Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 3 of Hello Darkness. MacKenzie seemed pretty close to Henry didn't she guys? Well I'm glad that you guys liked her closeness with Henry there was a reason for that. I hope that you guys will like this chapter. I worked fairly hard on placing her in this chapter like I've done with every chapter that I've placed her in. I hope that I did alright with this chapter with adding her in. I am not sure that adding her into this chapter was the easiest, but I really did try my damnedest with this chapter, so I hope that I did good with it. I tried to give her some good friendships with people because she does need friends, because even with how shy she is, shy people can have friends no matter how truly shy they are. I mean I am a shy person and I have some friends too. So MacKenzie should have some friends too besides Henry. So you will get to see a few more people that she is friends with in this chapter. So I hope that you like this chapter. Without further ado Chapter 3. Enjoy.

Chapter 3

John Doe

Prince Charming and Abigail are traveling through a path in the forest together.

Charming looks at Abigail. "What do you think of the view, my dear?" He asked softly with a smile.

"I've seen better. This is taking forever. I told you the Troll Road would've been better. And far less bumpy. Are you even listening to me?" She complained to him.

"Yes, of course I am." He said lying of course not really listening to her. He didn't like listening to her. All she did was ramble on about things. Complaining about different things. It bothered him to know that he was marrying her due to what his father wanted. He had wanted to marry for true love and this was not what he had wanted. He wanted to marry his true love.

"Whoa, whoa!" The driver shouted slowing the carriage down.

"Now what?" She complained, she just wanted to get there. She wanted to get married and have a kingdom of her own away from her father and maybe spend this prince's riches and be spoiled rotten. Granted this was not what she wanted, she too wanted to be married for true love as well.

The carriage came to a stop.

Charming got out of the carriage to investigate leaving a bag on the seat. "Worry not…" He told her and he looked at what was blocking the path. "It's but a fallen tree. Fellas? Shall we?"

"My Lord? What is it?" The guard asked.

"These markings." He said once he had gotten a closer look at the tree. "This tree didn't fall… it's been cut. It's an ambush."

Abigail screamed alerting the guards and Charming that there was something wrong.

Prince Charming ran back to the carriage.

"Sir!"

"Guards! Stop, thief! Help me!" Abigail yelled.

Prince Charming got a horse and began to chase after the thief. He caught up to the thief easily. He tackled to them to the ground off of her horse. "Show your face, you coward! You're… a girl."

"Woman." Snow white said grabbing a rock and hitting his face with it. She quickly got back onto her horse.

Charming got up holding his face. "You can't hide from me! Wherever you are, I will find you." He shouted after her.

OUAT

Ruby poured another cup of coffee for Mac. "Leroy on another binge again?" She asked looking at Mac sadly. She knew that Leroy always did cause a bit of trouble for Mac. He would always go out and cause some sort of trouble by going out and drinking. He always did when something bothered him. He would never come home and talk to her and Ruby never understood why that he would just sit down and talk it over with Mac about the night time job at the hospital that he worked at.

Mac rubbed her face. "You have no idea. He always seems to get pissed off at work lately anymore. Instead of taking it out on me he decides to take it out on the bottle." She said tangling her small hand in her platinum blonde hair. "I don't know what I'm going to do any more with him. I can't keep bailing him out of jail."

Ruby smiled at Mac with a cheeky smile of her own. "You get to see Graham again." She knew that Mac kind of thing for Graham even though Mac wouldn't admit it to her. She knew that the soft stares from Mac would go unnoticed from Graham, but she knew that her friend's stares weren't unnoticed by her. She knew that Mac was smitten with Graham.

Mac's cheeks began to flush. She didn't like the act that Ruby had noticed the fact that she had been giving longing looks at Graham all this time.

"You like him don't you?"

"He's the mayor's man."

Ruby rolled her eyes. "So what if he is the mayor's man. He's been sweet on you for a while now Mac."

"Ruby nothing will become of it."

"Are you sure of that?" Ruby asked raising an eyebrow.

Mac looked down. She was lying to her friend. She knew that. But she didn't know if Graham had feelings for her or not. Of course he had been sweet on her. He had been for a while now, behind Regina's back and Regina had not known. It had been between the two of them. Of course Ruby would know, she always caught signs of things like that. It was always like her sixth sense or something.

"Now if you excuse me while you think about what I said… I got to get back to work." She said patting Mac on the shoulder getting right back to work like she was supposed to do.

Mac rubbed her forehead. Ruby always did like to over-think things. She listened around her and heard Mary Margaret who happened to be on a date as well.

"Um, where were we? Something about you wanting fifteen kids?"Dr. Whale asked looking at Mary Margaret.

"No! Good lord, no. I meant in my class where I teach. You'll meet them tomorrow. They're coming to the hospital as part of the volunteer Outreach Program." Mary Margaret said shaking her head. That was outrageous that Dr. Whale thought that she wanted that many kids.

"Oh, yeah. That's a great program." Dr. Whale said nodding his head. He should have known that she didn't want that many kids. That was his sex crazed mind that made him think like that.

"I mean, obviously I don't want fifteen kids of my own. Um, I mean, not that I don't want kids. I do. I want kids, marriage, true love… I want it all. That that of course is…."

