A/N: Okay, so here's chapter three. It's a little later than I had intended it to be but I wanted to see the latest episode first and then I got kinda busy so yeah but here it is. Please read and review, let me know what you think. I love reading reviews. Seriously I love it, please review.

"David!" Emma exclaimed.

"Emma, what's going on? What happened?" David asked hurriedly.

"Hook came out of nowhere and attacked Gold. Again." she said once more shooting a deadly glare in Hook's direction. "I need some of you guys" she nodded towards Leroy and the others standing behind David "to take Hook back to the station and lock him up. Make sure someone is watching him at all times, do you understand? Matter of fact, make it two people."

"You got it, sister." Leroy called back as he and two others walked over and grabbed Hook and put him in David's truck.

"So you found out where Regina is then?" Mary Margaret asked.

"Yeah. And I was right about Tamara." Emma then quickly recapped what she'd found out about Tamara for David and Mary Margaret.

"She's working with Greg?" David asked.

"Apparently, I just wish I knew what it was they were up to. I know Hook said Greg's looking for his father but it's the whole 'he's on a mission' thing that I'm worried about. What kind of mission is he on? And how did they find out about this place?" Emma said.

"Well if we're going to figure all that out, dearie, we're going to have to go save Regina's arse first. Oh, and we might want to do it quickly." Gold chimed in.

"Right, you drive, let's go." Emma said. Then all four of them pilled into Gold's car, Emma took shotgun and Mary Margaret and David took the backseat.

Nobody talked for the rest of the way to the Cannery and for that, Emma was glad. She had too many thoughts rushing through her mind to deal with, she really didn't need to try and converse with people on top of all of that.

She was trying to figure out what Tamara's endgame was along with feeling glad that she wasn't imagining all this Tamara business and guilty for being happy about it because it was going to hurt Neal's feelings and just because she wasn't in love with him anymore didn't mean she wanted to see him suffer or anything. He was the father of her child for Christ's sake she did care about him but not in a romantic way. On top of all that she was still thinking about Gold.

She didn't want to think about him. There were just so many complicated things surrounding her feelings for him. There was the fact that he was Neal's father and Henry's grandfather. There was the whole cursed memory Lacey thing going on and Gold trying to get Belle back, which again is a whole other complication. Emma liked Belle; she was a sweet girl. She didn't want to come between her and Gold or anything like that. She wasn't trying to break them up or anything by telling Gold about her feelings. In fact, she hadn't meant to tell Gold anything at all, it had just slipped out in the heat of the moment, but it was out now and that was that.

There wasn't any going back from that now. Once something that big is out, it can't just be ignored. Plus she didn't know how Gold felt about her. They hadn't gotten to that part of the conversation before Hook had attacked him. He had told her he liked her once but she was sure he hadn't meant it in a romantic way. He smiled at her and such every once in a while and there was no denying that they'd had some 'moments' of some kind together but still, she just didn't know. What she did know what the was going to feel like an idiot if he said he didn't have any feelings for her at all. She wouldn't be mad exactly but she would feel silly for having said anything and not have him feel the same.

Why didn't I just keep my damn mouth shut? Emma thought to herself.

After just a few short minutes they arrived at the Cannery. As they parked Gold and Emma looked at each other. Emma's breath caught in her throat when their eyes met. He was looking at her so intently then she realized Mary Margaret and David were too. They were looking to her for directions she realized.

"Ok" she said looking back at Mary Margaret and David "you two check the basement and Gold and I will check the ground floor. She's in there somewhere and she's definitely in trouble."

"All right, let's go." David said as the four of them exited the car. Emma, Gold and David all drew guns from within their coats. Emma was about to tell Gold to put his gun away since he was just a civilian technically but then figured it might be a good thing for him to have his gun too, just in case.

Once they got into the building David and Mary Margaret headed to the basement and Emma and Gold began their search of the ground floor.

"Do you know anything about this Greg guy's dad?" Emma asked Gold.

"Not a thing. I think I vaguely remember a young boy and his father that I didn't recognize being here in Storybrooke at sometime, possibly when the curse was first enacted, but of course then, I had no idea about the curse so I didn't think anything of it." Gold answered.

"Wait, I thought you had always known about the curse." Emma said.

"Oh no, not until I heard your name when we first met did I remember the Enchanted Forest and the curse." Gold replied simply.

"What?" Emma asked. "My name?"

