A/N: Happy New Year everyone!

Ruby and Mulan entered the diner to find their girlfriends sitting in their usual booth. Belle saw them first, as Aurora's back was to the door. She grinned and waved them over. "Did you find the Grinch?" Belle asked and Aurora turned to look at the two in anticipation.

Shaking her head, Ruby replied, "No, but we found his cave."

"I'm sure you'll find him," Aurora said encouragingly. Ruby and Mulan slid into the booth next to their girlfriends. Belle reached for and took Ruby's hand. Aurora gave Mulan a quick peck on the cheek, which caused Mulan to smile.

Granny came over with two plates of food. "What was the cave like?" She asked, having heard the conversation from the kitchen with her wolf hearing.

"Disgusting," Ruby replied, scrunching up her nose in disgust at the memory of the cave, "But we found the tree inside and his dog." She left out the part about the dog leading them on a wild goose chase.

Nodding, Granny said, "Your daughter and her boyfriend will be joining us on Christmas day.

Belle looked between Granny and Ruby with a confused look. Ruby rolled her eyes and explained, "Granny thinks that Ariel looks like a combination of you and me."

"I can see that," said a familiar voice behind Granny. Everyone turned to see that Leroy and Nova, fresh from their honeymoon, had walked into the diner and came up to the table.

"Grumpy," Ruby exclaimed, jumping out of the booth to embrace the newlyweds, who seemed to have gotten a lot of sun over the past few weeks. "How was your trip?"

"I was like a dream," Nova replied. The others climbed out of the booth to welcome the couple.

Aurora noticed that Grumpy was wearing an enormous hat on his head. "I didn't know you liked that style of hat."

"He fell asleep on the beach and got a bad sunburn on the top of his head," Nova explained as Grumpy blushed in embarrassment.

"Sleepy told me about a Grinch," Grumpy interjected hoping to change the subject, "What is with this town?"

"Says Grumpy the dwarf to Red Riding Hood, Belle, Mulan, and Sleeping Beauty," Granny deadpanned.

Grumpy chuckled, "Touché." He and Nova pulled up chairs to the already crowded booth. Granny, knowing all of the town's residents very well, brought everyone their favorite foods as everyone caught up.

Word seemed to spread fast of the Honeymooners' return to Storybrooke. Most of the town piled in to the diner to greet them as well as to enjoy their dinner. Emma, Regina, Henry, Charming, and Snow, who was cradling baby Lancelot in her arms, entered the diner. The other six dwarves came in next. Granny and Ruby set up a long table so everyone could sit together. Jefferson, Whale and Grace came in next. Whale went to embrace his friend, seeming to feel better since his talk with Jefferson. Neal, Rapunzel, August, Tinkerbell, Ariel, Eric, Archie, and Geppetto filed in, joining the impromptu welcome home party.

The group listened intently as Grumpy and Nova told them the stories from their vacation. They had traveled throughout most of Europe, exploring the world after spending much of their lives cooped up in Storybrooke. Soon the talk turned to the upcoming holiday as everyone was looking forward to the celebration. Everyone seemed to enjoy the evening. Even Mulan seemed to be enjoying herself.

It was late when the group filtered out of the diner with hugs, goodbyes, and 'Merry Christmases." As the last dwarf left the diner, Ruby closed the diner and headed back to the library, hand in hand with Belle. The two stopped short at the sight of the wide-open library door. "I swear I locked it," Belle said worriedly.

Ruby caught the foul stench that could only belong to the Grinch. "Wait here," she told Belle as she stealthily entered the room. Using her keen sense of smell and memory of the library's layout to move around in the dark. Once Ruby had determined that the coast was clear, she flicked on the lights and called out for Belle.

Ruby gasped at the sight that greeted her. All of the decorations that Belle and Aurora had put up were gone as well as the tree that had been set up in the corner of the library. Belle saw the bare bookshelves and hung her head. Those decorations had taken hours to put up. Ruby placed a comforting hand on Belle's shoulder and brought her upstairs to their apartment.

To their horror, the door was also wide open. Flicking on the lights, Ruby and Belle saw that their tree as well as all of their decorations were gone. Glancing over at the side of the room, Ruby's heart dropped when she saw that their stockings were also gone. She had wrapped the ring in a box and hid it in her stocking. She had thought it would be a safe place to hide it until the time came to propose. Now the ring, the one that had been in her family for generations, was gone. Ruby ran out of the apartment, leaving a confused Belle behind. She needed to get the ring back at any cost.