Hi, so here is the FINAL CHAPTER of this story! I am so happy that i got this chapter out and finished this story and i really hope that you all like this conculsion, it was always my intentiont that this story would finish at Season 3 and therefore i am happy to bring this to a conclusion.

I would like to say thank you to the many of you who have read and reviewed and favourited and followed this story. Over the course of the year i have wrote these 33 chapters it has been a source of strength for me.

I am taking a short break from the OUAT Fandom and i hope to return shortly where i will try my hand at a new story and a new pairing.

Disclaimer-Nothing but Jack in this story has ever been mine.

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Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)

Chapter 33-Spellbound

Emma and Jack try to figure out and accept who they are and how far they've come on this journey. Emma goes back to the past in an attempt to gain a better future and this story ends on something like a happy ever after. Final Chapter of this Story!

David couldn't think. He couldn't even work his brain into something that had an answer as to what was going to happen next. She had taken his son.

It was happening again.

And the pain and the fury and the agony that rent through him sent him spiralling from the room with his sword desperate.

Emma had no magic, Hook had one hand, Regina had been bested by the woman time and time again and Gold was under her control. And then there was the baby he had never gotten to hold. The baby that was the final ingredient in some spell that would rip the whole course of his existence apart.

And beyond that it was his baby.

And it was gone.

Again.

And that would not fucking stand.

He was in such a rush, ignoring both Regina and Emma's pleas that he stop and think about what to do for just one second that he didn't realise where he was going until he collided into something hard. He pulled his hand back to deck whoever was standing in his way but the person slid to the side as if he had known what was coming.

David looked up. Oh joy.

It was Jack.

Well…that was just all he needed.

In hindsight this was not where he intended to be. There was a moment where he had taken stock of that and then he had been in the same car as Emma, Captain Hook and Regina all of whom seemed to make it perfectly clear that they were not in the mood for conversation. Which was good because Jack was not in the mood for it either.

He had come to the hospital at Henry's urging. His grandson had sent him a text message to tell him that the baby was on the way and curiosity and a grain of calculation had seen him go to the room only to have David crash into him coming out the room looking as if someone had died. Jack wondered weather or not he had looked like that in the aftermath of putting Emma through the portal thingy and sending her into this world and he couldn't help but feel sympathy for the man. The three of them were once again in this together and either way losing a child was not something Jack would wish on his worst enemy.

And Snow White and Prince Charming were not his worst enemies.

So here he was heading to some sort of barn with his gun that he wished in hindsight he had cleaned out probably because that always helped him to prepare going into this situation mentally at least. He gripped the weapon—actually if he'd had his sniper gun with him then he would have preferred that even more. Nonetheless he knew some of what he was walking into. This was an ambush as far as Zelena was concerned. After all he had done that before.

Providing of course neither David, Emma or Regina did anything stupid then of course there was a way out of this in which they could all survive.

And with that Jack double checked his gun and walked through into the barn to stop a madwoman from killing a baby in order to change both her past and the future.

The baby was safe…no her brother was safe…that had to mean something. All of this had to mean something. And it was a good way to end it. Her parents had their second chance she had hers. Of course Emma didn't want to think of another reason why she would want to stay in Storybrooke (namely the leather clad pirate that she was dealing with) but she found that she could see this out.

Even if it did feel wrong.

As if he could hear what she was thinking, or even what she was going through in that moment Jack stood up next to her from where he was leaning against the wall. Zelena had caught them all with a very nasty blow to the back of the barn wall and while her other father had managed to shake it off her mortal and very real world father had not.

"You Ok?" she asked finally watching Henry coo over the baby boy.

"Nothing that will kill me" Jack said grimly. "It's a sweet picture I suppose. I gather from the way Henry is reacting that you haven't told him that your planning on going back to New York when all of this calms down…and considering you still have a face I'm guessing Regina doesn't either.

There was a heartbeat of pause.

"Oh bloody hell Emma…this is exactly what you were going to do the last time and it ended up with Henry nearly dying"

"Did I miss something? Do you want to stay or something? I'd have thought that getting out of Storybrooke was exactly what you wanted"

Jack paused and Emma could see the cogs turning a little in his head and then he shook it slowly from side to side. "If you want to stay then I will stay, if you want to go I will go…but there's no easy way now Henry has his memories in which you can detangle yourself. Regina and this town are a part of his life now no matter how happy he was in New York. Perhaps it's time we all accepted how much this place is ingrained in us and try and see if there's a way forwards for us"

"And you want to stay with Regina" Emma said and then winced for it had been a bit snide. Jack didn't rise to the bait however he simply regarded her with a long look that she had seen twice in two respective lives. Once when she had told him she wanted to give Henry up for adoption and then again when she had told him that she wanted to keep him.

