Snow still sat on the bed crying, until charming sat down next to her and hugged her.
"I got to hold her, and then she was gone again. How could those people have done that to her, they looked like they loved in the field what changed" Snow asked crying to her husband who hugged her and rubbed her back.
"I don't know but I think their decision was forced in some way, the woman had a gun on her. What kind of social worker keeps a gun on her person" Charming said answering the sad question.
"But why"
"I don't know... I don't know"
A sad-looking little girl came down the row of beds in an orphanage, still upset that she was put in this hell called an orphanage.
Gold noticed the little girl, he noted that she had her hair down and no longer in pigtails as if her childhood ended. She walked past Gold who stock out his hand as if going to touch her but she walked right through it. He felt guilty watching this for he was the cause of this child's misfortune in her childhood. She should have grown up in a loving home with her mama and papa smiling staying in pigtails until an adult. Happy.
But he had to do it, for his child. Bae. Neal.
Emma sat down on her bed next to her parents which she did not see again. They watched as Emma got up again and crawled under the bed in search of something. Her little hand tapping the ground reaching and searching for something until she seemed to have found it, she had relieved look on her face. She slid a small box across the floor under the bed until she picked it up and sat down on the bed with it in her hands.
She put her hands all over the box with slight tears in her eyes. With shaky hands the little girl opened the small box's lid. In the box was a slightly old photo of Emma and her ex-adopted parents the people who raised her until three.
Emma took the photo fully out of the box and closed it, she kicked the box back under the bed. Emma sat there holding the photo just looking at it trying to memorize every thing in it. Snow and David turned toward the saddened little girl. Their little girl. Their Emma.
They looked like a happy family, Emma was in the middle of the couple smiling so big and happy compared to this little girl now in front of them. They sat there for a couple of minutes until three other little kids ran towards Emma, with scared expressions on their faces.
"Emma we have to hide Drew is looking for us and you" A cute little brown sad-looking boy exclaimed to Emma.
"Ya" said a boy looking very similar to the boy who spoke before him, they were obviously twins.
"Nathaniel, Alexander I'm not scared of drew, he just mean curse no one loves him" Emma explained to Nathaniel and the other two.
"But he is scary and bigger than us" Nathaniel said shrinking in fear thinking about it.
"Yeah Emmy he's scary" Alexander agreed with his twin brother.
"Not to me" Emma said to them confidently.
"He said no one loves us" Elizabeth said through tears.
Emma jumped off her bed and hugged them all tightly.
"If we love each other than we each have someone who loves us" Emma said honestly and courageously smiling at them.
"Together as a team" Emma said putting her pinky finger out in front of them.
"Yeah" Nathaniel joined her pinky.
"You bet" Alexander joined.
"To the end of time" Elizabeth joined them smiling. They locked pinky's then pulled down then up into a release.
"Wait what do we call ourselves" Nathaniel asked curiously happy.
"Um. I know the.. the.. no I don't know" Alexander said thinking.
"Well what do we do together" Elizabeth asked thinking.
"Um..we find things and we find each other, we help others because it's the right thing to do" Nathaniel said brightly dwelling on it.
"I know how about 'The Seekers'" Emma proposed.
"That's a great name" Elizabeth agreed.
"Okay, Yeah" Nathaniel and Alexander agreed together.
"Wait a tick, you have got to be joking. I don't believe it" Gold said grinning and not believing what he just saw.
"What don't you get Emma made friends with the other orphans" David said to Gold with curious eyes. Snow looked toward Gold with a frown, no longer crying but seemed calm how things turned for Emma.
"There it" Gold said gesturing to the frozen kids grinning at each other sitting on the floor talking.
"There what Gold, there kids" Charming asked confused.
"Oh, they are far from kids Charming. They are the seekers" Gold said walking over to the children to get a better look at them all.
"Who are the Seeker's exactly, they are just a group of kids who made a club. Why is it important and how do you know of them" Snow asked wondering why the dark one had interest in a group of orphan's beside her daughter.
"They are the Seekers. The Savior's loyal allies, who which fight by her side in any fight. Together they make the dark bright again, create happy endings all across all kinds of lands" Gold explained to the Couple.
"How they are just Children. How can they defend themselves" David asked worried.
"They use their imagination, they can make anything appear and happen. It is impossible for them to kill another human, they only change them to see the light"
Gold resumed the memory around them which changed, the children were wearing different clothes and were sitting on the floor, Emma's photo was put on the small table next to her bed leaning on a lamp.
A mean looking kid and a group of other mean kids behind him stomped over to the group of kids chatting away somewhat happily towards each other.
"Swan where is it" Drew stomped over to Emma and yanked at her wrist bringing her to stand up sharply.
"Where's what" Emma said sarcastically to him trying to show she was not scared of him, which drove drew even angrier.
"WHER-" Drew stopped talking when he found what he was looking for, he grinned sinister and darkly as he shoved Emma to the floor roughly.
Drew stalked over to the small table next to her bed, he snatched up the photo.
