Chapter 3

Henry is sitting at his desk in his class room at school. His classroom is populated with 32 students, almost fifty/fifty girls and boys. This classroom isn't a large classroom, in fact, it's about the size of the playground outside. It can be seen from the windows on the left hand side of the room. Henry's desk was located in the front row, in the middle with two desks on either side of him. There is a chalkboard at the front wall facing the desks. Henry's teacher, Mary Margaret's desk, double the size of a student's desk, is located in the front left hand corner of the room and the front door on the opposite side.

Mary Margaret looked up from marking her students grades, and noticed once again that Henry wasn't doing his math assignment assigned a while ago. This isn't the first time Henry has been distracted, and shutting everyone out around him. Doing his own things related to the curse. She sighed and called out:

"Henry, may I see you for a moment?"

Henry immediately looked up and nodded, snapping out of his thoughts. He slid his chair back and stood up as all the students hallard,

"Ooooooooo!"

"Now children, let's settle down and get back to work," Mary Margaret told the class. The classmates nodded and went back to work while some others were secretly chatting to one another. Henry sighs as he walked up to Mary Margaret, and knew what she was going to discuss with him. Henry has this talk with his teacher quite often, but not every day. She talks to him about his attitude and class participation. His attitude includes dozing off, not working on his assignments, and his lack of being social with others in his class. Shutting people out. Most importantly, his fantasy world he has created and his giant impact it has on his education.

"Henry, you need to start focusing on your school work," Mary Margaret began quietly so she wouldn't interrupt her students who were silently working. "I can't have this discussion with you all the time. You are a bright, young boy with so much potential. I hate to see you throw that away. I know you can do so much better in school if you just apply yourself." She rests her hand on his. "Henry. You are a special kid. If you keep this up, you'll be missing all the important things in life. I want to see an improvement, ok?"

Henry was about to respond to his teacher his teacher about how he really felt but he got interrupted by a knock at the door. It opened and a woman walked in. She had shoulder length brown hair, with a touch of makeup. She wore a yellow long sleeved buttoned shirt, a black skirt and black leggings with white leather boots. She was holding a dark blue folder and pen.

"Hi.. I'm Clara… Clara Oswald," she said quietly with a smile. "Is this Miss. Margaret's classroom?"

All the boys in the classroom looked at Clara with with such awe. She was beautiful. Including Henry, but with another reason. As soon as he saw her, it a memory in his mind occurred. She wasn't some ordinary woman. Henry wanted to run back to his desk, but he knew it was rude to do so if you haven't been excused by the teacher. Mary Margaret smiled as she stood up and excused Henry to go back to his seat. Henry ran to his seat and grabbed his backpack to find his time and space book.

Mary Margaret walked over to her and smiled.

"Yes it is, I'm Mary Margaret," she said introducing herself, and shook her hand.

"Hi, I'm scheduled to be your EA," Clara responded.

"Of course, I heard I was getting an EA!" Mary Margaret said politely as Clara chuckled. "Welcome. We are very happy to have you join us. Make yourself comfortable. The kids are just working on a math assignment."

Clara nodded,

"Thank you," Clara said as they parted ways. Henry looked through his book and found the chapter about companions. He read on for a while until he found something that made him really surprised and much rather, speechless. He didn't know how to react, or even what to think. It was just mind blowing, almost like it was impossible. He looked at her with such shock. Henry's eyes were wide open and just staring, and mumbling.

"Um… uh.. the I-Impossible girl?" Henry said to himself as Clara was glancing at him. She got a little confused and uncomfortable. She walked over to his desk and smiled at him.

"Hi, um.. do you need help with anything?" she asked sweetly. Henry dozed out of his train of thoughts and snapped back into reality.

"Oh, uh, yeah.." Henry stuttered clearing his desk so it was just his math assignment and his pencil. Clara smiled and pulled up a chair and sat on the right side of him.

"What's your name?" She asked.

"Henry," he managed to say, still recovering from his discoveries he made earlier.

"Hey Henry, I'm Clara," she said introducing herself. "It's nice to meet you."

Henry half smiled at her.

"You too," Henry said playing with his pencil, a little nervous to talk to her for several reasons. But he knew in the back of his head that there is nothing to be scared about. Clara is a sweet woman. "Um, I haven't seen you around town… are you new here?"

"Yeah, I am.. just moved here from Blackpool, England," Clara explained.

"Well… welcome to Storybrooke," Henry said nicely as Clara chuckled. "I'm sure you'll like it here."

"Thank you Henry, I'm sure I will," Clara said scooting closer to him on her chair and looked at his math assignment. "What can I help you with?"

