Her heart was pounding at an explosive rate in her ears. In fact it was beating so loudly and so fast that she couldn't even hear the sound of her heels hitting the tile floor as she ran down the hospital corridor. The walls and floor should have been white, but everything in the underworld appeared to have an ugly orange tint to it. She really hated the color orange. Her mind was racing with random thoughts trying not to think about what was going to be around the next turn. She wanted it to be anything other than what she was about to face.

As she made the final turn she was met by the Charming's, Robin and Emma all of whom were currently sobbing uncontrollably. Emma walked toward her and Regina just held up her hand letting her know to stay away. She turned to face Robin, her soul mate, and the look on her face made his heart drop to his feet. This was the glare of the Evil Queen, wild, enraged and dangerous. The notorious Evil Queen vein on her forehead was looked as though it may actually break the skin.

"Where is my son?" She hissed at the entire group.

"Regina…." He began, but was cut off.

"WHERE. IS. MY. SON.?" Her voice was a booming sound echoing down the hall.

"I'll take you to him." Emma moved to show her the way.

"No! Point, Swan." She did not want any of these people near her.

Emma pointed to one of the nearby rooms. Regina turned on her heel and disappeared behind the door. Snow, Charming, Robin and Emma stood like statues in the hallway knowing as soon as Regina walked through that door her walls would crumble and she would need them. The strongest amongst them was about to break and it would take all of them to put her back together…if she even let them.

Regina slowly walked to the hospital bed and peered down at her son's lifeless body. She reached out a shaky hand to smooth his hair off his forehead like she had done a million times before. This time, he didn't turn his head to look at her and smile his reassuring smile, instead his eyes were open and staring at nothing on the ceiling. As she stared at him, she felt her very life force draining from her body leaving her on legs that she was not sure could hold her up. Her entire body shook with the sorrow filling her heart. This pain was indescribable, the worse she had ever felt.

She waved her hand over his body and tried to use magic to heal him, but it didn't work. His chest didn't rise and his eyes didn't blink. She kissed his forehead, but there was no gust of wind. There was no deep breath or sigh of relief. There was only silence, deafening silence.

"Henry." Her voice broke as she spoke his name.

"Hen….Henry." She said louder when he didn't answer.

"My… Baby…." She finally broke laying next to him in the hospital bed and pulling his lifeless body to her chest. "My baby," She cried. "Why? Why? Why?"

The door slowly opened as Robin, Emma, Snow and Charming came in. They would not let her go through this alone. They were all hurting.

"Regina." Emma cried her name.

"Shhhhh, he's sleeping. You're going to wake him up." Regina cried not accepting her son's death.

"Regina. Regina he's not sleeping." Emma placed a careful hand on her friend's back.

"You get away from us. Leave us alone." Regina cried.

"Milady." Robin tried to get her attention, but was met with quiet sobs. "Milady."

"Stop." She cried. "I… I… asked you to…to keep him… safe." She stuttered.

"I know." It was a quiet whisper.

"And now look what you've done." Regina sobbed. "I can't breathe without him. You…you killed us both!" She screamed at him.

"Regina…I'm sorry." Robin cried. "I lost a son too. I loved Henry like he was my own son. You know that."

"Leave us." She buried her nose in his hair memorizing his smell.

"Regina…please." Robin begged.

"Get out." It was barely a whisper.

Robin left the room followed by Charming since no one deserved to be alone right now.

Snow and Emma stayed with Regina watching as she was clinging helplessly to her son. She was gently rocking him back and forth humming.

"Regina." Snow whispered.

"Shh." Was Regina's only reply.

"I can't watch this." Snow broke down sobbing again. "I can't watch her go through this."

"Please don't leave." Emma begged her mother. "I need you."

Snow cried as she and Emma held each other. "I'll stay with you, but I feel so helpless."

"Henry, I can't do this without you. I can't go on without you. I can't be good without you. Wherever you are is where I want to be." Regina cried. "I won't live without you Henry. I won't."

"Re…gin..a" Emma stuttered moving back toward the bed, Regina's pleas to their son was magnifying the heart break.

"Henry, please come back to me." Regina spoke to her son, ignoring Emma.

"He's not coming back Regina." This time it was Snow who approached her.

"He is!" Regina said rubbing Henry's hair out of his face. "He will come back to me. He's my baby. He's my little prince."

"No Regina. He's gone. You need to let him go." Snow took her hand.

"I won't." Regina replied.

"You have to let go Regina." Snow urged her.

"This… is… my… punish…ment for everything I… I…di… did to you." Regina cried.

"No Regina. It was an accident. Accidents happen." Snow's tears were falling.

"NO!" Regina screamed at her.

"Regina. You need to get up and let him go." Snow said more firmly.

"I'm not strong enough to let go." Regina cried. "I have nothing without Henry."

"You are strong enough Regina." Snow tried to sound reassuring. "We are going to help you be strong."

"I can't." Regina sobbed.

"You can." Emma approached her. "We both lost a son today. We can be strong for each other."

"No. No. No. I can't leave him here." Regina wrapped herself tighter around her son's body. "It's getting dark and he's afraid of the dark. There isn't a night light in here."

"He's not afraid of anything anymore Regina. He's in a better place." Snow tried to sound reassuring.

"There is no better place for Henry than with me!" Regina cried. "Why is someone always trying to take my son from me?"

"Regina, he's gone and nothing can change that now. We need to find a way to live on." Snow rubbed her back.

"We have to leave him here." Emma told her trying to physically pull Regina away from their son.

"You leave. You walk away from him…again. But I will NOT leave my son. Not now. Not ever." Regina screamed.

"Regina. We have to and you know it." Emma tried to ignore the stinging pain from Regina's comment.

"Henry, I won't leave you. You don't need to be scared. Mommy's right here."

Snow and Emma physically pulled Regina off the bed. Regina ran back to Henry's body and ran her hand over his eyes closing them forever and she lay her head on his chest. "Good night my sweet prince. I will see you again and I will not stop until I do." She kissed him one time before turning back to Snow and Emma and collapsing in to their arms all her strength gone. She had no fight left.

They held her up the entire walk out of the hospital and to the apartment. Once inside the apartment she collapsed just inside the door into a heap on the floor. Robin and Charming were at her side in a second and Robin was attempting to lift her off the floor. She looked at him with mascara streaked down her face and anger in her eyes. She looked like a woman gone mad, like she had been at the edge of insanity and jumped in with both feet.

"You…" She whispered looking at Robin. "You…stay…away…from…me. I trusted…you to kee…keep him safe."

"I'm hurting too Regina." Robin cried.

"Be thankful because if you were any other person in this room, you'd already be dead." She turned as Charming helped her up the stairs. Emma followed her upstairs and with a wave, Regina was asleep on the bed.

OUCH! This one hurt to write, but had been on mind. Please leave a review and let me know what you think! XOXO