Dr. Whale was ignoring her and was too busy looking at Ruby who was cleaning off a table. He was taken by her, she hardly wore anything that covered her legs often. She always had shown her legs like this and it was something that always distracted him and he approved of it. He truly did.

She turned her head and saw this. "Wildly inappropriate for me to discuss on a first date."

"Hm?"

"Ruby!" She shouted for her friend. She couldn't deal with this, not on a first date. This date sucked and she needed to end it quickly. She needed to get out of this bad date, so she was just going to end it while she was still ahead of the game.

"Yes, Mary Margaret?" Ruby asked looking up from the table that she was cleaning off.

Mary Margaret sighed. "Check, please."

Ruby nodded her head and went to go and get the check for Mary Margaret.

"A bad date for Mary Margaret?" Mac asked softly.

Ruby nodded her head. She hated to see a date go down the drain, she really did. Mary Margaret deserved better than this.

"Dr. Whale is a pervert." Mac said shaking her head. "She would have been better off with someone else. Anyone else that doesn't stare at women like they are a piece of meat."

Ruby patted Mac's hand. "I know what you mean. Stick around. I'll walk you home."

Mac nodded her head. "Yeah sure."

"Maybe a girl's night tonight?" Ruby grinned the idea being a good one in her mind.

"You know what happens." Mac shook her head, knowing that the idea was a bad one.

Ruby gave her a cheeky smile. "Oh don't deny it. You didn't hate it."

"Last time you gave me bright red streaks and Leroy had a fit." Mac reminded Ruby about what had happened the last time that Ruby had stayed over.

"Oh come on… Please?" She said pouting a bit. "I want to try something."

Mac let out a sigh. "Okay. Okay."

"Okay." Ruby said with a smile before heading over to Mary Margaret with the check.

OUAT

Mary Margaret walked down the street and saw Emma in her little yellow beat up punch bug. "Hey. You okay?" She asked concerned about Emma's well being.

"Oh, in the world of tight spots I've been in, crashing in my car doesn't even rank in the top ten." Emma explained to her. She had been in worse places than that.

"You're sleeping here?"

"Till I find a place." Emma said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"You decided to stay. For Henry." Mary Margaret guessed with a small smile.

"Yeah, I guess. This town doesn't seem to have any vacancies. None, actually. Is that normal."

"Must be the curse."

"Why are you out so late?" Emma asked raising an eyebrow looking at her.

"Well, I'm a teacher, not a nun. I had a date."

"From the looks of things, it went well."

"As well as they ever do." Mary Margaret said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Tell me he at least paid."

Mary Margaret hummed at that.

"Ew." Emma scrunched her nose at the thought that Mary Margaret had paid for dinner.

"Well, guess if true love was easy, we'd all have it. You know, if things get cramped, I do have a spare room." Mary Margaret said offering to Emma with a small smile hoping that Emma would maybe take her up on the offer.

"Thanks. I'm not really the roommate type. It's just not my thing. I do better on my own." Emma explained to her.

"Well, goodnight. Good luck with Henry."

"Yeah…" Emma said softly as she watched Mary Margaret walk down the street. She was surprised that Mary Margaret offered her a room to stay in. She heard laughing and turned her head. She saw Ruby walking with Mac heading towards she supposed where Mac lived in town.

Mac saw Emma. "Don't you have a place to stay Emma?" She asked softly in concern. She always cared about people's well beings even though she was timid and shy.

"I'm fine. I've been in worse spots."

"Sleeping in a car… that can't be too comfortable. Are you sure that you wouldn't want to crash on my couch for the night?"

"Thanks for the offer MacKenzie, but you hardly know me." Emma said looking at the platinum blonde haired woman.

"I feel like I can trust you. It's not like you're going to hurt me. Besides you're Henry's real mother and he trusts you…"

"It's nice for the offer, but I'll be fine."

"Okay." Mac said with a small smile.

Ruby linked her arm with Mac's. "Now no more yammering I got work to do on you."

Mac looked at Ruby shyly. "You aren't going to go overboard are you?"

"Oh Missy you will be to die for."

"No red in my hair. Leroy was pretty upset about it."

"I won't do it again. I promise."

Mac let out a sigh. "Okay."

OUAT

Henry was in the room with John Doe. He went to touch his face when Mary Margaret came into the room.

"Henry. We could really use your help with the decorations."

"Is Mr. Doe going to be okay, Miss Blanchard?" Henry asked looking at his teacher concerned.

"His name's not John Doe, honey. That's just what they call people when they don't know who they are." Mary Margaret explained to Henry.

"Do you know who he is?" Henry asked curiously.

"Nope. Just bring him flowers on my rounds." She said with a small smile.

"What's wrong with him?"

"I don't know. He's been like this as long as I've been volunteering." She explained to him. She really wished she knew what was wrong with him. "Same way with Mac when she comes and makes her rounds with her paintings."

"When is does she make her rounds. And does he have any friends of family?"

"Soon. And no one's claimed him."

"So, he's all alone."

"Yeah… it's quite sad."

"You sure you don't know him?"

"Course I'm sure. Come on. You shouldn't be in here." Mary Margaret told him ushering him out of the room.

OUAT

Henry and Emma are at Henry's little caste.

"I found your father… Prince Charming." Henry said with a smile.

"Henry…" Emma said giving him a slight tone of warning.

"He's in the hospital, in a coma. See the scar? He has one, too." Henry explained.

