NYC
"Hey Beautiful" Danielle's boyfriend Andrew said as she walked into the restaurant
"Hey, sorry I'm late" Dani said as she sat down
"I guess that means you saved another life" Andrew said referring to the fact that she is a pediatrician.
"So optimistic I like it, you got my drink, thank you." Dani said sipping her white wine
"I know you well, oh can you excuse me I have to take this, I'll be right back." Andrew said walking away to take a business call.
"You! Dani yelled when she saw Hook
"I can explain" Hook said as he sat down
"Are you a stalker" Daniella said with her arms crossed
"I came to explain. I don't do this often, but I've come to apologize." Hook explained
"For following me" Dani asked
"I just came to deliver a message" Hook said
"You have to leave now" Dani said getting annoyed
"Your parents, your sister they're in great danger." Hook explained
"You really have no idea what you're talking about." Daniella said looking around for Andrew
"Cause you think you're an orphan? Because that's haunted you your entire life. I'm here to tell you everything you believed is wrong." Hook said
"You don't know me" Daniella said shocked from what Hook just said to her
"True, but I know of you. Here's an address. If you want to know who you are, who your family is, go there" Hook said handing Dani a note
"Leave Now! Danielle exasperated
"You really don't believe me? Use your powers see if I'm telling the truth.'Hook pleaded
"Ok, now you're talking crazy." Daniella laughed
"You are as stubborn as a bloody pirate. Take a chance, then when you're ready to talk I'll be in central park. Don't do it for me, do it for your family, they need your help." Hook said as he got up and left.
89 Wooster Street NY
Picks up the blanket with the name Daniella on it. Her blanket. She walks around and sees empty beds and torn paper. This is not possible.
Central Park
"Oliver I knew that would work. It's good to see you" Hook said
"Why didn't you tell me that was my old foster home." Daniella said holding her blanket
"You never would have gone" Hook explained
"So what you're here to remind me that I was always alone that nobody wanted to adopt me." Daniella said
"I wanted to show you your fear of being alone. To help you decide on helping your family. Their entire kingdom has been cursed, ripped back to Storybrook." Hook said
"What are you talking about? My parents, their kingdom, a curse? Do you know what you sound like." Daniella complained
"A mad man I'm sure. But its true. Your parents need you. If you don't believe me why did you come here." Hook questioned
"Because of this blanket, this is the only thing I had when I came to the orphanage. How did you find this. I want answers. Real ones. Daniella said giving Hook one more chance
"There's only one way you'll get those answers. Drink this" Hook said handing her a vial
"Why so you can poison me, drug me, kill me." Daniella said
"Please I would never hurt you, look into my eyes. It'll help you believe" Hook said as he watches Dani take the potion
Dani at 3 years old in a ball gown chasing after Emma. Snow and Charming dancing. Her parents tucking her in bed with the blanket.
"Your Hook, Captain Hook." Daniella said looking into Hooks eyes"
Welcome home and you can call me Killian" Hook smiled
Dani's apartment
"So tell me everything, besides the fact that my sister and I and are saviors, there's a new curse that nobody remembers the last year and a new evil, by the way how did you leave the, what did you call it, enchanted forest." Daniella said as she grabbed Hook a glass of rum.
"There wasn't anything for me in the Enchanted Forest. Why would I stay? I was sailing the Jolly Roger until I got a message. A message saying that there was a new curse and that everyone had been returned to Storybrooke. The message told me that the only hope was you. Hook said taking a sip from his glass
"You came all the way back here to save my family?" Dani questioned
" I came back to save you." Hook said
"Who could have done this?" Daniella said still trying to learn more about her real world
"Someone powerful enough to reach into this world." Hook shrugged
"Any more specific thoughts?" Daniella said
"For someone who didn't believe all this a few hours ago, you do ask a lot of questions." Hook poured himself another drink
"You know what I was yesterday? A doctor, saving lives. Till you showed up and started pocking holes in everything I thought was real." Daniella said putting her glass away
(Doorbell rings.)
