In Storybrooke, present day…

"…and here we go, there's the little fella there. I can tell you the sex now, if you want…" Whale asked, looking up at Snow, whose eyes were glued on the ultrasound with an expression of pure rapture. Beside her, Ruby was trying to share her joy, but the nausea roiling in her own stomach prevented her from fully immersing herself in the moment.

"No, I can't find out without David." Snow insisted, and Whale nodded, continuing to scan the image before him, while Snow looked on with the purest glee Ruby had ever seen on her face. "Can I get a printout to show him? He really wanted to be here…" she trailed off, sounding dismayed.

"I know, Snow… but with the flying monkeys and all… he's got a lot on his mind." Ruby rubbed her shoulder affectionately, smiling sympathetically, and Snow nodded, a little bit sadly. They never seemed to be able to catch a break in this town.

"The good news, ladies," Whale announced, drawing their attention back to him, "is that the baby looks to be perfectly healthy." They both smiled at that, although Ruby couldn't help but wince as a particularly bad pain made her draw in her breath sharply. Whale caught her expression, "everything all right, Ruby?" Snow looked up at her with concern.

"Oh, yeah… I'm fine. Not to worry, it's just… y'know," she shrugged, but as they both persisted in looking at her, she bit her lip, and continued awkwardly, "cramps."

Snow asked some more questions about the baby while Whale printed off the ultrasound picture for Charming, but while Snow was cleaning off the gel from her big belly, Whale turned to Ruby.

"If you want, I can give you something to help with the pain…" He offered, and Ruby couldn't help but feel tempted.

"Really? I mean… I've been having this pain for the past couple days, and I'm sure it's nothing, but…" Whale lifted an eyebrow at her.

"If it's persistent, you should really let me do an exam. It could be something worse." He gave her that same, guilt-inducing look that Granny was fond of giving her, and she swallowed awkwardly. "At least answer a few questions?"

Ruby bit her lip, and turned towards Snow. "Do you mind waiting for a minute?" Snow shook her head, smiling, and Ruby turned back towards him. "All right, what do you need to know?"

"When was your last menstrual cycle?" He asked very matter-of-factly.

"Uh… I dunno." Ruby bit her lip, shrugging when he raised an eyebrow at her. "Memory loss, remember?" She pointed out, and he nodded. "I haven't had one since we got back though." Like everyone else, she'd been a bit preoccupied with figuring out what was up with the curse, and then with the whole flying monkey situation, to really worry about missing her period.

"That long?" Whale raised an eyebrow, then pulled his stethoscope from around his neck, and pointed to her abdomen. "May I?" He asked, and Ruby sighed, lifting her shirt to expose everything under her breasts, and he pressed the cold metal against her abdomen, listening, and pressing his fingers into her stomach. She yawned, pressing a hand to her mouth. "You've gained weight since before we left Storybrooke."

Ruby frowned, dropping her shirt as he stood up. "Yeah, it's probably that Enchanted Forest food, it's not really diet friendly over there." She reasoned, furrowing her brow at him.

"I didn't mean… anyway. Have you been experiencing any nausea? Vomiting? Fatigue?" When Ruby nodded yes to all, he continued, "any… breast tenderness?" More slowly this time, Ruby nodded. She didn't notice Snow's slowly widening eyes beside her. "Would you be… adverse to providing a urine sample?" Ruby's eyebrows shot up, and she looked at Whale like he was insane.

"What on earth do you need a urine sample for?" She asked, only now glancing towards Snow, who looked about to explode with… something. When Ruby's eyes met her, she could contain herself no longer.

"You're pregnant!" She blurted out, then clapped a hand over her mouth, dropping it when she realized there was no point. Ruby stared at her wide-eyed and slack jawed, wondering what sort of madness had made her say that. "That's what the test is for! A pregnancy test! That… is what you're testing for?" She glanced towards Whale, who now looked uncertain, but nodded slowly as Ruby whipped around to look at him, the expression on her face going from bewildered to dangerous more quickly than he was comfortable with.

