Chapter 53

Hi everyone! Sorry it's been awhile. I was having a lot of trouble getting this chapter written for some reason. I just couldn't get my ideas out the way I wanted. I finally finished though. I'm still not too thrilled with how it turned out, but this is as good as it's gonna get lol I hope you all still like it!

There was a guest review left on my one-shot series. The guest asked for one where Zelena asked Hanna if she ever feels like her sister got everything in life. I added that in here for you like I said I would. Sorry it took me so long! I hope you're reading this :)

Also, obviously the Operation Mongoose episodes are coming up, and I can't decide how I want to start that part of the story. I have 2 ideas, but I'm not sure which one would be best. I've decided to let you all chose which idea you like better! So here they are…Option 1: Hanna wakes up in Storybrooke with Henry, and we follow the storyline from there or Option 2: Hanna wakes up chained in the castle with Emma and we go from there with the storyline. What do you guys want to see? Leave me a review to let me know which idea you like best and I'll write the most popular choice! :)

Again, I hope you like this chapter…I know it's not my best.

Enjoy :)

Sitting in the backseat of a car with The Wicked Witch of the West…that is not something Hanna ever pictured herself doing. Here she was though with Zelena sitting right next to her. Emma and Lily were in the front seats. Regina, Robin, and Roland were in the car behind. They were all headed back to Storybrooke. Regina put a cuff onto Zelena's wrist to prevent her from using her magic. They didn't want her instantly poofing herself away once they crossed the town line. She needed to be put away for good this time.

Robin was shocked when he opened the door to his apartment and found Regina on the other side. He was even more shocked to learn Marian really wasn't who she said she was…that she was in fact Zelena. The person who was most shocked of all was Regina when she discovered that her sister was pregnant with Robin Hood's child. That was the only reason Zelena was safely in the backseat of this car right now. If there were no baby Hanna was sure that, even without her magic, Regina would have destroyed Zelena right on the spot when they arrived at the apartment. There was no way Regina would harm Robin's child though. Zelena knew that and the smug look on her face made this car ride with her even more unbearable.

"It's Holly isn't it?" Zelena asked as she leaned towards Hanna.

Hanna just glanced over and rolled her eyes. "Hanna." Zelena knew what her name was.

"Oh right, Hanna." Zelena moved her eyes towards Emma then back to Hanna again. "So, how does it feel?" Zelena asked in a quiet voice.

"How does what feel?" Hanna asked.

"Well, how does it feel that your sister got everything and you didn't?"

Hanna furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "What?"

"Zelena, stop," Emma warned from the front seat.

Zelena continued, ignoring Emma, and turning to face Hanna. "She's the Savior. She gets all the glory. Why shouldn't that be you?"

Hanna just raised her eyebrows at the witch, not even bothering to answer.

"I mean she even got to grow up, and you're still stuck a little kid. Aren't you jealous?" Zelena asked with a grin, she was obviously trying to see if she could get under Hanna's skin.

Hanna shook her head "Uh…no."

"Not even a little?" Zelena asked with a raise of her eyebrow.

"No, Zelena, I'm not jealous of my sister like you are of yours, okay?" Hanna turned and looked out the window…not bothering to listen to that witch anymore.

They finally made it back home. They got across the town line using the Snow Queen's scroll without any problems. Hanna was excited when they pulled up to Granny's and she saw everyone waiting for them. Hanna jumped out of the car behind her sister and ran into her mom and dad's outstretched arms.

David kissed the top of her head. "We missed you."

"I missed you guys too."

Hanna turned to find Henry, giving him a hug as well. When she turned back around, she watched as her mom stepped towards Emma, trying to give her a hug too, only to have Emma step back. Hanna sighed, her attempts at getting Emma to forgive them during the trip hadn't worked. She was going to have to keep trying though, Hanna wasn't going to give up. Hanna gave her mom and dad a sympathetic smile, before giving them an extra hug to make up for the one they hadn't received from Emma.

Hanna saw Lily getting out of the car and stood protectively in front of her parents. She still didn't trust this old friend of Emma's.

Clearly Emma didn't fully trust her either. She saw the look on Lily's face as they walked past. "Alright," Emma said, putting a hand on her friend to guide her safety past Snow and Charming to where her Lily's mother was waiting. "Maleficent…this is Lily. This is your daughter."

