So Emma and Killian finally found out how to defeat Cora while Emma also found out her father is in a sleeping curse and won't be woken till they get back home. What do you think will happen next...
Guest: Why would Emma call her father David? I thought it just went in with the scene...she'll mostly call him dad though unless she has moments where she still feels like an orphan.
Number Ten: Making love on the beanstalk made Emma pregnant again and the wraith stuff with Gold cursing Regina and all that went the same as in the show? I don't know, is Emma pregnant again? Maybe she's just experiencing a lot of stress. Yes, that is all the same
Keep reading to find out...
Chapter 29: Home
Regina walked out to the front of the shop where Gold had been dusting the shop. She just couldn't stand to stay and look over at David who was still asleep, she hoped that soon the Charmings daughter and their pirate mascot would hurry home and this would all be over.
"Like I said dearie, he won't be woken until Snow gives him true love's kiss," Gold told the Queen as he saw her dazing off.
"Until?" Regina questioned.
"Well, the only way she's going to wake him up is if her daughter returns home, and I think we both know the only chance Emma and Hook have at defeating Cora is with the squid ink...which we don't even know if that message has been delivered" Gold explained to her, as Regina ended up looking down at the floor, because he was right. "As such, it is important for us to take precautions. We have to consider the possibility that when that portal opens, won't be Emma and the pirate that come through, it'll be Cora."
That's when Regina looked back up, she knew he was right about everything. The chances Emma and Killian had at defeating her mother were very slim, she knew that if there was a chance at Cora coming to Storybrooke, she wanted to stop it. "And neither of us want that happening."
"We have to find where they're coming through, and destroy that portal," Gold said as she started to walk around the shop, looking at old artifacts.
Destroy it? Regina knew that was the most effective way to stop Cora from coming but there was the chance that it would be Emma and Killian, "But whoever comes through will die."
"Exactly. But I'm confident between the two of us we can summon up enough magic to complete the task," Gold explained, just one of them wouldn't be able to make that much magic work.
Regina shook her head, "What if we're wrong, what if Emma and Killian come through."
"Believe me dearie...they won't be the ones going through that portal." Of course, he knew, Cora would manipulate and manipulate until she got what she wanted and she would never stop, "And if they were the ones coming through well...magic is unpredictable in this world, if something bad were to happen while you were trying to help, he couldn't blame you for that, could he?"
Regina knew what he was getting at, he wanted to see if she still had Evil inside of her, she knew she did, but she was trying to be apart of something new...a family. "No, I can't lie to Henry, I'm trying to be a better person."
"You won't be able to be a better anything if Cora comes through," Gold said as he started to walk towards her, "And if she does, she will be a threat to everyone, especially Snow and Henry, so if you truly want to be better prove it."
Regina couldn't help but look in the back of her, at the curtain that separated the front of the shop to the back. She knew behind that curtain was a family, Charming, Snow, Neal, Henry, if her mother came through they would all be dead.
Snow and Henry sat in the back of Gold's shop, looking down at Charming who was fast asleep. Both wondered if he had already talked to Emma and if they could just wake him up now, but then they thought what if he never got to tell her yet and he was still waiting.
"Will mom and dad ever come home?" Henry asked as he looked at his grandfather. He wished it were him going to see his mother, but of course, it was too dangerous.
Snow then turned her head towards her grandson, this whole process was hard on him and there was nothing she could do to help. "Henry...of course, they will, you know what...I have a feeling that they're on their way home right now," She said but deep down she felt as if something was wrong.
Neal ended up gurgling some gibberish and looking up at his mother with a smile, "See...even Neal agrees with me," Snow said with a smile that quickly disappeared.
Mulan and Aurora lit the pathway that led into Rumplestiltskin's jail cell. It was deep down a dark cave, so deep no strange would be able to find it. It looked as if nobody had been here since the curse, which was reasonable considering it took pretty much everybody around these parts.
Emma held tightly onto her husband's hand, she was anxious to be back her considering the last time they were here was shortly before Henry was born and they were separated the first time. "We haven't been here since before Regina's curse," She whispered loud enough for her voice to echo through the cave.
"Aye, remember, this was where he told us, Henry and I would save you," Killian spoke as they watched from a distance as Mulan got the lighting ready.
