A few months ago, Wonderland

Maleficent had rushed her and Lily out of the pub and into their room as quickly as possible without drawing attention to themselves. She put a spell on the room after locking the door and making sure the window was shut tight.

She turned to find Lily giving her a confused, yet unalarmed look with her hands in the back pockets of her jeans. Maleficent couldn't understand why her daughter was not as worried as she was! She reminded herself that Lily had never been here. Still she had learned all about the Enchanted Forest and the tales of that realm so she must just not understand the severity of the danger they are in.

"What'd you do?" Lily asked.

Even though she knew no one could hear them Maleficent looked around and walked closer to Lily and whispered, "I put a protection and silencing spell on this room."

"Why?"

"You know about Wonderland, don't you?"

"Yeah of course." Lilly tucked her hair behind her hear and shrugged. "White rabbits, creepy cat, Alice, tea parties, crazy Queen of Hearts who wants everyone's head, singing flowers."

Maleficent was disgusted. "Singing flowers?" Lily shrugged in a way that indicated: yeah, so? Then it dawned on her. Lily only learned the truth about her and the others from the Enchanted Forest from the Apprentice. How would she have heard about Wonderland? He certainly didn't stick around to tell her about every realm. Just the one that mattered to her.

Maleficent sat Lily down and explained the history and residents of Wonderland.

"Well that's certainly not the story I knew." Lily said stunned as she ran her hand through her hair. "I knew about the March Hare at least but I thought he was just crazy. Never heard of Time though."

"What does your filthy realm tell you about Wonderland?"

"I'll show you the movie when we get home."

Maleficent wasn't sure she wanted to know, though she did wonder what delusions were being spread about her. Glad she was in her attire donned from Storybrooke and not her typical villainous attire. She certainly did not want to be recognized. She was going to have to disguise herself though for extra precautions. No one knew who Lily was though and no one here knew she had a daughter, much less that it was her.

After sitting in silent thought, Lily spoke up. "So do you remember Wonderland? Have you been here? Do you know who my father is?"

Present day, Wonderland

Everyone emerged from the portal in the same field that Lily and Maleficent had a few months before.

Leroy looked around. It looked like any forest back in their realm. "This is Wonderland? It looks like Storybrooke and the Enchanted Forest. I thought Wonderland was supposed to be, I dunno. Different."

Killian took in a deep breath looking around. "Aye. This is certainly Wonderland. We are likely on its outskirts. The closer we get to the palaces the less it will look familiar."

Regina looked uneasy. "Well I suggest we start moving. The sooner we can do what we came to do the better. I don't want to be here any longer than I have to be."

Everyone agreed. As they walked Regina, Hook, and Belle got everyone up to speed regarding how Time and the March Hare operate.

David spoke up. "But no one has been here since Cora has left?" Regina nodded. "We need to figure out how things are run in this realm now that she's gone."

Without a better idea on where to start the plan was to find a small town where they could get information from the average citizen.

Snow and David walked together behind everyone else.

"David, Lily looks so discouraged already."

"I am sure she was just hoping she'd regain some memories when she returned. I saw her face drop when she looked around when we arrived. She remembers her arrival here but nothing else."

Snow sighed. "I'm going to talk to everyone later. We need to show Lily that we have hope. Right now everyone looks too worried. Without hope she will just resort to giving back in to her darkness. I know we have plenty to be worried about, but none of us would have come if we didn't hope that finding her parents was possible."

David smiled and grabbed her hand. "I think that's a brilliant idea."

Snow and David were soon walking among the middle of the group. As they walked along Snow noticed a fallen tree to her left that had a twisted branch sticking straight up that looked like a deformed, creepy small tree. Snow paused to look at it.

Emma turned to look at it as well letting go of Killian's hand. "Mom, isn't that…"

"The same fallen tree we've past twice before? Yes." Snow said coming and kneeling down next to it.

Regina was annoyed. "We've been walking in circles? You'd think with between someone who lived in the woods and a former bail bonds person we wouldn't have gotten lost so quickly."

Snow couldn't take her eyes off the branch. "No. I've been paying attention. There's no way."

Killian looked around. "The sun hasn't moved since we arrived in Wonderland."

Belle furrowed her brow and leaned back. "But that's not possible. We've been here for hours."

Lily sat down and leaned against a tree with her head in her hands.

Regina, Killian, Belle, and Leroy began to discuss the situation. How was this possible?

Snow looked at David. Their silent communication thanks to their shared heart knew that this was a moment Snow could really use to help Lily fight the darkness.

Snow went and sat down next to her. She wanted to put her arm around Lily but knew given her experience when Emma had her walls up that it was not the right time for that. She pulled out two donuts from Granny and handed one to Lily and took a bite of the other.

"Thanks."

Snow gave her a warm, hopeful, and genuine smile. "You looked as hungry as me."

Lily returned a small smile.

Present Day, Storybrooke

Robin and Henry sat at the grand dining table in Regina's house with the Apprentice's wand set in its center.

They were both worried. Henry had tried to reopen the portal to no avail. They tried to call the mirror but Regina apparently didn't realize it. Likely she wasn't expecting them so soon. All they saw was black, probably the inside of her pocket, and heard some muffled talking. At least they knew that the mirror worked.

They didn't need a portal back just yet so the problem now lie in how to get it to them eventually and what to do with the wand in the meantime.

Robin leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms. "The station is not the right place for it. Not with Gold still locked away and I don't think it's a good idea for him to know."

Henry nodded. "I agree. What about giving it to Blue and the rest of the fairies to protect?"

"Perhaps, but the less who know about it the better, but I don't have a better idea."

As Robin and Henry continued to ponder, a Gold turned away from the window looking in on them and began walking back towards the station and his cell. He smiled having learned a great deal more than he had expected to today and he now had a lead on how to regain his powers.