Hello readers! Sorry for the short chapter. I had to go back and fix some mistakes and incongruities. =J
As always, thanks for R&R.
Chapter 9
"Mom I was thinking…"
"Never a good thing, honey." Emma interrupted Henry and laughed.
"I'm serious, ma. I think we might have done something very stupid by meeting mom. She didn't remember you in Storybrook right?" Emma nodded. "That means she was not supposed to get to know you. Or me, for that matter." He finished with his eyebrows furrowing.
"I guess… But if we had really done something to jeopardize our future, don't you thing we would begin to disappear like Mcfly's siblings?"
"That's a good point, but she knows us now. That means that our near future selves will have to do something about it, that we did something about it, so she, and probably other people, didn't remember us. I think. Does that make sense?" the boy asked making sure his line of thought was coherent.
"It does. Oh Christ, another thing to figure out how to do. We can't simply use a potion to make them forget. We can't simply vanish, cause if we do, how can we make sure the swan goes to the standard and therefore ends up in the book we used to know we were here in the first place?" she tried to reasoned.
"I'm getting dizzy…" Henry whined. "Maybe it's time to call Tink, or even the Blue Fairy." He suggested.
"I don't trust Blue, and I'm afraid Tink won't be able to do anything. Well, let's try." She summoned the fairy in her head.
"What?" the pixie grunted.
"Well, hello to you Tink." Emma censured the fairy.
"Not in the best mood blondy. I should have known, should have never tried to give her a second chance. No wonder that bitch wouldn't let me try…" she grumbled.
Emma had heard in Neverland that Regina somehow made the fairy lose her wings. She still has them. Maybe the jury is still out… "Tink, we need your help with something. Is there a way to make people forget a person without completely obliterating the impact he or she had in their lives?" Emma asked vaguely. "Like for example, make them believe it was somebody else who did what they did?"
The fairy thought for a second, trying to remember something the Blue fairy once told her about memory spells. There is a potion that made a person forget the existence of another completely. Perhaps if mixed with a memory insertion spell…
"Yes, I believe it is doable. You will need a potion that makes a person forget another person then use a memory insertion spell." She said. "But I warn you, both are very dangerous. The potion needs true love magic and the second a very powerful sorcerer."
"Leave that to us, where can I get the recipe, for the potion I mean?" Emma asked.
"Closer than you think. That friend of yours, Esmeralda, she is famous for her potions. She has most of the known recipes in this realm, all she lacks is magic. That, Emma, we both know you have to spare." She smiled wickedly. "I have to go. They're calling me for the verdict." She told sadly.
"Just one more thing: if this is the last time we meet in this time, I beg of you not to tell about us to anyone when we meet in the future. You didn't when we met, which means I have to ask. Oh, and no matter what happens, we'll come for you. I promise."
Tink had water in her eyes. That speech could only mean one thing: her wings were going to be taken from her. She was almost leaving when she felt tiny arms around her. "Hold on, Tink, we'll come for you and get your happy ending too."
"Thank you Henry, and Emma." She said before disappearing.
"That sucks. I hate knowing the future and having to do nothing instead of trying to repair all the wrongs that happened." She exclaimed.
"It really does. I'm done washing. Let's go back to the camp."
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"Shut the front door! She did what?" Red all but screamed.
"You can take the wolf from slang ream, but you can't take slang real from the wolf" Regina rolled her eyes.
"Pardon me, you majesty." She bowed "Pray tell, whatever absurdity our beloved savior found herself in this time?" teased her.
"Funny. Exactly what I told you. My spell somehow took Emma and Henry to our past realm. Tink couldn't say much, they were carful enough not to say too much and ask her for secrecy." Regina walked around the room. She went to tell the Charmings the news as soon as Tink had finished telling her everything she knew. They weren't there at the moment; apparently they also had a meeting with the Richard's representative and would only talk to her in the evening. I should have known something was wrong when all of you remembered them again." She sighed thinking back about the moment when Snow and Charming came to her castle, two weeks after their return, telling they knew about the curses.
The couple had entered her castle without announcement and Snow had thrown herself on her stepmother's arms, just like when she was a little girl. The former princess had just hugged her for minutes, crying the "loss" of her daughter and grandson. Regina was utterly caught by surprise by those actions, she was never a hug person, not that she didn't like to be hugged, but being held by this woman was not something she craved. Who are you kidding, you like having someone to share your burden, someone who also knows what's like to have their child taken away. Well, the hug was a bit too much… At least too soon.
"Well I´m glad we remembered then, or else you'd have to fix this alone. And let's be honest, we all know how you take care of things..." The slim woman joked and nudged the former Mayor "Anyway, how can we get them back?"
"I don't know. I have to figure out what went wrong and then fix it. Besides the fact that I believe the two idiots have the right to know where their daughter and grandson are, I might need the help of that obnoxious fairy." She grunted.
"I see. What else did Tink tell you about them, are they ok?" Red asked.
"Yes, at least until she went to Neverland. She said they were with the Romanies. That worries me because, not long after she left, those people were involved in the Lion's battle." The thought of the notorious battle and Robin Hood made her frown. Have they met Robin? Had they sent him her way after so many years? Tink told me that Emma had sworn to help me get my second chance in her original time. The thought of Emma doing so made her smile.
"Wow, that was trippy lady! First you frown so much I thought you'd get permanently wrinkled, then you open this gazillion megawatts smile! What up 'Gina?" the queen blushed.
"I think Emma and Henry might have sent me my second chance at true love from where…well, when they are." She explained to the younger woman how she had been too afraid to go in the bar, then how she saw the tattoo on Robin's arm and his connection to the Romanies and the Lion's battle.
"You mean that Emma and Henry might have sent you that handsome man who's inside that chamber with their relatives. Wow. You know what that means right, if they actually have met Robin?" she asked but was interrupted by Snows voice:
"Regina we must talk. Robin recognized Emma and Henry from our painting." She waved the Lion's kingdom standard in front of the brunettes.
"Holy mother of quantum physics!"
"I know." Was all Regina could say.