"So? Lots of people have scars." Emma tried to explain to him.

"In the same place. Don't you see what this means? The curse is keeping them apart with the coma. Now they're stuck without each other. We have to tell Miss Blanchard we found her Prince Charming." Henry said looking at his mother.

"Okay, kid. Telling someone that their soul-mate is in a coma is probably not helpful. Not having a happy ending is painful enough, but giving someone unrealistic hope is far worse." Emma said shaking her head.

"But what if I'm right? We know who they are. Now they have to know."

"And how do you intend to make that happen?" She questioned looking at him. She really wanted to know what he had in mind of trying to get them to remember who they were.

"By reminding him. We have to get her to read their story to John Doe. Then, maybe, he'll remember who he is."

"Okay." Emma said looking at Henry. She wasn't about to crush his hope of thinking about this curse.

"Okay?"

"Yeah, we'll do it. But we'll do it my way. Let me ask her." Emma said looking at him. She wanted to do it her way. It would probably work out for the best it they did it her way. It probably wouldn't end so badly if they did it her way.

OUAT

Mary Margaret is making cocoa for both her an Emma. "You want me to read to a coma patient?"

"Henry thinks it will help him remember who he was." Emma said looking at Mary Margaret.

"And, who does he think he was?" Mary Margaret asked sitting Emma's cocoa in front of her looking at Emma.

"Prince Charming."

"And if I'm Snow White, he thinks me… and him…"

"He has a very active imagination, which is the point. I can't talk him out of his beliefs, so we need to show him. Play along, do what he say and maybe, just maybe."

"He'll see that fairy tales are just that. That there's no such things as love at first sight or fist kiss. He'll see reality."

"Something like that." Emma admitted.

"Well, sadly this plan is rather genius." Mary Margaret said with a sad nod of her head. "We get him to the truth without hurting him."

"I told him that we will all meet tomorrow for breakfast at Granny's. And you will give a full report."

"Well, I suppose I'll get ready for my date. I guess I'll have to do all of the talking." She said with a small smile. This didn't sound half bad. At least this wouldn't be as bad as the date with Dr. Whale not in the least bit.

OUAT

Mac was busy doing her rounds putting new paintings in patients bedrooms. She saw Mary Margret coming into the hospital. "Mary Margaret I thought you weren't coming in tonight?"

Mary Margaret smiled shyly. "I was coming into visit the coma patient."

"Oh?"

"To read."

"They can hear." Mac said with a smile. "And that is awfully nice of you Mary Margaret. I will be stopping by there shortly with a new painting."

"What did you paint for the room?"

"Oh you know me Mary Margaret I never show the paintings. You see them on your rounds."

"And they are glorious every-time that I see them." Mary Margaret nodded her head smiling at Mac. It was true, she really did love Mac's art work.

Mac chuckled lightly.

"You are an amazing painter."

"I'm glad that you think that." Mac said shyly ducking her head.

OUAT

Mary Margaret had gone and gotten Dr. Whale when something had happened in John Doe's room. "No, I'm sure he's waking up. He… He grabbed my hand." She explained to him. There was no way that she was imagining that happened.

"Everything is steady." He said once they had gone into the room. "The same as it's always been. What were doing doing in here?" He questioned looking at her.

"Oh, I was just reading him a story." She told him.

"Oh. Well perhaps you, um, dozed off. Perhaps you imagined it."

"No, I didn't imagine anything." She said shaking her head. She knew that she hadn't. She knew that was true. There was now way that was true.

"Miss Blanchard, I can only tell you what I see, which is nothing. Sometimes there are minor fluctuations in reading. Perhaps you heard the machine register something and misunderstood? Look, why don't you go home, get some rest. If anything changes, I'll call you, okay?"

Mary Margaret left unsure of what to think of what was going on.

Dr. Whale dialed a number.

"Yes?"

"It's Dr. Whale. You told me to call you if there was ever a change in John Doe. Something's happened."

"What?"

"One of our volunteers said he grabbed her. And there was a slight fluctuation in brain activity."

"And who was this volunteer?"

" Mary Margaret Blanchard."

OUAT

Snow White was gathering various things into a bag. She put a necklace around her neck that had a bottle on it. She slung the bag over her shoulder. She began to walk a short distance through the wood only to be caught in a net.

Charming came out of his hiding spot laughing. "I told you I'd find you. No matter what you do, I will always find you." He said with a smirk.

"Is this the only way you can catch a woman? By entrapping her?" Snow White asked in a huff.

"It's the only way to catch thieving scum."

"Aren't you a real 'prince charming'." She said rolling her eyes.

"I have a name you know."

"Don't care. Charming suits you. Now cut me down, Charming."

"I'll release you, when you return the leather pouch you stole with my jewels."

"Not the jewelry type."

"Indeed. I noticed."

"What is that supposed to mean?" She snapped looking at him. "Are you insulting me?"

"No, quite right. My apologies. How dare I cast aspersions at the person who robbed me? Where are my jewels?"

"I sold them."

"What?" He asked in shock.

"What do you care? Don't you have a palace full of treasures somewhere?"

"These were special. Among them was a ring that belonged to my mother. A ring I was about to give…"

"The nag with the nag with a bad attitude? That's what this is about?"

"She's my fiance."

"Good luck with that. You must be getting something impressive to have agreed to that union."

"Excuse me?"

