Everyone soon headed on the way to the Queen's castle once everyone had loaded everything up. They all trekked along a dusty path. Clara was with the Professor. The Doctor was walking near the end of the group, keeping an eye on his TARDIS on the wagon. He was deep in thought every time he looked at it. Yes, he could travel anywhere in the Enchanted Forest, but that was like before he left Gallifrey. All those years ago. Now, it seemed he was stuck again. If he could make the TARDIS work again – or the compass that he had integrated into the circuitry – he could travel back to the main universe, where he and Clara and the Professor originated.

Baelfire was walking along until Belle walked up beside him. She rested a hand on his shoulder. "You will see them again," she told him. "Emma and Henry."

"Yeah, well, let's hope I don't have to curse an entire kingdom to get back to them," Baelfire said.

"I heard you talking back there about Rumple. But, you know, we never saw his knife. So I think we can get him back."

Up in the front of the group were Snow and Charming themselves. "Regina's castle is just beyond the mountains," Snow said.

"Snow, I think you mean our castle," Charming said.

"That's going to take some getting used to. The last time I was there was just after my father's death. And I've always dreamed of returning. I just never imagined it would be with Regina by our side."

"I wouldn't count on that sister," Grumpy said, catching up to Snow. She stopped and turned to the dwarf. "The Queen, she's missing."

Snow sighed before deciding to look for the Queen herself. She turned and looked through the woods until she saw her, hunched over the ground as if she was digging something.

"What are you doing?" Snow asked.

The Queen sighed. "So now you're following me?"

"We were worried. And it looks like we were right to be. So what are you burying?"

"Nothing that concerns you."

"Why does that make me think it does? What have you done?"

The Queen stepped aside slightly, and Snow managed to look at what she was burying. A glowing, red, beating heart.

"Is that a heart?" Snow asked.

"Go away!" the Queen demanded. "It's your heart, isn't it?"

"I'm not having this conversation with you."

"I know you miss Henry."

"Not as much as I did when that was still beating in my chest," the Queen said and began to stand up.

"But, Regina, this isn't the answer. No matter how much pain you may feel, you can't just bury it in the woods."

"Watch me."

"You won't feel better. You won't feel anything."

"That's the point. I can't keep walking around knowing that I'll never see Henry. That he doesn't even remember who I am."

Snow stepped forward. "I know exactly how you're feeling. I just said goodbye to my daughter. For the second time! Henry too. But I promise you; it will get better." She pointed to the Queen's heart in the ground. "With that. It might be causing you pain right now, but I promise you that it will let you feel something else soon enough."

"And what's that?"

"The one thing Henry always wanted you to find. Happiness."

"I can't be happy without him."

Snow touched the Queen's arm gently. "Find a way. For Henry."

The Queen looked at where she had buried her heart and sighed. She knelt and picked it up, plunging it back inside her chest. She turned to Snow. "Now, let's get back to our castle."

She began walking back to the path, where the others were waiting. But Snow stopped. She had heard rustling from the bushes beside them before a gust of wind blew past her. "Did you hear that?" Snow asked. "There was something there. In that bush."

The Queen stepped to where Snow was standing and peered into the bush, but it was empty. "There's nothing here. Unless it flew away."

"It did!" Snow exclaimed, pointing up in the sky at the treetops, where there was an enormous winged creature. One that they had never seen before.

Snow and the Queen ran. "We need to find cover," Snow said.

"No," the Queen said, stopping. "I don't run from monsters." She created a fireball in her hand. "They run from me." She threw it upward towards the winged creature, but the creature shrieked and dodged the fiery ball.

"Regina!" Snow said, pushing the Queen to the ground, but not before it tried to take her away with her.

"Regina!" Snow exclaimed again and grabbed the Queen's other hand, trying to pull her back from the winged creature's grasp. Snow did, but as it let go of the Queen, it scratched her arm, and it managed to grab some of her blood.

"It's too fast," Snow said.

"Well, I'm open to suggestions," the Queen said.

"Get down!" a man shouted. So the two women did before the creature lunged at them again. But before the beast managed to attack them, an arrow whooshed past them, hitting the winged beast. It shrieked in pain before it flew away.

"Milady?" the man said to the Queen, extending a hand out to help her up. He looked at the scratch on her arm. "You're injured."

