A/N I hope you guys like this episode. As always, please review and tell me what you think.

Tessa sat on the staircase in Kathryn and David's house. The 'Welcome Home' party for him was in full swing. Kathryn was introducing him to everyone he didn't remember. Henry came over to Tessa and sat down next to her. She looked up form playing with the hem of her light blue dress.

"You know why he doesn't remember? The curse isn't working on him yet." Henry explained in a whisper.

"Okay." She said simply. He stared at her for a minute.

"You said you believed me!" He hissed.

"I do believe you about the curse, Henry. I'm trying to figure some stuff out myself." She explained.

"Like what?"

"Like who I was before the curse. Like-." She started. David came over to them.

"Hey." He greeted them.

"Hey, David." Tessa replied.

"You're really the only people I know here." He explained.

"Well, you can hide with us." Tessa offered.

"Fantastic." He accepted some food off a tray, stabbing it with a toothpick and twirling it.

"Have you ever used a sword?" Henry asked.

"I'm sorry?" David asked. Tessa smacked Henry in the chest, hard. She looked back up at David.

"Active imagination." She explained shortly.

"Um… Do you know if Mary Margaret is coming tonight?" He asked.

"I don't know, but you can ask Emma. She lives with Mary Margaret now." Tessa stood up to see over the hand-rail on the stairs. She pointed Emma out to David.

"There she is."

"Thank you." He made his way through the crowd towards her. Tessa looked over at Henry.

"If moms asks just tell her I went home. I can't stand this party anymore." She hurried out the front door, letting it close behind her.

Tessa walked into the kitchen of her house. She searched through the cabinets before going over to the fruit bowl. She picked up an apple. She was just raising it to her mouth to bite into it when she frowned and put it back in the bowl before hurrying out of the kitchen again.

The next day, Tessa went towards the front door.

"Mom, I'm going out!" She called. Regina hurried down the stairs.

"Just… Stay in town. No more wandering out of the town limits." She told her. Tessa nodded.

"Stay in town. Okay. I will." She stepped out the front door onto the porch, pulling the door closed behind her.

"Not." She added under her breath. She hurried off the porch and started jogging towards the edge of town.

She stood at the very edge of town. She took a deep breath to prepare herself. She pulled out her phone and got into an app. A stopwatch app, to be exact. She started the timer and then stepped out of the town limit. Like last time, a barrage of images hit her, one after another, until finally one stuck with her and formed a scene.

Contessa edged her way through the crowd. She saw Snow White and Prince Charming talking and laughing, as every couple should at their wedding. Snow White glanced around and caught Contessa's eye. At once, Contessa looked down, a blush forming on the surface of her face. Snow White hurried over to her.

"I know I'm probably not welcome here-." Contessa started. Snow White interrupted her with a bear hug. Contessa was too surprised to hug her back. Snow White pulled back to look at her.

"You're my sister, Contessa; of course you're welcome here!" She assured her, smiling widely. Contessa smiled as well.

"Step-sister, really, and we both know what my mom's done, so-." She started again.

"Oh, stop that!" Show White hugged her and this time, the hug was returned. Prince Charming made his way over to them.

"You must be Contessa."

"I am…" She mumbled, looking down. Snow White nudged her in the side with her elbow.

"This is my Prince Charming." Contessa couldn't help but notice the 'my' put in there. Contessa stuck out her hand.

"It's nice to meet you-." Without warning Prince Charming hugged her instead of shaking her hand.

"Oh… Hello." Contessa said, laughing slightly.

"It's nice to finally meet my new sister in law." He explained. She laughed again.

"It's nice to have people who don't hate me because of mother."

The memory faded to black. It took a minute for Tessa to wake up from the darkness. When she did, she jerked upright from where she was lying on the pavement. She grabbed her phone and hit the stop button. She looked at the time. 5:01:00. Over five hours? She thought to herself. Well, it was better than the almost twenty-four hour black-out she'd experienced before. It was already dark and getting cold, she quickly stood up and started jogging back towards her house, ignoring the sharp headache the memory had given her.

When she reached the sidewalk outside her house, she stopped to make sure she didn't actually look like she'd been lying on the street for five hours. She thought about what she was going to tell Regina. I was out with Ruby. Didn't see the time, she thought up a lie. It seemed good enough and Regina wasn't going to question that she had gone out to be with Ruby. Suddenly, something caught her eye and she whirled around towards her house. A figure was escaping out of a window on the second floor. He expertly climbed down the porch roof and jumped down to the ground. She ducked behind a tall bush. As he walked past, she punched him in the face. He went to the ground. She was immediately on top of him, trying to pin him down.

"Ow! Ow, what the-?" She recognized the voice, even though she could barely make out his face.

"Graham?" She swiftly got off him so that he could get to his feet again.

"What were you doing?" She asked, frowning.

"I… Uh…" He sputtered and didn't answer. She looked towards the window he'd snuck out, mentally going through her house to decide which window that was. Then she looked back at him and smacked him across the face. At once, she heard the screech of brakes. She didn't look to see who it was until Emma hurried over to them.

"What is going on here?" She asked them. She looked at Graham and then at Tessa, waiting for an explanation.

"He's sleeping with my mother!" Tessa cried, staring at Graham like he'd grown a third eye.

"No…" Graham said slowly, obviously trying to come up with some believable lie.

"Then why were you sneaking out the window? And this better be good!" Tessa told him.

"Because she didn't want Henry to know." Graham admitted.

"You did this with Henry in the house?" Emma demanded.

"He's sleeping. He doesn't know." He explained.

"It doesn't matter!" Tessa cried.

"You can finish my shift. I'm doing working night shifts so you can be with Regina." Emma threw the police cruiser keys at him and hurried down the sidewalk. Tessa started to head up the walkway.

"Tessa-." He started. She whirled on him, eyes blazing with anger, even in the dark.

"You… You…. With my mom? I can't believe you!" She huffed. She turned and sprinted into the house. She shut the door behind her, not bothering to be quiet about it. Regina looked down the stairs to see who had come before speaking.

"You were out for a while. Where were you?" She asked. Tessa glared at her.

"You're with Graham?" She demanded.

"How-?" Regina started to ask.

"I caught him sneaking out of your bedroom a moment ago! You know, I consider Ruby to be my best friend. Graham's more than that. He's like my big brother. And you're sleeping with him!" Tessa yelled at him. Henry's bedroom door opened and he came to the top of the stairs, rubbing his eyes.

"What are you yelling about?" He asked. Tessa was too angry to be relieved he hadn't heard what she had been yelling at her mother.

"Nothing, go back to bed." Regina told him. Tessa stomped upstairs, past both of them. She went into her bedroom and slammed the door behind her, shaking the whole house. She threw her jacket and purse to the floor and sat against her door, feeding her anger until she was shaking with it. She really is the Evil Queen…