The drive to the convent was quiet, but you could cut through the tension in the car with a knife. Between all three women being on edge due to their situation, and the fact that they were all picking up on each other's emotions, Emma felt like she was suffocating on it, and opening the window didn't help.

But hidden in the tense fog, Regina picked up on a twinge of sadness, and when she looked up into the rearview mirror, she saw Amorie, brow furrowed, and pressing a kiss to a small metallic object that reflected the sunlight that poured in through the window. She turned around in the passenger seat of Emma's car and looked at the adult version of her daughter.

"Amorie." she said, getting her daughter to look up at her. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing...I just…" Amorie sighed, and Regina reached over to cover her daughter's hand with her own.

"You know it's literally impossible for you to lie to me, right?" Regina smirked.

"Yeah kid, just talk to her. Twenty-two years should have taught you your mom doesn't give up." Emma said, trying to focus on her driving.

"I'm just...worried." Amorie sighed.

"About...Meg?" Regina asked, her eyes glancing towards the gold ring that was still mostly blocked from her sight by Amorie's hand.

"What if...What if I get stuck in the past?" Amorie asked. "What if I never see her again?"

"Hey." Regina squeezed her daughter's hand gently. "We won't let that happen. If there's anything you should know about us by now is that we always find a way."

"Yeah." Amorie nodded. "I know."

"Good." Regina smirked at her daughter playfully. "Now will you ever let me see that ring or do I have to wait twenty years?"

"Here." Amorie said with a smirk, reaching around her neck to unclasp the chain that held the ring around her neck. She held it up by the chain and let her mother hold the ring in her hand.

"Oh...my God." Regina said. "This isn't a ring. It's a tiny portable goldmine."

"Holy crap!" Emma said when she looked at it.

"Eyes on the road." Regina chided.

"Sorry." Emma said, looking back at the road. "But that rock is huge!"

"Guys." Amorie rolled her eyes.

"Well, at least we know she has good taste." Regina said before she handed Amorie the ring back.

"And a lot of money, apparently." Emma said. "If your mother's engagement ring is anything to go by, anyway."

"She's….uhh." Amorie blushed slightly. "Actually a princess."

"What?!" both her parents exclaimed.

"She's from another realm. Her mother's a queen by birth. It's a long story, are we there yet?" Amorie asked.

"Huh? Oh." Emma focused back on her driving just in time to see the convent coming up a little further up the road. "Yeah, we are."

"Thank god." Amorie sighed, barely giving Emma any time to park before she jumped out of the car.

"Easy kid." the blonde said as she cut the engine and got out of the car, Regina doing the same as Amorie started making her way towards the convent.

"Amorie slow down!" Regina said, Emma managing to keep up with her but Regina having some trouble doing so in heels.

"Wear practical footwear!" Amorie said.

"Definitely yours." Regina threw at Emma.

"We've established that." Emma threw back. "Kid, slow your roll."

Amorie did not, in fact, slow her roll. Instead, the only moment her mothers managed to keep up with her was when she was waiting for someone to open the door at the convent, the doorbell to which she rang five times in a row.

"There's no need to be rude." her mother chastised.

"I'm antsy."

"You're acting like your brother did when we were meant to find out if you were a boy or a girl." Emma said.

"I know, he never lets me live down the fact that he basically named me." Amorie said.

"If only he put as much effort in babysitting you, we'd owe your grandparents a few less babysitting nights." Regina rolled her eyes. Amorie was about to say something when they heard the sound of locks being opened in the door and she turned towards it just as it opened up to reveal one of the fairies who smiled at them.

"Hello." she said. "Can I help you?"

"Hi, can we talk to Isadora?" Amorie asked.

"Do you have an appointment?"

"It's an emergency." the youngest of the three women said. The fairy looked from her, to the equally expectant faces of the women she knew all too well to be the saviour and the queen.

"Come in, I'll let her know you're here." she said, opening the door wider, obviously realising that anything involving Emma and Regina had to be an actual, genuine emergency.

They were lead into the convent foyer and towards the waiting area in front of Isadora's office, where the fairy who was guiding them gestured towards the couch and armchairs.

