Chapter 2

Henry is in his room, sitting on his bed scanning through his book on time travel to figure out a possible exclamation on why the TARDIS (Which looked like a regular phone booth to the other citizens) doesn't look like a time machine when he entered it early last week. Henry groaned and put his forehead on the table just about to give up on hope of finding an answer until he thought of something. He raised his head and scanned through the book until he found the page he was looking for. Henry read for a minute until he perked up with excitement and ran across his room to his work desk and grabbed his walkie talkie. When he turned it on there was a little static that was heard coming from the speakers at the front of it. Henry pressed the red button on the right side and spoke in code: "Operation Cobra Emergency. Meet at Rusty Wood ASAP!"

Sheriff Station

Emma was sitting down in her office doing paper work until she heard Henry's voice coming from the walkie talkie that she gave him to help be supportive of his belief system. She grabbed it and responded,

"On my way kid."

Emma stood up and sighed because she knew that her kid was more important than getting a bunch of paperwork done. She walked over to the coat hooks and grabbed her coat as she walked out the door to meet Henry at his castle (which is coded for Rusty Wood).

Henry's Castle

Henry was sitting down waiting for Emma at his castle by the beach. He turned around and saw Emma coming up to him and sat down next to him. Henry opened his time travel book and skimmed through it until he found the right page.

"What's the emergency?" Emma asked wearing her black coat over top of her red leather jacket.

"I knew there had to be a reason why the TARDIS looked like a phone booth instead of a time machine on the inside," Henry started to explain to Emma. "It's because the owner of the TARDIS isn't in town so that means the TARDIS is just camouflaging itself to outsiders, like you and me. Unless you are a companion… then that's different."

Emma looked at Henry in such surprise because this was definitely out of the ordinary and not at all what she expected Henry to say. She took a moment to process what her son has said to her and trying to figure out how to respond to it. It was bad enough that Henry had fairy tales on his mind but now science fiction and time machines added into his world? This isn't going to be easy for Emma and the citizens of Storybrooke to play along with, but for Henry's sake, they will have to.

"So… what is your plan then?" Emma asked.

"Find whoever owns the TARDIS," Henry explained. "I read in my book that he goes by 'The Doctor'. The book doesn't say what his real name is. All it says is that it's secret. No one will know. But… my issue isn't that... it's where he lives."

"So your plan is to find this so called 'Doctor' guy?" Emma clarified. "Where does he live?"

"Exactly," Henry confirmed closing his book. "I don't know. But I read about the time travel world in my books and apparently it overlapped with the curse. The two worlds are frozen in time trapped in Storybrooke."

"Slow down kid!" Emma said partially confused. "There are two worlds frozen in time? I thought it was just the Enchanted Forest…"

"So did I," said Henry. "But the worlds overlapped somehow minutes before the curse hit… I don't know how it happened… my books don't explain why... but that's why I have to find the Doctor and bring him back to Storybrooke so he can help set things straight... according to what I read… he's going to help you break the curse of these two worlds and the final battle will begin!"

Emma looked at Henry and sighed. It wasn't easy to go along with Henry's beliefs and hopes, but she knew she had to because if she didn't, it could mean a much more worse state for Henry. Depression, shutting everyone out for good, especially his loved ones, the people who pretended to believe him and go along with his stories. Like Emma and the others to whom Henry got involved in his world of make believe fantasy. She couldn't do that, not after having made a connection with him. A bond between mother and son.

"Kid.. before you go into any great depth about this.. do you know what he even looks like?" Emma asked a bit concerned for her son.

"Yeah I thought about that, and I found a picture of him… It's the latest one," said Henry opening the time travel book and skimmed through the book to find the page which had the picture. "The doctor regenerates. Changes his appearance after many years. It varies. I think it's the 11th form..."

Henry found a picture of him and showed it to Emma. The Doctor had straight brown hair, green eyes, thin eyebrows, wearing a light brown blazer coat, a dark red bow tie, and a long sleeved white buttoned shirt. He looked like he was in his late twenties, early thirties. Emma sighed. This guy looked a lot like someone she used to know. When she got a closer look at him, it was almost exactly alike. She closed her eyes and sighed trying to push the pain back down and forgetting. Henry closed his book and looked back at Emma.

"So here's my idea.. I have to find the Doctor.. and I'm not so good at finding people," Henry explained as Emma caught on really almost instantly. She shook her head as he continued: "Finding people is what you do, Emma. You know about this stuff. How to track people. You were a bail bondswoman. If anyone can find him it's you."

"Henry this is really crossing the line," Emma tried to explain to Henry as she was getting off the castle and stood in front of him. "I am not going to spend my time finding this guy…" Emma knew that she couldn't tell Henry the real reason why she will not invest her time trying to find this man. She didn't want to confuse a stranger about all this magical nonsense Henry has created in his mind. It's not fair to him. Especially when this guy looks a lot like someone from her past that she rather forget about. She needed to come up with a convincing lie to tell Henry. "I-I have a job here in Storybrooke. I can't just get up and leave!"

"Emma.. I beg of you, please find him," Henry said desperately using his puppy dog look that he knows Emma can't resist. "You know that the curse will not break without him. He needs you, Emma. We need you two. It's both of your destinies. You guys have to bring back the happy endings!"

"Henry I-I.. please try and understand," Emma tried again almost like she was desperate for Henry to get off her back about the curse for a moment. "This guy will probably not believe us. Who knows… he might be cursed too.. I can't convince a stranger - I mean.. the doctor.. to come back here.. I wouldn't know what to say.."

Henry smiled and shoved his books into her arms as he hopped down off his castle and faced Emma.

"Just tell him the truth," Henry said. "Read him the stories. Tell him everything. It may remind him of who he is."

"Henry.. how do you know this is going to work?" Emma asked concerned, holding her son's books.

"I have hope," Henry responded as Regina ran over visibly annoyed. Henry and Emma noticed her. Henry backed off near Emma and gulped nervously. Henry knew this is going to be a bad one, because he didn't tell her where he was going in the first Place.

"There you are young man!" Regina said scolding him in a very angry tone of voice. "How many times do I have to tell you, don't wander off without telling me where you are going! You had me worried sick! Don't ever do this again!"

Henry nodded scared.

"Now go wait in the car!" Regina said pointing to her parked car. "Right now."

"But…" Henry started as Regina made a look at him that he can't refuse to. Henry gave up and sighed. "Ok."

Henry walked off far enough that Regina knew that he couldn't hear her anymore. She turned around and sneered at Emma.

"You. You took my son!" Regina snapped rudely at Emma who is now very annoyed. "When you are supposed to be at the station doing your work! Well Miss. Swan.. if you don't keep away from Henry I will find a way to insure that you don't have any contact with him."

"I did not take Henry!" Emma shot back. "He came to me! I'm not going to stop seeing Henry! He is my son and your threats don't scare me at all! You will not get me out of town and you don't make choices for me."

"You don't know I'm capable of doing Miss. Swan, and if I were you.. I watch out," Regina threatens. Emma smiles at her and crosses her arms over her chest.

"Try me," Emma said with a smirk while holding Henry's books. Regina glares at her and walks away steamed. Emma looks down at Henry's books and sighs. She looks back up and sees Regina getting in the driver's seat of her car and Henry getting in the back seat.

"How the hell did she get like this?" Emma wondered to herself as Regina started her car and drove off.