Dagian stood with her baby as Rumpelstiltskin mashed all the buttons on the intercom before one finally let him in. Bae had run from them…but Emma said that she never got the chance to talk to him so that meant he wasn't necessarily running from them. It just meant that he was running from trouble.

But Rumpelstiltskin had hinted that this wasn't the first time that Bae had run from him…it didn't matter if he'd known it was them…it would've probably ended with the same result.

Rumpelstiltskin opened the door, "He lives here. He'll be back and I'll be waiting."

Dagian wondered just how likely that was. If he was in trouble then what chance did he have of returning to the same place twice? That was suicide. Dagian had been on her own for thirteen years over in the Fairy Tale World and even she knew that.

However, her world was a lot more portable than her son's probably was.

She wondered what kind of trouble her son had gotten himself into…if it was enough to flee from, it must've been bad…well what did she expect? He was dropped into this world at the age of 14 with no way to survive and no knowledge for how this world worked.

So if he changed then he changed because of his parents and their poor excuses for decision making.

They reached the door and Rumpelstiltskin pulled out a lock picking kit.

"You can't just break in," Emma scolded.

"Yeah, well, actually, that's something I'm quite adept at," Rumpelstiltskin sneered and then looked to Dagian to defend him. She made no effort. She needed to sit on something that wasn't that little bitty bench. It had pressed against her back injury and made the pain worse.

But this wouldn't endear Bae to them if they broke in his house…

"He might not come back," Emma said, voicing Dagian's own thoughts.

"Okay," Rumpelstiltskin said sarcastically, "Finding people is what you do, Miss Swan. I'm simply going to assist you. There may be information in here. Who he is, what he does, who he loves…"

That last one seemed to strike something in Emma for some reason because she leaned forward, "Don't do this. There are things called laws."

"I'll be lookout!" Henry said enthusiastically and turned to run down the hall. It figured that he would think of this as an adventure more than a family reuniting. Dagian didn't expect much different from an eleven year old.

Emma turned to stop Henry and then turned back to Rumpelstiltskin, "No, I….you could get arrested."

Rumpelstiltskin shrugged, "Then my son will have to testify against me and we will be reunited."

The lock clicked and he opened the door. They filed in and Dagian felt stunned as she looked around the apartment. Her son had lived there…how many years, she didn't know. There were a couple of plates on the kitchen table…the kitchen was to her left and seemed to double as the living room and…possibly office judging by the three bookshelves. There were small lockers as well, the kind you'd find in a public place to store your belongings temporarily.

Dagian wondered in further and looked at the bedroom and placed Lily on her son's bed. So that she could look around. Everything was so bare...only the essentials. This was a boy that was used to hiding.

She stared at the reflection of the room in the…very green TV that faced the bed and tried to gather the overwhelming emotions that rose up in her chest.

She still imagined her son as the small fourteen year old that slipped into the vortex all those years ago…He was a man now, he was taking care of himself and he had support…

There had been a part of her that had been hoping that he would still need them somehow…and they could take him home and work on forgiveness that way but that didn't seem to be the case.

Dagian saw a man's shirt tossed in a chair and her heart sank as she realized more and more that her son wouldn't be coming home with them if he didn't want to and there was no indication that he would ever want to see them again.

She slowly sank down in the chair as she took in everything around them…

So many years wasted…so many missed opportunities.

Dagian knew she couldn't cry. Not here. Not in front of Emma and her boy. Rumpelstiltskin seemed to feel her emotions or at the very least understand them because he crossed over to her and rested his hand on her shoulder. She gripped his wrist with one hand and stared at the floor so she could gather her emotions. She had gone through every possible scenario in her head. Several of them ended with the four returning to Storybrooke alone…and she thought that she could handle it.

But now as they were surrounded by proof of their son's existence. Dagian couldn't' say she was so sure it would be that easy to just go home. She wanted to say that at least maybe she could convince him but how could she when she'd only spent 14 months with him his entire life?

They sat like that for a few seconds and Rumpelstiltskin looked up, "Find something, dearie?"

