Chapter34
Henry sat at his birth mother's desk staring at the empty cells. Blue had managed to cure Leroy and Will of their poisoning and after David had chewed the dwarf up one side and down the other over his carelessness, he vowed it would never happen again. Like most everyone else, David had no problem with Grumpy being with a fairy, but he needed to find safer meeting spots.
Henry had wanted to tag along while Regina and Snow went to pay the doctor a visit. The boy hoped everything went well with the baby. He did think it would be cool to have a little brother or sister. The teen could teach them how to play video games, and finally have someone who he could boss around.
Emma was in interrogation with one of the lost boys in an attempt to find Felix. David rounded the corner with a cup. He stopped at the water cooler and filled before saying, "He is giving us nothing."
Henry shook his head, "You two are wasting your time. Those guys will not roll on each other."
David didn't respond, he just walked back towards the interrogation room.
The teen rolled his eyes and stood up. He walked over to the window and peered out. A few people were out and about. An old woman that was walking her Yorkie passed the front of the station. A younger woman pushed a stroller through the cross walk as she pulled a toddler by the hand. A teenager on a skateboard rolled to a halt at the cross walk across the street. The kid had a hoodie on with the hood down over his head. The light changed and as he turned to make sure the street was clear; Henry saw that it was Felix.
Henry started to run to the back and get his mother, but when he looked back to the other boy was crossing the street, so Henry took off out the door.
As he rounded the corner he caught sight of the other boy a distance from him. He didn't want the kid to see him, he wanted to find where he was going and then Henry would call Emma.
The skateboarder turned down an alley in the distance and Henry walked faster in fear that he would lose him. As he got to the alley way, he ducked down beside a dumpster.
From Henry's position he could the other boy. Felix rolled to a stop and flipped his board up catching in his hands. He looked left and then right to ensure no one saw him and then he went to a grate on the side of an old theater and slid it open, revealing a secret entrance. He looked around once more, and then slipped inside, letting the grate fall back into place.
Henry waited for a few minute until he felt it was clear to follow. He walked over to the grate and slid it to the side and looked in. It was dark but it seemed to be a short tunnel, like an old air conditioning system vent or something, so he went in.
The boy slowly and quietly crept forward. He could hear voices from somewhere ahead of him. Henry peeked out from around the tunnel and noticed he was in an old dressing room, but the voices were coming from the other side of a door in front of him.
"What are we going to do now, Felix?" A younger boy's asked.
"What do you think I've been doing all this time?" The older boy asked.
"I thought you were getting Peter." Another voice said.
"I already tried to get him back, but it didn't work, remember, so you all are stuck with me." Felix said.
Henry grabbed his phone from his pocket to text Emma, but where he was standing, He didn't have any signal. He sighed turning around to exit the tunnel, when he heard what sounded like a drill. He widened his eyes and hurried to the exit, but one of the city workers had fastened the grate back into place.
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Regina lay back on the examination table biting her lower lip. The doctor had examined her cervix and assured her that her body was healthy enough to carry a baby, but she couldn't figure out how Robin was able to get her pregnant in the first place if he was shooting blanks, but then she remembered that Robin was poisoned with black magic and instead of him actually being able to cast magic, such as Henry had done, his body had magically healed enough to make swimmers, she wasn't really sure about that.
Dr. Wales had taken blood, and had left the room to find an ultrasound machine. Snow sat in the chair in the corner smiling.
Regina stared up at the ceiling, "Maybe I should wait for Emma before we have an ultrasound done."
Snow could see the trepidation on her face, "Umm why don't you call her?"
"I don't want to bug her." She said.
Snow passed her cellphone over to the older woman, "You are the last person in this world or the next that she would ever claim would bug her."
Regina smiled and took the device dialing the number.
"Hey, is everything okay?" Emma answered knowing who it was by the caller ID.
"Yeah, everything is fine. Dr. Wales wants to do an ultrasound, but I can wait until you are here with me." Regina said.
"Regina, no, do the ultrasound. You can bring me a picture, and I will make sure I am at all of the other appointments, but you have to find out everything you can to make sure everything will go well", Emma assured her.
Dr. Wales walked into the room pushing the machine with him.
Regina said, "All right, well I guess I'll call you when we are finished because the doctor just came in."
Regina could hear the smile in the blonde's voice, "Okay, I love you."
