The next day, they all in Granny's David looked at the group. "Okay! Room keys are on the counter. Fresh clothes are by the jukebox."

"What's a jukebox?" A man asked loudly.

"Lunches are by the front door." David continued, like nothing happened.

Suddenly, the door opened, door bells jingled. Regina and Henry came in. "Your Majesty, it's about time." Leroy looked at her. "The rabble are getting restless."

Regina cleared her throat. "As mayor, I would like to officially welcome you to Storybrooke. You fled to the Land of Untold Stories because you were afraid that whatever was in this book is going to play out. But now that you're here, I'm sure you're scared it will. But what you don't realize is... I'm just like you. I'm also getting a fresh start, and I don't know what the future holds either. But I do know one thing. We don't have to be afraid of anything, because whatever comes next, we're going to face it... together." After she was finished, there was an applause.

Moments later, the door bells jingled as Belle stepped inside. "Hey, does..." She asked to them all. "does anyone know..."

The twins stood side by side, Gold was with the children as did Amelia and Jackson. Jonathan stood also by the twins. "Belle." Emma chuckled. "You're here."

"Yeah, and I need a place to stay." Belle nodded.

"What about Jefferson?" Caitlynn asked, frowning at her.

"We're, uh... we're not together at the moment." Belle sighed, sadly. "So, I thought maybe Granny would have a room."

"Oh, I would not wish those mattresses on my worst enemy." Emma told her. "We'll find you something better."

"I know just the place." Jonathan glanced at Emma. "What do you say, Emma?"

"I can't." Emma replied to him. "I have an appointment with Archie."

"Oh, nice. Are you still seeing him?" Caitlynn asked to her sister.

Emma looked at sister in disbelieve. "Did you think I was gonna back out?"

"Well, you know, being vulnerable isn't exactly your strong suit." Caitlynn raised an eyebrow.

"You're right." Emma told her. "We've all been through a lot. Can't hurt to talk about it."

Caitlynn smiled at her. "I'm glad to hear it, sis."

"Right." Jonathan cleared his throat. "This lady needs to find some accommodation. Right this way." Then he and Belle walked away.

Meanwhile with Henry. "Who are you?" He asked to a guy next to him.

The man blinked. "Beg your pardon." He replied to him.

"What's your name?" Henry opened his storybook. "If I could find your story, then maybe we could figure out how to pick up where you left off."

"You won't find me in there, my boy." The man told him. "I'm not important enough to have my own tale."

"Don't say that." Henry shook with his head. "Let me just see if I can find you." Then he looked up and saw that the man was gone, but only a letter was in his place.

-0-

A short time, the others that remained in Granny's were now outside. Henry held up a letter that was addressed to Snow and David. "And he just left it on the counter. Then he vanished." Then he handed it over to David. "You think he might be the Invisible Man? Or maybe a vampire. What if he's Dracula? Oh, wait. It's daytime."

The other adults looked at the letter as David had opened. "Wrong count. Monte Cristo?"

"What is that?" Caitlynn asked to them.

"Sorry." Granny walked past them. "Not on the menu. Never a fan of the eggy bread."

"No, Granny." David shook with his head. "It's a place. And its Count has quite the reputation."

"Oh." Granny muttered.

"Why would he want to meet with us?" Snow asked, confused.

Just then, Regina and Robin came to them. "He doesn't. He wants you dead. He wants his revenge, and that's the only way he can get it."

"That doesn't make sense." Snow frowned. "We've never even met him. Why would he want to kill us?"

"Because I hired him to do it." Regina replied with regret.

-0-

Not much later, Caitlynn had told to Gold, Amelia and Jackson to go home with the children. They agreed as then, Caitlynn and the others went to the room, were the man stayed in. "He was definitely here." Snow comment, looking around.

"Oh! And calligraphy isn't his only hobby." Caitlynn closed a trunk.

"Why didn't you tell us?" David asked, looking at Regina.

"Well, I didn't know he was in Storybrooke." Regina looked at him. "And do you really want to hear about every time I tried to kill you?"

"Yes." Both Snow and David said.

"I'm sorry. I'm..." Regina took a deep breath. "You know I'm trying to put that behind me."

"Clearly, the Count didn't get the memo." Caitlynn told her, sarcastically.

"Maybe that's the problem." David told to Regina. "You hired him. You fire him."

"Well, that's exactly what I'm going to do." Regina told them as she took the note from Snow. "The invitation says to meet him at the dirigible in an hour."

"Well, we're coming with you." David told her, determined.

Reg8na shook with her head. "No. This is my mess. I'll fix it. And, really, it should go more smoothly if he's not trying to use you as a pin cushion."

"Regina..." Robin gave her a disapproval look.

"Robin, please. I can handle this." Regina reassured him. He nodded.

"You really think we need to worry about this guy?" Caitlynn asked as bit worried for her children.

"It took him two curses and a pit stop in the Land of Untold Stories to find us." Snow replied to her daughter.

"Yeah, that what I'm worried about." Caitlynn told her mother.

"I know." Snow took her daughter's hand. It was a start to have a mother daughter relationship at last.

