Standing in the middle of a barren field, with dry yellow grass and stone all around them, Harry offers Regina a congratulatory smile as Robin's eyes go wide with delight.

Still close behind her, He tightens his embrace in response to his wife's newly formed lioness patronus "See, look at that! Knew you could do it, love."

Regina smiles warmly. Quite pleased with the spectacle before them, she snuggles close, and allows the image to grow immense in both size and shape and then holds the patronus charm steady "You like her?"

Robin nods eagerly and kisses his wife's cheek. "She's a beauty!"

Warm fuzzy encouragement didn't use to work."

"How do you know? Did anyone ever try?"

Regina squints as she searches her memory. "Not that I can recall. Well, except for Daddy, but he didn't teach magic lessons."

"Maybe he should have."

"I would have loved that. Mother wouldn't let him. She sai…"

Before the conversation can go any further, Hades appears beside them without warning.

Harry takes a step back; caught off-guard, but delays raising his own wand when Hades appears just as startled as they are.

Feeling the presence of powerful white magic, Hades instantly crouches and takes four steps back while shielding his head and face with both arms as if he expects his sister-in-law's ethereal she-beast to pounce and devour him. "What the hell is that?"

Regina laughs wryly. "Aren't people usually pointing at you when they ask that question?"

Hades scowls as Robin grins and proudly offers an explanation. "That's Regina's patronus. It's a magical shield used to fend off the dementors. Harry says they take the shape of an animal when fully formed. Sort of like a spirit animal, I guess. Very apropos for my lady, don't you think?"

Hades sneers. "I would've thought a carrion bird would be more appropriate; something to pluck out the eyes and devour the heart."

Robin shrugs, undaunted. "Maybe once Hades, but not anymore."

"Yes, yes." Hades recites in boredom. "Regina works for the good guys now. I get it, but right now I need her to work for me."

Regina laughs callously as she lowers her wand and her feline huntress disappears; evaporating from view. "Dream on, flame boy!"

Blue flames leap from the top of his head as he growls. "You intend to just let your sister and your nephew die, then?"

"I intend to do nothing of the sort, Hades. But let's get one thing straight right here and now. I do not work for you, not even indirectly, and I never will again."

"Fine, fine! I don't care what motivates you as long as you help me."

"I won't do that either. Helping you usually comes back to bite people on the ass; but I will help my sister. So, what do you want?"

"I need a locator spell that has been… well, sort of tweaked, I guess."

"Tweaked how?"

"I have rounded up all the villains in the underworld. However, imprisoning them does not seem to offer quite enough incentive to get them to talk; not even with the threat of Tartarus underfoot. I don't know which one of them is responsible. I have come to ask you to write a locator spell that will help me ferret out the guilty party; tell me which one of them is lying to me."

Regina squints as she listens, sorting out the details carefully in her mind before she speaks. At length, she says, "That's probably not going to work."

Hades misinterprets her comment. "You can't do it?"

Regina laughs haughtily. "Oh, I can do it."

"Then why won't it work?"

"Because Hades, they are villains in the underworld and you are their overlord. Every single one of them is lying to you about something. For that matter, even heroes have their secrets. I guarantee it. However, that fact alone does not necessarily mean they are all after your wife and unborn child. It could be just one of them. It could be a small group. It's unlikely, but have you considered the fact that perhaps they are all in it together?"

Hades squints.

"Look, originally, the underworld was not meant to be a place of torment. It was meant to be a peaceful place. a place for people with unfinished business to go to give them time to sort things out before moving on. You made it hellish for your own self-serving reasons. Ever consider the fact that maybe they all want to hurt you for what you've done?"

Hades laughs darkly. "That's pretty rich coming from the evil queen. How many people do you think would hurt you, given half a chance?"

"Hundreds, I'm sure. I'm not trying to rub your nose in it. I'm simply trying to point out the obvious, since its apparent that you've missed it. It could be any one of them, not just the villains. They all have motive. It could be none of them. I can write you a locator spell. I can tweak it. Even so, you're going to come up with more hits than Mike Tyson's punching bag if you want the spell to reveal simply which one of them is lying to you, or which one of them wishes to harm you."

"How about, which one of them unleashed those soul-sucking fiends."

"Well, the part's rather obvious too, Hades. No matter who did it, or why they did it, in your absence, they couldn't have done it without the Black Fairy's approval. Even if she's not the mastermind behind it, she allowed it. So, start with her. If she tells you she knows nothing about it, she's lying. And, speaking of Fiona, if she's on lockdown, who's in charge down there if you're up here?"

