A/N: MONDAY! Sorry, couldn't think of something to say... Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Once Upon a Time ABC or any of its characters.
"Aria!" I heard Emma calling from downstairs. I groaned and slipped out of bed, wrapping my robe around my naked body. Killian sighed and rolled over saying, "None this morning, that's for sure."
"Emma, keep your voice down," I said as I walked down the stairs.
"We have a problem. Pan's actually in Henry's body," She said as Pan's body came into view.
"What the hell?" I asked, tying my robe together tighter.
"Auntie?" The boy asked. I narrowed my eyes and looked into his, seeing the truth behind them.
"Henry? How did this happen?" I asked.
"I was on my way to school and Pan jumped out and switched bodies through my shadow. I'm not sure what he plans to do," He said, as I moved to hug him.
"I will protect you," I said, holding his head in my hands.
"What's Killian doing here?" He asked, confused by the half naked pirate in my kitchen.
"I'm gonna explain that when you are much older." Emma said, and Henry's eyes looked confused.
"Is he…"
"Is he what, Henry?" I asked the boy.
"Is Hook your True Love?" He asked, hopeful.
"I…" I started and looked back at Killian, only to continue, "Yes. He is."
Killian smiled, sending me a wink before I ducked my head.
"Now, we have to stop Pan." Emma said, as I sighed, "I'll go get dressed."
The group managed to destroy the shadow, capture Pan and switched him and Henry's bodies again, before I had even joined them. But he already enacted his own version of the Dark Curse. I watched as Pan and Gold fought. I jumped in in time to stop Gold from killing himself.
"You only have to stab him," I growled as I made Gold release the dagger. It was too late for Malcom/Pan, as he already was dying from the stab wound.
"Goodbye Papa," Gold said, twisting the dagger in Pan's back. He glowed for a moment, before turning to dust. I sighed as Amaya was picked up by a now unfrozen Killian.
"The curse! It's here!" Grumpy yelled, finding our group in the middle of the street.
"It's coming from all sides, there's no way to escape," Grumpy continued.
"You know what you must do," Gold said as Belle embraced him.
"I have to say goodbye to the thing I love most." She said, tears in her eyes.
"Henry," Emma said, as the real Henry came to her side.
"I can never see him again. I have no choice. I have to undo what I started."
"The curse that brought us to Storybrooke." My mother said.
"That created Storybrooke. It doesn't belong here, and neither do any of us," Regina said and I felt the tears well up.
"Our home's here," I whispered, looking up at Killian.
"Breaking the curse, destroys the town." My Dad said as Gold nodded, "The price of all this."
"It will wink out of existence as if it were never here," She explained, "And everyone will go back to where they're from, prevented from ever returning."
"We'll go back to the Enchanted Forest."
"All of us, except Henry and Amaya. They will stay here, because, they were born here, in this world." Regina said and I clutched my daughter tighter.
"Alone?" Emma said, crying silently, as we locked eyes.
"No, you will take him, because you're the savior. You were created to break the curse, and once again, you and Aria can escape it." Regina said as I looked up at Killian.
"And you will be with them," He said, handing me my daughter. I cried, "I can't lose you."
"I will find a way to be with you." He said, kissing my forehead.
"I don't want to, we'll go back with all of you." Emma said, as I held my daughter tightly.
"That's not an option. If I don't pay the price, none of this will work."
"Killian," I said as he held my close.
"I will wait for you, for as long as it takes me to come back for you," He said as my parents told Emma to go.
"We just found you," She said, sadly.
"And now it's time for you girls to leave us again. For your best chance, for your sister's, for Henry's and for Amaya's." My mother said sadly, as my father blinked back his tears.
"No, I'm not done, I'm the savior right? I'm supposed to bring back all the happy endings, that's what Henry always said. I go back with you. Henry, he can be with Aria. She'll take care of him."
"Happy endings aren't always what we think they will be. Look around you. You've touched the lives of everyone here. Emma, Henry deserves his mother, not just his Aunt to take care of him."
"But we're a family."
"Yes, and we always will be. You gave us that. You brought your sister back to us," She said, holding back tears.
"You, your sister, Henry and Amaya, you can be a family. You can have your wish. You can be like everyone else, happy." My Dad said, holding me close as Killian watched from the side.
"It's time for you girls to believe in yourselves. It's time for you to find hope." My mother said, smiling.
"I've known you for sometime, and all I've wanted is for you to get the hell out of my life so I can be with my son." Regina joked, making both Emma and me smile, "but really what I want is for Henry to be happy. We have no choice. You have to go."
"Okay," My sister breathed, and we all walked to the town line, and I never let go of Killian's hand. My car and Emma's yellow Bug were waiting. I sighed as I found all my important stuff had been packed away in the trunk.
"Killian, I need you to hold onto this," I said, giving him the bag with the beans. He either didn't remember, or didn't think I would keep all those valuable beans in one bag.
"When I find you, I won't ever let you go again. So be prepared for a ring," He said, holding my forehead to his.
"I have a feeling I won't be expecting it." I said sadly, before I went to hug my parents' goodbye for the last time.
"I was wrong. I do need you guys. I thought I was okay being an orphan, because it made me stronger, but your love, has made me stronger." I said, as my father kissed my head sweetly.
"We love you," My mother said softly, as Emma said goodbye to Neal.
"Go take care of our boy. Whatever way Hook has of finding your sister, I'll be right there with him to find you again. I let you down once before Emma, I won't do it again," He said as they embraced. He kissed her sweetly, and I smiled.
"Emma, Aria, there's something I haven't told you."
"What now?" Emma asked, exasperated.
"When the curse washes over us, it will send us all back. Nothing will be left behind, including you memories. It's just what the curse does. Storybrooke won't exist, it won't ever have existed. So these last years, will be gone from all your memories. They'll just go back to being stories again," Regina said and I felt my eyes well up again.
"What will happen to us?" Emma asked, as I looked at my little girl in Killian's arms.
"I don't know."
"That doesn't sound much like a happy ending."
"It's not. But I can give you one."
"You can preserve our memories?"
"No, I can do what I did to everyone else in this town," She said, "Give you new ones."
"You cursed them and they were miserable."
"They didn't have to be. My gift to you both is good memories. A good life for you and Henry, for Aria and Amaya. You would have never given him up. You'll have always been together."
"You would do that?"
"When I stop Pan's curse and you cross that town line, you will have the life you always wanted. I can't bring Adam back for you Aria, but the pain will be lessened so you can live and be happy for your daughter." She said as Killian handed me Amaya. My parents kissed her quickly, before I went to buckle her into her car seat. I cried, closing the door, and turning to kiss Killian one last time after he got Purdy into the back of the car.
"Find us," I said, holding his face in my hands.
"As you wish, My Lady," he said backing up as my mother came up to kiss my sister and I goodbye. I got in my car, sobbing my eyes out, feeling the hole in my heart opening once more. And as I started the car and inched it over the town line, Emma following behind me, everything in my past went blank.