"Amorie?"

"Hi." The girl gave her a nervous smile.

"Oh…my god." Emma choked out, the air leaving her lungs for a second. Suddenly feeling woozy, she had to reach out and steady herself against the tree beside her. For what felt like hours (but was really only just a minute) she stared at the woman in front of her.

"Ma? Could you…could you say something? It's starting to feel a little awkward…" Amorie said almost nervously.

"You…You're so beautiful." Emma said in awe.

"Of course you go with the embarrassing thing." Amorie rolled her eyes. That one simple action sealed it.

"Oh my god, you look so much like your mother." Emma said.

"Which one?" Amorie joked. Emma chuckled softly. "You both always tell me I look like the other I wish you'd make your minds up, honestly."

"It's just…you…oh my god." Emma gestured at her vaguely. "Look at you."

"Yeah, cool, thanks." Amorie cleared her throat. "Could we get back to the reason I jumped…what…20 years into the past?"

"Twenty?" Emma exclaimed. "You're…you're…"

"Twenty two, yes ma, God." Amorie rolled her eyes. "I told Henry you'd freak out."

"Henry is here?!" Emma looked around.

"No. No…well…not future Henry. I'm alone." Amorie said, taking a step closer to the blonde now that there was no danger of setting her defenses off again. "Look…I…I'm glad to see you honestly but…it's not exactly a social call…I came to get your help…yours and mom's."

"What? What's going on?" Emma asked.

"It's a little difficult to explain. We don't fully know what we're dealing with just yet to be honest…I'm going to need your help convincing mom of who I am, but we should do that first, before I explain everything. It's a long story." The younger girl sighed.

"Okay, yes…we should probably get you some normal clothes too." Emma looked at her daughter's outfit with a raised brow. "Wait…what are you doing in the Enchanted Forest?"

"Long story." Amorie said.

"Yeah well, twenty years, everything's gonna be a long story…wait can you not tell me cause of the whole 'disrupting the future' thing?" Emma asked.

"What? No, come on. That's such a cliche." Amorie waved her off. "But, honestly, it's probably better I talk to you and mom at once. And Henry, I'm going to need his help too."

"Okay…come on…I'll call your mom on the way." Emma said, not moving and still looking at her for a moment.

"Please stop acting weird."

"Okay yeah sorry." Emma shook it off and stepped forward to lead Amorie through and out of the woods and to the cruiser.

"God you still haven't replaced this old thing yet? You got the new ones later than I thought." Amorie said as she got in.

"Do we have hover cars in the future?"

"You're such a nerd."

When they arrived at the mansion, Henry was still at school and the present, infant version of Amorie was still being looked after by David, who had been having separation issues now that Neal had started kindergarten. Babysitting Amorie while Emma and Regina were at work had quelled them nicely.

"Thanks for the clothes." Amorie said to Emma as she came downstairs. "God I forgot what the house used to look like."

"Did we renovate or something?" Emma asked, balancing food out of the fridge. Amorie mentioned offhandedly how she was kind of hungry and Emma promised her a sandwich and was suddenly determined to make her daughter the best goddamned sandwich ever. Okay, so maybe she was freaking out a little. Quietly…on the inside.

"Uhhh…there might be an incident involving crayons on the white walls in the next couple of years." Amorie gave her a nervous smile. "You repainted the walls after and changed the colour."

"How badly will Regina lose it?"

"Surprisingly? Not very." Amorie shrugged. "You? On the other hand…yeah."

"Me?" Emma gave her a surprised look as she pointed to herself. "But I'm the chill parent."

"Not when you're worried that you'll get into as much trouble as I will." Amorie teased.

"Fair point." Emma nodded as she started fixing up Amorie's sandwich.

"Oh can you make it a grilled cheese?" the dark haired girl asked with a pleading smile. "I haven't had one of your grilled cheeses in months. Please?"

"I might cry." The blonde cleared her throat. "One grilled cheese coming up."

"Thank you." Amorie grinned at her. Emma didn't know whether she should be elated that her daughter shares her love of grilled cheese sandwiches or worried about how Regina will react to it. Either way, if her daughter wanted a grilled cheese she would get one dammit.

She'd just finished making it and set it down in front of the adult version of her daughter when Regina walked in.

"Emma?"

"Kitchen babe." Emma called out, not missing the excited and slightly nervous look Amorie gave over her shoulder. The sound of the mayor's heels clicking on the hardwood floors came closer until Regina walked into the kitchen, giving Emma a nervous look before she noted the stranger sitting at her kitchen island eating a grilled cheese sandwich.

"What's going on?" Regina asked Emma before she looked towards the dark haired young woman. "Hello, do I know you?"

"Kind of?" Amorie said with a small smirk.

"Regina…You might want to sit down." Emma began.

"Oh God please tell me you're not pregnant." Regina gave her a wary look.

"No." Both Emma and Amorie shook their heads and Regina looked at the stranger curiously.

"Okay." She said slowly, pulling out a stool and taking a seat on it, giving her fiancée a look that sat somewhere between concerned and weirded out.

