Chapter 10

The little bell rang quietly as Regina and Henry entered the store belonging to the dark one. Gold was standing behind his counter reading through his inventory of goodies still trying to figure out a way to leave StoryBrooke to find his son Bae. As he heard the bell ring he looked up to see Regina and Henry standing in front of him.

"Well well so you've come back for help have you?"

Regina glared at Gold, "This time it's for Henry, not me."

Gold softened just a bit looking down at young Henry. "What seems to be the problem Henry?"

Henry looked up at Gold he was a bit afraid of him now, knowing who he was and what he had done. But oddly enough he felt safe with Regina standing behind him with her hands on his shoulders.

"Well it's this room, and it's red, but it's filled with fire."

Gold knew exactly what Henry was talking about, he looked up at Regina with a smirk. "This is your fault."

Regina was gripped with fear, what had she done to cause this pain to her son? "My fault?! How is this my fault?"

"This room, this dream, is a result of being put under a sleeping curse, which as I recall, you put your son under."

Regina fummed with anger because Gold knew that curse was never meant for Henry. It hurt Regina so much to know that she was causing this to happen to her son, but that was in the past, she needed to move forward now and prove to Henry she had changed. Gold walked around the counter to the middle of the store with Regina and Henry, he waved his hand over Henry's wrist and healed the burn mark.

Regina looked at Gold and smiled slightly, "Thank you."

Gold looked at Regina meeting her smile, but his was more of a smirk, "Not a problem, anything for Henry, but i'm a bit confused, you could have just as easily healed his arm, why come to me?"

Regina knew she couldn't answer that question with the truth, and she already suspected that Gold knew something was up with her. Quickly she answered with, "I promised Henry I wouldn't use magic."

She knew that answer was not good enough to convince Gold, but he seemed to just let it slide for now. Gold had more important things on his mind, he couldn't be bothered with the real reason for Regina not using her magic.

Gold reached into his pocket and pulled out a necklace and handed it to Henry, "Wear this when you sleep and it will protect you in the dream."

Regina stopped Henry from taking the necklace, "What's the price, everything comes with a price with you."

"I told you, for Henry, there is no charge."

Reluctantely Regina allowed Henry to take the necklace and put it on.

She then looked down at him, placing her hand on his cheek and smiled, "Henry, you go ahead and catch the bus for school, I need to talk to Mr. Gold for a minute."

The small boy looked at her with a confused, and worried look. He knew how dangerous it could be to leave his mom alone with Gold, but he just simply smiled softly at her and walked out the door. Gold glared into Regina's eyes very curious as to why she stayed behind.

"So, I take it there is something else you want from me? My my aren't we taking advantage of my favours here lately."

Regina glared back at Gold, staring at him so coldly that even the Dark One almost got chills. "I want to know if you can remove this curse from my son, anything you can do to keep him safe."

Gold had a smirk cross his face, "Well dearie, I am capable of many things, but that is something that is beyond me. Besides you are no longer Henry's mother, so why would you concern yourself with his well being?"

Those words almost felt like a knife cutting through her heart, a cold reminder that Henry did in fact have another mother in his life now, even if she was out of the picture for the moment, she knew Emma would find her way back to him, because that's exactly what Regina would do.

Gold looked at Regina confused, "Why your majesty, did I strike a nerve? All of the color seems to have drained from your face."

Regina knew that the loss of color was partly because of his statement, but mostly because she was feeling fairly ill again. She was steadying herself by holding onto the coutertop, which Gold had noticed. Fearful of Gold finding out her secret she decided to try and turn around as quickly as she could, without getting sick, and leave before she gave Gold any other reason to start questioning her delicate condition. As Regina's hand touched the doorknob Gold stopped her.

"Ahh, I understand now.. you my dear Regina are with child aren't you?"