"Who is she?" Regina demanded, pointing at the little girl standing in the middle of the throne room.

"Her name is Kayley, daughter of Lady Juliana and Sir Justin of Camelot." King Leopold said calmly, directing a group of servants as to where to put the child's things.

"And what is she doing here?"

"I owed her father a great debt. I never repaid him, and now she's been orphaned. So, I offered to take her in and raise her."

'You mean make me raise her.' Regina thought bitterly. 'You take steps to keep me from having any children that could threaten your precious Snow's position, but then you take in this brat?'

"Go talk to her." King Leopold said, turning away. "Get to know her." Regina ground her teeth together, but nodded. She wasn't in a position to disobey a direct, public order. Not yet.

"So." She said, walking over to the girl who was looking around with wide eyes. "Are you excited about being a princess now?" She wasn't really sure what to say to this girl, and she didn't really care either. To her surprise, the girl shook her head.

"No."

"No?" Regina asked, raising an eyebrow. Kayley shook her head, making a displeased face.

"No." She repeated.

"Why not?" Regina's curiosity was raised. What little girl never wanted to be royalty? Even she'd wanted to be a princess when she was younger.

"I want to be a knight like my daddy." Kayley said firmly, nodding resolutely. Regina felt the corners of her mouth turning up into a smile in spite of herself. Maybe she'd be able to get along with this girl after all.

Storybrooke-Present day

Emma eased the cruiser into the parking lot of Bald Mountain. It had been a month since the curse broke and things were relatively stable. Regina had freed Belle as a peace offering to Gold, and without magic the girl had been able to keep him under control. Regina had been removed from office, unsurprising but somewhat disappointing to Emma as Mary…Snow was mayor now, though she had retained possession of the mayoral mansion. Emma was sure that if magic had been brought back things would have been more chaotic, but fortunately for her there wasn't any. With things so stable, there were really only two questions left. Who'd broken the curse, and what was Jade doing?

With no real crimes going on, Snow had asked Emma to try and figure out who had been the couple to make the kiss (Gold and Regina had both confirmed that True Love's Kiss was the only thing that could have broken the curse). Emma felt a little weird asking people about whether or not they'd been kissing at the time of the curse breaking, but curiosity had won out over awkwardness. A list of couples considered likely 'suspects' had been drawn up, but so far they'd found nothing.

The other question was the reason she was at the nightclub. Jade had not stepped foot out of the nightclub since the curse had broken. In fact, the only people to go in the club anymore were people like Baba Yaga, ones identified as being unequivocally evil but also relatively weak, and Tori, who'd gone in on the second day to return the sword and left looking close to tears. Emma wasn't sure why, but the goth girl's lack of activity worried Snow, Regina, the Blue Fairy, and even Gold, so now Emma was checking things out. Emma climbed out of the cruiser and walked up to the doors. To her surprise, the doors were unlocked so she just walked right in.

"Ever heard of knocking." Jade asked from her position behind the bar. Emma raised an eyebrow as the girl knocked back a shot of rum.

"Are you sure you want to commit underage drinking in front of the sheriff?" She asked. Jade snorted and pulled out tumbler from under the bar.

"Please. I'm the oldest thing in this town, if not in this world Swan." She said, dropping a few ice cubes in the small glass. "Besides, if you arrest me you'll have to deal with me hungover." Jade poured some rum into the glass. "Now then, why are you here?" The girl asked warily.

"People are starting to get worried because you haven't made any moves yet. Something about you being Chernabog, whoever that is." Now it was Jade's turn to raise an eyebrow.

"You ever see Fantasia?" She asked. Emma nodded, slightly confused. "You know that giant gargoyle thing towards the end?" Emma nodded again, and Jade smirked. "That's me." Emma stared at her for a long moment.

"That wasn't the Devil?" Jade shrugged.

"I'm the physical manifestation of the evil in men's hearts, all the evil things in all the realms besides the Dark One and your girlfriend obey, and I'm the most powerful manipulator of Dark Magic in existence, so tomato tohmato."

"I thought Rumpelstiltskin was…all that." Emma said slowly.

"Rumpelstiltskin is over Dark Magic. I am over Dark Beings, and am fueled by evil deeds. As such, I outrank him." Jade explained, taking a gulp of her rum. "Dark Ones can be replaced. I can't."

"Then why haven't you made a move yet?" Emma asked curiously. "She suspected that she knew the answer, but she wanted to hear Jade say it.

"What move would I make?" Jade asked, rolling her eyes. "As that dwarf proved, we can't safely cross the line, and I don't have magic anymore. All the old crowd might still come to pay their respects and grovel, but I can't do anything. So, I'm content to run the local nightclub." Emma frowned, then slowly nodded. Her lied detector hadn't gone off, and everything Jade had said made sense, so she figured the pale girl was being honest. She started to leave, then paused and turned back to face Jade again.

"Do you know who broke the curse?"

"Of course not." Jade said quickly, taking another gulp of rum. Emma stared at her.

"You're lying." She said in surprise. She'd asked out of idle curiosity, not because she thought Jade knew anything.

