Once Upon A Time Season 8

The price of memories

Chad went to the edge of the town, in the last months he had gotten used to a world of magic, of stories he only thought as myths, sometimes he missed the outside world, the real world, some times he asked himself why was he here? was it only out of love? did he really belong there?

In his hands he had the little bottle with magic from his ancestor he had been thinking a lot on if he should drink it or not was it too much to take in even after marrying the wicked witch of the west, he looked at the bottle it seemed empty was there really something inside? Bothered by his thoughts he put the bottle right in the wooden box where it always had been, but suddenly he noticed the dreamcatcher was missing. He looked back there was Morgane and she had his dreamcatcher.

-Give that back Morgane, its mine, its from my family. Chad screamed.

-Its ok I just need it for something, I'll give it back, on that little box you have magic from this land that unfortunately I dont have access to but I'll make sure that you won't either. You wont get it if you dont remember its there and not remember any of this either all of your memories of your wife, of this place inside your precious dreamcatcher and you wont be able to get them out in the outside world you'll be cursed. Morgane said as she raised the dreamcatcher taking away Chad's memories disappearing it back into the box. and pushing him outside the edge of the town.

Weeks later New York City

Chad was starting his new job he had moved from San Francisco after going on a little trip to Maine where he had found his dad's old heirloom box. He didn't bother to look into it it was too painful. His doorbell suddenly rang.

Chad opened the door, there was a woman with red hair and a black jacket.

- Are you Chad Mage

- Yes, who are you?

- Isabelle Jaune private investigator, I've been investigating some strange disappearances and events in the past years including yours do you mind if I ask you a few questions.

-I dont remember having disappeared and if you excuse me I'm late for my first day in my new job.

- what? but you did disappear for several months actually only seen last in Seattle and then in Maine some weeks ago after having a relationship with a woman named Kelly who never existed till 2 years ago and then vanished with you. Isabelle said

- I dont know what you're talking about, I havent been to Seattle recently and I only went to Maine for a little road trip. Here I found this on my trip it belonged to my father my mom sold it then I found it in the middle of the road in Maine and I dont know anyone named Kelly. Chad answered

- That box, I heard a report of it being stolen from a "terrorist anti-superstition group" here in New York. Members of that group were found unconscious in Seattle just around the time you were seen in the City. Isabelle said to him while looking in her phone.

- I didn't steal it if the box if that is what you're thinking, I found it in Maine. Chad answered annoyed.

-Fine, but whoever did steal the box left it for you knew it was connected to you, which means you may actually know who stole that box and other missing items. you are going to help me find out what's going on or I'll send you to jail as the thief.

-Ok I'll assist you in this investigation even if I dont see how I can. Why are you searching into this anyway who is paying you.

- No one really for the whole thing, different clients finance different plans of the investigation, most of them dont really care about it. Let's just say I was part of the FBI when I found this old archives about weird events happening in Maine 30 years ago but the case was dismissed after lack of evidence.

- I decided to look into the case myself, found more events, an adoption of a kid in a nonexistent town, the mother of the kid disappearing 10 years later and then turns out she came out of nowhere in the road in Maine too with another kid shortly after she disappeared he did too. and there is a lot more, I told my supervisor there could be aliens or some terrorist group kidnapping people an making experiments, but he said that was an stupid idea and kicked me out for being too overimaginative. But I am decided to prove that there is something going on. My research led me to you, are the only missing person that came back that I could talk to.

-I wasn't kidnapped by aliens as far as I am concerned. But I've been dreaming with big green rooms for some reason. You want to take notes of that.

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A/N

this is the beginning of a parallel story for 8B don't worry we'll get back to Storybrooke but I want to use this to explore how magic works in the land without magic and how the events of the show were percieved in the outside world