Summary: Emma hears her sons cries and knows she cannot give the little boy, and decides to keep him. But she is still the saviour and she still needs to break the curse.
I'm sorry this chapter is a little shorter than all the others, but I'll try to make the others longer.
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Friday strolls along way too quickly for Henry's liking. He has no friends here, as much as he loves it here everyone already have groups. Mary Margret walks over to him. "What's wrong, Henry?"
"Hmm, oh nothing Miss Bee." He had begun calling her that at the beginning of the week and surprisingly she found she didn't mind. She found it refreshing to have someone call her something else.
"Are you sure? You seem a little distracted just lately." She says sitting next to him on the bench. "I'm just worried."
"Honestly I'm fine. I just... I have no friends here, I feel left out." Mary Margret sighs, she thought so.
"Here Henry, I don't know if it will help but this book always gave me hope." She says handing him a book, he opens to a couple of pages in. He gasps slightly. She's Snow White! The day goes so fast for Henry and he's excited to get home. Regina smiles at him as he comes bouncing to her, with an excited grin.
"Hello Henry, how was your day?"
"Amazing!" He says, he doesn't want to tell her about the book yet because he wants to tell Emma first. When they get back to her house she gets him a sandwich. She then says she has paper work and goes to her office.
Henry looks down at the book, his hands running over the last page. He looks to the picture of the baby, more importantly the baby blanket. He turns back pages and sees the Evil Queen. "It's Regina... and mom's baby blanket... but... but how."
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Emma, pick up the goddamn phone. She reads the fourth message from Regina and sighs, she isn't avoiding Regina. At least not on purpose. Emma sighs, and rephones Regina. "Finally." Regina sighs.
"Everything okay? Is Henry okay?" At the mention of Henry Renée's head pops up from the chair and whines a little.
"Yes, Emma he's fine."
"Don't worry, girl, he's okay." Renée seems pleased with the answer and puts her head back on the chair rest eyeing Emma. "So, are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine. What if I hadn't been? Or Henry hadn't been?"
"Okay, Regina... Pongo got into the woods, Archie was really worried. I can imagine how he feels what if that had been Renée and she got into the water? She and Pongo wouldn't last a minute. I left my phone at home. I'm sorry." Emma says running her hand over her face.
"Long day?" She hears from the other end of the phone. "Yeah. Renée and I will not be long."
Emma runs up the path of 108 with Renée close behind. She knocks on the door frantically. She hasn't even finished work yet. She feels still in work mode. "I want a door at the end of this you know."
"Well why all the secrets? What's going on?"
"Come to my office this is official work business." She says, and Emma is so confused, when they get to the office Regina turns to her. "Here, time we made this official." She says giving Emma a badge. "Once you take this badge you're the official sheriff." Emma frowns.
"Wasn't I already sheriff?" Regina nods.
"There's a trail period, I didn't even tell the previous sheriff Graham about it, it usually makes you act different and I didn't want you to act different I wanted you to be you." Regina says handing Emma the badge, she smiles. "You passed Emma, so welcome to Storybrooke sheriff Swan." Emma takes the badge tentatively and put it on her belt. It feels good, then suddenly a large rumbling shakes the house, Emma locks eyes with Regina. "What the hell is that?!"
"How should I know?!" Regina says letting go of the table she had been grabbing to steady herself. "Where's Henry?" Emma asks and Regina blanks.
"Down stairs." Emma runs down the stairs, Renée on her heels. He's sitting on the floor rubbing his head. "What was that?!" He asks.
"I don't know Kid, I don't know. I'm just glad you're okay." He hugs her and she rests her cheek on his head. "Is Regina okay?" He finds himself asking then his head screams at him She's the Evil Queen does it matter? "Is she okay?" He says more for himself. He's quickly realised there is something wrong with this town, everyone is a fairytale characters and they don't remember themselves. And then his mother's baby blanket. He has to find out what's wrong and why they think Emma is the savior. But what if the book is right and this is the result of the dark curse?
"Yes, I'm fine Henry." He sees her and quickly hugs her.
"Good." He says. "We need to find out what that was don't we?"
"We? There is no we in this Henry. I need to find out, I'm not letting you get hurt kid. But Regina does need to come too, which means you need to stay in the car because you are not getting caught up in this one." Regina frowns this one?
