Sorry for the lack of updates but now I'm DONE with school for this semester and I'm ready to get back to writing this. I'm now going to post the final set of chapters that's done – then you'll get them at a more even speed and not all of them at once ;)

Enjoy!

Emma and Henry lived in the biggest room at Granny's, located in one of the corners of the building. Where the other rooms only had a bed and some necessities this room also held a couch, a table, two cushioned chairs and a bookcase. Ella had not hesitated to walk over to it the first thing she did when she got there and look through the titles while Rachel, Indira and Chris joined the adults and chit-chatted with Henry. The boy soon left, however, having been promised to go on another fishing-trip with Leroy. Soon after that Regina entered, smiling widely to herself as she closed the door. A slight blush was visible on her cheeks and all in all the look seemed to surprise the Charmings.

"Regina", Mary Margaret said, sounding amused, "if I didn't know any better I'd say you look smitten."

Regina put on her regular proud and regal face as she walked over to them, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Well, if I didn't know any better I'd say Haagen-Dazs is smitten with your stomach", she remarked, causing the others to smile in amusement. "Can we get started?"

"We were waiting for Hook", Emma responded.

"I don't have time to wait for the handless wonder", Regina remarked. "We have to figure out how to destroy my sister."

"For once, I agree with Regina", David said. "Stopping her plan is the priority."

"Well, in that case", Emma said and sat up straighter in her chair, "there's one thing about the plan that doesn't fit. Regina."

"I thought she was the point of it", Chris remarked. Regina nodded.

"Yes, so she can take my life for herself."

"Yes", Emma agreed, "but why bring you back to Storybrooke? Why bring any of you?"

"Emma's got a point", Indira agreed.

"Well, yesterday you said no one's ever succeeded in travelling through time", Rachel said thoughtfully. "Perhaps something from this world makes it possible."

"Maybe", Regina sighed, her brow furrowed, "but what's almost as troubling is that she was able cast the curse – to bring us all here in the first place."

David nodded and rose, pacing over to the window.

"Why's that?" Ella asked.

"To do it you have to give up the thing you love most", Regina responded. "From what I gather Zelena doesn't love much."

"Neither did you, but you managed", Emma pointed out, earning herself a glare from the Mayor.

"Zelena's smart", David said and turned back towards the rest of them, "strategic. Perhaps we discovered something in the missing year to stop her."

"And then the only way to stop us from interfering was to bring us here and wipe our memories", Ella filled in.

"So if we get our memories back", Mary Margaret said, "we might already know how to defeat her."

"We just need to break this curse", David remarked and shifted his eyes towards Emma, as did the rest of them. He mouth dropped and she squirmed under their attention.

"Well, thank goodness we have a Saviour", Indira mused.

"I would love to", Emma managed to answer, "but there's one problem. Last time, all it took was me believing in magic and kissing Henry. Since I've been back I've done both and nothing."

Regina suddenly gasped in realization.

"It's the belief."

"What?" Chris asked, frowning at the Mayor. She was smiling widely and Ella could not help but wonder if there was already a perfectly planned out plan forming in her head.

"Henry; he needs to believe", Regina explained. "In this new life he doesn't; we have to get him to believe again."

"So, what, we put on a magic show?" Indira asked with a frown. Chris snorted at the suggestion, which caused Regina to roll her eyes before turning towards Emma again.

"How did you believe?"

"The book", Emma answered, "Henry's storybook."

"That's what started Henry on his original path", Regina said, "and what got you to believe; it's the key! And him believing and him remembering... remembering everything."

She sounded excited at the mere thought of her adoptive son doing just that, but Ella could not help but notice Emma's face darkening somewhat in turn.

"That's not necessarily a gift", the blonde said, her voice low. "He's been through a lot of tough stuff."

"And some good stuff", Regina responded, her voice close to a growl.

"Either way", Rachel said, breaking the tension between the two women, "it's our best bet from what I've heard so far."

"She's right", Mary Margaret agreed, looking at her daughter. Emma took a deep breath before she nodded.

"I know."

"You guys received it from Mary Margaret in order to learn about our pasts", David said, his gaze meeting Rachel's.

"Yes, Toby and I went through the whole thing while we were trying to figure out which people the Witch was targeting when collecting her ingredients", she agreed. "He should have it in his bedroom here at Granny's."

"I'll go check", Chris said and rose. "He should still be there unless he's out on some errand or something."

The door closed behind him as he hurried away.

"What is it about that book anyway?" Indira asked. "How can it contain all your stories, the true versions of them and not the ones penned down by other fairytale writers in this world?"

"Don't know", Mary Margaret admitted. "During the last curse it just showed up in my closet when I needed it, or, more accurately, when Henry needed it."

"What do you mean?" Ella asked.

"He was going through a rough time", Mary Margaret responded and glanced at her daughter. "He was realizing he had been given up; he didn't feel like he had a real family."

Emma's gaze fell to the floor while Regina sighed.

"He did", the Mayor said. Mary Margaret turned towards her former stepmother, looking apologetic.

"That may be, but, Regina, he wasn't feeling that way with you or with anyone. He needed to believe in happy endings again. That's what the book gave him."

Regina swallowed and nodded slowly.

"Well, he needs to believe again", she said, before trailing her gaze over all of them. "In fact, I think we all do."

Several nods were exchanged among the members of the meeting, before the door suddenly burst open again. Chris came inside, followed by Toby who clutched the mentioned storybook in his hand.

"Just so you all know", the newcomer said as he handed the book to Regina, "there are chapters on Oz in there. I've gone over them fifteen times and I've found nothing that can help us defeat Zelena, except for the fact that Dorothy seemed to melt her by throwing water at her."

"Well, since the stories in the book are true and Zelena's still here, that must have been some illusion", Ella pointed out, "to get people to believe that she had been defeated."

"So there's nothing that can help us figure out who's heart she had to crush to enact the curse?" Regina asked.

"Hold on, one has to crush the heart to enact the curse?" Indira asked with a frown.

"Yes, it's in the book", Toby responded, "but no; nothing that could possibly be the thing she loves the most."

"Well, if we can break the curse by making Henry believe in magic again, we might already know what we need to know", Rachel said and rose. "Let's go get him."

As everyone in the room put their coats and jackets back on, a loud, buzzing noise erupted from Ella's pocket. She quickly fished out her phone and saw Toby doing the same with his.

"You got a text, too?" she asked. He nodded, frowning at the screen.

"It's from Wolf", he said. Ella looked down at her own screen and nodded, although she frowned at the three words that the message contained.

"What?" Emma asked, looking from one to the other.

"I think we just found out where Henry is", Toby admitted, "and I think this text means trouble."

He turned the phone so that the others could see the three words as well. Ella, of course, did not need to; she had received the same text and it did send her pulse raising.

Henry.

Docks.

Now.

And there's trouble again!