"NOO" Emma got up quickly to lunge and punch him, but his posse held Emma back.
"What are you DOING PUT THAT BACK" Emma wailed and screamed.
"They never loved you, your mommy never loved you poor pathetic orphan Emma" Drew said to her in an angry voice.
"Yes she did I know she did, Mommy read to me and tucked me in my bed and sung to me and listened to what I had to say and she cuddled with me and told me every day a hundred times a day that she loved me!" Emma quickly answered crying and screaming at him to make a point to Drew.
Snow was point-blank sobbing in David's arms, Emma had all that with her fake mother and she wasn't a apart of it in any way.
Drew took out his lighter from his pocket angrily and held the photo to the flame, it caught on fire instantly.
"NOOOOO!" Emma yelled struggling to get out of his posse's grip. Emma slammed her foot on one of the boys foot and he let go releasing Emma who ran up to Drew and punched him square in the face giving him a bloody nose. Emma's friends fought with Drew's gang strongly following their leader.
Snow, David and Gold watched in fascination as the team fought the bad kids. David was angry at this Drew kid until Emma punched him, which made him so proud.
"Seem's Emma has her Daddy's right hook" Gold said grinning at Emma.
"You little bit-" Drew began but got interrupted by the head lady yelling.
"WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE. DREW ARE YOU RESPONCIBLE"
"Drew burned Emma's photo of her family with his lighter Miss. Stacy" Nathaniel explained innocently to the woman.
"You boys are in big trouble when Mr. Shrout finds out about this. Come along DREW" said pulling his ear, as drew's posse followed.
"I'm sorry he burned your photo Emmy" Alexander said going to hug her, which Nathaniel and Elizabeth followed after.
"It wasn't your fault" Emma said with small tears on her face.
"They aren't my real family" Emma said blankly.
"Maybe your real family will find you" Nathaniel proposed trying to be optimistic.
"No they won't, I guess I have to find them" Emma said with determination.
"You can't find them yet were only Five" Alexander said making a point.
"Then I should grow up" Emma said.
"But we promised to never grow up Emmy" Nathaniel said looking sad again.
"I know, when I find them and we are together we can go back to being young again and have fun" Emma promised them.
"Okay"
"Count me in"
"Okay"
"Together" They all looked at each other.
The grown up's watched with fascination at the children.
Snow and David had tears in their eyes, this was when Emma gave up on them finding her and started her quest to find them. Snow recalls being in the forest with Emma when David woke up, she had said she had been looking for people as long as she could remember. She searched and searched.
And she found them, but she grew up and forgot the love her adoptive other gave her. It was only a forgotten memory all because of that stupid boy. Snow and David couldn't look they never knew, all because of the curse.
The scene changed again this time they were in a park, they were all standing up. There were a few people walking around but what stood out to them the most was the blonde twelve-year-old holding a guitar high on a flat stone surface.
They walked closer to the little girl, Snow and David exchanged a look of understanding that the girl was obviously Emma.
The girl sat down and put the guitar in her lap, she started to play.
Hush, baby don't cry
Just get through this night
Overcome
Cuz all that you are
Is broken inside
But they'll never know
They'll never know
Don't think that they'll change
They push you away
Far from home
Cuz all that they are
Is broken inside
But they'll never know
They'll never know
Don't you cry tonight
Rest your weary eyes
Cuz all that you are
Is broken inside
It's nothing you could change
It's nothing you could hide
It's nothing you could hide
[piano and violin]
Pink flowers and bows
That's all you should know
And summer days
Cuz all that you are
Is beautiful child
But they'll never know
They'll never know
So don't you cry tonight
Rest your precious eyes
Cuz all that you are
Is beautiful child
It's nothing they could change
It's nothing you could hide
It's nothing you should hide
Oh oh oh
Cuz all that you are
Is beautiful child
But they'll never know
They'll never know..
Emma stopped strumming her guitar and sighed. Snow and David stood there paralyzed taking in what they just heard come out of their daughter's mouth. When she sung it sounded like an angel, Emma never told mary Margaret she sung before not once.
"I didn't know she could sing" Snow said in awe looking toward Emma.
"Neither did I, she sounded so beautiful" David said looking toward Emma matching snow's expression. They heard sniffles from behind them, they turned around.
"Gold are you crying" David asked shocked.
"No, It was the Savior's voice even thought it sounded like an angel. Yes I am crying alright you happy" Gold said breaking loose.
They turned back to look toward Emma who was gone. They were in a white blank room they noticed.
"What happened" David asked wondering.
"Well nothing really much happens after this except from Emma getting out of the Foster system and meeting Baelfire and Storybrooke, unless you would like to see our grandson being made I would be thankful if I were you" Gold said snickering at the expressions on the couple.
"Okay here we go her abduction"Gold said sadly.
They watched everything, suddenly they knew.
When they were done no one said a word, until-
"Thank you for showing us that" David said blankly.
"You needed to know"
David and Snow nodded their heads and then they were in a white vortex again, until the were back in the loft from their minds.
With Emma, who was waking up from her dreams.