"Code Red. Code Red. Henry?" Magnus sat in her yellow beetle car very late at night.

"Charlie? What's wrong?" Henry grabs his walkie-talkie under the pillow.

"I need to talk to you."

"About Operation Cobra?"

"No, about us. Meet us downstairs."

Henry sat at the front of the car with Magnus, "if my mom sees me outside with you, she'll go really mad."

"Henry, I need to talk to you very important," plans to take Henry and run away, "do you want to come live with me?"

"More than anything."

"Okay, then buckle up, all right?"

"Why? Where are we going?"

We're leaving Storybrooke," turning the car on and roars to life.

Henry looks around the car and wondered if Magnus really leaving Storybrooke then saw his stuff in the back, "is this all you brought?"

"It's all I need."

"Wait! You wanna go now?! We are leaving?!"

"I am getting you out of here. Always from all of this," the delusion he is in, the town did that to him. He's living in a lie and Magnus wants him to see the truth.

"No! No! Stop the car!" He didn't want to leave his mom and his mom did right by him, "I'm not leaving mom!" He firmly believes in the other lives, the lives of Enchanted Forest, "you can't leave Storybrooke. You have to break the curse."

"No I don't. I have to help you," Magnus really think something wrong with the town that cause extreme disillusion upon Henry; the book, someone must've drew pictures of me and people then wrote stories.

"You're the hero! You can't run! You have to help everybody!"

Magnus groans while driving, "Henry, I know it's hard for you to see it, but I'm doing what's best for you. That's what you wanted when you told me about Storybrooke."

"The curse, dad. You're their only chance to bring back happy endings," and mom, he didn't want to leave mom and he knows he loves Magnus and tells story of Emma, mom. He saw the sign 'Leaving Storybrooke,' and twirls the wheels so they don't leave Storybrooke. Magnus panting when they crashed into a ditch, "Henry," he checks to make sure he wasn't injured. "What are you doing? You could have gotten us killed!"

"Please, don't make me go! We can't go! Mom needs you, dad," Henry pointed out his whole family is here, "me, your parents and your family is here." Henry begged him to stay and to believe, "please, Magnus. We need you. Mom needs you. Your parents need you. Everyone needs you."

Regina checks her tree and it's dying, oh no. The curse and the magic are slowly breaking and soon. Regina knew it's time, and Magnus is taking too long to believe. It's time to visit Mr. Gold to see if there's another way to break the curse.

"Your Majesty, what do I owe the pleasure?" Mr. Gold heard the bell when Regina walks in.

Regina shows him the apple, "my tree is dying, Rumple. Why?"

"Magnus is taking too long to believe and the curse is weakening," it is not good news for us, the sign that the curse is weakening is worse than breaking the curse.

"The only way to break the curse other than having him to believe is to kill him."

"The curse will be broken," Regina sighs, "I am not killing him."

"You'll have to be quite creative, Your Majesty." Mr. Gold needed to look for his Bae, "Magic is in short supply here." There's no way to undo the curse if he wanted to, but he doesn't.

"You want the curse broken ever since Magnus arrived in town, why?"

"That's not something I care to discuss."

Regina heavily sighs then there's only way I can do, because there aren't any other options. Mr. Gold is of no help in any matters.

There's only one thing to do, Mad Hatter, she drove to the school and looks for Paige's bike and put a card, a Mad Hatter's signature on the back of the bike, knowing that Jefferson was watching her.

Magnus walks into Mary Margaret's loft and was glad to know that David wasn't here but working at the station. Mary Margaret's cooking and preparing breakfast, "I thought you left?"

"Mary Margaret…" Magnus could hear the disappointment in her voice.

"But I couldn't tell for sure because you didn't bother to say goodbye," she stopped for a moment to look up at Magnus eyes, "do you remember when we ran, what you said to me. You said, 'we have to stick together,' and that we are family."

That was in the heat of the moment, and I didn't mean it, well I did mean it, but I didn't mean to say that, "Mary Margaret, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left."

"You're right! You shouldn't have!" she drops the spoon in the bowl, "Why, after everything, did you just go?"

"I don't want people relying on me! I don't want this! Any of it!"

"What about Henry?"

"I took him with me."

Mary Margaret crossed his arms, slow to anger, "you abducted him?" She walks around to face him, "wait, you don't want people to rely on you, but you took your son?!" she was being sarcastic, "now that sounds like a stable home. A what, twenty-five years old boy abducting a twelve-year-old boy, how that a grand plan?!"

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Mary Margaret shook her head and greatly disappointed with him.

