**Hello, this is 23a again, I hope you like this chapter, please read and review!**
Henry focused, as hard as he could. His grandpa had said that focusing was very important to magic. He was practicing a simple color changing spell. He looked at the paper, and it turned from white to blue right before his eyes. He grinned. Now to try it on something a bit more difficult. He imagined in his mind Hook's eyeliner, the bottle he kept. Then he imagined the liquid inside. This was long-range magic, which would be much more difficult. But Rumple had also told him that magic was about emotion, about who you were doing it for, and there wasn't much in him stronger than his love for his mom and his desire to protect her from that man. The liquid changed color, turning a perfect fluorescent pink. He came back into reality. Man,that was tiring. But not enough. He had more to do.
In the meantime, he flipped through the storybook again. He saw a scene with Belle chained to a wall - must be when Regina captured her. Hook came in and asked her for information on how to kill Rumplestiltskin, and when she wouldn't give it, he whacked her in the head and knocked her unconscious. He was about to kill her, when his mom came in and stopped him. Henry seethed with anger. A man should not hit a lady, especially when she was chained up and defenseless.
Now he was even more determined to keep his mom away from the man. He ate lunch, went to hang out with some friends, and watched some TV, and then he looked at the clock. 5:50. Hook would be here in ten minutes. He concentrated on Hook - ugh, not a picture he wanted in his head, but it was worth it for his mom - and imagined the pirate's hair turning bright purple. And his coat green. His shirt red. His socks yellow. His shoes orange. And his skin... pink with golden polka dots. He collapsed on his bed, exhausted, but it was worth it.
OUAT OUAT
When the doorbell rang, Henry was already on the couch. Snow was at another Mommy & Me class with Neal, and Charming was upstairs reading a book. He sighed a sigh of relief when his mom came down; the red dress she was wearing tonight still didn't look like her, but it was much more appropriate than the previous two nights and didn't make her look ten. She opened the door to the insanely colorful clown and gasped.
"What is it love?", Hook asked. Henry grimaced at the use of the word. This wasn't love. This was infatuation. Emma reached for a mirror and showed him, scanning up and down. Henry grinned when Hook's eyes practically bugged out of his head. "Bloody hell! What is this?!"
"Um... don't know about the clothes", Emma said, "But you might want to get that skin checked out. Same time Tuesday?"
"Sure, love", Hook replied, and left.
Henry sighed. How had his mom not left the man yet? He needed to up his game. Then a spark occurred to him. Who was a master of pranks and ruining relationships? Regina! He had to return the book anyway. He ran upstairs, grabbed it, and set off to recruit another for Operation: Anaconda.
**Credits to the Guest reviewer for suggesting that Henry go to Regina. If you have any more suggestions for recruits, pranks, or ideas in general, please review or message me or Chrissy (emmacharming2) Thank you for reading!**