The music filled the room, he gently took her in his arms and started to teach her how to dance, he swirled her across the room.

"So we meet again." He said

"But I've never seen you before, my daddy told me I shouldn't talk to strangers." He was surprised that a three year old knew grammar and could pronounce all the words correctly.

"You speak too good for your age, you're only three." He said and swirled her again.

"Mother has had me taught by the best writers in the land since I was one and a half. Who are you?" She asked, her tiny hand touching his face.

"I'm Rumplestilstkin."

"Say that again."

"You can call me whatever name you like." Rumplestilstkin said and put her down.

"I shall call you... Ummm, what do you know to do?" The girl said and pulled a chair in front of him and stood on it and looked almost as tall as he was.

"I can make gold."

"No, you can't... How?"

"I turn straw to gold, how I do it, it's my secret."

"Than I shall call you Mr. Gold or Goldie. Which one do you prefer?"

"Mr. Gold, definitely."

"Then Mr. Gold, I'm Regina."

"I know who you are, but before I go I want to give you a gift." He put a golden around her neck and said "Hide this from your mother, and then when you need me the most I'll be there." But before she could say anything else he disappeared in the cloud of red smoke.

The Enchanted Forest

"We're here." Regina announced, they left the horses under the big tree in the middle of the meadow.

"This is one big meadow, how are you going to find the plants you need?"

"Okay, I'm the professional here, you listen to me." She bent down to look at the plants, after some time they had almost every plant they needed expect one.

"I don't understand. Why can't we find that plant? It was all supposed to be here." Regina asked annoyed.

"I don't know, keep looking." They searched more but didn't manage to find it. "Regina." Robin called her.

"Yes?"

"Not to alarm you or anything, but your neck is glowing." At these words she took off the two necklaces she had on.

"Why is that one glowing? Where did you get that? How come I didn't notice it before?" Robin asked.

"I don't know, I've had that necklace as long as I can remember, and I can't bring myself to take it off, well until now I couldn't. I keep it hidden usually under the bigger necklace or I make it invisible." She looked at the necklace and then she heard something.

"Did you hear that?" Regina asked Robin. He nodded and she put the necklace back on.

"Why did you do that? It could be dangerous." She rolled her eyes at him.

"Yeah, cause that stopped me before." She said sarcastically.

Back in Storybrooke

Belle was sitting in the back of Gold's shop when she saw red smoke. It can't be, can it? She got up and went to the first part of the shop. She found a man there looking for something, she didn't know who was he, because he had his back turned to her.

"Who is that?" Belle asked.

"Belle." She knew it was him, it was his voice for sure, he turned around and hugged her.

"Rumple, I thought I lost you." Belle whispered.

"I'm here now. Here, I have something for you, it will help you remember." He said and handed her the vial. Belle drank it, and remembered.

"What were you looking for?" Belle asked.

"A necklace, I never take it off, but I assume the curse has placed it somewhere in this shop, I just have to find it and then we'll go look for Bealfire." Rumple said and went back to looking for it, Belle didn't look for it, she observed what he was doing.

"Rumple?"

"Yes? Come on, help me." He said without looking at her.

"Rumple." He looked at her and saw that she was holding the necklace in her hand.

"How did you... Where did you find it?" Rumple asked her.

"It showed up here, I know your shop almost as good as you do, I knew it didn't belong here so I figured it must have been yours."

"Thank you." He said and took the necklace from her.

"Why do you need it for?" Belle asked.

"To contact Regina, she's gone to The Enchanted Forest. I want to see if she has any ideas to find Bea."

"Wait? She's gone? Is she alone?"

"No, Robin is with her." He answered her.

"Come on, do your magic." Rumple focused on Regina while he held the necklace.

"Regina? Regina, can you hear me?"

"Rumple? How are you... How can I hear you?" They heard Regina's confused voice.

"Your necklace, I gave it to you when you were three, I don't think you remember but you always wore it."

"That's why it was glowing, you're right I don't remember but maybe you could tell me sometime. Anyway, have you found Neal?"

"No, that's why I wanted to talk to you. Do you have any idea where he might be?"

"I don't know, wait let me ask Robin." Belle and Rumple waited a bit before Regina spoke again. "We, well Robin, thinks that he might be at the camp on the edge of the forest, you should take Ruby with you, she can help, trust me."

"Okay, thank you. Did you need something? I mean you obviously did otherwise I wouldn't be able to speak to you."

"I'm missing a plant, I can't find it anywhere. It's called..."

"I know how it's called, stop looking with your eyes, feel it."

"You are not helping. What's that supposed to mean?"

"You can feel magic, right? You can feel dark and white magic, you need to find a way to feel the power the plant has, let the magic take you to it."

"How?" She was starting to get annoyed.

"Use The Dark One's magic."

"If you don't..." She started to make a threat but he cut her off.

"That magic has been always a part of you, but you didn't know that, just use it but don't let it consume you. After you've done that you should be able to mix that magic with your own and you should be able to make a portal that will bring you back here. I have to go find Neal, be careful, okay?" He said and after her answer he cut off the line.

"I'm going to find Ruby, are you coming with me or staying here?"

"I'm coming." She said and they went to the diner, luckily for them Emma was there too. Gold called her to come to them and went to find Ruby.

"Ruby!" Rumple yelled.

"You didn't have to yell! What can I help you with?" Ruby said when she walked out of the kitchen.

"We need you to help us find Bealfire." Belle said.

"Neal?" Emma asked but they ignored her.

"Why come to me?"

"Because Regina told us to, I guess it's because of your wolf senses." Rumplestilstkin said.

"What's in it for me?"

"What do you want? Because I'll give you anything if you find my son."

"I want nothing. I just wanted to see how are you going to react. And, where's Regina?" Ruby said

"She went to the Enchanted Forest, she's looking for some plants or something." Emma explained.

"Let's find Neal."

There it is, leave a PM or a review and tell me what you think, again OQ - friendship, I probably won't make them romantically involved.