Epilogue
Dodger was adopted by Emma and Captain Hook and had a good life with them. It wasn't always perfect. Sometimes he felt a need to test Emma's limits by breaking her rules. She was patient and gave him firm but loving discipline, showing him she loved him as a son. Hook was more lenient but strict when he needed to be. Dodger and Hook sometimes went drinking on Hook's ship. Emma knew and they knew she knew but they all pretended she didn't know. She let it happen because she recognized the importance of father and son bonding behind Mom's back. Henry was a great brother and showed Dodger all the pop-culture he otherwise may have missed. Henry and Snow White began homeschooling Dodger in order to prepare him for real school. He proved to be fairly gifted. He maintained his friendships with his gang, including Oliver, as well as Hansel and Gretel. After about a month adjusting to his new life, with much encouragement from his new family, Dodger finally asked Gretel out on a date. They soon became a couple. He also took Hansel out for some bro's nights in order to gain his approval. After a few months, he began attending high school. He became a good role model and support person for his former gang and other troubled kids. He eventually started up a club to help troubled youth. He never went on another illegal heist but his thirst for them never fully went away. He became a huge fan of heist movies. He also continued to be a fan of Star Wars, Shakespeare, and Guardians Of The Galaxy. Gretel began writing plays, which Dodger loved as well. When Emma became pregnant again, she told Hook and Dodger no drinking around the baby. Dodger denied drinking at all and Emma playfully glared at him. When the baby came, Dodger was great help and even started picking up the slack at the Sheriff's station since Emma couldn't work as much. When Regina cast a new curse that united many of the realms of story, Dodger knew what he wanted to do with his life. First he went to Storybrooke University and did a degree in criminology while Gretel did one in creative writing. After graduation, they got married and relocated to New York for three years. Dodger went to law school while Gretel had her own adventures, she in a candy store while writing her magnum opus and then produced her magnum opus on broadway and became a huge hit. After Dodger finished law school, the couple returned to Storybrooke, where Gretel produced her plays for all the united realms and Dodger worked to make the justice systems in all the realms more fair for everyone and focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment. When Gretel became pregnant, Dodger went back to visit the realm Dickens wrote about, where he finally made peace with Noah Claypole and then searched for his biological parents. Emma understood the desire to find out where he came from but warned him of the emotional turmoil he may face. He found out that his father, Jack Dawkins Sr, had been a failed businessman who joined a dangerous criminal gang. His mother, Liza, was a prostitute his father met a few times. They were both murdered by criminals shortly after leaving their son at a workhouse. They had probably saved his life by abandoning him. "They wanted to give you your best chance" Emma told him when he told her the story. He didn't judge them too harshly for their lifestyles, they had probably been in bad situations that led them there. He hoped that his biological parents, as well as Fagin, would be proud of the life he made in Storybrooke. He knew his family and Gretel's family loved him and were proud of him though, and that was enough. He would raise his children be non-judgemental and to help those who wronged them be better people.