There was a certain…tense in the air that Dagian couldn't understand but she could feel it in her bones. Its suffocating presence kept her up at night even though nothing should be wrong.

Something was going to happen soon. Dagian didn't know what it was. But for some reason her hair was standing up on end and the heaviness that had settled in the town almost suffocated her.

Dagian kept herself guarded constantly. Some of the townsfolk brought her things now that she was divorced; some didn't believe she had ever cheated on their Mr. Gold with August and some believed she did and wanted to stop by so that they could try and get some of the story. Dagian played the friendly host and more often than naught threw away the food that some brought. Rumpelstiltskin's warning had worried her and she didn't know who was on Regina's pay roll.

She was quite familiar with paranoia. It was what helped her survive when she was on her own.

Three people came by and Dagian pretended that she wasn't home. Her feet were aching, her back hurt and she just wasn't in the mood for company. And it wasn't just that she was tired, she really didn't feel like she belonged. She didn't feel like she belonged in her own time, she certainly wasn't going to feel like she belonged in a time that she had no place in.

She took an early morning nap on the couch and was awakened by an incessant ringing of her doorbell.

"I'm coming," she finally screamed pulled on the robe.

Henry stood there and gave her a light innocent smile.

Dagian rested her forehead against the doorframe. She didn't mind the kid. She really didn't, he reminded her of Bae because he tried to stand up for what was right. Ever since he found out that she remembered, he treated her like she was one of the coolest people he'd ever known. Dagian couldn't bring herself to tell him that she didn't care about his fight against Regina or Emma and their little fight to stop the curse. It wasn't anything against Emma or Mary Margaret or David Nolan…or Snow and Charming or whatever they were going to call themselves. Other than what their purpose, Dagian couldn't bring herself to care about any of them.

"What do you want, Henry?" she asked.

He shrugged, "Nowhere else to go. Emma is with August-."

Dagian tensed at August's name but didn't say anything.

"And I don't want to be with her," he said, "Can I stay with you?"

Dagian really didn't want Regina to come sniffing around but one look at this kid's puppy eyes and she melted. From what her husband had told her since the divorce, this boy hadn't had much happiness all his life and he didn't have anywhere to go that his mother couldn't find him. Dagian could give him that little taste of sanctuary for a little while.

She opened the door further, "Come on."

Henry came into her living room and glanced around, drinking everything in, "Did he really kick you out?"

"No," she said.

"You left him?"

"No." she replied again and threw the blanket from the couch to the chair, "We made a consensual agreement to end the marriage."

"But why?"

"Because sometimes the damage to a relationship by outer and inner forces is just too much that sometimes it's better to end it than continue."

His face fell and Dagian swallowed, "We're not true loves, Henry. We thought they were but we found out differently."

He looked at her, "Because your true love is Philip."

Dagian looked up sharply, "I am not THE Sleeping Beauty."

Henry didn't buy it, "You took a sleeping potion and your name is Dagian which means 'dawn' and that's sort of what Aurora means too. I looked it up."

"Names synonymous with 'dawn' have always been popular in the Realms, Henry," Dagian told him, "And sleeping curses were a dime a dozen. I'll bet in our time there were a thousand sleeping beauties. I am just one of them."

His face fell in disappointment, "I was just hoping that- with you being married to the most powerful man in Storybrooke and you got your memories back before most everyone else…"

"That you thought I'd be more important than a generic sleeping beauty. Don't worry kiddo; I'm quite okay with what destiny gave me," she sat down and pointed across the room, "Bring me that box."

He carried the box over to her, "Now that you're divorced will you tell me who Mr. Gold is."

"Nope," Dagian smirked, pulled the box on the floor and opened it, "I have something for you to do."

He stood in front of her excited, "Is it about Operation Cobra?"

Dagian looked up and stared at him blankly, "What in the name of the Twelve Realms is 'Operation Cobra?"

"It's what I call the operation where we're trying to break the curse," and gave her a curious look, "Did you know?"

"Mr. Gold did everything he could to keep me away from that curse information."

Henry looked at her eagerly, "But now you know, right? And that means you'll help?"

She looked up sharply. She wasn't promising that.

"I'll do my…best," she said reluctantly, "But I have to think about my child's safety too. Mr. Gold may not love me but he has gone out of his way to keep me safe and away from this curse thing."

"But you'll try?"

She nodded, "Sure, I'll try."

He seemed satisfied by at least that and he craned his neck to see what was in the box, "What do you want me to do."