"Yes" he said simply. "I'm lonely Emma, I've never had a lot of love in my life and neither has she. We understand each other in the same way that Captain Hook tries to understand you and in a way that Neal did too" He rolled his eyes at this point. "It's time" he said carefully as if he had thought on these words more than anything. "That we both stop running—I think that we both accept that we are in this…well whatever this is together. This town, this family, this life. I don't see another way that doesn't hurt us all and I'm tired of the rug being pulled out from under me"

There was a pause that lasted between the two of them for a very long time and then the moment was broken when her father asked them with eyes that seemed to be far older than he was if they would, like to see the baby. Jack smiled and Emma was left to wonder and not for the first time what it was that she was scared of. Because she knew, deep down that something had happened today or perhaps a long time ago that had made the three people who had all in some way made her who she was gel together in a way that she had never seen before. The problem was not them, the problem was her and the fact that her two worlds that had been separate for a long time were clashing together in a way that she was really not prepared for.

The day after was a mess. It was the ending of something and the beginning of something that nobody could name and looking back they didn't say or see what it was. They woke up—all of them good and bad to the knowledge that Zelena was dead and they ended their day with something that could have been peace. Or at the very least a long stretch of peace. Regina was not sure a town like Storybrooke could ever have peace true peace. That would mean winning a battle the likes of which she had never seen before.

But right now they had an interlude of peace. Her sister the sister she had never known existed was dead. Regina was unsure how she felt about that. Deep down she wondered if Zelena would ever change or if the envy that had turned her green would have burnt her up. Revenge and envy, the two things that Cora had taught her daughters weather present or absent were the most important things to cling too. How much had they missed out on in their childhoods? Love. Peace. Happiness.

It made her kind of broody. Snow was in the diner showing her baby off, Henry was looking up houses, Swan and the Pirate had gone off somewhere and she was sitting in the local bar with a glass of whiskey and wondering what the hell she was going to do now she wasn't mayor and now she wasn't consumed with revenge.

"You know drinking alone isn't always a good thing" A voice to her left said and she turned to see Jack watching her with that slow smile on his face. She smiled back.

"Can I help you?" she asked finally.

"Yes you can, because when were on that boat with the Lost Boys and the shadows and we knew that we had achieved the impossible I said that I would take you to dinner and you said you'd like that. And now I remember so…if you have nothing on this afternoon before we go to this naming ceremony do you want to grab a late lunch"

Regina stared at him for a second and then took a leap of the ledge. It was time she thought to herself no matter how much it hurt, to let go of the boy she had loved and turn her attention to the man who was holding out his hand for her.

"Alright" she said and she knew that she was smiling the same as he.

How long she and Hook sat in the dirt at that old farmhouse she didn't know. The whole thing had taken probably taken hours and yet it had felt like weeks she had been in that realm. That realm that she belonged too and yet she had felt nothing for. And she was sure she was going to need to take a look at the damage that corset thing had done to her ribs. She felt like her organs had rearranged themselves.

"You alright?" Hook asked standing up and brushing dirt of his coat as if he time travelled every other day.

"Yeah" Emma said wincing as she stood up. "I think I might have just had an revelation."

"Oh" Hook said as if she had just confessed to having an illness. "What about?"

"About…everything. Come on. I've got some people to speak too"

"Time travel?" Jack said once she'd told the story to him and to her parents. "Oh I really have heard it all now"

"Gotta admit it's a new one for me as well" her Dad said watching her. "All along Zelena didn't need our baby. Huh"

Emma nodded before she plunged into the speech that she had been rehearsing in her head for some time and before she changed her mind.

"What I'm trying to say is that I get it now…that I'm all of your daughter. That the three of you raised me and loved me in your own ways despite what's gone on before and I want us all to be a family"

There was a silence. "Yeah Em we kinda came to that conclusion a while ago" Jack said smirking.

"You did?"

"Well in Neverland we knew that you loved all of us and we sort of accepted that we'd have to get along. It was rather simple from that. Why do you think we were trying so hard even when Jack didn't have his memories?" Her Mom pointed out.

"Also your banditry/prison story was a see through as a glass window. I kinda figured that something was going on. Didn't think they were your parents of course but I did think maybe brother or sister. Besides once the memories came coming back and I got wind the baby was taken it all seemed kinda pointless. What do you think that I was trying to tell you when we were at the hospital. It's time to move on. We all love you and we all want to be a part of your life same as you and Regina. Best way to do that is to be friends"

Emma blinked rather rapidly touched beyond words. She was not a woman to be overcome by a moment of sentimentality and she found that she had anticipated the problem with more worry than what was needed.

"Oh" she said softly.

Her Dad took that moment to take the baby and get everyone's attention. Regina took his empty seat next to Jack. Emma noticed that the two of them were holding hands. Gold sat in the corner with Belle looking tired though managing to have a conversation with his grandson. She thought that perhaps if Gold kept to his end of the bargain a relationship might strike up between the two of them who had not seen Neal in those final days but were both secure in the love that the other man had felt.

She felt a hand tough her shoulder and turned to see Hook…no Killian staring at her with that soft smile that made her heart turn upside down.

There was a pause as she stood there and then she reached out taking a chance on something that she had thought she'd never get, she took the edge of Killian's fingers and squeezed them. It wasn't much, but it was a start. It was a start of something new and real.

It was at this moment Emma Swan looked around and took stock of everyone that was here, everything that had happened and every possibility that could happen in the future.

It was here she realised that she had a family.

It was here that she realised that life right now, was good.

And again a massive thank you to all of you. I hope you enjoy.