Even though Hanna knew Lily would more than likely want revenge for what she'd been through, she couldn't help but smile when Lily was reunited with her mother. Hanna looked up at her own mom.

Snow looked down and gave Hanna a wink. She glanced back towards Maleficent. Snow felt a bit of relief that Maleficent was finally reunited with her daughter…the daughter she and Charming had taken from her. Snow also felt guilt…guilt for what she did and for causing Maleficent to lose all of those precious years she could of had with Lily. They could still make up for lost time though. She and Charming had with Emma and Hanna…well Emma wasn't really speaking to them right now, but Snow knew she would come around eventually, and they would get their relationship back to where it use to be.

"I'm sorry I couldn't convince Emma to come around," Hanna told her mom and dad once they returned to the loft.

Snow gave Hanna a small smile. "It's okay, sweetie. Don't be sorry."

"She'll forgive us in her own time," David said.

Hanna nodded her head and glanced towards the carseat, noticing Neal had woken up from his little nap. "Hey, buddy," Hanna said with a smile as she picked him up from his seat. "I missed you." Hanna gave him a kiss on the top of his head and snuggled him close.

"I think he missed you too," David told her. "Why don't we go sit down on the couch and you can tell us all about your trip."

"Okay." Hanna carried Neal to the couch and her mom and dad followed. She knew they wanted more details about what happened with Emma. They could tell she was leaving things out during their phone calls. They all sat down and Hanna filled them in on everything…finding Lily's old apartment and thinking she was dead, Emma's encounter with the man across the hall, finding Lily alive at the diner, going to her place, and seeing all of the stuff on the wall…

"She knew everything," Hanna told them. "We don't know how, but she did and she…she wants revenge for what you did to her. You guys have to be careful, okay?" Hanna looked at her parents, worry filling her eyes.

"We'll be fine," David assured her. "What else happened? How did you convince Lily to come back?"

Hanna continued. "Well, while we were checking out Lily's place, she stole Emma's car. She was headed to Storybook with the Snow Queen's scroll, so we chased after her in a another car…"

Snow gave David a look. "Another car? Where did you get another car?"

Hanna winced. "Oh, well…Emma she…she kind of smashed the window out of another car, and we stole it."

Snow just sighed and shook her head. There was nothing she could do about that now.

"So you caught up to her I'm assuming?" David asked.

Hanna nodded her head and her eyes went wide thinking back on that wild car chase. "Oh yeah we did."

"Then what?" Snow asked.

Hanna's face fell. She did not want to tell her mom and dad what happened next. "We calmed her down and talked her into coming back peacefully."

"Hanna…" Snow said, sensing Hanna was leaving something out.

"What?" Hanna looked down at her baby brother, trying to avoid eye contact. He was asleep again. He only had a short nap on the car ride home. Hanna couldn't get over how adorable he was with his little thumb in his mouth. Thumbsuckers are the cutest.

"What else happened Hanna?" David asked a little more firmly.

Hanna sighed and looked up at her mom and dad. "Just promise you won't freak out okay?"

David glanced over at Snow, then back to Hanna. "We promise."

"Emma got Lily's car to stop, and they both got out. They really got into it. Lily punched Emma in the face. Lily was yelling stuff at her, then Emma she…she threw Lily to the ground and pulled out her gun. She aimed it right at Lily."

Snow covered her face with her hands. "She what?"

Hanna continued quickly to try and justify what Emma had done. "Well, I mean…Emma had every reason. Lily was threatening to come back here and get revenge on you two. She didn't want that. Emma had to stop her."

Snow and David were a little glad to hear Emma was trying to defend them against Lily. That showed that maybe she wasn't as mad as they thought she was.

"It sounds like she had her reasons," Snow said. "She obviously didn't harm Lily, but we just don't want her to keep doing these things and have her heart…"

"Go dark, I know," Hanna said. "I didn't want that to happened either. That's why I stopped her." Hanna bit her lip. She shouldn't have said that last part.

David gave his daughter a questioning look. "And just how did you stop her?"

Hanna gulped and she could feel her face turning red.

"Hanna what did you do?" David asked, knowing he and Snow weren't going to like her answer.

"Well, I…" Hanna started to say when there was a knock at the door. Snow stood to answer and David followed behind. Hanna sighed a breath of relief.