"I know how this works. True love? It doesn't exist. It's all arranged marriages and business transactions. There's not such thing as love at first sight or first kiss. Let me guess… her kingdom wants to takeover yours and this is, what, a last ditch effort to avoid war?"

"This is not a take over. It's a merger, and quite frankly, it's none of your business. Now, this is what's going to happen."

She hummed at the thought.

"I'm going to cut you down and you will take me to whoever has my jewels and then, you're going to get my ring back."

She hummed. "And why would I do that?"

"Because you don't want me to tell anyone who you really are." He said with a smirk he said showing her a piece of paper that showed her it was her wanted poster. "Show White. Help me get my ring back, or I turn you over to the Queen's forces. And I have a feeling the Queen's not as 'charming' as I am."

"Well, I wouldn't want to stand in the way of your getting true love." Snow said rolling her eyes at the thought of him getting his true love when she wasn't getting her own true love story.

He cut her down.

OUAT

Henry and Emma were sitting in Granny's diner.

"Thanks for the shirt." Emma said smoothing out the shirt she wore. "Hey, is this your mother's?"

"She'll never notice." Henry said shaking his head. It was true, half of the time his mother didn't notice half of he stuff that he had done. She hadn't notice when he wandered off with MacKenzie.

"Where does she think you are, anyways?"

"Playing Whack-A-Mole."

"And she bought that?" Emma asked in surprise. She had to admit that this kid was pretty good at coming up with some pretty good lies to his mother, but she couldn't help but wonder if Regina was buying them due to the fact that Regina was a smart woman.

"She wants to believe it, so she does." Henry said shrugging his shoulders.

"Oh, imagine that."

Mary Margaret entered the diner.

"She's here."

"Hey don't get your hopes up. We're just connection started, okay?" Emma told him.

"He's remembering!"

"What did the doctor say?" Emma asked looking at Mary Margaret.

"That I imagined it, but I'm not crazy. I know it happened." She said shaking her head.

"We have to go back. You have to read to him again." Henry said with a nod of his head.

"Let's go."

"Wait, wait what?" Asked Emma in confusion.

"If I got though to him, if we made a connection."

"You don't believe…." Emma asked looking at Mary Margaret.

"That he's Prince Charming? Of course not. Somehow, some way, I touched him."

OUAT

Henry, Emma, and Mary Margret returned to the hospital seeing Graham with MacKenzie.

"You're right... he's waking up." Henry said with a smile.

Graham looked at Henry. "Henry, you should stay back."

"What's going on? Is it John Doe? Is he okay?" Mary Margaret asked in concern worried about John Doe, after all she had touched him.

"He's missing." Graham explained to them. "He had knocked MacKenzie out of the way." He pointed out the young woman who was busy getting her stitches checked by one of the nurses. He winced when he saw her wincing at the touch of the nurse touching her stitches.

Mary Margaret, Henry, and Emma saw Regina in John Doe's room and she saw them.

She walked over to them. "What the hell are you doing here? And you..." She said looking at Henry. "I thought you were at the arcade. Now you're lying to me?" She didn't like the fact that Henry was lying to her.

"What happened to John Doe? Did someone take him?" Mary Margaret asked looking at Graham concerned about the man that she had read the story to.

"We don't know yet. His IV's were ripped out, but there's no sign of for sure there's a struggle. But MacKenzie was hit in the head with something, but she doesn't remember what happened." Graham explained to them putting his hands in his jacket.

"What did you do?" Henry asked looking at Regina with narrowed eyes.

"You think I had something to do with this?"

"It is curious that the Mayor is here."

"I'm here because I'm his emergency contact."

"You know him?"

"I found him. On the side of the road years ago with no ID. I brought him here." Regina explained to them.

"Mayor Mills saved his life." Dr. Whale explained to them with a nod of his head.

"Will he be okay?" Mary Margaret asked hoping that he would be okay out there.

"Okay? The man's been on feeding tubes for years on constant supervision. He needs to get back here right away or, quite honestly, 'okay' might be a pipe dream."

"Well then, let's quit yapping and start looking." Emma said putting her hands in her pockets.

"That's what we're doing? Just stay out of this, dear. And since I clearly can't keep you away from my son, I guess I'm just going to have to keep my son away from you. Enjoy my shirt, because that's all you're getting. Sheriff, find John Doe. You heard Dr. Whale. Time is precious." She grabbed Henry's arm taking him away from Emma.

Graham looked at the doctor. "Doctor, how long between your rounds since you last saw him?"

"Twelve hours or so." Dr. Whale explained to him. "That was when Miss Stone was here." He pointed at MacKenzie. "She was hanging up paintings what she had left. I left her here because she putting paintings up like she normally does."

"Then that's what we need to account for..." He said with a nod of his head.

"Leroy and Walter would have the tape of what have happened." MacKenzie explained to them. She knew that Leroy and Walter would have the tapes because they worked the night shift. That was something that they were supposed to keep an eye on at night time. Well mainly Walter due to the fact that Leroy had a tenancy to drink during the night shifts because of well issues that she only knew.

The four of them walked into the security room.

Walter and Leroy were in there waiting for them inside of the room.

"You two were the only employees on the floor last night. And you saw nothing?" Graham questioned them wanting to know if they were the only ones and if they had seen nothing on the tapes.

