A/N: Starting to wrap it up...enjoy! :)
Ruby knocked on the door wondering why she was doing this. Uh, maybe because that man was definitely an older Henry. Ruby told herself as the door opened and she was met with glowing silver eyes. "Red!" The woman smiled as she pulled Ruby into an embrace and kissed her on the lips shocking her. Ruby felt the same sensations warm her body when Henry had touched her earlier just as this woman kissed her.
Ruby felt herself succumb to the kiss as her wolf purred in delight. The woman pulled her into the room without breaking the kiss and closed the door. Ruby moaned as the woman's hands roamed her body in a heated frenzy. "Ellie, wait," Ruby breathed as the woman caught her bottom lip between her teeth and pulled gently before letting go and looking into Ruby's darkened slightly glowing eyes.
"Excuse her Ruby, she's always been overzealous in her welcomes with us." Henry spoke walking out of the bathroom toweling his hair dry as Ruby felt her cheeks warm with embarrassment.
"I've never heard you complain before." She shot back as Ruby looked between them thoroughly confused.
"Well, not that I'm complaining or anything because that was definitely one hell of a welcome. But uh, how do I know you to get such a welcome?" Ruby asked as Henry looked at the woman and nodded to the unspoken question.
"Oh, I'm Ellinor Grayson one of your soul mates." Ruby stared at her processing the words. "Henry, is your well, it's hard to explain but he's your wolf's mate. I know Henry isn't a child of the moon, he was supposed to be, well if he'd been born in the Enchanted Forest. Some things got messed up with the whole curse thing. So now we are all soul mates. It's why you feel what you did when I kissed you. It's more intense than most soulmates because of us being magical." Ellinor explained as Ruby looked at than to Henry. She'd said the three of them. Ruby blinked and shook her head momentarily making sure she'd heard correctly, no, yeah, she had. Ellinor had stated that the three of them were soul mates.
"Isn't that, um, isn't that rare to have more than one soul mate?" Ruby asked as Ellinor shrugged.
"I guess so, I've lost you once before, but you were reborn. I left the Enchanted Forest after you disappeared…I'm not sure why Fate linked me to Henry, but Henry led me back to you, and well, the three us are soul mates. I think it has something to do with us all being from different times and ending in the same place." Ruby looked at her then to Henry as he pulled his shirt over his head.
"You're not from this time period? Is that why you called me Red?" Ellinor nodded with a smile.
"I was born nearly two thousand years ago, I think. I stopped counting when I turned six hundred. But a long time of my life was spent in Neverland as punishment for well, something I'd rather not unload on you at the moment. I did meet you when you were reborn, when you were seven years old in the Enchanted forest. I saved you from falling into a frozen lake, when I brought you to your grandmother, she knew who I was. She'd been told a prophecy about you from Rumpelstiltskin. If I stayed around she knew that your wolf would recognize me as its mate and wouldn't be a good thing for those around us."
"What do you mean?" Ruby asked feeling the need to sit down at this information.
"I'm a rare half breed, it is why my eyes are silver." Ellinor explained as Ruby looked at her understanding what she was saying.
"You-you don't have to change if you don't want to." Ruby breathed as Ellinor nodded.
"Once we truly mated, you didn't have to either." Ellinor added as Ruby felt her cheeks warm at the information. "I would love to tell you more, but we have more important this to worry about, but first…" Ellinor pulled Ruby to her and purred against her neck as Henry grabbed Ellinor's wrist and whipped her onto the bed.
"Ellinor, you need to control yourself." Henry growled as she bared her teeth at him in a snarl her eyes going from silver to black. "I know you're weak Ellie, but now is not the time, my mom is on her way." Henry breathed as her eyes returned to normal and she evened out her breathing.
"Whatever, but our honeymoon is now upgraded from a week in Paris to a Mediterranean cruise," Henry rolled his eyes but didn't disagree as Ellinor looked to Ruby lust heavy in her gaze. "Red, I'm going to need your help, so please don't leave." A knock on the door stopped Ruby's question as to what was going on.
"Hey mom." Henry greeted as Regina stepped into the room looking around at the people in the room.
