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you saw it so clearly

Who: Belle + YOU
Where: The docks
When: May 1, early morning
Rating: PG
Summary: There's a new arrival to Wonderland
The Story:

[ At first everything was fine. Physically, anyway, but emotionally things were different. She'd had to say goodbye, lose someone that she was just getting the chance to know again, and know better, and now he was gone. It was for the right reason - to find Henry and to bring him home but it still hurt, having to stay in Storybrooke wondering if Rumple would be alright. She had her task - to protect the town in stead of everyone that had left. Belle would do that - keep everyone safe the best that she could, make sure that nothing happened whilst he was gone.

She gave it a few more seconds of looking out at the water before she closed her eyes, getting herself to turn to head back into town to go to the shop. If she kept staring at the water he didn't feel so far away, but she wouldn't be of any use if she didn't move. It was when Belle opened her eyes again, turned on the spot that she realised that something was different. The town was gone. Instead of the path that they'd been on to come to the docks, the familiar sights of everything around her there was something else. A strange looking path, a large hedge wall and somewhere that she didn't know.

There were only two- three people that Belle knew that could possibly do something like this. One was dead and the other two had been on Hook's ship. No one else in Storybrooke had magic - or the kind of magic needed for this, not that anyone knew of and Rumple would have known. It didn't make sense that she'd be gone either, not with him leaving her something to do - something important. That made this all the more worrying ]

[ She didn't see anyone around, not in the immediate vicinity but this wasn't Storybrooke - she didn't know where anyone would be, or who might be there ]

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[Ever since the final day of the last event, Regina's been waiting for the other shoe to drop. But days have passed, and Pan doesn't seem intent on killing her and the people she... associates with. Not yet, at least.

And then Robin Hood had shown up, and any sense of normalcy available in Wonderland had flown out the window. So she's found herself taking walks along the beach to clear her head.

It works, sometimes.

Now is not one of those times, which means she's distracted when she arrives at the docks. Belle doesn't even get noticed until she calls out.]

Belle?

[ There's a turn of her head to Regina's direction when the reply comes. Of all of the people that she expected to find here Regina wasn't one of them. She'd gone with Hook and Rumple to save Henry so her being here... it meant that something had to have gone wrong and Belle didn't like that feeling. If Regina was here she hoped that everyone else on the ship was fine too - here with her or still on the way to Neverland ]

You shouldn't be here. [ It's the truth of it. Belle has a lot of questions, a few different scenarios going through her head. She hoped it was one of the better ones being the answer ] Do you know what's going on?

[ It was a reasonable question - Regina always seemed to know something, especially if magic was involved ]

Neither of us should be, but here we are. [It's certainly an odd reaction, but considering that people have begun showing up from after she undid the curse, it's rather... troubling.]

You're in Wonderland, Belle. [She shouldn't have to explain that, at least.] I'll explain more, but I need to know what the last thing you remember is.

What do you mean the last thing I remember?

[ Shouldn't that be obvious? Regina was on her way to Wonderland, Belle had stayed behind. The last thing she remembered was watching that boat leave ]

What's going on?

Wonderland has a habit of bringing people from different points on the timeline. When I arrived, Emma told me she remembered leaving for Neverland, and I had been to Neverland and back.

[That wasn't fun, nor was explaining everything that had happened when they saved Henry.]

Now answer the question.

You were on Hook's ship. With Rumple, Emma- [ With everyone ] You were going after Henry.

Did you find him?

[ Regina had been to Neverland and back. She must have - she wouldn't have come back without him ]

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[Oh.]

Yes, we saved him.

[It puts Regina in an awkward position, more awkward than all her interactions with Belle previously, really.]

A lot has happened since then.

What has happened?

[ Come on Regina, really? ]

You keep wanting me to answer your questions but you're not answering mine.

[ That one about Henry doesn't count because it didn't really give her any information. Just an answer - no detail, no story. Nothing that would help her understand ]

Because I needed to know what you knew already. It would be a waste of time explaining things you already know.

[CLEARLY.]

We saved Henry from Peter Pan and made it back to Storybrooke. Pan had stolen Henry's body and used it to cast the Dark Curse. We saved Henry again, but Gold sacrificed himself to stop Pan.

[That's what happens when you get short with her, Belle.]

