Hey guys! Its me, back at it with chapter 6! I can't believe I've come this far... If someone told me my first multi-chapter story would have 17,000 words with 1,300 views, 23 reviews, 15 follows, and 12 favorites in a little under a month, I wouldn't believe them. Especially since I only pursued writing on here because I wanted to be a Beta reader. I cannot thank you guys enough! I probably won't make a lot of stories, unless something interesting pops in my head.
Well, lets talk about this story now.
Sorry it's so late! I've been so busy.
I plan on finishing up the story in a few chapters. Soon after the Final battle. Also in the finale they mention Henry is 14, which means the show has only progressed 4 years in 6 seasons. Soooo i'm changing it so that its been 6 years instead of 4 (Henry being 16), because it has been for the rest of us.
I'll be starting with a few things before the beautiful CaptainSwan wedding including some much needed RegalBeliever family fluff! Enjoy!
Henry was taking a nap before the wedding. Bad idea.
Once again his dreams were plagued with various nightmares, some about the Final Battle, some about him even hurting his own family, or not being able to save them.
Wait... He doesn't recall taking a nap. What was he doing... 'Oh right I was recording what had happened the rest of the... Oh no. I must've had another episode. Wonderful. I thought those were done.' Apparently not. He can't get himself to wake up. He's on his knees, surrounded by darkness with piercing sounds ringing in his ears that resemble screams- he cant tell. He try's to block out the noise, to no prevail. Bringing his arms down in defeat he sees his hands are red. Red with... Blood. He starts to shake.
This isn't what he wanted.
He never wanted this.
He tries to scream but nothing comes out. Either that or it was drowned out by the others, he can't tell. 'Wake up wake up wake up... please wake up!' He yells at himself. The screams are deafening, then everything goes silent. He sees a light in the distance. He must be waking up. He runs as fast as he can towards the light but he starts to fall into the darkness-
"Henry you need to snap out of it!" Regina yells at him and his eyes flutter shut, making him slump forward on to his desk. She looks at what he wrote this time. At first its just the same symbols as before, but as she travels down the page, it turns into hurried scribbles of what looks like... Wake up? She had to admit it was a little ominous, even for her. "Hey Henry, come on, wake up." She says, rubbing his shoulder. He stirs and opens his eyes.
"Mom?"
"Hey, that was a pretty bad one."
"Tell me about it." He answers sardonically.
"Wanna talk about it?"
Here's his chance. He's been waiting for the right time to talk to her, but with all the Final Battle stuff going on he figured it wasn't as important.
"Yeah, actually I do. Well I don't, but I know it will help."
"Sometimes I forget you're just a teenager with all the wise things you say." Regina says, looking back on all the other times he seemed wise beyond his years.
"I guess with all the stuff that's happened over the past 6 years, you'd have to be a little wise by the end of it." He says and Regina smiles. "I'm not sure where to start..."
"The beginning is always a good place."
"Okay... Um, at first I was on my way home from my date with Violet, then i heard someone teleport behind me. At first I thought it was you but when I turned around, I saw it was her."
"The Black Fairy." Regina confirms.
"Yeah. She was talking about teaching me how to use my powers to their fullest extent, and that if i don't choose to come with her she would make me come... I didn't think anything of it at first, but she came and saw me again when I was at Grandma and Grandpa's apartment that night."
"The night Emma said you... tripped up the stairs?" He nods. "So it wasn't the stairs then." She adds although it wasn't really a question.
"Yeah... She uh kinda hit me because I was being cocky, but that's not the point. She paralyzed me and that's when she took my heart. She made sure I couldn't directly tell anyone so I had to get creative." You could see the motherly anger written on her face. But she doesn't say anything. "So after that, she made me try and steal the wand- as you know. So when you tied me up the next day she came to my room and said it we would tear each other apart on our own and that she would be back once she once everything is 'in place' whatever that meant. I tried to contact you guys but she forced me not to be able to use my phone."
'That little witch.' Regina thought. Her son was supposed to be safe there, but instead he was put in more danger. Henry continues.
"Once she came back she said it was time, and teleported me to a cell somewhere. So long story short I grabbed one of the candles on the floor, weakened the lock on the cell door, and ran. But then I saw a kid in a cell not to far from mine and I tried to help him but she found me and threw me up against the bars with magic. I got up and tried to punch her but she teleported behind me and dislocated my arm."
Shivering at the memory, he speaks almost emotionless and stares off at nothing in particular while speaking, and that worries her, also realizing how traumatic the experience must've been."Then she said instead of killing the boy herself she had an idea. She gave me a knife and told me if I didn't kill him she would torture him." He doesn't even register the fact that he's talking anymore. To him, he's just reliving the memories. "I-I couldn't do it- wouldn't do it. So I turned the knife around and threatened to kill myself i-instead."
