." Zelena said in a way that shocked almost everyone in the diner with how honest and with true fear and sadness in her voice.
Sarah gave her classic little smirk and just shrugged again. "I'm living on borrowed time. I know the destination already. Why be afraid?"
Zelena just shook her head at her niece. "I love you rose petal. You knowing doesn't stop me from being afraid for you."
It was astounding just how honest the two sentences coming from the red headed beauty rang.
"I love you too. And I know." Sarah couldn't have stopped her eyes from moving from her Aunt's to Malcolm's.
Malcolm swallowed. Hope surging through him for the first time since that morning.
Sarah turned back to look at her Aunt with the tilt of her head.
"Do you ever think about the what if? Like...what if Grandma had kept you instead of leaving you so you could both have a better life? Would she have ever had my mother? Do you think I would still exist?"
Suddenly a look of panic filled Zelena's eyes. It was the one thing in the world she had never told Sarah, just how close she had been to doing the most unthinkable of things for petty jealousy. To hear the fearful thought she had carried for over twenty years spring out of Sarah's mouth was one of the most terrifying things she had ever experienced. And she had been turned into a bear by her own daughter!
"I don't exist here. At all it seems. What does that mean? Does it mean that with or without me...everyone would have had the same fate? Does my life mean anything at all or ..." Sarah stopped talking suddenly and shook her head.
Emma saw the pain in Sarah's eyes, pain that she had seen in her grandmother and mother's eyes...but nothing compared to this.
Emma couldn't help but feel sorry for the woman in front of her. For the first time allowing herself to know for a fact that her Aunt Sarah had suffered a worse fate than all of them put together.
Hearing how her Grandmother Cora had apparently given up her Great Aunt Zelena barely shocking her. Sadly the pattern of children being given for the 'betterment' of that child's life was a constant theme.
But Aunt Sarah... from what she had heard at the hospital...it wasn't done willingly.
Emma hadn't known her Aunt Sarah for long, but knew she couldn't imagine a universe without her in it.
"First of all...I barely know you...and I couldn't imagine you never existing." Neal said shocking everyone.
Sarah's head popped up at the words.
"And correct me if I'm wrong but...if I exist here...that means you had to have existed. I mean, Grandpa over there is kind of proof that in this...realm...dimension...whatever, not only did you exist but...he's been searching for you for over four hundred years!"
The thought made Emma suddenly frown. Neal was right.
"And as weird as it is to have a grandmother my same age...I don't care. Because I know you love my father and me. And I know he loves you because he's never told me to make sure no one hurt someone in my life. And..." Neal shook his head almost exactly how Sarah had, " you make me believe that all things happen for a reason."
His eyes found Emma's and instantly agreed with him again. And she had absolutely no regrets, even with everything she knew now. Having Henry was the greatest thing she had ever done. Title of Savior and all...being Henry's mother was the greatest accomplishment of her life.
And the man staring at her at the moment knew her better than any human being on the planet, had hurt her in a way she could never imagine, and in that moment knew she forgave him for what he had done.
Because if he hadn't...neither of them would have ended up here...in this moment.
Dear sweet God I'm still in love with him. The thought was like a cold shower for Emma.
Grabbing Malcolm by the shirt Emma began to drag him out of the diner and passed the small group of new arrivals murmuring for both Henry's to follow her.
Sarah looked at the fallen face of her grandson as he watched Emma leave and immediately moved to wrap her arms around him.
Neal immediately smiled and hugged her back.
"I love you too Bae."
Neal couldn't help but smile wider as his Grandmother pulled back and kissed his cheek. But when Zelena came over and planted a kiss on his cheek he looked at her shocked.
Zelena huffed out a laugh. "You most definitely are part of our family. And I couldn't have said it better myself." A little smirk forming on her lips as she gave a little nod and turned her head to kiss Sarah on the cheek as well.
Sarah smiled bashfully.
Zelena smiled. "If you ever talk like that again I'll tell your Uncle Jimminy what you said."
The smile vanished from Sarah's face as the horror in her eyes said it all.
Turning her head she glared at her Aunt. "You wouldn't dare!"
Zelena gave her wicked smile that let her know it wasn't an empty threat.
"But...but Aunt Lena he'll make me talk for DAYS about it!" Sarah exclaimed almost begging as Zelena moved back and with a wink answered Sarah's question that had earlier distracted her.
"The reason the magic produces colored smoke is because we're using that emotion from our bodies to transport ourselves. The stronger the feeling...the stronger the color...and the bigger the smoke cloud."
Sarah's head jerked back. "But Grandma and mother's smoke is purple."
Zelena's smile fell as she nodded. "Anger and sadness." And with that Zelena left in a puff of green smoke.
Sarah stood there staring at the spot Lena had disappeared and couldn't help but feel saddened by the information.
