Author's Note: Sorry it took soo long for this update. My computer was in the shop for repair! :( Again thank you to Marphisa who is still helping me out. You are awesome! Hopefully you guys enjoy this chapter.

Sarah and the others kept staring at Mary Margaret, waiting for some kind of magic to transform her or for something ridiculous to occur to her- like her acting like a child instead of an adult.

When nothing physical changed, Sarah knew nothing had happened to Mary Margaret.

"Is it possible that your Snow…" David began to ask but saw Sarah shaking her head.

"I'd know if something happened to her magically. It's complicated to explain how, so let's just say that I'd know instantly," Sarah explained as she rubbed a hand over her forehead and eyes.

David nodded, not bothering to delve deeper into Sarah's answer. Sarah seemed to be very upfront about things. If she said it was complicated—after the story she had just told them, he believed her.

Henry, seeing how tired Sarah looked, walked over with his ever present backpack and sat next to her.

"Why were you dying?" Henry asked sadly.

Sarah moved her hand from her forehead and gave Henry a soft smile.

"You're actually sad I almost died? You barely know me Henry," Sarah said with a bigger smile forming on her lips.

Henry lowered his head and smirked. "You're tolerable."

Sarah's mouth dropped open in shock, she of course couldn't help but shove Henry a little at the comment. "Hey!"

Henry looked up and smiled at Sarah, then his smile faded as his thoughts returned to what he had asked.

"Are you going to answer the question?" Henry asked as he looked up into Sarah's eyes.

Sarah's expression morphed to one of contrition, knowing that Henry was too young and unable to grasp what she had done - or more importantly- how?

"Let's just say I saved someone that means a lot to someone we both love." Sarah gave him the simplest explanation she could without revealing too much.

The curious look that overtook Henry's face let Sarah know she had done a good enough job to keep him from things he wasn't ready to know. At least, she wasn't ready for him to know.

"How can James be alive in your world?" Cora asked suddenly, unable to hold back the question a second longer. After all, it wasn't every day that she found out her son was still alive.

Sarah's face formed a sad smile as she turned and addressed her grandmother.

"I don't know how he died in this world, Grammy; but Uncle James is very much still alive in mine. And causing more mischief than me…I promise." Sarah said the last bit with a breathy laugh.

A small smile formed on Cora's face, the instinct to cry overcoming her.

David saw the moisture in her eyes begin to build up and gave another squeeze to Cora's hand.

Cora squeezed back but couldn't look at David. The reminder that her other child had shared the same face and was not there because of her was weighing suddenly heavy on her heart.

Funny how she had been the Queen of Hearts and yet knew barely anything about the sensations it could cause. But it wasn't that she didn't know the power the heart held. It was that she had tried for years to forget it.

Her heart had been her greatest weakness, or so she had thought. At the moment, she couldn't decide if she was happy or envious that somewhere in other dimensions she had lived a life of love and happiness with all of her children.

"Is he a real troublemaker? I mean…does he really get people into trouble?" David asked, unsure of how to ask if his twin was evil or not. Though now that he thought about it, it made sense that James was more likely to be drawn to that nature. King George had raised him after all.

Apparently the "Charmings" were a mixture of royalty and poverty, a true middle class if you will. And of course his twin had been, and was in Sarah's dimension, the black sheep of the family. Or so he had assumed.

Sarah laughed, a full out laugh!

Both David and Cora exchanged a look and then looked back at Sarah.

She shook her head, "No…not since he left his Kingdom and King George behind. I mean, he's a practical joker and all around prankster. He's always in trouble for something he said or did because of it."

"Oh." David murmured.

His brother really was the opposite of him.

"Speaking of which," Mary Margaret finally stepped into the conversation. She folded her arms and stared at David with a look that read, 'You are in such trouble.'

"Um…" David blinked a few times in confusion as he stared up at his wife.

The only time that David had ever seen that look on his wife's face had been before they were married. To say the least, he was not thrilled to see it now.

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(in the past...)

