Chapter Five: Another Mother
The gentleman the mayor had been speaking to in the hospital now stood at the pink town line. He had a purple bottle in his hand. Taking off the cork of the bottle, he held it upside down over the pink line and began to walk beside the line. As the liquid inside the bottle hit the pink line on the cement, it started to disappear. StoryBrooke was now officially sealed off.
Throwing the bottle into the woods, the man looked around. He could hear one of the workers in the forest by the side of the road.
"Mayor Fiona oughta know something, sir." The worker said.
"We had some trouble with another worker today. Escaped, but they are back at our place now. Apparently, there were two teenagers going to the town."
The man nodded, knowing that he would have to tell Fiona. He walked down the road that led towards the town, the green sign beside the road passing through his peripheral vision. The man wasn't the most keen about StoryBrooke. He preferred the Dark Realm.
Robin looked down at Henry, feeling relieved. It was an odd feeling, considering the fact that a boy had just woken up from a coma. Neal didn't know what to think, and sat on the ground before he started to freak out. He did not like being surprised.
"Where's my mom?" Henry asked again. He kept his hand firmly on the storybook while he shifted his other hand over and grabbed his pen.
"Why are you awake?" Robin asked. She was surprised at her gusto. Neal stood up and left the room.
"People tend to wake up after they fall asleep." Henry responded. Robin was glad Neal hadn't been in the room. His grandfather had died in his sleep a year earlier.
"Dude, usually that happens. But a coma patient doesn't usually wake up as I clear his table beside his bed." Robin explained. She indicated that she could put Henry's book on his table, but he kept it in his hand.
"I need to find my mom." Henry stated. Robin could see how panicked he was, and knew that the doctor would come into the room in a few moments after Neal told him what had happened.
"What's your mom's name, Henry?" Robin asked. It was a simple question that could calm Henry down and let Robin have a bit more information about the boy.
"Her name is Emma Swan." Henry said. "But she's not my only mom. My other mom is named Regina Mills. She's the mayor of the town."
Robin remembered the name Regina Mills when she had been looking through her baby book on the bus ride. She was apparently her godmother.
"What is your mom's phone number?" Robin asked. Henry gave both phone numbers for both his mothers.
"Emma is the sheriff." Henry said. Robin quickly wrote down both numbers. Dr. Whale came into the room, Neal wondering if he should follow. Robin nodded for him to come inside. Henry gave Neal a curious look as he came into the room.
Dr. Whale looked at Henry in astonishment. Henry smiled at Dr. Whale, but he was feeling extremely anxious as well.
"Dr. Whale, where is my mom?" Henry asked.
"The mayor will be here in a few minutes. She had just come in to check on you." Henry sighed, feeling a bit of relief. He looked over at Neal, seeing a resemblance between the teenager and his own grandfather, David Nolan.
Dr. Whale was checking Henry's heartbeat and looking over different files as one of the nurses came to the doorway of the room.
"The mayor is just looking over some of the paperwork for Henry." She explained. Dr. Whale looked at Robin and Neal, who were still a bit dazed by the whole situation.
"Kids, the mayor won't want you both in here while she reunites with her son." Dr. Whale explained. He pointed towards a door that was at the other side of the room. He then decided that while Henry was speaking with his mother, he didn't need his book or pen, so he took them from Henry's hands and put them in Robin's backpack, which had been sitting on the ground.
"She can hang onto these while you chat with the mayor." Dr. Whale explained. Henry didn't want to lose his book or pen.
"I can keep them in my backpack." Henry looked down at his bag on the ground, noticing that both straps were broken, and that the material of the bag was ripped and worn.
"It was in rough shape when we found it." Neal explained to Henry. Robin wrote down her phone number and placed it on Henry's table.
"I'll come back with your book and pen. Just give me a call when you're done talking with your mom." Robin said politely. Henry nodded, seeing familiarity in her face.
Robin and Neal left the room through the other door, deciding to go back to the front desk and ask where else birth documents might be held.
Henry could see that a woman was waiting to come into his room. She wore a black jacket, in the style that Regina usually wore. She had on long black pants and matching black high heels. Dr. Whale was finished examining Henry, ensuring that the boy wasn't dealing with anything else. Leaving the room. Dr. Whale stepped aside and allowed the mayor to come in.
"Hello, Henry."
Henry stared at the mayor of StoryBrooke, Fiona. The Black Fairy.
Henry's heart hammered inside his chest, recalling the memories from the town line. The Black Fairy was there, threatening Robin and Neal. Emma was unconscious.