Emma looked up at him and smiled, he did what Rumple said he would, he saved her and all of Storybrooke. "Come on." Squeezing his hand even tighter they began to walk closer to the cage, a lot has changed since she was here last. She won't worry about Regina's threat and for one she wasn't pregnant.
"The squid ink, it's not here," Said Aurora as she looked around the cell. It was pretty empty, the only thing in the cell was a rock and a small stole.
"Gold said this was where we'd find it," Emma said a bit confused. Did Gold just want them to go on a wild goose chase so they wouldn't return home and Cora would?
Mulan looked around as well and she failed to see anything, "Well, was anybody else in here with him?"
"No, he was kept alone, visitors were forbidden, he was too dangerous to allow any human contact," Killian explained to the warrior and princess.
Aurora thought she saw something in the crack between two rocks, so when she walked closer she was right. Reaching her hand inside she took out a scroll of paper and when she opened it...she was shocked to see what it said. "Looks like he went crazy in here."
"What's that love? A message?" Killian asked as he saw the paper in her hands. He knew it wasn't a spell since the walls of the cell prevented him from doing any kind of magic.
"Yes, and I believe it's for your son," Aurora said handed the scroll over to him.
Confused Killian took the scroll, "Why do you say that?" As he unrolled it, he saw the entire page was covered in Henry's name, "Bloody hell."
Snow sat in the corner of the shop as she fed Neal who was getting fussy. He missed his daddy. But a smile rose to her face when Henry started to read him the story of how his parents met, it brought such good memories back to mind.
"With one kiss, true love's power made everything right again. But this was not the end of their story, it was just the beginning," Henry read the words right off the page, he didn't even hear Regina walking back into the room.
Regina came in with a smile when she heard Henry reading a true story...not like the one he told her that Snow day outside the school when she had tried to get his father killed. "I think this time it'll happen the other way around," She said as she looked over to Snow who was still feeding her son.
"You think so?" Henry asked.
Regina smiled, "I know so," She whispered.
Hearing that gave Henry hope, hope that Regina believes his mother and father would be the ones defeating Cora and would return home.
Snow watched the moment between the two and wished that Regina was like that with her when she was a kid instead of trying to kill her every second. "Going somewhere, Regina?" Snow asked as she saw that she had her jacket on.
"Actually, Rumple and I need to prepare for Emma and Killian's return. Coming through the portal won't be easy, we need to make sure everything's in place," Regina lied, she felt bad about it but she had to do this, she couldn't risk her mother coming through.
"You're really trying to help them," Henry said with a smile, he believed her.
Snow looked over and saw how much this meant to Henry, but still, something inside of her was feeling as if this wasn't true, something was very wrong.
"I promised you I was going to do better, to be better. So yes, I'm going to do everything I can to see them come home safely," She spoke looking into the boy's eyes, the eyes that showed hope and in just a matter of hours, they would only show sadness and hatred towards her.
"Wow, you really have changed Regina," Snow spoke up from the back, she didn't have a smile or a frown on, she was just neutral.
Regina nodded before she looked back down at Henry one last time, just wanting to mesmerize the last good encounter they'll have. "I'll be back as soon as I can." And with that, she ended up leaving the shop.
Walking over to take a look Emma gasped, she never once expected to find her sons name written over and over again in the Dark One's cell, "How did he know our unborn sons' name? We never told him."
Killian closed his eyes and let out a huge sigh, they should've known. "He knew everything love, it's not a surprise."
"What does this even mean?" Emma asked as she took the scroll and started to look at it, trying to figure out why Rumple would even write her sons' name down on paper this many times.
"He was obsessed with us love...Henry was the most important key to breaking the curse," Killian told her as he climbed down from the ceiling, hoping that maybe the ink was hiding up somewhere high.
"We've looked everywhere...there's no ink in this cell," Aurora spoke as she gave up looking around and in between rocks.
Emma looked up from the scroll just for a second and looked around, there had to be ink somewhere in this cell. "Just keep looking, dad told me there would be some in here, that's what, Gold had told him."
"You were in a Netherworld maybe something got lost in translation," Aurora spoke, she knew what the world was like, she knew how terrifying it was and how hard it would be to hear Henry sometimes.
"No, she heard right," Mulan said as she dug a jar out between two rocks and jumping down from the rock in which she was stepping on. "There was ink in this cell."
The group surrounded Mulan to look at the ink but when they got there, all they saw was an empty jar. "Son of a bitch!" Emma exclaimed as she turned away from the jar and then grunted in pain as she clutched her stomach.