"I wanted what's best for him."

"And running is what best for him or best for you? You're reverting, Magnus, into the person you were before you got here," Mary Margaret returns to the kitchen, "I thought you changed."

"You thought wrong," Magnus looks down at the floor, a failure and he didn't do anything different since the day he arrived.

Mary Margaret drinks her tea, "there's something you need to figure it out."

"Oh, what's that?"

"Henry and Regina."

"You're his father and Regina is his mother. Figure it out!"

The thought of losing Henry to a sleep curse, breaks her. The thought of Magnus will not love her as much as Emma does, destroys the fiber of her being. This upcoming days will the hardest I ever done in the name of love, just to help Magnus to believe in the curse, but doing this, I'm doing this for Emma and Henry, her son in hopes Emma comes back to me.

Regina smiles when she heard the Mad Hatter walk into her office, "Jefferson."

Jefferson held his signature card, then Regina walks towards him with her arms behind her, "you got my message."

"How could I miss it? You knew I was watching her."

"It must be painful, your daughter, Paige, being so near."

"Her name is Grace! What do you want?"

"Your help."

"And what makes you think I won't kill you after everything you've done?"

"Because you don't have it in you. If you did, you would have killed Cora twelve years ago when she brought you here," pouring alcohol into glass for both of them, "you know if I'm dead, you'll never get Grace," giving him a glass, "I have a way for us to both get what we want." Jefferson dropped into the glass and wasn't interested in what she's proposing. Regina walks around and picked up his famous hat that she had from Cora then put it on the table.

"My hat," he hasn't seen this in years.

Regina spoke up after he opened the cast, "I want you to use it again."

"I can't make it wrong. No one can. Not here. Not without magic."

"You're in luck. I happen to have some magic," she picks up the hat, "it's not a lot, but hopefully enough for one last journey."

"Where?"

"Back in our land. There's a solution to my problem I have and only way for him to break the curse."

"Magnus."

"Why don't I just do that? Go and tell Magnus then kill you."

"Then the curse will never be broken," she gently slaps on his chest, "my problem, Jefferson, is the same as yours. It's family."

"We both want our family back. And we both can get them if we work together."

"Why would I trust you now?"

"It's only offer you got; I wouldn't do what Cora did to you. I can promise your daughter back and you both can live happy together in your mansion."

"I want a fresh start, here."

"Well, Jefferson, that's exactly what you will have."

Henry knocking at August door, in haste for him to break the curse. The moment August opened the door, Henry bust in, "August, please, I need your help."

"Magnus wants to leave!"

"Wait. Slow down, kid."

"You were gonna make him believe. You have to."

"I know Henry. I'm sorry. I failed."

Henry didn't know he already tried, "failed?"

He tried to show him. "First it was my legs, and now," showing him the wood was spreading to his arms.

"It's wood," Henry grasp then smiles, "I was right. The curse, it's real."

"You're a smart kid."

"And you're Pinocchio."

Henry didn't understand why he was changing back into wood, and August was in fact has not been a good boy and he kneels front of Henry, "if the curse didn't break then this doesn't stop."

Henry thought of showing Magnus that he's a puppet then he'll have to believe when he sees it, but August already tried that, "he doesn't want to see, Henry. There's nothing more I can do, I'm sorry." It's nearly end of life for him, hard to work and ride, then soon it's gonna be hard to breathe. Henry didn't want to give up, "there must be something we can do." The time August have left, he wants to spend his last hours with his father.

Magnus thought of seeking out Archie, so he met him at Granny's to come up with a plan. Henry's therapist about Henry and sharing the custody of Henry with Regina. However, Archie couldn't help him since he doesn't have the case for sharing custody. He wasn't his legal father, and his name isn't on Henry's birth certificate.

"After everything she have done?"

"Which you can't prove."

Archie was thinking of Henry, the war between Regina and Magnus, "whose going to be hurt here?"

"Henry, I know."

"I'm his father. Should he be spending time with me?"

"Yes, you are, but so is Regina. Regina has been a good mother to Henry and loves that boy." There's not one court anywhere that will side with Magnus after looking at Henry and he's been fed and happy with mom. And all the court is going to see that he endangers himself by stealing credit card, running off and skipped school, repeatedly, ever since he come into the picture. Magnus knows he lives in fantasy life, but there's only one concern in his mind, "do you think she'll ever hurt Henry?"

"No. Never. She loves him, Magnus." Archie knew the war has to end between them and hopes that Magnus will find some peace in Regina and at least become friends so they can share together. "If you two want to be in his life then you'll have to figure out the best way to do that."

