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Henry and Amelia were in the study with their touter, Sir Johnson, while they were busy, Killian and Emma prepared for the meeting with Snow White and Prince James. Once after becoming Queen; Emma order that every wanted poster for Snow was to be removed and destroyed. Emma hated the idea that Snow's stepmother ruined her life.
Lancelot came into the Council room with a light-haired man with blue eyes and a woman with black pick-cut hair and green eyes. "Your Highness, This is Prince James and Snow White."
"Thank You, Lancelot," Emma said as Lancelot took a seat to Emma's right. Then turning to the Royals. "Welcome to the Cygnus Kingdom. It is an honor to have you both in our presence." Emma said welcoming them into the room. They look at each other; they were having a conversation with their eyes before they sat down in two of the empty seats.
"Um... Lancelot told us that our castle was in ruin and said we would be safer here." James said uneasily of being with people he didn't know; which after being cursed was understandable.
"Yes, you are safe here. I am known as the Light Queen, and this is my husband, Killian. There were a group of people who excepted the Evil Queen's curse and formed a Safe Haven. When I was seventeen when I landed in the forest outside the Safe Haven. I Soon learned that I had magic. Killian helped me control it... The magic came in handy when a woman named Cora threatened the Safe Haven." Emma could see the flash of fear in their eyes, though she wasn't sure if it was because of her magic or because of Cora or both, Emma continued. "I found a way to defeat Cora. I neutralized her magic ten years ago and locked away. It was the day after my eighteen birthday when Mulan, Lancelot, Aurora, Philip, Robin and, Killian asked me to become their queen of a new kingdom. It took some time to convince me since I am pretty stubborn but I agreed. Four months later, everyone moved from the Safe Haven to Cygnus."
"You defeated Cora?" Snow asked with slight disbelief.
"Yes. I did." Emma used her magic to retrieve the two cuffs she made earlier that day. She opened the bag and set them in front of Snow and James. "These are replicas to what I used on Cora. I used her tendency of taking hearts against her. I goated her into taking my heart. When she stuck her hand in my chest, I put this on her wrist rendering her useless. No one can take it off of her since I used blood magic.
"We... Wow! Cora was the one who started this whole mess." Snow said. Emma looked at Killian, and he shrugged. Then Snow continued. "I was young when I met Regina. She saved me from my falling off of my horse. My father was grateful and proposed, Cora accepted for Regina. I later found Regina with the stable boy. She told me to keep him a secret because Regina was going to run away with him. Cora talked to me, and I knew how it felt to be without your mother, so I told Cora about the stable boy. When Regina came back the next day, she told me he ran away. It wasn't until she had me eat the poison apple that she told me Cora ripped out his heart and crushed it in front of her. Regina blames me for Daniel's death." Snow said. Emma and Killian's eyes widened because it was co similar to Milah's death.
"Thank you for defeating her," James said.
"No thank's needed, Prince James. She was terrorizing people I cared about." Emma stated firmly.
"My name is David. My twin brother was James." Emma looked at him confused. "It's a long story. One day I can tell it to you."
"Okay. What became of Regina, King George, and the Dark One?" Emma said.
"When the Curse broke, Regina destroyed the Curse; sending everyone back except for her self and the Dark One. King George died in his sleep during the curse." Snow said. And both Emma and Killian sighed in relief.
"What happened during the curse? Do you know how it was broken?" Killian asked.
"We were sent to the land without magic. We lived in a town in Maine named Storybrooke. Everyone had false memories. I, for instance, was a school teacher and my name was Mary Margret Blanchard. David was in a coma. Our friends Ruby and Granny ran a dinner. Everyone was miserable and they all feared Mayor Regina Mills, and the town's owner Mr. Gold; who was Rumplestiltskin." Snow answered. It was crazy, this town must have been close to where Emma was found but, she never heard of a town called Storybrooke. She had to hand that one to Regina since the people who were in the town were storybook characters.
"How did the curse break? Last night was a normal celebration here in Cygnus and, then this morning we are notified that the curse was broken and everyone returned." Emma questioned. She figured there must have been a reason why the curse decided to break after all this time.
"Snow was pregnant when the curse was about to be cast. The Dark One told us our child would save us on their twenty-eighth birthday. Rumplestiltskin said we had to get our child to safety. A portal was created for her, but it was only powerful enough to take one. Snow was going to go and find us. But our little girl came too early. I had just enough time to put her into the wardrobe before the curse came over us."
"So, since the curse was broken, your daughter must have found you then." Killian offered, which would be the most natural assumption, but they still had that look of loss in their eyes.
"No. The curse broke, but she was nowhere to be found." David stated solemnly.
"What was her name? Did you have time to name her?" Emma asked.
"Emma. Her name was Emma." Snow said looking directly at Emma. Emma felt as though a bucket of ice water was dumped on her, along with felling Killian looking at her, coming to the same conclusions she just had.
"Swan?" Emma looked at Killian, her eyes were glassed over, and she started to shake her head. It all made sense. The tree she crawled into in Portland must have been where she came through. She had magic because she was a product of True Love. She broke the curse last night on her twenty-eighth birthday by kissing Killian; her True Love. Emma Swan just found her parents after twenty-eight years, and they are fairytale characters.
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