Disclaimer: I do not own any of those characters... Can't imagine what I'd do if I owned them
Chapter 3:
A bit more than a week was gone since Emma left and without any news, her parents and her son as well started to worry, even if Henry was a permanent optimist. This optimism confirmed itself when the door flew open letting a mad and tired Emma appear, followed by Gold and a young man they supposed to be Rumplestiltskin's son.
"Emma!" Henry screamed running into her arms.
"Well! Hello kid!" she answered hugging him back.
She wanted to enjoy this reunion with her own family, but she felt a gaze of the two men on her back and she remembered she needed to talk to Henry. She had to tell him about his father, she owed him, after everything he did for her to find out about her parents, about herself.
"Henry" she started still feeling the gaze of the new comer on her back. "I need to tell you something really important."
"What is it?" he questioned her, a bit troubled.
"Sit down please" she said as he did so. "You remember when you asked me about your father?" he nodded "Well, let's say it was the truth I wanted you to hear and I truly apologize for it. I had planned to tell you everything as soon as the lie fell from my lips, but with all of what happened after that, it kept me for telling you the truth. And I have to admit, it was a way for me to avoid the conversation. If I did what I did, it is because I didn't want you to see your father as a coward, even if he'll stay this way for me. I swear to you I didn't think I would ever see him again, but it comes out he's Mr Gold's son."
"Yes. But I always knew him under the name of Neal Cassidy."
"So… He's my father?" he asked pointing at the person next to Gold. He didn't seem mad at all, but she still preferred to ask, just in case.
"Indeed yes. You're… You're not mad at me?" Henry regarded her before grinning and hugging her.
"You might have told me late, but you did, and that's what matters."
"You really are mature and quite astonishing for an eleven-year-old-boy"
Henry raised his shoulders smiling lightly and went over to Neal who stayed at the door with his father.
"I suppose I have to call you 'dad'?"
"Or you can call me Neal, as you want kid" he said with an awkward smile, not knowing how to act in front of his son.
"Ok!" the boy said with an enthusiastic voice.
"I don't want to seem killjoy, but after all those years, I believe my son and I need to talk" Gold spoke, both hands on his cane.
"It's understandable" Emma smiled "I think I'm gonna take this one to Granny's" she achieved taking Henry by the shoulders.
"What are we waiting for?" he said pulling her by her arm.
She followed him, looking at Snow and Charming, telling them she'll see them in the night or in the morning, closing the door behind them, closely followed by Neal and Gold.
Author's note: So I know it does not stick with how Henry reacted when he learned about Neal, but as I stopped writing for a long time, and I wrote it before the episode, this is the result. I didn't wanted Henry to be really mad at Emma, he is, I mean, deep inside when you lie to child and you tell him the truth only long after, he's mad. But I wanted to show that he kinda understood her or something like this… Ok, that was a lot clearer in my head ^^ Hope you liked the chapter, please review :)