"Rose!"

Rose opened her eyes and gasp for air. Smee was no longer there, instead it was her father.

"Ow… My head." She winced as Rumple helped her to stand up. Opening her eyes, she noticed the shop looked different. It was a mess with items broken and thrown everywhere.

"What happened?" She asked confused. But the murderous look her papa had told her he knew.

"It was a trap!" He yelled and started to break more glass objects nearby with his cane. Rose jumbled just a little, but Belle was terrified of his reaction.

"W-What do you mean?"

"Someone wanted papa out of here so they could get in and steal something."

"But who?"

"Judging by that rat, my guess is it's that Pirate."

"Wait. You know that pirate too?" Rose was surprised that Belle knew of Hook.

"You know Captain Hook?"

"He's the one who went after Belle in the Library earlier. He had Smee steal your brother's cloak from me."Rumple finally spoke. He tone reminded her that he wasn't done being angry.

"Why would he want a cloak?" It didn't make sense. The two adults looked at each other, having a mental conversation. "What are you not telling me?"

"Rumple, tell her. She was going to find out eventually." Belle told him. If Belle knew and Rose didn't, she wasn't going to be happy.

"I found a spell that can get me to cross over the town line." He explained. His daughter smiled so big and hugged her father so tightly. This was good news!

"Oh my god! You did it? I can't believe it. This is great! But why the secret? We can finally find Bae!" She cheerfully said. Rumple pulled her away and laid his hands on her shoulders.

"Because the potion is only enough for one. And it has to be placed on something you hold dear and be worn during the whole time so you don't forget."

Rose had to take a minute to let his words sink in. She understood why he hadn't told her yet. She wouldn't be able to go and see her long lost brother. And now Hook stole the shawl. Most likely to lure her papa somewhere to fight again. But she only had one thing on her mind.

"You were going without me." She sadly said.

"Rose-" She took some steps back from him. Glaring at him.

"You were going to leave me behind again!" Just like he'd do back in the castle.

"It's for your own good."

"Oh, really? Did you forget what just happened?" She pointed to the whole room of the robbery.

"Nowhere is safe, papa! And please stop locking me up when things get bad. I am not going to leave you like she did. I. Am. Not. Milah!" She cried out and ran out of the shop.

Belle stayed still, watching Rumple staring into space. Lost in his thoughts.

"Rumple" He soft delicate voice brought him back and he looked at her.

"Who is Milah?"

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"Stupid. Stupid. Stupid." The teenage girl kept muttering to herself as she kept kicking a pebble during her walk. Too annoyed to stop and too frustrated to think. That was until she almost took a step over the water. Waking from her thoughts and finding herself at the docks.

She always ends up somewhere random when she isn't paying attention to her surroundings. The place was quiet and empty. All you say where some boats here and there, seagulls flying and waves splashing into the shore.

Once again Rumple was being Rumple. And Hook had to return to ruin their family again. Sometimes she wished she could punch that pirate in the face. She picked up a rock and smiled as she looked at the sky and water. Thinking to herself that she could pretend she was hitting him.

With all her strength, she threw the rock into the sea. But the object never hit the water. Instead she watched it disappear and heard a hard thud. As if it landed on a hard floor. But there was nothing in sight for it to land on. Except for a rail.

Rose ran up to it and faced the side where a boat would normally be held at. She picked up another rock and threw it in. It disappeared and she heard the landing sound closer.

"I've caught you." She sang to herself. Captain Hook must've used magic to hide his ship in plain sight. Rose was thrilled she found him and took some steps back to inform her papa the news. But she stopped herself, frowning.

If she told her father about Hook's ship, he would just leave her behind and deal with the pirate alone and in his own dark ways. He would get Belfire's showl back and leave town while she is stuck at home again.

She came to a decision to get her the item back on her own. And if she did see the one handed pirate, she has a lot of things she's been wanting to say to him.

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The young girl placed some sand on the invisible stairs to find it's entrance. She was right about the cloaking spell. Lucky for her, no one was on board when she entered the ship. She stayed silent and snuck around. Opening any closed doors or cabinets in she entered the cabin, she heard a man's voice coming from beneath her.

"Hello?".

"Uh… hello?" She tried to not say louder than a whisper.

"Down here!"

She followed the voice. She got closer and lifted the rug up and saw a handle on the floor. She pulled it up slowly, afraid it was a trap. But to her shock and relief, the person was Archie Hopper.

"Rose! Oh thank god." He happily let out a relief sigh. He was tied up with a small scratch on his head.