"How are you alive?" Henry demanded bluntly. He thought his moms had defeated the Black Fairy. He presumed that they had saved the town, while Henry was unconscious. The Black Fairy gave Henry a wicked smile as she stood by his bed.
"By breathing, dearie. That is how humans live." Fiona retorted. She reached down under Henry's table and grabbed his backpack. She didn't notice how light it was.
"Where are my moms?" Henry demanded. He was speaking loudly, wanting Dr. Whale to hear him. He could see the doctor from outside the room, but he was giving Henry a concerned look.
"Well, last I saw Emma, she was sleeping right near the town line." Fiona explained. "And I had a friendly chat with Regina and your grandparents before I came to visit you and the Saviour."
Henry thought about when he had last seen the Black Fairy. Emma was going to take Henry, Neal and Robin over the town line to keep them safe.
"Your family didn't defeat me, Henry." Fiona said calmly. She stepped away from the bed, looking at Dr. Whale. The doctor came into the room.
"I think he may be delusional, doctor." Fiona explained. "He thinks he has two other mothers."
Henry looked at Dr. Whale is disbelief, but he saw the concern he had and realized that Dr. Whale didn't recognize him.
"He did just wake up from a coma, Fiona." The doctor explained. "He could have been having a dream and is having trouble justifying reality."
"I know who my family is." Henry spat. "Where is Regina Mills?"
Fiona smiled wickedly behind Dr. Whale's back, and sighed.
"Dr. Whale, the other ward might be best for Henry for right now." Seeing the terrified look on Henry's face, Fiona left the room with the nurse.
The Black Fairy stood at the fireplace in Regina's office, throwing Henry's backpack inside. She expected to see the pages of the storybook curl in the flames, but after a few moments she could only see the backpack. Waving her hand, the mayor placed her other hand inside the fireplace as the flames had diminished. She opened the backpack and didn't see the storybook inside. Reaching inside the bag, she couldn't feel the Author's pen. She made the fire reappear and threw the backpack inside once more.
The gentleman she had seen in the hospital was coming back into her office.
"There was some trouble with one of the workers." The man explained. "An escape attempt. But the escapee was caught, and there were two teenagers going into the town."
"I need to go check the town line." Fiona said. "Decide the fate for the escape artist, but no killing."
She disappeared in a cloud of magic.
Appearing on the road where she had dealt with Emma Swan, Fiona held out her hand. Closing her eyes, she imagined another type of magic coming into the town. Magic was the only way someone could get inside the town line.
Opening her eyes, Fiona didn't see her black magic in her hand. Instead, she saw green magic, then blue magic. It was magic she had seen before.
A nurse at the front desk was explaining to Robin that some birth documents are destroyed after a few years.
"Usually families are warned ahead of time that the birth documents will be destroyed." The nurse explained. "They can come and get the information if they would like it."
"So my documents are gone?" Robin asked.
"I know that sometimes the mayor holds onto the documents for people." The nurse admitted. "It depends on the circumstance, such as if there is a dangerous situation or search for the family or the child."
Neal saw Dr. Whale walking down one of the hallways. Neal walked down the hallway and saw the doctor speaking with a gentleman.
"Is the boy in another ward?" The man asked.
Dr. Whale rolled his eyes. "Yes, you can tell the mayor that Henry has been moved. She was right to have a concern over his mental state."
Before the doctor could leave, the man had another question.
"She is also wondering about two teenagers." The man said. Neal felt worried, pushing farther behind the wall.
"There are a lot of teenagers in StoryBrooke. The mayor will have to be more specific." Dr. Whale spat back. The man grunted at the doctor, and saw the doctor leave. He went down another hallway.
The man pulled out a cellphone from his pocket.
"Ask them what the teenagers looked like." He demanded. The man walked away, and Neal went down the hallway that Dr. Whale had walked through. He saw him checking on one of the bulletin boards.
"Dr. Whale, can Robin and I return Henry's stuff to him?" Neal asked casually. Dr. Whale turned around.
"I'm afraid not. Henry is being kept in another ward and should be left alone."
Neal nodded, but decided that Henry shouldn't be left alone. Dr. Whale walked down the hallway to another bulletin board.
Neal walked down another hallway, and saw a tall man with long black hair holding a mop. He was behind a blue door that had a stairway behind it. He was staring at Neal.
Neal could see the hospital clothes the man was wearing, and wondered if he was in the ward that Henry was in. For some reason, Neal was determined to find Henry.
