A/N: So, it's all about to hit the fan. Hopefully I haven't given too much away. The next chapter is not to be missed.

Emma folded her hands over her lap, and breathed deeply. She hadn't even gotten to the worst part of the story, and she was already starting to chicken out. Though to be fair, her parents weren't exactly experts at hiding their shock or fear as well as them might hope that they are.

"Oh Graham and Nikolai, I am so sorry." Snow muttered softly, as she patted Graham's knee, before sending Nikolai an apologetic look.

"Thanks." Graham answered softly, his eyes downcast.

"So – what happened next?" James pushed forward.

Emma looked up at her parents, and studied them for a moment. It was the first time since she found out that they really were her parents, that she had the time to take a good hard look at them. She bit her lip to keep herself from chuckling out as she realized that Mary Margaret's joke from what seemed like another life, was dead on. Emma did have her mother's chin. Upon further inspection though, Emma noted that most of her physical attributes linked her to her father. Her blonde hair, her blue eyes, and her strong build. It was all passed down to her from James. Which made her think, if she looked more like her father, did that mean that she had more of her mother's personality?

Snow cleared her throat softly, causing Emma to return to the present. Nodding softly, Emma opened her mouth to continue when the front door burst open.

"Goodness!" Snow shouted, as her hand covered her heart.

Both Emma and James stood up defensively, while Nikolai crouched in front of Graham. It took a moment for everyone to realize who was at the door, and another moment for them to recoil from their defensive positions.

"Ruby!" Nikolai whispered, as he stalked forward. He didn't look the fearful look in her eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Emma!" Ruby called out, passing Nikolai an almost apologetic look before moving passed him and toward her friend – her goddaughter.

"What's wrong? Is it Regina?" Emma nearly snarled the name out.

"Kind of. Let me ask you a question, where is Henry?"

Emma swallowed thickly, before turning toward her parents. Before she had dove into her recanting of what happened in the Enchanted Forest, she had asked her parents that same question. Their answer had appeased her, by simply explaining that he was napping. However, looking at the fear in Ruby's eyes, she knew that her friend knew more about where Henry was then Emma did.

"He's in bed, asleep – right?" She paused, as she stared at her parents.

"We watched him go upstairs. James, didn't you check on him?"

James nodded his head softly, "Yeah, right before we started talking in our room. He was sound asleep."

Emma stared between her parents and her friend, "Why, Ruby?"

"Because he just went to Regina's. He's with her now."

Emma's hands balled into fists. She didn't spare her parents a passing glance as she stormed up the stairs, and threw the loft room's door open. An angry scream penetrated the air, before Emma came stomping back down the stairs.

"One thing. I asked you to do one thing, and you couldn't even do that right!" Emma screamed at her parents, before locking eyes with the other three people in the room. "Take me to my son."

"Emma." Graham called out.

"Nope." Emma said dismissively. "You're staying here. Watch them." She spoke harshly, before placing a kiss on his cheek. "I have to go get my son back from the evil bitch."

Emma stomped down the street, her legs moving as fast as they could. Ruby and Nikolai were jogging in an attempt to keep up.

"Tell me again, why couldn't we take your car?" Ruby yelled from behind her.

"Because the bitch'll see us coming. A sneak attack is the way to go. Mainly because she has that witchy ju-ju shit going on, and I don't."

Ruby sighed softly, as Nikolai grabbed her hand. "She's just worried." He smiled softly.

Ruby looked down at their joined hands, before looking back up at Nikolai. She smiled back before speaking. "Yeah, I know. I've known Emma for a little while. She doesn't give up easily."

Nikolai laughed lightly, "No, she doesn't. Not when her family is involved."

"Could you two stop talking and keep up the pace. It's called a sneak attack, not a chatty attack."

Ruby rolled her eyes, before gripping Nikolai's hand tighter and pulling him forward. They started to jog a little faster to keep up with Emma.

"We're close," Emma spoke softly after a little while of waking in silence. "Nikolai and Ruby, I want you guys to sneak around to the back. I'll go through the front. We'll meet in the foyer."

Both Nikolai and Ruby nodded, but neither of them liked Emma going off on her own. Instead they just waited for her to signal for them to make their move. Emma crouched down and moved slowly up the front yard and toward the door. She placed her ear against the door and listened carefully, hoping that she would hear Henry's voice so that she would know that he was in there. When she didn't hear anything, she reached up and felt the knob. Twisting it slowly, she smiled when it easily gave way as the door swung open. Pulling herself out of the crouch, Emma walked into the white mansion and looked around. There was no sign of any living person. There was no mess, nothing. Emma felt like something was off. Her nose wrinkled slightly as she walked further into the house. She could hear Ruby and Nikolai make their way through the kitchen and toward the foyer. As she made a step for the dining room, she heard feet hitting the hardwood floor upstairs. She signaled toward the stairs with her head, and started up them.

Taking the stairs two at a time, Emma quickly rounded into the hallway upstairs. As she was about to pass the first door on her right, she saw a door a few feet down the hallway swing open. Emma reached for the side of her jeans and cursed under her breath when she realized she didn't have her gun. She moved slowly down the hallway. She could feel Nikolai and Ruby behind her, the latter of the two was practically shaking. Just as Emma made it passed the first door and toward the second door, a silhouette stepped out from the room and looked directly at the three of them.

"What in the hell do you think your doing?" Regina yelled at them.