"Take a seat." she said, Emma plopping down onto the couch as ungracefully as possible. Regina rolled her eyes at Emma before she sat down gently next to her and Amorie just started pacing around as the fairy knocked on the office door and disappeared behind it a moment later. They couldn't hear anything that was being said in the office - a magical feature that helped people be able to speak to Isadora freely when they needed to without fear of being overheard.

The fairy reappeared a moment later with a smile.

"She asked you to give her a few minutes to finish up with her other visitors, would you like some tea or coffee while you wait?" the fairy asked.

"No thanks." Amorie shook her head.

"I'm fine, thank you." Regina said.

"I'd kill for a cup of Joe, actually." Emma said, getting disapproving looks from both her fiancée and her daughter. "What?"

"I'll be back in a moment." the fairy said and left the waiting area and the clearly tense trio.

"You need to calm down." Emma said to their daughter.

"I'm sorry, if I threw you twenty years into the past without knowing if you'd be able to go back while the ones you love were all in a dire situation, would you be chill about it?" Amorie asked rhetorically.

"Nothing about my past twenty years ago was 'chill' kid." Emma said. "Giving yourself wrinkles isn't going to fix this."

"Gee thanks." Amorie rolled her eyes.

"Oh stop it, you two." Regina sighed. "Amorie, stop pacing like a caged lion and sit down. Emma, stop slouching, this is a waiting area not our living room."

"Fine, mom." both Amorie and Emma said with matching eye rolls. Regina sighed.

"Maybe I should travel twenty years into the past when even Henry wasn't born yet, maybe then I can have some peace and quiet." she said, giving Emma a pointed look and getting a snort from the blonde.

"You'd miss me too much." she said.

"Try me." Regina shot back.

"Her and Aunt Ruby left town for a weekend for Aunt Ruby's bachelorette party - you did nothing but text her telling her you missed her and watch all her favourite movies. You even ate a grilled cheese sandwich. Henry was sure you were dying." Amorie said.

"HAH!" Emma pointed at her.

"I did not." Regina gasped.

"Well… not yet." Amorie chuckled.

"Aww." Emma swooned and leaned her head on Regina's shoulder. "You missed me enough to eat junk food?"

"Clearly a few years of marriage drive me totally and completely insane." Regina crossed her arms. Amorie sighed and leaned back against the couch, playing with her engagement ring again.

"Well...Meg always says that people do crazy things when they're in love." she said.

"Something we can agree on." Emma said, getting a pointed look from Regina, and giving her a dopey smile back.

"Is that so? And what crazy things have you done in the name of your love for me, Ms. Swan?" Regina asked, getting poked in her side.

"For one, I let you get away with calling me Ms. Swan every now and again, even though we've come a ridiculously long way from the first time you called me that." Emma said.

"True." Regina nodded.

"And finding a place that actually serves Kale salads in this town is crazy enough." Emma chuckled. "I miss when you were pregnant and would eat all my onion rings."

"I don't, do you know what I had to do to lose all that extra weight?" Regina said.

"Is that why we were having more sex than usual?" Emma asked. "Was I your workout routine?"

"Being a mother and a mayor leaves very little free time. I had to multitask." Regina shrugged.

"Guys, I really don't want to hear this." Amorie cringed.

"Sorry." both her mothers apologised in unison. Suddenly, Isadora's office door swung open to reveal a beaming Nova and a smiling Grumpy...who never usually smiled.

"Emma! Regina!" Nova gasped and grinned at them.

"Hey Nova." Emma said as she, Regina and Amorie stood up. "What's up?"

"The most wonderful news!" Nova said, running over and hugging Emma tightly.

"Ow. You are very strong." Emma stated. "What news?"

Nova released the blonde, going over to Leroy and wrapping her arms around his shoulders. "Isadora's given us her blessing! We're getting married!"

"That's wonderful!" Regina smiled at them.

"Isn't it?" Nova bounced happily. "Oh, don't worry. We're waiting until after your wedding, we wouldn't want to steal your thunder."

"With my mom planning it? No one will be able to." Emma chuckled. "I'm happy for you guys."

"We both are." Regina nodded.

