Hello! Here's the full version of the Summary just so you get a basic idea of where this is going. Unlike my Avengers story I actually have some sort of plan for this. :)
AU After the time portal brought Emma, Marian, and Killian back from the past they discover that it brought something else with them—a jewel from Rumplestiltskin's stores that has the power to transport everyone in the town back to the Enchanted Forest, but in the wrong hands it also has the power to destroy them all. While David and Snow and the others make preparations to leave they discover the jewel went missing, and even though Regina and Robin are trying to stay away from each other, and Emma can't decide whether she wants to go or not, they must all join together to find the jewel before it's too late.
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EMMA
The cool breeze swept through her blond hair as she danced up the hill after her parents.
"Come on, Emma!" Her mother smiled, holding out her hand, and catching the toddler as she tried racing by. "We're going on a picnic!"
"Where?"
"Just outside the forest there's a lovely meadow. We're going there. We're meeting Auntie Red, and Granny."
"Oh!"
Emma woke up and stared at the ceiling above her. For a moment she couldn't remember if what she had dreamed was a memory or just a shadow of what should have been. She sighed, when she remembered, and rubbed her eyes, slowly sitting up in her empty, lonely bed.
"Killian..." She gripped the corner of her quilt in her fist. The last thing she did with him was kiss him. Why? Why had she kissed him? The evening was coming back in portions... He had traded his ship for her. She smiled, and jumped out of bed. Killian traded the Jolly Roger for me. It was a perfectly cheery thought to start her day with, and it beautified her face with glorious smiles as she greeted her family in the dining room.
"Good morning!" She said happily. She hugged her father and mother tightly, and kissed Henry and Neal on the tops of their heads.
"G'Morning, Mom." Henry mumbled, "Why are you so happy?"
"I just had a good dream. That's all." A dream come true. She thought. Killian traded his ship for her. He loved her.
"I hope it wasn't about pirates." David muttered. Emma laughed.
"Dad, trust me, Killian's not a 'pirate' anymore. At least, not in the original sense of the word."
"Does that mean your dream was about Killian?" Snow asked. She and David both looked exhausted. Neal must have kept them up all night again. Emma blushed.
"No." She sighed.
"Well... I just burned the eggs..." David groaned. Emma frowned, looking over at her Dad's black scrambled mess and grinned.
"Did Prince Charming never learn to cook in the Enchanted Forest?"
"Of course I did, I'm just exhausted. That's all." David turned the pan over with such force that black flecks flew out at Emma's pajama pants.
"Careful, Dad." She gently took the pan, and set it in the sink. "Don't worry about it now."
"We can just go to Granny's." Snow sighed. Henry looked up.
"Does that mean I get waffles and hot chocolate?"
"I guess so, kid." Emma ruffled her son's hair, and then quickly ran upstairs to get dressed. The prospect of maybe seeing Killian at Granny's made her shiver, but then the events of last night came back to her and they made her freeze as she was buttoning her shirt up. Regina. Robin. Marian... Oh No. If she saw Regina she was surely doomed. The woman was furious, and would probably burn her to a crisp. What if Regina was at the diner?
"It's unlikely." She told herself. "She's probably hiding in her house... she's probably..." The thought of Regina sobbing into the side of one of her fancy couches made Emma sigh. Regina was stoic, stubborn, and cool. She was a Queen, and queen's didn't cry. At least, not in front of anyone. But Emma was sure that she could be found in her home sobbing her heart out. For one moment she thought of going to the house, and trying to apologize again, but she realized it didn't matter. No matter what she did Regina would be furious. Emma trotted downstairs to find her family ready to go out the door.
"Ready?" Emma nodded. "Good."
When they reached Granny's Regina was nowhere to be found, but Roland and Marian were sitting at a table. Marian was talking to her son, but he seemed distracted and lonely. He was playing with the salt packets, and when he saw Henry walk in his face burst with a grin.
"Henry!" He jumped out of his seat and raced towards the boy who he considered a brother.
"Hey, Roland. It's good to see you! Is your dad around?"
"No. He's with John. Do you know where 'gina is?"
"Mom? No... she's probably at home."
"Oh." Roland looked disappointed.
"Do you want to play a game of tick-tack-toe?"
"Yeah!"
As David and Snow ordered Emma watched Marian's expressions as she studied her son playing a strange game with this strange boy. Marian had met Henry last night. She had been utterly confused at this boy who was a son to both the evil queen and Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter.
"Hello?" she asked, when she saw Emma. "Come sit down." Emma sat across from her in Roland's former seat.
"Hello, Marian. How are you?" Emma asked, though not really wanting to address this woman whom she should have just left alone.
"Not so well. What does he like now?" Marian gestured to the young boy sitting next to Henry.
"What does he like?"
"Yes. What does he like? What is he like? Who does he like?"
"Ummm... He likes cocoa with cinnamon, and tic-tac-toe, and... playing on the playground, playing swords with Henry, playing with cats, and sleeping with his favorite stuffed monkey."
"Stuffed monkey?"
"Yeah. I think Regina gave it to him."
"The Evil Queen..." Marian sneered. "Ruined my life, and now she still is."
"Why?"
"She stealing my son from me!" Marian hissed. "I will not stand for it!"
"Marian..."
"Emma! The food is ready!" David called.
"Would Roland like something?" Emma noticed Marian hadn't bought anything.
"Ummm... That would be... that would be nice, thank you."
"I'll order him some hot cocoa and waffles."
"Alright." Marian bowed her head, but watched as Emma ordered Roland's new favorite food. His favorite, of course, were actually Regina's apple waffles, but Regina wasn't here, and he would have to do with just plain ones.
