I do not own Once Upon a Time

So, not my finest moment but things are going to get crazy soon, in like 2 chapters. Please stick with me, and Amelia.

Neal woke up a few hours later, still in the same seat and Amelia was across from him. She was already awake.

"What happened?"

"The town was hit by a sleeping curse. No idea what happened."

Gold was now down one Angel, Ursula had left town, apparently with her father. Killian had a hand in supplying the former mermaid with her happy ending. Amelia couldn't hide her smile when she was told. Killian had turned over a new leaf, turned into a hero. Which sadly meant, that if Gold succeeded, Killian would lose his happy ending.

Killian caught up with Amelia later with disturbing news. Ursula had told him that Gold was planning on turning Emma Dark. She was the Savior who brought the happy endings, and only she could take then away or rewrite.

"I don't like the idea that someone can take away my happy ending. I worked too hard for it." Amelia shook her head.

"Do you think it's possible?" Killian asked worried.

Amelia looked at him sadly. "Anything is possible. But going Dark is purely circumstantial, any one could go down that route. You just have to surround yourself with good people who care about you and not get too emotionally involved."

"I don't think it's going to happen. Emma is pure good magic; she wouldn't fall into one of the Crocodile's traps."

"Just think positive and be there for her. Killian, have you found your happy ending?" Amelia asked. Killian only gave her a small smile, which she returned. She could still read him like an open book. "It's Emma, it's it?"

"Aye."

The group met up at Granny's, Regina had an important development. David, Mary Margaret, Emma, Killian, Amelia, Neal and Robin, most of the group sat around the table, Amelia sat on the counter, Neal's hand on her knee. She had a strong feeling she was not going to like what Regina had to say.

"Gold has more reasons for the author than to just get his happy ending. He's dying, the darkness in his heart, the darkness from the Dark One is taking over. Soon there wouldn't be any Gold left, only the Dark One." Regina informed them.

"That selfish…" Amelia started to say but stopped when she looked down at Neal. "Sorry."

"Don't be sorry." He squeezed her knee. "It's okay."

"No, he's your father. He's only thinking about himself. Not you or Belle. It's not okay, none of this this okay." She almost had a mini breakdown but calmed herself.

"How did you find this out, Regina?" Mary Margaret asked.

Regina looked slightly guilty. "Belle volunteered. I took her heart and she went to Gold to ask him what his plan was." There was a gasp around the table. "She volunteered, do not blame me. Who else was he going to tell, his son?"

"I'm not on speaking terms with my father, so Belle was a better choice." Neal sadly agreed.

"So now what?" David asked.

"We find the author before Gold does." Regina said. The group then separated. Amelia noticed that Mary Margaret and David made sure that Emma went home with them. So their guilt was finally catching up with them and they needed to get it off their chests.

"Well, that is going to go over well." Regina said under her breath.

Amelia looked at her confused. "You know?" Regina had shock in her eyes. "Guess Mary Margaret had to tell someone. I kind of forced it out of her. Not my proudest moment."

Now how was Emma going to react to knowing that her parents put the life of an innocent in danger just to protect her?

Pissed didn't even begin to cover it. Amelia received that distressing phone call later from David.

"She's not talking to us, it's like we don't exist to her." He sounded so broken.

"And you're surprised? You acted selfish and condemned an innocent child to a horrible fate just because you were scared that your daughter wouldn't be perfect." Amelia held back fully lashing out. She couldn't take talking to David anymore so she hung up.

But it rang again, was David trying to talk to her? But this time it was Regina. And Amelia answered the phone.

"We figured out how to get the author out of the book. The page from the book, with the door, it just needed a key." Regina said very fast, like she was trying to get everything out in a limited amount of time,

"So we just need a key?" Amelia asked.

"Henry found the key. We are going to free the author later today."

"Alright, let me know how that goes. I have to check on Neal." Amelia said, she didn't want to be near David or Mary Margaret or even a very mad Emma.

Amelia spent the next few hours with Neal, doing her best to answer his questions about the failed sleeping curse. "Maybe your father is protecting you, it's a thought." She told him.

A phone call saved her from more questions that she did not want to answer. It was Regina. Was it bad that she was the one Amelia wanted to talk to?

"Is the author free?" Amelia asked.

"Yes he is. Apparently Mary Margaret and David know him, as the person who set them on the path to get rid of Emma's evil potential. All of this was his idea, his creation. We have just been characters to him." There was some venom in her voice and Amelia did not blame her.

"So Emma has some questions for him?"

"Yes, we are holding him in the cottage in the woods. It's protected by magic. So unless the ancient magic person shows up, he's safe in our hands. Gold can't touch him." Regina said then hung up.

Right because Regina's magic would stop ancient magic, they were so clueless. Amelia hoped they stayed that way for as long as possible. But what to do about the author?

About half an hour, her phone rang again. Now what? Then a sick feeling settled in her stomach. It wasn't a call coming though, it was a video. From Henry. When she hit play, her heart dropped.

Cruella had a death wish, she had kidnapped Henry. This was Henry's call for help to her. Well, not just her, it was sent to Emma and Regina also. Yes, these three women who are also mothers, it was a brilliant idea.

Cruella wanted Emma or someone to kill the author. Amelia would gladly do it, no one played her like a puppet.

"Neal, Cruella is being stupid and we need to go save Henry, now." She grabbed his hand and headed to the cottage in the forest.

But Emma and Regina got there first along with Killian and a guilty Mary Margaret and David. Henry was safe, he had gotten away and found his mothers. And Cruella? Amelia entered the clearing to see Emma standing on a ledge, looking down. Amelia stepped next to her.

"Hey, you ok?" She asked, and then looked down. Cruella was at the bottom of the small mountain, clearly dead.

Had Emma done that? Was she going dark like Gold had wanted?

Like I said, not my finest moment.

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