I. The Beginning

When Emma first arrives in Storybrooke, she isn't sure what to expect, but a town full of cursed fairy tale characters isn't something she ever thought to consider. Among them is Layla, or Lilith in the Enchanted Forest, daughter and firstborn child of Milah and Rumpelstiltskin--the Dark One.

He didn't just lose Baelfire that day, he lost Lilith too, when she decided to leave with her mother aboard the Jolly Roger. Many years later and a Dark Curse brings them all to Storybrooke, where they remain clueless of the past, until Emma shows up and things start changing. People start waking up, and it's only a matter of time now before the curse breaks, but what might happen along the way?