Walter shook his head. "Not a thing other than Leroy's sister, putting up painting's up like she normally does." He pointed out to them. It was true, he only had seen Mac putting up her paintings in the rooms like she normally did and that was it, nothing else.

"Did anyone walk by?" Emma asked.

"I didn't see nothing." Leroy said shaking his head.

"Well that's helpful." Mac said letting out a soft sigh feeling a slight headache coming on.

"Miss Blanchard, was there anything unusual you saw during your trip with your class?" Graham asked looking at Mary Margaret.

"I don't think so." She said looking at him.

"We're looking at the wrong tape." Emma stated looking at the tape more closely. "This is the ward where Henry's class put up decorations. If this really was the tape from last night, we'd see the banners the kids hung."

"Tch." Leroy looked over at Walter. "You fell asleep again." He was about fed up with the fact that Walter kept falling asleep on the job.

Walter looked at him with wide eyes. "You selling me out?" He was surprised that his best friend was selling him out on the job. Granted yes he fell , but it wasn't his fault that he had fallen asleep. It just happened because he hadn't gotten much sleep the night before.

"I ain't getting fired for this." Leroy said crossing his arms looking at Walter.

"Oh for the love of god." MacKenzie said shaking her head. "Leroy you aren't going to get fired for this. This happens from time to time."

"At least I don't drink on the job." Walter pointed out, rolling his eyes.

"Gentlemen, enough. Where's the real tape?" Graham asked looking at the two of them.

The real tape was put into the player.

They saw the real John Doe get up and shove MacKenzie knocking her into the table knocking her out and walking out the door.

"He walked out alone. He's okay." Mary Margaret said softly.

"Four hours ago." Emma said looking at the time stamp. "Where does this door lead?"

"The woods." Leroy said with a nod of his head. He looked at his sister. "Are you alright Kenzie?" He was concerned about her. After all she was his little sister and he was always looking out for her.

Mac nodded head. "I'm fine. Just a little banged up." She said softly. She didn't mind the fact that she gotten smacked around.

OUAT

Prince Charming was traveling with Snow White. "I thought you weren't the jewelry type. What's around your neck?"

"Don't worry about it." She stated as she kept walking.

He took the necklace from around her neck.

"Careful!" She yelled. "It's a weapon."

"Dust? What kind of dust?"

"Fairy dust."

"I thought that was a good thing?"

"When it comes from a good fairy. This stuff." She said taking it from him. "Is deadly. It transforms the most fearsome of adversaries into a form that's easily squashed."

"Then why didn't you use it on me?" He questioned, tilting his head to the side.

"Cause your not worth it. It's very hard to come by. I'm saving it for a special someone."

"Ah, the Queen. You got a lot of anger there, don't you, Snow?"

"The charges on her posters are lies. It didn't stop her from sending her huntsman to rip out my heart." She said shaking her head.

"What happened?"

"Well, not everyone is a soulless royal. He took pity on me and let me go. I've been hiding in the forest ever since. Trying to amass enough fortune to leave this place. Escape to another realm. Someone isolate. Where I can never be hurt."

"Sounds lonely." Prince Charming admitted, it sounded quiet lonely to him.

"No, lonelier than an arranged marriage.

"At least I don't prey on the innocent."

"Up until now, I've only stolen from the Queen. I thought your carriage was one of hers. No one else ever uses that road."

"I took the scenic route."

"Well, lucky for me. All I'm doing, Charming, is what it takes to survive. She wants me dead."

"So, what you do it incur that much wrath?"

"She blames me for ruining her life."

"Did you?"

"Yes."

They continued to walk down the path until they came upon the river.

"I'm thirsty. May I?"

"Sure. Make it quick."

They both took a drink from the river.

Prince Charming had his back turned to her.

Snow hit him and pushed him into the river. She dug through the bag and found the pouch. She ran into the forest and got back onto the road. She ran into the guard that was the Queen's guard. She knew that she was in trouble again.

"Huh, look who we found. There's no where to hide. The Queen wants your heart. And we're not going to disappoint her." The guard said looking at her.

OUAT

Emma, Graham, Mary Margaret, and MacKenzie walked through the woods searching for John Doe.

"Are you certain that you want to be coming along with us MacKenzie?" Graham asked looking back at Mac with a concerned look across his face. He didn't want her to come along if she was that hurt. He didn't want her to be pushing herself so far that she would do more damage to herself. He really did care about her, but he didn't want to show his concern about her in front of this new woman in town. After all Emma could go to Regina and point out the fact that he was showing care to MacKenzie.

"It's just some stitches." Mac said pushing the fact that she had gotten shoved by the John Doe.

Emma noticed something that Graham saw. "What is it?"

"The trail runs out here." Graham said looking at Emma.

"You sure? Because I thought tracking was one of your skills?" Emma said crossing her arms.

"Just give me a second. This is my world. I got it." Graham told her.

"Right... sorry."

"What does he mean. 'His world.'? Isn't finding people your thing too?"

"Sure. Just, people I find usually run places like Vegas. Not a lot hit the woods." Emma explained to Mary Margaret.

Mac put her hands into her pockets. "Well... that would explain why he said his world."

"That's an interesting job... finding people. How did you fall into it?" Mary Margaret asked looking at Emma. "Looking for people is just what I've done. As long as I can remember."