"Listen here Swan." Jade snapped, slamming the glass down. "I am Chernabog, Mistress of All Evil. I don't break curses, I make them. I don't help people, I damn them. I'm the closest thing to the Devil in existence. I do not fall in love!" Emma stared at her for a long moment, then smirked.

"I didn't say you were in love, just that you knew who it was that broke the curse." She pointed out. Jade stared back at her, then whirled around and started to stalk off. Emma glanced at the sword hanging over the bar. "It's Tori, isn't it?" Jade froze and turned around slowly, a pair of large scissors in her hand.

"Get out of here Sheriff." She growled. "You don't have your gun, and I guarantee you I'm faster." Emma raised an eyebrow.

"Touchy, aren't we?" She said, walking out. She'd faced scarier things than a skinny teenage girl with scissors, but she still didn't feel like getting stabbed. Jade glared after her, then turned to face the person who'd slipped in through the back.

"What do you want Gold?" The man smiled at her.

"I have a solution to our problems."

"And what problems are those?"

"I have somebody that I need to find but can't without magic, and you want magic back so that everyone will be too scared of you to do things like." He nodded in the direction Emma had just gone. "Interested?" Jade folded her arms, pocketing the scissors.

"I'm listening."

The Enchanted Forest-Twenty-Nine years ago

Regina looked around contemptuously as she and her guards entered Bald Mountain's main hall. Everywhere she looked there were vampires and minor demons, hedge witches and ghouls, a fine example of quantity over quality. The chaos that normally filled the place slowed to a stop as word of the new visitor reached the 'guests'. "I'm here to see Chernabog." Regina said in what Kayley called her 'Tone of Command'. The crowd slowly parted, allowing Regina and her party to make their way to the back of the main hall. A bored looking teenage girl with long black hair and pale skin wearing simple but elegant hunting clothes looked up from where she was sitting, slouched over on the throne. She grinned and straightened.

"Well well, the Evil Queen actually deigns to pay me a visit." Chernabog said, looking the group over. "What do you want?" Regina shot her guards a look, and all but one of them backed a short distance away.

"Secrets are important." Regina said in response to Chernabog's raised an eyebrow. The demon smirked.

"How true." She looked around at the silent crowd and frowned. "I'm sorry, did I tell you to stop what you were doing and try to listen in on this conversation?" She growled. There was an instant flurry of motion as the musicians hastily resumed playing and the 'guests' resumed doing whatever they'd been doing before. "Now then, you were saying?"

"I will shortly be casting a curse that will effect a large portion of this realm." Regina told her. "I've come to…" She ground her teeth "ask your permission to do so." The lone guard, Kayley, stared at her in shock, as did Chernabog.

"Ask my permission?" Chernabog repeated. Regina grimaced.

"I have worked far too hard on this curse to have you cancel it out when I attempt to cast it." She said. Now Chernabog looked very interested.

"And what, exactly, is this curse that you're so worried I will cancel out?" She asked.

"It will remove a large number of people from this realm and place them in a different one, stripping the memories of everyone except for those of the one who cast the curse. Moreover, the new realm would be one without magic. I would, of course, leave your lands untouched…"

"No." Chernabog interrupted. Regina paused.

"No to what, exactly?" She asked slowly.

"Go ahead and cast the curse. But include these lands in it." Regina raised an eyebrow.

"You want to be cursed?" She asked, surprised. Suddenly the demon was off her throne and was standing in front of Regina and Kayley.

"I am over three thousand years old your majesty. I have been sitting in this mountain, on that throne, for most of that time. I am so bored! So take my memories and take my magic. Give me something new."

Storybrooke-Present Day

Emma poked her head into Tori's room. "Hey, can we talk?" Tori looked up from the book she was reading.

"Sure." She said, taking her glasses off. Emma closed the door and sat down at the foot of her bed.

"So, I visited Bald Mountain today." She said slowly. Tori stiffened. "I talked to Jade. She had some…interesting things that she tried very hard not to say. Something about love? And kissing." Tori blushed.

"Alright, fine. Yes, Jade and I broke the curse that morning. But something must have been wrong with the curse, because Jade clearly said that she doesn't love me. And I know when Jade's lying. She wasn't. She hates me."

"Or maybe she was just scared." Emma suggested. Tori stared at her incredulously.

"Jade doesn't get scared." She protested. Emma raised an eyebrow.

"Really? Look at this from her point of view. She is, from what I understand, basically the Devil. She's immortal, she's evil incarnate, and she used to have a ton of magic on hand. Now she's magicless, mortal, and feeling something that's the exact opposite of evil. Seems to me like Jade probably feels like a little kid thrown into the deep end right now." Tori looked at her suspiciously.

"That's way too deep. Who are you and what have you done with Emma?" Emma sighed in exasperation.

"What is it with the Mills women and thinking I'm an idiot?" She demanded. Tori shrugged.

"Well, you kind of act like one a lot." Emma glared at her.

"Look, your mom was trying to shove me away before the curse broke. I had to get some advice from Mary-Margret, and I just adapted it."

"You got relationship advice from Snow White? You know Mom'll kill you if she finds out, right?"

"It was Mary-Margret, not Snow White." Emma said defensively. Then she sighed. "But yeah, I know."