Regina and Jefferson walks down to the basement of her vault with Jefferson's hat in his hat, "where I've kept all my last bit of magic." It's the only magic she brought with her when Cora enacts the curse and kept it from Cora. Jefferson put the hat on the floor, but it isn't spinning, "it needs to absorb the magic that's here." Regina searches for few magic to put into the hat, but it wasn't enough to open the portal then touched Emma's ring that she gave her and Daniel's ring that she always kept in her pocket in case of emergency but also to remember them. Jefferson knew those rings are powerful magic, "it has magical properties." Jefferson puts the hat near her, "give it to me and let me see what I can do with it."

Regina's controls her tears to lose something precious for Magnus, and Jefferson pressures her to give it to him, "look, if you want your family back and break the curse, give it to me." Regina points at the floor for him to put the hat back and he carefully puts the hat back onto the floor. Regina's eyes were full of red, tears dropping as she dropped the rings into the hat.

Moments after, the purple swirls and the hat spinning, opens the portal, but it wasn't strong enough to send them into somewhere, "what's wrong? Why isn't it opening?"

Jefferson looked down at his hat, "the magic. We can't go anywhere, but it has enough magic to touch the other side, just not for us to go there." Jefferson explains that he can reach through the portal and retrieve something.

"I can bring something back?" Regina considers what exactly does she need for Magnus to believe and break the curse. She remembers what Henry said and read Mr. Gold contract, but it has to be something small, "yes, I believe there is."

"Then you need to direct me to the time and place where the object exists."

"How?" Jefferson gave the hat to her for her to touch the hat, "think about it. Guide the hat." She closes her eyes to the moment Snow White ate the apple, and the hat started spinning, purple swirling around the room, Jefferson wondered what it is she's looking for and she replies, "an apple."

The apple popped up into the air and Jefferson caught it, Regina didn't think it would work. "Is this it?" Jefferson asked Regina when he handed her the apple. Regina took the apple, "yes."

"My daughter, my Grace?"

"As promised, I will help you with your Grace, but first things first," Regina needs to take care of this first before anything else to happen. My own forbidden fruit, and I have to be the one to taste it, the same apple that put Snow White to sleep.

If she was getting Magnus to eat the poison apple, then she'll be baking her famous apple turnover. She set the apple in the middle of the kitchen island while Henry is running around Storybrooke and talking to Magnus to convince him to stay and believe. No matter what, he doesn't give up, not one minute goes by him.

Minutes goes by when she stared at the apple that she heard a knock, wondering whose knocking at this time of the day. Magnus was at the door, "we need to talk," the moment Regina opens and replies, "I imagine that we do." Regina invited him inside and Magnus walks inside as if he's home, "do what you're so skilled at and make yourself at home."

Magnus breaths heavily and sighs hard, oh fuck, "look, this isn't easy for me. I thought that this whatever it was between us needs to end."

End what exactly, she doesn't want to end with him, but thought maybe, he's talking about Henry, "something we can agree on."

"I want to make a deal with you about Henry."

"I don't make deals with you," in fact she never makes a deal with Emma, they were a team and together and it seems that Magnus has other plans in his mind, "I'm leaving town."

"What?! You're dropping off college and what about Henry?"

"I have conditions through, I still get to see Henry. I get to visit and spend time with him whatever."

"Magnus, don't do this."

Magnus backs away, "look, I admit I thought there's something between us, but you were right. I am not his father, but at least this way, I can be in his life."

Regina wants to try one last effort when she touches on his face, and leans closer, "please don't leave us. Everything Henry said is true, and I need you," she pulls his lips into a kiss, but he pushes away and shook his head. "No, I can't. You don't get to do this, not you, too. Please don't," doesn't want to see that she believes in this too. That's too much to bear when I'm slowly falling in love with her. Magnus gave her the last kiss on the cheek, "I'm sorry. I can't do this." Magnus put a brave front because he needs to do one right thing for everybody is to leave.

Regina watches him leave through the front door and broke down, burst into tears and knew what she has to do to save Magnus, to save Storybrooke, and their people. She thought of Henry when she picks up the apple, she remembers as if it was yesterday, she walks in with Henry in her arms, running and jumping around the house and making a mess when he's only two years old. Tears dropped heavily from her eyes, so she cleans her face in the sink and recomposes herself to stop crying then picked up the poison apple in her hand.

Emma, Magnus, I love you then took a bite in her mouth. She dropped onto the kitchen floor the moment she chewed the apple and the apple rolled from her hands.