So I never really intended on making this story longer that just the first chapter, but people seemed to have wanted more. I probably won't write that much more, just a couple more chapters. I hope you enjoy this chapter, please let me know what you think in reviews. Or if you have any ideas or prompts message me.
"You broke the curse" Henry said, sounding astonished.
The entire room was in shock, as if it was thawing after a great frost. After all they had all been trapped, cursed, for twenty eight years.
"Your majesty" Whale was the first to speak, his voice filled with distain and lathing.
His words seemed to break everyone's trance, bringing them back to the present as they remembered who it was that was responsible for their imprisonment.
"Whale wait…" Regina said, allowing herself to shift her attention away from Henry.
"What for what?" Whale asked as she walked up to Regina, raising his hand until it was around her neck, using it to lead her to the nearest wall, pinning her there, trapped by his grasp. "Wait for some sort of explanation, do you expect us to be patient, to show mercy to the person who brought us here, to the Evil Queen?" he asked, the words coming out forcefully.
"Whale!" Emma's voice rang across the room. "Back down, she may have caused this curse, but it appears as if she also broke it. And so for that, yes I would like some sort of explanation."
Whale turned around and looked to Emma, taking in her words for a moment before shaking them off and redirecting his fury back to Regina, tightening the grip around her neck. Regina just looked at Henry who watched with horror.
"Back down" Emma said again as she stepped forward and pushed Whale off of Regina, steading the woman as she stumbled forward slightly catching her breath.
"Well Regina, do you have an explanation?" Emma asked.
"True love can break any curse, my love for Henry must have woken him up since it was magic that put him to sleep." Regina said, looking at Henry, hoping that if anything this would convince Henry that she did love him. After all this was his language, the language of true love and fairy tales. He believed things from a book to be reality blindly, Regina just hoped that he would as readily believe something that happened right in from of his eyes.
"But how did it break THE curse?" Henry asked, "you created it, how could you break it, Emma is the savior she is meant to."
"I don't know…" Regina replied, not sure if her son was disappointed that it was she who broke the curse instead of his biological mother. She did wish she did know why what had just occurred happened. Knowing that waking up Henry would have broken the curse wouldn't have changed her actions, but Regina couldn't help but deny that it did complicate things.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Emma asked.
"I don't know everything about the curse. I cast it but I was not its creator." Regina explained.
"Gold….Rumplestiltskin did, didn't he?" Henry asked.
"Yes" Regina replied with a smile. Although Henry hadn't ran to her arms, he was yet to call her the Evil Queen, and even though he had not acknowledged her love for him, he also had not denied it, and that had to count for something.
"Well aren't you curious?" Henry asked again.
Emma looked around, from outside she could see people smiling, embracing with their new found family members, but there were also a portion of the population matching angrily towards the hospital. If this had been a different time she wouldn't have been surprised to see torches and pitch forks.
"Curiosity is great kid, but I don't think we've got time for it at the moment." Emma responded, gesturing to the scene outside the window.
"Yes your majesty, I think it is best that you find somewhere to hide." The blue fairy said matter of factly.
"And maybe try to find some sort of explanation beyond I don't know. It may be the only thing that will subdue them." Emma added.
Regina looked around, and she knew that what was being spoken was true. She looked back down to Henry who was now sitting up in the bed. She leaned down so that she was at his eye level.
"Henry, I am going to figure this out. And no matter what you think, no matter what anyone tells you, I do love you." Regina said softly, but with conviction.
Henry nodded silently. She didn't know what she expected, certainly not an; I love you too. She turned around to run out of the room and from the reflection in the glass she saw Emma move towards Henry and embrace him. He looked so happy and peaceful as she whispered something in his ear. She thought she could feel her heart breaking again, how many times would it have to do that. She pushed the thoughts encroaching on her mind aside, remembering she had been the one to wake Henry up with her love.
She moved silently through the hallways and out into the parking lot, and into her Mercedes, driving it down the less popular streets until she arrived at Gold's shop. It was empty, so she made herself at home while she waited for her explanation.
She pulled a stool out from behind the counter and sat. Looking around at the relics, she suspected that people would probably start to arrive, demanding the return of their belongings. Perhaps this wasn't the safest place for her.
But her thoughts were not able to get very far before they were interrupted by the approach of a large purple cloud.