"Who's that?" Hook asked
" Andrew my boyfriend I totally forgot about our date" Daniella said cleaning up
" I could get rid of him." Hook said getting up
"No. Its ok, if we're going to be leaving NY he deserves an explanation" Dani said getting up
" What are you gonna say to him?" Hook asked
"I don't know. But I care about him too much to drag him into all this. Wait here."Dani sighed opening the door
Rooftop
" Sorry, my place is just kind of a mess right now." Dani said holding a bottle of wine
"Dani it's okay to make a bold, romantic gesture without passing it off as a housekeeping malfunction." Andrew laughed accepting a glass of wine
"Actually there's something I need to tell you. I need to go home and take care of a few things." Dani said softly
"Home? You said you were an orphan." Andrew said shocked
"That's true I am its just there's a part of my life that I've been blocking out, and I think it would be impossible for you to understand." Dani sighed
"Come on. How do you know that? What changed overnight?" Andrew said not believing a word
"It kills me to have to make this choice at all, to leave us behind my whole life." Dani said holding hand trying to make him understand
"Dani. If you love this life, than keep it. Stay. Just stay." Andrew pleaded
"I can't. I wish you could see this the way I see it." Dani said
" And I wish you hadn't drank that potion." Andrew said out of nowhere
"What?" Dani said surprisingly.
"You just couldn't leave well enough alone." Andrew yelled throwing a chair to the ground.
"What are you talking about?" Dani said taking a step back
"It's too bad. I actually kind of liked you." Walsh said
"Who are you? (Briefly Andrew's pupils change to a red color. He leaps forward attacking Dani. Dani ducks. Andrew falls over the roof. Looking down Dani notices a flying monkey winging back upwards.) Really? (Dani picks up an iron bar. For a few moments Daniella wrestles with the monkey. Finally, she's able to push it over the roof. As it hits the ground it crumbles into dust.)
"Oliver! What the blazes was that?" Hook said out of breath
"A reminder that I was never safe. All that I wanted, what I thought I could have was not in the cards for me ever. When do we leave" Dani sighed
Next Day
"You ready, Oliver?" Hook said leaning on the door
" Yes, I just need one last thing." Dani said walking over to her wardrobe she picks up her black leather jacket.
Storybrook
"So this place is real why haven't I seen this place on the map" Dani said getting out of her red buggy"
"It's a magical place there was a time where no one could escape, if you tried your memory was erased forever, now it just appears whenever there's a curse or a new evil" Hook said attaching his hook
"Now thats going to take some time getting used to, so last time this curse took away everyones memory now what did it do" Dani said when she saw the hook
"This time we don't know what it did." Hook said
"Then I'll find out."Danielle said
" Aye. Where are you going?" Hook asked
"To talk to my parents and my sister, where are they exactly" Danielle said
Danielle knocks on the apartment door her hands shaking slightly, her heart beating fast
"Hi. Don't close the door. I- My name is Daniella um this is awkward I'm sorry" Daniella said turning away
"Daniella, baby girl." David said tears in his eyes"
"Daddy" Daniella hugs her father for the first time in 22 years
"You remember?" David hugs his daughter"
"You remember." Daniella replied back
"Of course we never forgot about you except the time with the curse. What are you doing here?" David said
"Well, Hook found me. He brought me here. He said you were cursed." Daniella said
"Yeah, we're back. Or never left. We don't know. We're trapped again."David said
"How is this different than last time" Daniella asked
"Dani, this curse we don't know who did it. Or why. All we know is our last year it's been wiped away.
" Wiped away?" Daniella questioned
"All we remember is being in the enchanted forest"David said
"But if you can't remember, then how do you know that it's been a -" Daniella got cut off when they heard Mary Margaret coming down
"David whats going on…. omg Daniella baby is that you" Mary Margaret cried hugging her long lost daughter.
"As you can see, a lot's happened." David said as he puts a protective arm around a pregnant Mary Margaret
"Hey mom what's going on you called me in tears….Who is this."Emma said walking into the apartment with Neal, and Henry
"Emma, its Daniella your little sister" Mary Margaret cried
"Its impossible… Dani omg you're alive. I looked everywhere for you when I got my memories back 2 years ago. I can't believe this." Emma cried hugging her little sister and never letting her go.
"Aunt Dani." Henry looked up at his aunt
"Ya kid I guess I am an aunt huh" Daniella laughed
"Dani this is my boyfriend Neal, Henry's father" Emma said introducing her sister to her boyfriend
"Nice to meet you Neal" Daniella said shaking his hand
"Its so good to finally meet you to" Neal said as he hugged Daniella
"Why don't we all go to Granny's there's so many more people for you to meet" David said