"David…" Snow said in an urgent tone when she saw who was on the other side of the door.

Hanna, curious about who was here, carefully stood from the couch with Neal still in her arms. He was still fast asleep as she made her way to the door and stood behind her mom and dad.

"I'm not here to kill you," Maleficent promised them.

"Okay…" David answered, wondering why she was here.

"I just…I just want my daughter," she told them.

"Lily isn't with you?" David asked.

Maleficent shook her head. "She's leaving. "

Hanna could see tears starting to form in her eyes and felt sorry for her.

"And you think we can help," Snow stood to the side of the door. "Come in."

Maleficent walked in and turned to Snow. "You cast the second curse. Can you…is there a way for you to seal the borders. The way Regina did?"

Snow just shook her head. "I don't know how to do what you want. But that wouldn't be the right way, anyway. If she's upset, you have to get to the heart of what's wrong."

"I don't know what's wrong. I don't know her," Maleficent sighed in frustration.

"Well, she's acting a lot like Emma did when she first came here," David told her. "She had these…her walls were always up." Hanna noticed the look in her dad's eyes. Almost like he was afraid they had caused those walls of Emma's to come back up again.

Snow continued. "She was afraid that if she opened herself up to me, I would let her down like everyone else had. And…ultimately, I did." Hanna could see the hurt on her mom's face.

"If you have any way to help…you didn't give her back to me then, but please, if you can help, do it now." Maleficent pleaded.

Snow nodded her head. She would do anything to make up for what she and her husband did. "Yes. Come on David, let's find her. Hanna can you stay here with Neal?"

"Well I…" Hanna really wanted to go find Emma and try to talk some sense into her again, but she could tell her parents needed to do this. "Alright, I'll stay here."

"Thank you, sweetie. We'll be back soon," Snow said.

David gave Hanna a kiss on the top of her head. "See you later princess."

Hanna sat down on the couch with a still sleeping Neal. She couldn't stop thinking about Emma. Hanna knew she had to do something to help Emma forgive what their parents had done. Not only for their parents' sake, but for Emma's too. She needed to let these feelings go. She had to stop being so angry with them. Hanna was still afraid that Emma's heart might go dark. She had faith in her sister, but Rumplestiltskin was a sneaky man and could make things happen. Hanna didn't want to take any chances. She desperately wanted to go find her sister, but looked down at her little brother who was still fast asleep. Hanna didn't know what to do. After a few minutes of deliberating, Hanna decided that she was going to take Neal to Granny and go find her sister. Maybe Emma could even help find Lily and talk her into staying in town for awhile.

Hanna carefully placed Neal into his carseat, thankful that he stayed asleep. She grabbed his diaper bag and made sure it was still stocked with the essentials. She grabbed a bottle from the fridge, knowing he would be hungry when he woke. Hanna covered Neal with his blanket, put on her own coat, and headed for the diner. The walk to Granny's wasn't that far, but carrying an infant in a carseat with one arm and having a diaper bag slung over the other made the journey a little more difficult.

"Hanna, what are you doing here?" Granny asked when she saw Hanna walking into the diner with the baby.

Hanna set Neal's carseat onto the counter. "Can you watch him? Please?" Hanna begged.

"What's going on?" Granny asked suspiciously.

"I just need to go find Emma," Hanna gave Granny pleading eyes.

"Do your parents know you're here?" Granny asked.

Hanna sighed. "This is really important. Please, Granny?"

Granny nodded her head.

"Thank you! Everything he needs is in the bag, and he'll probably sleep for awhile." Neal always slept for several hours in the afternoon. "Thanks again, Granny," Hanna called out before rushing from the diner. Now she just had to figure out how to find her sister.

Hanna got lucky and found Emma in the first place she looked…the docks. She saw her sitting there with Killian. They were sitting on the edge looking out at the water. Hanna was about to run right up and interrupt them when she heard what Killian was saying.

"They've done a lot of good. Turned themselves into heroes," Killian told Emma.

Hanna smiled, realizing he was trying to do the same thing she was. He was trying to convince Emma to forgive their parents. Hanna just stood back and listened, maybe he could do a better job than she's done.

Killian continued. "Yes. I know they didn't own up to what they did, but did you ever think maybe they were ashamed? And they wanted you to like them."

