Timeless Love | OUAT

Chapter 5

At dark, Barry and Emma had set up camp around the Toll bridge. A little fire was set up to keep warmth and to also roast marshmallows. Barry was still in shock of Zoë kissing his hand, but he thought to keep that to himself. Sat down, they sat side by side, holding sticks with a marshmallow on the end as it was hovering above the fire. "Zoë?" Asked Barry, "Can I ask you something?" Zoë responded almost immediately. "Go for it, we have all night," Barry stopped, but continued. "Is Storybrooke just a forest? Is it a town? Is it a village? Is it a camping area? And who are those guys?" These questions overwhelmed Zoë, but she answered them anyways. He deserved to know the truth. "So. Storybrooke is a small town in Maine. It has a library, a pawn shop, a couple of restaurants and hotels and it has housing areas. That's the summary of storybrooke." Barry looked intrigued by this, he wanted to know more. "And to answer your questions about those guys, why should I tell you when I could show you myself?" Barry looked excited, he got up along with Zoë and burned out the flames. Zoë took the poppy powder with her, she needed it to demonstrate. Then she grabbed his hand and began to walk. After about 7 minutes of walking, they heard great chants of laughter and talking coming from the centre of town. There was a street party going on, with food stalls and gaming booths and little picnic tables. There was this one table which was the closets to the edge of the forest, the one table where the people who were knocked out were sat on. "Look over there. That's them." They both slowly moved in closer and they sat at the tree stumps. "Wow! A street party! Can we go?" Excitedly asked Barry with a huge grin on his face, "No, not yet. Those guys will recognise our faces and they'll go after us." Barry listened to Zoë's command and sat down. "So," Zoë began, "The guy with the light brown beard, he's Robin Hood and he is in a relationship with Regina mills. She's the one with the dark lips, it's her signature 'evil queen' look as she is, the evil queen." Barry stopped Zoë from continuing, "Woah, isn't Robin Hood fictional? And why is he going out with the evil queen? Isn't he married to Marian?" Zoë started, "Well, all of these people are fairy tale characters. They have come to our land instead of the Enchanted forest. And Marian is kind of dead, I don't know how exactly but she's dead." Barry still looked confused. "Ok, so the chic with the blonde hair, she's Emma. The kid with the scarf is Henry, that's Emma's biological son but Regina's adopted son. The one with the red cape is ruby and the one with the chainmail armour is... Well I don't know. He has the Sword in the stone emblem on his back, so let's call him Arthur for now." Zoë purposely left out one of them, hoping that Barry wouldn't ask about him. Sadly, he did catch on. "Ok, but what about the guy in the black 50-shades-of-grey jacket? Wait a minute, he's one of the guys I knocked out!" Zoë bit her lip, as she leaned back onto the tree stumps, she had no way out of telling him the truth. "Ok, so that guy is... " she took a deep breath in and tried to stop looking obviously scared of it. "Zoë, what happened between you two?" Zoë stuttered, "I... I... I... I don't want to t... t... t... talk about it." Barry put his hand in her hand, he could tell she was nervous,her palms were bright red and they were sweating. He looked up at her and stared her in the eyes, not breaking contact. "Zoë, you can tell me anything. It's not going to effect anything." Zoë calmed down and began the story, "So you want to know who that man is? Well, we have to start from where it all began." "And where is that?" Asked Barry, he was dying to know the answer, "Where I was really born, the Enchanted Forest."