Henry smiled and knew that the curse will be weakening knowing that Clara is in town and she has a connection to both Emma and the Doctor extremely well. She is a very special person with an almost impossible story line.

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As soon as the school bell rang for the ending of the day, Henry grabbed his backpack, shoved his books in his bag and ran out the front doors along with the other students that attend this school. Henry ran down to the Sheriff's station as fast as he could with a bunch of information on the new EA, Clara Oswald and to see if Emma had any new updates on where the doctor is.

Henry ran through the doors and into his birth mother's office in almost a panic. Henry settled down as Emma noticed him. Every time Henry just shows up to see her, it brought a smile to Emma's face. Henry really did make a big, positive impact on her life. She chuckled and crossed her arms over her chest, wearing her red leather jacket. She is sitting in her chair in front of her desk.

"Hey kid," Emma greeted. "How was school?"

"Oh it was great, you will never believe what I found out," Henry said in the middle of catching his breath. After a moment of regaining his breath, Henry continued. "There's a new EA in our classroom. Her name is Clara Oswald. She is the impossible girl… It's hard to explain.. but with her appearance in town.. the curse will weaken!"

Emma looked at Henry and sighed. He got more people involved in his world of make believe fantasy. Again. This is getting tougher to play along with, but she knew she had to. For her son's sake. Most importantly, because Emma loves him. She wouldn't want to do anything that'll push him away from her, and destroy his imagination. Henry's belief system. Every time it does get difficult for her, she always reminds herself that Archie is right. Henry is a special kid and they don't want to take away what makes him, Henry.

"That's great," Emma said with a half smile then got confused. "What do you mean by 'impossible girl'?"

"Well it's hard to explain," Henry said as he opened the science book and read to Emma: "She's physically a human but she chose to enter the doctor's timeline to try and reverse the damage he already done to it. She disintegrated throughout his timeline.. making her apart of his life both physically and mentally. She did that because his fate of being the saviour would've been destroyed."

"Wow.." Emma managed to say. This was way beyond anything Henry has ever told her. Even the curse. That was crazy in her mind.. but this was way crazier than she thought. She was very concerned for Henry but she continued to play along in his world.

"Not only that… she's done the same for you Emma.. on the day you were born, it's a long story and you might be better off reading about it," said Henry which made Emma even more shocked. Henry smiled. "But what I can say is Clara saved your fate, Emma. She saved your destiny. She saved and protected both of you. Clara is the reason why you two are strongly connected and why two are still the saviors."

Emma had to take a moment to process what Henry just told her. Timelines, fate, connections? It was all a bunch of magical nonsense that Emma keeps getting confused about. Henry placed down his books on her office desk and smiled,

"Hey Emma, did you happen to find out more about where the doctor might be?" Henry asked almost eagerly.

Emma looked at Henry and sighed. She didn't go into any great depth about this guy. She didn't want to confuse the man, but she also didn't want to let Henry down because if he found out that she didn't do anything to help find the doctor, Henry will quickly figure out that she didn't believe him from the start and it'll just cause a whole lot of drama. The main reason is this man reminds her of someone who used to be special to her from her past. Even though Emma knew that investing her time to find this man was highly unnecessary and over the line, she knew she had to, for Henry.

"I'm still looking into it," Emma explained, lying to him that she didn't even start. "I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't go by 'the doctor'. I mean, if he's cursed.. He'll go by something else."

"That makes sense, what are you thinking of doing?" Henry asked.

"Well.., first of all.. Do you have any information on him? Like a birthday or cell phone number? Or even a name?" Asked Emma already feeling regret doing this. "Finding someone requires more than just a picture."

"Um.. if he's cursed then I can try and find something about his cursed self," said Henry skimming through his time travel book. He got to the 11th doctor and read for a little bit about him then transferred over to his fairy tale book. He read on and found nothing until he just thought of something that might be useful. "I heard my mother mention someone by the name of Matt Johnson. She sounded very disapproving of him.. If it's someone she hates it's got to be someone that might have an advantage to the curse."

Emma sighed as she did some research online even more regretting it but it was for her son's sake. She couldn't lose her connection with him after being alone and miserable for so many years. After a moment of looking, she found someone that made her just as surprised as Henry. Her mind couldn't comprehend what was happening right now. Emma thought that this so called 'doctor' was a fictional character from Henry's make believe world, she didn't even think for a second that he could possibly be a real person. Emma knew there had to be an exclamation for this finding. There had to be.. Right?

"Kid… is that?" Emma stammered very shocked. Henry nodded.

"Yes.. that's the doctor," Henry finished.