Here's Another chapter for you all. Let me know what you think :)
"Alright Regina I'm off to work. Henry will be here if you need anything okay?" Robin said softly as he leaned down and pressed a kiss to her lips. She was sat on the sofa in a pair of leggings and a light blue shirt, not her normal outfit but then it seemed to be the norm nowadays.
"Okay." She said. "I thought it was Emma's week?" She asked with a confused frown on her face. Her mind had taken her back to Henry being younger and when he split his time between both his mothers households.
"No that was last week Regina." Robin answered.
"Oh. Okay." Regina said. "When will you be back?" She asked looking up at him.
"Around half four. I might pop back for lunch though." He said. He leaned down again and kissed the top of Regina's head. "I love you."
"Love you too." She said.
Robin turned to leave as Henry made his way down stairs. Robin said his goodbyes to Henry and Henry made his way into the living room where his mother was sat. He smiled at her as he walked over to the sofa and sat down beside her. "So what shall we do today mom?" Henry asked as he leaned back on the sofa.
Regina was sat on the edge of the sofa, her hands folded in her lap and her back poker straight. It didn't look comfy to Henry but then he wasn't quite sure what stage of her life his mom was in at the moment. "I'm not sure..." Regina responded, with a small shrug of her shoulders.
Henry was just about to responded when his phone started ringing. He got it out of his pocket and answered it, standing up from the sofa walking around the rom. Regina watched him intently as he wandered around the room. She looked at Henry and wondered when he had grown so tall, he wasn't that tall yesterday was he? And when did he get old enough to grow facial hair? That didn't seem right. She narrowed her eyes as she tried to process her mind and work out when Henry had grown old enough for all of this. It didn't make sense. She shook her head looked down at her lap. She had a headache. It was thumping in her head, as if something was trying to break out.
"Mom..." Henry said placing his hand on her shoulder. She jumped a little and looked up at him. He had called on her a few times but she seemed to be lost in her mind. "Mom I need to go and pick something up from Emma's. Do you fancy going out for a bit?" He said softly. He crouched down, his hands on her knees as he looked in her her deep brown eyes. Her brown eyes that looked so lost. He wondered if perhaps today was going to be a bad day for them.
Regina shook her head, biting her lip a little. "Not really. My head hurts." Regina said.
"Oh...I guess I could wait until later to go to Emma's..." Henry said as he ran a hand through his messy brown hair.
"I will be alright on my own for a bit Henry. I can look after myself." Regina said in slight frustration. Why did everyone feel the need to coddle her? She was a grown up. She can handle being on her own.
"I know mom it's just..." Henry sighed.
"It's just what?" Regina asked, raising her eyebrow in a way that Henry couldn't help but smile at. "I will be fine if you need to pop out Henry."
Henry just looked into his mothers eyes for a moment. He would only be half an hour at the most and she could still function mostly. There were times when she perhaps forgot about little things here and there that she shouldn't forget but she was mostly okay...wasn't she? He sighed and looked down at his watch. He could run to Emma's, grab what he needed to and then ran back. He could tell Emma he couldn't stay to talk. She would understand. Looking back up at his mom he gave a small smile. "Of course you will be fine mom." He said softly. "I just thought we could spend the day together."
"Well we can when you come back." Regina said giving him a smile.
"Yea. We can." He pushed himself up. "I won't be long. If you need me just phone me okay. I am speed dial number 2 okay?"
"Yes I remember Henry." Regina replied.
"Okay. I won't be long." He called as he made his way out of the house.
Regina sat for a moment debating what she wanted to do. She decided perhaps to make herself a coffee so she pushed herself up from the sofa and was just about to walk out of the living room when her phone started to ring. She turned back on her heel and walked over to the coffee table where it was resting and answered it
"Hey Auntie Regina it's Charlotte."
"I'm aware dear. My phone tells me." Regina drawled a little and she smiled as she heard Charlotte laugh on the other end.
"Course it does." Charlotte replied. "Hey I was wondering if i sent something to your laptop would you be able to download the file for me?"
Regina walked through to the kitchen switching on the kettle. "Of course I would." Regina said. "I know how to work a laptop Charlotte."
"Perfect. If you download it I can get it off your laptop when I get home." Charlotte responded happily. "You can check it out if you want. It's a picture of me and Roland at the fair the other day. Mom got a picture of us when we got soaked in the sprinklers when they went off at the wrong time."
Regina smiled. "Yes I wil have a look."
"Are you making yourself a coffee? Where's Henry? Or dad?" Charlotte asked as she heard the kettle boiling in the background.
Regina let out a sigh of frustration. What was wrong with everyone? Did no one trust her? "I am more than capable of making a cup of coffee for myself."
"Yes...course you are. I was just wondering where Henry or dad was..." Charlotte said.
"Your dad is at work and Henry needed to get something from Emma's. He said he wouldn't be long." Regina said.
"Aw...cool..." Charlotte said.
Regina booted up her laptop and as it was loading she got her cup and put a scoop of coffee into it. She then wandered back over to the laptop and logged on.
"Alright that should be it sent." Charlotte said. "Thanks for doing this."
"It's not a bother dear." Regina replied. "Where did you send it to me?" She asked.
"It should be on Skype. Sorry I probably should have said where I was sending it." Charlotte chuckled.
Regina logged into her Skype account and sure enough it alerted her to Charlotte sending her a file. She clicked to download it. "Okay got it."
"Perfect! Thank you Auntie Regina. See ya later." Charlotte said.
