"Another Curse…" Mum said, disheartened. "It's happening again…" We had gathered outside of Regina's vault, discussing our new…situation.

"Gold, this Curse, is it going to be like the last one?" Emma asked, holding Henry close.

"The last one, was created to service the Queen's wishes." Mr Gold said, prompting me to reach out and hold Ben's arm. "This will be done per Pan's desire. I would count on something hellish."

"I've lived hellish." I spoke up softly. I then shook my head. "I can't do that again. I wont."

"It won't happen." Ben assured, putting his hand over mine.

"The Curse was built to be unstoppable." Regina explained. "There's nothing that can be done."

"Well, it is possible to stop it." Mr Gold told us.

"What?"

"By using the scroll itself. It can only be undone by the person who used the scroll, that's you, Regina."

"What do I have to do?"

"You must destroy the scroll. Both your curse and his shall be ended, but know this, there will be a price. A steep one."

"W-what do you suggest?"

"Instead of going to him, bring him to us with a spell. One that will return Pan and Henry to their own bodies."

"If I'm back in my own body, that means I'll have the scroll." Henry realised. "I can bring it to you guys."

"Exactly right, Henry." Mr Gold complimented.

"Even you aren't powerful enough to cast such a spell." Regina stated.

"Well, given the proper tool, I could be."

"The Black Fairy's wand." Tinkerbell said. "One of the most powerful Fairies that ever existed."

"Black Fairy?" I echoed. "There's a…Black Fairy in this realm?"

"She's well versed in dark magic." Tinkerbell continued. "The Blue Fairy exiled her, but before she did, she took her wand."

"I assume our dearly departed Mother Superior had it hidden at her residence." Mr Gold suspected.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Dad asked. "Let's hit the convent."

"Can I come?" Tinkerbell asked. "I should pay my respects to Blue after all."

"Then it's settled." Mr Gold decided. "The rest of us should get back to my shop and prepare Henry for the spell." As we walked back towards the town, I turned to Ben.

"Go find the others." I told him. "Start getting word out about this new Curse, it's best I stay with my family, with my Magic I can help protect them." Ben gave me a soft smile. "What?" I wondered, the two of us pausing to let people walk on ahead.

"I'm just…really proud of you." Ben said softly. "After everything you've been through, you…I feel like you're becoming more you every day." I flushed a little at Ben's praise. "When we first met, you were this…shy girl who used to follow after everyone and now…"

"Ad now?" I repeated.

"And now, you're this strong woman who's leading her people with conviction, and you're fitting into your status as a Princess so easily. I'm…I'm really happy for you."

"Oh, Ben…" I sniffed. I reached up and cupped Ben's cheek, drawing him close and kissing him sweetly. Ben slid an arm around my waist and kissed back. When we pulled away, I gently set my hand on Ben's chest. "Go." I prompted. "I'll text you later."

"Ok." Ben pecked my lips before heading off. I jogged after my family.

TIMESKIP

Once we had all entered Mr Gold's shop, Mum gravitated towards something hanging in the corner while Mr Gold started working on the spell. Emma and I walked up to Mum who was admiring a glass mobile. "This mobile hung above your cribs." Mum sighed, her hand gently holding up a dainty blue glass unicorn. "It was...it was supposed to hang over your cribs."

"I like the unicorns." Emma said.

"I do to." I agreed softly.

"Emma, giving you up when the curse hit was one of the hardest things I ever had to do." Mum admitted. "And Hadley, you being ripped from my arms was one of the worst feelings."

"We know." Emma told her.

"Every time I look at you both, I wonder what would have happened if the Curse was never cast if I hadn't had to give you away."

"I did the same thing with Henry."

"Em, you were doing your best." I assured, placing my hand on Emma's arm. "You were-"

"Giving him his best chance." Emma finished. "Yeah, but still. Things would have been very different if I had kept him. We would have had a life together. A normal one. Back in Boston, or someplace else. But I guess that wasn't meant to be." Belle guided Henry into the room, followed by Regina. They sat down on the cot off to the side. Emma approached her son. "You doing ok, kid?"

"Yeah." Henry agreed with a small nod. "I'm just ready to be me again."

"Not much longer now, Henry." Mr Gold assured. "Not much longer. Once we have the wand…" Mr Gold approached him. "All will be as it should." Belle then stood to trade places with Emma. We all stood around for a bit until Dad walked in with Hook and Neal.

"She's back." He stated. "The Blue Fairy, she gave us the Wand."

"Is there anything else you need for the Spell?" I asked, wringing my hands together.

"Only one more item." Mr Gold said. He opened a cabinet behind him and brought out a cuff.

"What is that?" Mum asked.

"This is one of the only useful things I managed to pilfer from Greg and Tamara before they left for Neverland." Mr Gold approached Henry with it. "It renders anyone with Magic utterly powerless."

