Snow stretches in her comfortable bed. She opens her eyes and sees the room she had slept in as a child. It felt so good to be back here. She could hear the birds chirping just outside her window. The hustle and bustle of the maids and the cooks as they prepare breakfast. She gets up and goes to her closet. Nothing was her size. It was all clothes from when she had been 10. She looks around for the first time, feeling that something was odd. A memory tickles the back of her mind as she looks around.

Her mother steps into the room, "Snow. You are so beautiful."

Snow turns with tears in her eyes, "Mom. I have missed you so much."

She smiles at her daughter, "What are you doing?"

Snow frowns, not expecting the question, "What do you mean?"

Eva gives her the look she always did when Snow was in for a lecture, "You are supposed to protect your people, Snow. Instead you let yourself fall in love with that Sheppard and had his daughter. She is not worth this fight. Just look at her. She has one kid out of wedlock with one man. And now she is pregnant with another man's babies out of wedlock. She is too far gone for you to save. You must quit this pointless mission. Your people need you."

Snow shakes her head, "How can you say that? I thought that you told me to always do the right thing. Saving this land is the right thing. These are young boys. Lost. Just like my daughter was."

Eva's features change into something she had never seen on her mother, evil. She grabs Snow's arm, "I am your mother! You will do as I say!"

Snow pushes her back, "You are not my mother! How dare you use her this way! You are a monster!"

She watches as her mother contorts into the shadow, but still in her mom's voice says, "You will die, Snow. Your fate is already sealed."

David tightens his arms around his wife as she whimpers in her sleep. He falls into a dream of a familiar land that he missed more than anything. He watches as the sun comes up and cleans up the sheep stalls. He couldn't imagine any other life than this one.

Ruth walks up behind him, "David, my son."

He turns around and embraces his mother. It felt like forever since he had seen her, "Mother. I am almost done here and then I will go to town to sell…"

She cuts him off with a hand on his cheek, "You failed me, David."

David frowns, "Wh-what? How can you say that?"

Ruth smiles, "You left me alone in a time when I needed you and then you brought that…that girl around me. You are the reason I died. If you had just stayed and protected me… But you wanted true love. You chose that wretched woman over me."

He shakes his head, "No…I didn't. I wanted all of us to be together. You said…"

She glares at him, "I was dying. I would say anything in my last breath. But the betrayal was in my heart."

David focuses on her face and sees an evil that was never in his mother, "You aren't her. My mother would never say these things to me."

His mother's image falters and the shadow takes her place, but still in his mother's voice, "You will watch as everyone around you dies. Starting with the woman you love."

Hook smiles as Emma snuggles closer to him in her sleep and falls asleep. He felt rocking and sits up in his cabin on the ship. Next to him lies Milah. How could that be? She was long gone from this world. He looks around trying to remember why this was so odd.

Milah stretches and smiles up at him, "Killian. You always look so handsome."

Hook frowns down at her, "Something isn't right. I feel as if we shouldn't be here."

She touches his cheek, "This is right where you belong, my love. In MY arms, not HERS."

Then he remembers what is wrong, Emma wasn't with him, "I love her. I have never felt the way I do with anyone, not even you."

Milah bites her lip, "You betrayed me, Killian. You were supposed to love me for all eternity. Not fall into the arms of a woman like that. She has changed you. Where is the pirate that I fell in love with? The one who takes whatever he wants, kills who he wants, and only cares for one thing."

He shakes his head, "I was damaged and broken. Emma fixed me; she took the time to put me back together again. She makes me the man that I have always wanted to be."

Milah growls, "She is nothing! You owe me vengeance! I won't let you give it up for that whore!"

Hook grabs her neck and puts his Hook just above her pulse, "You will not speak that away about Emma! Or I will kill you myself."

Milah laughs menacingly, "You can't kill what is already dead!"

Hook quirks an eyebrow, "Aye, tis true. But you are not dead, Shadow. Not yet."

He falls forward, no longer grasping the image of Milah, but he hears her voice behind him, "I will make you watch as I torture her. And as she screams out for help, I will kill her."

Emma wakes in the sheriff station with a laughing Graham in front of her, "Why are you laughing at me?"

He shrugs, "Sleeping on the job? This town isn't that boring."

She smirks, "It kind of is. I am amazed that you even have a job."

He grins, "There is the occasional dispute that needs handling."

Emma nods, "Oh yeah. 'I tried to let him go through the door first but he insisted on me going. What are we going to do, Sheriff?'"

He laughs heartily at that, "You have a thing or two to learn about small towns, Ms. Swan."

Emma purses her lips in thought, and then shakes her head, "I doubt that. You been in one small town you have been in them all."

Graham sits on the corner of her desk, "I wouldn't know. I have only ever lived here."

Emma touches her stomach and frowns. Something was missing. Tears spring to her eyes as she tries to remember what it was. Graham frowns, "Is everything ok? Emma?"

