Hii guys, sorry for this long delay but I am finally done with school! That's right just got my degree and now just having a part-time job and the rest of my time is to relax and get back on writing! I've been brainstorming a lot for this story because I wanted you guys to get hooked on it as much as you did with the one before.

So, in this chapter, we will see what Daniel is up to and Emma and Regina trying to figure out where he is.

Hope you enjoy it, sorry for any grammar error.


Chapter 6: "Be careful with her feelings"

Enchanted Forest

It worked…Daniel thought to himself as he wandered around the dark enchanted forest. He couldn't believe that his wish would actually work and all he did was just to wish really hard while staring at the page he ripped off the storybook his grandmother occasionally reads it to him as bedtime stories. When he landed first here, he was extremely confused and then very excited but now it has been a couple of hours and he is getting very scared because its dark and he doesn't know where he is, he just keeps on walking till hopefully he finds something or someone that can help him out. Now I want my mommy, he pouted while thinking about his blonde mother, he was very mad at her today and also at Regina because he felt nobody believed him and he was sure he actually found out the truth, so all he wished in that bathroom was just to meet his other parent that would help him out in this situation and make everyone else believe him.

Then he heard some noises coming from the bushes.

"W-who's there?" His thin voice shook as he stopped from walking and hugged himself, dark brown eyes searching around the dark forest for something. "Can you help me? I-I am lost," he tried to speak up, but he was too scared to even raise his voice.

But the first thing that jumped out of the bushes was a big dog that looked more like a wolf, so Daniel yelped and took a run for it.

"Hey you, don't run!" Some tough deep voice called out for him but now he was too scared to stop, he just tried to run as fast as he could, but in a matter of seconds he got tackled down by the big dog and hit his face hard on the ground, scratching his cheek and forehead on the dirt of the ground.

"Someone, help me!" Daniel screamed and moved his body around, trying to get the big dog off him, but it was no use. Daniel was small and weak; his best skills were up in his brain just like his older brother.

"Stop screaming, brat. You are coming with me and trust me in these parts of the forest nobody is going to save anybody, you are in the wrong part," the man told him as he grabbed the back of Daniel's black jacket, hushed his dog to the side and then rose Daniel's small body of the ground and when he faced the little boy he saw exactly what he was expecting to see, a scared little boy, already crying and scratches on his upper cheek and forehead, on the left side. "You will do just fine, gonna get lot of gold with you," the man smirked as he began to walk away and threw Daniel over his shoulder to carry him like that.

"N-no! Let me go!" Daniel still tried to fight him off even though he was very scared. "Mommy! Help me! Mommy!" He screamed at the top of his lungs, tears streaming down his face, desperate for his blonde mother to just show up all the sudden and be his savior, but obviously that did not happen, and it only made his kidnapper laugh.

"You can scream all you want, kid. Nobody can save you now," said the man as he kept on walking through the dense dark forest.

Daniel just kept on crying and sobbing and screaming till he couldn't anymore.


Storybrooke – Charming's Apartment

"Mom!" Emma called out for her mother as she stormed in the familiar apartment with Regina following just behind.

"Emma! Where is Daniel? What's going on?" Snow said freaking out while clutching on the story book against her chest.

"I don't know, he just vanished," Emma quickly answered while removing the book from her mother's hands, she began to go through the pages and noticed that there was indeed one page missing and then she removed the crumpled page she found in the little boy's bathroom at Daniel's school and it was a perfect fit. He really took this page out of this book. "I can't believe this…" Emma muttered under her breath as she turned the page around and read again what was written on it. Did Daniel really wanted to meet his other parent that much? Was he willing to go that far? But how could he even end up in the enchanted forest with no magic helping him?

"I think its best if we go to see Gold. He probably can answer our questions and maybe knows how to find Daniel," Regina pointed out being the only one more calm about this situation even though she was freaking out in the inside because if Daniel was indeed her son, she wasn't going to let anything happen to him, even if he wasn't, it's just a child and is missing, they need to find him.