"Your mother, temporarily of course."

Regina nods. "I don't know why you didn't make that choice to begin with."

Hades raises a curious eyebrow. "Really, your sister's going to be furious with me for making that choice. And how many times have I heard you say that Cora is not to be trusted?"

"Oh, she's not. That hasn't changed, but given what you've put them through, neither is anyone else down there. So, your options are somewhat limited. However, I'm afraid that given the choice between Mother and Fiona - Hades, that should've been a no brainer. Fiona is not royalty. She has no idea what it means to rule, or how to go about it. She's a power-hungry harpy who started out innocently enough; trying to protect her child – something which I am entirely capable of understanding - but somewhere along the way she allowed her quest to become perverted when she started snatching babies for the sake of accumulating supremacy. Mother's hardly better. I can't guarantee you that she won't try to overthrow you while you're up here, but at least she knows how to rule. And, in this one instance, she would make a rather vital ally. Her eldest daughter's children are the children of a god, which is possibly the only thing that could offer Mother greater influence than a seat on any throne. Trust me, she has a vested interest in protecting those children from harm. She certainly never would have allowed dementors to pass through the underworld on their way to your wife and children."

Hades glares. "Are you going to help your sister, or just stand around kicking me in the teeth?"

Regina smirks and lifts one shoulder in a shrug. "A bit of both. Go visit your daughter. Give us an hour to get the remaining dementors under control, and then bring her home. We'll meet you at the abbey."

Ninety minutes later Regina arrives at the abbey with Robin and a group of their friends. Intent on announcing that the remaining two dementors as has been caught and properly stowed away, she stalls momentarily when they find a confused and annoyed Eliana questioning her parents. "Why is Mummy in bed again?"

Hades kneels before his preschooler. "Mummy's okay, princess. Your little brother is just having a tough day."

"I don't want a brother. I want Mummy to feel good."

"She will sweetheart; soon."

"Now. I don't wanna wait."

"I know it's scary El…" Hades begins patiently.

The little redheaded girl folds her arms and pouts stubbornly. "I'm not scared. I want Mummy back! We don't play anymore. Stupid baby! He's no fun! I don't want him!"

"Honey, you don't mean that."

"Yes, I do! Mummy is sick all the time and it's his fault. I don't want him. Make him go away."

"Elianna, Daddy can't do that, and I wouldn't even if I could. He's special, just like you. He's my baby."

"I'm your baby."

Before Hades can respond, Zelena sits up a little straighter in her bed. "Alright young lady, enough! We've been very patient, but I'm tired of your attitude. Like it or not, you have a little brother and he will be here soon enough, so you may as well get ready!"

"Don't yell at me!" Eliana pouts as hot tears began to spill.

"Nobody's yelling, honey," Hades speaks in a soothing tone.

Eliana nods insistently " Uh huh, Mummy is. She's sick all the time and she's always grouchy now." She turns her attention back to her mother. "You're no fun anymore!"

Zelena ignores her daughter's accusation and inhales deeply as she frets and rubs her swollen abdomen. Inside, she can feel her distressed son squirming and kicking hard against her belly in response to the tension his big sister is creating.

Shocked and supremely unhappy to find that this brother she does not want is taking attention away from her yet again, Eliana decides that if the big people are not going to listen to her, she'll just have to take matters into her own hands. Concentrating diligently, she wrinkles her nose and squeezes her eyes tightly shut. While the adults stare with unabashed curiosity, she remembers and does what Thalia told her how to do. She focuses with all her might, thinks of what she wants most and feels the rising tide of magic within. When the gentle weight of it changes and becomes an urgent pressure that must be released, she opens her eyes, holds her small hand; palm out, arm extended, elbow locked, pointed straight toward Zelena's belly and magically locks onto her target. Next, she slowly turns a ½ circle and relocates her exasperating baby brother, transporting him into the first available womb she finds.

Still in the dark, but acutely aware that the contrary child is up to something, Regina and the other women squint inquisitively as an unmistakable look of relief flutters across Zelena's face only to be rapidly replaced by a frightened scowl. "Suddenly, I feel bett… Eliana, what have you done? Hades…" Zelena's eyes go wide as her voice rises frantically. "I don't think he's here anymore! She…She…Eliana! What did you do to Theo? What do you do to your brother?"

