History Timeline / OnceUponATime

* Later Emma meets Baelfire, who in this world goes by Neal. They fall in love, but then, on a tip from August (Pinocchio, now all grown up), Neal leaves Emma so she can fulfill her destiny as the Savior. Neal frames her for his crime, leaving her in prison in Arizona.

* While in jail, Emma finds out she is pregnant. She has a son, whom she gives up for closed adoption. After getting out, she becomes a bailbondsperson.

* Sacrificing himself for his new family, Baelfire is carried off to Neverland.

** Lying to Rumple, Cinderella tricks him into using magic ink (of the same variety as was used on the Evil Queen), and manage to imprison him in the mines below George's castle. However, as punishment for this trickery, Rump makes Prince Thomas disappear.[S1, Ep. 4]

*** Back at the castle, Snow is having second thoughts about their deed, while Charming tries to comfort her, choosing to believe that Maleficent may have lied about Regina and her plans to use the Dark Curse.[S4, Ep. 17]

* Right after Regina gets back the Dark Curse, the Queens of Darkness (Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella De Vil) assemble and approach the Charmings with a proposition: they must seek the Tree of Wisdom to discover a way to stop Regina's plans.[S4, Ep. 13]

!The Author's Betrayal
* Writing himself into the story as a beggar, the author Issac convinces Snow and Charming to transfer Emma's darkness into Maleficent's unborn child, and then send that child off to the land without magic with the apprentice's help.
* Realizing what the Author had done, the Apprentice locked him behind a door in his own storybook.

* However, he's abruptly dropped itnto the ocean, and rescued by Hook, who takes him along as a cabin boy to be safe from Pan.

* Around this time, a boy named Jiminy cricket grows up the son of con men. However, his conscience is bothered by the lifestyle they're living, and when he grows up, he goes to Rumpelstiltskin for a way to be free of his parents forever.

* Some ten years later, Ruth's husband regrets his deal with Rumplestilskin and tries to find his son James. He learns from Pinocchio that James has gone to Pleasure Island, an island/amusement park. He finds James there, and so does King George, who retrieves his adopted son.

* Some time before the meeting between Rumpelstiltskin and the Charmings, Gepetto meets Jimminy Cricket who tells him all about how he messed up with his parents. Gepetto grows into an old man, and never managed to have a son. He then wishes upon a star, and the Blue Fairy brings a puppet he crafted to life. The Puppet's name is Pinocchio.
** He and Gepetto have all kinds of adventures, but in their final one, they're trapped on a raft at sea, with the Whale Monstro about to eat them. In order to save his father, Pinocchio gives him the only flotation device, claiming he would float being made of wood. Gepetto survives, but sadly Pinocchio seems to lose his magic in this sacrifice. However, the Blue Fairy then returns, and because of his HeroicSacrifice, finally turns Pinocchio into a real boy. Father and Son thank the Blue Fairy for her generosity, while Blue for her part promises Pinocchio that he will always be a real boy so long as he stays "Brave, Selfless and True."[S1, Ep. 20]

** And with their troubles over and done with, Anna and Kristoff can have their wedding at last, Elsa giving Anna away at the Altar.

* Also around this time, Regina tries casting the Dark Curse for the first time, only for it to fail out due to her horse's heart not being strong enough and loved enough. She goes to Rumpelstiltskin as well, and for information on what she truly loves most, she promises to give Rump comfort and wealth in the new world, as well as a guarantee to do whatever he says there when he says please.[S1, Ep. 2]

* Seeking aid from the nearby King Midas, James wounds the Behemoth, earning Midas's interest in defeating a dragon which plagued their kingdom. However, the Behemoth then kills James.
** Calling on Rumpelstiltskin for help again, George is told about David, and in exchange, gives the location to a family fairy for his own purpose. [S1, Ep. 6]

* As a consequence, the spell is activated, creating a time portal to the past. Emma and Hook fall in, leading to the 2nd courtship of snow white detailed above.

** He and Gepetto have all kinds of adventures, but in their final one, they're trapped on a raft at sea, with the Whale Monstro about to eat them. In order to save his father, Pinocchio gives him the only flotation device, claiming he would float being made of wood. Gepetto survives, but sadly Pinocchio seems to lose his magic in this sacrifice. However, the Blue Fairy then returns, and because of his HeroicSacrifice, finally turns Pinocchio into a real boy. Father and Son thank the Blue Fairy for her generosity, while Blue for her part promises Pinocchio that he will always be a real boy so long as he stays "Brave, Selfless and True."

* Right after Regina gets back the Dark Curse, the Queens of Darkness (Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella De Vil) assemble and approach the Charmings with a proposition: they must seek the Tree of Wisdom to discover a way to stop Regina's plans.

** Also around this time Queen Regina kidnaps the siblings Hansel and Gretel to steal her poison apple back from the blind witch. Though it was a close call, they succeed. However, for choosing their father over her, they are banished to the forever forest, doomed to roam the forest until the dark curse.

** In the Enchanted Forest's path, after they botch her parents' first meeting, Emma tells Hook they need to find Rumplestiltskin, so they can sort out this temporal mess. Rumple appears to them and takes them to his castle. Inside the castle, they discuss the time travel problems and Emma finds Belle, who, by this time, is still the Dark One's slave/maidservant.[S3, Ep. 21] [[note]]Of note are the following events: # Belle's presence here, simultaneous with the events of S1, Ep. 3 "Snow Falls", serves to better locate the events of "Ariel" and "Skin Deep", wherein Regina seeks Rumple's help to deal with a mermaid; # Hook is in the Enchanted Forest at this time, with Smee as his first mate and still with the Jolly Roger. This serves to better locate the events of "Queen of Hearts": Hook must have left Neverland and gone back to the Enchanted Forest, then, near the time of the casting of the first Dark Curse, searched for Belle in Regina's dungeon; # Prince Charming (David-as-James) and Abigail are at Midas's castle for a celebratory ball. Perhaps this was their original destination in "Snow Falls".[[/note]]

** In the Enchanted Forest's path, after they botch her parents' first meeting, Emma tells Hook they need to find Rumplestiltskin, so they can sort out this temporal mess. Rumple appears to them and takes them to his castle. Inside the castle, they discuss the time travel problems and Emma finds Belle, who, by this time, is still the Dark One's slave/maidservant.[S3, Ep. 21] [[note]]Of note are the following events:
# Belle's presence here, simultaneous with the events of S1, Ep. 3 "Snow Falls", serves to better locate the events of "Ariel" and "Skin Deep", wherein Regina seeks Rumple's help to deal with a mermaid;
# Hook is in the Enchanted Forest at this time, with Smee as his first mate and still with the Jolly Roger. This serves to better locate the events of "Queen of Hearts": Hook must have left Neverland and gone back to the Enchanted Forest, then, near the time of the casting of the first Dark Curse, searched for Belle in Regina's dungeon;
# Prince Charming (David-as-James) and Abigail are at Midas's castle for a celebratory ball. Perhaps this was their original destination in "Snow Falls".[[/note]]

** In the Enchanted Forest's path, after they botch her parents' first meeting, Emma tells Hook they need to find Rumplestiltskin, so they can sort out this temporal mess. Rumple appears to them and takes them to his castle. Inside the castle, they discuss the time travel problems and Emma finds Belle, who, by this time, is still the Dark One's slave/maidservant.[S3, Ep. 21] [[note]]Belle's presence here, simultaneous with the events of S1, Ep. 3 "Snow Falls", serves to better locate the events of "Ariel" and "Skin Deep", wherein Regina seeks Rumple's help to deal with a mermaid.[[/note]]