Snow, Charming, Grumpy and I grabbed Hook from the hospital and took him out to the dock where his ship was set up. Hook winced, eyeing the former queen. “You didn’t even ask me about my recovery.”

“You shot me and could have left my children without their mother so no. Unfortunately I have no curiosity to know about your recovery.” I remarked back with my arms over my chest.

Snow chuckled asking with concern in her voice. “How are you feeling, Hook?”

“Come closer and feel for yourself.” Hook joked back at her.

Charming hits Hook where he winces, bending over in pain. “You want to lose the other hand? Where’s the ship? Come on. Archie told us. It’s shielded somehow, isn’t it, mate?”

“Aye… That it is. Follow me. I don’t know what you expect to find. Cora won’t be there.” He responded walking up into the sky a little bit above the dock before he disappeared through the cloaking spell.

Once we walked onto the ship he showed us someone trapped inside a small cage. Hook handed Snow the key where she crouches down and touches the guy on the shoulder and he startles awake. “Hey… It’s alright. You’re safe now. What’s your name?”

The larger man crawls out of the cage. “Anton. Where’s that witch?”

“She’s gone.” Snow answers.

The man raised his hands looking over his body. “What did she do? She made me small.” Tilting my head to the side I began to believe he used to be much taller like maybe a giant or something.

“Come on. Let’s get you out of here.” Charming offers his hand to the guy wanting to lead him off the pirate ship.

The stranger sent him a confused face. “You.”

Charming asked him not recognizing the guy. “Me?”

“You!” The stranger growled, getting to his feet charging at the prince. He punches David in the face, causing him to fly backwards.

Snow cried out for her husband. “David!”

Grump attempted to charge at the guy but he knocked him down with a punch in the gut. “Hey! Hey, over here, you big-“ Grumpy is thrown down the stairs of the ship.

“Grumpy!” I screamed, raising one of my hands trying to blast the guy with my magic but nothing happened. I stared down at my hands feeling helpless at this moment.

The stranger lunges at Charming, who has drawn his gun. But it gets knocked from his hand thankfully an arrow launched beside the strangers head so when he looks at Snow she has another drawn out on her bow. “Step away from my husband.”

“You may have me outnumbered, but this isn’t over. You think I forgot what you did? I didn’t. You’ll pay for your evil. I promise! You’ll pay!” The guy named Anton rushing off the ship and somewhere into town.

A few hours later I heard the shop door opened revealing my mother Abigail carrying the twins in a car seat holder while I was digging around in the various hiding places for magical objects. “Everly, I brought the kids like you asked. What - what are you looking for so heavily?”

“A magical object to stop the giant before he destroys the entire town.” I explained to her snapping my fingers dropping down onto the wooden floor. Lifting up one of the floor pieces I cheered seeing a round gold mirror laying inside the hole until I picked it up. “Rumple, you traveling soucier genius.”

My mom tilted her head curiously. “How is a mirror going to stop someone trying to destroy the town?”

“It’s spelled to trap whoever it is pointed at.” Running one of my hands over the side of the mirror I remembered something Henry had told me about this mirror and how it was somewhat connected to Jefferson otherwise known as the Mad Hatter. Suddenly as the twins were waking up from their naps my mother and I nearly collapsed onto the floor when the whole ground shook from something happening outside. “Woah - what is going on out there?”

“Uh Everly you need to see this now.” My mother grabbed my attention once she had pushed herself up to stand. My mother noticed Snow, Charming and Grumpy standing outside where I moved beside her looking out the pawnshop window.

“We’re on your side, Anton! We’re good! We’re here because of you. You know our daughter Emma. You gave her the magic compass.”

“Oh my god. He’s really a giant.” I gasped in shock seeing the guy from the ship had grown nearly as tall as the clock tower.

Anton stands a few feet away from them. “Emma? Let me talk to her. She says you’re okay, then I’ll stop.”

Snow looked very worried in her husband’s direction. “She’s kind of out of town.” The giant quickly got angry and began chasing them, coming in our direction.

“We’re out of time.” I snatched the mirror waving my mom to follow me outside and into the town streets.

“So let me get this straight – you got a twin brother? His name is James?”

Charming replied. “Right.”

Grumpy was confused. “Well, your name is James.”

“ No, actually, it’s not.” Charming corrected him while they kept running from the giant.

“It’s Charming, then?” The dwarf asked.

“No, that’s the nickname I gave him.” Snow entered the conversation.

Grumpy still wasn’t following. “Hey, hold on. What the hell is your name?”

“David.” Charming answers him.

“Your curse name?”

Charming sighed heavily, still running for his life. “My real name!”