"Regina…this…" Emma gestured to their daughter. "Is…Amorie."

"Oh, what a coincidence." Regina smiled at the dark haired girl. "Our baby daughter has the same name. Funny we didn't think it was that common."

"Yeah…" Amorie bit her lip nervously. "It's…not."

Regina raised a brow and looked at the woman silently, trying to figure out what she meant. She took in her features for a long moment before the small, enigmatic smile on her face fell and she blanched.

"Oh…my god." She said before turning to look at Emma. "What did you do?!"

"Hey don't blame me!" Emma said defensively before gesturing to their adult daughter. "She's the one who jumped through a portal twenty years into the past."

"The what?!" Regina exclaimed…loudly.

"Smooth, ma." Amorie gave her blonde mother a pointed look.

"Don't sass me." Emma said parentally before looking back at Regina. "Regina?"

"I think I'm having a stroke." The former queen said.

"Okay, babe, breathe." Emma said gently. Regina did so, taking in a couple of deep breaths and blinking before she looked up at Amorie again.

"You're…you're our daughter?" she asked.

"Yes." Amorie nodded. Regina's eyes wandered up and down, taking her in, before seemingly landing on the table and then she whipped her head towards Emma.

"Emma Swan you did not give our adult daughter a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch!"

"She asked me for it. Specifically. Also wow that is not the craziest thing going on here!" Emma said. Amorie bit her lip and tried not to laugh.

"This should not be as entertaining as it is." She chuckled. Regina took another deep breath and turned back to Amorie.

"Okay…so you're our daughter…" she said, looking at her for a moment in silence before she cracked a smile. "God look at you. You're beautiful."

"Isn't she?" Emma grinned.

"Oh. My God." Amorie rolled her eyes so far to the back of her head. "You two are embarrassing."

"We're just very proud." Regina shrugged.

"Yes, you always say that." Amorie sighed. "And as much as I appreciate and love you for it, could we please focus on the reason I time travelled?"

"Right. Yes." Regina nodded. "Wait hang on. How?! Time travelling is ridiculously complicated."

"Not with Henry around." Amorie gave them a small smile and a shrug.

"What?" they both asked.

"Henry doesn't have magic." Regina pointed out.

"Well no, he doesn't." Amorie nodded in agreement. "But…he's still pretty powerful."

"Okay, Amorie…maybe you should start from the beginning huh?" Emma suggested.

"Good idea." The dark haired girl nodded and took a deep breath. "Okay so, it all kind of started with Henry. When he grew up he got really into analysing the storybook. And with the empty storybooks in the Author's mansion. He actually went to college to study everything there is to study about writing. He has like three degrees."

"He does?" Emma beamed.

"Oh yeah." Amorie nodded with a smile. "He's a total nerd. Anyway. He decided he wanted to travel around. And I don't just mean like, different countries you know? I mean like…different realms."

Emma and Regina gave each other a wide eyed look before they looked back at their daughter.

"He travelled around while I was in college. He'd come back a lot though, visit, get gifts. We'd co-ordinate so that we'd both be home for spring break and summer and Christmas. You guys would never let us live it down if we missed one…you told us so." Amorie chuckled.

"We told you right too." Regina said, Emma giving a nod in agreement.

"Anyway." Their daughter went on. "One day he comes back and he's…different. A good different. Wiser…prouder, even. And then at dinner he announces it…He'd been summoned by the sorcerer…and he asked him to be his new author."

"Henry is the author?!" The couple said at the same time.

"Yep. Same reaction." Amorie smirked.

"That's incredible." Regina sighed, unable to hide her pride.

"That's our boy." Emma beamed. "Knew he'd do great things."

"Amazing things." Amorie nodded. "But I should probably go ahead and explain the rest?"

"Right, yes, of course." Regina nodded.

"Go on." Emma said.

"Okay so, after I graduated college I asked him to take me on a few adventures. He wasn't sure at first. But, well, he had this friend and she and I…got very close and we managed to convince him to take me along with them. We went on a few adventures, had our fun…and then we decided to go back to the Enchanted Forest." She stopped and suddenly turned very sombre. "And what we found was…well…to say 'all hell broke loose' would be an understatement."

"What happened?" Regina asked.

"In a nutshell? Rumpelstiltskin happened." Amorie said. "He just…took over everything. Later we come to find out that the black fairy was helping him."

"The what?" Emma asked. Amorie gritted her teeth before she started talking again.

"You remember the dark fairies? Like the one that tried to kill me when I was born?" she asked. "She's another one…We're not sure yet why they're doing this but we have a theory that it's linked to Blue."

Emma's fists clenched so tightly her nails dug into the palms of her hand. Regina's brow furrowed in that way it usually did before someone got fire-balled.

"How do you even know about Blue? You were way too young to remember." Emma asked calmly.

"You guys told me about her when we came to you for help." Amorie said. "We couldn't leave the Enchanted Forest in that state and let them get away with whatever atrocities they were carrying out. You came back with us to help, your future selves did anyway, and we thought we were close to fixing it all…and then you guys got abducted. We don't know where you are or…"

The dark haired girl gulped and blinked away the tears that suddenly burned her eyes. "Or if you're alive…and we need you guys. My magic is powerful, but with you two around I'm stronger. You are too. It's the way it works with our link."

