Next update will be tomorrow night! I hope you guys are enjoying so far. Reviews really give me motivation to keep updating faster so please keep reviewing :)


Chapter 2

1x02 The Thing You Love Most

I was waiting at the front door for Henry. He took longer than me to get ready. And that's saying a whole hell of a lot. But things have been tense so I waited quietly. I was zoning out with Henry bounded down the stairs, grabbed my hand and pulled me out the door.

"Hey what the-! Ouch Henry!" He was pulling my shoulder."

"Oh sorry." Henry said apologetically as he released it.

"What's going on?"

"Mom wants the last pages!"

"What pages?" I asked. As we started walking towards school.

"The last pages in the book! She wants to know how it ends so she can stop it because it's working!" Henry said giddishly.

I arched an eyebrow, "What's working?"

"Emma! Now that she's back she's going to save us!"

"Hennryyy… this again?" I shook my head.

"No Lucy! It's true look, the clock, see it's working now."

I turned and sure enough the damn thing had started moving. "It could be a coincidence?" I suggested.

"But it's not. And you know it. You just need to have a little bit of faith Luc."

I couldn't help but smile, "Alright, say Emma is the savior. How is she going to do it?"

"Don't know yet." Henry turned at the corner like he was headed to Main Street.

"Hey where are you going?" I asked

"To find out." Henry turned around and kept walking.

That was the thing about Henry, he could make you believe in almost anything if he tried hard enough and he was the most optimistic kid I had ever met. I smiled as I continued on towards school.


After school I walked outside and saw Henry waiting in front of the school at our tree. We always met there.

"Hey buddy. How's it going?"

"Good! Now we have to go to the castle, we have to plan Lucy."

"Plan what?" I questioned.

Henry smiled mischievously, "Operation Cobra!"

Henry smiled and jumped into his plans of how he thought Emma was going to save Storybrooke. We stayed at the castle until around 4:45 which is when we left and started towards Mom's office to have dinner. We always have dinner on Thursdays then Mom takes Henry to his session and we go home. As we walked into Mom's office Henry shushed me mid sentence.

"What?" I whispered

"There's someone in there." He replied.

"What? Who?"

"Shhhh, listen Lucy." We stopped outside of the door and peaked in. It was Emma. But what was she doing talking to Mom?

"…the more you push me out the more I want to be here. Especially seeing how troubled he is." Emma said.

"You think he's troubled?" Mom asked in a very condescending tone as if she already knew the answer.

"Well he's in therapy and I only got through couple pages of his shrink's notes before you had me arrested but putting all that aside, he thinks everyone in this town is a fairy tale character." Emma replied.

"And you don't…" Mom asked.

"How can I. The poor kid can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality and it's only getting worse. It's crazy." Emma finished.

I looked down at Henry whose face had fallen.

"You think I'm crazy?" Henry asked.

Henry started backing up as Emma came towards us, "Henry-" she started. But it was too late Henry turned and started running outdoors. Infuriated I ran after him.

"Henry please! Henry wait!" I yelled as i followed him outside.

"Just leave me alone!" Henry ran to Dr. Hopper's office.

When I stepped into Archie's office he pulled me aside and asked me what happened while Henry went to sit on the couch. I told him what we had overheard, what Emma said. Dr. Hopper nodded and told me he would take it from there and I should go home.

"Henry? Do you want me to go…?" I asked. He didn't reply so I left and started walking home. I was almost in a rage by the time I was walking up the front steps. Who did this person think she was, acting like she gives a damn now after abandoning him for 10 years, and then crushing his dreams. I knew it was delusional but he's only a little boy.

I had only been home for a few minutes when Mom came strolling in. "Where's Henry?" I asked confused.

"Well I'd assume he's with Dr. Hopper." Mom replied.

"You don't know?" Mom look startled by my questioning.

"He's your son don't you care about him at all?!"

I took the stairs two at a time up to my room and slammed the door. I could understand why he told Emma that she didn't love us. It felt like that sometimes. A little while later after I had cooled off I went downstairs to get some water when I heard mom dragging something in the back yard. I went to the back window and saw mom cleaning up the remnants of her Honeycrisp tree. I was just about to leave when I saw Mr. Gold walk up and say something. Very carefully I pulled the kitchen window open and listened intently.

Mr. Gold said, "What a mess" as walked up.

"Not for long. What could I do for you, Mr. Gold?" Mom replied.

"I was just in the neighbourhood. Thought I'd pop by. Lovely to see you in such high spirits."

"Well, it's been a good day. I just rid the town of an unwanted nuisance."

"Emma Swan. Really?" Mr. Gold inquired.

"Yes. I imagine she's half way to Boston by now."

"Oh, I wouldn't bet on that. I just seen her strolling down the main street with your boy. Thick as thieves, they looked."

"What?" Mom asked shocked.

"Perhaps you should have come to me. If Miss Swan is a problem you can't fix, I'm only too happy to help. For a price, of course."

"I'm not in the business of making deals with you anymore." Mom said tartly.

"To which deal are you referring?"

"You know what deal."

"Oh, right. Yeah. The boy I procured for you. Henry. Did I ever tell you what a lovely name that was? However did you pick it?" Mr. Gold asked but it seemed like he already knew the answer…

"Did you want her to come to town? You wanted all this to happen, didn't you? Your finding Henry wasn't an accident, was it?"

"Whatever do you mean?"

"Where did you get him? Do you know something?" Mom asked starting to get angry.

"I have no idea what you're implying." Mr. Gold replied.

"I think you do. Who is this woman, his mother, this…Emma Swan?"

"I would say you think you know exactly who she is. I really must be going."

What were they talking about? Mr. Gold helped my mom adopt Henry? And who was Emma swan and how did my mother or Mr. Gold know her?

Mom cut off Mr. Gold, "Tell me what you know about her." Mom asked.

"I'm not going to answer you, dear. So I suggest you excuse me." He paused, "Please."

Mr. Gold turned and left, leaving mom standing there with an infuriated expression on her face. No, really, what did he mean though, what other deals did they make? And why did I feel like the deals they made weren't any good...