"What made you start? Your parents? Henry told me that... that you were from a similar situation to his own. Did you ever find them?"

"Depends on who you ask." Emma said shrugging her shoulders.

They heard a crack of a branch behind them causing them to turn and see Henry running down the hill.

"Henry!" Mary Margaret said in shock looking at him with wide eyes.

"Did you find him yet?" Henry asked in wonder hoping that they found him.

"No not yet. You shouldn't be here." Emma said looking down at her son.

"Your mother will be very upset that you're here Henry you know that. She will have our heads if she knows that you are here with us."

"I can help." Henry said pleading with them. "I know where he's going."

"And where's that?" Mary Margaret asked she questioned looking at him.

"He's looking for you."

OUAT

Snow was slammed up against a tree.

A guard came up with a dagger in his hand. "Hold her still." He said holding onto the dagger. He suddenly collapsed dead.

Charming came from behind the tree fighting with the other guard.

Snow ran towards the fallen guard's horse and took the weapon that was there. She fought the guard that was on horse back.

The Prince defeated the guard and shot the guard that was taking off with her with an arrow. "Are you alright?"

She looked at him with wide eyes. "You saved me."

"Seemed like the honorable thing to do." He said looking at her. "Are you ready?"

"For what?" She asked softly.

"My jewels."

"Right, you've got a wedding to get to. The trolls I sold them to are just beyond the next ridge. We need to be careful."

"For what? Of trolls?"

"You've clearly never met one." Snow White said shaking her head.

"Aren't they just little people?" Prince Charming asked looking at her.

"You're thinking wharves. Show a little respect. They'll cut your hand off sooner than they'll shake it."

"Well, then let's get this over with."

"Yes, we've both got places to be. So let's go."

"You have your lonely little corner of solitude to find."

"And you have your ring-less fiancee to appease."

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The five of them were still hunting for John Doe.

"You're the one who woke him up. You're the last one he saw. He wants to find you." Henry explained to Mary Margaret.

"Henry, it's not about me. I just... I think he's lost and confused. He's been in a coma a long time."

"But he loves you. You need to stop chasing him, and let him find you."

"Kid. You need to go home. Where's your mom? She's going to kill me and then you... and then me again."

"She dropped me at the house. Then, went right out."

"Well, we need to get you back immediately."

"No!"

"Guys!" Graham called out to them.

"My god." Mac said picking up the band carefully into her hand.

"Is that..."

"Blood." Emma confirmed.

"He has to be somewhere around here then." Mac said softly. "He can't be too far away if he is bleeding."

Graham looked over at Mac and saw the look that was upon her face. The look of concern that was etched across her face. He could tell that even thought that she was hit that she cared about what happened to this person.

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Charming and Snow White road on horseback to the bridge that Snow had been talking about. They got off of the horse and Snow sent the horse away.

"Trolls don't like horses." She explained to him. "We walk from here. Follow me and keep quiet."

"Where are they?" Charming asked looked at her.

"Oh they're here." She told him looking over at him. She said leaving gold coins at the the edge of the bridge.

Several trolls climbed up the side of the bridge confronting them.

"It's fine I know them." She told him, knowing that Charming was reaching for his sword. She didn't want him to grab his sword, it would end badly.

"Why're you here? I thought we were done." The troll said looking at her with narrowed eyes.

"I want to make another trade."

"I'm not talking in front of him. Who is this guy."

"No, he's with me."

"Oh, that's good. With you. That makes it all fine."

"He's no one. Look, I want to buy back the jewels I sold you."

"Who is he?"

"I said don't worry about it. Look, I'll give you back all your money. Just give me the ring. You can keep everything else."

Another troll takes out the pouch and goes to give it to the prince.

"Thank you. We appreciate the help." Charming said.

"He's too eager. This is a setup."

"It's not." Snow said looking at them in shock. This was never a set up.

"He's a royal!"

The troll grabs Snow.

Charming grabbed his sword. "Let her go!" He shouted.

"No!" Snow shouted at the troll. "You can trust me. Look, you can trust me. If I wanted to set you up I would have done it the first time."

"The time is dealing is done. Seize him."

They grab him. The trolls check Charming's bag and pat him down. They take out the fairy dust and throw it aside. Honorable poster of Snow White.

"Snow White. Quite a reward. Take her."

The prince picks up his sword off of the ground and attacks them.

Snow White got away.

"Go! I'm right behind you."

Snow runs, but grabbed the fairy dust on the way.

He fought with the trolls, but was having the lower hand in the battle. There was no way that he was going to be able to win this battle.

"Follow me! They don't know the forest like I do."

"Snow White." A woman called out to her.

Snow White stopped when she saw a woman coming out from the trees dressed in a white cloak. "Who are you?"

The woman shook her head looking at her with bright purple eyes. "Never mind who I am. You are leading him to his death." She told Snow softly.

"What do you mean?" She asked softly looking at the white cloaked woman in confusion.

"He still has a lot more to do in his life." She told Snow with a soft smile coming to her lips.

Snow ran back to Charming.

"Royal Blood is the sweetest of all."

Snow used the fairy dust that she had and transformed the trolls into bugs.

Charming looked at Snow with wide eyes. "You... you saved me."

Snow smiled a small sad smile. In a way she was thankful for that white cloaked woman for talking to her. "It's the honorable thing to do."

"What about your special someone?" Charming asked in confusion.