"I haven't forgotten about that, by the way." Regina spoke up, glaring slightly at Hook.

"May I see your wrist, Henry?" Mr Gold asked. Henry offered his arm to Mr Gold, who slipped the cuff onto his arm, and then knelt beside Henry. "I want to make sure that when my dear old dad awakes, that he's weakened. This will block his powers."

"So what happens now?" Henry asked softly.

"I enact the spell and you fall into a deep sleep, and when you awake, you'll be back in your own body."

"And then you hang on to that scroll." Regina implored. "And you come find us as fast as you can."

"When I gave my Heart to Pan…I thought I was being a hero. I'm sorry."

"There's no need to be sorry, Henry." I told him. I stepped forward and cupped Henry's cheeks. "Doing what you think is right…is never a bad thing. I almost helped free all the Vilians back in my Realm because I thought it was the evil thing to do, the right thing to do. And I only did that because others told me that it was. Pan tricked you, your heart is still pure and your intentions, always good."

"Thank you, Aunt Hadley." Henry said. I gave him a gentle smile.

"Come back to us, safe, and with a face I don't want to punch." Henry and I shared a chuckle as I backed away.

"It's time." Mr Gold said. Henry laid down, Regina and Emma standing and baking away. "Keep your eye on the wand." Mr Gold said, waving the instrument over Henry. Mr Gold then tapped Henry's head, and he started to convulse.

"Whats happening?" Emma demanded,

"Henry's spirit is leaving Pan's body." Mr Gold explained. After a tense minute, Henry stilled.

"It worked." Regina said happily.

"Let's go find our son." Emma stated. Everyone hurried out of the room.

"Hadley, do you have him?" Dad asked me. I sniffed the air.

"Just a second…" I muttered. "He's-"

"Guys!" A voice called. I turned and saw Ben and my friends, hurrying towards us from the Clocktower, with Henry in between them.

"It's me!" Henry cheered, racing to us in his real body. "It's me! It worked!" Henry threw himself into Emma and Regina's arms.

"I saw him looking around, all confused." Mal said. "Decided to keep an eye on him since you couldn't."

"Mal, now is not the time." Evie hissed.

"Mum, Mum, I just saw you guys." Henry said, separating from the duo. "You guys just saw me."

"But we didn't see you." Regina told him.

"Oh, he's got it." Emma realised, taking a scroll from Henry's hand. She offered it to Regina. "It's up to you now." Just as Regina took hold of the scroll, a flash of magic emitted from her hand and Regina collapsed. I reached out and grabbed her, gently setting Regina on the ground. "Regina!" Emma called. "Regina!" Regina's eyes then snapped open.

"Emma?" She wondered. The blonde helped her stand.

"What happened?"

"Gina, are you ok?" I asked.

"Yes, I'm fine." Regina assured. "I just…"

"What is it?" Mum demanded. "What happened when you touched it?"

"I saw what needed to be done." Regina kept her eyes on Henry as she spoke.

"Mum…are you going to be ok?" Henry asked.

"The important thing is you will be." Regina told him.

"No he won't." A new voice spoke. We all turned and saw Pan strolling up to us, cuffless.

"Wait, he has the-" Hook started, before Pan waved his hand and my movements froze.

"Curse." Pan finished, holding up the scroll. "That I do." He observed us all. "Look at you, a captive audience. I could play you like a pack of dolls, couldn't I? I think I'll start with these two." Pan approached Belle and Neal. "Hmm, and you both look so adorable. Hard to tell which one ot kill first. No it isn't. You." I couldn't tell who Pan had pointed at, which made me even more terrified of the man. "You first." I saw Gold approaching, and he set his hand on Pan's shoulder, pulling him back.

"Stay away from them." He snarled.

"Well, how about this?" Pan mused. "The worm has teeth. You're here to protect your love ones?"

"I'm not going to let you touch either of them."

"Oh, well I'd like to see that."

"Oh, you will, because I have a job to finish. And I have to do it, whatever it takes. No loopholes. And what needs to be done has a price, a price I am finaly willing to pay." Mr Gold turned to his son. "I used the curst to find you, Bae. To tell you I made a mistake. To make sure you had a chance at happiness. And that happiness is possible. Just not with me. I accept that."

"Pretty, pretty words." Pan muttered.

"I love you, Bae." Mr Gold whispered. "And I love you, Belle, you made me stronger."

"Stronger?"

"Yes."

"But still, no magic." Pan pointed out.

"Oh, but I don't need it. You see, you may have lost your Shadow, but there's one thing you're forgetting."

"And what's that?"