"We actually want to thank you two. If it weren't for the both of you kinspiring us to stand up against every single odd that was against us...we don't think we would have even had the courage to ask if we could." Nova said.

"Yeah and...uhh…" Leroy scratched the back of his neck nervously. "Emma, I wanna apologise."

"For what?" Emma gave him a curious look.

"Well, this was a couple years ago but...I did kinda punch you in the face." Leroy said.

"Oh yeah." Emma said, the memory of that night coming back to her. "Wait, didn't I punch you first?"

"Well yeah but...it was because I called Regina a whore." Leroy said, turning to the brunette. "Which I'm also sorry for. I was drunk and upset and I don't know why I said what I did. I guess I was just feelin'..."

"Grumpy?" Regina guessed. After a beat, everyone in the room broke out in a laugh.

"Yeah, I guess so." Leroy shrugged. "I really am sorry...I hope you can forgive me, I was kind of an asshole."

"Frankly there was no kind of about it." Regina shrugged. "But then again I did curse you all for twenty eight years so I suppose we're even."

Leroy gave Regina a smirk which she returned, and he held out a hand for her to shake, which she did without hesitation.

"I guess we'll see you at the wedding then." he said.

"And we'll see you at yours." Regina said, right before Nova hugged her way too tightly. The former queen hugged the fairy back before she skipped away happily, Leroy following closely behind.

"Aww, that was sweet." Amorie said.

"And awkward as shit." Emma said. "We goin' in or what?"

"Yes, we are." Regina nodded, leading the trio into Isadora's office.

"Ah, our dynamic duo." Isadora gave them a smile before she looked at Amorie, giving her a curious look for a short moment before smiling at her just the same. "And their time travelling daughter. Hello Amorie"

"Hey." Amorie said.

"God Dammit." Emma huffed. "How did it take me the longest?!"

"You were the first one to find her, it was probably just…" Regina shrugged. "For dramatic affect."

"That's very likely." Isadora nodded. "But let's leave that fourth wall alone shall we? You said you were here because of some kind of emergency? I assume it has something to do with getting Amorie back to the f- Oh my...I nearly made a reference there."

"Dammit." Emma sighed in disappointment.

"Nerd." Amorie rolled her eyes at her blonde mother before she turned back to the high fairy. "I don't know what happened. In the future, Henry's the author. He wrote me into the past. But when he tried to write us into the future here...it didn't work."

"Of course it didn't." Isadora said. "Henry is not yet the author in this time. And only the author has that kind of power."

Amorie sighed, her shoulders deflating. "I'm an idiot."

"Now now, there's no need to be so self degrading. Magic is tricky, especially time travel. It would be impossible for one person to know all there is to know about it." Isadora said gently, coming around and placing gentle hands on Amorie's shoulders. "I sense you are rather stressed about this situation."

"I jumped back twenty years, a little stress is to be expected." Amorie shrugged. "So...how do we go to the future if Henry can't write us into it?"

"Well the answer is rather simple, really." Isadora said.

"It is?" Emma asked.

"Emma." Regina rolled her eyes.

"No. I'm serious. Nothing is ever 'simple' when we're involved." Emma said.

"She has a point." Amorie said to Regina before she turned back to the white fairy. "So, lay it on us, what's the answer?"

"You have to find the author of this time, of course." Isadora said.

"You mean...the same one we were looking for before we got together?" Regina said, giving Emma a look.

"Yes, that would be the one." Isadora nodded. Emma turned to Regina.

"I told you it wouldn't be 'simple.'" she said.

"Is there anything you can do to help us find him?" Regina asked the white fairy.

"I would love to, honestly I would. But we have no idea who the current author is...or where he is." Isadora said. "There's very little I can provide you with in terms of information and tools. I'm sorry."

"Ugh, great." Amorie groaned. Regina gently put her hand on her daughter's shoulder and squeezed it comfortingly.

"Amorie, we will find him." she tried to reassure her.

"You'd been searching for him for months before you and mom got together." Amorie said.

"To be fair we only put actual effort into that for like, a few weeks." Emma shrugged.