"No… that's not what it is." Ruby shook her head speaking slowly in case the madness had affected their hearing. She hadn't slept with anyone! …That she could remember. "It can't be."

"You can't be sure of that, so… let's just make sure." Whale spoke calmly, making no sudden movements as he fetched a sample cup and directed Ruby to the bathroom.

A few hours later, Ruby's hands were shaking as Snow placed a cup of herbal tea between them, gingerly lowering herself onto her bed next to Ruby.

"Sweetie, it's not the end of the world," Snow reassured her as Ruby, her eyes still wide with incredulity, lifted the mug to her lips and took an unsteady sip. "Look at it this way, we can raise our kids together!" Snow's forced cheer was not helping the situation.

"I am having a child and I do not even know who the father is." Ruby finally said the words out loud, and blinked after she said them. "I don't know who the father of my child is."

Snow's expression fell, and she rubbed Ruby's back soothingly. "We'll find out! Even if we can't get our memories back right away, I mean, there's always DNA testing…"

"So we're going to demand DNA from every male in Storybrooke to find out who fathered my bastard child?" Ruby didn't mean for her tone to be so harsh, but she couldn't help it.

"We don't know that it's a bastard." Snow pointed out, ever the optimist, and Ruby shot a supremely unimpressed look at her. "You could have gotten married in the last year! Maybe you even wanted a baby. I mean, I don't remember this happening either, but I'm happy about it." She shrugged, smiling wryly. Ruby didn't feel the need to point out the fact that, even though she didn't remember it, there was very little doubt in anyone's mind who had fathered Snow's baby. Ruby couldn't even begin to guess who her own father's child was, she hadn't even been seeing anyone before.

"Fantastic." Ruby turned her head to stare into the nothingness. "That means I also don't remember falling in love, my wedding day, or the conception of my possibly legitimate child. That is just… awesome." She leaned back until her head fell on Snow's shoulder, letting her cradle her.

"I know it's not the best situation, Ruby…" She wrapped her arm around her. "But no matter what happens, you'll have me right here, and David, not to mention Granny…" she might have continued, but that was where Ruby's head shot up.

"How am I going to tell Granny?" She had managed to be strong so far, but the realization that she would have to tell Granny not only that she was pregnant, but that she had no idea who the father was… well, it was the culmination of all her worst nightmares from being cursed. She put the tea down on the nightstand, then abandoning all semblance of keeping it together, flung herself down on Snow's pillow, pressing her face into it while hot tears welled up in her eyes. She felt Snow's hand on her back, and could hear her saying something, but it was muffled by the pillow.

Of course, it would be right then that the apartment door would bang open, and David would loudly announce their return. Ruby didn't move, but felt Snow push herself up from the bed and going to greet… them. The heavy footfalls on the wooden floor made it clear that David was not alone.

"…Is something wrong with Ruby?" David asked, glancing past his wife to the woman sprawled out on their bed, slowly lifting her head. Behind him, he didn't notice how suddenly Killian turned around when he said the werewolf's name.

"Umm… sort of." Snow answered awkwardly, glancing between the new arrivals. Emma, Hook and David had spent the day searching for the source of the flying monkeys in town, and they must have picked up Henry from Regina's on the way home because he was there too, standing on the periphery with a video game in hand. At least he was distracted. "It's girl stuff." She waved off his concern, not sure who Ruby would want to tell first. Killian's brow furrowed at their words, leaning to the side to peer around the happy couple and at the woman, who had gotten up and was brushing tears from her face.

"What's wrong, love?" He asked, brushing past Snow as Ruby headed for the door, concern written over his face. Ruby paused, looking at him suspiciously, wondering why the pirate might be worried about her, before she bushed it off and walked around him. Emma blinked at Killian's reaction, she knew he was a gentlemen but she didn't take him as the sympathetic shoulder to cry on sort.

"N-nothing… I'm just leaving." She forced a smile onto her lips, pausing at the door to look back at them. "I'll see you guys later."

"No, Ruby, why don't you stay for dinner?" Snow spoke up, looking concerned, but Ruby shook her head.