"Calm down love," Killian said throwing an arm around her, "We don't need you getting sick again."
Emma took a deep break and straightened herself out, he was right the last thing they needed right now was for her getting sick. "So what now?" She questioned and as she looked up back to the group the gate to the cell started to close. "What the hell! What's going on?"
An evil laugh was heard in the cave, as Emma ran to the bars she looked up to see Cora standing in front of her. What did this women want now?
"What the bloody hell is this? We gave you the rattle!" Killian talked in the tone of his former pirate self, as he tried shaking the bars lose to escape or break it.
Cora walked toward them and laughed, "Rumplestiltskin himself couldn't escape that cage, you're wasting your time Hook," She spoke to the pirate.
Emma flung herself against the cage, trying to reach for the women's neck. "Why are you doing this?! You have everything!" She shouted. This woman was getting on her last nerve, how come it was always so hard to beat her, last time Killian almost died and this time they're trapped in a cell the Dark One couldn't even break out of.
"Well...I can't have you stopping me this time, can I?" Cora snickered, it seems as if she had won. "Now, I must be going...Storybrooke awaits."
Emma could feel her heart start to pound faster and faster, were they really failing? "Cora! Cora wait! my son is in Storybrooke he needs me!" But the woman didn't stop, instead, she was gone in a blink of an eye with nothing left of her but the purple smoke that was her magic. "Killian..."
He turned to her and saw the tears pouring down her face in a waterfall...she was giving up. "I'm here," He said softly taking her into his arms, "We'll find a way out."
All she could do was shake her head because she knew that there was no way out if there was Rumple would have left the moment he was locked away. They truly had failed this time and there was nothing they could do.
"And yes, she was beyond hope, beyond saving, this was her end," Henry continued the story to his uncle and grandmother as a crowd of dwarfs, Jefferson and Ruby charged into the back room, they looked angry.
"W-What's going on?" Snow questioned as she looked around at the seven small men she thought of as brothers.
"Where are they? Regina and Gold?" Ruby said as more of a demand then a question, she was angry. When she got the call from Leroy to go to the mines because it was an emergency the last thing she thought to see would be all the crystals gone."All the magic has been drained from the mines."
Henry's face fell, he understood what was going on now, "They stole it?"
"They snuck in after our shift and stole everything! Nobody steals from a dwarf" Leroy grunted through his teeth, he was grumpy...hence his name grumpy.
"Except the queen," Doc said making everybody stare at him and forcing him to shut up.
"If they're not helping my parents, that...that means Regina lied to me." He really thought that she was trying to change, he believed everything she had told him. Henry's face fell to the ground, he was beyond upset.
Jefferson kneeled down to the boy and held his hand, he understood what it was like to be backstabbed by Regina. Ever since Ruby had helped him get the courage to reunite with his daughter they've been getting along quite well and he was enjoying her company. "I'm sorry Henry..."
"We need to find them and stop them, we need to help Emma and Killian," Snow said as she stood up ready to go look for the bitch that was going to ruin the plan of her family be reunited once again.
Ruby went over to Snow and made her sit back down, "Whoa, I don't think you should be going anywhere with a newborn...stay here where it's safe...please," Ruby begged, she would hate if anything happened to Neal.
Snow nodded and understood where she was coming from so instead she just sat back down and smiled.
Mulan kept waking and waking the cell with her sword hoping it would have been sharp enough to break through the bars, but so far there wasn't even a scratch.
Killian sat on the ground with his arm wrapped around Emma comforting her as they all watched Mulan trying to break them out, but even when nobody said it they all knew there was no way they could break it...it was meant for Rumplestiltskin of course.
"This is all my fault," Emma said, "I'm the saviour, I'm not doing any saving, am I?" She was leaning against Killian, she felt weak, she felt like a failure.
"Love, this isn't your fault...I'm also a saviour, I haven't done much saving, in fact, I pretty much died when trying to save you," He told her as he held her tightly.
She remembered the pool of blood that she had seen after Killian had woken her from the sleeping curse, he had fought a real battle and had almost died for her. But she didn't even know how to respond to him, yes, he was a saviour and he did save her, so this time it was her turn to save him and she failed deeply.