"I came to get back my son. Now, where is he?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't seen Henry since you came back through the portal. Now kindly, get the hell out of my house." Regina smirked condescending at them.

Ruby stepped forward. Her body shaking, as she attempted to keep herself under control. "That isn't true! I followed Henry here earlier. I watched him knock on the front door. It opened, you stepped out and let him in!"

The scowl on Regina's face faltered as she took in the information. "That's impossible. I've been asleep all day with a splitting headache. I didn't even feel like I could get out of bed. I haven't seen Henry. I don't have him."

The anger on Emma's face dropped. Her hatred for the woman in front of her forgotten for the moment. "If you don't have Henry and he isn't here – then who has him and where is he?"

Snow stared off into space, she didn't even realize that both, James and Graham, where staring at her. James reached forward and grabbed a firm hold of her hand, trying to gain her attention.

"Snow. What's wrong?" He knew it was a dumb question. Emma was angry with them, and they had lost Henry. There were plenty of things wrong, none of which he knew how to fix. However, he knew that it would help him console her if he knew which one of the problems that they were facing, was bothering her the worst.

"I don't get it. I thought we did a good job taking care of Henry. I thought he loved us. Why would he runaway?" Snow asked, as her eyes moved to find her husbands.

James' lower lip puckered out slightly at the sight of tears in Snow's eyes. He didn't realize that she was taking Henry's Houdini act so badly. She had been so strong when Emma had been there, yelling, raving, and planning. She had even helped the trio that had left on the rescue mission come up with their plan. Even though Emma was angry with them, he had seen the shock and almost pride on her face when Snow gave them a near perfect tactical plan. James made a note to himself to tell Emma about some of the missions that Snow had perfectly planned.

"We did, Snow. We did everything that we could for him. Emma will realize that, she just has a lot on her plate right now, but she'll come around."

Snow gazed at James for a moment, before shaking her head. "It's not just about Emma, James. It's Henry. If we took such good care of him, why did he feel the need to just take off?"

James' mouth bobbed open and close a couple of times, before Graham sat forward. He cradled his injured arm in his lap, as he thought about his words carefully. "Snow. You remember what Henry was like before Emma broke the curse, right?"

Snow offered Graham a small smile, "Yes."

"Is there any chance that he heard anything that would make him take off? Perhaps a fight, maybe between you and Regina?"

Snow tapped her chin thoughtfully, as she let her mind drift back. She thought about any of the fights that they had with Regina while Emma was gone. All the times that she and James mentioned Regina in a bad or hurtful way. None of those times did she visually remember Henry being there, but if there was something she had learned from her grandson, it was that he was very sneaky. "It's possible. Henry is quite a stealthy child."

Graham nodded thoughtfully. "Maybe none of this is as bad as we think? Maybe, Henry took off to try to fix things between his two families."

James sighed, remembering the conversation he had with Henry in his truck before they convinced Regina to open the portal back up. That even though he wanted to hate her – even though he knew that he had every reason to hate Regina, that he still loved her. Suddenly, Graham's idea made perfect sense.

"I think you might be onto something, Huntsman." Graham smiled weakly at James, whose cheeks turned a bright read. "I am sorry, that was quite callous of me. You've saved my entire family. You brought my daughter back to us. I do apologize."

Graham waved him off with his good arm. "It's quite alright..." Graham trailed off.

"Graham, what is it?" Snow asked, her own problems forgotten for the moment, at the troubled look on Graham's face.

Sighing heavily, Emma was going to kill him, that much he knew. "Emma didn't get a chance to finish what she was saying earlier. It's something that is really bothering me."

Snow and James' eyebrows wrinkled slightly, "You can tell us about it – if you want to." Snow pressed.

Graham nodded, "After my father died," Graham paused, sniffling slightly. He had yet to fully grieve the death of both of his parents. "We were able to quickly locate Lake Nostros. We had the wardrobe ashes and the compass. Everything that we needed to return. I guess deep down I knew that it was a little easy, but I just wanted to get Emma home. She might not have said anything, but I could see it in her eyes. She missed Storybrooke – Henry – you guys – just everyone. I rushed through the bushes, and the next thing I know, I'm flying through the air and everything just went black. What happened after that, I'm not entirely sure, until I woke up. Emma was standing over Cora, a look of horror on her face..."

Snow and James leaned forward slightly, waiting for Graham to continue. Sweat started to form on his forehead. He swiped his arm against his eyebrows to clear away the excess moisture.

"She took Cora's heart. Just ripped it right from her chest. She was so scared by what she had done, she froze. I knew that she couldn't do it, Emma's heart is far too good to take a life. So I stepped forward and grabbed Cora's heart from her hand. I squeezed it with everything inside of me. Every single angry feeling I felt, drifted away as the heart in my hand turned to dust. That woman ultimately took everything from me. My parents, twice, my brother – my life. She might not have been the one to have squeezed my heart, but she is a big part of the reason why Regina is the way she is. Her body just seized up, and she turned to dust and drifted off. We jumped into the portal together – What happened after that, you already know. What you might not know, is that all three of us have been suffering nightmares."

Snow stared at Graham, still trying to process the fact that Emma had taken Cora's heart. It just seemed too easy. "Well, I think that is normal given the circumstances."

Graham chuckled, "Yeah, except that we're having the exact same nightmares. Down to the last detail."

Snow's mouth bobbed open, as a thought entered her mind. "Are you absolutely sure that Cora's dead?"