Ingrid saw this and knowing Sarah as she did, to be jovial and positive with a smile or laugh at the ready, she couldn't stand the sight of her sadness. Better to distract her and make her focus on something completely different.
"Sarah, not to be rude, but we've no place to sleep tonight. And it's already dark out in a very foreign land..." Ingrid left the rest of the 'problem' unsaid. Not wanting to really overwhelm her.
Sarah shook her head and looked over at Ingrid. A small smile finally appeared and she laughed.
"Ingrid you could build a palace to sleep in with your magic and you know it!" Sarah said immediately.
Ingrid shrugged one shoulder and gave a smirk of her own. "I want somewhere nice and warm to sleep tonight."
Sarah nodded her head a few times. "Well...Snow and I were staying at mother's house, but I'm sure between the...apartment...and the home we can accomadate everyone."
"Such a diplomat." Ingrid said with a smile pulling at her lips.
"You and Nicholas aren't getting your own private room! I hear enough commotion when I visit you in the Spring!" Sarah said crossing her arms and giving Ingrid a huge smile that was identical to her mother's.
Elsa and Anna barked out a laugh and quickly tried to stifle it as Ingrid turned completely red faced.
"SARAH!" Ingrid yelled in indignation as her own sisters tried to hide their own laughter as they too knew what Sarah meant.
"Oh Aunt Ingrid it's nothing to be embarrassed about! Uncle Nick and you are beyond adorable together! Seeing how much you two love each other is beautiful! Plus...I have six cousins that attest for what Sarah is saying!" Anna said bouncing her brows at her Aunt Ingrid.
"ANNA!" Gerda screamed slapping her child's arm as Elsa laughed right behind Anna and away from her mother's reach.
Sarah stuck her tongue out slightly as she laughed along with Elsa.
Ingrid's blush hadn't completely vanished but when she stepped closer to Sarah with a pointed finger Sarah controlled her laughter and stared up at Ingrid with wide eyed innocence.
"Not that it's any of your business...but Nicholas is working and is not with me. But if he were young lady you know how inappropriate it would be for you to mention hearing ANYTHING when you are visiting!" Ingrid scolded Sarah, which made Ms. Swan's eyebrow furrow. Seeing someone besides her mother or Regina scold her Aunt was not just a bit odd...it was kind of insulting.
Ingrid looked over at Ms. Swan and could clearly see the irritation on her face, then looking at the same face on Princess Emma. "And don't think I won't tell your mother or father about yours and Baelfire's little indiscretion at the gazebo if i hear you say things like your Aunt or cousins!"
"Aunt Ingrid!" Princess Emma's face flushed red instantly as did Ms. Swan's as Neal covered his mouth to stop the laughter that instantly came from being partially embarrassed for his other self.
" Just so we are clear...I didn't want to hear about either of those two things!" Sarah said with one raised brow. "But I promise not to embarrass you OR my cousins much on your visit with us!" Smiling as she said the last six words.
Ingrid glared at Sarah.
Sarah rolled her eyes. "I would never do anything to embarrass Uncle Nicholas! The man became a true Arendellian with how much he loves the winter! Making toys for children and always laughing his strange laugh! And he loves you with everything in him. Everyone calls the man a saint for always having to deal with the shenanigans happening in this family!"
The Arendellians laughed as they agreed whole heartedly. Ingrid smiled as she blushed again, this time with pride at the man she loved.
"Waitwaitwaitwaitwait..." Ms. Swan said with a raised hand with her eyebrows furrowed and eyes closed as she suddenly had an epiphany that was hurting her head from making the connections.
Slowly opening her eyes she looked over at her Aunt Sarah. "Are you trying to tell me everyone calls him...Saint Nicholas? And he gives children toys. Is his name Nicholas Claus?" The way Ms. Swan looked pleadingly at her Aunt confusing Sarah.
"Yes! Does he live here in Storybrooke?" Sarah said with a confused look of her own.
"Wait! You don't mean...I mean...you can't mean..." Neal began as he finally tuned into the conversation at the name this Emma had said.
Ms. Swan closed her eyes. "This can't be my life." Opening her eyes once more she looked at her Aunt who was still confused.
"Santa Claus! I'm related to... Santa Claus." Ms. Swan said outloud and winced as she realize how truly absurd the statement was.
Sarah winced slightly. "I didn't think he was known here. Especially by that name. You see...Ingrid is Grandma Cora's cousin."
Ms. Swan just raised her eyebrows waiting for Sarah to expand on her explanation on how in the hell that the Cora that she knew could be related in any way to anyone like Santa Claus.
"Grandma Cora's grandfather was actually from Arrendale. He was actually a Duke from the Northern Isles. She's umm...she comes from Royalty, but her father was stripped of all titles and property because..." Sarah stopped as she realized she was airing out family history in public as she saw people turn their heads towards her as they made it more obvious that they were listening in.