"So have I. I sent it away with something to hide." Mr Gold lifted his hand, and his own Shadow descended, and placed an object in his hand, a shiny, curved dagger, the Dark One's dagger. As Mr Gold's shadow returned to him, he pulled Pan into him. They struggled, and I couldn't hear what either person was saying…but Gold drove his dagger into Pan's back, right through his heart, and so deep that I knew it would have drove into his own chest. There was a swirl of black smoke as Pan changed into an old man. The two continued to talk, and Mr Gold twisted the dagger. Light spilled out of Pan, and covereved the father and son duo. They disappeared, and the Curse Scroll fell to the ground. We were then unfrozen, and I stumbled forward. Belle started to cry, falling to her knees.

"Did he…?" Carlos trailed off.

"Yeah." Jay said sternly.

No…" Belle sobbed. "Rumple! He's-he's gone!" Regina slowly stepped forward and knelt to pick the scroll up.

"Regina?" Mum started. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Regina said as she stood.

"I'm so sorry." Emma said softly, turning to Neal.

"My father did what he had to do." Neal said, though I could hear the thickness in his words. "He saved us. Regina, don't let him die for nothing." Regina didn't respond. "Regina?"

"What?" Regina seemed to come back to herself when her name was called.

"We've here for a reason, love." Hook reminded her. "Pan."

"Is dead."

"Just because someone dies, doesn't mean their spells ware off." I said. "You know that better than I do, Gina. Can you still stop his Curse?" Before anyone could say anything, Leroy came booking it down the street.

"It's here!" He screamed. "The Curse, it's here! It's coming from all sides! There's no escape." Neal pulled Henry into a hug.

"It's not too late." Dad said. "We can still stop it, right? Regina?"

"Yes. Yes." Regina assured.

"W-what's the price?" Emma asked. "Gold said there is a price. What is our price?"

"It's not our price." Regina said, turning around. "It's mine."

"What are you talking about?"

"It's what I felt when I...first held it. I have to say goodbye to the thing I love most." Henry stepped out of his father's arms and stepped forward.

"Henry?"

"I can never see him again." Regina admitted. "I have no choice. I have to undo what I started."

"The Curse that brought us to Storybrooke?" Mum asked.

"That created Storybrooke. It doesn't belong here, and neither do any of us."

"So, breaking the Curse…will destroy the town?" Evie asked softly.

"What will that do to us?" Mal asked.

"It will wink out of existence as though it were never here. And everyone will go back to where they are from. Prevented from ever returning."

"So…we'd go back to Auradon." Ben realised.

"You would go back to Auradon." I corrected. "We'll all end up back in the Enchanted Forest. Everyone except…"

"Except Henry." Regina agreed softly. "He will stay here because...he was born here."

"Alone?" Emma asked softly.

"No, you will take him. Because you're the Savior. And you were created to break the curse. And once again, you can escape it."

"I-I don't want to. We'll both go back with everyone."

"That's not an option. I can't be with him. If I don't pay the price, none of this will work."

"Emma, you have to go." Mum said.

"I just found you." Emma argued,

"And now it's time for you to leave us again. For your best chance, for his."

"No...I'm...not...done. I'm the Savior right, I'm supposed to bring back all the happy endings, that's what Henry always said."

"Emma, sometimes happy endings aren't always what they seem to be." I told her. "Trust me. Emma, look at everyone here." I gestured around to everyone that had gathered, "You've touched all our lives in one way or another."

"But we're a family."

"Yes, and we always will be." Mum added. "You gave us that."

"You and Henry can be a family and you can get your wish." Dad said. "You can be like everyone else, you can be happy."

"It's time for you to believe in yourself, Emma. It's time for you to find hope."

"I've known you for some time." Regina started, "And all I wanted was for you to get the hell out of my life so I could be with my son. But really...what I want, is for Henry to be happy. We have no choice, you have to go."

"Ok." Emma whispered reluctantly.

TIMESKIP

Emma grabbed her car and met us all at the town line. Emma went around giving everyone well wishes, before she and Henry walked over to Mum, Dad and I and wrapped us all in a tight hug. When we pulled away, and Henry spoke to Regina, I pulled Emma aside. "Here." I said. I un-clasped the chain arround my neck, slipped the ring onto my finger and reached up, clasping the necklace around Emma's neck.

"What?" Emma breathed. "Hadley, what are you-"

"This will protect you." I told her. "I know Regina will do her hardest to cast this spell but if it doesn't work." I pressed my hand against the heart pendant that rested against her chest. "This will protect you. Mother told me it could ward off all curses. Keep it safe for me, ok?" Emma nodded reluctantly. I smiled softly, pulling Emma into a tight hug. Emma's arms tightened around me as well, as if not wanting to forget me. Emma and Henry then went over to talk to Neal. I approached Ben and wrapped my arm around his, leaning into his side and looking down as everyone said their final goodbyes. I looked up as Mum pressed a kiss to Emma's temple and then stepped back. She set a hand on my shoulder as we all reluctantly watched Emma and Henry get into the yellow bug. I watched as Regina broke the Curse scroll, and purple smoke overcame the green. I looked to Ben, holding him close as the smoke covered us and whisked us away back to the Enchanted Forest.