*A Month Later*
Life in Storybrooke was trying to go back to normal.
Dream was now very pregnant. She was showing. She continued attending the Mommy and Me classes, and her mother gave her a new shop on Main Street—Dream's Photography. She could continue what she loved to do during the missing year in New York with Emma and Henry. She was a mother enjoying her twins growing up, now feeling much better. And she was a wife now. She had eleven more months at the most.
Regina returned to her position as mayor, undoing Snow's changes to the office. She enjoyed attending the doctor's appointments with Dream and Hook, and she loved taking Henry to school.
Mary Margaret returned to her job as a teacher at the school.
David and Emma stayed as the sheriffs, while Granny took over watching baby Neal most of the time.
Neal took over his father's shop with Belle, but Belle also mainly worked at the library.
Hook was helping Belle and Neal figure out how to get the fairies and the apprentice out of the box containing the magic hat. But he was also assisting Dream in adjusting to being a working mother. And also trying to find a way to save Dream, giving her longer than a year.
Neal and Emma became strong as a couple, trying to co-parent with Regina.
And Dream and Hook, the newlyweds, were searching for a house for their growing family.
Belle was behind the counter looking through the books while Hook and Neal looked at the whiteboard with everything they had to figure out how to save the fairies. Hook scoffed in anger when he flipped the board.
"Hook..." Neal sighed, moving to pick up what fell on the floor while Hook rubbed his hand down his face.
"Well, I see you still have your temper," Belle said, looking at the pirate.
"Six weeks and nothing. They're still trapped inside that bloody hat." Hook scoffed, still feeling guilty over what Gold made him do.
"Look, we just have to keep at it, okay?" Neal sighed when he and Hook put the board back up.
"But we will find a spell to release the fairies. I mean, these translations are difficult, but I've reached out to some of the finest minds in the world... and one of them will get back to us. I know it." Belle said, sounding optimistic like every princess is in this town.
"If we're reduced to those magic boxes, then I'd say hope is in short supply. I don't know why we just don't get my wife to translate those books. She's practically fluent in Elvish since she studied the Crocodile's books." Hook said, looking at Belle.
"They, uh, call it the Internet, and it can help us," Belle said, tapping the top of the computer. "And I have tried... But this is far more ancient than what Dream has been learning. And she's been far too busy to study these." Belle sighed, walking over to the books on the counter. "But... once we get the fairies out of the hat, they can help us release everyone else, including that poor old man that you put in there," Belle said, walking around the counter to the book cart that she needed to put the books on the shelves.
"All because I let myself be tricked by the Crocodile. How could I have been so weak?"
"Um... We both were, you know?" Belle sighed, looking at Hook.
"Rumpelstiltskin got the best of us..." Neal sighed, looking at the two of them. All three of them have been tricked by Rumpelstiltskin many times.
"And you're right. You should have been stronger, but you weren't. And, well, neither was I." Belle sighed as Neal and Hook approached. "I should have seen through him." Belle sighed, trying not to cry.
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Villain or Hero? Part 2: Dark or Light:
Fanfiction***Fifth book in the Dream series*** ****Part 2 to Villain or Hero?**** Mr. Gold has been banished from Storybrooke by his precious wife, Belle. The last time we saw him, he was threatening the life of his daughter, Dream, and Captain Hook. He had H...
