A/N: I know some of you are wondering where David is, so I hope this chapter helps clear things up. Also, in this story I ship CaptainSwan; Hook just hasn't come up yet. He will, I promise, my fellow CaptainSwan shippers! Gotta make a grand entrance, right? ;)

David's POV

David was just setting a sleeping baby Neal in his crib when the phone rang. The baby began to wail again.

David cursed quietly under his breath and picked up the phone, groaning. He'd never known babies were so irritable and noisy. Still, despite the hardships of having a child, he felt bad that he and Snow had been forced to let someone else raise Emma. "Hello?" he said, hand on hip.

"Hey," came Mary Margaret's sweet voice.

David was surprised. He hadn't expected his wife to call so soon or at all, really; he had expected the trio to be too busy searching for his missing daughter to call him. "Hey!" he answered, the shock in his voice only thinly veiled. "What's going on? Have you found Emma yet?"

"No, but Henry thinks he knows where she is," Snow replied.

"That's right!" David heard Henry say in the background. "I wish you were here, Grandpa. Emma's your daughter, too, I mean. Plus, this would probably go a lot faster with you."

David scratched at an itch on his nose. "I wish I was there, too, bud. But I have to take care of Neal."

"I know, but couldn't you bring him here with you?"

"He's too little for that, Henry. And you know someone has to be in charge back here in Storybrooke."

"Okay," Henry conceded. "That's true."

"Put David on speakerphone so we can all hear him," Regina said in the background. David heard a soft beep.

"David? You still there? Can you hear me?" Snow asked.

"Yeah, you're good. So what's Henry thinking?"

"Hold on, I'll hand him the phone." There was a rustling sound on the line, then Henry spoke up.

"So earlier this morning, Mom found Emma's phone with the 'Find My iPhone' app. She brought it back to the hotel with her, and it was all cracked and broken, but it still worked."

"The damage to Emma's phone may have been mainly my fault," Regina admitted, "both accidentally and purposefully."

"Well, Grandma was scrolling through Emma's photos. When we got to the end, there was this video Emma had left us… sort of as a possible goodbye, I guess."

David took a sharp intake of breath. "She's not… She didn't…" He could barely speak; he was so scared of the possibility of what could have happened after that goodbye.

"We don't know yet," Regina interrupted, cutting off his flow of incomplete sentences.

Henry continued on with his explanation. "Emma's favorite movie was always the Truman Show, remember? She felt like she could relate to it. And at the end of the video, she used a quote from the movie as her goodbye. She said, 'Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.'"

"So…" David didn't see where Henry was going with this.

"So, at the end of the movie, Truman tests the limits of his world. He sails all the way across his ocean to make it to the other side, into the real world."

"I still don't get it."

"Emma's going to do the same thing. She's going to go to the edge of her world and test the limits. Think about it. What is, or used to be, the tallest building in New York?"

David dropped the phone then, catching Henry's drift. He couldn't take this; it was too hard. He wanted to be out there, looking for his daughter, but he had duties here. He hated that they'd stuck him with the job of looking out for the town. Regina should be the one stuck here; this whole mess was all her fault, anyway. Had she never enacted the curse, he could have a daughter that wasn't the same age as him.

Regina had been insistent on going with her son, though. She had also refused to care for baby Neal, saying her "diaper and spit-up days are over." And Henry had to go; he was Emma's son and knew her the best.

He wasn't entirely sure why he'd let Snow go, though.

"Grandpa? Grandpa?" he heard through the receiver, the sound barely carrying far enough up from the floor for him to hear it.

He bent over and picked the phone back up. "You think she was going to jump off the Empire State Building. Because that would pretty much be the furthest she could take her immortality to." David knew had figured out Henry's idea, and he knew Henry was right.

"Exactly," confirmed Henry. Oh, how David wished he could be there with them. He missed his baby girl so much, and he wanted to be there to talk her out of this. Dark One or not, he didn't want her jumping off any buildings.

In the background, David heard a clicking sound, then the rustling of paper. "Mary Margaret," he heard Regina say urgently, "look at this."

Mary Margaret gasped. "Oh my God." She paused momentarily. "David, I have to go."

"Okay," said David, still a little peeved he wasn't with her. "Be safe. I love you."

"I love you, too," replied Mary Margaret.