This story Isn't mine. This story was written by a friend of mine, Stacy Roe. I co-wrote and edited the story with her. As she doesn't have an account, she asked me to publish the story on mine. So here y'all are. Enjoy!
This story has a little CS in it so if you don't like that I don't recommend reading.
After Hades' death, the underworld was in disarray. In the chaos, some of the spirits managed to slip out to walk as ghosts among the living. One of these spirits was the spirit of a man who was wronged by both Rumplestiltskin and Regina, and was killed by Regina. This spirit, consumed by rage and vengeance, ended up in Storybrooke. There, he went after them both.
Tormented by the fact that he could not be seen by Gold, he screamed at him, and kicked and punched at him, but Gold did not notice. So the spirit went to Regina in the mayor's office, and tried to get her attention but like Gold, she could neither see nor hear nor feel the spirit as he passed ineffectually through her. He screamed as this frustrated him to no end and he stormed off to think.
Soon, the spirit found Henry, and remembered how much he meant to both Regina and Gold. The spirit thought that with Henry's power as the author, he might be able to see unfinished stories, and so, he may be able to see the spirits of those stories.
The spirit went to Henry's bedside in Regina's house, and aggressively pursued his desire to torment the boy with a loud, "Boo!"
Henry lurched awake, saw the man floating there, and screamed. Regina ran in, "Don't bother, she can't see me and will only send you away thinking you are crazy." The spirit told him.
Regina, in a worried tone, asked Henry, "What's wrong?" She thought it was just a bad dream but was worried it might be more.
Henry told her, "There is a ghost by my bed." The spirit floated over to Henry as Regina, whose voice was showing more concern now, "Henry, there is nothing there."
The spirit's voice, full of smug rage, told Henry, "Your grandfather killed my wife, and your mother killed my son, burned my farm down, then sent me to become a slave until a guard killed me.
"I want to make them suffer, but since they can't see me, I came to you. Your power as the author allows you to see me, and therefore, I can torment you. As you suffer and they can do nothing about it, they will suffer too. I will make sure you don't sleep and I will find every way I can to torment you. I will drive you mad until I can make you take your own life."
"Henry, terrified, screamed, "I would never do that." Then he turned to his mother frantic, and begged, "The ghost is threatening me. He says he will make me take my own life. Mom, I'm scared. Please help."
Now terrified herself, Regina quickly replies, "Henry, who are you talking to? What is going on?"
Regina, collecting herself, tried to comfort Henry by telling him, "Sweetheart, Ghosts can't do much to hurt you, they are more annoying than anything. Just go to sleep. We will deal with this in the morning." She got a blanket and pillow and curled up on a chair in his room, to make him feel safe, and to allow him to sleep. Henry was tormented by the spirit all night. It did not allow him any sleep, and several times told him things that made him cry. Try as they might, Henry got no sleep and for worrying about Henry, neither did Regina.
The next day, Emma, Regina, Gold, and Henry got together at Gold's shop to discuss the problem, and Henry told them how the spirit kept him up all night. They all agreed that Henry needed help, but frantic, they realized no one knew how to help him. Gold and Regina took off to their respective sources of magic, while Emma drove Henry to school and tried to comfort him by saying, "We just finished the final battle. So the worst is behind us. There is nothing that can hurt us now. Just be strong and it will be over soon."
While Henry was getting out of the car at school, the spirit snuck up on him and scared him, knocking him off balance and making him trip.
All day, the spirit made Henry jerk and twitch, making him a distraction to the class and keeping him from participating in school. In class, he would keep twitching in his seat and yelping in fear and in gym class, he kept tripping. He was so disruptive that he was sent to the principal's office and after explaining it to him, the principal sent Henry home early. Terrified, Henry left the school to head home and the spirit kept making him twitch and tripping him up. Henry began to run in hopes of outrunning the spirit. Then the spirit yelled, "Boo!" and Henry, startled, tripped and fell in front of a drunk driver who was too drunk to stop. The driver screeched to a halt but it was too late. He got out of the car, stood over Henry with his hands on his head, gripping his hair in shock, then started to scream for help.
Suddenly, Emma and Regina both jerked-to, and clutched their hearts, knowing in that instant exactly what had happened. They ran as fast as their legs would take them to Henry's side out near the clock tower and, even though they came from different locations, they both came upon him at the same time. With a glance, each one of them knew that the other knew, Henry was dead.
When Regina saw the body of her son on the pavement, she went berserk and began to attack the driver, swinging her fists furiously, and kicking, and threatening to use magic as the crowd tried to hold her back. Emma knelt at Henry's side, crying and screaming as she took him in her arms and rocked him back and forth, consumed with grief.
The spirit, content that his work was done, though disappointed it had not turned out with Henry taking his own life in madness, was able to move on and left.
In the morgue, all Henry's family stood around him. In a somber tone, Snow softly spoke to Regina, "There has got to be something you can do! It can't end like this."
Regina stated, "Magic can't bring back the dead. I'm sorry, he is gone."/
Emma pondered on how this could have happened to Henry and thought out loud, "He was the author, so he was meant to write the story. Now the final battle has been fought and won, maybe he is no longer meant for this earth."
Regina replied, "That is ridiculous! I refuse to believe that my son was meant to die. Are you out of your damn mind?"
Emma said, "No. I miss him as much as you, I am just trying to figure out why he was taken from us so young."
Regina came back with, "Because of that damn drunk driver that's why and if you goody goodies would let me alone with him for just a minute I'd fry him and that would be the last child that drunk bastard would ever kill."
Snow glared at Regina and said, "No you wouldn't. You have worked to hard to become one of the good guys and I know that Henry would never forgive you if you did."
Regina said, "Henry is dead so I don't much think he cares what I do and this drunk is no hero so I have no doubts that I could roast him and there would be no storyline to prevent it like with you. Back off or I will roast you too."Snow shouted "Regina!"
Snow shouted "Regina!"
Emma said, "just calm down and let's try to move on together. Your family now don't ruin it. Let's go to Granny's to start the funeral arrangements and we can go from there."
And with that, Emma and Regina agreed to go to Granny's Diner to start the funeral arrangements and everyone, hanging their heads and sagging their shoulders, went their separate ways.
