Greetings from Underbrooke (5th Book of Heroes and Villains Quintet)

Chp 13: All Return

Flashback: In 2011 London, At the Buckingham Palace, the last location where Thomas/Liam arrived in 1963, an adult Thomas has begun a quest to start a new life, and joined by a bondsman named Leo Miller, who has been tracking him down since Liam robbed a few convenience stores. Over time, both Leo and Thomas bond, and helps Thomas gain a passport and a new identity that may help him, he was successful. When they arrived in Canada, Thomas attempts to escape as he is wanted for robberies there only to have Leo talk him out of it. When they stop at a lawyer's office, Thomas breaks in to get information but Leo helps him escape by breaking a window and jumping out but ends up with a shard of glass cut into his stomach. As Thomas helps a dying Leo, he tells Thomas the only family member he has left is his daughter that he gave up twelve years ago. Leo then dies after telling Thomas to run away. Two years later in 2013, after Leo has passed and the adventure in Camelot, Thomas, who changed his name to, Liam Darkbloom, is now a business executive and is living in New York City, finds Leo's biological daughter Mary Dawson, who now works at a department store. Liam collected information about Leo so that Mary could know more about her birth father, and she is sad but appreciative. Before he leaves, Liam purchases the Rolex watch that would become part of his trademark wardrobe. End of Flashback

Present day in the Underworld, Liam looks down while he puts on his Rolex watch, the move has the outsiders, especially Renee, happy to be able to leave the underworld. But before tensions start to reach a boiling point, Facilier appears and informs them that Ursula had been kidnapped by Hades and the Fates. At Roni's, the outsiders closes up the place so they can meet with Hades and the Fates. Ursula, who has been cuffed and prevented from using magic, is with them. The outsiders agrees to Hades' demands and Facilier gives him the Firefly Ruby, Hades and the Fates leave separately during the confrontation. Ursula is reunited with the outsiders, Rumple frees Ursula by removing the cuff. Suddenly Hades' heart begins to beat once again, resulting in a new level of fulfillment in Hades' vision for a "normal" life and leaving the Underworld with Nyx. Ursula reveals that a portal to Storybrooke will open which will close at sunset. Before the portal opens, Liam attempts to give half his heart to Renee so she can live again and travel through the portal safely, but the process doesn't work. Facilier explains that Renee's soul might not be able to return to a decaying body, because she has been in the Underworld too long. Liam's insistence on a way to bring Renee back leads to Ursula telling of a rumor of the only time when someone was able to bring the dead back to life from the Underworld: the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. According to what worked in that tale, Renee must acquire Ambrosia, the fruit of the gods, to restore her body and be reunited safely with her body, but in order to get to the Ambrosia, Liam has to go deep into the Underworld, and face a test to determine whether his love for Renee is true, by testing his heart. Before Liam and Renee go on their quest, Rumple removes Liam's heart so that he can bring it with him for the test that he and Renee will face. The others promise him that they will wait for their return, but must leave by sunset in case Liam and Renee do not succeed. Around the same time, Facilier appears in the Emporium revealing that he has the real Firefly Ruby, he uses it to go inside, he meets Father Christmas, who is the trapped living soul. And as the others wait for Liam and Renee, Grace, and Zelena decide that they should help continue helping the trapped residents resolve their unfinished business. A Seer comes up to Zelena and reveals she will have another child. Meanwhile, Grace, in her role as the Sorceress, successfully helps the resident complete their "unfinished business," which will allow them to leave. However, Maleficent lock the outsiders in the library, in her plot to conquer the Underworld in Hades' absence, and to keep them away from the portal. As Liam and Renee continue the search for ambrosia, Liam physically weighs his heart to see if he is worthy as he places it on a scale but the weight is increasing his pain, and even Renee tries to grab it but she starts to catch fire. This has left Liam with two choices, saving his heart or Renee, and when he chooses the latter, a door opens as he is deemed worthy, only to discover that the tree had been burnt down, and the leftover Ambrosia had been dead for a long time. The two suspect that Hades burnt down the tree in order for no one to ever leave the Underworld. As the portal starts to close, Hades and the Fates go through it as the rumbling starts to make the ceiling fall above them. Knowing that there is no other way to bring her back to the living, Renee wants Liam to go on without her and decides that it's time to say goodbye and vows not to let him be her unfinished business. Liam agrees not to put his emotional armor back up once they are separated. When Liam returns, he's on to Hades' and Maleficent's scheme to leave the outsiders in the Underworld, Rumple and Zelena use their magic to free everyone, while Grace leaves behind the "Heroes And Villains" storybook with the details on the "unfinished business" of all the remaining Underworld residents. Finally, Facilier uses a blessing on the Firefly Ruby and uses his magic on the Firefly Ruby that makes his heart begin to beat once again which destroyed the Ruby, than he goes through the portal. Afterwards, all people, except for Edward and Liam, enter the portal. A heartbroken Liam explains to his father-in-law that he needs to protect his loved ones. Edward understands and then Renee runs towards them, as a blessing appears in Liam's hand and he takes the blessing and face Renee, as he tells her that he gives her this blessing. Than, as the blessing glows, Renee touches the blessing as her heart begins to beat again and she feels the life force, they went through the portal, just as it closes.

Guest Stars
Greg Germann as Hades
Leah Gibson as Nyx/#1 Fate
Katie McGrath as Fufu/#2 Fate
Jaime Murray as Fiona/Black fairy/#3 Fate
Merrin Dungey as Ursula