Disclaimer: I do not have any ownership over the Once Upon a Time property. That belongs to Disney. This story is even an inspired and based off of by The Librarian by Omegathekid

Falling. That was all I felt around me. The sensation was eerily similar to one I experienced six years ago when I was twelve. I had been kidnapped by my dad's fiancé, Tamara, and this guy named Greg. They were unknowing working for Peter Pan. Tamara had managed to get ahold of a magic bean which they used to transport the three of us to Neverland, but that was another time.

This time however, My girlfriend, Violet, and I were falling through a portal to a time before Mom ever cast the dark curse. We were traveling to the Enchanted Forest. The enchanted forest always made me think of my grandparents, Snow white and Prince Charming, and of the stuff of happy endings. My hand sought out and clutched Violet's as we fell out of the portal. We must have fell from a few feet off the ground because a soon as I hit the ground pain flared through my back. Not even seconds later, another body fell on mine and the breath was completely sucked out of me.

I kept my eyes shut as I groaned in pain. The other body soon rose off of mine and I could hear Violet calling my name. I, stiffly, rose from the ground and opened my eyes to get my bearings. The sun was setting in the west. We had landed in a clearing at the edge of a cliff. Great oaks were positioned parallel to the cliff. In the distance, sat a small castle in middle of a dark blue lake.

'That must be Grandma's castle,' Henry thought, 'it looks how I always imagined it from the pictures from the storybook.

"Henry," Violet's voiced called snapping me out of my observations. She had a few dirt stains on her gown and her hair was slightly disheveled, but she looked in one piece.

"Are you alright," I asked looking up at her.

"I don't think we came back to the right time," she said ignoring my question. "Look."

Turning my head, I saw a deep purple cloud descending over the between the valley on the other side of the castle.

"The dark curse," I said worryingly thinking of how Storybrooke was before Emma was able to break the curse. 'After all that work, we still didn't make it.' Now we'll end up in Storybrooke with everyone else with no memories.

"What are we going to do Henry," Violet asked slightly scared as the curse got closer.

"it's going to be alright Violet," Henry consoled, "we'll just end up back in Storybrooke with no memories like everyone else."

"Like that makes me feel better," she said feigning sarcasm. "how are we going to save everyone if we won't even remember who we are?"

"Don't worry," I said, "this will throw a kink in our plans, but we'll just have to wait till Emma breaks the curse this time."

"Find me," Violet said with conviction after a moment. The curse was almost upon us. "Find me when we get there. I know that together we'll both be able to remember this life."

"Violet," I started.

"Promise me Henry," she said. Her lips descended on mine as we were enveloped by the purple cloud.

Storybrooke

Daniel Cassidy could not for the life of him describe how he was feeling. He woke up in the loft above the library with a raging headache. He had lived here as long as he remembered. He tried to remember what happened yesterday, last month or even last year, but nothing came up. That kind of unsettled him more then he wished to admit. A feeling was nagging at him that he needed to remember something, but it was all to naught.

As he got up, a wave of memories assaulted him of the time he spent with his parents before they died. They had left the family library to him in their will. Luckily, Mr. Gold allowed him to keep the library after he wasn't able to pay rent for his former apartment. He decided to go for a walk before opening up the library today. Not that it would make much of a difference. No one ever comes to his library. Not even the kids in school. You'd think they'd want to conduct research to get good grades. That's want he did all the time during high school, but that was before his parents past. He is too busy now trying to keep all of his bills paid in order to live.

He felt so lost as he exited the library, but an eerie sense of familiarity fell upon him as well. He decided to make his way to granny's for a late breakfast. He was so lost in thoughts that he bumped into a woman traveling the other way.

"Watch where you going Mr. Cassidy," snapped the Mayor as he tried to help her up.

"Sorry about that Madam Mayor," Daniel said, "I'm not feeling myself today."

"Whatever High school dropout," Mayor Regina said as Daniel flinched, "just be thankful that you still have that pathetic library to live in. I don't know why Mr. Gold even let you keep that dump. Now get out of my sight."

With that Daniel headed on his way to Granny's diner, albeit at faster pace than he was walking before. Despite seeing the Mayor acting so unsettled, a flash of a memory flashed before his eyes. An image of Mayor Regina was smiling down at him in her manor, but this didn't make sense as he had never been to her manor as far as he knew and the mayor in the image, or memory, was a lot taller than him. Shaking his head he pushed open the door. The bell rang as he took in the attendance of the diner.

Granny was leaning on the counter refilling Marco's coffee cup as Leroy grumbled beside him. There were two waitresses manning the floor taking peoples orders. Ruby was a girl a few year older then him. In High school she always had a reputation of being kind of a skank, but Daniel never associated with her before so he might be wrong. The other waitress took his breath away. Rosie was a girl his age who stood at 5'6 with an oval face and dark brunette hair with brown eyes. He's had a crush on Rosie since they were in middle school, but he never got the courage to talk to her.

Her mother had died during childbirth leaving Rosie to be raised by her Dad. Unfortunately, he knew not how to raise a girl so he left her when she was in primary school for the armed services. Since then she had been living here with Granny and Ruby. Despite growing up with Ruby, Rosie had never taken to her adoptive sisters wilder ways.

Daniel chose a booth near the far window and looked through the menu. After a couple minutes a cough startled Daniel from his ponder as he looked over towards the waitress.

"May I help you with anything today sir," Rosie asked looking towards him. It was all Daniel could do not to stutter and make a fool of himself as he answered her. "Wait a minute I know you," she said giggling at him, "your Daniel, Daniel Cassidy. Whose parents had owned the Library."

"Yes,' Daniel got out.

"I'm sorry you lost your parents last year,' she said kindly.

"it's alright," Daniel forced out, "um could I get a couple of eggs sunny side up, some bacon and um some hot chocolate with cinnamon."

"sure," she said, "is that all?"

"yes ma'am," Daniel quipped nervously. As she was walking away, Daniel suddenly got this urge to go after her and with all his courage called out after her. "Wait."

Rosie turned around looking at him curiously. She wasn't the only one as a few other heads looked their way.

"umm," he stuttered, "would you like to have coffee with me?"

"I'm sorry," she said, "I would but I'm going to be working all week."

"could I walk you home then," Daniel asked quickly.

"I get off at seven," she said after a moment. He felt a glimmer of hope as he nervously wrung his sweaty hands down his jeans. "I'll see you then."

AN: what do ya'll think? This is just to test the waters a bit before I commit to the story