"We're going to win this fight you know, good always defeats evil" He spoke softly to her as he placed a comforting kiss on the back of her head. He was speaking from experience, they had defeated evil multiple times together and each time Emma knew they would win, but this time was different, this time they were trying to win so they could get back to their son.
"You sound like Henry," Emma muttered as she picked her head up and ended up looking into his eyes, remembering all the times Henry told her to just believe, to believe she was his mother and married to Captain Hook, to believe that she was the daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White. "But you would say that you broke the curse, what have I done? I got us stranded here, I burned the wardrobe, let Cora get the ash and now the rattle. I'm not powerful, I'm-I'm not the saviour, that's exactly why we're in here and Coras on her way to Storybrooke."
He watched and listened as his wife let everything come out, she believed she was no saviour, she blamed everything that had happened to herself. He wanted to show her that nothing was her fault and that she could be the saviour but he had no idea on how to show her that, her hope was gone, she gave up, she no longer thought she would see their son again.
Regina and Gold had been walking in the woods, she didn't know where he was taking her but that was the last thing on her mind right now. She felt horrible for lying to Henry and then stealing all the magic from the mines. "You sure the portals going to be all the way out here?" She asked as the kept walking deeper into the woods.
"There," Gold said as he pointed over to an old well that Regina didn't even know was there. "This is where things once lost are returned to us, this is where Cora's gonna come through."
As Regina leaned over the edge and looked down into the water she saw how the water started to swirl and bubble, the portal was being opened but she had a feeling, "Unless it's Emma and Killian."
"I highly doubt it," Gold said looking down as well. Even after seeing everything these heroes succeeded in, he still doubted they would get past Cora.
"We are gonna get out of here," Killian said as he looked down at the scroll that had his son name written over and over.
"How? By staring at the scroll? It's not like it's going to magically open the door or us," Emma responded as she sat down on the ground with her arms resting on her knees.
Killian stood up as he had an idea, he wasn't sure if it would work but it was worth a shot. "Yes, it is. I heard rumours about these spell books that the Dark One had where the spells were in the book."
Emma looked side to side, a bit confused. "Yeah, that's what spell books are, a book that has spells in it?"
"Watch," He said as he gave her a smirk and then blew on the scroll, making the ink on the page lift off and literally float in the air.
"Whoa!" Emma stood up as she watched the ink move towards the door, "Squid ink, Rumple wrote the scroll in squid ink." She was impressed she would have never guessed that the scroll was written in squid ink when it should have been obvious.
"See love, I told you, good always wins," Killian said as he pulled his wife into a hug that continued with a small kiss on the lips before they ran out of the cell on their way to defeat Cora and get back to their son.
"Wait! I can't go! I can't risk being around Cora again, the first time she stole my heart this time she put a dagger to my throat...I'm not going," Aurora said, she was frightened for what Cora would do to her next, both encounters with her almost ended in her death and she knew Philip would want her to live as long as she could, he would want her to have a long and happy life.
Mulan turned around, she couldn't leave Aurora behind...not again, "What? No, I'm not leaving without you."
"Please, I wouldn't be much help anyway," Aurora pleaded.
Emma looked at Killian, they were running out of time, "Mulan...we have to go."
She knew they didn't have much time, Cora had probably already opened up the portal and was about to jump through. "I'll come back for you." And with one simple nod and smile from Aurora, they were off to defeat Cora once and for all.
It was ready, the portal was ready, in no time she would be reunited with her daughter once again. The wardrobes ashes were already sprinkled in the water that Cora had been able to revive from under the already tried up Lake Nostos, and now that all had to be done was jump through while holding the little princes rattle. But right at the split second, she was about to jump a sword ended up flying and hitting the rattle out of her hand.
"You're not going anywhere! This portal is taking us home!" Emma shouted as Cora had looked to see where the sword had come from, apparently Emma was the one that flung it, who would have thought a princess would be good with a sword.
"The rattle, get it!" Killian demanded as he ran to go get his sword and distract Cora as Emma searched the dirt.
Killian dodged every flame the witch flung at him, he remembered the last time this battle went on. He was the one trying to kill Emma now he was trying to kill the women he was working with.
"Captain, I never thought you'd be fighting with the princess," Cora said as she sent a smirk in his way as they made a circle around one another.
"I have you to thank for that," He said. Cora was the one that brought them together.
Emma was on her hands and knees, searching through the sand trying to find the rattle. She was going to give up, there was no rattle for what she could see until the sparkle glistened off the corner of her eye. Crawling towards it as quickly as she could she quickly gathered it into her hands but before she knew Killian was shouting at her.