She shakes her head, "No…what happened to my…" Her eyes widen as she remembers, "My babies. Something is wrong." She touches his cheek, "You are dead."

Graham looks down, "Aye that I am. Though you seem to have forgotten about me quickly."

Emma shakes her head, "No. You don't think that I could walk in here every day and not see your face? Not feel that grief? I let you in and you died. In my arms. I could never forget you."

Graham takes her hand, "Are you sure about that? Because even now you lie in the arms of that man. You hold his children in your womb. If that isn't betrayal then I don't know what is."

She gets up and steps back, "Why are you doing this? Why can't you just leave me alone?"

Graham grins evilly, "I will leave you alone, when you leave me alone."

She closes her eyes and thinks of Hook. Of waking up next to him. She feels the shadows breath as he whispers in her ear, "Are you willing to sacrifice them all? Are you prepared to watch them die? And you will only have yourself to blame, Emma Swan."

Emma bolts up, shaking. She looks to her side, but there is no one next to her. She was afraid that she was in another dream. She couldn't bring herself to get up, too afraid of what she might find on the other side of the cloth that blocked her view of the others. Was it true? Would she get them all killed? She didn't know if she could survive that.

Hook appears around the cloth and sighs with relief, "You are awake. I tried to wake you a minute ago and couldn't." He sits beside her and puts his forehead against hers, "I was so scared."

She puts her hand on his cheek, "I don't want you all to die because of me." She hadn't meant to say it, but it was like her mouth had a mind of its own, "I don't know what the right thing is anymore."

He kisses her desperately and put his hand on her stomach, "I want to be selfish and leave this island. Take you far away so that we can be safe and a family. I'm not sure what is right anymore, either. I just know I can't lose you."

She closes her eyes, "Killian…I need you to know that you saved me. That without you I would be as lost as I was before. Even when I thought you were a coma induced dream, you saved me. Those memories gave me a hope I never would have had. I love you so much. I can't lose you either."

He lets the tears fall, "I think you are the one that saved me, Emma Swan. You made me everything that I have always wanted to be. I won't let any harm come to you."

They kiss again, not ever wanting to let go of that moment. The kiss tasted of all their love and all their fears. He pulls back, "The others are awake. It appears that some of us were haunted by dreams while we slept."

Emma gasps, "So it wasn't just me this time?"

He pulls her into a hug and kisses the top of her head, "I was hoping he would skip you, but no it wasn't."

She nods and they walk to the campfire that David had just started. Everyone was awake. Even Henry. She was afraid to tell him, but knew he needed to hear it. So he knows what they are up against.

She sits next to him, "Please tell me you didn't have a dream."

He shakes his head, "I didn't. Were they as bad as before?"

She puts her arms around his shoulder and hugs him to her side, "Much worse, I think."

Snow starts, "I dreamed of my mother." She tells them as the tears start to fall down her face. Emma could see how hard it was on her and few tears slip down her face for her mother. Snow finishes, "So that was my dream. I don't know what to think of it. And I don't know if I can stand to be on this island anymore. Before it was a burden, now it is my worst nightmare."

David hugs her and starts his tale, "Mine was also of my mother." And Emma once again feels the tears as her heart goes out to him. Why couldn't the shadow just come out and fight. Why did he have to play all these games? David wipes the tears, "I don't know if this island is worth saving."

Hook tightens his arm around Emma and looks at Neal and Gold, "I dreamt of Milah, but I knew right away something was off." He tells them of everything, only hesitating at the end. With a little prompting from Emma he tells her. She wipes the tears from his face, "I do want to flee this place. More than anything."

Emma closes her eyes, it was her turn. She sighs, "My dream was of Graham. It was friendly and normal." Then as she told them what happened and what was said, a deep sadness filled her, "I don't know if I can face the Shadow."

Regina touches her hand, "I should have thought of doing this for everyone. I put a spell around Henry and me so that no one could get in our heads while we slept. I didn't think…I should have out you all in consideration when I cast it."

Emma smiles, "Yes you should have, but sometimes it is hard to think of others when it has just been you…and Henry, of course. Thank you. I thought we would be safe from the dreams here. That was stupid of me."

Gold speaks up, "Well, now that the blame has been pointlessly placed, what did all those dreams have in common?"

David frowns, "Someone that we loved feeling as though we betrayed them. Someone we all watched die."

Gold nods, "It seems that you all feel like you let them down in some way. Hook gave up his quest for revenge. Emma never did anything to Regina when she finally found out the truth. Snow has left the people of her kingdom down by leaving them alone. David left his mother for a new life. And then your biggest fear of what will happen on this island is what they whispered to you before you woke."

Neal frowns, "Why didn't we have dreams?"