Ms. Swan was suddenly fascinated hearing all this, but then suddenly shook her head, "Wait...how does that make him related to me?"
Sarah winced and then with a guilty look said, "I forgot...Emma didn't know. Well you see...your father is my uncle...so..."
"Waitwaitwait..." Ms. Swan pinched the bridge of her nose. "How is he your uncle?! That would mean..." Ms. Swan suddenly made the connection "Cora...is mother...making her my grandmother. Which means Regina is my..."
"Aunt. Yes." Sarah winced again, "But you call her Grandma."
"And why exactly do I call her that?" Ms. Swan asked as she suddenly felt a pit in her stomach form.
"Because your mother was still raised by my mother. For you...she was grandma." Sarah said matter-of-factly.
Ms. Swan thought she was used to all of the secret identities and fairytale connections...but this was pushing it way to far for her.
"Can we just...not do this. Can we just NOT have any more family connections!" Ms. Swan said and rubbed her eyes with one hand and pinched the bridge of her nose trying to stop the migraine forming.
Sarah could feel her niece's pain in her words and knew she had been pushed to her limits in a short span of time. Slowly she made her way over to this version of her niece.
"Hey..." Sarah caressed Ms. Swan's face causing her to open her eyes and stare at this strange woman before her.
"I know all of this is a lot to deal with. It's a lot for me and I'm use to all of the craziness that happens around our family. But that's what all of us are. Family. And it's big, loud, crazy, and...it's fun. It's a lot of fun if you just let yourself...if you allow yourself to have fun again. You deserve fun Emma...no matter what this life throws at you I want you to remember that you need to enjoy yourself. I want you to laugh! I can tell there hasn't been a lot of laughter in your life when I see the pain in your eyes."
Ms. Swan just stared at Sarah. Emma wanted to cry at her Aunt's words.
"So...let all the craziness of how big a family you have be reduced to these words. We're lucky." Sarah moving Ms. Swan's hair to tuck it behind her ear on one side.
Ms. Swan couldn't help her reaction of enveloping Sarah in a crushing hug as her heart hammered in her chest.
Sarah just laughed. She loved her niece and knew she was overcome with emotion to not even be able to speak.
"It's ok Emma. Now let's get me and your uncle cleaned up. I must stink to high heaven."
Ms. Swan suddenly wrinkled her nose as she pulled away, "Now that you mention it..."
"HEY!" Sarah admonished and couldn't help but smirk back at her niece. With that Sarah moved back and tugged on her niece's arm and began to walk towards the exit.
"Are we to follow you Sarah?" Helga asked as Sarah came closer to where she had been standing.
"If you wouldn't mind Helga. I'm almost certain we can find accommodations for everyone at least for tonight. And I really need to check on my mother to see if she is alright." Sarah said with a nod of her head.
The newcomers looked at her quizzically but said nothing as Sarah began to move.
With that, everyone began moving.
All of the Emma's following their Aunt as did both Henry's. Neal following and going towards the hospital. And most everyone else began to go to their respective homes. All except Killian and the two Jimminy's.
Killian watched all of the Emma's left with Neal and felt a tug at his heart he couldn't explain.
Dr. Hopper extended his hand to a booth and Jimminy nodded at sat down. The two were going to have one hell of a chat.
As they made their way through the town the Arendellians noticed just how different the town looked at night as light without the sun was seen and not one flame among them.
Making their way to the apartment first to accommodate some of their 'guests' when as they were making it up the stairs a thought occurred to Ms. Swan.
"Wait...that lady...Aunt Lena? Her smoke cloud was green. Doesn't green mean envious?"
"Ohhh yes. Aunt Lena was so envious when I was a baby that she use to turn completely green." Princess Emma said as she kissed baby Henry in her arms.
Emma and Ms. Swan laughed.
"Sounds like she was the wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz." Emma said with a laugh and it was mirrored on Ms. Swan's face.
"Ummm...Aunt Lena doesn't like to talk about that time in her life." Princess Emma said in an almost whisper.
This caused both Emma and Ms. Swan to stop and whirl around and stare at Princess Emma.
"What?" "What?!"
Princess Emma looked confused for a second and adjusted Henry in her hold. "Aunt Lena doesn't like to talk about when she ruling Oz and...people referring to her as the Wicked Witch of the West. She...it...took a lot of time for her to overcome that feeling against Nana. She always thought that Grandma Cora discarded her and Nana had a better life than her. Aunt Sarah's probably the only reason Aunt Lena even faced Nana and Grandma Cora.
"Are you trying to tell me...that our Aunt...is the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz?" Emma asked in complete astonishment.
Ms. Swan was trying to wrap all these familiar connections once more without completely losing her mind when she said the unthinkable.
