At Granny's, everyone was getting ready for the celebration later that night. There were gifts ready to be opened sitting on the benches, cakes and other delicious food on the counter, and balloons and streamers on the walls.

"Ding dong," Leroy said, clinking a glass with granny.

"So she's really…." Granny began.

"Oh, yeah. That witch is done. That's a good thing because if that Sleeping Beauty had been a monkey a day longer, she would've had a monkey baby. Wouldn't wanna change those diapers."

Granny laughed.

Meanwhile, Henry read his storybook to his family in the far booth. But mainly to his new uncle. He was at the part where his grandfather met his grandmother. "'And that's when the bandit leapt on top of the carriage and stole the Prince's jewels. As the Prince chased the thief on horseback through the treacherous forest…'"

"Really?" Emma asked as she stepped over to the booth, standing next to Ruby. "I can't hear the kid's name yet, but I have to hear this story again?"

"Well, my son should know where he comes from," David said.

"Are you sure you want the first thing he knows to be that his parents fell in love during an armed robbery?"

Mary Margaret looked up. "I wasn't armed," she defended. "Except with a rock," Ruby said.

"I still have the scar," David added.

"Which healed," Mary Margaret told him. "But that's how we met. It's not how we fell in love," she said to her son.

"Yeah, that was a bit more complicated." David turned the page to the storybook, where there was a picture of him fighting off one of the Evil Queen's Black Knights. "See, there were Black Knights when I saved your mother's life."

Mary Margaret turned another page, and there was a picture of two trolls with a captured David. "And the attack on the Troll Bridge when I saved his."

David turned another page. "But it wasn't until I saw my mother's ring on her finger that I knew, in my heart, there was no other woman I would ever love."

"I wish you had told me then. We would have saved so much time."

"Well, how could I? I had to get to my wedding."

"Sorry. Have I missed something?" Hook asked. "You were previously betrothed, mate?"

"To Kathryn," Ruby said, nodding to a blonde woman talking to Granny. "Though she was

Princess Abigail back then."

"King Midas' daughter?" Hook asked. "The man who can turn anything into gold? Why would you leave that opportunity?"

"Hey!" Mary Margaret objected.

"Well, what can I say? My heart was destined for another," David told them.

"You just had to find her first," Ruby told him, and David laughed. "She ran away and was living on a farm."

"It sounded like such a peaceful life at the time," Mary Margaret added, then looked at Emma. "Leave everyone and everything behind."

"Like mother, like daughter," Hook said, raising his glass. Emma gave the pirate a look. "Hook!" she whispered. "What is he talking about?" Henry asked.

"Uh, should we read more stories?" David asked, trying to change the subject.

"I'd like to know what the pirate is talking about," Regina said as she and Robin approached the group. Was Emma thinking of leaving Storybrooke?

"It's nothing," Emma said. She wanted them to drop the subject. It didn't concern them.

"Are you planning on going back to New York?"

"Why would we go back to New York?" Henry asked.

"You're not," Regina told Henry. "Right, Ms Swan?" She wanted Emma to agree with her.

"It's complicated," Emma answered.

"Why would we leave?" Henry questioned. "This is our home." "Henry, this isn't the time or place …."

"I think it is," Regina interrupted.

"No. It's not," Emma told them. Before turning and leaving the diner.

Hook placed his glass on the table. "I'll talk to her," he said.

"Wait," Henry said, closing the storybook and giving it to Hook. "Take this. It might help her remember where she belongs. Hook nodded, taking the book and followed after Henry.

"It's gonna be alright," David said. "She's stubborn. Like her …" She looked around. "Like all of her family."

Henry nodded before looking at something out the window. "Uh, Grandpa?" he asked, pointing to a golden tower of light streaming up into the sky. "Look. What is that?"

David approached the window to have a better look.

"That is a problem," Mr Gold said as he and Belle entered the diner. "That light is from Zelena's time portal. It's open."

They all raced back to the sheriff's station. David was the first one in the office and found the cells empty. Both of them. Zelena wasn't there. He sighed. "Zelena. She's gone," he told them.

"No. She was here when I left her," Regina told him.

"Well, if she escaped, that would explain the time portal," Belle pointed out.

"Impossible," Regina stated. "Without her pendant, she's powerless. How could she escape, let alone open a time portal?" She took a glance at Mr Gold. She tilted her head. It wouldn't be the first time he had done something like this before. "Unless you did something to her."

Mr Gold looked at everyone. "Well, I'm sorry to disappoint, but no," he told them. Regina didn't want to believe him. "Well, even if I wanted to, Belle has my dagger," he added. She would undoubtedly curb any homicidal tendencies."

Belle nodded. "It's true."

David turned to a tv screen and approached it. "Well, if she escaped, let's find out how," he responded and fiddled with the buttons.

Mr Gold took a look upward and saw two security cameras. He had forgotten about them when he visited Zelena. They would certainly tell a different story to what he had said. "Wonderful," he muttered.

Everyone looked at the television screen when an image of Zelena appeared on it. When it did, Mr Gold waved his fingers in its direction – when no one was looking – to change what had been recorded.

The screen became blurry as a result, and David fiddled with another knob.

"What?" Regina asked. "What, what was that? What just happened?"

"Yeah, we could use an upgrade," David said, hoping Regina would catch his drift. "Stupid Betamax."

The screen came right again, and they focused on what was on it. Zelena using some magic to turn herself into a porcelain figure, which soon crumbled to the floor and disappeared.

"Well, it seems her great escape was of a more permanent nature," Mr Gold commented. "I won't ask for an apology."

"She must have had just enough residual magic to do herself in," Regina explained. "And, when she did, when she was gone, the magic in her pendant had no tether. It was set free. Her last wish fulfilled."

"So, how do we un-fulfil it?" Robin asked.

"Excellent question," Mr Gold answered. "Leave that to me. And the Doctor. And until we deal with it, no one should go near it. A trip to the past could have catastrophic repercussions, especially if someone doesn't know what they're doing."