"Archie? Wh- Your alive!" He was confused by her words.

"What?"

"Everyone thinks your dead! Which means Regina didn't kill you." He shook his head from her comment.

"No! It wasn't her. It was Cora! She kidnapped me and brought me here so Hook could try to get secrets of your father. But I didn't say anything to protect you both!" He quickly explained as Rose jumped in and untied the ropes. They both got back up into the room.

"Thanks. Now go and find my father. Tell him I'm where I am." Archie looked scared for her.

"You're not coming? You can't stay here."

"I need to find something Hook stole. There's no time. Go before he comes back." She pushed him towards the door. Archie turned to face her and took something out of his pocket.

"At Least take this." He was holding a gun.

"Archie, that's a gun! I don't kill."

"It's not to kill. It's for protection. Shoot his leg to buy you time and escape. Take it." He calmly said to her. She was having a mental war inside. Yes she didn't mind using a wand, but a gun? That was another level. That seemed way more harmful. But she could pretend she was going to hurt Hook.

She took the weapon in her hands. Archie gave an encouraging smile to her.

"Why didn't you use it?" She asked since he had it hiding all this time.

"I was knocked out. Then tied up." He reminded her.

After Hopper escaped, Rose looked at the gun again. She was disappointed and left it on a counter. Closing the door without looking back.

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Henry listened to Archie's voicemail. Emma and the Charmings were watching the poor boy. Their silence was interrupted when Pongo snuck in and jumped on the bed licking all over Henry's face.

Henry was immediately happy and started to play with the dog.

"How did Pongo get in?" Mary Margret asked.

"I brought him." The adults turned around to see Jim with Pongo's leash in his hands. "Surprise."

Emma's parents were told by Jim hat he had to run an errand. They didn't know this was what he meant.

"I told him to." Emma quickly said after seeing the Charmings mixed feelings of the dog leaving muddy prints in the loft. She explained to them how they all knew Henry loved Archie and Pongo so much. So she and Marco decided to let Henry keep Pongo. And Jim quickly took action to give them privacy.

"Hey, how about we take him out to get cleaned up?" Jim suggested Henry to do. Excited, the young boy agreed and got him and Pongo ready to leave.

"Thanks." Emma whispered to the teenager. Jim awkwardly smiled and left with the two.

Emma felt good and comfortable to count on the people of Storybrooke to take care of Henry. She was hoping only the best for her and Henry.

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Rose entered what looked like to be Hooks private cabin. Since there was only one bed in the room. If he wanted something valuable, he would want to keep it close. She found a locked chest and saw a key in a nearby glass cup. Unlocking it, she found nothing inside. Why keep a locked up chest empty?

"You looking for this?"

Scared she turned around and saw him. The man from the docks all those years ago. The pirate who fought with her father. The one who Milah left them for.

Captain Hook. And he was holding in his one good hand her brothers shawl.

Rose didn't show any reaction. Which caused him to give an evil chuckle.

"You don't look surprised to see me." He stated.

"This is your ship." He laughed out loud.

"That it is. I am assuming you know who I am."

"The man who stole another man's wife." This made him angry

"Is that what our father told you?" He stepped closer and closer to the girl. But she remained still. Not letting him think he frightens her.

"So you do know who I am." She responded instead.

"How could I not? It may have been for only a moment when I saw you all those years ago. Even now I can honestly say that you, you look just like your mother." She frowned and was very disturbed by his sad look in his eyes. She didn't want to hear this.

"What's wrong? Most young girls like to be reminded of their mothers."

"Not this one."

"You rather be like the crocodile?"

"At Least he didn't abandon me like Milah did." Hook understood now. All anger aside, he did feel sorry for her.

"Your mother was coming back for you." She refused to believe his sincere tone.

"Really?" She sarcastically said.

"Really. That day in town, we were planning on finding you. And take you with us. But your father found me first. And I couldn't let him get to Milah. I told her to come for you while I ruled Rumpelstiltskin. To take you and runaway from all this. But she didn't."

"Why?' He hesitated on telling her.

"She- She stayed to save me." This time Rose laughed out loud.

"Why are you laughing?" This wasn't a joke, not to him.

"If what you say is true, then Milah really and deeply never cared for me. Once again, she chose you over us!"

"She wanted you-"

"I don't give a damn what she wanted! What I want is this." She said and held the shawl up in her hands tightly. Hook looked back in his hands, surprised she took it right under his nose as they spoke. She quickly kicked him below the belt. And did not waste another second to run out.

