Storybrooke, One Month Earlier

Snow chewed her lip worriedly, watching Doctor Whale speaking heatedly with a few of his security staff, arms waving frantically towards a large set of double doors. His normally playboyish demeanor was gone, instead the angrier he got, the more his voice to levels in which even Snow was shocked to hear him snap in.

"How could you let them escape?!" Whale roared, jabbing his finger straight into an orderly's chest, spit nearly flying from his mouth.

"How could I not?" the other man mumbled. "Considering the patients…"

"Excuse me?!" Whale said with a vicious edge. "Nevermind!" he turned to a young blond haired doctor with a brisk tone. "Dr. Goodhall." He said, thrusting a chart towards him, which the other man eagerly took. "Sir."

"First- a cup of coffee." Whale said with a snort. "Then, pull the security tapes, get the other patients questions- I want to know how they could have escaped a maximum locked down room!"

"Sir!" Dr. Goodhall immediately ran to peform the other man's bidding. Once the chaos had subdued somewhat, Whale slouched against the wall, pinching the bridge of his nose to lessen the growing headache.

"Ain't your fault Doc."

Whale opened his eyes to see Leory sitting in one of the many plastic chairs in the waiting room. The man sighned.

"Perhaps not. But…..what in the hell am I supposed to tell, her?"

Both men turned to look at the family room, where Snow White, Elsa, Robin, Tinkerbell, Granny, amongst others were all huddled in a conference of her own.

"Snow….Mary Margaret…." Whale said, rubbing his eyes. "She's been so strong through all of this. She was hoping I would find a cure- me- of all people. Find a cure for something I know nothing about…."

"Well Doc, considering half the patients were her family…the alternative was?" Leory asked, taking a drink of his soda. Whale shook his head. "She was asking the impossible."

"What choice did you? They went missing at first, then got sick…." Leory took another drink. "Hell, I give you props for even trying."

"I just… never heard of this before…." Whale said. "I mean…..that's not even getting into the memory blocks."

"Losing your memories happens around here a lot." Leory said in a tone that suggested he was far to accepting of this happening now. "Memory loss, vendettas, curses. Doc, there's nothing this town hasn't seen anymore."

"I know. But yet….." Whale sighned. "I wish I knew what to do."

Mary Margaret sat at the head of the table of this impromptu meeting of some of Storybrooke's most capable defenders. Her cellphone was on, but the look on her face was of utter despair. Numbly, she pressed the speed dial for David's phone- like Emma's, and Regina's it went directly into voicemail. Since David, and the others had escaped from Storybrooke general, no one had heard from them since.

"My sister's out there…. Out there!" Elsa said, gazing at the treeline beyond the boarders of Storybrooke. "Alone. Sick! In a strange world-I let her get away!"

"Anna's not alone, dear." Granny said, her calm tone still holding worry for Ruby. "She has David, the others."

"Who are in the same exact state!" Mary Margaret shouted, slamming her phone shut with a hard crack. "My husband, my daughter, my grandson are out there too! My stepmother! Gold!"

"With missing memories, powers out of whack, delirious…." Tinkerbell said, slouched in her chair. "Gods….."

"Regina."

Robin was pacing the length of the room, Will Scarlet looking despondant at his longtime friend. He kept himself busy by toying with a piece of paper.

"We'll find them Snow." Granny said, in an effort to almost reassure herself moreso the other woman. "Ruby….. the full moon…."

"Crap." This came from Doc, who piped up from the background, looking worried.

"No cloak…"

Mary Margaret looked over to see the most quiet of their little group: Belle. Gods, how she must be suffering right now.

Belle was nearly completely shielded by books. Books on psychological disorders, modern myths, myths of their own realm, anything to help. She had practically commandeered the coffee pot, setting up shop in the family room, pouring hours into research- coming up blank.

"There must be an answer!" Belle said, slamming her fist down on the pages, coffee sloshing from one of the many empty coffee cups.

"We'll find it Belle." Robin said, stopping his pacing to walk over, giving her a comforting squeeze on the shoulder.

"Lost Neal. Lost Rumple." Belle said through tears. "Now Rumple's gone again! I can't…" she hiccupped once, before composing herself. "I'm going to keep looking. I have to keep looking."

"Don't burn yourself out Belle." Tinkerbell said gently.

"Have the other fairies found anything on their whereabouts?" Mary Margaret asked her friend.

"Nothing. Blue's about as clueless as we are, but she's doing everything she can." Tinkerbell promised.

Mary Margaret nodded, slouching in her chair. Her nervous fingers hovering over the speed dial numbers that would connect her to either David or Emma.

"A prince, a wizard, a werewolf, a witch, a pirate, a truest believer, a savior, a princess…..an….ice man…." Mary Margaret said, shooting an apologetic glance at Elsa.

"Kristoff didn't have any family growing up. I think he'd find the term cute." Elsa said, joining Mary Margaret at the table. Reflexively, Mary Margaret's hand slid over to comfort Elsa's.

"He's part of our family now. Just like you, and Anna."

Elsa beamed. "Thank you."

"Family finds each other." Mary Margart insisted, echoing her husband's famous vow from all those years ago. "It's what we do."

"Well, we're having a bloody hard time now." Tinkerbell grumbled.

"Allo', I'm lost here ladies, and gents." Will said raising a hand. The young thief was currently finding the swivel chair a nice amusement. He stopped spinning when Granny gave him a sharp look.

"How the bloody 'ell did this all happen again?"

Mary Margaret and Elsa looked at each other sighing.

"Chasing a villain-" Mary Margaret began

"Honeymoon-" Elsa began, but then stopped.

"Ladies, perhaps once at a time." Robin persuaded gently.

Mary Margaret looked at Elsa for permission. The young queen gave it with a silent nod of her head.

"There was something strange going on in the forest." Mary Margaret began. "David, and Emma insisted on going, Emma suggested Regina go along as backup….."

"Well what happened after that?" Robin asked.

Mary Margaret sighed. " I don't know. I got a phone call from Emma around 11 'clock that night. Hook had come too, insisted, you know how close they are….."

"Aye." Robin agreed.

Mary Margaret sighed deeply. "Y'know, I'll start from the beginning. Again. From what I know, so they'll be no more confusion. Then Elsa can tell her part."

"Fair enough." The younger snow queen agreed.

A/N: Exposition, it's a trope people! But hey, it wouldn't be a OUAT fic without flashbacks, memory loss, or anything would it? A review would be lovely

Jessica