"Yes. Your name was the price your parents paid for me telling them about the curse and how you would be the one to break it. I needed to know your name, that was the trigger I designed into the curse to ensure that I would remember my past life." Gold said.

"Huh." Emma mumbled. "Interesting. You really did intricately orchestrate this whole curse thing didn't you?"

"I had to, dearie. It was the only way I could follow Bae to this land." He replied.

Emma was about to say something back to him when she heard a noise from up ahead.

"Shh, did you hear that?" Emma asked in a whisper as she held her index finger up to her lips.

"Indeed, over there." He said as he pointed to their left.

They both slowly moved in the direction the noise came from holding their guns up ready to fire if the need arose. Once they were almost to the corner from behind which the noise had come someone crept out from within the shadows.

"Hold it right there!" Emma shouted.

"Woah, woah, woah, it's just me." Neal said holding his hands up.

"Neal, what the hell are you doing here? How did you know where we were?" Emma asked, starting to whisper again.

"Henry called me and told me he'd overheard Mary Margaret and David saying they were coming here with you." He replied. "What's he doing here?" He added with a touch of annoyance to his tone.

"I'm only here to help." Gold replied.

"Oh so now you want to be the good guy?" Neal asked doubtfully.

"As a matter of fact yes. Turns out Emma here was right and your fiancé is up to no good and has been playing you, forgive me for wanting to help catch her." Gold said. "I know I haven't always done right by you Bae, but I do love you and I don't appreciate what that woman has done to you." He said seriously with an exceptionally soft and remorseful look on his face.

"Fine." Neal said. Then he turned to Emma, "So what can I do to help?"

"Well we're just looking for Regina, I imagine Tamara will be there as well." Emma replied.

The three of them now continued in their search for Regina, Tamara and Greg. When they reached the end of the hallway it split off in two directions. Emma looked right then left.

"All right, we'll take right" she said pointing to herself and Neal "and Gold, you go left." She noticed that Gold looked a tad jealous at the demand and a bit reluctant to let Emma and Neal go off together. She just couldn't really handle being alone with Gold again so soon, it just wasn't a good idea. Emma also figured no good could come from Neal and Gold going off together, not after how they'd interacted when Neal showed up. No, it was best for all parties if she kept both herself and Neal away from Gold for the time being.

Gold just nodded and turned to go left without saying another word to either of them. Emma and Neal then turned to go down the hall to the right Emma leading with her gun held out in front of her.

"Listen, Emma, I'm sorry I didn't believe you about all this." Neal said as they walked.

"Stop, don't worry about it okay. Let's just find Regina and stop Tamara we can have this conversation another time." Emma said.

"No, I need to tell you this now. I can't keep it in any longer, okay. I'm sorry about everything Emma. I shouldn't have ever left you. I regret it every day, what I did to you, you didn't deserve it but I let August talk me into thinking it was what was best for you."

"Neal…" Emma warned.

"No, Emma please you gotta listen to me. I never meant to hurt you, Emma."

"Don't you think I know that now that you're back and I know what really happened? Look I'm not going to sit here and tell you that it didn't hurt for a long time what you did to me but it's over now. Really. It was ten years ago, Neal, I'm over it, I'm over you. What's done is done, let's just forget all about it and focus on what's going on right in front of us." Emma replied.

Neal looked a little put out after that. Clearly he wasn't expecting her to state so matter of factly that she was over him.

"Well still, I'm sorry." He said again.

"I forgive you, now lets keep going."

Suddenly Emma's phone went off. It was David. "What's up?" Emma asked hurriedly. "Ok, got it, we'll keep our eyes peeled.

"What's going on?" Neal asked.

"Tamara, she's coming this way."

Just as Emma was about to pull her gun back up and continue down the hallway, Tamara came out a side door and hit her over the head with a metal rod, knocking her unconscious.

"Tamara, what the hell are you doing?" Neal yelled.

"I'm doing what needs to be done Neal. I've got a very important job to do, a job I though you of all people would be able to understand and sympathize with. I'm trying to keep magic out of this world, it doesn't belong." Tamara said.

"You're insane, you need to stop this. You can't keep hurting these people, Tamara." He said starting to walk towards her.

Tamara pulled her gun out on him. "Neal, don't make me do it."

He took another step towards her and without any further warning she shot him in the torso. He fell to the ground clutching his side looking up at Tamara completely and utterly shocked. She still had her gun drawn on him, and had it pointed directly at his face.

"I'm sorry Neal." She stated flatly, not really sounding sorry at all.

