CHARMED TO SEE YOU.

Part 1

Dublin14

"Snow!" He could feel his heart constrict in his chest, the sight of her walking down the main street. He moved forward an inch, keeping his stance, waiting for her to turn toward him. He had found her, again. His Snow, looking as troubled and confused as he felt. He waited a second before she reacted, locking eyes with her across the bare street. Relief and love flooding her features, her eyes shinning brightly.

'Snow!' Her body froze for a second, knowing the familiar voice all too well she snapped her focus towards him, James, her Prince.

"Charming." She felt her heart explode, swiftly moving towards him she felt her mouth open in shock. Clinging to his lapels, she made sure she held him tightly, so that he couldn't get away from her. She let her fingers grasp at him desperately, trying to bring him closer, to make sure he was truly there. That they were both truly there.

Her breath was ragged. Eyes searching his, for something she couldn't find anywhere else. "You found me." She breathed heavily, the weight of the words pulling them impossibly closer.

"Did you ever doubt I would?" His eyes shone with all the love he felt, all the emotion he had for his wife. She tugged his face to hers, meeting her halfway he covered her lips with his. Her hand running along the side of his face, drawing them firmly together. Feeling her kiss him desperately, filled with a lifetime of love, of loss, losing themselves in each other.

A rumble from beneath them shook them out of their bubble, the ground softly shaking under their feet. Moving so quickly, and engulfing the street a purple cloud was quickly blanketing the town. Snow and James watched for a second as it approached them steadily. Pulling Snow to his chest, they clung onto each other as the cloud covered Storybrooke, shaking the ground beneath their feet.

It was minutes before the purple cleared, leaving a path of destruction in it's wake. The windows of the buildings lining the street were cracked and shattered. Street lamps tossed and hanging limp. Fractured pieces of the road and cars rolled into each other.

"Your majesty." A familiar voice interrupted the pair, looking around Snow spotted Grumpy and several other of her friends slowly surrounding them.

"Red! Granny!" She breathed out, rushing towards her best friend and swooping her into a hug. She turned to look back at the Dwarves, or men like Dwarves… Each of them staring back at her with the same loyalty and respect that they had (almost) always given to her.

"What do you suppose that was?" Grumpy asked, nodding his head in the direction the cloud had rolled in.
"I have no idea." James answered, looking worriedly at his wife.
"Do you think the she had anything to do with it?" Red's eyes narrowed slowly, looking over to Snow who looked just as confused as her husband. Though hiding it well to their subjects, they held their stances looking across the main street as people wandered towards them.

"We can't rule out anything, she's done this to all of us."

"Snow." She turned to James quickly, watching curiously as he took a hurried step towards her, his eyes shining.

"You said all of us. We're forgetting someone important."

She tightened her hold on Henry's hand, drawing him in closer to her body as she took in the only seconds ago calm emergency ward.

The hospital was chaos, people were spilling in from the entrance. People who had been on the street when the ground started shaking, in the small wrecks that littered Storybrooke.

Doctor Whale muttered something under his breath, looking out towards the lobby before slipping out the glass door. Mother Superior…. No the Blue Fairy, rushed towards Emma and Henry looking flustered.

"Are you both alright?" She scanned their bodies, looking for anything serious, but Emma just shifted so she was in front of Henry. Anyone of these people could be working for Regina, she couldn't risk him.

"I'm fine, is Henry going to be okay?" She asked, focussing her thoughts on the current situation, willing herself not to think back to image of his lifeless body seared into her mind.

"The effects of the curse should not affect your son, he is fine. Though, I'd advise you both to leave now, find your loved ones and get to safety. We can't be sure of what's going to happen now." She warned, handing Emma Henry's clothes that had been on the bed next to his.

"Kid, this way. I think Granny's would be a good p-" She felt her body pull backwards from Henry's grip, looking down to him to see what was wrong.

"Emma!" Henry stopped dead in his tracks, a grin slowly spreading across his face looking up to his mom.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" She asked nervously, looking him up carefully, trying to find a massive life threatening injury.

"I'm completely fine. No, it's you, and them! Ms Blanchard and Mr Nolan, Snow White and Prince Charming! Your parents, we can go and see them!" He jumped excitedly, happiness beaming from the twelve year old.

Oh. Emma felt her heart sink, blankness overtook everything, she couldn't move. Trying to find the right words, the right emotions to feel. She didn't have enough time to think anything though, Henry broke free from her grasp and started towards Granny's. New determination to find his Grandparents.

She took off after him, not far from the Main Street. She lengthened her strides to catch up with him, try to get to him before, well before she could figure out what she was going to do.

"You said all of us. We're forgetting someone important."

"Emma!" Snow breathed, she could feel the tweak of an ache in her heart. Memories of lost moments with Emma from the past year filling her memory remembering. She looked deep into his blue eyes, the same shocked excitement written all over his undeniable feeling of their lack of a complete family.

"Where is she?" James asked quickly, scanning the main street for any sign of his child. A fierce need to protect her suddenly filling up in his heart, and need for her. His daughter, his Emma.

"She's at the hospital." Snow felt her heart sink, remembering why she had been on her way through town, why she had been walking back from the Hospital back to her apartment. An intense weight dragging on her chest, her thoughts flickering back to Henry's small body in the Hospital bed. Their Grandson lying helplessly and waiting for a miracle.

"Why is she at the Hospital?!" James' protective instinct turning quickly to fear, trying to think back to anything that could have happened before the curse. Anything he'd missed on his way out of Storybrooke. He watched Snow carefully as she pieced together what had happened before the curse lifted.

"She was with-" But something caught her eye, a small figure weaving their way up the street, pulling her focus from her husband. A dart of red was closing in on their small group, slowly but surely down the street. Someone she knew all too well.

"Henry…"

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