"I'd like them more if…I'd known they'd turned themselves around. I like when people find their good hearts along the way," Emma told him with a grin.

"They were trying to protect you, Swan. Twice. Before you were born, they wanted to make you happy, and they found you again and wanted to make you proud. Do you want both of those to be failures?"

"He's right you know," Hanna said as she walked up and sat down on the other side of her sister. Hanna looked up at Emma, giving her a smile. "They did what they did for us."

"Hanna, I know…" Emma said with a sigh.

"Don't you think they've been punished enough?" Hanna asked her.

Emma looked towards Killian, then back to Hanna. "You know…this double teaming stuff isn't really fair."

Hanna shrugged. "You can't deny that we are right."

"I know." Emma let her head drop as she fiddled with her gloves.

"So…does that mean you'll forgive them?" Hanna asked with a grin.

"I…" Emma started to say when they heard a loud sound coming from the woods. It was something between a roar and a screech. "That was a dragon," Emma said, remembering from when she battled Maleficent under the library the day she broke the curse.

Hanna's eyes went wide with panic. "Maleficent." Hanna looked up at Emma. "Mom and Dad are with her."

"Or maybe it's Lily. Come on," Emma said urgently as she stood and took off in the direction from which the sounds were coming.

Hanna saw a glimpse of a dragon flying off into the sky and Maleficent running after it. The dragon must have been Lily then. Emma was right. Hanna saw her parents. She noticed her dad holding a cloth against her mom's head…the cloth was drenched in blood. What had Lily done? Hanna quickly ran to her dad's side.

"What happened?" Hanna asked her dad.

"Mom!?" Emma knelt down beside her mother.

"She hit her head pretty hard," David said as he wrapped his arm around Hanna.

"No, stay still," Emma told Snow when she tried to sit up. Emma waved her hand over Snow's head, healing the wound. "It's gonna take time to heal inside."

"I'm sorry I let you down again," Snow told Emma.

"You didn't."

"No, I was selfish."

"Yes, you were, but at some point this has to stop."

"Emma, I'm not ever going to stop trying to protect you, not ever. I don't care what you do or say."

"I know. I need to stop punishing you."

"You do?"

Emma gave her mom a small smile and nodded her head. "You're a hero. If it happened at my expense it doesn't change anything. It doesn't change the good person you became, and it doesn't change what you are."

"Which is what?"

Emma shrugged and tears were starting to form in her eyes."My mom. You wanted to make me proud, so you li—omitted the truth, which was kind of self-defeating, but human. Cutting you out and trying to hurt you has just made me miserable. Anyway, I miss you and I forgive you."

Snow quickly sat up and wrapped her arms around Emma. She was thankful to finally be forgiven.

Hanna couldn't help the tears that started to fall. Emma finally came around. Hanna looked up at Killian, who gave her a wink. Their little talk with her worked. Hanna was glad the pirate was able to talk some sense into her. Hanna felt like a huge weight was lifted off of her shoulders. Emma was going to be okay now. She wasn't holding onto that anger anymore. Hanna truly felt like everything was finally at peace.

David stood and looked down at Hanna, realizing she wasn't supposed to be here. "Wait, what are you doing here? Where's your brother?"

Hanna bit her lip. "I took Neal to Granny. She said she didn't mind watching him. I had to find Emma…I had to talk to her. It was important." Hanna shyly looked up at him. "You're not mad are you?"

"No, I'm not mad," David pulled her closer and gave her a kiss on the top of her head. "It looks like your talk with Emma worked."

"It was Killian mostly," Hanna said with a shrug.

"Yeah, they double teamed me. I had no choice, but to forgive you," Emma said with a roll of her eyes. She reached out her hand and helped her mom up from the ground. "Kidding…" Emma grinned and went to hug her father.

David hugged Emma close, cradling the back of her head like he always does. "I love you, Emma."

"I love you too," Emma said with a smile.

Hanna smiled at her dad and sister, then walked over to her mom. "Are you okay?"

"I'm going to be fine," Snow assured Hanna.

"Good." Hanna wrapped her arms around her mom and sighed a breath of relief.

"So what happened with Lily?" Emma asked.

"How about we go to Granny's for some hot chocolate to warm up and we'll tell you everything," David suggested.

Everyone agreed and they all set off for Granny's.