Ella and Henry

Each other's true loves when the true love lockets that Ella and Henry owned glowed
Engaged and had a daughter together
Separated from the Curse; "reconnected" and had a date together in Season 7b
Later reunited after the Curse was destroyed.

### Ship Name

Glass Believer

**The romantic relationship between Henry Mills and Ella Mills from *Once Upon a Time.***

**They are called "Glass Believer" to fans of the original series.**

## Early History

This section covers the flashbacks before the series began.

Henry leaves Storybrooke to find his own story after graduating from high school and seeing everyone in Storybrooke have their own happy endings. Meanwhile, Cinderella rushes off to find th man responsible for her father's death, unaware that Tremaine orchestrated the entire thing. She makes plans to attend an upcoming ball in order to kill him. On her way there in a horse-drawn chariot and Henry's way to find the portal home, Ella is thrown from her seat after narrowly missing Henry on a motorcycle. She is knocked into a field of hyacinths and Henry hurriedly rushes to help her. However, he is stunned to see the stranger he ran over was Ella. He helps her up and offers her a ride to the ball. As he is giving her a demonstration on how to operate the motorcycle, she asks him about how her story ends, seeing as he somehow knows about it. Henry explains that the prince finds the glass slipper she leaves behind at the ball and uses it to prove she is the owner, but Cinderella scoffs at this, considering many women have the same foot size as her. During the conversation, she pockets Henry's dagger without him noticing. Cinderella plays along by distracting him and concluding the story needs a twist before punching him in the face and speeding away on his motorcycle. Henry isn't surprised by Cinderella's tact and actually finds it amusing.

When Henry correctly guesses she didn't come to woo a prince, Cinderella reveals her reasons for wanting the prince dead. Henry asks her to consider what her fate will be after she is caught for murder, but she is resigned to it, believing she has no happy ending. He suggests that their meeting was a sign there is and tells her about his home where she can start over. Cinderella refuses, insisting that she cannot let this grudge go. After Tremaine shouts for the guards to capture her for assassinating the prince, Cinderella is urged by Henry to take his bike and wait for him where they first met so they can leave together for his home. While Henry fights one guard, Cinderella parries with another until she manages to flee the castle.

Rushing back to the site of her and Henry's first meeting, Cinderella calls out for him as she is attacked by a guard sent to apprehend her for the prince's murder. She fights him off, only to be seized by another guard, but luckily, Tiana saves her. Tiana introduces herself as a leader of a Resistance working to end Tremaine's tyranny, but an embittered Cinderella wonders where Tiana was when her stepmother had her father killed and forced her to be a maid. Tiana apologizes for everything she's been through and suggests she join her cause as she has impressive fighting skills. Cinderella is uninterested until Tiana tells her about Tremaine's role in her father's death and how she can make a difference in taking down Tremaine before she ruins more people's lives. She then asks Tiana to hop on the motorcycle, and before she drives off with her new friend, she tosses away one of her glass slippers as a sign for Henry to come find her.

The two are reunited a few days later  Henry shows up, having found her because of her slipper, and introduces her to his mother Regina. Cinderella also meets his other companion, a pirate named Captain Hook. As Tiana goes over the plans for storming Tremaine's manor with two groups of Resistance members, Cinderella agrees to lead one of the groups.

Tremaine admits she still needs something from her before her revenge goes full circle, and then makes her look into the coffin. Cinderella is surprised to see Anastasia's perfectly preserved body, which Tremaine explains is necessary until Cinderella gives her Henry's pure heart to revive her stepsister. Cinderella refuses, but Tremaine enchants her hand with a heart-ripping ability and warns her to follow orders or everyone in the Resistance will die. Unable to bring herself to take Henry's heart, Cinderella prepares to rip out Jeremiah's heart, believing he would be willing to die for Resistance. However, Regina stops her and removes the enchantment on her hand, insisting the sacrifice of one person to save others is never okay. The next day, a guilt-ridden Cinderella attempts to leave on her own. However, Ella decides not to after being convinced by Regina not to leave. Henry notices something off with Ella, although she quips back that it's good they'll have some time to talk. ("The Garden of Forking Paths")

While Henry is fixing his motorcycle, he shows Ella a torque wrench. The pair's quiet moment is interrupted by a group of bandits, whom they fight off together. When one bandit is left behind and begins fleeing, Ella goes to chase after him. Later, she and Henry go off on a mission for the Resistance. ("Wake Up Call")

