Disclaimer: I do not own Once Upon a Time or the characters. I wish I was that creative and that awesome, but sadly, I don't own any of it. Some of these lines are actually straight from the episode...
A/U: I'm better at timing this, and trying to make it longer for you guys... please don't hesitate to give feedback! Feedback helps me get my creative juices going. I'm leading this more into an "accidental" Charming vacation back home, so it might contain things that you would probably read in one-shots. This will start being less like canon, but not too much AU... so I'm open to suggestions, but I have many surprises :)
"What the hell is that?" Emma asked when Lancelot put the last plate of unfamiliar foods in front of her, Snow and David.
"That is chimera." Lancelot explained as he sat down with them at the table covered with food. Emma picked one up and studied it, then thought best and put it back.
Snow looked up at Lancelot. "I don't understand. We were told this land didn't even exist anymore. How did you all escape the curse?"
David turned beside him to Snow, who had been holding onto his hand since they met Lancelot again.
Lancelot answered. "It is a mystery. The curse struck, and when the smoke cleared, most of us had been torn from this land. But some of us here, in this particular region were left behind. We don't know how, and we don't know why. Finding this safe haven wasn't easy. It took some spilled blood, but worry not, you're safe here."
David spoke up. "I'm sorry, but we can't stay. I mean, what about the rest of our friends?" He gestured to Snow. "Red, Granny, the dwarves," then to Emma. "Henry. I wonder how he's doing, with all three of us gone. He was told this doesn't exist anymore. We have to get back, as soon as we can."
"Can you help us find a portal?" Snow asked Lancelot. He sadly looked to her.
"Leaving is unwise. The enchanted forest is as not as you remember it. The ogres have returned."
Emma's eyebrows shot up in alert. "Ogres? As in, 'fe-fi-fo-fum'?"
David turned to Emma. "Those would be giants."
"Ogres are far worse," Lancelot continued. "That's why we live here, on this island where it's safe... please stay. There are no more portals left."
David highly doubted that, and it looked like Snow did too.
"I might know of one," She told them. David suddenly turned his attention on her, looking confused.
"You do?" Emma questioned.
Lancelot looked up, majorly interested. "Where?"
Snow looked up and around her, taking in all her surroundings, making sure no one was listening. She changed her mind in giving full-length details.
"Cora is here. I don't feel comfortable voicing my plans. She's powerful."
"Not anymore," Lancelot informed her. "The curse stripped her of her powers. But given her reputation, we locked her up as a precaution."
Snow didn't feel like arguing with the man who practically saved her daughter's full life. "Nevertheless, I'm not taking chances. Trust me, I may have a way. Let us go."
It went silent as Lancelot thought about it. "I will allow it. But just if James will look after you both every single second of your journey."
David looked up at his name being said. Did Lancelot just say what he thought he just said? "Of course I will! I would do anything to protect my family."
Snow gave him a warm smile and David stroked her hand with his thumb.
David, Snow, and Emma set off on their journey after Emma retrieved her gun from the woman named Mulan and stocking up in weapons. Snow had the usual bow and arrow, but it wasn't her original one from before the curse struck. David was given a sharp sword sheathed and ready to go, but it also wasn't his usual sword.
Before they were even out of the village, Emma finally spoke up. "Okay Mary Margaret, what portal were you talking about earlier? You haven't told me anything, what's going on?!"
Snow stopped walking and turned to her daughter. David looked around for any bystanders that might hear them, but all was clear.
"The wardrobe." Snow informed David and Emma.
Emma's eyes widened. "The wardrobe? Like, the wardrobe? The wardrobe that sent little baby me to Maine? Do you think that could get us back to Storybrooke?"
"I don't know. We have to see if it survived the curse, then we'll see about making it work."
David finally found his voice to speak. He was speechless when he first heard Snow mention about going back home. Their castle. Where they were supposed to rule the kingdom as a family, and watch Emma (and who knows how many more children they would've had) grow up into a young, beautiful princess. "Are we really going home? Like, home home?"
Snow smiled at him, and he finally smiled back, knowingly. Yes, they were.
"Emma, you wanna see where you're from?" Snow turned to her as they started walking. "That's right. We're going home."
Again, feedback helps! Please review! And if anyone was wondering (one person asked me, so this is what asking questions in the review does! I might do a Q/A thing or two, but only if I have enough questions), Lancelot, just like the real show, is not the real Lancelot. He is, in fact, Cora in disguise. I gave some hints too:
-He was very interested in Henry's name.
-He keeps calling David "James", and remember in chapter 1 when Cora still "hadn't gotten the memo"?
-Interested in the portal, which was one of the many things exactly from the episode.
