A Land Without Magic
"I'm sorry, Madam Mayor," Dr. Whale told her. "When Miss Shine came in last week she received an MRI. On the slices there was a small tumor in her brain; in the prefrontal cortex, it retains our long term memories. Now this tumor was small."
"'Was small'?"
Dr. Whale sighed and displayed a picture of Orabella's head. "This was her first MRI." There was a small grainy dot near the front of her brain. He took the picture down and replaced it with another. "This is the MRI she was given when she was brought in." There was a significantly larger mass where the small one had been. "She'll need surgery to remove it."
Regina nodded. "Will she wake up?"
"She may. You can sit with her." The Doctor was paged by the ER. "I'll be back to check on her later."
Regina nodded and sat next to Orabella on the hospital bed and held the woman's hand. "I'm sorry, Certainty, I'm so sorry. This curse was supposed to make us happy. And we were weren't we? We were so happy. Now this. I don't want to take away your memories anymore, but you can't live with this thing in your head." She sniffed away her tears. "I'm sorry."
"Mrs. Mills?" A nurse stood in the doorway looking worried.
"What," Regina snapped, forcing the tears back.
"Your son has just been admitted."
"What?"
"He's in the ER."
Mr. Gold stood over Orabella as her monistors beeped steadily. He reached his hand down to her head and began to massage her temple. "I've sent the Savior to retrieve the vials, lovely. Soon magic will be back. You won't need the surgery." He sighed. "I'm sorry this was done to you. And I swear when you've been restored, we'll go out into the world and find our children."
A pulse of pure love shot from Emma and Henry, re-awakening the peoples of Storybrooke to their true selves.
Including Orabella.
She sat up with a start and quickly figured she was in the hospital. She jumped out of her bed, disconnected herself from the machines, grabbed her belongings from the patient closet in her room, and ran out the door. She headed for the well that drew its water from Lake Nostos, alternating running and changing her clothes.
She saw him limping towards the well. "Stiltskin!" He turned to her in shock and she ran into his arms. "I love you."
He laughed and dropped his cane to embrace her fully. "And I love you, too, my lovely."
She pulled back. "There's something we need to do, dear."
"Yes," he sighed happily as she picked up his cane.
He took it and her hand and led the way to the well. They stood togeather. He drew one of the vials from his pocket. She unstoppered it. They watched as he let it fall into the water. And they rejoiced as purple smoke billowed from the depths of the well.
"Magic... is coming."
A/n: Okay everyone! This is it! The last chapter! I'm so excited to be done with this and able to mark it complete! As I said before, I'm trying to get the second one up soon, but I'm really busy with work, so I don't know when that will be. Thank you to everyone who favorited and followed!