"Well, that's not exactly true." Regina comment as then she told them everything.

-0-

A short time later, Caitlynn got a call from Emma saying that the man, the Count wouldn't back down and she tried to take their parents across the town line in one of the patrol cars but were stopped by something or something else, they didn't know. Caitlynn told her sister to stay put. Moments later, Caitlynn got there the same time Regina and Robin did. David was looking at the car while Snow and Emma stood at the town line. "I don't think the Count crashed the car." Emma touched the air above the town line as there was a shimmer of magic.

"What the hell?" Caitlynn asked.

Regina walked up to Emma. "Protection spell?"

"Just like the one you used to keep everyone here during the curse." Snow replied to her.

Regina sighed. "Not like it. This is the same spell. Well, the only way to do that is with the ingredients from my vault, which I sealed with blood magic. I..."

Just then, Zelena appeared out of green smoke. "Regina. I got your message. Is everyone okay?"

"You know, I'll never understand why you parade around in these deathtraps rather than just magicking yourself around town." Regina remarked.

"What happened?" Zelena frowned.

"Well, someone put a protection spell on the town line." Regina replied to her.

"Really?" Zelena blinked. "Well, who would do that?"

Regina looked at her. "I was gonna ask you the same question." Then, Robin put a hand into hers. She calmed down a little.

"You're accusing me of causing this?" Zelena asked to her.

"Oh, come on." Caitlynn exclaimed. "Who else could it be?"

Regina sighed. "Zelena, other than me, you're the only one who can open the lock to my vault."

"That's not true!" Zelena shouted.

"My eardrums." Caitlynn muttered as she stepped away from Zelena.

"Really?" Regina raised an eyebrow. "Well, if it wasn't me, and it wasn't you... then who?"

"I have no idea, sis." Zelena shrugged. "But I'm getting tired of this inquisition." Then, she poofed away in green smoke.

"That went well." Caitlynn exclaimed, sarcastically.

Regina looked at the others. "I'm starting to think the Count isn't the only one we have to be worried about."

-0-

Not much later, Caitlynn went back home to Gold and the others as Regina and Henry went to find some more clues. Emma was somewhere as well. Caitlynn was happy to see her children and her husband. "Oh, god. I'm glad that you all are okay." She comment.

"Why what's wrong?" Amelia asked to her.

"There is this guy, named the Count or something and he's after my biological parents." Caitlynn replied to her adopted mother.

"Well, we should them." Amelia told her.

"You go, I'm tired." Caitlynn sighed, tiredly.

"Caitlynn, you have your children to look after and your parents mind need your help." Amelia told her, seriously.

"Yeah, you are right." Caitlynn nodded.

Just then, Gold stepped forwards. "Be careful, sweetheart."

"I always am, my love." Caitlynn smiled.

Then, they kissed as then Caitlynn and Amelia went to find the others. But they were to late, not for Snow and David, but the Count, he was laying on the ground dead. The Evil Queen was back and smirking as then she poofed herself away in purple of smoke. Regina looked in shocked did the others.

-0-

That night the girls all sat in Granny's. Snow looked at Regina. "Regina, it's not your fault."

"Right." Regina scoffed.

"She trapped you." Emma told her. "You didn't have a choice."

"Of course I had a choice." Regina sighed. "I could have kept the Evil Queen inside, where she was my problem."

"No." Snow shook with her head. "This is exactly what she wants. She want you to doubt yourself."

"She's doing a hell of a job." Regina scoffed.

Snow l9oked at her. "Look, Regina, this may be new for you, but I've faced the Evil Queen before, and I never once did it by running away. Okay, we have to her head on, get ahead of her plan."

"And how exactly do we do that?" Regina asked to them.

"I don't know." Caitlynn sighed.

"This is the one time we are going to ask you to please think like the Evil Queen." Snow added. "What did she mean when she said we all have stories we don't want told?"

"I don't know." Amelia sighed.

Just then, Emma hand began to shake. "Emma. Are you okay?" Snow asked to her daughter.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Emma took a sip from her coffee.

Meanwhile with Henry and the other boys. Henry sighed. "This isn't how the Count's story should have ended. I should have known that Operation Cobra: Part Two wouldn't have been as simple as I thought."

"Why is that?" David asked to him.

"Because it's a sequel, and they're always more involved than the original." Henry replied to him.

Jonathan looked confused. "I'm sorry. I don't understand." He was getting friend to David and the others.

"Empire Strikes Back? Godfather: Part II?" Henry looked at him.

"What?" Jonathan was now very confused.

"Temple of Doom?" Henry replied to him as then he looked at both of them. "You know... the best sequels ever. It's definitely time for a movie night. When my mom helped everyone during the first curse, it was simple. Those people had been ripped away from the stories they wanted to play out. And these people ran from their stories for a reason. And before we can help them, we need to find out why they ran."

"All right. Keep reading." David comment.

"Right. Then let's get to work." Jonathan added. Then he noticed that David was still standing. "You all right?"

"Yeah." David nodded. "Just gonna get some air."