A/N: I know that my writing is not the best, but this was the first thing that popped into my head. There is a long paragraph and it is basically explaining the show, so you can skip over that. It is just my cliff notes version of season 1. Hope you enjoy.

"Wait. What? You ability of love has nothing to do with this."

"She said that my magic is linked to my love. When you take away magic, you take my love."

"How can you trust it?"

"You haven't denied that such a world exists, so I think you know of this world, but you refuse to believe it. I also think that I would talk to Henry."

Regina nodded and Emily had this toothy grin plastered on her face. They both made their way to the castle. They all walked in to see that Ruby and Granny had just arrived. Emily was excited to see them and gave both of them gigantic bear hugs. Regina felt a little jealous, but knew that it was uncalled for. She then received a knowing look from the eldest wolf and she responded with a softer version of her death glare.

"Rubes, how are you?"

"I am great, S. I guess your name is Emily isn't it?"

"Mom is annoyed with you, so be prepared."

"Thanks for the heads-up. I will talk to her. Where is the rest of your crazy family?"

"They are around. I need to find Henry for some information for a new mission."

Ruby gave her friend one last hug and went to find Regina. Ruby had a good excuse, right? She lied about Emily to keep her safe. That is legitimate. She kept walking towards the throne room and saw all the adult royals. Regina and Emma sat in their thrones and Snow and Charming had unreadable expressions. She slowly approached the angry looking family and showed respect by bowing. Snow smirked knowing that Ruby could see that she did something wrong. Regina was throwing daggers towards the wolf. Emma and Charming were there so that they could keep everyone in check, especially Regina. "Your Majesty, Regina, I am so sorry for keeping her a secret. I did it to protect her and you knew it had to be done."

Raging got up from her throne and made her way over to the wolf. When Ruby stood, she was slapped across the face.

"REGINA!" Everyone in the roomed yelled at the queen. Ruby was silent knowing not to piss of the queen.

"That, Miss. Lucas, is for lying and keeping me away fro. My daughter. And this is for keeping her safe an bringing her back to me." Regina engulfed the care-taker of her daughter in a giant bear hug. Then Granny came in with a smirk. Granny made Ruby do this on her own because it was the younger's idea. Regina and everyone else turned to the sound of the door opening.

"You are also responsible. You didn't tell me about her."

"Rubes idea and not mine. I didn't actually know until she was 3 because she had no refinance of magic. Then I saw that a shadow loomed over her while sleeping. I then started to stay in her room and I have since. I need to warn you that she has some killed bite, but no bark. She reminds me a lot of you, Regina."

"Thank you. Both of you for taking care of her. I need to tell her the whole family story or she will either be annoyed, confused or both when we go back to the other world."

"What? I didn't think anyone wanted to go back."

"It seems that taking her magic is also taking her love, so we need to take her back so she can get it back. I also assume that this shadow was like a cloud of night sky."

"Yeah. Okay, you need to talk to her now or we will never get out of here."

Regina left the room and kept searching the whole castle for Emily. She went to her room, the West wing, the barracks, the garden, the forest, the library, the dinning room, the kitchen, Henry's room, and even the study, but she was no where to be found. She was mindlessly wondering around when she heard something. It sounded like a crash or a thump. She didn't know what it could have been because she is alone. She continues to walk down the corridor, but then she heard it again, but louder. She kept walking, but it got louder and louder each time. She then followed the sound and found that is was coming from...the wall? How could it be coming from the wall? She kept following the sound to the source when she stumbled upon the familiar candle that recently was discovered to have secrets. She pulled the candle and the wall opened up. She was met with the familiar lighting and heard sounds coming from the secret room. She kept going through this hallway until she was met with the sight of her children going through books and throwing them haphazardly around. "What are you doing?"

"Shit. Mom, don't scare us like that."

"HENRY DANIEL SWAN-MILLS! There is to be no foul language. I again repeat, what are you doing?"

"Henry lost the magic story book and we are going through all the shelves to find it."

"Henry, is is magically gone, or did you misplace it?"

"I misplaced in when I was in out library. I left for 10 minutes, but it was missing when I got back."

"I think you can explain the story just fine without it. Even I know the book and I wasn't as into it as you were. If you need help, there is a whole kingdom filled with people who know your story."

"Okay. Once Upon A Time..."