"Emma! Watch out!" Killian shouted.
When she turned around the last thing she thought she would see was Cora throwing a fireball right at her.
Mulan ran as quickly as she could, falling to the ground and pointing her sword in the way of the fireball and Emma. Her sword deflected the magic, making the fireball disintegrate into nothing.
"Thanks," Emma said before she went and grabbed her sword from her sheath and charged after Cora.
Killian swung his sword at Cora but she deflected him with a sword she magically poofed into her hands. "Love, are you ready?" He gave her the signal that he always use to give her when they were caught in a battle.
"You bet I am!" She responded as she deflected Cora's blow. Having Killian quickly pick her up and having her kick the witch back, making her tumble far enough to let them get ready for round two.
"I must say, love, it's much better this time when we're doing it together and not against one another," He stated with a smirk as he waited for their next move.
"Really? Are you sure you don't want to push me to the ground and tell me when you stab me with your sword I'll feel it?" She asked with a smirk back at him as Cora then flung another fireball at them causing both of them to block it with their swords crossing over into an X.
"Oh, I'll have plenty of opportunities to say that," He told her with a wink as he then spun himself around, positive that he was about to cut Cora but when his sword was about to meet her flesh she vanished onto the other side of the dried up lake.
Regina watched as the well sparked green with thousands of blots of electricity. Whoever was to go through that portal wouldn't survive, no matter if it was her mother or Emma and Killian.
"Regina?" Henry shouted as he ran up behind Gold and the former Queen making them both turn around and not say a word, "You're not helping my parents, are you?"
Regina shook her head "I'm helping the town, Henry," It was only partially the truth.
"What are you talking about?" Henry asked angrily. He was angry that she would lie to him angry that she would even think this was a good thing to do, his parents were almost home and she was trying to stop it.
"You're going to kill them!" Jefferson shouted out as he stood next to Ruby who looked as if she was in attack mode.
"Regina stop this!" Ruby growled as she was about to run up and attach the man.
Gold used magic and flung her back against a tree, knocking her out cold. "Sorry, dearie."
"Ruby!" Jefferson ran after her and made sure she was alright, for what she could tell she was still breathing.
Henry was frightened, why were they doing this? "Regina, what are you doing?"
"We can't let Cora come through that portal, you have no idea what she would do to us," Regina tried to explain to him, she was frightened for what the women would do. She killed her true love, she forced her to marry the King and even after everything Regina still wasn't a good enough daughter.
"My parents will defeat her, they're the ones that are going to come through the portal" Henry begged, he knew it would be his parents, he just needed her to believe it too.
Gold could tell the boy was having an effect on Regina, making her second guess her decision. "Henry, Regina's right, it's going to be Cora."
"No, it won't!" Henry exclaimed, "Good always defeats Evil, you should know that more than anybody," He told her after knowing everything that she did to destroy his family they always won in the end, it this time was going to be no different.
She felt threatened by his remark, even when she knew it was true, but that's why she was threatened because it was true. "What I know is that my mother will destroy everything I love, and that means you, and I can't let that happen." It was the first time she had told somebody she loved them since Daniel. But it was true, she felt something strong with Henry.
Emma ran after Cora, her sword was ready to be flung at her, and she struck as hard as she could, aiming straight towards the women, but she vanished ones again in a floom of smoke.
"Love, run!" Killian shouted as he saw a time for them to run towards the portal and jump, but before they could make it Cora poofed in front of them using magic to push them back onto the ground, making them both grunt loudly.
Killian was the first one up and he was about to run over and help up his wife when he then saw the witch charging towards him and he knew it wasn't good. Emma knew it was good and she tried to get up to protect him but immediately Cora waked her back.
He wanted to help her, but he couldn't, Cora was preventing him from doing so "Why do you want to go to Storybrooke?"
"Because my daughter needs me," Cora said, "And now I'm going to do something I should have done many years ago when you betrayed me, Hook." And without warning her hand flung back and was rushing back to her, straight for his chest but before he knew it Emma pushed him out of the way, making Cora's hand go into her own chest.
"Emma! No!" He thought that was it, he thought he was going to witness another love of his being killed by their heart getting crushed.
