Okay so secrets come out that you all know about but the characters are just finding them out. The conversation/fight goes pretty quickly because everyone's emotions are running high.

Chapter 33: Secrets Revealed

When Regina and Mandy got home later that day, she telephoned Archie and informed him that Miranda would no longer be seeing him. He was okay with that but he still wanted to do the group session but he knew that they weren't going to agree to do it. He would have to figure out a way to get everyone in the same room, when suddenly an idea popped into his head.

It was 2 days before the ball and they needed to try on their dresses one last time to make sure everything was perfect.

Cora and Regina already tried their dresses on and were waiting on Miranda.

"We have to take it in a little. It seems you have lost some weight since the last time." The seamstress said to Mandy.

"Miranda…" Regina was about to scold her but she quickly interrupted. "I haven't been skipping meals. If anything I've eaten more…and I'm not lying!" She added knowing what Regina was going to say next.

"You better not be." She warned. Mandy rolled her eyes. She heard her phone go off.

"Cora, could you hand me my phone?" She asked since she couldn't move.

Cora looked at it funny. "How does this magic little box work anyway?"

"That's a lesson for another time." Mandy replied.

"I'm going to hold you to that." Cora said handing her the phone.

Mandy laughed. She unlocked her phone and read the text message from Henry. Regina noticed Mandy's smile fade as she read it. "Honey, what's wrong?"

"Henry needs our help with something. He said it was urgent." She said trying to sound calm.

"Did he say what's going on?" Regina asked concerned.

Mandy shook her head. "Just to meet him at the town hall in 15 minutes."

"Why the town hall?" Cora asked.

"I'm just relaying the message guys, I don't know anything." Mandy said becoming frustrated with all the questions.

"We need to go. Tell him we'll be there." Regina said to Miranda before turning to the seamstress working on her daughter's dress. "Are you almost done with her dress?"

"Almost finished, miss." The seamstress replied as she kept quickly.

Once they were finished, they rushed through the town hall doors and went straight into the meeting room.

"Henry?" Mandy called out to an empty room.

"Where is he?" Cora asked looking around.

Snow, David and Emma came running through the doors.

"Henry?" Emma screamed.

David noticed the three standing off to the side. "What are you three doing here?"

"Henry told us to come here. He said it was urgent." Mandy answered.

"We got the same message." Snow said.

Neal and Gold came rushing in and saw all the 6 people gathered by the door. "What's going on? Where's Henry?"

"I take it you got the same message too?" David questioned.

"It appears that way, yes." Gold confirmed.

"So what's so urgent that we all had to rush down here…and where is that boy?" Cora asked knowing everyone was wondering the same thing.

"I wish I knew." Emma said putting her hands on her hips.

Regina walked a little closer to Emma. "You should know where he is!" She screamed.

"Oh, cuz you're such a great mother. You never knew where he was when he was under your care!" Emma shot back as she stepped closer to Regina.

"He didn't start lying until you came to town!" She yelled back.

"Enough!" A loud voice was heard from the other end of the room. Everyone looked over to see Henry and Archie standing there.

"What the hell is going on, Henry?" Mandy asked the question that was on everyone's mind.

"Archie wanted to do a group session…this was the only way to get you all down here." Henry answered,

"Henry, you can't lie about being in danger. Haven't you read 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'? He was eaten ya know." Emma said remembering the lesson from that story.

"I never said I was in danger." Henry pointed out.

"You made it sound like something was terribly wrong." Snow replied. "We all thought the worst."

"Henry, this is such a bad idea…" Neal said knowing everyone agreed.

"You all have a lot of issues to get through." Archie said.

"Archie, you know we have a lot of history together and we've done things to each other that are hard to forgive." Snow said trying to let him down gently that this wasn't going to happen.

"I know but you are all family one way or another. At least try to get through some of your issues." Archie said.

"Archie.." David said before being interrupted by Archie. "Just give it a shot…for Henry." He said bringing the boy in front of him.

"This is ridiculous. I am not participating in this charade." Regina stormed over to the doors but it wouldn't budge. She waved her hand in front of it trying to open it with magic but that didn't work either.

"You won't be able to get out." Henry said. "The Blue Fairy enchanted the exits. No one can leave until we talk things out."