His breaths are speeding up. Words becoming more frantic. "I-I tried but then she took the knife and stabbed me in the leg and she t-took him. Next thing I knew I was in another cell, and- and I started to hear screaming. It wouldn't stop and it w-went on for hours with different screams and they were s-so l-loud and i couldn't do anything and i tried so hard and- and..." He couldn't breathe. All he could hear was screams.
"Henry?" She noticed him breathing heavily, blanking out. Although to him her voice sounds as if he's under water. "Henry, hey, what's wrong?" She says touching his shoulder. It feels like his chest is going to explode. He feels like the walls are closing in around him, black spots clouding his vision.
"Can't... breathe..." he says between gasping. Sheer panic overwhelms him. He had had anxiety attacks when he was younger but they were never this bad.
"Henry, listen to me. You need to calm down. You're having a panic attack. "Just focus on me and slow down your breathing."
"-Can't" He quickly stands up from the desk only to collapse to his knees.
"Henry!" Regina yells. She needs to get him to concentrate on something else. "Can you hear me?" He doesn't respond. He clutches the edge of the desk, knuckles turning white. "Hey! Henry listen to my voice. Concentrate on just my voice." He nods in response still gasping, and Regina starts to rub her hand in circles on his back while she speaks.
"When you were a baby, you wouldn't stop crying for anything... I'd tried everything. Feeding you, changing your diaper, even singing. But nothing worked. I even took you to the doctor because I was worried something was wrong with you. But Dr. Whale didn't find anything."
He stares at her while still trying to get oxygen in his lungs. He knew he cried a lot at first but he didn't know she had gotten that worried. "You even stopped crying when Snow held you, so I thought something was wrong with me. Then, one day, I was so exhausted, I just pleaded with you to give me a chance, just one chance... and you did. You stopped crying, and didn't cry much after that." He takes a few shaky deep breaths and seems to be calming down. She smiles at him.
"Th-Thanks Mom, that helped." He stands up, wavering for a second, and she hugs him.
"It's what mothers do. Are you okay now?"
"Yeah I think I'm good."
"Great, because the wedding starts in hour." He hadn't realized the time. He just now notices Regina is in a silk, crimson and white form-fitting dress. She had a surprisingly natural look to her, and she looked stunning.
"Wow, you look beautiful."
"Oh, thank you." She says surprised and genuinely flattered at the compliment. "Now go put this on," She hands him the bagged tux. "So you can look just as good." She says winking. He smiles and walks inside the bathroom to change.
After a few moments he comes out, fumbling with his bow tie. "Here let me." She says, thinking back to the other times she tied his tie. School dances, his short-lived apprenticeship at Gold's shop. Although, she wished she was the one who had tied it for his last dance, but technically it was her- just, a different version of her.
She tugs the last section and folds down his collar. Stepping back she looks at him as he buttons the cuff of his sleeve, unaware she's staring. He looks so grown up. His hair is cut shorter than it used to be. His bangs no longer drifting across his eyebrows, but feathered, making him resemble his wish realm self, Prince Henry, even more. Even though in her eyes he was always her little prince.
Even in heels, his height challenged hers, seeming to be a little taller every time she noticed, and even though he's still quite thin, his shoulders are broad. She studies his profile noticing his more angular cheek bones he got from his other mother, and a sturdy jaw. And although his nose has always been slightly too big, he seems to have grown into it, like she told him he would. Overall he's quite a handsome young man... and she's proud to call him her son. And even though he's not biologically her son, he has picked up her stubbornness and other looks and stares that he's gives back to her now and then.
"How do I look?" He asks her, gesturing his arms to the side, palms facing forward.
"Very handsome." She says, tears pricking her eyes, but not enough to show. He does his usual crooked smile and smooths his blazer. "Is Violet coming?"
"Uh, yeah, she said she'll meet us there."
"Alright let's go!" They go to leave when he stops at his doorway.
"Wait! I can't believe I almost forgot..." he runs back in his room and pulls out a drawer in his nightstand.
"What?" She questions.
He holds up a small black box.
"The rings."
...
They finally arrive and Regina goes to sit down next to Zelena, while Henry greets Violet at the entrance to the roof, after giving the storybook to Regina to hold on to while deals with the rings.
"Hey!" He says giving a quick kiss on the lips.
"Hi!" She cheerily replies. She's wearing a sleeveless, knee-length, lavender, 'A' line dress, that has a chiffon skirt.*
She looks amazing.
