A/N Sorry its been so long everyone and thanks for reading.
"I have important news" Zelena interupts and everyone looks to her and then to the small purple patterned glass bottle within her hand.
"The council have aquired the potion, that shall return your memories" she then adds, with seriousness and theres a pause of surprise. Before Mary Margaret asks "How?"
"Mal made a deal" she huffs "and apparantly the royal familes memories have presidence over everything else" she sasses and Regina glares at her.
"We will find another way if this is too big an ask" Mary Margaret then says seriously and Zelena scoffs.
"I think your forgeting, that your were and are our real leaders. The council needs you to remember so you may take your rightful place" she frowns "We also need know why you disapeared in the first place" she then says and sighs.
Regina nods in agreement.
"What do we do?" Mary Margaret then asks and Zelena holds the bottle out in front of her "Swallow a mouthful of this, both of you"
They then, all look to eachother worridly before Mary Margaret takes the bottle and puts it to her mouth. She takes a deep breath and swallows a mouthful of the disgusting potion and then suddenly, everything goes black for a few seconds...before memories of her real life start to bombard her brain.
Her as a child, running around the castle happily in a puffy white dress. Her father teaching her to fly. followed by more happy memories with her father. Until sadness of her father naturally dying in her teen years but then images of David appear and everything starts to become more clear.
The corrination of her becoming queen, royal meetings, happy memories with David and then finding out that she was pregnant...Followed by images of her and Cora having disagreements and strong feelings, that the woman strongly disliked her and wanted all what she had for herself and then it hits her...The fire of eastly and barely escaping.
She gasps, as she comes back to the concious world and she finds it hard to breath.
"Mom" Emma calls and puts her arm around her.
"I remember" she sputters as her eyes dart left and right. Not having truely dealt with the aftermath of the fire and instantly forgeting it upon going to the other world.
She then looks to Emma and remembers that it hasn't just happened and calms down a little, looking to Zelena and staring at her. "I think I remember you, when you were a child" she says shakily but Zelena doesnt say anything and instead gives the bottle to David. Who looks a concerned.
"Take it David" Mary Margaret tells him "Your understand everything. I promise"
He nods and takes a breath below swallowing down the last of the potion and the world goes black.
Before images flash through his brain of him being young. His brother, His parents, his role in protecting the royal family. While falling for Mary Margaret in the process and then the fire of eastly and their escape to the other world..
They then all head to the council. Where Mary Margaret begins to explain what happened in eastly...
"It was a grand festival in our honour" she says firmly and swallows at the memory as if it was yesterday. "Me and David had walked the villiage, with its stalls and festivites. They were flowers and the smell of food in the air" she swallows. "We greeted the people and they welcomed us warmly and happiness and after a while, we were lead to a closed off part. Where the keeper of the villiage greeted us and we talked for a while..until we heard a commotion" she adds a little shakily and looks around and meets Mals gaze.
Mal then nods, earging her to go on.
"There was shouting and horses and as the next thing we saw, was fire everywhere. As the stalls and everything ended up being quite septible to fire" she grips her hands together ontop of the table and David reaches over and puts his hand over hers.
"There was nothing we could do and my guards tried to move us away, but there was no where for us to go. It happened so quickly." she says shakily. "We then saw someone, come towards us from behind and he guilded us a few feet away to a sheltered. Where he then used magic upon my guards, knocking them to the ground and he showed us.." she looked to Regina and Zelena who were looking at her with wide eyes.
"That Cora was the one to blame for this and we were meant to perish in this fire, so she may rule"
Zelena and Regina looked to one another with wide eyes and realization. While Mary Margaret looked back to Mal with sad eyes "He offered us another way" she then says sadly.
"Another way?" Mal asks curiously. As she leaned forward slightly.
"So that we may be safe from Cora and bring up Emma without living in fear" she clarifies.
Emma gapes at her mother.
"You choose to go?" Mal then asks.
"It was either that, or die on the fire which was surrounding us. We had no choice but to trust him" she replied with sad eyes.
"And what happened next?" Mal asks.
"He showed us a bean and told us it would take us to a land without magic. That we would be safe but would not remember our real lives"
There was a pause, as everyone took in the news.
"We agreed, without another choice and he opened up a hole in the floor with this bean of his"
"And you went through?" Mal asked to clarify.
"Yes. We went through and found ourselves in a place where we found a way to live again"
"Do you know why Gold do this for you?" Mal then asks concerned. As she had made a deal with Gold, in return for the potion to return the memories of Mary Margaret and David.
"I remember him saying that it was in both our interests" David says and they all look to one another, not knowing exactly what this implies.
"What do we do now?" Regina then asks, whilst rungiing her hands together anxiously.
"Do not worry Regina. You are not held responsible for your mothers deeds and fortunitly she is dead, otherwise she would of faced punishment" Mal tells her.
Regina frowns and she can't quite look at Emma, for what her mother had done to her and her family.
"Can you tell us, what happened after we left?" Mary Margeret then asks and Mal looks to the other elders and they all give her a strange look, before nodding once and she turns back to Mary Margaret and says "Are you sure you wish to know?"
"Yes, we want to know dont we David?" she looks to him.
"Yes of course" he gives a slight smile and they look back to Mal, who takes a deep breath and says "I shall try tell you everything that I can remember..."