"And now apparently I'm related to Dorothy and Toto! The Wicked Witch...wish I could have seen that!"
Sarah stepped through the door to the apartment as the wish was said and found herself in front of yet another version of her sister and brother in law - with none other than her Aunt Zelena, as Emma and Princess Emma screamed out 'NOOOO!' at Ms. Swan.
"Oh me?! I'm fine. I'm gre..." David stopped speaking as he heard the scream and noticed the woman that had just opened the door to the apartment.
Of course Sarah's guard was immediately up as the echo of the wished words rang in her ears causing her anger to make her scream out.
Closing her eyes in anger she opened them once more to find THIS version of David jumping up and moving towards her in a aggressive nature as well as her sister and Aunt quickly leaving their chairs and away from her.
Not taking a second longer she froze them in place with a gust of black smoke encompassing the three.
"Calm down David! I'm going to guess...you don't know who I am...and I'm going to just take a quick second and introduce myself."
Of course the three couldn't move as Sarah stared at them still with anger written on her face.
"My name...is Sarah! I'm Snow's sister. I...OH MY GOD YOUR PREGNANT!"
Sarah was immediately in front of this version of her sister who had a HUGE belly and immediately placed her hand on Snow's stomach.
Sarah winced and looked at her sister in the frozen state she was in and then at her Aunt and Sarah felt herself wince as she saw the huge green pendant she had not seen since she was a child around her Aunt's neck.
Slowly she moved passed David and made her way over to her aunt. Immediately Sarah looked at the pendant around her Aunt's neck and reached up and removed the precious necklace and stared directly into the blue eyes that seemed to match her uncle's.
As frozen as they are she could feel the anger boiling in her Aunt's blood.
"Now. I know that you're your evil self right now. So I'm taking away your talisman - which by the way I made you get rid of because of just this instance! To have all of your power bound by an object is beyond stupid! Really I have no idea why you listened to Glinda." Sarah rolled her eyes but soon found herself letting out an exhausted sigh as she heard the clamoring of feet coming up the stairs.
The second her eyes landed on the gangle of Emma's and the others Sarah stared daggers at Ms. Swan.
With what one could only describe as a more pissed of version of Regina's angry face, Sarah motioned with her finger to come closer to her.
Ms. Swan suddenly felt incredibly apprehensive but moved as instructed towards Sarah.
When she was close enough Sarah held out a hand in a 'stop' motion.
"NEVER...EVER...say that word in my presence! As you can see...we now have even more versions of your parents and obviously other family members."
Ms. Swan looked over and her eyes bulged as Sarah's yelled words suddenly made sense as she saw her mother's huge round belly.
"OH MY GOD!" All three Emma's said as they looked at Snow.
Sarah rolled her eyes. "You saw how many siblings you had earlier. How does that surprise you?"
Ms. Swan said nothing as she looked over at the woman she knew to be the Wicked Witch and looked into her beautiful clear eyes.
"You know I didn't notice how dad and her have the same blue eyes." Ms. Swan said as she inspected the Wicked Witch.
"Well I'm sorry to tell you that you inherited that from your Grandfather King George. Probably one of the only good traits he managed to pass down to anyone in this family."
"King George?! Wait...Grandma Cora had dad with King George?!" Ms. Swan asked with a furrowed brow and then a look of disgust formed on her face and she shook her head to rid herself of the image.
"As far as what Grandma has told me...it was a one time thing. Which...honestly I don't know if I believe. Maybe you'd have better luck trying to pry that information out of her." Sarah said the last with a shrug.
"Umm...Aunt Sarah could you please unfreeze them? I don't think that's good for the baby." Princess Emma said pointing at her mother.
Sarah looked at the necklace in her hands and with her own magic whisked the necklace from the room and to a place she deemed safe.
"Before I do...I know you all have heard every word we've said and I can only imagine the questions you have. I promise...if you remain calm I...WE will answer any questions you have."
With the wave of a hand she unfroze the three who were suddenly gasping as they turned and looked at the people in the small apartment space.
"Mom's going to kill Aunt Sarah." The youngest Henry said as he looked at his very pregnant Grandmother sitting at the table.
Sarah's smile vanished from her face.
Henry was a thousand percent right...because if there was another version of her sister and brother-in-law that meant...
"Oh God help us she is." Princess Emma said as she came to the same conclusion as Henry and Sarah. She closed her eyes and bit her lip with the shaking of her head.
Emma wholeheartedly agreed and asked with an awkward smile towards these older versions of her parents."Soooo...hot chocolate?"
Author's Note: I know! I know! More duplicates! And how the hell are we gonna be able to track of these versions of people?! And WHY WOULD I DO THIS CRAZINESS?! Because I'm evil! 😈😈😈😈. REVIEW and tell me how much you hate me and this story! 😘😘😘😘😘😘 I do this for all of you!