"Do you know what happened?" Snow asked again, approaching her daughter and when she reached for her, Emma snapped.

"No, I do not know what happened! But this is exactly why I wanted to get away from Storybrooke and ignore all this bullshit exists! It only brings problems and now it took Daniel away from me!" Emma was really upset because she always did her best to keep Daniel in the dark about this damn town and about magic and she managed to do that just fine for seven years. "If only you hadn't read this book to him, he wouldn't get so into this whole enchanted thing and try to find Gina!" Emma was really snapping at her mother because her son is now missing for the second time and there's only so much she can take, plus the conversation with Regina didn't go as well as she planned it to go and she is sure that Regina still doesn't fully believe that Daniel is also her son.

"Emma!" Regina called out for the blonde woman to calm her down because she knew that the savior was hurting her mother's feelings.

Snow looked at her with tears in her eyes, she couldn't believe she was being blamed for this by her own daughter, that's what hurt the most because he was also her grandchild. "W-What are you talking? If only you hadn't run away from home and talked to Regina about the whole thing, none of this would've happen." Yes, the blaming game was really happening right now.

"Regina would never believe me, it would only make things more painful and worse, you know that!" Emma raised her voice. "She doesn't even believe me now and I already told her everything!"

Snow gasped at that because she didn't know that Emma had finally tell Regina about this whole secret, so her eyes darted towards the brunette woman who still stood as rigid and regal as always but there was some conflict behind dark brown eyes. "So…you know?"

Regina gulped and nodded but didn't say anything because she still wasn't sure on what to fully believe.

"Yes, she knows, and nothing is going to change. I am going to find Daniel and take him back and this time I am moving out of this country if necessary, I am done with this damn town and crazy magic," Emma said angrily as she closed the book and walked out of the apartment.

"Emma! Where are you going?" Snow called out for her.

"To see Rumple!" That was the only answered they got before they could her running downstairs, out of the building.

"She hates me now…" Snow mumbled as she hugged herself, trying to stop from crying.

Regina was still feeling conflicted, but she could obviously tell that Snow was really hurt about this situation. "Snow don't worry, she didn't mean anything of what she said, and everything will be back to normal once we find Daniel."

"She meant every single word, Regina…after what happened seven years ago, I've never seen Emma so broken and tired of life, the only thing that keep her going was Daniel and Henry," Snow told her as she looked away, remembering all the long nights she spent without a word from her daughter, wondering what had happened to her and if she was even alive or not and only a few months later, she finally got a call from Emma and everything was explained to her.

Regina took a deep breath and looked down at her own feet. She had to go help Emma. "She will be fine; she won't leave and won't blame you. We just need to find Daniel," she told the other brunette.

"Regina just do me a favor, will you?"

"What is it?"

"Please take care of Emma in this. She is clearly unstable for good reason but please try to not hurt her feelings further, what she told you is all true, I was there to witness almost all of it and I know till this day that she never got over it. So please…be careful with her heart," Snow told her this almost like she was begging her. Emma had suffered her enough; she didn't want her daughter to go through more pain.

Regina took Snow's pleading seriously even if she still didn't quite believe in Daniel being her son, she knew that Emma was now unstable and fragile, and she was going to be very careful to not make things worse for the blonde woman. "Okay, I promise, I will take care of her," Regina gave her a small smile and Snow did too, they stared just a few seconds at each other before Regina bowed her head as a goodbye and left the apartment to go after Emma, hoping by now she wasn't terrorizing Rumple.


Enchanted Forest – Tavern

"Hey, I brought you what you wanted," the bandit spoke as he approached a younger man that was sitting by the table. "He is a scared little shit," after saying this he removed Daniel from his shoulder, who had given up fighting long ago because all the struggling wore him out and his throat hurt from screaming so much, but when Daniel was put on the ground to face the other guy, he didn't have that scared expression anymore. His dark brown eyes were red from crying but he had a strong frown on his face, trying to look as angry as a seven-year-old could.

"Oh, he is young," the guy commented with a cocky smirk as he looked at Daniel up and down.