"Hello Regina," Ellinor spoke as she leaned against the headboard regulating her breathing. Her mates were in the room and she was very weak, it was hard for her to control herself. Her wolf was harder to control when she was weaker. She needed to feed off their power before she lost complete control.
"Ellinor, I presume?" Regina asked as Henry closed the door and she nodded.
"Yes, I would greet you properly but I'm weak and have to control my wolf." Ellinor glared at Henry who just rolled his eyes. "Hey Mister, just be thankful I didn't kill myself getting us here. You know you should also be thankful that I retained my memories from the original timeline." She bit out as he waved her off.
"She's grumpy because she's weak and I won't let her feed from Ruby, just ignore her." Henry spoke as Ruby looked at Ellinor. What did he mean feed from her? The woman was a half-breed in the sense of being a wolf and being a witch, not a vampire.
"We can take from one another's energy by making love with one another. Right now you're the strongest out of the three of us because Henry had to lend me some of his magic to get back here." Ellinor explained seeing the question in the wolf's eyes.
"I didn't need to know that." Regina spoke up as Ellinor chuckled.
"What? You're the one who told us that we could do that."
"That was probably when I accepted that my son was a grown man and had two soul mates. Right now my Henry is twelve years old and still very wary of magic, not a powerful user of it." Regina explained as Ellinor and Henry nodded in agreement.
"This is true, anyways, we need to talk about what we are going to do about Ma and Hook." Henry sat down at the edge of the bed looking at Regina and Ruby who were still standing.
"What about Emma and Hook? They are in a relationship and they're happy." Ruby added as Henry and Ellinor gave looks of displeasure.
"Uh, actually, Hook will only truly be happy when he kills his crocodile, which never happens. So he is using Emma to kill one of Rumple's prized possessions, which happens to be Regina." Ellinor looked to the former Queen with sadness. "From what Rumple, our Rumple told us. Hook used a potion that he got from Cora a long time ago. It turns the love you have for someone into hate. I don't know how fast it works but it's the only thing that would cause Emma to kill her True Love."
"Ellinor!"
"True Love?" Henry and Regina exclaimed simultaneously as Ruby looked shocked.
"No way, you're lying! The Savior and the Evil Queen are each other True Loves? Oh man, I bet Snow went ballistic." Ruby laughed at the irony.
"In your timeline, how long did Emma and Hook date for?" Regina asks still trying to process what Ellinor had just told her.
"What's weird mom is they didn't. When she killed you, everything changed, more people were dead than alive in Storybrooke. Belle, Granny, four of the seven dwarves, Jefferson, Roland, Tink, Hansel, Gretel, Grandpa, and so many more were just dead. I don't exactly know what happened because like I said, I'm still trying to figure out the separate memories I have going on, but I know that you aren't supposed to die."
"If you are trying to figure out which memories are real, how do you know that the ones where I die aren't the real ones?"
"Because I also have two sets of memories, living for over two thousand years, I retained my real memories. For Henry it's thirteen years of his life altered, for me it was only five. I met Henry during his second year of college. But when you died, he never went to college, so I never met him." Ellinor explained as Regina sat there silently thinking about everything.
"So...besides that other reason," Ruby blushed before continuing. "Why am I here?"
"We're going to need you to help us get Emma away from Hook. Just for a few hours."
"So then what are you going to do about Hook?" Ruby asked.
"Well, we'll leave that up to you guys, we're only here to protect Regina. Once she is no longer in danger of being killed by Emma the spell that brought us here will allow me to take us back. But Red, I will need your help. My magic is low, I wouldn't be able to return us right away." Ruby felt her cheeks heat up knowing just what she was going to have to do to help Ellinor. "The choice is yours of course, it will take me longer but I, we can wait if you aren't comfortable." Ellinor added knowing that this wasn't exactly their Ruby who knew them intimately.
"I, uh, would be glad to help." Ruby swallowed feeling embarrassed as Ellinor smirked and Henry laughed out at Ruby's embarrassment.
"Well now that I'm here, how exactly do you plan to save me?" Regina asked ignoring Ruby's embarrassment.
"Ok, here's the plan."