Dagian followed his gaze. Emma was staring at the enormous dream catcher that had been on the window.

"It's nothing," Emma said, "Uh; it just looks like a dream catcher."

Rumpelstiltskin narrowed his eyes like he did when he smelled a rat, "Yeah,
well, if it's nothing, why are you still holding it?"

There was silence and Dagian looked up to see a quiet fury on Rumpelstiltskin's face, "You're lying to me."

Emma averted her gaze, "Just get back to looking, okay?"

Dagian stood up as well, had they talked? She saw Bae? She saw their son and lied to them about it? Oh, for a supposed 'lie detector,' she was horrible at lying herself.

"No, no, no. You saw something. Tell me."

"Ms. Swan, it's our son," Dagian reminded her and looked at Rumpelstiltskin. He was furious, he wouldn't see that demanding things of her wouldn't work, "Think if it was Henry-"

Emma shot her a deadly glare continued the little dance, "You don't know what you're talk-."

"TELL ME!" Rumpelstiltskin demanded.

Dagian jumped. Rumpelstiltskin rarely raised his voice and if he did then it was about to get dangerous."

Emma seemed to understand that as well because she looked at her son, "Henry, go wait in the bathroom."

Dagian observed the escalating situation as Henry started to argue. No, sending him to the bathroom might not be the best idea. She wanted to protect him and Dagian understood it but both wouldn't reach the danger that both of them were capable of reaching if a child was watching.

"Henry, GO," Emma said and they all waited till he was gone out of the room.

"There's nothing here," Emma started, "This guy's a ghost."

And now that he was gone, Dagian felt her own anger take ahold of her, "Were you just going to let us go back home and think that we'd lost our son for good if we couldn't find him?"

"You think us fools?" Rumpelstiltskin sneered, "You're holding back. I want to know what and why."

"I'm not holding back!" Emma lied badly. Again.

"Did he tell you something?" Rumpelstiltskin demanded.

"Gold-," Emma tried appealing to his more…humanistic side.

"Did he tell you something?" Rumpelstiltskin demanded far more sharply than the first time.

"Nothing," Emma continued, "He didn't say anything."

Dagian's fury at Emma lying to both of them was making her shake and for once, and she knew it was selfish; she took her husband's side over the person he was standing against, "She's lying."

Rumpelstiltskin nodded, "You talked to-."

"Don't put words in my mouth!" Emma snapped.

"Tell me," Rumpelstiltskin threatened, "You tell me, or I'm going to make you tell me."

Emma's entire stance changed then. No longer was she just the tracker and mother that was dragged along on this quest but she was now a fighter and a rebel. She set her jaw and straightened. Her eyes dared him to try, "You don't have magic here."

"Oh, I don't need magic," Rumpelstiltskin mocked.

And Dagian dropped the fury and got ahold of herself when he started walked forward. What was she thinking? Letting her emotions get the better of her like that? She knew what he was capable of and she was so angry that she was encouraging it. This would escalate and it would be nasty if they didn't get a lid on it now. "Rumpelstiltskin stop."

"You really want to do this?" Emma challenged. Well, it wasn't so much a challenge as it was a resigned statement. She was trying to get him to rethink what he was about to do.

"Don't push me," Rumpelstiltskin threatened.

"Don't push me," Emma threatened but it didn't sound as intimidating as Rumpelstiltskin's furious gaze.

"We had a deal!" Rumpelstiltskin screamed and shoved something over on the floor to show how furious he was, "A Deal!"

Dagian rushed forward and grabbed his arm, "Stop, her boy is in the other room-

He jerked out of her hold, "No one! NO ONE breaks deals with me!"

The door flew open and a man stepped in, "Hey."

And somehow…Dagian knew that it was their son…this was Bae.

He looked so terrified standing there…so much the man but still so much the little boy afraid of what his papa would do to cause suffering next.

"Leave her alone," he said a bit quieter.

Rumpelstiltskin backed into the wall, shocked.

Dagian stared at her son and felt like every emotion that she'd ever felt was cranked up to eleven and she felt like she'd been slammed by them as if they were an oncoming train.

This was Baelfire.