"Oh, you foolish girl! Don't you know? Love is weakness," Cora said as her hand was gripped tightly around Emma's heart. An evil grin appeared on her lips as she tried to pull out the princesses heart but her hand was stuck, she couldn't get the heart out of her chest, what was going on?
that's when Emma realized, "No, love is strength!" And once the words left her lips a powerful blast came out of her chest blasting Cora away from the both of them. That was the second magical thing that happened to her in this lake, first, she healed Killian and now this.
Killian immediately picked himself up and placed his hand over her heart, making sure it was still there, which it was making him take a deep breath and calming himself down. "What the hell was that?"
"That is a great subject for discussion...for when we get home," Emma told him with a smile as they then both ran straight towards the portal, "Ready? Take my hand and don't let go."
They took one another hand in hand, tightly they squeezed making sure that neither one of them let go, they were finally going home and be the family they were meant to be.
"You can't! Stop it!" Shouted Henry as he tried to run towards the well that the portal was being destroyed in. But Regina had ended up grabbed him and holding on tightly, she was determined to destroy this portal. "You can't! You're gonna kill them! Please! No!" He knew it would be his parents that came through, how come everybody else doubted them?
"They're going to make it through! We have to turn it off! You're gonna kill them!" Henry shouted once again, trying to wrestle his way out of Regina grasp. He did succeed, he did get out of her hold and ran to the well to see the green lightning strikes of electricity. But quickly, he was thrown back out of the way by Regina, she grabbed ahold of him angrily, but Henry knew she wasn't trying to hurt him.
"What are you doing?!" She questioned her great-grandson as she looked into his dark green eyes.
"My parents are going to come through, I know it," Henry spoke, "You said you wanted to change, to be better. This is how. You want me to have faith in you? Have faith in me." He had flared in his tone as he spoke, he was determined to change her mind in thinking it wouldn't be her mother that came through.
She looked into his eyes and knew that he truly believed it would be his parents and not her mother, and he was right she had to have faith in him if she wanted others to have faith in her. As she looked back at the well, she walked up next to it, of course, Gold had tried to stop her but she was no longer listening to him.
Raising her hands over the well all the energy started to surge through her body, she was taking the magic out as Henry watched terrified. The magic went all into her, forcing her back onto the ground once it was finished. Looking up at Henry she could see the hurt and despair in his eyes as he watched his parents not come through...there was nobody.
"Henry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" Regina whispered to him through her tears. She had no idea if they didn't jump through the portal or if they did and end up dying, either way, it would be all her fault.
"No!" He shouted as he looked at the once energy filled well. There was nobody coming up, his parents weren't returning home. He could have sworn his parents were the ones that would be climbing up from the well, but there was nobody. Or at least that's what he thought until he saw the soft pale fingers grab the edge, he immediately drew closer and he waited to see who it was.
Emma was shocked when she found herself having to climb out of a well, but she didn't care about that, all she cared about was that she was now home. "We did it," She said with a smile to her husband.
"Aye, we did Swan," He said giving her a smile back as he was about to lean in for a kiss but was cut off by the voice of a child.
"Mom? Dad?" He was so happy, he knew it would be his parents.
Both looking to the side they were surprised, they didn't even realize there was anybody around. "Henry!" They both shouted as they ran up to their son and engulfed him in their arms as they all fell to the ground wrapped in one another embrace. They were finally home, they were finally reunited with their son once again. Everything they weren't through, all the pain, all the fights, all the restless nights, it was bringing them right to this point.
Emma started to tear up, she was finally back with her baby boy. "Oh, I missed you," She said as she hugged him tightly, she was so happy to be back with the baby she was now separated from twice.
"I missed you, too," Henry said hugged both his parents back, he didn't think he would ever see the day where he was back with both his parents, but that day had finally come.
"We've missed you so much, lad," Killian told his son as he placed his hand on the back of his head like he did when he was a baby.
Once everybody had broken apart and they had hugged for as long as they could, Killian had gotten the chance to look around and saw the evil queen laying on the forest floor panting, with Jefferson and Red just picking their selfs up off the ground and then the crocodile giving him and his family dirty looks as he started to walk back into town. "What's going on?" He asked.
Henry smiled at his father, "It was Regina, she saved you both."
Emma smiled at Henry's words, the evil queen had saved her, after trying to destroy her for so long. "Thank you," She said as she then wrapped her arms around her son again, not believing she was actually with him.