"She has a point." Regina said with a shrug. "After that we only really...pretended to carry on with the search because…"

"Because you had your heads too far up your asses to realise your happy ending was staring at you in the face whilst stuffing hers with grilled cheese sandwiches and onion rings?" Amorie asked.

"Exactly." Regina deadpanned.

"Hey! Sometimes I shared my onion rings!" Emma complained.

"Please focus." Regina said.

"I'm trying, all this talk about my horrible eating habits is making me hungry." Emma shrugged. Amorie rolled her eyes and groaned.

"I'm going to be stuck in the past forever." she said.

"Oh quit being such a drama queen." Emma crossed her arms. "If we can break a curse, defeat a dragon, stop the town from exploding while keeping Regina alive, go to freaking neverland, move the moon, get back from neverland in one piece, stop another curse, kick the wicked witch's ass, no offence to your aunt, stop the ice queen from getting us all to kill each other, trick a chernobaug into turning himself to dust, convince some of the most evil beings on any realm to chill the fuck out, and make a baby, I'm pretty sure there's nothing we can't do. We'll find the author or my name isn't Emma freakin' Swan."

Regina blinked at her fiancée before she turned to her daughter. "Frankly if your mother can fry an egg without setting the kitchen on fire-"

"Hey!"

"Nothing is impossible." Regina finished off.

"As long as you two are determined." Amorie shrugged. "Where do we even start?"

"That's….a good question." Regina sighed.

"I'm confused." Henry said.

"Welcome to my life, kid." Emma slouched against the couch, getting an eye roll from Regina who was sitting next to her. Henry ignored his blonde mother to look at the adult version of his sister.

"I thought you said that I was the author." he asked.

"Yeah, in the future." Amorie said. "In my time you've been the author for about two years now. But in this time…"

"You're a high schooler." Emma shrugged. "You haven't gotten your author powers yet kid."

"So I can't be the one to write you guys into the future." Henry nodded in understanding.

"Exactly." Regina said. "So we need to find the person who can."

"Where would we even start?" Amorie asked. "Do you guys know anyone who might be a lead?"

"Well...we thought we did back when we started the search." Emma shrugged. "But August the kid forgot being August the adult."

"Somehow I don't think Gepetto would let us try again." Regina said, looking at the floor awkwardly.

"Why not?" Amorie asked.

"Your mother kind of...yelled at him."

"It was a very stressful time for me." Regina defended herself.

"I know, I understand." Emma said, rubbing Regina's shoulder gently. "If only we knew where he got all his information at least, maybe we could start there."

"We can't exactly look into his past." Amorie sighed, sitting down on the armchair next to her parents.

"Wait…" Henry said, his brow furrowed like he was thinking really hard. "Isn't there...a way we could do that?"

"Look into someone's past?" Regina asked.

"Yeah." Henry nodded at her.

"Wait." Emma said, getting everyone's attention turned on her. "Dreamcatchers."

"Come again?" Amorie asked.

"Dreamcatchers." Emma repeated, sitting up and turning to Regina. "Remember when your mom wanted to frame you for Archie's murder?"

"Ugh, yes." Regina rolled her eyes.

"We used a dreamcatcher on Pongo because he was the only witness." Emma said.

"A dog's testimony nearly landed me in serious trouble." Regina said. Emma sighed and scooted closer to her and took her hands gently.

"We've come a long way from that." she said to her gently, pressing a kiss to one of her hands. "But maybe we can use the dreamcatcher on August. Kid or not, his past is still the same. Maybe he can still help us...even if he doesn't know it yet."

"Worst case scenario he grows up dreaming of owning a motorbike." Regina shrugged, getting an eye roll from Emma.

"Well, it's the only lead we have." Amorie shrugged.

"I'll get a dreamcatcher from Belle." Emma said as she got up. "In the meantime, can someone make lunch or something? I'm starving."

"Ditto." Henry said.

"Me too." Amorie said. Regina rolled her eyes and groaned.

"I suppose I'll have to do it then hmm?" she crossed her arms and looked pointedly at the three of them.

"Thanks babe, love you." Emma said, kissing her cheek before she got up and left the room, leaving Regina to roll her eyes at her.

A/N: Hope you guys liked the chapter! Please don't forget to review!