"Yeah you are!" Emma yelled coming up behind her and kicking the gun from her hand. As Neal sat on the ground still clutching the spot where he'd been shot Emma and Tamara fought. Emma was trying to knock out Tamara so she could cuff her and finally be done with all the whole business but Tamara wasn't going to go down easy.

Tamara kneed Emma in the gut knocking the wind right out of her. However, Emma could hold her own as well and grabbed Tamara around the middle, picked her up like a sack of potatoes and threw her to the ground. Emma turned around to look at Tamara as she lay there.

"It's over." Emma said.

"No, it's not." Tamara said as she took something small out of her pocket and threw it on the ground in front of her. Emma realized it had been a magic bean as a portal began to open in the middle of the floor as Tamara turned around and muttered "Bye" and ran away.

Emma had been quick enough to get out of the way of the portal, but Neal, having been a bit incapacitated lying on the ground wounded hadn't been as lucky. He began to fall into the portal. Emma quickly dove to the ground and grabbed his hand and tried to pull him out of it.

"Emma, you have to let me go. You can't leave Henry alone; he needs you. Don't let him grow up the way we did." Neal pleaded.

"No, I'm not letting you go, I can get you out. If you fall through that portal you'll die no matter where you turn up, you've been shot, you'll bleed to death." Emma said.

"That doesn't matter right now. You're not going to be able to pull me back out; I've been in this position before, trust me. Just take care of Henry, whatever you do." Neal said as het loosened his grip on Emma's hand and fell through the portal. And just like that, the portal closed and Emma was left there with her hand outstretched clutching at nothing a tear streaming down her face. She may not have loved Neal any more but she had once and he still had a grip on her heart in someway; he always would.

Just as she stood up, Gold came out from behind her a bit out of breath. It seemed as though he had tried unsuccessful to run back to Emma.

"Emma, what happened? I heard a gun shot." Gold asked.

Emma turned around slowly and just stared at him. She had momentarily forgotten about Gold in all the chaos. Now she was panicking more than she ever had. How was she going to tell this man who'd searched for ages for his lost son that he had just fallen through a portal to another land to die just a few short days after finally being reunited with him. Hell it hurt her deeply just to think of it, she couldn't even fathom what this would do to Gold.

"Emma?" Gold said tentatively. "Where's Neal, and what is that hole in the ground there?"

"Gold…" Emma spoke with a tremble.

"Emma, where is my son?!" He yelled.

"I'm so sorry…he-he…Tamara had a magic bean on her. She threw it and Neal…Neal fell through." Emma said between gasps.

"Well where did he go? We've got to find another bean and go after him!" Gold shouted.

"Even if I knew where he went it wouldn't make a difference. Tamara shot him, Gold. He's dead." Emma said struggling to hold back more tears.

"No, no, you don't know that he's dead. He could still be alive." Gold said as tears began to fall from his deep brown eyes. "I can't have lost him again! I've spent my entire life looking for him! I'm can't lose him again!" Gold shouted through tears as he turned every which way hitting anything and everything within reach of his cane.

Emma just sat there in awe watching him sorrowfully as his blows came softer and softer until he eventually just collapsed onto his knees simply knocking his cane on the ground next to him. Emma then felt it was safe to reach out to him and she walked over to him and knelt beside him. She wrapped her arm around his shoulder gently.

"I'm so sorry, Gold." She said cradling him as he cried. She was mildly surprised when he reached out and grabbed her free hand. He squeezed it tightly as if Emma was some sort of tether to the world, to consciousness and that if he didn't hold onto her as tightly as possible, he'd lose himself as well. She squeezed his hand back just as tightly, silently reassuring him that she wasn't going to let him go. "I am so, so sorry." Emma said through her own tears.

"He's gone." Gold choked out. "Isn't he?"

"Yes." Emma said as she squeezed his hand even tighter.

PS: Note to BundyShoes: Yeah the whole Belle not loving all of Mr. Gold is something I've put way too much thought into probably but I think it's the best way to describe the problem with that relationship and also why I like the Gold/Emma relationship a lot more, it seems more realistic in my opinion...

PPS: If anyone has any suggestions as to a better title for this, I'm all ears. I didn't really give much thought to it (any thought really) because I didn't know what to expect as far as how many people would be interested in it so I didn't really think on it at all. If you like the title that's cool too but if someone's got a good title for it let me know. I'll make sure to credit you in the next chapter if I change it. I suck at making titles...so thanks in advance *crosses fingers*.