"Heroes and Villains" Hook read again from the cover of the paperback book. He flipped to the back of the book. "The time has come for villains to get their happy endings."
"Does that sound suspiciously like," Regina was cut off.
"Isaac." Emma started, interrupting Regina. "He must have changed this world too."
"He could have had anything but he chose to be an author. Isn't that a little bloody repetitive?" Hook told them and tried to flip through the pages with his hook.
"How is this even possible? We should have destroyed the the book completely when we escaped." Emma asked.
"We can find that out later. At the moment, I'm only interested in finding my son," Regina said. "And ripping out the author's heart." she added
Hook accidentally ripped a page in the book and Regina grabbed the book from his hand with an exasperated sigh. She skimmed through to it, looking for something.
Emma pulled out her phone.
"Henry wasn't transported into the story with us." Regina concluded after looking around the pages.
"I think the part of us not seeing Henry once while stuck in the bloody thing gave it away long before now." Hook said back.
Regina looked up to see Emma scrolling through her phone.
"Are you even paying attention to me?" Regina asked in outrage.
Emma nodded her head but continued to stare down at her screen.
"Not that I'm questioning you, Swan," Hook started. "But why are you on your little talking device?"
Emma pursed her lips at something on her screen and made her way out of the room with a confused Hook and impatient Regina. She yelled to them from over her shoulder. "Best-selling author Isaac Heller will be having his first big book signing this afternoon in Maine."
"Your talking device told you that?" Killian asked her as he stepped up his pace to keep up.
"Let's stick to what's important, please." Regina told him.
They once again made their ways back into town.
"What's your plan, Swan?" Hook asked her once they were on the familiar street center of the town.
"Why do you always ask her that?" Regina started. "Isnt it pretty obvious, even for a pirate. We find the author and get back my son."
"Why would that plan be difficult for a pirate? I've been on my own fair share of rescue missions, myself and this is by far the worst planned." he returned
"For once I have to agree with Regina, Killian. We'll come up with something on the way there but we have to find the author now." Emma said.
"Besides, all we have to move is move faster than his stupid quill." Regina added.
The group turned a corner and ran directly into Snow and Charming.
"Have you found him?" Snow immediately asked her daughter. Worry was written all over her face.
"No." Emma answered. "But we found this" Emma held out the book to them. "At Regina's house."
"It's the book." Snow said in confusion. "We destroyed this by escaping."
"It's a replica." Hook told her. "The author seems to be getting quite rich by making people buy them."
"Regina's house?" Charming suddenly asked.
"He was raised there if any of you would care to remember." Regina said. "It doesn't take that much of a stretch to think that he might go there during a crisis."
"Oh, no." Snow said as a thought came to her. "He must have been all alone while we were gone. He wouldn't have left the town looking for us, would he?"
"I doubt he had the chance." Charming told her. "And everyone's cars seem to be here and in one piece." He added.
"Look, we have to leave now." Emma told them.
"Leave? Leave to where?" Her mother asked.
"She knows where to find the author." Hook said to them. "Her little gibber device told her."
"We'll come." Charming volunteered and put his arm around his wife while she nodded in agreement.
"No, you won't." Emma said. "You need to watch Gold. Even with a bad heart who knows what he's capable of when desperate enough."
"And he IS desperate." Regina added.
"You can't just go by yourself." Snow argues.
"I'm not." Emma told her mother. "I have Hook and Regina and the author doesn't pack much of a punch."
"But his quill…" Charming tried.
"We can handle ourselves." Regina finally stepped in and told the two parents. "Believe me when I say the author is going to regret ever writing our names down with that quill."
"We have to depart now if we want to get to the booking gathering." Killian interrupted.
"Book signing." Regina corrected him.
"I'll call you guys as soon as I can." Emma said to Snow and Charming.
"Well, okay, just be careful." Snow finally gave in.
"And bring Henry back home." Charming told Emma.
"I will." She promised.
Snow waited another second before embracing her daughter and Charming joined them also.
"I love you so much." Snow told her.
"As do I." Charming added. "And I'm sorry for fake killing your boyfriend. Though, it was a very fatherly thing to do."
Emma laughed and they broke apart.
"I did appreciate that." Killian said to Charming.
"How sweet." Regina said and tapped her foot.
"We're coming." Emma told her and dug car keys out of her pocket.
"Goodbye." Snow said to the trio as they made their way over to Emma's yellow bug.
"Till we see you again." and "See you" were heard from the three along with a mumbled grunt of a bye.