Gold shrugs, "No on we loved died in front of us. Milah was the one who left us behind. Her betrayal was to us, not the other way around."

Emma sighs, "Consider yourselves lucky." She looks down at Henry, "I can't leave. I made a promise to Tink and I owe it to Peter, but all of you can." She looks around, "You can go to the ship and find a way home. I don't want you to feel obligated…"

Henry shakes his head, "No. I won't leave you behind, mom. No one should be alone here."

Hook takes her hand, "I agree. I will stay to protect you, but she is right about the rest of you leaving. Especially Henry."

Regina looks at them with determination, "I will not let you fight that bastard without me! He has crossed my path one too many times."

Gold smiles, "Quite right, dearie. It is time for me to stop being the coward."

Snow nods, "I won't let that Shadow scare me away. I am protecting my people. I am protecting my family."

David grins, "For the way he used my mother, I owe him some pain."

Neal looks around, "I could take Henry back to the ship. I don't want him in this fight. And I can't really offer much help in this battle."

Henry glares at him, "I am not leaving! She needs me to help!" He looks at Emma, "I heard them talking. The only way to stop the shadow is if the savior and the boy with a true believer's heart combine their powers. If I leave then you are all doomed."

Neal looks down, "I-I…this is all just…"He looks back up, "I don't want to let any of you down is all. I know I can protect Henry. That is one thing I am positive of."

Regina smiles softly at him, "And by fighting with us you will. I know you have more skill than you are giving yourself credit for."

Emma nods, "You made it here on your own. You won't let us down, Neal."

After resting for a couple hours and taking apart camp they set off on their journey once again. Emma felt the dizziness creeping up on her. It had been happening more often lately. She stumbles into Hook's side. He puts his arms around her and she starts to see black spots.

She stops moving, "I need to sit down. I'm sorry."

Hook leads her to a rock and sets her down lightly, "its ok, love. Just take a deep breath. It will pass."

The others run over and Emma puts her head in her hands, "I don't know how much longer I can do this. This pregnancy is wearing on me more and more every day."

Regina hands her the canteen they filled with water, "I agree. This can't be healthy for her or the baby. She needs a doctor or something."

Emma closes her eyes, but the world continues to spin. Was that possible? "It isn't going away." She lets out a scream as something hits her rib.

Hook kneels in front of her, "What happened?"

Emma laughs, "One of the babies kicked my ribs. It shocked me, is all. I am fine. I feel better."

Snow smiles, "That is one way to be kicked into gear."

David rolls his eyes at his wife, "You are a riot sometimes, Snow." He looks back at Emma, "Are you sure you can go on?"

Emma nods, "Yes. But we need to find this bastard fast. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up. I know you are all tired too, but be thankful you don't have to carry this extra load."

David sighs heavily, "I agree. I wish he would just come out and face us."

Hook helps Emma up, "We need to slow our pace a little. I know that it will take longer, but she can't keep moving like this."

Emma shakes her head, "No. The sooner we find him the better. I will not slow everyone down."

Hook scowls, "It is better to slow down than to have you keel over, lass."

She pushes his hands away, "I am fine, Hook. Stop worrying so much and let me take care of myself."

He frowns, "If I did that then you wouldn't be alive! You have to stubbornly rush into every situation without a thought in that pretty little head of yours!"

Emma steps back as if he had hit her, "How dare you! The only reason we have gotten this far is thanks to me!"

The others watch in shock as the two continue to argue. They didn't know what to do. The two that had become their leaders in this journey, who never fought, were in an argument that could tear everything apart.

Snow lifts her voice so they can hear her, "HEY! There is no time for this…We-"

She is cut off by a loud banging noise. Emma turns and gasps as she sees a cannon ball flying their way. Regina grabs Henry and throws them both to the ground. David pulls Snow against him and does the same, burying his head into the side of her neck. Neal and Gold both dive to the ground. Hook looks over at Emma and grabs her. She buries her head in his chest as he runs behind the rock and they hide behind it. The cannon ball soars over their heads and lands a few feet away with another loud bang.

Emma looks up, "What the hell was that?"

Hook touches her face, making sure nothing hit her, "The bloody idiots are on my ship! If they damage a bloody thing I will kill them!"

Emma buries her face in his neck, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean any of what I said."

Hook runs his hands through her hair, "No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said what I did."

Emma kisses him lightly, "It is time, Killian."

He frowns, "What?"

She laughs, "The shadow is close and getting closer I can sense it. This is where our final battle will be. And then we can go home."

He grins, "I will never leave your side love."

They stand up and Emma yells, "Prepare yourselves. The fight has finally come to us."

The others stand up and take out their swords as the Shadow flies closer and closer. The lost boys come out of the trees and let out a cry. Swords clash as Emma faces the Shadow.

A/N: I hope you enjoy this chapter. The shadow's battle is finally here and hopefully they will get home. Fingers crossed

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