"You're welcome," Regina said not really looking any of them in the eye. She felt horrible for what she did, for not believing in Henry when he told her multiple times it would be Emma and Killian.
"Are you okay?" Jefferson asked as he helped pick up ruby.
"I'm fine, thank you," She smiled at him right before she ran off and gave her goddaughter a hug.
Killian watched as the wolf and his wife embraced, he knew that Emma was her goddaughter but ever since the curse had broken they didn't actually ever get a chance to speak, but he knew they were friends during the dark curse. "Wait, Emma, your father..." He said as he remembered how he was trapped in that Netherworld.
"Oh, right!" Emma said loudly as she remembered that she had to get to her mother so she could wake her father. "Come on..."
Killian and Henry ran ahead of them as they started walking down the path, knowing well that Emma had to talk to Regina since she had helped out to get them back home.
"Um, your mom...she's uh...a piece of work, you know that?" Emma questioned remembering all the hard times Cora put them through.
Regina nodded, "Indeed I do," She said as she then looked at the young princess she had once threatened, "Welcome back." She never thought she would be welcoming her and her family back, trying to get them to accept her, she thought they would all be dead by now and she would get her revenge.
"Thanks," Emma said lastly as she gave Regina one last smile before running up to her son and husband and taking Henry's hand as she and Killian walked on either side of him, they were finally back together.
As soon as all three of them walked into the back of Golds shop Emma was immediately embraced by her mother, welcoming them all home and letting them know she knew that they would succeed.
"It's all over now, everything's back to normal," Snow let her daughter know for reassurance.
But everybody knew it wasn't all over until the magic that came from Snow and David's lips blasted through the entire town. Snow had woken Charming, they rewrote history.
"You...you did it," Charming said as he looked up into his beautiful wife's eyes, needing to take a moment to see if he was still asleep...he wasn't.
"I think you should be saying that to somebody else," Snow said as she nodded her head making David turn around to see Emma.
David smiled, "I knew you'd make it back."
"If it weren't for you we never would have made it back," Emma told her father before she walked over to him and gave him a hug, it felt amazing to feel the warmth of her father once again.
Gold didn't want to be apart of the whole family reunion, so instead, he was at the front of his shop doing what he had done every day for ten years while he was waiting for the curse to break polish artifacts. But he knew that was all over when he saw the young princess walk up to him."
"We need to talk," Emma stated, it wasn't a question it was a demand.
"Yes I certainly do believe an apology is necessary," Gold said knowing that he would have to apologize sooner or later.
Emma shook her head, she didn't want an apology. "You don't need to apologize, just don't doubt me ever again."
Hold nodded in agreement, but in the back of his mind, he knew that this wouldn't be his only time he would try to kill her.
"There's just one thing I want to know...that scroll, you wrote my sons name over and over again, how did you even know it? We never told you." Once she had spent some time in that cell she thought about the day she came down to him to find out about the curse, never once did she tell him her sons' name.
"I'm the dark one, dearie, I know everything," He said with a smug grin, but it was true, ever since he took the seers powers anyway.
"But the ink, it was there on that page all along, you could have escaped, why didn't you?" It was scary to her for her to think that the man she thought was locked away for good and couldn't bring harm to anybody else could've easily blown the ink onto the cell and escaped, reeking havoc on all the villages.
"I was exactly where I wanted to be. You had to find that scroll for all of this to happen," he answered her.
And that was when her worst nightmare came true, he had planned everything out for her, so everything she had done up to this point was all controlled by him. Did she even find Killian herself or was that controlled by him too, considering that was his number one enemy that he wanted to kill? "You created the curse, Gold. You made me the saviour. So everything I've ever done...It's exactly what you wanted me to do."
Gold had to chuckle, "I created the curse, dearie, but I didn't make you. I merely took advantage of what you are...the product of true love, that's why you're powerful...along with your son. And everything you've done, you've done yourself."
Emma was taken back, Gold had no idea what happened in the Enchanted Forest. "So you don't know," She said as she placed her hand over her heart and walked closer to the man, she didn't want anybody else to hear, "Cora...Tried to rip my heart out, but she couldn't. She was blasted back by something inside me, by...by..." She knew what it was, she just didn't know if she could say it.
"By magic," Gold finished for her, "Whatever that was, I didn't do that...you did."
She didn't understand how this was even possible, how could she have magic and not know about it her whole life? Especially before the curse had even happened.