"Emma sighed. "You have got to be kidding me!"

"Fraid not…have a seat." He said motioning the chairs in a circle.

Mandy was the first person to take a seat. She didn't know what the big deal was; she also didn't know all the secrets these people held. They all began to sit down, much to their dismay. They really didn't want to be there. Henry sat next to Archie followed by Cora, Regina, Mandy, Snow, Emma, David, Neal, and Gold on the other side of Henry.

"What do you want us to do, tell all our secrets?" Gold questioned as he sat down.

"Just get everything out in the open." Archie replied.

"This is going to be a disaster. " Cora said sighing.

"Where do we start?" Neal asked.

"Let's start with Henry. "Archie suggested. "Is there anything you want to ask anyone here?"

Henry looked around. His eyes landed on Emma who was right across from him. "Mom, why can you forgive Neal and admit you have feelings for him?"

"I do not have feelings for him!" She snapped denying Henry's accusations.

Snow placed her hand on Emma's knee. "Emma, you don't have to lie. We can all see it."

"See what?" Emma asked.

"That you are still in love with Neal." She replied.

"I am not!"

Neal smiled. "Ah, come on Emma. Admit it, you still love me."

Emma stood and starting yelling. "No Neal. You abandoned me. You made me take the fall for you and I had to spend 11 months in jail."

Neal stood. "I'm sorry! August told me to so you could break the curse!" He yelled back.

Emma moved closer to him. "Think about what could've been if you didn't listen to him! We could've raised Henry together!"

"You think I didn't want that? I couldn't keep you from your destiny. You had to break the curse!" He shouted.

"I could've done that while still being with you! You're from that world, you could've convinced me!" She shot back.

"I thought I was doing what was best!" He yelled.

"That's what my parents did. They thought they were doing the right thing when they sent me away." She said bitterly, forgetting anyone else was in the room.

"You're mad about that?" David asked.

"Yes, I mean no!" She sighed standing in front of her parents. "It's just, I could've been with you instead of alone all the time."

Snow shook her head and grabbed Emma's hands. "We would've been separated anyway, Emma. You were out only hope in breaking the curse."

"We wanted to keep you Emma but Regina made that impossible." He said glaring at Regina. She only rolled her eyes at his pathetic attempt to make her feel sorry for what she did.

"It was so hard giving you up. I only got to hold you for a minute before you had to be placed in the wardrobe." Snow said tears in her eyes.

She sat back down next to Snow. She didn't want her to cry. "I'm sorry. I understand why you had to do it but I'm still angry."

"You can blame Regina for that." David said glaring at the Queen for a second time.

"I had to take you all to a new land because I couldn't harm you in our own…thanks to your little deal with Rumple." Regina shot back.

David looked over to Gold, anger clearly visible on his face. "You made the deal exclusive only to our world?"

Gold nodded. "Yes, weren't you listening?"

Snow became very angry and started yelling at Regina. "Why couldn't you just be content with your banishment Regina? We spared your life."

"If you expect me to fall at your feet and express gratitude, you are sadly mistaken." Regina snapped. "And you know exactly why, Snow!"

"I was 12. I said I was sorry and I really am. I didn't know Cora was going to kill Daniel." Snow said trying to get it through Regina's head that she didn't mean to.

"Sounds like you should be mad at your mother." Emma pointed out.

"Oh believe me, I am." Regina assured her.

"Regina, we've been fighting for god knows how long. Don't you think we try to resolve this?" Snow asked. Mandy was uncomfortable being in between Snow and Regina. She moved her chair back just in case they wanted to go at each other.

Regina narrowed her eyes on her stepdaughter. "I tried to get over your betrayal, Snow. I tried to move on and be happy with you and your father. It just wasn't…" Snow finished her thought. "The same as having your own family?"

Regina nodded. "I became even more miserable. I tried to get away from it all but Rumple offered to help me."

"Wait!" Cora said loudly. "How did you find out about him in the first place?" She asked Regina.

"Daddy told me about him and the book you kept under your pillow. I summoned him." Regina responded.

"You wanted to get rid of your over bearing mother!" Gold hissed from across the room.