“What, you’re David, James, and Charming? Is David like a middle name?”

Charming shouted back to him. “No! It’s my name-name.”

“You know what? I’m going to call you whatever I damn well please! Is that okay?!” Grumpy throws his hands up in the air utterly frustrated with the conversation and they didn’t stop running until they saw me and my mother run out carrying my twins in each of her arms.

Snow came over out of breath seeing the giant was getting closer and they had no clue how to stop him. “Everly! We don’t know how to stop him.”

“I have a plan or 12% of one at least.”

“No offense Everly. What’s a mirror going to do?” Grumpy questions me seeing the object in my hands.

Running a hand through my hair frantically I sharply turned my head in the direction of where the giant was charging at us. Stepping a few steps in front of the three I called my mom’s attention. “Mom, being the kids over here. Place their hands over mine and when I say so get them away from me.”

“Got it.” She responded by putting Robin and Valerie’s hand over mine that was clutching onto the golden mirror handle.

The twins' hands slowly turned red siphoning some of the magic. Closing my eyes I sucked in a calm breath doing the best to control my mind when I felt their magic moving into my veins for a brief moment. “Now. Anton! If you want to fight someone then fight me.”

“I’m going to kill you, human.” He growled back at me, beginning to charge directly at me.

Raising the mirror up in both of my hands the mirror glowed bright white and shot off a magical blast right at him that he ducked from. I pointed it more at his feet, gasping in relief when a portal began opening underneath his feet. The giant stumbled looking like he was about to fall into it when Snow gasped in horror, pointing towards the nearest sidewalk beside the giant. “Everly! Robin.”

“No!” Bolting into the fastest run of my life I needed to meet up with my son who had slipped from his grandmother’s arms and was crawling on the concrete ground and was heading towards where the giant was nearly about to fall into the open portal.

Tackling my son I rolled him away Anton who fell backwards near the portal but he didn’t fall in,like I had planned. Anton grabbed my ankle with his hand once he had returned to his normal human size, yanking me away, causing me to lose my grasp on my infant son. “You challenged the wrong guy, human.”

“No! Rumple! Help me!” He threw me into the portal and I couldn’t do anything to not fall through it a second before it completely closed.

Emma, Henry and Rumple had taken their seats getting ready for the plane to take off in the search of his son he had lost. Rumple was tapping his fingers on the armrests until he winced bringing a hand to his forehead feeling a sharp pain all of the sudden. “Ahh!”

“Mr. Gold, are you okay?” Henry asked the man sitting beside him.

Rumple began to reply but a vision flashed through his mind. “Just a slight headache-“

“No! Rumple! Help me!” Everly was dragged into the portal by someone right before it closed and disappeared quickly.

“Graham, please let him go. It was an honest mistake.”

My co-worker turned his head away from the camera. “It didn't look like a mistake to me. He assaulted an officer and now he's being charged.”

“Seriously this is not necessary.” I slumped my shoulders wishing he would see it differently.

He focused back on the camera taking a few pictures for the case file. “Turn to the left.”

“I'm sorry for hitting you, Sheriff. I just didn't like how you didn't kiss her.” David responded by moving as he was instructed.

Graham snapped the last picture. “Hitting the sheriff because he won't kiss a woman. I must say you are an interesting one, Mr. Nolan.” He stepped forward leading him inside the closet jail cell inside the station.

“Graham. Please just drop the charges.” I begged him as he put all the information on the man into a tan folder.

The father of my child sent me a look with a raised brow. “Renae, enough. He committed a crime and now he's paying for it. Now I have to go pick something up at granny's. I want you to stay here and watch the prisoner, but under no circumstances are you to let him out.”

“Fine.” I huffed watching him leave the room making me and David have the room to ourselves. Racing over to the cell I gripped the green bars in my hands locking eyes with the man inside. “I'm sorry about all this. You're wife is going to hate me more than she already does - for some bizarre reason.”

David softly replied. “I don't care. He needed to know he isn't treating you right.”

“David - we - we can't have this conversation again. You're married to another woman-”

He cut me off short. “I didn’t choose her. The man that chose Mary Margaret wasn't me. I -”

“Don't say it.”

He didn't listen to my plea. “I chose you, Renae.”

“You can’t choose me. You are married to somebody else regardless if you no longer have feelings for Mary Maragaret. You are married to her by law.”

David stuck his hand through the bars grasping my hand in his larger one. “Marry me.”

“Have you lost your mind, Nolan? I - I can’t marry you.” I scoffed in his face.

He sent me the soft blue eyes. “Come on, I know you have the same feelings as I do. I can tell.”

“I don't.”

He challenged me. “You do.”