Eliana giggles with mischief. "I told you. I don't want him. He can go live somewhere else!"

Her parents stare, horrorstruck, both of them shouting at once. "Where is he?" and demanding, "You put him back! You put him back right now!"

Eliana stubbornly shakes her head as all the adults stare with their mouths falling open in shock.

Before anyone can figure out what to say or do next, Emma suddenly crouches in fear and reaches for the top of her own head; stopping just in time to avoid scorching her hands as her head erupts in a magnificent and terrifying display of teal colored flames while her signature red leather jacket becomes uncomfortably tight as her normally flat abdomen suddenly swells and becomes round and heavy with child. "What the hell?" she stares down at her distended belly in abject horror before turning her frightened gaze to Zelena's noticeably smaller one. "Oh no! Oh, hell no! Listen kid.." She glares at Eliana. "You fix this right now!"

Both Hades and Zelena protest adamantly. "Don't yell at her!" while Hook's eyes widen with extreme amusement. He smiles broadly as he splays the fingers of his curious hand gently over the firm swell of the blonde's suddenly well-rounded midsection.

Emma can feel the cool temperature of Killian's metal rings against her belly through the thin T-shirt she wears, and she smacks the pirate's hand away in agitation as the baby pummels her from the inside. her ears began to ring incessantly as the most intense nausea she's ever felt nearly buckles her knees. When her heart rate decreases alarmingly and her vision blurs and goes grey around the edges, she hisses adamantly, "Listen Red, I get that you don't want a little brother, and that's okay, but I don't think I'm equipped for this. Do me a favor, will you? Get this pint-sized demon out of me before he renders me unconscious!"

Zelena's blue eyes throw daggers at Emma. "My son is a demigod; not a demon!"

Hades glowers ominously and declares, "I'll have you know, carrying the child of a god is an honor!"

Emma's sways drunkenly as large beads of perspiration become visible at her hairline and her slender neck quickly goes an alarming shade of red. Hook offers what stability he can from an arm's length away; afraid that her head might erupt with uncontrollable flames again as her internal temperature seems to spike suddenly, and without warning, to absolutely volcanic levels.

Emma's shrugs, not largely concerned if they take offense. "Honor, or horror, whichever it is, I don't believe it was meant for me and it's one I don't want. So, please tell your daughter to fix this! Now! Before I go into cardiac arrest or spontaneously combust!"

Four-year-old Eliana's eyes go wide. "See, he's no good. Even Henry's mom don't want him!"

Her bewildered parents turn to each other and groan in apprehension but before they can say anything more, she waves her hand again and Emma's newly formed a baby bump disappears as rapidly as it appeared only to reemerge in the savior's mother's belly.

Snow frantically clutches at her own expanding middle even as her knees give way. She stumbles dangerously and collapses into the ready embrace of her fast-acting husband who lifts her off her feet into his arms and then carries her to the unoccupied bed a few feet from Zelena's.

David squeezes her hand in his and gently pats her face several times in rapid succession, trying to call her back from the depths of unconsciousness. When that fails, he frowns sternly at the redheaded child before turning his heated angry eyes to her parents. He gestures desperately toward his cataleptic wife. "What? Do you two had absolutely no control over her? You just let her do whatever she pleases?"

Zelena hisses venomously. "How dare you! Who are you to question our parenting skills when you put your own newborn daughter into a magical cabinet and sent her into an unknown world in the arms of a living puppet…!"

Regina touches her sister's arm in an attempt to restrain her from continuing her hostile verbal assault. "Hold on a minute, Zelena. That was my fault. Not theirs. They were trying to save their daughter and did the best they could under horrible circumstances. Before you lash out, stop. Look at your daughter's tear-stained face. Are you, of all people, really going to lay here in this bed and tell us that you don't understand what she's feeling? She doesn't want her younger sibling. She feels threatened by his presence. If memory serves correctly, you should be uniquely qualified to understand exactly what she's going through."

"That was different! Hades and I are not planning to abandon her; throw her into the path of a bloody green tornado!"

"I know that! What I'm suggesting to you is that maybe we all need to stop yelling. Maybe you should take a moment to make sure she knows that."

Zelena's jerks away from her sister's touch. "We can deal with that later! Right now, she just needs to put her baby brother back when he belongs!"

