It's time for the end of the Ariel episode. Some feedback on the whole chapter breakdown would be nice, or any feedback really. You guys make me smile. There's three parts in this chapter and the whole memories thing will be cleared up soon, I promise. I have a couple easter eggs to the Grimm version in this chapter.

Gold watches in shock as Regina chokes Belle, his eyes widening when Belle dissolves into Pan's shadow. Mr. Gold looks back at a fuming Regina. "What is this?! Amateur hour!?" She exclaims, throwing her arms up. "Did you really believe that was Belle?"

Gold stands up, watching suspiciously as Regina starts to approach him. "Why are you here?" He asks with a cross of his arms.

Regina matches Gold's hostility with her own malice. "Well for starters it appears I'm saving your ass. You were about to be Pan lunch."

Mr. Gold is not convinced. "What do you care?" He asks, jaded.

Regina makes a sour face. "I care because I've been camping with the Charmings for a week and only getting one doe-eyed and naive step back from nowhere." Gold doesn't pick up on Regina's barb at Sam, only understanding that the group hasn't made progress. Regina continues, "I need you. I need Rumpelstiltskin."

"Well, the problem with that is Rumpelstiltskin can only stop Pan by dying." Gold isn't going to indulge Regina with his hopes having his shadow bring a magic girl to Neverland to defeat Pan. He had given up on her.

"You're not going to die at anyone's hands but my own. We're the two most powerful practitioners of magic that have ever lived." Regina moves closer to Gold as she continues talking. She uses the most persuasive voice she can muster. "The Evil Queen and the Dark One, joining forces." Her voice turns to venom as she continues. "I say we can find another way to handle One. Smug. Teenager."

Gold is not at all encouraged by Regina. "I know what killing him requires, and that is my life."

Regina thinks about what Gold said for a moment. She sighs, "Well, as much as I want to, maybe we don't have to kill him. Maybe if that's the case, maybe we can find another way." Regina watches Gold perk up at the idea of another way. "Something to contain him. Some other fate."

"Enough, Regina!" Gold snaps when she mentions fate. "My fate will not waver. Don't think I haven't tried to change it!"

Regina steps back. "What did you do?"

Gold laughs dryly, "My plan 'B' isn't working out as I had hoped. I had a...flight so to speak, lined up and it was a… missed opportunity." Gold flourished his hands in rhythm to his rant.

"I knew it!" Regina moves toward him again. "Just because you failed once, doesn't mean you have tried everything." She gauges Gold's reaction and when she sees a dawn of recognition cross his face, she continues. "Now we're talking. Is there a spell you know, something we can enact?"

Gold looks into Regina's eyes, smiling. "I might have just the thing."

Regina slaps him in the shoulder with the back of her hand in excitement. "Well why didn't you bring it in the first place?"

"Because I came here to kill him and die in the process." Gold turns and begins to walk away from Regina.

She laughs at him. "Well I could have told that wasn't going to happen." He turns back to Regina, who is smirking at him. "You forgot Dear, I've known you a long time. I know all about your survival instincts."

Gold shakes his head. "Yeah, well they just kicked in."

"Good, so now we just need a change of plans. We need to get back to your shop pick up this magical item, then all of our problems are solved." Regina paces as she lists off what they need to do.

"Crossing Realms?" Gold asks sarcastically. "Is that all?"

Regina looks at him and puts her hands on her hips. "Yes, that's all."

As Rapunzel sits on the floor, weaving silk and humming a nameless tune. A ruddy faced boy lounges next to her nodding in time with her tune. His blonde hair is cropped too close to his scalp and doesn't balance out the traces of childhood still resting on his face. All the silk that he could fit into his bag double as a pillow as he halfheartedly watches her weave the bridge that she will climb down when they elope. She finishes her song and turns her attention to the young man by her side. "Anthony?" Rapunzel asks timidly.

Anthony makes a rather dumb noise as he snaps back into focus. "Uhhgn. What?"

