Wonderland Present Day

Alice, Regina, and Emma sat in their cell.

Regina looked over at Emma who was angrily picking at something on the ground. This situation really stunk. She and Emma were rendered without magic in this prison and those were left out in the forest really didn't stand a chance in rescuing them especially when none of them had magic.

Regina looked over at Alice. "Any suggestions on how to get out of this dump?"

Alice looked up at Regina. "If it took me years just to figure out how to get in, you really think there's some way to get out? It's always easier breaking into somewhere than out of it."

Regina was just very thankful that Henry, Robin, and Roland had stayed home.

Wait! That was it! The mirror. Regina pulled it out and whispered Henry's name.

Emma looked over. "What are you doing?"

"Hoping Henry and Robin can help us somehow." Regina rolled her eyes. Sometimes Emma was really thick.

Alice came over to Regina. "Is that mirror a portal?"

"Unfortunately no. But it does allow us to communicate." Henry still hadn't responded. She called his name again and he appeared.

"Mom?"

"Henry!" Regina and Emma said together as Emma crowded Regina to see her son.

"Moms, what's going on? You look like a really bad YouTube video."

Regina was irritated. Magic should be more reliable than cell phone reception back in Storybrooke. She just hoped that he would be able to get the message to him clearly.

Regina smiled. "Do you have a portal ready yet?"

Henry thought for a moment. "We think so. Do you need it now?"

"No. But next time I call I'll need it and I'll need it immediately."

Henry's eyes grew wide. He knew something was wrong. "What's wrong?"

Emma cut in. "Henry we've got it under control. Just listen to what she says."

"Do you know when? So I can be ready."

"No I don't unfortunately. It could be really soon but it could be a few days. So make sure to get ready now. Have Robin help you…Henry? Henry? Did you hear that?" As Regina had spoken the image and sound of Henry in the mirror began to go in and out. Then he was gone. She put the mirror away. She hoped he'd heard everything.

Alice looked at Emma and Regina. When had they come up with a plan? "Well?"

Regina raised an eyebrow. "Well what?"

"What's the plan?"

"Well, when Time comes back, we get the portal open and take him to Storybrooke and from there I'll get the wand from whomever is wielding it for the portal and then we take him to Rumple's cell in the Enchanted Forest as it can hold any magical being. We then come back here find the overgrown lizard's parents and return home."

Emma's hope sank a little. "That's a bit of a complicated plan. We'll need to come back and get my heart too."

"It won't work," Alice declared.

Regina's jaw dropped a little in shock. "And why not? Not like we have any better options. Any options at all really."

"You want to jump through two portals before he's rendered powerless? Without magic? With the two of you using magic we were still captured. No way we can get him through the first portal."

Regina and Emma had to admit their only option wasn't really a good one.

"She's right. It also puts everyone in Storybrooke at great risk if we can even get him there." Emma wasn't about to put Henry in danger. He'd been through far too much already. She just hoped that her parents and Killian wouldn't follow them. She didn't want this fate for them. She looked down at her engagement ring. Killian's mother's ring. She began to twist it in frustration, unable to think outside of this box.

The next thing any of them knew Time was standing before them. He pointed at Regina and indicated for her to stand up. When she did he froze her and the others with magic and walked up to Regina stopping so close she could feel his breath on her face. He reached into her pocket and pulled out the mirror.

"Tsk tsk darling. Someone managed to use magic. I don't like that." He waved his hand over her face and her eyes widened in horror. She fell back against the wall and slid down to the ground.

"Daniel." She whispered in horror.

Time grinned with mischievous delight. "She's stuck in an endless time loop watching the worst moment of her life as if it were happening right this moment." It was the moment Daniel died.

Alice struggled against the spell that bound her. "You monster!"

He waved his hand in front of Alice who was now stuck in a similar time loop watching Cyrus fall to what she thought was his death.

Time sauntered over to Emma and circled her stopping just behind her to whisper into her ear. "You? Oh look at your friends. Look at the pain on their faces. Remember them. Their faces will look like pleasure compared to yours. You will not re watch the past over and over. No. I am Time. I can do much better than that for the savior. You will watch the future over and over. Make no mistake. This is a future that WILL happened. Nothing you can do will change that."

He walked in front of her and dropped the mirror on the ground and stamped on it, breaking it into a million pieces. He then picked up some dirt from just beneath Emma's feet and sprinkled it over her and left.

Emma watched the horrified faces of her friends. Her vision began to darken and that's when her torment began.

Killian appeared before her cell. Everyone else had gone to free Lily's parents while he rescued them.

"Killian!" Emma rushed the bars grabbing his hands and pulling him as close as possible leaning her forehead against his.

