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    After the final battle, Emma Swan has everything she once thought she wanted—her son, her parents, a fragile truce with Regina. But peace feels hollow, her life a performance. The ache she's buried grows unbearable—a feeling that her story ended somewhere before she got to live it.
    When a cosmic event and a brass compass sends her back to Storybrooke before the curse broke, Emma finds herself in her own past with future memories intact. As Sheriff again, she navigates familiar faces who don't recognize the changes in her, especially Regina, who grows increasingly suspicious of Emma's altered behavior and inexplicable knowledge.
    The question isn't "How do I get back?" but "What was I missing?" As Emma begins to see Regina through different eyes—not as the antagonist she once feared, but as the woman she might have always loved—she walks a dangerous line between preserving the timeline and following her heart.

    But with Regina's suspicions mounting and Gold's cryptic interest in her situation, Emma must decide: protect the future she knows, or risk everything for a chance to rewrite their story?

    Time travel's a bitch. So is falling in love all over again. SQ [ACTIVE WIP 2x week updates]

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    17 Jun 2026

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    It's not even until she's sliding it off his broad shoulders that he pulls back from her like she'd just static-shocked him, and before she gets a chance to ask what's wrong, she sees what’s wrong. Her heart sinks in her chest.

    Or, Joyce finds out about Hopper's fail safe.

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    29 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 13

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    Joyce and Hopper can't seem to keep their hands off of each other.

    Will is utterly grossed out. El doesn't understand him - her parents are in love!

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    29 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    After Will’s rescue from the Upside Down, Joyce and Hopper’s relationship grows. But the secrets he keeps of Eleven’s return makes Joyce question if he really feels the same way, or if she’s scared him off.

    Based on a question on Twitter “Why were they so awkward at the start of season two”

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    28 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    On the morning of her wedding, Joyce Byers disappears down the shoreline, carrying a grief she can’t quite name. Jim Hopper finds her where the ocean keeps its secrets, and they share a cigarette and a truth that has lingered too long in the space between them. When the ceremony finally begins, love and loss stand side by side. And just before the vows are spoken, the impossible returns—turning a moment of mourning into something resembling grace.

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    28 Jan 2026