Regina led everyone down to the town hall. Down to her office. Entering the room, she approached her desk and pulled out a brown leather box. Opening it slowly, she looked over at Emma. "Did Henry really ask you to protect me?" she asked.
"Yes," Emma answered.
Regina blinked once and smiled softly before pulling out a top hat. Emma looked over at it. "The hat. You had it all along," Emma mused.
"What do you mean?" Regina asked calmly.
"That's Jefferson's hat."
"Who's Jefferson?" Regina asked again as David and Mary Margaret walked in, carrying brooms.
"Torches, for when it comes back. I know it's old fashioned, but so am I," David explained about the straw brooms.
Mary Margaret looked over at the hat. "So, how does it work?" she asked.
Regina carried the hat to the hall. "It will open a portal to our land. All we have to do is send the Wraith in there," Regina said, placing the hat gently on the floor.
"Oh yeah, just that," David said, placing the brooms on the table.
"I don't understand. I thought our land was gone," Mary Margaret asked as David took the lighter and the broom she had, where he was beginning to set the brooms on fire.
"It is. But sending it to a place that no longer exists... well, that's banishing it to oblivion," Regina said. She began to spin the hat. But she was interrupted when the building shook. She looked up and saw two of the doors shake. She began to try turning the hat again.
"Regina..." Emma began.
"I'm trying...," Regina told Emma as the Wraith roared and screeched.
It was close, and it pushed through the doors. As the door blew open and the Wraith entered the hall.
David, Mary Margaret, and Emma held a broom with a flame as they watched the Wraith enter the hall.
"Regina..." Emma repeated as the Wraith approached closer.
"I know!" Regina snapped back.
David swung his torch at the Wraith, while Mary Margaret poured alcohol on the railing behind him.
"David!" Mary Margaret called out, as her husband fell back to behind the
David closed the gate of the railing and set the alcohol alight with his torch. "Hurry!" He ordered Regina.
"It's not working!" Regina called out as David continued to slash at the Wraith.
"What is the Problem?" Emma asked Regina, looking over her shoulder.
"Magic. It's different here."
"Now would be the time!" David called back as he continued to hold back the Wraith.
Emma touched Regina's arm, and the hat spun with a whoosh as a portal had been created. It began to whir as it turned and grew more prominent in size.
The Wraith pushed David out of the way and made its way for Regina again. "It's coming!" David yelled at the others before a flash of blue light shot past the others and hit the Wraith.
The Professor stood at the door and was aiming his sonic screwdriver at the Wraith. He pushed it back with the device towards the portal. The Wraith screamed and roared as it tried to resist it.
"Oh, no, you don't," the Professor muttered as he gave his sonic more power and managed to push the Wraith through the portal. But not before the Wraith latching onto Emma.
The Wraith pulled her down towards the portal. "NOOOO! I'm not losing her again!" Mary Margaret said, jumping in after Emma.
"Neither am I!" David said and tried to jump in too. But, when he did, the portal closed, and David fell on top of the hat.
The Professor walked through the streets of Storybrooke until he arrived back at Mr Gold's shop. Entering the shop, he walked through until he got to the back room, where he saw Mr Gold spinning wool at his wheel absent-mindedly. "Has Belle returned?" He asked.
Mr Gold shook his head and stared into the wheel. "She hasn't. And what of the Wraith?"
The Professor approached him. "Gone. Gone from this realm," he said, pulling out his sonic screwdriver from his pocket. Or the burnt-out remains of it.
Mr Gold looked over at it. "Is that?"
The Professor nodded. "It is. But, my father's around somewhere. I can easily get a new one from him when I see him." He pocketed his sonic screwdriver again when a set of footsteps approached.
They turned their heads and saw Belle walk through the curtain. "Hi," she greeted as she walked over to them.
"Hey," Mr Gold greeted back as he looked up at her.
"I, uh, went for a long walk," Belle explained.
"I thought you didn't wanna see me," Mr Gold said.
"I didn't. I was worried."
"The Wraith's gone," the Professor spoke up. "With a little help from me."
"So, uh, you didn't get what you wanted?" Belle asked Mr Gold.
"Well, that remains to be seen," Mr Gold said.
Belle looked behind Mr Gold and walked around him. Her cup. The one that she had dropped back in the Enchanted Forest. She picked it up and walked in front of him again. "You uh.. you still have it?" She asked with a laugh. "My chipped cup."
Mr Gold stood up and took the cup from her. "There are many things in this shop, but this... This is the only thing I truly cherish. I know you must leave."
"What?" Belle asked.
"Belle. You must leave because, despite what you hope, I'm still a monster," Mr Gold said.
Belle took his shoulders. "Don't you see? That's exactly the reason I have to stay."