“Don't.”

He kept going on. “Do.”

“David!” Rolling my eyes I took a step away from him, running my fingers through my hair I sighed heavily. “Please just stop this.”

The married man tilted his head to the side when an idea came to his mind. “I dare you to go on a date with me.”

“You must be joking.”

He shook his head no. “I'm not kidding with you, Renae. I dare you to go on one date with me in secret. If the night is over and you still don't feel anything for me just tell me and I'll never bother you again.”

“I can't be mean to you.” I gave him a weak look.

He squeezed my hand that was intertwined with mine. “Just give me a chance, Renae. Please.” Lowering my gaze away from the man before me I wished feelings weren’t so hard. I’m beginning to think that love isn’t worth it if it’s so difficult. Except I can’t ignore whatever feelings I have for the married man.

Walking through the woods with my head over my head I scanned the area around me looking for any signs of trouble. I didn’t want to have a run in with the queen’s guards or something worse than them. My boots crunched against the fallen leaves underneath me till the ground scooped me up and I screamed thrashing around when a net encaged me. Frantically looking around my breathing ran quicker when I realized someone had set the net up as a trap. “Guys! Guys, we got something.” Someone yelled from the treeline where I watched seven short men that could only be called dwarfs come out first with pick-axes drawn.

One of the dwarfs walked over taking out a knife and cutting the rope causing the net to break and I fell down onto my back on the forest floor harshly. “Ow! - you ass - please don’t hurt me.” Rubbing my back I cursed under my breath till I felt the tip of a blade pressing against my throat.

“Who the hell are you and what are you doing in our forest, sister?” The dwarf that has his axe on my throat grumbled under his breath. He had dark black hair and soft eyes.

I gulped, shifting my gaze to the other six dwarfs who had their weapons pointed at me. “I wasn't aware dwarfs owned this area of the forest. Please don’t kill me.”

“They won't kill you.” Someone spoke standing behind a tree with a green hood pulled over their face to conceal themselves.

Focusing my gaze on the taller figure I questioned. “Who are you?”

“Long time no see, Jaide.” The figure steps forward lowering the hood. Revealing their face to me showing me the young princess I had saved from a huntsman a few months ago now standing before me.

My mouth fell open in shock. “Snow! What are you - what are they going to do to me?’

“Oh they’re just wanting to scare you a little bit, Ms. Stiltskin. Lower the axes, boys. She’s a friend.” Snow raised a hand and the dwarfs followed her instructions while she offered her hand out helping me up off the dry ground to stand with her.

The dwarf that had previously threatened me with his axe came into our conversation. “Who exactly is she and how do you know her, Snow?”

“She saved me from being killed. As for who she is - uh she’s-“

Cutting my friend off short I sighed heavily knowing I needed to be the one to say it out loud. “My name is Jaide Renae Stiltskin. My father is Rumplestilskin and my mother is Rapunzel. I am the daughter of the Dark One.”

“Well that’s something I never thought could happen. The Dark One’s daughter turned out to be a nice person.” The dwarf extends his hand holding his axe in his other hand. “I’m Grumpy, nice to meet you.”

Shaking his hand I raised a brow. “Why are you named Grumpy?”

“Because I had a deep love for a fairy. But it wasn’t meant to be.” Grumpy focused his gaze up to mine with a weak smile on his face when giving me advice. “Piece of advice, sister. Take the small moments of happiness you can cause it’s better than having none at all.”

Pushing my hands down the outfit I had picked out for the evening I had agreed to. David had been released from jail by Graham with a warning to not assault an officer again. I couldn’t remember the last time I went on a date. “Emma said she’d read me a story tonight.”Whipping my head around my daughter came running into the bedroom throwing her hair around until she stopped.

Turning around to face her I sent her a smile. "Well that sounds fun."

"Mommy, do you have a crush on David ?" Tessa asked, seeing the piles of clothes on the foot of the bed.

I chuckled at her. "No honey. I don't have any feelings for him."

"Then why is he taking you to dinner?" She asked curiously.

Tucking hair behind my ear. "Because he's trying to be friendly. He accidentally punched your - uh the sheriff and he wants to apologize to the both of us."

"Wear your boots with this." She moved around me seeing a tan flannel shirt laying with my light brown boots.

I already had the jeans on that went with those exact boots. Taking it from her hands I slipped it over my head and tucked some of it in the front of my pants. "So how does mommy look?" I asked her with a hand on my hip sliding the boots on.

“Pretty.”

Walking up to her I bent down on my knees kissing her forehead when I tilted her head down onto mine. “I’ll be back in a few hours. Don’t tell Emma what I told you I’m going to do tonight okay.”