"Yea, I don't know why you want a little kid, you are really a big creep."

"I don't want him for that perverted shit you think," he said as he rose his hand and tried to caress Daniel's cheek with the back of his fingers but that got him a bite right on his finger from Daniel. "Oh, oh! He's feisty!" The guy chuckled, not even mad that he got bitten by a little child and Daniel only keep trying to look as angry as he could even though he was terrified inside.

"Yea, a real beast, now pay up, I got you what you wanted," the bandit said while stretching out his arm, showing his palm, waiting for the gold.

"Yea, here you go," the guy dropped a small bag of gold coins on top of the bandit's palm and then stood up, grabbing Daniel's face by the chin. "Now you come with me and you will have the adventure of your life," he was showing an oddly kind smile, but you could see there was second intentions behind that smile.

Daniel was confused with the whole situation and for a tiny second, he saw hope since the other man was smiling at him. "You can help me find my mom?" That got him a chuckle from the other guy.

"To where we are going, we don't need parents or rules. I will show you," the guy removed his hand from Daniel's chin and grabbed his small hand. "My name is Peter Pan, what's yours and what were you doing alone in the forest at night?"

"I am Daniel and I came here to find my mother," he said with a determined look.

"Then come with me Daniel, I will show you something better than that," and with that he walked out with Daniel by holding his hand and Daniel went willingly because there was a strange comforting energy from Peter Pan and since he also looked like a kid, he figured he'd be safer with him than with the other guy.


Gold's Store

When Regina got to Gold's store, Emma was already there, threatening Gold with whatever she could, while he looked at her not so amused. It really looked like the old days.

"Find my son! You always have a way around this stuff, just do it!" Emma demanded as she slammed her fist on top of the glass counter top.

"I am sorry, but I can't," Gold said calmly.

And Emma snapped, she launched herself over the counter but before she could get her hands on the older man, Regina was quick on her feet and grabbed Emma by the shoulders bringing her backwards. "Calm down, Emma, beating him up won't help us either," Regina told her, and Emma shook her arms out of Regina's grip and huffed out, knowing the mayor was right.

"Why can't you help us?" Regina asked him.

"Because I just can't."

"That's bullshit! You have a reason behind it!" Emma raised her voice and pointed her finger at him.

Regina stepped forward trying to create some barrier between the savior and the older man. "You made a deal with somebody, didn't you?" Regina asked him with a frown and Emma's eyes opened wide while looking at Regina then she quickly looked back at Rumple. "Spit it out, old man."

Gold sighed out with his eyes closed and went to his back room for a couple of seconds and then came back with an old piece of paper and put it on top of the counter. "Here's the reason why."

Emma quickly snatched up the paper and began to read it. "26th of winter the child was placed in Neverland. Erase the Evil Queen's and everyone else's memories of this child. The child shall live in Neverland with the lost boys and shall never know her true heritage. Never let the Evil Queen have any contact with Neverland. Keep the two as far away from each other as possible. If the child or the Evil Queen know anything about this, things can change drastically. Never disrupt or visit the child." It didn't look like one of his deals, it looked more like a paper with his plans to never forget it.

"Who is this child? And what does this have to do with Daniel and the Evil Queen?" Regina asked after she heard Emma reading the paper out loud.

Gold looked a bit conflicted, but he knew now he was too late to back down and he had kept this as a secret for way too long and since he has been living such a peaceful with Belle and their child, he grew softer. "The child's name is Fiona. I left her in Neverlands in her sixteen-year-old birthday and she is the Evil Queen's daughter."

Both Emma and Regina were shocked with this information, now there is another child involved?! "What's that supposed to mean? What the hell are you talking about?" Emma asked.

