Chapter 6

Charming took Emma to the Sheriff's station because that was the only place wanted to go. When they arrived, Emma headed straight to the closet where she kept Graham's favored jacket and took it out.

Charming watched his daughter with an eagle eye. He couldn't imagine the pain she was going through. She just found out that her true love, the father of her kid, had been transported back to the Enchanted Forest without any memory of her or of Storybrooke. "Hey," he said gently to her. "There has to be a way back to the Enchanted Forest."

Emma hugged the jacket and sniffed before she hung it back up before it lost Graham's scent. "I know there has to be a way," she said. "It's just..."

"Just what?" Charming promoted. "You know you can tell me anything."

"I spent the last several months believing that he died," Emma replied. "Now I found out that he's alive but also in my birthplace." She looked at him with sorrowful eyes. "When I see him again, he's not going to remember me."

"Your father knows that feeling all too well," Snow said from the doorway of the office. Henry was in front of her.

Emma looked over at Snow. She gave her mother an confused look.

"Snow," Charming said.

Snow gave him a look before she looked down at their daughter.

"What are you talking about?" Emma asked.

"Your mother took a potion that would make her forget about me," Charming replied. "When I found out what had happened, it broke my heart."

"Maybe you should tell her the effects," Snow told him.

Charming sighed knowing that Emma needed to hear this but it hurt him to talk about it. He knew Snow knew this. "She didn't remember anything about me," Charming replied, "and she had forgotten how to love."

"How did you fix it?" Emma asked.

Snow and Charming looked at each other and gave the other a knowing smile. "True Love's Kiss," they said together.

"It's the strongest kind of magic," Snow continued.

"The first time I kissed her didn't work," Charming replied.

"Why?" Emma asked.

"And isn't that the hardest question to answer," Snow replied with a smile. "I suppose it was because I didn't believe your father was my true love."

Emma laid her head on her desk and hid her face from her family.

"Emma?" Snow asked knowing her daughter's habits.

"If I had believed, the curse would've been broken months ago," Emma said when she lifted her head up.

Snow walked around the desk her daughter sat at and crouched down. "Honey," Snow said gently. "You couldn't have known."

"If I had believed," Emma started, "maybe Graham wouldn't have been transported back to the Enchanted Forest."

Snow's eyes widened with shock. "What are you talking about?" she asked.

"Rumpelstiltskin created the curse and then gave it to Regina," Charming told his wife. "Rumpelstiltskin had told us that whoever dies in Storybrooke and was from the Enchanted Forest is transported back home."

Snow looked back at her daughter. "Oh, Emma," she said with so much sympathy. "And you thought he'd been dead all this time."

Emma took Snow's hand. "Mom," she said trying out the word for the first time since the curse broke, "there's a catch."

"Catch?" Snow asked.

"Anyone who dies here doesn't have any memory of their Storybrooke life," Emma replied.

"Maybe all his needs is true love's kiss," Snow told her.

"What good would that do now since he's in the Enchanted Forest, and I'm in Storybrooke?" she asked.

"But that explains why he was getting his memory back," Henry replied, " or maybe you just broke his curse."

Emma stared at Henry. "I remember," she said. "Those were his last words to me."

"They started coming back to him the minute he kissed you here in Storybrooke," Henry replied.

Charming eyed his grandson suspiciously. "And how do you know this?" he asked him.

"He told me," Henry answered. "I helped him figure out who he was from the book Grandma gave me."

"And you told him who he was?" Snow asked.

Henry nodded.

Snow was really curious if her grandson would get this right, so she asked, "And who is he?"

Henry looked from Snow to Charming to Emma and smiled. "The Huntsman," he said.

Emma looked over at Snow. "Has he gotten everyone right?" she asked.

"He's a smart kid," Snow told her in a way of an answer. "You should see his grades; I've been wanting to recommend him for gifted."

"Why haven't you?"

"The Kathryn thing," Snow reminded her and then her expression changed to thoughtful, "though her name is Abigail, but after that, I had to start through the whole process all over again."

"Ah."

"Yeah," Snow replied.

"Did you find out why we didn't go back to the Enchanted Forest?" Henry asked.

"Rumpelstiltskin created the curse so he could find his son, Baelfire," Charming replied. "He gave the curse to Regina."

"So she sacrificed the life of her father?" Emma asked. Even though she just found out that Charming was her father, she couldn't justify murdering him to activate the curse.

"How could you guess that?" Henry asked.

Emma looked over at Henry. "When I went with Graham to the cemetery, we went to Henry Mills' grave," Emma said. "Don't you see, Henry? She named you after her father whom she had to love very much and she wouldn't be laying flowers on his grave."

"So she does love me," Henry said with a shrug. "But I still don't trust her."

"That's alright," Emma replied. "If she wants you, she'll figure out a way to redeem herself first."

"If she does, she'll have to make a lot of amends," Snow commented.

"So does Rumpelstiltskin," Emma said.

"The only way you're getting any help from him is if you find Baelfire," Charming replied.

"Who's Baelfire?" Snow asked.

"His son," Emma answered.

"Is that his favor?" Henry asked.

"Yeah," Emma answered.

"Compared to what other deals he made," Snow said, "she got off light."

Charming nodded in agreement.

"And finding people is my specialty," Emma replied.

Snow and Charming looked at each other.

Emma saw the exchanging of the look. "What?" she asked her parents.

"Let's just say you come by that talent naturally," Snow told her.

"Really?" Emma asked.

"Does the phrase 'I will find you' mean anything to you?" Henry asked.

They all laughed. "Point taken," Emma replied. "But he didn't say I couldn't use help." She looked at her new found family. "Will you help me?"

"Emma, you don't even need to ask," Snow said. "There's no way you wouldn't be getting it even if you hadn't asked for it." She looked over at her husband who nodded.