Henry started to explain the beginning of the curse. Regina was a young girl, forced to marry someone she didn't love because her love was killed for a 10 year old spilling a secret. Regina's mom was overbearing and eventually was banished and ruled Wonderland. Cora stared as a miller's daughter, but married Prince Henry, who Henry was named after. Henry was a kind man to everyone. Cora was always controlling and Henry did nothing to stop it. Once Cora was banished, Regina was then forced to serve the king. Regina used the magic mirror/Sydney Glass/Genie to kill the king with a rare snake. Regina's heart grew darker and darker over the years. When Cora returned as the Queen of Hearts, Regina drank a potion that made her sterile because she isn't want her mother to have power. Regina also hated Snow White. Snow was the reason her love was killed. She started to hunt down Snow when she managed to escape. Regina worked with Rumpelstiltskin to learn the dark arts. Rumple had other plans. He made the monster that would cast his dark curse, so he could find his son. When Snow met Prince Charming, he was to be married to the daughter of King Midas, Princess Abigail, but neither loved one another. Snow stole a ring and went on an adventure with Snow to get it back. He ditched his wedding and spent so much time trying to be with her. She loved him, but could never say it. When she bit the apple, it was to save his life. After he woke her up and got engaged, they took back the kingdom and ruled over it. Regina went back to her own land and stayed there. She then decided to enact the Dark Curse, but a savior was already being made. Snow gave birth the day of the curse and had to save Emma. They sent her through a wardrobe and she landed in a land without magic. She was raised in the foster system and found love with a man named Neal Cassidy. She took the fall for one of his crimes and went to jail. There she found out she was pregnant. She gave birth, but didn't keep the child. He went into the adoption system and landed with Regina Mills, mayor of a small town. Regina knew that the world she created was a lie, but she won; the Evil Queen won. She had to enact the curse by crushing the heart of the thing she loved most, to her it was her father. She crushed his heart and she ended up in Storybrooke, alone for 18 years, until she adopted Henry. For the next 10 years, everything was quiet. Henry then went on a search for his birth mother because of some magical book his teacher, Mary-Margret Blanchard, gave him. He found her and took her back with him. Regina tried everything in her power to get rid of Emma Swan, but nothing worked. Emma became sheriff and eventually broke the curse with true love's kiss. Since time had stopped, Emma was the same age as her parents and she was not a fan of that. Emma got to spend time with her parents as them being Snow/Mary-Margret, the teacher, and Charming/David. the ex-coma patient who was married to someone during the curse.

They went on so many death-defying adventures and it was one hell of a ride. There were so many stories that came to life and some weren't even fairy tales. Their whole journey has led them here. The stories that they all grew up with were nothing but all the goodness, but never the back story as to why. Henry attempted to explain the worst family tree in the world and did pretty well. Emily's head was spinning from all these new revelations. She would have never guessed that any of this would happen. Now she understood why this place is so significant. Her whole family found love in a mysterious place and they carried that love to another realm.

"So basically, I have a crazy family tree that is all based off of true love an optimism except for my parents because of their life and I have a lot of dead relatives."

"Yes, and wow, you sound a lot like mom and ma. Always being a pessimist."

"At least she got one good quality from her mothers, rationality. You are just like your grandparents."

"Yes, I get that I am not like either of my parents, but I am the one person who has a positive attitude."

"Moving aside from that," Emily quickly butted-in before anything got heated,"How and when are we going to this land?"

"We have idea. I only got there by sacrifice and I can't do that again. Mermaids are the only people that are able to got through realms. Jefferson can, but it he is not very happy that I managed to get a happy ending."

"I can do some research and see if there are any ways to go from one realm to another without doing anything harmful."

"Thank you dear. Since it is getting late we can eat now or do something else."

"You should eat. Henry was getting hungry when we started. I will come later, but I want to go through all of this before I go and eat. I am not the happiest when I am frustrated by answers."

"Okay, but don't take long or I will be dragging you out of here faster than you could even close a book."

"Okay. I will be a half hour at most. Now go before Henry decides that he will only eat dessert as a last resort."

Henry and Regina left the small room. Emily was finally alone and it was quiet. She started to look through the books that were in the room. One by one, she pulled them out and read through each on. She kept reading and reading, until her body said that she had to go now or she would be in trouble. She reluctantly left the book she was reading and made her way to the dining hall. She peeked in and saw that her whole family was talking and enjoying themselves. She stood in the doorway until Regina noticed her.

"Have you solved our latest conundrum?"

"No, but I will. I decided to eat something before I turned in for the night."

"Alright, dear."

Emily sat down and ate the little amount that she was given. Ruby was eyeing her suspiciously and decided that this was a topic for a later time and place. They all chatted into the night and all went to bed. Emily went to her room and was immediately taken over my sleep.