Emma let Roland sit with Marian, but she went to sit with her family.
"It seems as though Marian is angry." David said.
"She is. She's very angry with Regina. She says Regina's tearing her family away from her."
"Please. Regina deserves Robin and Roland. Marian doesn't. What did she ever do, but be at the right place and right time and then get pregnant?" Snow asked. Emma had never heard her mother talk this way.
"Mom!"
"It's true."
"Regardless, it wasn't really nice." Emma took a sip of her coffee and smiled against her will. It was true. Regina had worked for the relationship... hard.
REGINA
The agony in her heart made her sick as she sat on the floor in her living room staring at the flames in her fireplace, just like they had been only the night before,when he had been hers. She felt the rug underneath her, the sofa at her back, and the warmth of tears on her face, but she couldn't feel her broken heart and there was no way of healing it either.
"Mom? I'm home!" Henry. She stood, wrapping her black shawl more tightly around her shoulders and quickly moving to the door, wiping away her tears.
"I'm here, Henry, by the fire!"
"Hi!"
"I thought you were supposed to be with Emma today." Regina said.
"I was…. but she was busy. She and Killian wanted to talk privately, so she told me to pack my bags and just spend the night at your house."
"Oh. I see." Regina sighed. "Well! Lets take these bags upstairs." Regina grabbed Henry's little suitcase and together they marched upstairs to Henry's room. She set the suitcase on his bed, and he set his large bag on his desk. He dug through it and pulled out his story book.
"I thought you were letting David borrow that for Neal."
"Grandpa said I could have it this weekend. Neal's a boy. They can get tired of their parents' love stories."
"Alright. Well. How about you take a shower quick and I'll make lunch. Maybe when we're done we can go visit baby Neal. I need to talk to Snow anyways."
"Alright." Henry handed his mother the book. "Would you take that downstairs? I'm going to take it with me."
"Sure." Regina left her son to change and she hurried down stairs to make some turkey sandwiches, but the golden lettering on the book tempted her more than anything. She quickly flipped open the book, full of innumerable stories, and found the one she wanted. Princess Leia. No. It was the next one. Robin Hood rescues Roland The picture was, of course, exactly his own face, and it made her want to cry. She stared down into his beautiful eyes and gently touched his painted cheek with her fingertips. Robin.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Startled, she threw the book down onto the counter, and then composing herself rushed to the door. She opened the door to see him.
Robin Locksley, his unruly hair and boyish smile nearly killing her.
"What are you doing here?" She asked, trying to sound indifferent.
"I'm sorry, Regina, it's Roland-"
"Is something wrong?!" Panic flared in Regina's heart.
"Hi!" Roland looked up at Regina with his big doe eyes, and darling smile.
"He misses you. He won't... connect with Marian, and I…. She doesn't know we're here. You must not tell her." Regina's eyes filled with tears as Roland lifted up his arms as a gesture to be held.
"Come on in. I was just making lunch." Regina lifted Roland into her arms and kissed his curly haired head. As they walked into the kitchen, Robin shutting the door behind him, Roland asked,
"Will you tell me a story?"
"Actually, I was going to make you and your papa some lunch."
"Its alright. I'll make the sandwiches." Robin offered. Regina looked over at all the fixings she got out and nodded slowly.
"Alright." She grabbed the Once Upon a Time book and together she and the little boy sat down on the sofa. She turned to somewhere in the middle of the book and just began to read.
"Once upon a time," she said, "There was a beautiful princess who was very unhappy. She was so unhappy with her life that a green fairy took pity on her and came down to help her find her happiness. The Green Fairy's name was Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell told the Princess that all she had to do to find happiness was to find true love. But the princess's true love died long ago, and she thought it was impossible to find true love ever again. But Tinkerbell kept encouraging her. 'You'll find it. Just wait.' She gave the princess a magical item that would allow her to find her true love, Fairy dust! Tinkerbell helped the Princess find her true love. She led her to a tavern in a small town in the kingdom, and the Princess looked in through the window to see a young man sitting at the table. 'That's him!' said Tinkerbell, 'That's your true love. The man with the lion tattoo!'"
Regina saw Robin pause in his work as she said these words, but she continued anyways. "'All you have to do is go talk to him.' Tinkerbell said, and then she flew away to leave the princess to talk to the man." Regina felt tears now. "But she was too scared, and so she ran away. She was very angry at the Green Fairy, but she didn't know that soon she would meet the man with the Lion tattoo again, and they would fall in love."
Oh no. The tears were falling now. She heard Robin set down his knife. "And when winter came they would-" she froze, staring at the words before in in unbelief. No. It was impossible. It couldn't be true. She couldn't read this aloud! "They would live happily ever after. The end." She finished quickly and shut the book. She had lied, and she was glad Roland couldn't read.
"I think it's time I get Henry for lunch."
"Roland, how about you run upstairs and get Henry?"
"Okay!" Roland ran out of the room, and Robin came up to Regina and knelt down at her feet, and gently wiped away her tears with his thumbs.
"Regina…." He whispered.
"Please don't! Please don't. You'll only make it worse." She sobbed.
"Regina. I don't want it to be this way."
"It will always be this way. It always will." Regina whispered. "Because I love you more than anything in this whole world. Because you've given me something to fight for. Because you've restored my heart to light. Because you make me smile, and laugh, and you make me happy! You brought me my happiness, Robin!" Robin leaned forward and gently kissed her forehead.
"I'm sorry. It has to be this way. You brought me happiness too." He stood up as Henry and Roland entered the room. "Alright! Time for lunch!"