She pulled out a hammer and some pictures, "If you're going to stay here, you're going to work."

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It was past dinner when Regina came for Henry. And when Dagian opened the door and the 'beloved mayor' saw Henry standing behind Dagian, she was clearly displeased.

"Get in the car," she told her son.

When the boy was heading down the stairs, Regina looked down and looked like she was steeling herself for what she was about to say next, "Ms. Danvers, I'd appreciate it from now on if you were going to take my son in, if you'd call me first."

Dagian rolled her eyes. She knew Rumpelstiltskin told her not to bring attention to herself but Dagian had heard about what she had done to her Sidney Glass, her so called 'most loyal servant.'

Regina studied her and tilted her head, "All his life Henry's done his best to stay away from you and your ex. Why would he come here now?"

"Desperate kid I suppose," she tried to smirk but she knew that she was in trouble.

"He was scared of the both of you up until a couple of weeks ago," Regina's smile turned into a smirk, "Do you remember?"

Dagian mentally cursed and her hesitance was all Regina seemed to need.

"It does make sense; you getting pregnant when time started again, this divorce that suddenly came out of nowhere. I have to wonder who you are though. I don't think I've ever seen you in the Realms and yet one day I see you walking next to Rumpelstiltskin about a day or so after I get here. Now I figure that you're not just someone he fancied in the Realms because I know how he was before the end and I'm sure that my spies would've said something."

"Yes," Dagian said while trying to think on how she was going to survive this and get Regina off her porch at the same time, "I'm not exactly from your time period."

"Wait a minute," she whispered and gave a vicious smirk, "The migraines that sidelined you for days at a time…you took a sleeping curse didn't you?"

"Yeah," she muttered, "Suicide isn't exactly an option when you're married to the dark one and he expects you to stay with him."

Dagian wasn't going to tell her about Bae. Rumpelstiltskin had told her that she didn't know about him and if there was one thing that Dagian could protect; it was her son.

And then she thought of a plan, it was…a quick off the wall idea and she'd have to make adjustments later but if she could get Regina to do what she wanted…

Dagian eyed Henry, watching her from his position in the car and took a breath, "Believe it or not sleeping potions are the exact thing to use when you need someone to get out of your way but you can't afford to kill them."

Regina stared at her, "Except if I end Emma's life then I can stop the curse."

Dagian shook her head, "Do you really think that Rumpelstiltskin, who you know planned this curse for his own agenda, would let you stop his savior that so easily with death? You still underestimate him."

Regina paled and Dagian could see her mind working a hundred miles an hour. Dagian didn't know if killing Emma would break the curse or not. Rumpelstiltskin had never told her. But she would think he would plan for that. A child always planned for the safety of their favorite toys after all. They took care of them and showed them more attention than anything else. Rumpelstiltskin wouldn't let her get broken.

Regina's eyes narrowed suspiciously, "Why would you tell me this?"

Dagian leaned against the doorframe, "My husband took my memories away and got me pregnant in a revenge scheme because I'd rather live in an eternity of my own regrets than be with him. But of course no one wants to live like that forever and you casting the curse woke me up. And now for the first time since I was married to him I'm really truly free. And really, you may be a murdering skank but at least I have you to thank for waking me up. I'm not loyal to Rumpelstiltskin, I just want to survive all this."

Regina raised an eyebrow, "And what do you want out of this?"

"You keep your little curse business away from me and my baby. I don't care about anyone else. Oh and when you get the curse back on track, please wait until I've given birth and the baby's sleeping through the night. And keep her from staying a prisoner as time as well. I really don't want to be carting around a baby for the rest of eternity."

Regina smirked, clearly her emotions and need for revenge didn't make her question Dagan anymore. One would think that she would learn the first time, "Deal."

"Good now…just so my ex-husband doesn't see you and bother me…get off my porch."

Dagian slammed the door in Regina's face, leaned against it and sank down to the floor and tried to draw in a few breaths.

It was a plan that she was going to have to work on but thus far it was simple. If Regina listened to her then she would use the magic she brought over to poison Emma. Henry had untainted pure love for his mom. He'd kiss her on the head or the cheek and she'd wake up and the curse would be broken and they could find Bae.

It was simple.

Dagian narrowed her eyes and her hand went to her stomach; it was almost too simple.

Dagian pulled herself up. She might want to go call her husband. If there was anyone that could think of all the variables then it'd be him.