She made it back out into the open air, on her way to the exit of the ship. But Captain Hook showed up in front of her. Causing her to halt.

"I would suggest you give that back to me now." He demanded.

"Or what? You'll hurt me? Kill me?"

"Your Milah's daughter. I will not do that."

"Sop saying that!" She screamed.

"Whether you like it or not. You! Are her daughter!" He shouted.

"And whether you like it or not. I am my father's daughter!" She shouted back.

"That you are, Rosemary." Rumple announced. Showing up with his cane. Not happy at all to see Hook with his daughter.

"Ah! You look different in this world, Crocodile. Like the coward I met so long ago. Limp and all." Rose looked at her father confused. She thought Hook only saw him as the Dark One.

"You two met before?" Rose asked. Hook grew a smirk.

"She doesn't know, does she? Of our first meeting and what you decided NOT to do for your wife?"

"Rose leave." Rumple stated firmly.

"No stay. I insist." Rose felt her nerves all over.

"Let;s just go papa." She said and tried to pull im away. BUt he pulled away and walked towards the pirate.

"Not yet. Go home. Now!" Before she could do anything, she watched her father use his cane to hit Hook. Throwing it and hitting the man over and over. This was the exact reason why she wanted to find Bae's shawl and not him.

"Papa. Papa stop!" He didn't stop.

"This is what we came for. Let's go!"

"NOT (HIT) YET (HIT)"

"Papa please!" She begged, cracking her voice a bit. Rumple stopped and looked at his daughter's pleading look.

"Don't waste your breath, girl. He has to prove he is not a coward." That changed Rumples mind.

"You may want to turn away, Rose. This won't be pretty." He warned her and continued throwing more a few hits. Hook continued to talk.

"Do it! Kill me! Rip my heart out and kill me like you did with Milah!"

Rose looked at the now bloody face man.

"What?" She asked.

"Your father chose to not fight for Milah all those years ago. Making him a coward. After finding out she never loved him, he killed her! Ripped her heart out and crushed it in his hands. Milah is dead because of him!" Rose would have thought he was lying if it wasn't for her father staying so quiet.

He finally took the courage to look up at his daughter's eyes. She was holding the missing item of her brothers to her chest.

"You killed her?" She softly asked.. Hoping it wasn't true. But he said nothing. Holding back her pain and anger. "You lied about before." She stated this time.

She had believed that Milah faked her death, not that her father lied about her being dead. And when he returned from the docks, he told her she did because of Hook. And that Hook got away.

"It was to protect you." He finally said.

"Protect her? You wanted to protect yourself. Milah left you. Your son left you. You would do anything to keep your daughter from leaving you too!" Rumple had enough of the Pirate speaking and dropped his cane.

"He has to die." Rumple jumped on him, ready to pull out his heart, but Rose held his arm back. Trying to force herself to get between them.

"Rose stand aside!"

"No I won't! You have been keeping secrets and I have kept some too." That got his attention.

"I don't care about before. Because in the end, Milah always chose the Pirate over out family. She chose to save him over me. She never cared about you, Bae, or me. I may look like her, but I am not her. After that night when the soldier said what she did, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't be her. I would never ever leave just like she did. Despite everything we have been through, I am still here with you. Even right now I am still with you. Because I love you, papa! So please. Please let's go and find Baelfire so we can be a family again." She cried. Tears were falling down her cheeks.

Rumple was always afraid that something would cause her to run away from him. Especially with Hook being back. But finding out that Rose had chosen multiple times to stay with him, warmed his heart. After all this time, she has been the only person who has been there for him.

"Let's go home." She said more calmer now. Holding his hand. He nodded and let her lead him away and off the ship.

"You're making a mistake! You don't know-" Rose cut Hook off. And faced him.

"I love my father more than I ever knew Milah." With that, hey were gone. Leaving the bruised up Pirate alone with his negative thoughts growing and growing.

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The Golds were sitting side by side inside the Cadillac. Parked just a few feet away from the town line at night.

Rumple had explained everything. The truth about him and Milah. The real reason why she left. What happened when he first met Hook. He told her about him having to choose to fight for Milah or be a coward and come home to tell her and Bae a lie that Milah died. About the deal she made to save Hook. And of Milah confessing that she never loved Rumple. Which resulted him to kill her and cut off Hooks hand.

He told her everything.

She was quiet.

"Say something." He whispered. Still afraid of what she would think.