"See you later dear." Regina responded. She then hung up the phone. She waited for a minute and the file downloaded she then minimised the Skype screen and tried to look for the file Charlotte had sent her. She narrowed her eyes as she looked at the files on her homescreen. She clicked on a few of the files, not seeing any picture of Charlotte and Roland. She then saw a file called apple. She frowned, wondering what this file was. Double clicking on it, it opened up and on the screen a picture of herself appeared. "Hmm, what's this?" Regina muttered to herself. She clicked on play and suddenly the picture of herself started to talk.
"Hi Regina I'm you and I have something very important I need to say to you." Regina watched herself on the screen. A smart looking version of herself with perfect hair and perfect makeup up. A ghost of the person she looked like now. "So I guess you have finally reached that point. The point where you can no longer answer any of the questions...So this is the next logical step. I'm more than sure of it. I know you wouldn't want anyone to see you like this." Regina thought about what she had heard. Questions? What were the questions? If she couldn't remember the questions then that surely meant that she couldn't answer them so what was the next logical step she needed to take? "Okay...so...In your bedroom there is a vanity table. You know it. The one with the oval mirror." Regina nodded as she heard herself tell her this. Yes she knew the table. "Open the drawer on the right and in the back of the drawer there is a bottle with pills in it and a note that says take all pills with water. Now there are a lot of pills in that bottle but it is highly important that you take them all. Once you have taken them, just lie down and go to sleep." Regina nodded following everything she was being told by this other version of herself. "And don't tell anyone what you are doing."
"Okay." Regina mumbled. She pushed herself away from the counter and headed out of the kitchen, her half made cup of coffee lying forgotten as she headed up to her bedroom. She walked into the room and over to the vanity table, stopping in front of it and frowning as she tried to remember what she had just been told. "What did the laptop say again?" She muttered to herself. She shook her head and walked back out of the room, downstairs and into the kitchen. She clicked to repeat the video and watched it all over again, listening to what her other self wanted to tell her.
"In your bedroom there is a vanity table. You know it. The one with the oval mirror. Open the drawer on the right and in the back of the drawer there is a bottle with pills in it and a note that says take al pills with water. Now there are a lot of pills in that bottle but it is highly important that you take them all. Once you have taken them, just lie down and go to sleep."
Regina nodded again and then turned on her heel heading out of the kitchen once agian and up towards the bedroom. "Vanity table, oval mirror, drawer on the right." She muttered to herself as she walked into the bedroom. She walked over to the vanity table and went to the drawer on the right. Opening the drawer she looked in and lifted up a sparkling silver bracelet with little diamonds around it. She smiled as she held it up. She hadn't worn that in a while, but then she hadn't had much cause to wear such jewelerry in a while. She then frowned. What had she been looking for? "Damn!" She had forgotten what she had been told to look for up here. She sighed and went back downstairs and into the kitchen. She reached forward and picked the laptop up from the counter and headed out the kitchen, hitting play again to repeat the video.
She heard herself telling her the directions again. Telling her what she needed to do. She got up to her bedroom and she placed the laptop on the vanity table. "...Open the drawer on the right and in the back of the drawer there is a bottle with pills in it and a note that says take all pills with water. Now there are a lot of pills in that bottle but it is highly important that you take them all. Once you have taken them, just lie down and go to sleep. And don't tell anyone what you are doing." Regina rummaged around in the drawer and found the bottle with the note on it. She twisted the cap and she made her way through to the ensuite bathroom. She placed the now open bottle of pills on the counter and got the cup she kept in there from the side. Turning on the cold tap she filled it with some water and then put it on the counter. She picked up the bottle of pills and poured the pills into her hand.
"Mom I'm back!" Called Henry from downstairs as he slammed the door shut. Regina jumped and dropped the pills on the floor. "Mom?" Henry called. Regina looked around her, feeling a little lost. She couldn't remember why she was in here, what she had been about to do...She looked down to the floor to see the pills on the floor and sighed leaning down to start picking them up. "Mom?" Henry called again as he walked into the ensuite, frowning as he saw Regina kneeling on the floor. "Mom what are you doing?" Henry asked as he walked over to her and knelt down. His frown creased even more as he saw pills on the floor.
"I'm not sure...I-I can't remember why I am up here..." Regina said looking up at Henry. "I-I'm not sure what these are." Regina held them out to him and poured them into his hand.
Henry looked at them and then up at the bottle which was sat on the counter. He picked it up and his breath hitched in his throat as he read the note stuck to the bottle. Take all pills with water. He looked back up to his mom who looked confused and lost. What had been going on while he popped out? "I'll clean this up mom. Why don't you go downstairs and relax. We can maybe watch a film or something?" Henry said trying to keep his voice calm.
"Okay." Regina nodded. She stood up and headed out of the bathroom. She stopped in the doorway. "Henry why is my laptop up here?" Regina asked.
"I'm not sure mom. I will bring it down once I have cleaned this up." Henry replied.
"Okay." Regina said and she walked out of the room.
Henry looked back at the pill bottle and then the rest of the pills scattered on the floor. He was scared to think what he could have come back to if he had been just a little bit later. He had figured out what his mother could have done if he hadm't returned home when he did. He poured the pills back into the bottle and then walked back out of the bathroom. He walked over to the vanity table and saw on his mothers laptop screen a video of herself. He clicked play and watched as his mother explained about where the pill bottle had been and what to do with it. "And don't tell anyone what you are doing." He felt tears spring to his eyes as he watched the video. He had known his mother would hate to see what had happened to her but he never thought she would have prepared this in the beginning to tell her future self to end her own life. He understood why but he still couldn't process it. He closed down the video and turned off his mothers laptop. Keeping the pill bottle and the laptop he decided when Robin got home he would show him what he had found and discuss that perhaps they needed to keep a closer eye on his mother.