[ So uncalled for, Regina. So uncalled for.

It stops Belle, anyway. Stops her questions - her thought for a minute. Rumple sacrificed himself... which meant that he'd be dead. When they got out of here she would have to go through all of that... watching him die ]

How? How did it all happen?

[ Why did they have Pan... how did it get so far that Rumple had to die? ]

[Was it though? Was it.]

Pan... tricked me to gain access to my vault so he could steal the scroll containing the Dark Curse. Gold revealed the only way to stop the curse was undoing my original curse that created Storybrooke. To do that, we needed the scroll.

[Despite the flippant way she revealed his death, she isn't exactly happy about it either.]

Gold sacrificed himself to take out Pan, so I could undo my curse.

And that was the only way? The only way to stop Pan?

[ To lose her love. She was glad that Henry was okay, that they had been able to stop Pan and undo the curse to get them all home but... she had to lose him. It was a selfish thing to sit on but maybe she should be a little selfish - everyone else was okay. She just didn't want to accept it when none of this had happened.

None of it had happened. That was a thought striking her now. She knew - she was here, being told about what would happen. It could be different ]

I can stop it. Tell you what's going to happen when I leave here. We can stop Pan earlier and keep everyone safe.

[ Keep Rumple alive ]

[Normally Regina would laugh in her face. But she knows the pain of being told future information and being unable to do anything with it.]

If we had more time, maybe. But Pan is powerful and we were racing against the clock.

[She at least has the decency to look uncomfortable.]

But when you leave Wonderland, you won't remember a single thing that happened here.

Will I just forget here, or something more?

[ Was it like the boundary outside of Storybrooke? Would she forget herself all over again?

But wait. They could stop that - they had before. Rumple had kept his memories over the boundary line ]

What about the potion that Rumple used when he went to go find Baelfire? That let him keep his memories. If I take that before going back to Storybrooke then things could be different.

Only here. Both Ms. Swan and Henry were returned home for a time before Wonderland pulled them back in.

[Except Henry got spat out and never returned, so don't ask.

Belle's idea is good, though.]

It's possible, but magical ingredients aren't easy to come by here. There's also the matter of getting back.

I refuse to believe that there isn't a way of doing it.

[ She wants to believe in the possibility - in the good of it all. Of being able to help people - to stop Pan, help with Henry and ultimately save Rumple. Everything could be good for once ]

Being able to create the portal might be difficult but I'm not just going to give up. I'll search for a way.

I never said you should. Or that I have.

[She needs to believe that she won't be stuck here, without Henry or any chance of properly moving on forever. Nobody wants her to go down that road, not even herself.]

Maybe you'll have more luck in the library than I did.

And if I do find something-

[ Which she's definitely hoping that she will, and she does believe she'll have more luck than Regina on that. Books are her thing like this next bit is Regina's thing ]

-can I count on you to do it? Use your magic to fix this?

[ Getting them home was one thing, of course Regina wanted that but what about sending Belle back? To change what had happened? ]

[She actually hesitates there. Returning home means accepting the reality that Henry is gone, that she'll be without him forever.

But staying here means living under Wonderland's whims, as well as Pan. Eventually she gives a firm nod.]

Yes, you can. I doubt you'll be able to change anything, but I won't try and stop you.

[She looks away briefly.]

You aren't the only one affected by his sacrifice.

There might not have to be a sacrifice.

[ Regina might not have the hope but Belle does. Belle will keep having it - believe that she can make a difference even if it's difficult to try ]

Besides, we have to actually make getting out of here work before you start doubting me.

[ And she was trusting you enough ]

Even if Wonderland is bending the rules of time travel, you'd still, in a way, be breaking of the laws of magic. It's not possible.

[HA. HA. HA.]

How do you know?

[ Maybe it was true because Regina was very knowledgeable about magic but- ]

Everything could be impossible until it's done.

Even with everything magic can do, there's just some things it can't. You can't bring back the dead, you can't make someone fall in love with you, and you can't change the past.

[ALL OF THOSE HAVE BEEN BROKEN NOW. DAMN IT JAFAR AND EMMA.]

I'm still going to try. Maybe there's a reason people think that you can't, because you don't know what could happen- [ Particularly for changing the past ] -but anything could be possible. Just difficult, and advised against.

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