"I should probably talk to Granny." She took a deep breath, nodding before she gave a little wave and exited the apartment. Emma was the only one who noticed the dismayed look of confusion on Killian's face, everyone else's attention turning to Snow after the door clicked shut.

"She and Granny having problems?" David asked, bending down to give Snow a kiss on the cheek. Snow shook her head.

"Not yet… although, once they talk…" Snow sounded uncertain. Granny could be very intense.

"What's wrong?" David persisted, clearly worried about her. Snow sighed.

"It's… nothing bad, not really. Just… well. It's hard to explain. And I don't know if I should." Snow shook her head. She looked between the three of them somewhat helplessly. "It's not really mine to tell."

David and Emma relayed the events of the day's hunt to Snow over dinner, and while Killian stayed to eat pasta and salad with them, he didn't participate overly much in the conversation, and in fact seemed very distracted until he finally bade them farewell, making his way back to his rented room at Granny's Bed and Breakfast. When he got there, he was surprised to find Ruby leaning against the wall outside the inn, illuminated by the porch light.

She jumped slightly when he stepped into the light, then let her breath out in a rush. "Oh, it's only you."

"Aye, sorry love." He apologized with a slight inclination of his head. "You may not want to be out here… flying monkeys abducting people and all." He gestured to the open skies cynically, and Ruby nodded, giving a sigh.

"I'd like to see them try," a slight smirk appeared on her face, and Killian couldn't help the slight smile that tugged one corner of his lips up, relieved to see the fire back in her eyes.

"As would I, actually," he murmured, and Ruby gave a slight chuckle.

"Does my reputation precede me?" She sounded a little bit pleased with that, but Killian rubbed the back of his head awkwardly.

"Actually, Ruby… " He looked down to her eyes, and she glanced up at him curiously. His mouth felt suddenly dry, how to say what he needed to say? He needed to tell her about their time together in the Enchanted Forest, but even as he opened his mouth to speak, there came a click from the door behind them, and he glanced back to see Granny in the doorway… and quirked his brow at the sight of a crossbow in hand, taking a step back slowly. "Good evening, ma'am." He gave a tight-lipped smile, and Ruby took her eyes off him to look at her grandmother.

"New marketing strategy? Stay at our inn, we'll threaten you on arrival?" Ruby asked, he eyes wide.

"More like stay at our inn, we'll keep you from getting snatched by flying pro-simians." Granny shot back, lowering the crossbow and waving the two of them inside. With a second's hesitation, Ruby went inside. Killian sighed, his opportunity lost, and followed her inside, nodding at Granny respectfully as he passed and trying not to notice the way her eyes narrowed at him suspiciously. He could feel those predatory eyes on his back as he headed up the stairs, and feeling paranoid, he turned back to check at the top of the stairs, and she was still looking up at him with a knowing expression. Rather than be intimidated, he gave her his best trademarked Jones smirk, and winked flirtatiously before he disappeared behind the corner.

"Granny? What are you doing? I need to talk to you." Ruby called from the front sitting room, where she had taken a seat in one of the antiquated arm chairs, hugging a pillow over her stomach.

"This sounds serious." Her tone belied her words as she shuffled into the sitting room, disarming the crossbow before she leaned it against the wall and settled down on the sofa with a huff. "Well, best get to it then." Ruby bit her lip, watching while Granny took out her knitting, a look of fear in her eyes as she watched the needles move back and forth. It wasn't until Granny huffed impatiently that Ruby looked up to her face, and realized that Granny's eyes were locked on her over her spectacles. "Any day now…"

Ruby took a deep breath. "Granny, I'm… I'm pregnant."

Upstairs, Killian (who had been eavesdropping from around the corner) looked up from polishing his hook, his eyebrows shooting up with surprise and his eyes going wide.

A/N: So I decided to make it more like an episode of OUAT with the flashbacks and two worlds side-by-side thing, so this chapter takes place after they've returned to Storybrooke. Remember, Ruby has no memory of the past year, and for those of you who are worried, Hook is not dead! But more on that next chapter.