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The mines. Really? Is all Emma can think right now as everyone is gathered around here. Emma had asked Mary Margret to watch Henry as she didn't want him near this. "Regina what happened here?"
"They think it collapsed." Regina rubs her arms, in the autumn weather her black jumper isn't really stopping the cold. Emma shrugs off her jacket. "Take this, I don't mind." Regina looks up. "Seriously take it."
"Thank you." Emma smiles and they were really close, like she is really close to Regina. She smiles a little awkwardly, not that she minded being that close to her but it is hard focus with her that close. She goes over to Marco. "So what's happening, could it go again?"
"At the moment, it seems stable. But who knows." He says gravely looking over to it. "It could go any minute, non of us can predict anything." Emma groans.
"No one goes down there, I'm clearing the area. This isn't going away on it's own let me know if you come up with a solution Marco." He nods and walks off. Emma walks back over to Regina. "We need to clear the people away, they can't get hurt here who knows what could happen. Regina nods, "I agree. Right everyone please can we get everyone out of here, we have it under control but now this is a safety risk. I want everyone gone." There is a grumble from the crowd and no one moves.
"Guys, please I don't want anyone getting hurt and I'm sure you guys don't either. So please leave." Emma says and there is more grumble but slowly they leave. "Now what the hell do we do?"
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Henry isn't happy to be here, but he has his book so he guesses he's happy enough. He keeps looking at the last page. "It doesn't make any sense."
"Well that is very true Henry but I assure you it is just a book, we're not trapped fairytales." Mary Margret says handing the hot cocco and he sees the cinnamon. He questions it. "Oh sorry a little habit of mine." He smiles.
"I like it." He says and thinks to himself, she really could be his grandma.
"So Henry, wanna ring Emma see how she and Regina are doing?" He finds himself nodding even though the Evil Queen is mentioned, he can't bring himself to hate her. The Regina he's known isn't any Evil Queen, so surely he can give her the second chance that no one else has offered her. Although, Henry is ten he cannot see how many second chances she's actually had, but he's determined to give her another one.
"Hey Emma, Henry and I want to see how things are going."
"Oh, hi urm yeah things are going as well as they could when a mine collapses... er hey kid. How's Henry treating you MM?"
"Oh, he's being a real prince charming Emma, no worries." Henry smiles at her and she smiles back roughing up his hair. "Hey mom, do you think it will collapse again?"
"We don't know, Henry." Regina's voice answers - there on speaker phone.
"Regina!" He says surprising himself on how happy he is to hear her voice. "I'm really worried about you guys..."
"Kid, we're fine. We're just going to investigate inside the clearing of the mines and then we're coming home." She says.
"Mom!"
"Yes, kid." Henry takes a deep breath, he's worried. He can tell something bad is going to happen and soon, maybe not with the mines but something. "I love you." Emma smiles so brightly. "Love you too kid."
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"Is this the best idea?" Regina asks as the flashlights hit the walls.
"Probably not, I don't want to die on the first day I officially wear the sheriff badge, how about we call it a day and head home to the kid." Emma says, she and Regina are already turning out of the cave, "We need to border this up make sure no one comes back here."
"Yes, I agree." Regina says, she looks back as the slow rumbling happens again. The pair don't hesitate to run the final ten meters. They get out just in time before the rocks fell blocking the entrance. "Marco!" Emma and Regina yell together. Regina continues. "We need this bordered up and fast, we can't have people getting down there." Renée comes bumbling over to them falling at their feet, Emma picks her up hugging her, "Sorry we couldn't take you down their girl." She whispers, only Regina hears and she smiles lovingly at the scene.
Marco nods, he and Archie block up the entrance, "So is Marco Archie's dad?" Regina laughs.
"No, there just kind of old friends if you like. They've known each other a very, very long time." Is all Regina says on the matter, she runs a hand through her black short hair and stands. "Long day, huh? Let's head out of here to Miss Blanchard's and get the kid - I mean Henry."
"I'm rubbing off on you Regina!" Emma chuckles nudging her shoulder.
"More than I would like Miss Swan." More than you'll ever know.
"That's Sheriff Swan to you, Madame Mayor." She says and flashes her badge, a low rumble happens again which causes Renée to whimper in her arms. "Let's go."
Woo! Another chapter done, so Henry's figured it out, huh! I'll even be interested to see where I take the next chapter! :)