"Can you tell me more stories about your castle?" Rapunzel makes eye contact for a second before her eyes flit back to her hands.

Anthony rolls his eyes, thinking she can't see him. "Uh… whatever you wish, Rapunzil."

"Rapunzel."

"Huh?"

Rapunzel looks up at the ceiling. "You still can't pronounce my name."

"I apologize, it is a rather difficult one." Anthony pushes himself off the floor and instead collapses on her bed. "In my kingdom, we exist strong and united against all the evil out there. I will inherit the throne when my mother dies, the ruling queen."

Rapunzel stands up, discarding the unfinished silk rope. "Yes, you have told me before. Tell me about the people, the scenery, what a cinnamon roll smells like, or really anything that doesn't have to do with royal politics." She goes over and perches at the edge of her own bed, spine straight as she attempts to make eye contact with him again.

"People?" He opens one of his eyes. "Well there was this one time… you don't really want to know, do you."

Rapunzel hops on the bed, clapping her hands in excitement. "No. No, I truly want to know."

Anthony sits up and puts a hand on his knee. "Once, when I was a lot younger, me and my friend were messing around and we stumbled into this garden. My friend and I saw all these gold flowers, it was the most beautiful thing I've seen." He smiles to himself at the memory. Then he thinks about what he said. "Besides you, of course. But we played around in the flowers and all of sudden a man's head popped up as this guy scaled the wall that surrounded the garden." He smiles when Rapunzel gasps. "And the man jumps down and starts collecting the flowers, just shoving them into his bag. And then my friend, who is braver than I, jumps out and demands the man to stop. The man yells at us, telling us to run away."

Rapunzel tips her head. "Why?"

"We were in the witch's garden!" He exclaims, watching as she jumps at his outburst. "We got out of there as fast as our six-year-old legs carried us."

Rapunzel draws her knees up to her chin, wrapping her arms around her legs. "What happened to him? Your friend?"

Anthony's face melts into sadness. "Sh-" he breaks into a fake cough. "He got sick and lost his sight. We're still looking for a cure for his disease."

Rapunzel looks at her prince. "You are amazing. To care so much about your childhood friend... I love you Anthony."

"And I you, Rapunzil."

The group emerges from the foliage into a small clearing. "The tracks lead directly into that cave." Mary Margaret points towards the gray opening. "This must be where they're keeping Neal."

David turns to Hook. "If the cave is some sort of prison, why aren't there any guards posted to stop us?"

"This prison doesn't require guards," Hook lets out a sigh. "Echo Cave."

His eyes remain on the dreary rocks as Mary Margaret speaks up again. "You know it?"

"All too well," He turns and faces them, feeling it necessary to avoid Sam's eyes. "I lost half my crew inside those rock walls. The only way to rescue someone from the inside is through the other secret." His eyes find the ground.

"A secret?" Mary Margaret shifts her head to the side and Sam copies her, looking towards Hook, wondering about secrets.

"The darkest secret, Echo Cave derives it's name from an old saying the deeper the lie the more truth in its echo. The cave demands that you reveal a truth about yourself, a secret you would never admit to anyone." The line in between his eyebrows appears as he talks about the task in front of them.

Emma props up against the entrance of the cave. "This is ridiculous." She says with a roll of her eyes.

"Don't kill the messenger, love."

Emma scoffs, "Even if we spill our guts, how do we know Neal's still alive in there?"

Hook's eyes lock with Emma. "Cause this is what Pan wants," He gestures his hand towards the cave. "He wants us to rescue him."

David crosses his arms. "Why?" Sam nods along, agreeing with David's inquiry.

"So that we reveal our secrets. He believes once we do, our secrets will destroy us."

Sam rocks on her feet. "So we just go in, right?"

Hook looks around one more time, "Yes, it's time to save Neal." He leads everyone into Echo Cave, Sam trailing behind everyone, nervous about the cave. When she gets into the cave she looks out to see the floor drops out suddenly. After the span of vastness there is a pillar of rock, and a wooden cage is marooned there. Sam can see a man in a blue shirt gripping at the bars of the cage.