"Of course, it's the magic that made you." Regina nodded.

"I should be able to feel if your future selves are alive or not. But something is blocking me. I…I honestly feel so lost." She said just above a whisper.

"Hey." Emma put a gentle hand on her shoulder.

"Can I just please have a hug?" Amorie said, tears spilling from her eyes.

"Oh darling of course you can." Regina got up quickly and wrapped her arms around the adult version of her daughter, letting the girl bury her face in the crook of her neck as Emma came closer and wrapped an arm tightly around each of them.

"It'll be okay. We'll find a way to fix this, we always do." The blonde tried to comfort her daughter as best she could.

"I know." Amorie nodded. "I just…I'm just scared."

Regina shushed her soothingly as she usually did when she cradled a crying baby Amorie. "We're here sweetheart. I know we're just the past versions of ourselves but we'll always be here for you."

When Henry got home, he was surprised to hear a new voice coming from the kitchen. It wasn't very often that they had visitors in the house that weren't part of their family in some way or another.

"Mom? Ma?" he called out, dropping his backpack by the stairs before heading towards the kitchen. He stepped into the room, his eyes landing on Regina before going to Emma, and then to the dark haired stranger who had been sitting with her back towards him and turned around in her seat to face him.

"Hey kid." Emma said gently. But something about the stranger kept him staring straight at her.

"Hey." He said, not taking his eyes off Amorie.

"Hi." She said, giving him a soft, almost nervous smile. He didn't smile, but he wasn't frowning. He was taking her in because something about her was so…

"Familiar."

"Henry…" Regina tried gently. "Maybe you should sit down we uhm…need to tell you something."

"You…" Henry said, not looking to his brunette mother nor following her advice.

"Hey, kid?" Emma said, about to put a hand on his shoulder. Amorie raised a brow at the way her brother was acting and he gasped softly.

"You're…you're her aren't you?" he said to the dark haired woman. "You're Amorie."

"Hi big brother." Amorie said with a small sigh of relief.

"How did you figure it out so fast?" Emma said, mildly upset that it took her the longest to figure it out. Regina was giving him a similarly confused expression.

"The eyes." He said, holding two fingers up and gesturing towards Amorie's eyes. "And the way you raised your eyebrow just now…you look so much like mom when you do that."

Regina, beside him, tried not to beam with pride…and failed miserably.

"And you have ma's chin…And her eyes…Holy crap you're beautiful." He said, his eyes a little wide at the realisation.

"Right?!" their mothers said as they gestured to her, ignoring the fact that he'd just cursed. Amorie just sighed in defeat.

"You people are crazy." She shook her head.

"Okay so now the big question is why am I looking at my adult baby sister?" Henry looked from one mother to the other expectantly.

"Sit down, we'll explain everything." Regina said.

Henry nodded and took the seat next to Amorie.

Repeating the story was a little bit easier, and Amorie couldn't help but laugh at Henry's expression when she told him he becomes the author.

"But wait…" He said as she finished explaining why she time travelled and what she needed. "If you're from the future, you shouldn't be telling us any of this…otherwise it could change things."

"Not according to what you told me before I got here." Amorie shook her head. "Something about the future and the past…well…your present, existing on different planes of the same realm. What's happened in the future already happened. We can only change what happens on the planes we currently exist on."

"That's…" Emma hesitates. "My head hurts."

"Just think of them on different levels of the same building. We can travel from one to the other, but we can't change what happens on one level while still being on the other." Amorie shrugged. "Makes things simpler, I suppose."

"I suppose." Regina said with a hint of sarcasm. Amorie gave her an enigmatic smirk before looking back at her brother.

"How did you even time travel?" Henry asked. "Isn't it like…crazy complicated?"

"I promise you will learn all of this in time. You don't have to rush. It all falls into place for you." Amorie said, giving him a warm smile when he grins at her. It felt so good, telling a younger version of her big brother that everything would be okay and that he'd do great things in his future. It felt good, giving him the reassurance and comfort that he'd given her throughout the years as she grew up. "But the truth is that…you brought me here. You wrote me into the past."

"I can do that?!" His eyes went wide. Regina and Emma's eyes met across the island counter and the pride in their hearts was almost tangible. Their kids would do amazing things. And it felt so good knowing that.

A/N: Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I know it was quite a bit info-dump-ish, but it was necessary to start out with why Amorie came back - I promise there will be a lot more action in the future chapters, plus a lot more laughs too!

I've been excited to reveal this for a while now, and this is actually what got me so excited to write this sequel that the story just started forming in my head: Adult Amorie's appearance is based on Katie McGrath. If you watch Supergirl, you know who she is (She plays Lena Luthor) She's another one of my favourite actresses, plus I couldn't help but notice a lot of similarities between her and Lana and her and Jmo, so it kind of just fell into place. If you don't know what she looks like, I highly suggest googling her - she's gorgeous!

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Until next week!