Regina continued to stare at her mother, still trying to let the information sink in.

She wasn't ready for it. Her mind had emptied, completely blanking out as the words continued to bounce around in her head.

Cora was concerned at her daughter's empty stare. She reached out and touched Regina's face, startling her back into thought.

Of course when she did so, the only thought Regina had was a simple one.

"No!" Regina jerked back from her mother.

Cora's heart instantly dropped. The stare from before was nothing compared to the anger that was slowly morphing Regina's her face.

Neither Cora nor David said a word as they allowed Regina to digest it all, even as the look of anger seemed to be radiating off of her.

Cora knew that if she didn't speak now, Regina would do something she would regret.

"Honey let me explain," Cora began with a low voice, afraid to raise it.

"EXPLAIN WHAT?" Regina suddenly exploded as she began to pace the room, her mind catching up to what the words her mother had said meant.

"Explain what happened!" Cora immediately jumped to defend herself. Though she knew her daughter had every right to be yelling at her, she was her mother - and deserved respect no matter what.

Whirling towards her mother, Regina yelled. "That you cheated on Daddy? That you...you lied to me all these years."

"I had no choice!" Cora's voice exuded pent up frustration and anger.

The look of disgust that came over Regina's face made Cora's heart clench violently.

Cora shook her head. "Let me explain what I mean."

Regina straighten as a cold look entered her eyes, even as a tear fell from one eye.

"You're still the same. Even after all this time."

Regina's words cut Cora deeply. Cora's hurt showed in her face, enough that David finally spoke up.

"Please...I know I'm the last person right now you want to hear from. But please just let her tell you what happened." David couldn't help but feel like Regina had slapped him across the face with the look she was giving him, but Regina needed to know the whole truth just like he had needed to.

Once she listened to it all, he was sure the anger she had towards their mother would lessen. Even he held some anger towards her, but in the end he had lived a much different life than Regina. From the small bits of details his mother had given him, he had a suspicion that she had done something quite awful to Regina. He didn't know what exactly, but he could sense that it was the reason Regina had immediately accused her of infidelity.

She had indeed been right, but definitely wrong about who with.

"Don't you dare talk to me." Regina's voice hardened as she spoke to him.

David had expected the anger towards him. He still didn't know how to respond to it, though. There was no easy way of telling someone that their family had been falling apart.

That's when someone came into the room that David had never thought about or even considered might be there.

"Sweetheart, is everything alright in here? I heard you screaming and came as fast as I could."

It was Henry, Cora's husband.

The quiet that came with his entrance alerted Henry that indeed something was going on.

Regina struggled to control her emotions, not wanting her father to find out like this about what she had discovered.

Cora though sighed at the sight of him. "Henry, there's someone I'd like you to meet."

At this both Regina and David jerked their heads to stare at their mother in shock.

Regina didn't get a chance to move as her father strode forward towards Cora, but he was looking at the young man a few steps to the side of her. He looked familiar somehow.

"Is he a suitor for Regina?" Henry asked as his mind tried to work out who the young man could be.

Cora gave a little laugh. "No, he's not a suitor for Regina. David?" Cora turned and extended her hand to David.

David moved forward and took his mother's hand, his eyes not leaving the man's.

"Henry, I'd like you to meet my son...David." Cora then turned and gave David a small smile, as she squeezed his hand.

Henry didn't startle at the words. He did a double take of Cora and David, but slowly awe filled his face.

"Your son."

Henry moved towards David. David was unprepared for the older man to place his hand against his face, but the absolute odd thing was when Henry's fingers began to touch his ear.

Then Henry smiled as he felt the indentation behind David's ear.

"You were born second. I didn't even have time to put down your brother." Henry surprised David and Regina with his words.

"You knew?" Regina whispered the question, not knowing how to react to the news, completely missing the fact that her father had mentioned that there was another child.

Henry turned from the shocked man to the woman he called his daughter.

"Of course I knew," Henry answered his daughter.