He shouts, "EMMA!"

"NEAL!" She yells back to him.

They stand at the edge looking across the cavern. Mary Margaret breaks the silence. "It must be 100 feet across."

David joins in with a somber tone. "Even if we fashion a rope, there's nothing to attach it to. Nowhere to swing over."

Emma doesn't want to listen to reason. "So what do we do?"

Hook sighs, "I told you what needs to be done. Consider the moment of truth, literally. Now who wants to kick things off?"

Emma is skeptical of Hook. "So what? Someone tells their secret and the sprout wings?"

"I don't know the particulars." Hook fidgets his hand subconsciously. "Only what I've been told."

David speaks next, "How do you know it will work?"

Hook lets out a huge sigh. "There's only one way to find out I suppose," He sighs again. "I kissed Emma!" He spurts out.

"You did what?!" David explodes.

Mary Margaret grabs onto his elbow, "David, now is not the time."

"I already told Mary Margaret." Emma says, looking around at them.

"And I saw them!" Sam interjects with a little squeal.

The Charmings look at Sam for a second before Emma speaks again. "So technically it's not a secret. But it was just a kiss, how is that you're darkest secret?"

"It's what the kiss exposed. My secret is, I never thought I'd be cable of letting go of my first love, my Milah. To be able to feel like I could find someone else, that is until I met you." Hook finishes his emotional speech, breathing heavier than before. Sam can't help but give a small smile, she's glad that Hook was able to express his feelings, even if had to be infront of everyone. There's a rumbling and the cave shakes slightly; rocks pop up from Neal's island and forming a part of what could become a bridge.

David decides to go next. "Mary Margaret, I…uh,"

"No me next." Mary Margaret stops him. "Ever since the curse broke. Since we found each other. Since we found Emma. In all that happiness there is something that I hadn't wanted to admit." She pauses, her voice catching with emotion. "Our daughter is a beautiful smart amazing woman, whom I love very much and of whom I could not be more proud. But she's all grown up. And as much as I want to pretend I'm okay with it, I'm not. We missed it David. What we have with her is unique, but it's not what I wanted. We were cheated out of everything. Her first word, her first step, her first smile. We missed it all."

Sam watches as panic rises in David's eyes. "What're you saying?" He asks.

"When we get off this island and back to Storybrooke, I want another go at it." Mary Margaret gazes at him lovingly. "I want to have another baby." The rumbling happens again and more of the bridge reaches about fifty feet away from them.

"Nothing in this world would make me happier. And I know with all my heart that you would make an amazing mother…" David pauses. "But it can never happen, at least not with me."

Mary Margaret is shocked. "What do mean?"

"When Henry I went to search for the sexton, he was really taking me to find a cure." Hook watches from the corner of his eye as Sam reaches up and starts to fiddle with her her necklace when David says cure.

"A cure for what?" Mary Margaret looks at her husband.

David matches her gaze. "Dreamshade." He breathes out. Sam clutches onto the vial tighter.

Mary Margaret pieces everything together. "The Lost Boys. The arrow. You pushed me out the way."

"I wasn't fast enough. I was hit. Hook was able to find a cure." He takes a step closer to her, eyes silently pleading. "But it comes at a price. I can't leave Neverland. If I do I'll die." The bridge furls out again, this time going 25 feet away from the group, but no one is paying attention. David is staring at Mary Margaret and she is staring at him. A silence passes for a minute, their eyes not leaving each other.

Both of Sam's hands are wrapped around the vial and she steps forward. "I-I have two."

Hook and Emma look at Sam but Mary Margaret and David are still staring at each other. "Two secrets, darling?"

"I could've saved David!" Sam screws her eyes shut and suddenly she has everyone's attention. "I have an… ability, that would've saved him. And I would've have helped if I had known."

"Ability?" David croaks out.

Sam nods, opening one of her eyes. "It's not something I advertise."