"No!" Eliana yells back; competing with all the other raised voices in the room. She stomps a small foot clad in green patent leather the instant before she turns, her ruffled skirt twirling out around her, and attempts to flee the room.

Robin is quick to sidestep, effectively blocking the doorway and her only exit. When she tries to push past him he catches the struggling girl beneath the arms and scoops her up, stalling her, giving his wife the second she needs to close the distance between them and reach out to take the angry, uncooperative child into her own arms.

"Elia, honey, I know. I understand. You don't want a little brother and that's okay." Regina assures calmly. We don't have to talk about that right now. If you will stop kicking me and listen for a minute, we can talk about something else."

"I want to leave!"

"Yes, I know, and I understand. It's no fun when everybody's yelling at you. People used to yell at me a lot too. You know what else is no fun sometimes…" Regina raises an eyebrow as she turns the squirming child to face her.

Eliana wipes her watery eyes on the back of her arm and sniffles loudly, "What?"

Regina drops her voice to a conspiratorial stage whisper. "Having a big sister. Sometimes it sucks! Sometimes I just want to kick her really, really, hard!"

Eliana scowls and raises an eyebrow as she passes a look of supreme uncertainty back and forth between her mother and her aunt.

Zelena objects vehemently, "Hey, don't tell her that!"

Regina tosses her sister a scathing look. "Pipe down, Greenie. You had your chance. It's my turn now. I've got this." To her niece, she says, "Don't let her fool you. She didn't want a little sister any more than you want a little brother, but we can talk more about that in a few minutes. Right now, we need to talk about Miss Snow. Because even if you don't want your little brother you cannot leave him with her. Snow is not a goddess. She doesn't even have magic. She's not strong enough to carry any child who is half-god. It will hurt her. it might even kill her. She might die if you don't move him."

Eliana turns wide blue eyes to the unconscious princess. After a long heavy pause, she whispers loudly, "She gave me a birdhouse."

"Do the birds come to visit you?"

"Sometimes. They sing pretty songs and they like to eat the bird seed."

"See. She was nice to you. You don't really want to hurt her, do you?"

"My stupid brother needs magic."

Regina smiles and nods. "Your stupid brother needs magic."

Hades scowls. "Don't encourage her to call him that!"

Regina turns inquiring eyes his way. "She needs to feel free to express what she feels. What? You would rather have her stifle her emotions and magically drop kick your son into the wombs of random women who just happen to find themselves in her immediate vicinity?"

"I'd rather she not do either!"

"Oh, I see. You want her hold it all inside until one day she goes off the deep end and tries to master time travel, so she can go back in time to wipe her brother out of existence?"

"Well, no, of course not!"

"Well… like it or not, this is where we are and, right now, she's the one with all the power."

Eliana squints wildly confused by this unexpected announcement. "Na uh, Auntie Gina. Daddy has way more magic than me."

"Not right now, he doesn't, Elia. He can't fix this. You did it. You are the only one who can make it better. You are the only one who can make it right."

"Me?"

Regina nods and gently presses the end of her index finger to the little girl's chest. "You."

Eliana squishes up her face and shakes her head. "I still don't want a stupid brother."

"I know, but I have a little brother. He died before I ever got to meet him, and knowing that makes it hard to breathe sometimes."

"It does?"

"Sure does, and I don't think you want to know what that feels like. I don't think you want Mummy and Daddy to be so sad that it hurts to breathe. So, maybe you could wait until he's born. Wait at least until you can see him before you decide to send him away forever. What do you think?"

"But he makes Mummy sick and grouchy all the time. I don't want Mummy to be sick."

"Elia, most babies make their mothers feel sick before they're born. That part's normal. Norah made me sick before she was born. You made your mom sick before you were born. Now, it's your brother's turn. Nobody really likes it. That's just the way it is."

"Then why do ladies keep having babies?"

"Because it makes most of us pretty happy."

"Well then…." Eliana smiles mischievously; having found a solution to her conundrum. "You can have him, Auntie Gina!"

Regina shakes her head wildly. "No, no, that's not what I meant."

Her niece ignores her. "He needs magic. You have magic. And Norah likes having brothers. She told me so. She can have mine too and, that way, Mummy doesn't have to be sick anymore."

Snow stirs softly, regaining consciousness.

Regina groans in abject agony as she becomes the next unwilling surrogate, and despite the hollow ache within, Zelena chuckles snidely. "Didn't work out the way you thought it would, did it. Miss Fix-it?"