"You look... stunning." He says, almost at a loss for words.
"Thank you! You look very handsome yourself." She replies, her cheeks turn red at both comments.
"Well, I have to go give Hook the rings, you can sit over there by my mom and I, if you want."
"I'd love too."
He heads down the aisle to the alter and hands the box to Hook, nodding as the pirate pats him on the shoulder. He then sits down between Violet and Regina, who gives him back his book.
Everyone stands up and Emma steps through the arch at the beginning of the aisle, arm in arm with Snow and David. Hook smiles and looks utterly ecstatic. She walks down towards the alter and kisses her parents before they give her away and sit down next to Violet and Henry.
Hook states his touching vows about Emma changing him from the vengeful pirate he once was and slips the ring on her finger. Then Emma starts to say her vows.
"Killian, I've spent so much of my life on my own. And then Henry found me, and brought me to Storybrooke." She and Killian both glance over to Henry and they all smile, while Regina grabs and holds his hand. "And help me find the rest of my family. But just because you learn that you come from true love, doesn't mean you believe you'll ever find it. But thanks to you... now I have." She grabs his ring and placed it on his finger. Unfortunately it has to be his right hand, because it probably wouldn't fit on his hook...
"Killian Jones, do you take this woman to be your wife, and to love her for all eternity?" Archie says, happy and honored to marry the two.
"I do."
"And do you, Emma Swan, take this man to be your husband, and to love him for all eternity?"
"I do."
"Then it's with great pleasure I now pronounce you husband and wife."
They embrace each other and kiss, sealing the vows they have proclaimed forever. Everyone applauded, before Hook dipped her for their first dance.
"You did it Swan. You got your happy ending." The band starts playing beautiful piano music.
"That's not what this is. It's something else." She says joyfully. Then she starts to sing.
"Tomorrow is uncertain, who know what it will bring." And to everyone's surprise, Hook joins in.
"But one thing is for sure ,love... With you I have everything."
They start singing together and dancing. It's quite a spectacle. "And happily ever after is the way these stories go."
"Used to think that's what I wanted, but now I wanted... But now I finally know! There's no storm we can't outrun."
"We will always find the sun."
"Leave the past and all it's scars, a happy beginning now is ours." Then Snow and David step on to the dance floor and they start singing starting with Snow.
"We celebrate together, a long time wish come true."
"What makes it even better, today our story starts anew." Then Regina steps in and sings. 'Who knew everyone in my family could sing? Although the circumstances are a little weird.' Henry thought. She grabs Zelena's hand and they sing together. "We can overcome them all."
"If we all stand tall together," 'Oh god, they're coming towards me. They're going to want me to sing aren't they... Screw it.' He grabs Reginas hand with His right, and has Violet on his left.
"There's no way we can fall." Apparently he can sing too. 'Runs in the family I guess.' Violet was very surprised to hear him sing... and actually be good at it. She decides to join in, since everyone has started singing together. All the while dancing with Henry of course.
"There's no storm we can't outrun, we will always find the sun. Leave the past and all it's scars, a happy beginning now is ours." There's people dancing everywhere, even the dwarves are in a conga line. Each of them wearing a different colored vest and tie.
"...A happy beginning now is ours." The clock tower bell tolls six o' clock and a foul wind blows. It's time. Everyone looks to the clock and clouds of darkness burst out of the clock.
"The Black Fairy's curse, Its here!" Leroy shouts. He's always the one that shouts when something's coming.
"Where do you think it's taking us?" Killian asks his new wife.
"It doesn't matter. Wherever we end up, we're gonna win." She replies.
Henry and Violet are in an embrace much like the newlyweds. "Henry, if this is the same curse as before, all the people from the other realms will end up there, or somewhere else... but you're not from there. Where will you go?" She asks with tears in her eyes.
"It'll be okay, I'll be fine. If you can, find my family when you go. They'll be able to help." He gives her a sad smile and then kisses her for what may be the last time.
They stay in each other's embrace when the black cloud engulfs them.
There you go! I'm sorry again for it being so late, I've been super busy. But I had fun with this chapter. I'm not sure if I'm going to upload this Wednesday or if I'm going to wait until next Sunday, ill have to see how it works out. I've been trying to be more descriptive with my writing so tell me what you think!
*Here's a link to the dress i was picturing if you wanted to know what it looks like exactly. (Delete spaces)
www. magicmotherdresses best-a-line-tulle-lavender-mother-of-the-bride-dresses-in-tea-length-g2093. html
Also comment if you sang the lyrics to the Happy Beginnings song when reading lol I did when writing it.
Thanks for reading! ~Nindragon