-I do not own Sherlock and characters, nor do I own Once Upon a Time and characters.
"What are you doing?!" Henry yelled at his mother. Tears were already streaming down his face as he watched his safe haven become a pile of ruble. This playground was where he could hide when the Evil Queen told him her lies, the place where he could go when everyone thought he was just some crazy kid, and now it was nothing.
"Henry, it wasn't safe for you," Regina spoke. She tried to reach out and comfort him, but all he did was jerk at her touch and back up a step. "It was already an unstable playground before the storm and after there was no way it could be allowed to stay up. It had to be torn down for your protection as well as the other children of Storybrooke."
Henry didn't believe her. He didn't believe her about anything anymore. So he ran. He screamed at his mother, "You're lying!" and ran off. Sherlock thought about going after the boy, but once he saw the look upon Regina's face he knew that he better stay.
At first Regina didn't say anything to him, but simply pulled out her cell phone and called someone.
"Darling, he's headed to you I assume. He came with someone to the playground while we're still demolishing it, and as you know he doesn't believe me. We have to tell him about us soon and…and we have to tell him everything else.
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I know it's early and we're still figuring things out for ourselves, but the longer we keep this, all of it, from him the more he's going to hate me and he'll start to do the same with you.
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Yes, call me when you've calmed him down and he decides to go home. I'll be by after that and I'll be bringing Henry's friend.
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Yes, I'll be fine, darling."
"Allow me to introduce myself; I am Regina Mills, mayor of Storybrooke, and also Henry's mother. Now who may I ask are you and what business do you seem to have with my 10-year-old son?" Regina glares at Sherlock as she speaks to him; looking ready to strike should Sherlock so much move or say anything that she deems the wrong answer.
Calmly he replies back, "My name is Sherlock Holmes, Madame Mayor. I solve what other people deem mysteries, and I am here at the request of your son. He believes, as you know, that you're the Evil Queen and that you've cursed this town to a life without happy endings. He asked me to come and help his mother, Emma Swan, bring back the happy endings. I came to show him that everything he believes is magic is actually science and logic, as to see Emma again. We met a number of years ago when she was in Boston working as a bail bonds woman.
She was the woman that you were speaking with on the phone. It makes sense that when Henry runs from you that the first person he would go to is who he deems his real mother, especially for the fact that she is supposed to be the hero and you the villain. You two are apparently seeing one another, but have yet to tell Henry, and you've also yet to tell him something else that I assume has to do with his theory that you're all fairytale characters. Did I get any of that wrong or can we go ahead and begin walking to the station? I believe by the time we walk back there Henry will be finished talking with Emma and want to be alone to figure out how to continue in his planning of bring back the happy endings."
Regina was at a loss for words but quickly composed herself and said, "Yes, I believe she will be available by the time we walk back." She smoothed her dress for imaginary wrinkles and began to lead the way to the sheriff's station.