The plane ride was horrible. Lily never stopped crying and screaming and people around her scowled and glared at them. Rumpelstiltskin and Dagian did their best to comfort her but it only did so much when they were terrified as well.

Thankfully it was only forty five minutes and the second that the plane landed, Lily stopped crying. They got their bags together and on their way out of the station airport, Dagian checked her phone to find a few messages from Jefferson.

The first one felt like a punch to the gut, "Archie's alive?"

Emma stopped and turned back, Rumpelstiltskin raised an eyebrow and Dagian looked at both of them. Archie was alive…her friend and mentor was okay. But how-?

Hook and Cora. Of course.

Emma looked confused as Dagian was smiling in excitement through her tears, "Yeah he showed up at our door earlier…I'm surprised no one texted you."

"Well I've had my work phone off since I was getting a hook extracted from my back," Dagian muttered.

Emma sighed, "So it was him, then."

Dagian accessed her next message, "And there was a giant in Storybrooke. He threw a car at your parents.

Emma paled and dug for her phone.

"Dagian, we have little time," Rumpelstiltskin said as they got outside, "Stop reading every text from your boyfriend."

Dagian gave him a hurt look. She refrained from making a hurtful retort and stared down at the words that he'd sent her.

There was a giant in Storybrooke…instead of 'fe fi fo fum,' he threw cars at the Charmings. You would've loved it.

She could imagine his glee as he playfully texted these things from his safe haven on the hill.

There were two more. One told her that the giant problem was handled and they were all friends now (she would need that story when she called him next). The last one made her pale.

Rumpelstiltskin looked at his shaking daughter and looked at her, "What is it?"

She showed him the text without a word. She wouldn't focus on this now. She would focus on it later when she got back home…but it still sent chills of terror through her.

Rumpelstiltskin paled as well when he read it.

Hook's loose.

"Leave the Charmings to take care of it and they lose him in ten minutes," Rumpelstiltskin muttered, "It seems that your boyfriend is a useful link back to our world after all."

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Manhattan was like nothing Dagian had ever seen in her life. When she was back in the enchanted forest, the tallest thing she'd seen was a seven story castle. These…marvels that surrounded her surpassed them in every possible way. She held Lily and used her daughter as an excuse to get a window seat in the taxi so that she could gawk.

And she couldn't lean on Dawn's memories; she'd been in Storybrooke all her life. Rumpelstiltskin just barely glanced at the miracles that surrounded him. His Mr. Gold memories told him that he'd grown up here.

Dagian had seen pictures of course but

And that, he was too focused on what he was going to say for when they found their son.

At least he was thinking about it. Dagian was too scared to even consider what she'd say to him because nothing she came up with sounded genuine and not rehearsed.

As they drew closer to where their son lived, Dagian couldn't even focus on her surroundings anymore. She stared at her feet on the taxi floor. Rumpelstiltskin gripped the cane so tightly that his knuckles were white. Wordlessly, Dagian put her hand on his. He relaxed at the touch ever so slightly.

They pulled to a stop and Dagian felt another shot of adrenaline shoot through her.

They were here.

Rumpelstiltskin got out of the car and offered a hand to Dagian. She accepted it and climbed out as well.

"This the right place?" Emma asked.

"Yes it is," Rumpelstiltskin confirmed.

"Let me guess. He's not expecting you."

Dagian fought to NOT roll her eyes at Emma. No, their missing son that they called Emma in to find was TOTALLY waiting for them to just drop by for tea…or coffee as this world had.

"Well," Emma said at both their looks, "Who doesn't love a surprise?"

They all walked into the lobby of a rundown apartment building. Dagian took in the bare essentials of the room…she'd been told that even these places were expensive in New York. She sort of wished that he picked a better city to live in if this was his only option.

"Gods," she whispered to her ex as they walked to the names of the intercom, "Our house when we first married was cleaner than this."

Henry scanned the list, "No 'Baelfire."

"Yeah," Emma said, "That probably wouldn't fly as an alias. Your magic globe didn't give you an apartment number?"

Rumpelstiltskin bent over and examined the names, "It doesn't work that way." '

Dagian made a note to one day ask him how this globe that he suddenly came across worked.

"Do any of these names mean anything to you?"

Dagian scanned them, none of them linked to her son as far as she knew, "No."

"Well, names are what I traffic in, but sadly, no."

Emma pointed to one, "Here's your boy."

"Or it could just be vacant," Rumpelstiltskin said with a hint of irritation.

Emma's entire posture changed as she slipped into an area of expertise that she actually knew about. She stood straighter and her voice grew far more confidant, "You might traffic in names and magic, but I traffic in finding people who don't want to be found. And those sorts of folk don't like to advertise their whereabouts."

She pushed the buzzer, "UPS package for 407."

No one responded but they heard him hang up.

That could be Bae up there. That could be the son that they waited 400 years to find and the only thing that separated them was a gate. They should've just pressed all the buttons and went door to door or something.

They heard a pounding on the fire escape, "He's running!"

They rushed outside. Dagian watched as Bae…their son…jumped from the escape and ran for it.

Dagian wanted to call for him…she wanted to beg him to turn around. However, her throat closed up and she found she couldn't speak. That was her son running away from them.

"That favor you owe me- this is it," Rumpelstiltskin yelled at Emma, "Get him to talk to me, I….I can't run."

Emma nodded, "Watch Henry. I'll be back."

She took off running after them and they watched until both were out of sight.

Dagian turned to Rumpelstiltskin and looked down at the daughter in her arms, "Rumpelstiltskin-."

"She'll get him," Rumpelstiltskin said but he didn't look like he believed it either, "She'll convince him…"

"You don't know that," Dagian whispered.

"He'll come back," Rumpelstiltskin promised her, "If not we'll regroup…and we'll find him again."

"Or he'll run again," Dagian said and wiped a tear away.

"We've come too far to give up now," Rumpelstiltskin said, "We won't stop until we can talk to him, okay?"

Dagian nodded, "Okay."