"He's the one who told you to push me through the looking glass, isn't it?" Cora asked already knowing the answer.

Regina nodded. "He even supplied it."

Cora stood up angrily and shouted, "You needed me gone to get to Regina so you could corrupt her into your little pawn!"

"I wasn't his pawn." Regina argued.

Cora turned to her daughter. "Why do you think I didn't talk about him. I was protecting you from him. He wanted you when you were born but I was smart enough to amend the contract. He wanted you to enact the curse for his own agenda, not to help you with your revenge on Snow White."

"How far back does your little plan go, Gold?" Emma asked.

"When Cora wouldn't enact the curse, I had to find some else. Why not her daughter." He simply replied.

Regina got to her feet. "I just wanted her gone!" She said pointing to Cora. "Once I did that, I didn't want anything to do with magic."

"You loved every minute of it Regina!" Gold hissed.

"Exactly!" She sat back down disappointed in herself. " I didn't want to turn out like her, but that ship his sailed…"

"Far far away…" David mumbled which made Emma chuckle.

"If you didn't want anything to do with magic, why did you go back to learn?" Snow asked wanting to know what was going on with her stepmother at the time.

Regina sighed. "Jefferson told me about a Wizard who could bring the dead back to life. I thought he could bring Daniel back, but he failed."

"Are you talking about Dr. Whale?" Mandy asked. Regina nodded.

"Why did you believe him?! He is the worst Wizard ever, he doesn't even have magic!" She replied, angry that her mother would fall for his lies.

"You knew him before this world?" Emma asked before Regina could reply to her daughter.

"I met him in Oz. He was the Wizard there." She said.

Emma nodded. "Of course, the Wizard of Oz…I should've none."

"Then how did he bring Daniel back a second time?" Snow asked knowing he was here while she and Emma were back in the Enchanted Forest.

"He was a monster." Regina said closing her eyes remembering the way Daniel acted that day in the stables.

"Wait! How the hell was Whale going to do it in the first place?" Emma asked confused.

"He took a heart from my mother's vault. He was going to resurrect him, but it failed." She said sadly.

"How would he fail the first time but succeed the second time if he did it the same exact way both times?" David asked.

"Because he's a liar!" Mandy chimed in. "He probably wanted the heart for someone else. He must've been informed by someone" She looked directly at Gold. "That Regina could supply it."

"You caught me, dear." Gold chuckled at Mandy's realization. He was surprised Regina didn't realize it sooner. "He needed a heart and I needed you broken, so we made a deal."

"You wanted Regina to enact the curse. Why?" Snow questioned.

"I needed to find my son. I would've cast the curse myself but I didn't love anyone." Gold responded.

"What about Belle? I thought you two were a thing." Neal asked.

"Regina kidnapped her and held her captive. She told me she died." Gold said glaring directly at Regina across the room.

"Who did you kill to enact the curse?" Henry asked his mom.

Regina looked down at her lap in shame. "My father." Mandy looked at her stunned. She couldn't believe she would kill her own father just to get revenge on Snow White.

"She killed her own father because she thought it would make her happy in the end." Gold said.

"And did it?" Archie asked.

Regina glared at him. "What do you think?"

"You think you're better than her?!" Neal asked his father. Gold looked at him confused. "You killed my mother because she left you for Hook."

"How do you know that?" Gold asked quickly.

"Hook told me. Why did you have to kill her?!" He shouted.

"She left you too, Bae!" Gold snapped.

"I didn't want her dead! She was going to come back for me." Neal replied.

"You were going to leave me?" Gold asked shocked.

"You'd rather have power than be with me so why should I stay and watch you make others suffer." Neal shot back.

"Sounds a lot like my mother. All they want is power." Regina said knowing how Neal felt.

"No wonder they loved each other." Mandy added.

"Whoa! Gold and Cora…dated?" Emma asked scrunching her face in disgust.

"We are not getting into that now!" Cora said.

"Definitely not!" Gold agreed.

"You chose power over love, didn't you Cora?" Snow asked.

"I'm warning you Snow, drop it." Cora said narrowing her eyes on the younger woman.

"Regina could've been Gold's daughter…" Henry realized.