She doesn't say anything else, waiting for the bridge to rumble. When it doesn't, Emma speaks up. "You said you have two."

Sam opens both eyes and inhales deeply. "I was going to elope with a prince. Gothel caught me before I could, but that's not it, not really." She exhales shakily. "I was going to abandon him!" Her voice breaks. "I saw that he wasn't in love with me and I still took the opportunity he offered. I used somebody." Tears stream down her cheeks, but she continues to choke out her confession. "I've tried to tell myself that it was justified. He was using me to save his true love from some incurable sickness, but for an entire year, I lied to his face. I wanted to see the world that was beyond my tower."

Everyone stares at her face, memorized by her tears. They fall down her face, glinting off the nonexistent light in the cave. They flicker with a gold luminance that screams magic to the others. Hook clears his throat. "Darling, your face?"

Sam gives a watery smile, before wiping at her face with the sleeve that she had used to stanch the blood from her nose. Her arm drops to her side and Mary Margaret inhales when the dried blood swirls in a golden sheen similar to oil in water, before the blood disappears. "Yeah," She gives a shoulder shrug. "I have magical healing tears that glow."

Emma opens her mouth to say something when the cave rumbles again and the bridge stretches across to reach the other side of the the cavern. Emma abandons Sam's situation and rushes forward across the rock to Neal. They watch as Emma brings the sword down across the cage. Once. Twice. Three times. It goes on until Neal tries to stop. "Emma. Emma! EMMA!" Sam watches as Emma slumps against the cage, sword discarded. Sam moves next to Hook, watching as Neal and Emma talk a hundred feet away. Mary Margaret and David watch Sam tersely, minds spinning from what Sam has said. After a while the bars from his dissolve and Neal stumbles out. The silence is stifling as Emma and Neal walk towards the group. Sam sees Neal for the first time, disheveled and confused. As they pass by Sam and Hook, Neal leans over to Emma. "Who's the kid?" He whispers into her ear. Emma gives him a 'I'll tell you later' look and they leave the cave first. David and Mary Margaret trail behind them and Hook follows them. Sam sniffles before going after all of them with a small bounce in her step. They form a semicircle around Neal. He leans against a tree for support. "Thank you." He crosses his arms over his chest, addressing everyone.

David puts his hands on his hips, "Well don't thank us yet. We still have to save Henry."

Hook talks while avoiding Neal's face. "We found your star maps. The real question is: Do you know how to get off this island?"

Neal nods, "If you find Henry, I can get us home."

"Let's go get Tinker Bell and retrieve the boy." Hook turns away and starts walking in the direction of the camp.

Sam also turns on her heel and follows after of him. She catches up to him and looks over her shoulder. David and Mary Margaret are too far away to hear them and Henry's parents are still outside Echo turns back to Hook. "So you know my big secret, why my necklace can't be yours."

Hook looks at the vial on her neck, he can see a faint glow showing through the frosted glass. "Yes, I now know about the, uh, magic tears of healing powers."

Sam swings her arms as she speed walks in order to keep up with Hook's pace. "Hey," her lighthearted tone changes to one of understanding. "If it means anything, I prefer you over Neal."

Hook laughs at her attempt at consoling him. "You were so excited to save him. To meet Henry's father."

Sam shrugs, "I thought he'd be more...suave." Hook doesn't say anything. "So...are we really going to see Tinker Bell?"

Okay, thoughts? If you guys get too confused just tell me, I'll try to clear it up with out giving away anything.

lially: Hmmm... how do I answer this. Rapunzel never met Snow, Charming, and the Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest, and Felix saw the memory in a movie sense, he doesn't know what he was thinking during the actual memory. And Peter is oblivious to any memories about Rapunzel. Wow, long explanation but I hope it helps.

Ramblings: A big Thank You to everyone who checked out my story And Then There's The Puppeteer. I caught up with Being Human (U.S.) and I am almost tempted to start planing an OC for Being Human, anyone interested? Ohh and Betas, I'm new, should I get a Beta for this story? And if I should, How?