"You knew...that mother cheated on you? That I had a half brother?" Regina's voice almost broke in indignation.

That's when Henry sighed and slowly moved to Regina, taking her hands, though she tried to pull them away from him.

"He's not your half brother, sweetheart. He's your brother." Henry didn't mince words as he let Regina know the truth.

It took several seconds of staring into his eyes before Regina realized what the man she had called daddy her whole life said. It made her heart drop when she understood what he was saying.

Regina pulled away and stared at the man before her and then at her mother.

David said nothing as he watched his sister's eyes fill with tears. The instinct to protect her from what she was learning hit him with a suddenness he didn't expect. He hated to see her cry, especially when he knew just how cheerful she usually was. How playful and full of energy she was earlier had showed him what kind of person she really was. And he was destroying that without wanting to.

He swallowed down the lump in his throat as the sadness filled him. She didn't deserve this—to have everything she ever thought to be true destroyed—not when he knew exactly what it felt like.

Regina just couldn't stand there a second longer, not when she couldn't believe the truth that the one person she thought would never betray her had. Spinning around, she opened the door and ran out of the room.

Henry was about to go after her when Cora moved and stopped him.

"No. She needs to work things out for herself. Give her time."

Henry nodded his head and turned back to David. Smiling at the young man he said something odd to David.

"You have your father's eyes."

David couldn't say anything to that statement. He had only ever heard of King George, and had never seen him before. Having lived in Leopold's kingdom his entire life, he had no clue what King George looked like. But with the way Prince Henry was looking at him, David had a sneaking suspicion that the words meant more than face value.

He just didn't know how.

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They hadn't moved a muscle yet, and little Snow had already backed up and spun to run in the opposite direction. With a start all three women moved after her yelling her name, unsure of where she had come from and why she was suddenly there. All of them knew they had to stop her before she got hurt.

Regina's mind was running as fast as her feet trying to reason how a younger version of Snow White had suddenly appeared from thin air.

Snow was running to try to stop her younger self as the questions whirled in her own brain. Where did she come from? Was it a younger version of herself? Was she from a different world completely?

Emma was the only one that had only horrible thoughts in her mind at seeing the young version of who would become her mother. Somehow, they might have changed the past...and it might not have been for the better.

All of them were yelling for Snow to stop, using her name so she knew that they recognized her. Little Snow continued to run away from them and cry, her emotions from earlier getting the better of her. She was not yet ready to face Regina or anyone for that matter.

Not knowing where she was going, she began to run across the street, obviously not used to looking for cars. Little Snow was running the same direction the truck was moving, unaware of it's presence and how fast the truck was traveling due to the green light.

Snow and Emma yelled out, "STOP!"

Maybe it was out of an old instinct, or maybe it was because Regina was somehow changing with the arrival of Sarah and Snow. Regina would never really know why she did what she did.

Even with the hate that she had harbored for Snow after all these years, she did something that no one would have ever expected. With a flash of black smoke she grabbed Snow and quickly hurtled both of them away from the oncoming truck.

Emma and Snow were paralyzed for a few seconds before what had happened sank in, making both of them run towards the two.

Regina had wrapped her arms around Snow as she quickly dodged the truck that had been inches from hitting little Snow. Stiffly Regina pulled away from the little girl and saw that indeed it was a younger version of Snow. And the odd sensation that coursed through Regina at seeing the girl who continue to cry was conflicting to say the least.

When Snow's eyes opened and looked up at Regina, the strangest thing happened. It left Regina unable to utter a word. Snow's face crumbled once more with tears, and she dove back into Regina's arms and squeezed Regina in a tight hug.

Without knowing why, Regina returned the embrace, feeling relived that she had saved the little girl. Allowing Snow to cry in her hold, Regina had that voice in her head once more arguing with her actions. Closing her own eyes, she tried to think of something to keep her from giving in to that voice.

And it was Snow's voice that suddenly came to her in that moment.

Simple and emotional enough to make her hold onto little Snow with out a second thought.

"No matter what you will always be our mom."

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