"I'll think of something else."

"Thank you." He said in a thankful tone.

"Anyway, how could I let Prince Charming die?"

"I told you... I have a name. It's James."

"It's nice to meet you James." She said with a small smile. "We should go. There may be more of them coming."

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The five of them were searching the woods. They came across the toll bridge.

"Where is he? Can you see him?" Mary Margaret asked Graham.

"Mary... You need to calm down." MacKenzie said looking at her friend as she carefully as she walked slowly over the wooded terrain.

"The trail dies at the water line." Graham explained to them.

"Graham." MacKenzie said looking at him.

"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!" Mary Margaret shouted in shock, her hands cupped over her mouth in shock.

Graham pulled out his walkietalkie. "I need an ambulance! At the toll bridge, as soon as possible."

Mary Margaret, Emma, Graham, and Mac pulled him back onto the shore line.

"No, no, no, no, no! No, no, no! I just found you!" Mary Margaret said moving some of his hair away from his face.

"It's going to be okay." Emma told Mary Margaret.

"Help's coming." Graham told Mary Margaret softly.

"Graham's right Mary." Mac said with a small smile.

"Is he okay?" Henry asked looking with wide eyes.

"Henry..." Emma said grabbing him to make sure that he didn't get too close to John Doe.

"Is he going to be okay?"

"Henry, don't look. Okay? Don't look."

"Come back to us. Come back to me." Mary Margaret began to start CPR on him.

John Doe coughed up water. "You saved me."

"She did it. She did it ! She woke him up." Henry said happily, glad that Mary Margaret was able to wake him up.

"Yeah, kid.. She did."

"Thank you." He said softly.

"Who are you?" She asked, looking down at him with soft eyes.

"I don't know."

"It's okay. You're going to be okay." She told him softly.

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John Doe was brought back to the hospital.

"Watch your back. Coming through!" The nurse shouted.

"We got it from here."

The five of them watched from the window.

Mac let out a sigh of relief.

Leroy came running up to his sister. "What you did was crazy." He said looking at her. He didn't like the fact that she had left the hospital. She should have stayed here and should have stayed in the hospital and stayed there and waited for him to get off of work.

"Sorry Leroy." She apologized to him. She didn't like the fact that she was being treated as a child.

Kathryn his wife, burst into his room rushing to his side. "David! David, is that you?"

"Excuse me, ma'am." Dr. Whale said in surprise.

"Oh my god..."

"Ma'am, you can't be in here. Please, you can't be here right now."

"David..."

"You can't be here, ma'am. Can you wait over there for a second okay?" He asked moving her over somewhere else.

"Who is that?" Mary Margaret asked looking in concern.

Regina walked up behind them. "His wife."

Mac looked back at Regina with wide eyes. Now this could be the cruelest thing that Regina could have done.

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Snow White and Charming were walking through the forest together.

"So... Well, you probably want this." He said giving her back the gold.

"Right the gold. Thank you. And, um, you can't get married without this." She gave him the pouch back with the jewel

He took the ring out. "Ah. I know... not your style."

"Well, there's only one way to find out." She said snatching the ring from him trying it on. "Yeah, not me at all. I'm sure your fiancee will love it." She said handing it back to him.

"Yeah. Yeah, if you need more, you can have the rest. The ring is all I require."

"Oh, no. I'm good thanks. We both got what we wanted."

"Well, wherever you're going, be careful. If... if you need anything..."

"You'll find me."

"Always." He said with a small smile appearing on his lips.

"I almost believe that." She said with a small chuckle.

"Well goodbye, Snow White."

"Goodbye, Prince Charming."

"I told you... it's James."

"Nah, still like Charming better." She said before going off in her own way leaving him.

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Regina looked at Henry, Emma, Mary Margaret, and MacKenzie who were out in the hallway with her. "His name is David Nolan. And that's his wife, Kathryn. And the joy on her face, well, it's put me in quite in the forgiving mood. We'll talk about your insubordination later. Do you know what insubordination means? It mean your grounded." She said looking at Henry.

Henry looked at MacKenzie hoping that she would be able to help him out of this.

MacKenzie shook her head knowing that she wouldn't be able to help him out of this grounding. There was no way that she would be able to help him out of Regina's wrath once you were in it you were stuck in it permanently. There was no way to get out of it. You were stuck.

Katheryn came out of David's room and walked up to Regina. "Thank you. Thank you for finding my David." She said in a thankful tone.

"Um, I... I don't understand. You didn't... You didn't know that he was here in a coma?" Mary Margaret asked looking at Katheryn.

"A few years ago, David and I were not getting along. It was my fault, I know that now. I was difficult and unsupportive. I told him if had didn't like things, he could leave. And he did. And I didn't stop him. It was the worst mistake I ever made."

"I assumed he'd left town all this time. And now I know why I never heard from him. Now I get to do what I've wanted to do forever... say I'm sorry. Now we got a second chance." Kathryn said with a small smile.

"That's wonderful." Mary Margaret said forcing a smile onto her lips.

Mac held onto Mary Margaret's hand knowing that this was hurting her.

Dr. Whale came out. "Well, it's something of a miracle."

"He's okay?" Kathryn said looking at him.

"Ah, physically, he's on the mend, um, his memory is another issue. It may take time, if at all."

"What brought him back?" Mary Margaret asked looking at Dr. Whale in confusion.