Later in the woods, Ella has an intense swordfight with Henry as she playfully taunts him about not being able to keep up with her even though he was taught by a pirate. She then grabs his arm and jabbing him in his side as a reminder to him that the king's men won't play fair in battle either. Ella swings her sword at him, but she ends up spinning after Henry dodges her move and catches her in his arms. Locking eyes, the two exchange flirty banter before they almost share a kiss, except Ella moves away at the last moment. Ella apologizes, only able to tell him that "it's complicated", but when Henry asks about this, she shushes him upon hearing someone nearby. Alice shows up, and asks for their help finding her father Hook. Ella and Henry bring her to him, but the reunion goes badly, with the poison in Hook's heart growing worse after Alice tries to hug him. As a distraught Alice runs away, the couple follows her through a portal to New Wonderland. Upon arrival to this realm, Ella leads Henry towards a cottage she believes Alice went into, only for them to be caught in a net trap. Much to Ella's bemusement, Henry finds the situation funny as he recalls how his grandpa caught his grandma in a similar trap after she hit him with a rock. Ella grabs Henry's sword, but the blade accidentally slices the rope, freeing them and sending them tumbling. Henry maintains high hopes that Alice and her father will be together again and shares his grandparents' famous motto, "I will always find you". However, Ella thinks he is a bit naive as he comes from a place where true love prevails, while her world is one of broken promises. Inside a cottage, Ella finds the Infinite Maze entrance, which makes Henry realize she is in Wonderland for other reasons. She admits she means to track down her mother Cecelia.

Ella also learns Alice was misled by Drizella into believing she was shielded from Hook's curse. As she realizes Henry is in danger, her mother's locket starts to glow, to which she makes it in time to save him from her stepsister, who is sent home when Alice dumps a looking glass on her. Seeing both pendants glowing in sync, Ella reciprocates Henry's feelings for her by kissing him. The pair return to a recovering Hook and give him a knight chess piece from Alice, who has hopes they can be together after he finds a cure. After Henry is reunited with his old friend Jack, he introduces him to Ella. ("Pretty in Blue")

As Henry seeks adventure by venturing into a cave to slay a golden dragon, Ella and Hook accompany him there. Ella gives Henry a kiss for good luck before they all head further in, only to find a scrounger freeloading on wine that the beast left behind after it migrated elsewhere. Henry shares his disappointment with Hook over not being able to live out a tale of heroism so he can impress Ella when he proposes to her. To give Henry what he wants, Hook persuades Black Beard to put on a grand ruse so Henry can obtain a rare ring for Ella, however, Black Beard accidentally spills the beans at the last minute. Despite this, Henry manages to get a real dose of danger and excitement by aiding in stopping a magical storm, helping him to realize he doesn't need to make a name as a gallant figurehead in order to be worthy enough for his future bride. He later brings Ella to a lake, where he tells her that his life probably will never be a fairytale and he's still unsure of what will happen in his future, but one leap of faith he is willing to take is to build a home with her. Taking out a thin banded ring, Henry professes that while he cannot be a person of prestige for her, he can offer her his heart. Ella then whispers, asking him if she can say yes yet, and as she laughs at his approving response, she agrees to marry him. After Henry slips the ring on her, he and Ella kiss. ("Breadcrumbs")

Eventually, Ella and Henry get married and have a daughter named Lucy. Drizella, while giving the heroes a prophecy about a curse she will cast in eight years' time, is transformed into a statue with Tremaine's help. ("The Eighth Witch")

A little later after this, Ella and Henry sit under a pavilion in Queen Tiana's castle courtyard as they fawn over their baby daughter, while Hook sadly watches them, reminded of his own daughter whom he is separated from. ("Secret Garden")

Years later, Ella is present at Lucy's eighth birthday celebration, but before the girl can blow out her cake candles, Gothel arrives with seven witches to free Drizella before whisking her away to help her enact the curse. Ella and Henry come up with a plan to save everyone if the curse cannot be stopped, in which Henry and Lucy will go to the Land Without Magic before the curse arrives and use the storybook to help their people believe again. However, the plan goes awry when Henry is kidnapped by Gothel and the witches, and Lucy returns to her mother with Tiger Lily to tell her what happened. Although it is tempting to go rescue Henry right away, Ella realizes it's a trap meant to distract them from the curse. Instead, Lucy stays behind with Tiana at the castle as Regina and Zelena confront Drizella at a summoning altar, during which Ella, Hook, and Jack take some of the other witches as hostages. While Regina manages to gain the curse scroll, Drizella reveals she intended for Regina to cast the curse and unveils a sickly Henry, whose heart she cursed. Ella begging for her mother-in-law to heal her husband and only looks in dismay when Regina's magic is unable to heal him.

## During the curse

After Regina cast Drizella's curse to save Henry's life, Cinderella becomes a woman named Jacinda Vidrio, and she lives with her roommate Sabine in an apartment in a Seattle neighborhood called Hyperion Heights. However, she is separated from her real husband. In this life, Henry lives alone in his apartment and believes his wife and child died in a fire, separated from his family.

After Regina unites all the realms, the citizens of the United Realms elect her as their new Queen. Ella attends the surprise coronation with Henry and Lucy. (Leaving Storybrooke)