Here's the Next Chapter. Hope you enjoy.
The whole chapter is from Regina's POV

Regina:

I removed myself off the floor and began walking down the stairs of the building. I had listened to the conversation Emma had with Henry over the phone, I couldn't tear myself away.

I headed back over to the house, knowing that I better get back to Henry, back to reality.

As I walked into the house I called out for Henry. I got no reply. Odd I thought to myself. I walked up the stairs, across the landing and peeped into his room. No sign of Henry, I called for him again, once again no reply. I headed back down the stairs. I took my phone out of my pocket and started flicking through the contacts. I stopped as I got to Emma's name. I hovered over her number for a few seconds, surly I would have seen if Henry decided to see Emma. I carried on scrolling down the names. I stopped at Mary Maragret, maybe he's with her. I tapped over her name, waited a couple of seconds before it started ringing.

"Hello" Says Mary Maragret.

"Is my son with you?" I replied harshly hoping that he wasn't. I can't stand that woman.

"No, I haven't seen him today. Has he run away again?" She replied. I was annoyed, does she think that he does this all the time. My son loves me, he looks up to me. He only says them horrible things because he's confused, having his birth mother around is messing with his head.

Realising that I had gone quiet for a few seconds, I spoke up. "When you see him, give me a ring." So I didn't have to hear her always annoying calm voice again I hung up.

I went towards the kitchen to get a glass of water. However before I got to the kitchen I stopped at the mirror hanging on the wall. I stared at the mirror. I've tried to be the best mother possible to Henry, I gave him what he wanted and more. It was very hard when he turned 9 as he began asking after his birth mother, asking to see her, wanting to know everything about her. It always brought tears to my eyes whenever he would ask after her, I always saw him as my child, and even today I see him as mine. Truthfully I told him that I didn't know anything about her, only her name. He would call me a liar saying that I was hiding the truth from him eventually he would run up to his room refusing to speak to me.

I snapped out of thoughts as I heard the clock ticking away, I carried on to the kitchen, I poured myself half a glass of water before drinking it all.

I left the house 15mintues later, got into my car, and headed to the station.

"Have you seen my son?" I asked as I walked over to Graham.

Graham looked up at me from the newspaper he was reading. "I saw him walking over towards the forest not long ago." He replied.

I snapped. "You saw him going into the forest and you didn't think to call me. Don't you understand how many dangers he could be facing right now?" I was frustrated.

"I didn't say he's in the forest, Madam Mayor." He said as he continued to read his paper.

"Well he could be for all I know, sheriff." My frustration was growing with every passing second.

I left the building. Graham can be hopeless, relying on him to find my son is hopeless. I headed towards the forest, remembering what happened to me the last I was in the there. I really hope he isn't in the forest, why would he go in the forest anyway. I felt confused but mostly scared for him. Before entering I called him. No reply. I began walking into the forest, heart beating fast. I wrapped my arms around my body feeling cold. I finally spotted him, feeling relieved I picked up the pace and heading towards him shouting his name. He instantly looked round at me before walking towards me. "What are you doing here? You know the forest isn't safe."

"I got bored, so I went out for a walk. And well, I have never been in the forest before so I decided to check it out." He replied looking up at me smiling.

"Promise me you will never enter the forest again." We walked beside each other, heading towards the car.

"It's ok Mum, I'm not hurt."

"Just promise me, please." I begged him.

"Ok, I promise I will never enter the scary forest ever again." He said in almost a sarcastic tone.

We walked towards the car which I left outside the station. There was a breeze brushing the leaves into the road. Autumn was approaching, than it would be winter. Winter was the season of weakness, the plants would die as snow covered them. Weakness is something that I can't become. I was snapped out of my thoughts once again.

"Emma" Shouted Henry running towards her with the biggest smile on his face.

Surprisingly his smile was only slightly bigger than mine as I saw Emma leaving the B&B, she was just a couple meters away from me, and so was Henry, Henry hugged her, my smile faded away, she hugged him back of course. I'm becoming weak, I can feel it.

"Henry," She sounded surprised. "Mary Maragret said that you went missing, I have been looking for you." That explained why she sounded surprised to see him.

"I was just in the forest, mum found me, I'm ok."

Emma smiled at him, sweetly. "Do not go into the forest again, you know what happened to your mum."

"I've promised mum I won't go in there again." He said smiling at her.

"I'm getting hungry. Hey why don't the three of us have lunch together?" He asked looking at her then back at me, smiling as usual, he was pleading.

I froze. The three of us, there's never been a three of us, only a two, me and Henry. Please say no I thought looking at Emma who was looking back at me. "Maybe we can do this another day kid, just got some things I need to sort out at the moment." I relaxed, but I couldn't totally relax as she was still looking at me wearing her usual soft smile which always made my heart beat a little faster than usual. "Oh, ok never mind. I suppose after what happened." The sad expression showing on his face as he spoke. "It will only take an hour at most of your time, we can eat at the Diner." I heard myself say. What the hell did I just say? "Ok why not, I suppose those things can wait till later." She said smiling at me then down at Henry. "Great." Says Henry smiling again which made me smile.

Strangely the Diner was in between us so we met at the door. We entered and sat at a table in the corner of the room. I sat opposite Emma while Henry sat next to me. This felt strange, but ok. Maybe I could get use to this I thought to myself.

Henry was the first to speak. "So I take it you two have apologised then?" He asked.

Emma was second to speak. "Yes we have. It will never happen again." She said smiling at me.

I smiled back at her.

We ordered our meals. They arrived not long after. We began eating.

Once again Henry broke the silence. "So Emma, you haven't mentioned my father yet." He says wanting to know answers.

There was a silence before Emma says, "That's because I rather not talk about him." She then paused looking at Henry. "Your father wasn't a good man, he left me before you were born."

"What was he like?" He asked looking eager.

If I knew I would be sat here listening to Emma talk about her ex, I wouldn't have come.

"Are you sure you want to know?" She asked him.

"Henry enough, she doesn't want to talk about him." I snapped. I didn't want to hear him asking about his father, I didn't want to hear Emma talking about him.

"It's best that he knows the truth Regina." She said looking at me.

Great, I thought to myself.

"Henry your father was no hero, he was a bad man, and well, I wasn't exactly anything to look up to either." She paused, took a breath before continuing. "We weren't earning, I did little jobs every now and then but that never got me far, so we stole. We would go into shops, take things without paying. I met your father when I broke into a car, I didn't know of course but he was sat in the back, I later found out that he stole the car. Sorry kiddo." She stopped, looked at me then back at Henry before saying, "I had to give you up, you needed a proper mother who could care for you, give you everything you needed, a role model, someone to look up to."

"Oh." He just blankly said looking slightly disappointed.

"Henry I'm really sorry but you needed to know the truth, I can't lie to you, it would be wrong of me to." She explained with a look of guilt on her face.

He ignored this before saying, "So why did you break up?"

"He lied to me, he set me up, I got sent to prison for something he did. He broke my heart." She said looking up at me with tears in her eyes.

I felt a lump in my throat. Even though she was going through life stealing, I wanted to hug her, make the pain go away.

Henry got up and ran out of the Diner.

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