Everyone set out to look for Marian, the Charmings, the dwarves, Hook, Granny and Ruby, even Archie with Pongo and Rumple, who was still barely alive; everyone except Belle, who hadn't been seen since that morning.

Robin was dying with worry for his son, and felt horrible for his wife. He ran here and there on the streets, examining footprints, trying to guess where and why Marian had gone, or what happened to her that had kept her from coming home.

In the end, it was Ruby who found her, thanks to her good scent. She alarmed the Charmings at once, and so everybody hurried to the old barn, to the fatal spot where Zelena had been defeated, where Emma and Hook had been dragged back into the past.

Thanks to magic, Regina got there at once, before anyone. She saw how Marian tossed Ruby away after which had no doubt been a hard fight – between a desperate wife and a werewolf, even if the latter was in human form – and how she pulled the crying little Roland to her firmly as she lifted her hand to throw away something. She didn't see Regina, who had appeared behind her back, but Ruby did, and she shouted, 'She has a magic bean!'

Regina acted before thinking. She raised her open fist and the bean came flying into her hand. Marian swung around and noticed her. 'You-' she waved with her hand and immobilized her, a bit sorry she would never know what she intended to say.

Where on earth did you get this? she thought, staring at the precious little thing in her hand. Roland let out some more sobs, and she suddenly realised that Marian was going to use the bean to get away from here – with her son!

As much as she had wanted to hate her earlier she never really did, because it wasn't her fault that a fool had brought her here from her past, but in this moment she despised the woman more than she ever had anyone. She knew what it felt like, when the other parent attempted to take your son from you, and she couldn't bear imagining that Robin would have to suffer what she did when Emma had arrived in Storybrooke at first.

Ruby got to her feet with some difficulty. 'Well, it didn't take too long,' she said, as if acknowledging that magic wasn't always such a bad thing. Regina hurried to Roland, and bent down to comfort him 'Shhh, it's alright now, I promise' she mumbled, stroking his gorgeous locks of curly hair.

That was when Robin, David and Snow arrived. 'Marian!' the thief shouted. 'What happened to her?' he looked at Regina desperately and his look felt like a knife twist in her heart. She remembered how he had been lost in her eyes after she had woken him, and she knew that he loved her just as much as she loved him, because otherwise he would still have been ice, and yet he was so worried for Marian as no one ever had been for Regina. 'She was about to attack me so I immobilized her,' she sad in a flat voice. 'She's alright.'

'Papa?' said the little boy at her feet hopefully. 'Roland!' he burst out with relief, picked him up from the ground and hugged him tight.

'Are you in there?!' A shout from outside.

She couldn't be sure, because she had met her only once in her life, even if it was that morning, but she could have sworn that she had heard Elsa's voice. Not you again, she thought, filled with dread and anger, remembering too well how Robin's heart had been frozen… and then realised that this bean must have been the same one Anna had been talking about. She didn't know what to say or what to do – she knew that the wrong move, and one of them would end up as Robin did, again. All of them stood unmoving, staring at each other at their wit's end.

The threatening voice of a swelling wind came, and the earth shook below their feet. 'What's happening?' Snow whispered.

'I have a pretty good idea,' said Gold's voice behind, too loudly after their silence. When had he gotten here? She jumped and turned to see him peeking outside through a split in the wooden wall, leaning on his cane. 'Silently,' she hissed at him, and, quietly as she could, she walked beside him to look outside too.

She didn't like what she saw. Not at all.

The snow monster had laser-blue eyes, teeth and claws made of sharp icicles, it was three times as big as a horse, and it was moving slowly towards them. Towards her.

She glanced at the bean inside her fist, filled with dread. Elsa wanted it back, and there was no time to explain her that she would gladly get rid of it, too.

They backed away from the wall, to the middle of the barn, and just when she thought she was more or less safe, another beast appeared behind them – some kind of an ice lizard. It ran inside faster than she could follow, chased by Emma and Hook who were shooting at it with drawn guns constantly but uselessly. The creature attacked her; she flew long meters and almost hit the wall. She landed painfully on her side, – no snow in here to dull the impact – heard Emma shouting her name and firing at the lizard, and saw David swing his sword.

Ice shreds flew into the air as the sword cut down one of its legs. As she struggled to her feet she saw as Robin hid Roland behind some blocks of hay, pulled out an arrow and sent it through the giant lizard's eye with a deadly accuracy – only the beast was moved by magic, and the only way to kill it was to tear it to pieces. The barn shook as the snow monster behind her back made an attempt to break through its wall – luckily it failed. Normally she had control over the flow of events,but now wasn't one of those times, because she had never seen the likes of those creatures or a kind of magic like Elsa's before; and she was beginning to panic.

Someone grabbed her wrist and twisted the bean out of it. She realised that it was Marian, whom her spell must have released because she couldn't concentrate on keeping it up in this chaos. She ran after the woman but was knocked off her feet once more, this time but the tail of the lizard. 'Robin!' she screamed, knowing that maybe she was the only person in here who suspected what Marian was trying to do, but he thought that she was shouting for help, and only came further from his son. 'I've got it!' cried out Ruby, and ran for Marian as swiftly as only a wolf is able to.

But she didn't.

Marian was smarter than she would have thought: she dropped the bean behind her so the opening portal would swallow Ruby up. But Ruby was smarter than she had thought, and had keener eyes, because she noticed, stopped, and backed away. Too bad she stumbled in something and fell. 'No!' Regina shouted. She got to her feet and ran for the whirling green mists fast as she could, watching with terror how Marian did the same on the other side, dragging her son behind her. She wasn't going to get there in time…

Marian somehow stumbled, and the portal was drawing her in… Regina caught the little boy's coat and would not let it go, not even when she fell under the power of the portal herself…

'Hold my hand!' shouted Ruby, reaching towards her from the ground, and she realized why Marian fell – Ruby had tripped her, so Regina got another second and could catch the boy in time. She grabbed her hand gratefully – to think what would happen if she ended up in an other realm without Robin or Henry but with Marian…

Robin had slid an arm round her waist and together with Ruby, they pulled her out. He helped her to her feet, then got his son up in his arms and held them both tight to his chest, his eyes never leaving the spot where Marian had disappeared.

After the portal had closed, there was a sound like an explosion on the far side of the barn where the others were still fighting the lizard. She turned in Robin's embrace and saw a mighty fire that had emerged out of the blue below the creature's feet.

'There, that should get you going,' hissed Rumple, sounding exhausted. The lizard melted away, shrieking as if it were a real animal not just a block of ice.

After a while they allowed themselves to draw a relieved breath... before walking outside to face Elsa.

Instead they met Elsa, Anna, the man called Chris- something, and the snow monster that stood beside them, waiting for Elsa's command. 'Wait,' cried Mary Margaret. 'We mean no harm! ' Elsa found this funny, but she went on. 'We wish to negotiate!'