"It's 'your majesty'," the Queen said, looking up at the strange man before her. "And I'm fine."

"A simple 'thank you' would suffice."

"We didn't ask for your help," the Queen said as she began to get up.

Snow took the man's hand as she got up. "Well, I'm grateful for the assistance."

"Robin," the man introduced himself. "Robin of Locksley." He turned around as a few men started to walk up behind him. "And these are a few of my Merry Men."

"Snow White," Snow introduced.

"At last, we meet," Robin said. "You know, there was a time when our faces graced wanted posters side by side."

"If you're Snow White," a more giant man said from behind Robin, "why are you with her?"

"'Her'? Show some respect," the Queen said. "Or at least some restraint at the buffet."

"You'll have to excuse Little John," Robin said. "but before you cursed this land, we spend many a day running from your Black Knights."

"Well, I'm sure you deserved it. What the Hell was that thing?"

"I have no idea. We've never encountered the likes of it before."

"Come on," Snow said as she heard another screech in the distance. "This way. We need to warn the others."

When they were back with the others, they started their walk again. All of them. Including Robin of Locksley's band of Merry Men.

Baelfire saw Robin ahead of him, and he smiled at him. "Good to see you again, Robin," he said.

"You too, Baelfire," Robin said.

Belle was behind them. So were the Professor and Clara when she overheard the two of them speak. "Well, we've come a long way, haven't we've come a long way, haven't we?"

"Belle!" Robin said, laughing as he hugged her. And she hugged him back. "I believe you already know she once treated a poor thief far better than I deserved."

"She does that," the Professor said with a smile. "Good to see you again, Robin."

"In better circumstances, might I add?"

The Professor nodded when Clara looked at Robin. "Oh my … Oh my God. It is, isn't it?" she began. "You're Robin Hood." She turned to the others. "I loved that story. I always loved it. Ever since I was little."

"Robin of Locksley, to be precise," Robin corrected. "And who might you be?" "Clara. Clara Oswald," Clara introduced.

"She's from where I'm from," the Professor said. "Well, we share the same universe but a different planet. But we found each other."

"Sounds like you have had quite the journey since we last met," Robin said, then looked at Baelfire. "And what of you? What of your journey? Were you able to find your son in Neverland?"

"Yes, thank you," Baelfire said.

"I don't mean to pry, but I don't see the boy."

"It's complicated. But … He's safe. He's with his mother.

However, the Queen was looking back at Robin from her spot at the front of the group. "So what do you think of our new friend? Can we trust him? He is a thief."

"Think of it from his perspective. How do you think he looks at you?" Snow asked.

"Point taken."

"He's kinda cute, huh?" "He smells of the forest."

They kept walking a few more minutes in silence before they came to a clearing and stopped. Right ahead of them was the Queen's Castle. The castle that Snow White formally grew up in before she ended up on the run from the Queen.

"Look," Charming said as he took sight of the castle in the distance.

The Queen stood in front of it. In front of the path leading up to it. She was silent, but something felt different. Snow noticed that the Queen sensed something. "What happened?" she asked.

"That's exactly what I'm about to find out," the Queen said and moved towards a small ditch in the path. She stopped behind it and reached out, touching the air. There was a slight crackling, and a protection spell materialised. A green light. "A protection spell. The entire castles encircled by it."

"Didn't you do this?" Charming asked. "Undo it."

The Queen turned around and walked back to the Charmings. "Well, don't you think I'd be halfway home by now if I could? No. Someone hijacked it."

"Who?" Snow asked. "Who's in there?"

"I don't know," the Queen said, taking another look at her castle. "But I'm going to find out whoever's eating my porridge. Nobody sits in my chair. Nobody takes our castle."

"Hey," Charming began. "We've got a lot of people looking to us. They're scared and rightfully

so. Let's get them to safety first."

"They'll be safe when whoever's in there is dead."

"Rushing in there is a bad plan, Regina," Snow pointed out. "You know that."

Robin walked up to them. "I can offer safe harbour in Sherwood Forest," he said. "It's not far. We can offer food, shelter, a thick canopy no creature will spy you under."

"Do you have weapons?" Charming asked. "We're lousy with them."

"Fine," the Queen reluctantly said. "Lead the way. But we're coming back. And whoever did this is going to suffer."

"Regina," Snow said. "It's our home. We'll make it safe again."