And Gold sighed out, proceeding to clear out all the questions hanging. "Seven years ago, when you guys sent the Evil Queen back, she was pregnant at that time so that was going to change the whole timeline for us. So, the Evil Queen had her memories erased from her time here but she was pregnant, she didn't know why and she reached out for me to understand the reasons behind it because as you know, Regina, you were not capable of having children. I remember also being very confused with the whole situation so I looked deeper into it and still couldn't find the reason why, eventually the child was born and it almost took your life giving birth to her because she was born with a stronger darker magic than yours," he talked while looking now at Regina, "everyone thought she was the devil child, she was never easy to deal with it, not even while she was a baby but obviously you still adored her because she was yours. As she grew older, people were more terrified about how their future was going to look like because the new princess was a younger version of her mother but worse however in that time you had grown softer, Regina, you didn't seek revenge anymore with Snow, you just didn't care. You wanted to help Fiona control her dark magic and make her be good or at least as good as she could be. Time passed by and you asked me help Fiona control better her magic and while I taught her everything, I noticed besides the strong dark magic she had, she also had light magic, it wasn't as strong as the dark one and it showed up involuntary, so my first thought was that she would be the most dangerous magician in the entire realm because she had both magics, strong ones and had no control over them. So, I had to stop that," and that's how he basically ended his explanation.

And this was just too much for both women to process, especially for Regina, she was still wrapping her mind around the idea that Daniel was hers and Emma's child, now she finds out there's another child and this one she was pregnant with?

"That's bullshit…" Emma whispered because she still couldn't believe what she had just heard.

"Unfortunately it's not and I was as shocked as you both when I found out that the Evil Queen was pregnant back then, everything I had planned was going to change and I am glad I did that because if I didn't, none of this would've happen," Gold stretched out his arms, basically pointing out the whole Storybrooke thing would've never happen. "What shocks me now is that there's another child? You got pregnant by Regina too?"

Regina opened her mouth to protest because for her that was such a weird combination of words, but he was right, apparently.

"Yes, his name is Daniel. He is going to turn eight soon," Emma answered, gripping tightly onto the piece of paper, trying to hide the way she was shaking.

"Then that means you two basically had twins but each one carried a different child. So, it all makes sense how your son got to the enchanted forest now."

"What do you mean? How does it make sense?" Emma asked, still confused.

But before Gold could answer her, Regina did it for him, "because he also has strong magic, just like Fiona."

"That's correct, perhaps his magic is only light magic and since he is so young, it's normal if he never realized it existed. So, if perhaps he wished something so strongly, his magic acted on its own and it just obliged," Gold explained.

"Wait, wait…" Emma closed her eyes and took a deep breath, still processing all this new information. "So, you are telling me I have another kid? That when we sent Gina back, she was pregnant with my other child, which is basically Daniel's twin and you plotted all this to still get your shenanigans done in the future and erased everyone's memories about this child?"

"Yes, you are exactly right," Gold kept his posture and looked at her like this meant nothing to him.

"So now not only I have to go bring my son back I also have to go save my daughter and fix the entire mess you did?!" Now Emma was getting angry.

"Actually, a part of that plan won't work because you see if you go back to get your son and fix all this I did in the past with your daughter, you will change the future. Storybrooke won't exist, Henry won't be born, and everyone will just remain in the Enchanted Forest because Regina back then had given up on getting her revenge against Snow White since having a child of her own had soften her."

"Then you are telling me we are supposed to just leave things be? To let her be in Neverland and never know about her heritage or even let me know I had a child?" Regina asked him with a frown.

"Two, actually," Emma pointed out. "Either way, one thing is for sure I am getting Daniel back now take me to where he is!" She said determined.

Gold looked at both women for a few seconds and then he eventually sighed out, giving in. "Fine, I will help you locate him and get you there, but don't do anything that can change our present now. The consequences can be very drastic."

And now a whole new adventure would begin that Emma and Regina probably weren't ready for.


And that's it! I hope this was a major plot twist for you guys! And that you enjoyed it even though maybe some things can be wrong in the plot since I don't exactly remember what OUAT did with their story because I stopped watching it long ago so I hope you guys just got along with it for the sake of this story and that you keep reading it.

Thank for your support! And sorry for probably many mistakes done in my writing, English isn't my first language and it has been a long time since I've written something.