"What should I say? How could you kill her? She was my mother? If I'm supposed to yell at you and hate you? I don't." She confessed and finally turned to look at him.

"I meant what I said earlier. I love you more than I ever knew her. Which is a lot. Because I never really knew her. She was just there. She never did anything, you did. You fed me, you played with me, you put me to bed, you always took care of me. She didn't. Even after you became the Dark One, you never abandon me. But she did. Do I approve what you did? No. But that's part of the package of being your daughter. I am not Milah's daughter, I am yours." She explained. Remembering a long time ago when another wizard told her that.

Rumple was amazed by her revelation.

"You are truly a remarkable woman. After everything you've learned about me, you're still here. You saved your brother's shawl. This would've been lost, but you saved us. You saved me. What did I do to deserve you?"

"You loved me from the beginning." She answered. Earning a hug and a kiss on her head.

"And don't you forget that."

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The Charmings left to get some food for dinner. Jim offered to stay to help out with Henry. Even though Emma thought he was being a good kid, Jim was really doing it to help Rose. The girl wasn't back yet. And if she found out he left Henry alone for only a minute, she would show her dark side.

There was a knock on the door.

"Food. Finally." Emma said and made her way to open the door. Pongo beat her to the door, barking non stop and trying to use it's paws to open the door. Which the Savior thought was weird.

"Pongo?" She opened it and thought she was seeing a ghost when she saw it was Archie Hopper. The suppose dead man walked in and petted his dog, who was happy to see him. One look from Henry and he had the biggest smile ever.

"Archie!" Henry cheered and hugged him.

"What happened?" Emma finally asked.

"We thought you were dead." Jim added. Catching up to the group.

"So I've been told. It was Cora. She kidnapped me." Archie explained.

"I knew Regina didn't do i!" Henry said.

"But how did you escape?" Emma asked. Archie's smile disappeared. Remembering the situation going on.

"Rose." Just her name caused Jim to panic in his mind. He felt chills that something was wrong.

"She found me. But she stayed behind. I found Mr. Gold and told him where to find her. She's in trouble and needs help."

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Father and daughter stood side by side facing the yellow line of spray paint on the road.

"You sure it's ok for me to go? We can wait a few more months for another potion to be ready." Rumple suggested. Even though he wanted to find Bae, he had to admit he was worried of leaving his daughter behind. But Rose looked at him with an encouraging smile.

It's ok, papa. We've waited years and years for this. Why wait longer when we're so close? I'll be here with food ready for when you come back with Baelfire." She told him and gave him the shawl. Rumple took out the small bottle of the potion and spilled it all over the object. Every last drop of it. Throwing the now empty bottle to the side, he hunched down so Rose could wrap it around his neck and shoulders. The two took a deep breath in.

"Okay." She whispered. Excited and nervous.

"Here we go." He said. Holding her hand, he took a step over the line. Then the other, letting go of her hand completely.

For a moment after crossing the town line, Rumple stood still. Rose watched without blinking. Her father was shaking a bit and then froze again. He turned around slowly and stared at her in silence.

"Who am I?" She asked him afraid. He had a small smile.

"Rosemary." His answer caused her to grin and laugh. Jumping up and down from happiness and relief. Clapping too.

It had been so long since he had seen his daughter this happy. He couldn't help but laugh slong with her.

"It worked papa!"

"Yes it did."

"Now you can find Baelfire."

"Oh Rose. I wish-"

"I will be waiting here. I promise."

~BOOM~

Rose fell over and was caught in her father's arms. Rumple looked down at his daughter in fear what just happened. She fell over the line with no protection.

"NO! NO! NO! Rosemary?"

The girl looked in pain and was scared after opening her eyes and seeing him.

"Who's Rosemary?"

Her memories were gone. Gold's heart felt shattered. He heard someone coming close. It was Captain Hook with a gun in his hand.

"I wouldn't count on her waiting. Now that she has no idea who you are to her!" Hook growled. He wanted the crocodile to suffer more than ever before. Rose chose her father over Milah. Hiik wouldn't allow that anymore.

"What you've done, can not be undone." Rumple brokenly cried out.

"Now you finally know how it feels! Come on Crocodile, do your worst!" Glaring up at the man, it was clear what he had in mind.

"Oh I intend to." Rumple made a fireball appear in his hands.

A car was driving towards them fast. Rumple took Rose in his arms again and rolled them over. The car drove missed them but hit Hook instead. Then crashed by a tree.

Gold took a look at the unknown vehicle.

The license plate was from Pennsylvania.

The world came to Storybrooke.