Chapter 21

The Last Resort

Henry felt the morning Maine air slip through his fingers, filling him up with a feeling of refreshing delight.

He liked to appreciate the little things, since so many of the big ones had been taken from his life.

He wasn't a sentimental person, with seeing things that other children only dreamed of.

But it was sometimes the sentimental things that made him the happiest.

But before he could even enter the front door of Mary Marguerite's apartment, he got a call from Regina, and immediately answered.

"Hey, mom. What's up?"

"Emma and Killian are under a sleeping curse."

Henry rolled his eyes. Just another day in Storybrooke. "I'll be right there."

He pulled out his keys and opened the front door, slamming it behind. "Let me guess... true love's kiss?"

Regina smirked. "You got it."

Henry walked over to Emma and Killian, and rose his eyebrows. "Geez... what happened to them?"

"We don't know... I didn't think that Emma would do anything drastic, so I'll admit I wasn't entirely prepared."

Henry bit his lip. "Let's hope this works, then."

Henry kneeled down to his mother's height on the mattress and lightly touched his lips to the brim of her forehead.

There was a moment of Earth shattering silence in the room, and everyone held their breaths as the time dragged by.

Suddenly, Emma's body lurched in a gasp, and a bright light engulfed everything around her.

"Ugh... Jesus... What happened, kid?"

Henry shrugged his shoulders. "For once, I don't really know. I just came to help."

Emma then glanced over at Regina. "Well why the Hell are you looking at me? You're the one wanted to drink the potion, and I don't know what happened that made you fall under a sleeping curse."

Emma cupped her forehead, massaging it slowly to get rid of the aching headache following the temporary coma.

"I don't remember anything about the situation... all I remember is Killian ending up being my true love, and then everything goes fuzzy."

Regina glared at the ground, immediately realizing that something wasn't right.

"Mom? What's wrong?"

Regina looked at Emma and Henry with a suspicious gaze. "Someone tampered with the spell... I don't know how, since I plastered this thing with protective enchantments... but whoever did it must have erased the memory of what made you fall under the curse."

Emma immediately groaned when this was mentioned. "I think I know who did it."

Regina held her palm out in an obvious gesture. "Then say it, for God's sake... Killian's not going to wake up anytime soon unless you kiss him!"

Emma rolled her eyes. "It was Mister Gold. He showed up in my first two universes, telling me that he was there to help if anything went wrong... but now that I think about it I think he was the problem in the first place."

Regina shook his head. "I should have known. Nobody else can get through my spells."

Emma kneeled down to Killian who was still motionless on the couch. "Well, there's only one man I know who would love to give that crocodile a piece of his mind."

Emma didn't hesitate as she planted her lips onto his, and once again the entire room lit up with a bright yellow.

Emma watched as he opened his eyes once more, and for some reason, she felt an extreme sense of relief.

She knew then that whatever happened at the end of the vision wasn't anything she would want to live through again.

"Swan..."

He rolled over and she held his hands as she finally embraced him. "I'm sorry. Everything's going to be all right..."

"Not until I thump that Crocodile's skull." Killian said under his breath.

Regina cocked her eyebrows. "Wait... so you remember what happened?"

He scoffed. "You better believe it... that bloody Crocodile killed me. I'm not going to let him get away with that."

Emma started laughing hysterically and hugged him once more, and she smiled as he dug his face into her golden hair.

"That's strange... he must not have thought the sleeping curse would have affected you... That was a bit idiotic for his standards."

Emma stood up, hand in hand with Killian.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm ready to kick Rumple's ass."

Killian gestured his hand forward. "After you, m'lady."

Henry laughed as he followed his family. It was just another day in paradise.

And he loved every minute of it.