"Ew. Henry, how could you even think that?!" Mandy said disgusted with the idea that she could be related to Gold.

Regina looked at her mother with a little bit of worry on her face. "That's not possible, is it mother?"

Cora was appalled Regina even thought of it being a possibility. "No. Of course not Regina! I wasn't stupid enough to get pregnant and then marry royalty like you did."

"A simple yes or no would've sufficed." Regina shot back.

"Why was power so important to you Cora?" Snow asked.

"Not everyone was born to privilege, Snow. Some of us had to work for it." Cora said bitterly.

"Now which royal humiliated you?" Gold tapped his chin acting like he was trying to remember something. "I do believe her name was Princess Ava."

"My mother?" Snow questioned in shock.

"Yes, she made Cora realize that she would be nothing more than a miller's daughter. I do believe you had to apologize to her when it was her fault in the first place." Gold said making Cora replay that horrible day in her head.

"That's impossible." Snow shook her head in disbelief. "My mother was the kindest soul ever. She wouldn't hurt anyone."

"You didn't know her when she was younger." Cora pointed out.

"No, I don't believe you!" Snow shouted.

"She was quite a bitch." Gold added.

"You take that back!" Snow stood and yelled at him.

"This whole thing started because she embarrassed you?" Regina looked at her mother. She couldn't believe how childish her mother acted.

"She didn't see me as her equal, Regina. She thought she was better than everyone just because she had a title and money." Cora shot back.

"So you killed my mother to make Regina the Queen and then what? What was your plan after that?" Snow asked angrily.

"I would've had the title but she would've made all the decisions. She wanted to rule, Snow, and that's exactly what she was going to do." Regina said knowing what her mother would've done.

"Oh Regina, please!" David shouted. "You liked the power just as much as your mother did. You enjoyed being Queen."

"Only after Leopold was dead." Regina replied.

"You killed my father, didn't you Regina?" Snow asked. She had a feeling she did but it was never confirmed.

"It was the only way I could be free of that horrible man." Regina snapped.

"My father was loving and caring!" Snow yelled defending her father.

"Maybe to you…" Regina said diverting her eyes from Snow.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Snow questioned.

"Maybe you didn't know your parents so well after all." Regina replied not answering Snow's question.

Snow shook her head. She couldn't wrap her head around the things she was hearing about her parents. It took her a moment before she asked Regina another question that she had been wanting to ask her for a long time. "Was there ever a time you loved me…even just a little?"

Regina didn't say anything. She couldn't admit she did love the girl at one point.

"I loved you so much, Regina. I tried so hard to impress you and win you over, hoping we could become closer." Snow revealed to her stepmother.

"I already lost one daughter; I couldn't bear to let someone else in, someone who could break my heart." Regina replied looking Snow directly in her green eyes.

Snow stared directly back noticing Regina's eyes were soft even though her tone wasn't. "I never wanted to break your heart; I wanted to heal it. To help you get over Daniel and Miranda's deaths. I wanted to be there for you; I tried but you pushed me away."

"It wasn't that easy, Snow." Regina replied knowing Snow couldn't have really helped.

"But it could've been." Snow said.

Mandy noticed Regina was getting angry at Snow's persistence. "I think you should drop it, Snow."

"Who else did you kill?" Emma asked slipping the question in before her mother could speak again.

"Plenty." Regina sighed. "Did you have someone in mind?"

Emma had one person on her mind. "Graham…he didn't just have a heart attack, did he?"

"Yes, I killed him." Regina said confirming Emma's theory.

"Why?" David asked.

"Because she was jealous that he chose me over her." Emma said answering David's question.

Regina pursed her lips. "Ya know, I had a good thing going before you came into town."

"What, a son who'd rather be anywhere but with you and a fake relationship just to have sex?!" Emma shouted.

"It wasn't just sex…" Regina replied.

"TMI!" Mandy said. She didn't want to hear about her mother's extra curriculars.

Emma stood up and screamed, "You controlled him. He did whatever you wanted, how could it not be just sex?"

Regina got to her feet and placed her hands on her hips. "This is an inappropriate conversation to have tight now, Miss Swan. There are children present."