Since his parents had returned Henry had sat be his father's side listening to all the stories he was telling him about what happened in the Enchanted Forest, about seeing Tiny again, about going back home and finding his baby rattle, about how Cora kidnapped Aurora to make them give the compass and so much more. But there was one thing he wanted to do.
Walking up to Regina, Henry could see she was feeling out of place in this situation. "I was right, you really have changed," He told her as he then went in and hugged her tightly, he could feel how hesitant she was at hugged him back but she did. "Thank you."
Emma walked back into the room and saw her parents still wrapped in one another's arms on the cot, she was happy they were once again reunited.
"So, love...what now?" Killian asked walking up to her with a smirk.
Everybody else couldn't help but hear the sound of Emma's stomach start to rumble, making everybody in the room start to laugh.
"Sounds like you're hungry," Killian then said stating the obvious.
"How about dinner at Granny's?" Ruby suggested making everybody in the room cheer for agreement, and Emma didn't say no, as long as she could eat anything other than chimera, she was more than happy to.
"Hey kid...you hungry?" Emma asked looking over at her son who was hugging the Evil Queen, but immediately released and answered with a big nod. This would be their first family dinner...ever.
Regina stayed back and watched as the room was quickly emptied, tears filled in her eyes when she wasn't even invited and Henry let go telling her he would see her later. She felt abandoned, she truly was trying to change but the only one who could see that was Henry.
"Congratulations," Gold said sneaking into the back room, seeing Regina look around in despair, "You just reunited mother and son, maybe one day, they'll even invite you to dinner."
All dwarfs, David, Snow, Killian, Emma and Henry all walked down the main street towards Granny's, they all had smiles on their faces and were bursting with laughter as Emma and Killian held onto their little boy throwing him up in the air and swinging him by their connected hands. Everything seemed perfect, everybody was reunited as a family again and it was all going back to normal...or at least they thought anyway.
Cora had jumped through just a matter of seconds after the pirate and his duchess, she was determined to get back to Storybrooke, she didn't even know if it would work considering she wasn't holding the compass, but when she climbed up that well and looked around she knew for sure she had succeeded. Now it was time to get her daughter back.
"Really...you saved dad from Cora again," Henry beamed as his parents were telling him what had happened before they had jumped through that portal.
"Aye, that she did," Killian said with a smirk wrapping an arm around Emma's neck having her lean into him.
"Awesome!" Henry shouted.
Ruby smiled from behind the bar and watched parents and child make up for lost time. She had always wanted a family of her one, but the only boyfriend she had ever had she ended up eating. Then there was Snow, who helped her through everything, Snow became her family and then it just expanded from there.
Jefferson had sat down at the bar with a drink in hand, there was something he had to ask Ruby, but he was more than nervous. He would have done it shortly after she helped reunite him and his daughter but he wasn't sure if it was the best idea, but now he was certain.
"Jefferson, uh...can I get you anything?" Ruby asked, looking at the man, "Where's Grace?"
"She went to a friends house for the night," He told truthfully, this wasn't something he wanted to discuss with Grace just yet, he didn't even know if she would even understand. "There was actually something I wanted to ask you about."
"What might that be?" Ruby questioned a bit confused, had she done something wrong?
Jefferson swallowed hard, his hands were sweaty, his body was a little shaky. He didn't understand why he was so nervous, maybe it was just the fact he could be rejected and everything he was hoping for just went down the drain. It seemed like hours had passed by the time he looked back up into Ruby's eyes who was anxiously waiting for him to answer her. Slowly he took a deep breath, "I was wondering if maybe...you would want to go...get dinner sometimes." You could tell his voice was shaky when he asked.
"Like on a date?" She questioned with a smile, this was a first for her, she never once thought anybody would ask her out to dinner, especially considering what had happened several days ago with the mob. But once her question was answered by a simple nod from Jefferson all her questions went away, "I would love to," She answered with a big smile.
The rest of that night until Granny closed both just sat at the bar having a conversation about their new life, how they both missed home and living in the forest and all the magical creatures that they would sometimes discover. They wanted to go home.
Yay! Everybody was finally reunited with their loved ones, and Jefferson and Ruby are now going out on a date...I wonder what in the future for these two ;)
Let me know in the reviews what you think will happen next and what you think will happen with Jefferson and Ruby's story.
Next time Chapter 30: Archie
