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Boy, that's hard to tell where these incidents fall in the timeline. Obviously Blue didn't want Tink messing with Regina, But given that Blue herself has a bit of shadiness about her (being older than Rumple even), I don't buy all of her story. She seems to know more than she lets on.

I'd have to watch the episodes again, but my thought was that Quite a common fairy was just before It's Not Easy Being Green. All three are around the same time, though, when Regina is still not fully committed to the Evil and Dark path.

Another thought is that Rumple said that it was to be a descendant of Cora that would cast the curse. I could see that playing out as Regina giving up on Magic for Robin, having a child (Lily). Rumple, in an act of manipulation, threatens to banish Lily to the LWM, or threatens to kidnap Lily and train her in magic to cast the curse (we already know Rumples fascination with babies). From that point, it could play any number of ways, but the end result is that Lily ends up banished to the LWM as a baby, at around the same time as Emma.