"Miss me that much love?" He smiled with a devilish grin that made his eyes twinkle.

"You have to go now!"

"I agree. But first how about I break the three of you out?"

Killian's eyes suddenly went wide as saucers and he stood back and groaned in pain.

Time stepped out from behind Killian holding Killian's heart in his hand. He then pulled something out of his pocket with his free hand. It was Emma's.

Killian and Emma watched in horror powerlessly as Time put the two halves together and waved his hand and the three of them were transported to the castle's maze garden made up of only thorny trees and bushes.

Time brought the heart to his lips. "Emma, kill Captain Hook with his hook."

Emma found herself unable to stop as she walked over to him quickly, tears pooling in her eyes. She detached his hook. She fought as hard as she could. Resisted with everything in her.

"Kill him!" Time screamed.

Emma's hand raised up high unwillingly and quickly went down stabbing his hook in his neck. She watched as he fell to the ground and died.

The awful event repeated itself over and over and over.

It was time. Lily, Leroy, Snow, David, and the Cheshire Cat readied themselves. It was time to storm the castle. Killian and Belle were to remain behind with the Dormouse.

The time had come and Belle and Killian could see across the field that led to the entrance as everyone disappeared before entering the tunnel. They all touched the Cheshire Cat as he used his invisibility to cloak them as well. Fortunately this invisibility was a different type of magic. It was camouflage so it was undetectable magic.

"I'm not happy about this." Killian paced.

"You think I always appreciate being told to stay behind? Just because I'm book smart doesn't mean I can't defend myself. It takes brawn AND brains in a battle." Belle raise her eyes at him as she sat down.

"You insisted on staying here to guard me!"

Belle smiled at him and leaned her head to the side. "Because I'm the only one who might be able to help you should Chronos having Emma's heart become a problem. And I'm not guarding you." Killian sat down beside her scratching behind his ear. "You know you couldn't go."

"Aye. But I don't like being rendered useless either. It's the waiting I can't stand."

Belle put her hand on his back and rubbed. She figured discussing the effects of the shared heart might help speed up the time for both of them.

Inside the palace Time smiled at himself in the mirror of the great hall. He now had the two people who wronged him so long ago and the girl, now girls, who were attempting to free them. The other members of their group were useless against him.

He had but one weakness that only one other knew about so he never really considered it a weakness. Just a matter of seconds when time was undefined.

He'd killed the knave that had found out but the Cheshire Cat who had been present had proven to be quite elusive. Fortunately he only spoke in such complicated riddles that no one would ever really learn the secret.

He looked out the expansive window that looked out to the West and watched as the sun began to set. Once set he tried to turn around but found himself unable to. What was this?

The Cheshire Cat appeared in the table before him grooming himself. The others appeared next to him. How was this possible?

Charming forced Time to sit in a chair as he tied him to it.

Time recognized the rope. It was a magical rope that he was unable to free himself from or use magic while bound. They had poured squid ink on him in his few vulnerable seconds.

Snow readied her bow. "Where's my daughter?"

"Not telling."

Lily walked to Snow and lowered her arms. "Alice said they'd be in the dungeons. Let's go get everyone and figure out what to do with him once they are safe."

Snow nodded. "Right. Sorry. My emotions got ahead of my brain."

They headed down as Charming and Leroy stayed behind to guard Time.

The found Lily's parents first and she freed them bringing them to the great hall as Snow went to find Alice, Emma, and Regina.

Alice and Regina had been broken out of their time loop as Time was captured. Alice sat sobbing and Regina had silent tears roll down her cheeks. It had already happened, long ago she kept reminding herself.

It wasn't until Snow arrived that they noticed Emma was still stuck in her time loop.

Snow was at Emma's side as they told the story of what had happened. "Why is she still under the spell?"

Regina wasn't sure. "Let me try something."

As all Time's spells but the one on Emma had been broken, Regina was able to use her magic again. She put two fingers on each of Emma's temples and closed her eyes. Instantly she was able to see what Emma saw.

Regina pulled back in fear looking at Snow and Alice.

"What's wrong?" Snow demanded.

"She's…she's…She's seeing the future so her curse is different from ours. Perhaps because it is the future but also perhaps because he still has her heart."

They all joined up in the great hall. Regina had used magic to transport Emma there.

In Snow and Lily's absence Charming had sent the signal to Belle and Killian to join and they were already there as Snow, Alice, Regina, and Emma were the last to join.

Killian seeing Emma rushed to her side. "Emma! Emma love! Swan! What's wrong with her?"

He got up and rushed at Time putting his hook to Time's throat. "What did you do to her? Fix it now!"