Emma ignored her and took a few steps in Regina's direction. "You couldn't stand the fact that you were losing control over everything…that includes Henry."

"He had a good life with me!" Regina yelled as she too stepped closer to the blonde. "It wasn't until Snow gave him that stupid book, he started acting up."

"Don't blame her. He was miserable with you before the book." Emma hissed.

"Stop!" Henry yelled pushing Regina and Emma away from each other before standing next to Emma. "Regina wasn't that bad. I just wanted to find my real mom and Emma needed to break the curse."

Mandy stood up next to Regina, directly across from Henry. "When I first met you, all you kept saying was how evil Regina was and that she would never change!" She yelled angrily. She couldn't understand why he treated Regina like this after everything she had done for him in the past.

"That's not true!" He shouted back.

"She was trying to change for you Henry…and you still thought she was evil." She said placing her hands on her hips.

"I shouldn't have told you anything!" He said angrily.

"And I should've let Peter kill you!" Mandy screamed back.

Henry became enraged. He pushed Mandy hard enough to make her stumble backwards but not enough to make her fall. She quickly regained her balance and pushed him back. Regina and Emma quickly grabbed their kids, holding them tight so they wouldn't fight each other. Mandy and Henry both tried to wriggle free from their mothers' grasps, to no avail.

Mandy knew she wasn't going to break free of Regina so she continued to yell at Henry. "You are so ungrateful, Henry. You are a very lucky kid to have so much love in your life. Every other person in this room knows what it feels like to feel unloved. Stop picking sides!"

"I'm not picking sides. I love both my moms equally!" He shouted.

"Could've fooled me." She replied.

"That's enough, Miranda." Regina said pulling Mandy closer so she would know how serious she was.

"You're just jealous, Miranda. Maybe if you tried looking for your mom, you would've found her." Henry yelled.

"Henry…" Emma warned.

"Maybe Regina didn't want you…that's why she adopted me!" Henry yelled ignoring Emma. He knew that would hurt her.

"Henry!" Regina snapped. Mandy stopped fighting her and Regina knew Henry's words got to her.

Henry ignored her as well. He saw Mandy's strength leave her as he said those words. "What's wrong, Mandy? Don't like being abandoned and unloved?"

Mandy didn't want to let Henry get to her. "Emma gave you up willingly. She's the one who didn't want you."

"That's enough!" David stood and yelled. This was getting out of hand and it needed to stop. "I don't know what you were trying to accomplish, Archie, but it ended up in a bigger fight."

"I didn't realize how much damage you did to one another." Archie said.

Miranda broke free from Regina's grasp and ran to the door. Her emotions were out of control and so was her magic. With one wave of her hand the doors flew open and she was out of there in a heartbeat.

"I thought you were teaching her how to control her magic?" Gold said to Cora and Regina.

"We are but it's a little harder than you think. Teenage girls have a lot of emotions." Cora shot back.

"Well you might want to do it soon, before her 16th birthday." Gold said before walking towards the door.

"Wait!" Regina yelled. "Why before her 16th birthday?"

Gold turned around facing everyone in the room who was attentively listening to what he was about to say. "As most of you know, Miranda has both light and dark magic. On her 16th birthday, one will take over. Seeing that her mother and grandmother both have dark magic and Emma has light magic, she will most likely become dark."

"Is there any way to stop it or make sure it's light magic?" Snow asked.

"Not that I'm aware of. But when her true powers take over, she will be very powerful. There's no telling what she'll do or is capable of." Gold warned.

"Is there anything Emma can do?" Regina asked. "She saved her before because they have a special connection. Could she help her again?"

Gold shook his head. "She's not dying so I would say no."

"Then what are we supposed to do?" Regina asked frustrated that Gold waited 2 days before her 16th birthday to tell them.

He shrugged his shoulders. "Hope for the best."

"This is all your fault Rumple!" Cora shouted. "If you hadn't been hungry for power then your son wouldn't have fallen through a portal and you wouldn't have ruined all of our lives trying to find him."

Everyone then realized that Rumple was mainly responsible for everything that's happened to them.

So I hoped you liked group therapy-more like a screaming match and blaming each other but I thought it would be good to bring out everything they did to one another and place all the cards on the table. Let me know what you think.