"That's the thing. There's no explanation. Something just clicked in him."

"He just got up and decided to shove MacKenzie and go for a stroll?" Emma asked raising her eyebrow.

"He woke up and he was delirious and his first instinct was to go find something, I guess."

"Someone." Henry corrected.

"Can I see him?" Kathryn asked looking at Dr. Whale.

"Yeah of course." Dr. Whale said nodding his head.

Kathryn walked into David's room.

Regina looked at Henry. "Henry, let's go."

"Wait, my backpack." Henry ran and grabbed his bag. He leaned up to Mary Margaret. "Don't believe them. You're the one he was looking for."

"Henry..."

"He was going to the Troll Bridge. It's like the end of the story."

"Henry, he was going there because it's the last thing I read to him."

"No, it's because you belong together."

"Henry." Regina called for him again.

Henry quickly followed Regina out the door.

Emma looked at the two women. "I will be right back."

"Go do what you need to do Emma." Mac said with a small smile.

Emma nodded her head and walked out of the hospital. "Madam Mayor!"

"Wait by the car." Regina told Henry.

Henry walked towards the car leaving the two of them alone to talk. "Miss Swan, I let you off the hook back there. Don't press it."

"I'm sorry, but Mrs. Nolan? Kind of feels like her story could be a load of crap. All this time, there's a John Doe lying around in a coma and nobody puts it in the news, nobody goes looking. Something's not right here."

"Well, what else would make sense to you? Why would Miss Nolan lie? Do you think I cast a spell on her?"

"I think it's rather strange you've been his emergency contact all these yeas and you only found her now." Emma pointed out looking at her crossing her arms.

"Well, this town is bigger than you know. It's entire possible to get lost here. It's entirely possibly for bad things to happen." Regina said looking at her giving her a smug smile.

"And just when it's convenient you manage to solve the mystery?"

"Thanks to you. That tape you found was a stroke of genius. So, we went back and looked at past tapes. Turns out Mr. Doe's been talking in his sleep. He's been calling out for a Kathryn. After that, it wasn't hard to put the pieces together. And here I thought you and Mary Margaret would be pleased. True love won out. So bask in the

moment, dear. Were it not for you two, they would have their lives completely alone. That's why I'm willing to forgive your incessant rudeness. But all this has reminded me of something oh-so very important. How grateful I am to have Henry. Because not having someone? Well, that's the worst curse imaginable."

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"Mary Margaret?" Mac asked looking at her sadly.

Mary Margaret looked at her.

"I have to get to work."

Graham looked at Mac.

"Oh... I will let you go. I'll be fine."

"You sure?" Mac asked concerned, about her friend.

Mary Margaret nodded her head.

"Okay." She said softly.

"I will give you a ride to work." Graham said giving her a smile. She liked walking it always gave her something to do. She loved feeling the wind going through her hair. It made her feel somewhat at peace. She didn't have nothing to worry about in the world. But maybe the wandering eye of the pawn shop owner Mr. Gold.

Mac looked at him with wide eyes. "Graham you don't have to. Won't Regina, you know... get upset?"

Graham shrugged his shoulders. "I just want to give you a lift to work. I know you don't drive. You walk everywhere you go. And Leroy would be upset if you fainted going to work."

Mac bit her lip shyly. She wasn't so sure of him taking her to work. She was actually afraid of him taking her to work. After all if Regina saw Regina would be in a jealous rage and Mac would be in Regina's warpath. And that would not be a good thing and that was something that Mac didn't want to be caught in the middle of. She also knew that Leroy was going to be upset with her if she passed out again on her way to work since he had a working car and he was the one that used it most of the time and she didn't like driving and she was the one that preferred to walk.

"You should take him up on his offer Mac." Mary Margaret said with a small smile.

Mac nodded her head. "Okay." She said softly. "As long as you think Regina doesn't mind it."

"She won't. She would be concerned if you passed out again on your way to work."

"How did she find out about it?"

Graham rubbed the back of his neck. "I may have told her about it."

"Why would you do that?" MacKenzie was surprised that he had told Regina had told her about it.

"She asked how you were." Graham told her admitting the truth. He really didn't want her walking alone, not truly. He was more afraid that something was going to end up happening to her. He wouldn't really admit it to Regina that he cared about Mac because he knew that would condemn him. But he knew that she needed help, he knew that Mr. Gold had taken some kind of interest in her and that bothered him quite a bit. He wasn't sure how to take it. Someone Mr. Gold's age shouldn't be bothering a young woman like MacKenzie.

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Mary Margaret was at home fiddling with the ring that was on her finger. She had seen David and Kathryn hugging one another in the hospital. It wasn't good, it stabbed her in the heart. She heard a knock on the door. She carefully got up and answered the door. "Emma."

"Sorry to bother you so late. Is that spare room still available?" Emma asked softly, hoping that the room was still available to her.

Mary Margaret nodded her head and allowed Emma into her home. She knew that Emma needed a place to stay instead of being inside of her car all night. It was the only thing that mattered right now.

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This is the end of chapter 3. I hope that you guys enjoy this. Please let me know what you think. I want to know what you guys would like to see in upcoming chapters. I hope that you guys like how MacKenzie is coming along. Granted she is shy and other things but when she is around friends well... you can see how she is. Please leave a review and let me know.