The brunette smiled before replying, "I love you too."
The doctor plugged the machine in and started setting it up, when the ultra sound technician came in with the gel in her hands. Dr. Wales smiled, "Well I will let Mrs. Todd take over from here and I'll speak with you after."
Regina watched the man walk out of the room. The much younger woman pushed the queen's gown up as she opened the gel bottle, "This is going to be a bit chilly."
The mayor sucked in a breath when the icy gelatinous liquid was squirted onto her stomach. Snow had stood and walked closer so she could that see the monitor. Regina narrowed her eyes in confusion as she looked at her belly. It seemed as though her stomach had swollen a bit since they were at the diner, which was only short time ago. She thought that she may be bloated or something, but she had noticed on the way here that her pants were feeling snug.
The tech pressed the wand to the brunette's abdomen and slowly started moving it. They could hear swishing sounds and then a heartbeat, "How far along are you?" The tech asked.
Regina responded, "Almost a week."
The woman's head shot up, "That's impossible."
Snow looked closer at the monitor and gasped.
Honestly Regina wasn't sure what she was looking at on the machine because most of it looked the same, "What the matter?"
"This fetus is at least ten weeks." The tech said.
Regina looked at the other woman, "No, that is not possible."
The tech started to continue to argue but Snow stopped her, "Go get Dr. Wales, he understands the situation."
The woman didn't hesitate; she turned and hurried out of the room.
Snow stepped closer to Regina, "Wow, Granny said it would be a faster pregnancy, but she didn't say it would go this quick."
Regina was suddenly afraid. She had never been pregnant, she didn't know what to expect and she wasn't sure she would be able to handle her pregnancy going this quickly. She was over whelmed and tears were about to fall.
The Dr. came back into the room and picked up the wand. Pressing it into her stomach, he gasped, but didn't say anything, just continued to move the device. After several seconds, he said, "At least I can tell you that the baby appears very healthy."
His fascination at the growth of the baby was riding the brunette's nerves; she just wanted to see Emma.
She slapped the doctor's hand away and sat up. Snow asked in concern, "Regina what are doing?"
The watery eyes of the older woman meet the short haired brunette's, "I need to see Emma."
Snow nodded in understanding and looked at the doctor, "We will check back in with you soon."
The doctor nodded and exited the room. He knew as well as anyone that arguing with either of those two women was not in his best interest.
Mary Margret helped the other woman clean the gel off and then assisted the mayor in getting dressed. She could see that the woman was on the brink of a break down.
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Emma walked the uncooperative teen to the door of the station, "Thanks for nothing kid."
"Anytime." The boy smirked as he exited the building.
The blonde wanted to yell in frustration. She was someone who actually understood the whole honor thing, but not when she needed the information.
She walked back to her desk and plopped down. She should have listened to her kid, but what kind of cop would she be if she didn't try. She really thought she could use a drink, but then shook her head. There had been enough bad things involving alcohol in last week to last forever.
She heard the station door open and she turned her head in time to see her mother come around the corner, followed by a very upset looking Regina.
The sheriff shot up out of her seat and rushed over to her lover, "What happened?"
Regina burst into tears and fell into her lovers arms. Emma gave a worried looked to her mother, but instead of saying anything, she held the older woman tighter and softly petted the brunette locks. The blonde could feel the mayor tear on her neck and she whispered soothing word while she waited for her to gain the ability to speak.
David came around the corner from the bathroom, "What's wrong?"
Snow put up her hand to stop him and then shook her head. He looked at her puzzled but remained silent. Emma looked at him from over the queen's head as she continued soothing her lover.
Regina's sobs seemed to slow and she raised her head, "I don't know if I can do this."
Emma gently herded the woman over to her desk chair, convincing her to sit, "What do you mean, you will do great?"
Regina covered her face as more tears came, "No I won't."
The blonde was under the assumption that the other woman was scared so she smiled, "I will be right beside you the entire time."
Another sob came out as Regina said, "The ultra sound said that the baby is already ten weeks."
Emma face sobered, and she glanced up at her mother who confirmed the statement. Looking back at the mayor she said optimistically, "Well, that just means we need to hurry up and plan a baby shower."
The queen let her hands fall to her lap as she looked at the blonde, "Emma please, do not make jokes right now."
Emma knelt down in front of Regina, "I wasn't." She took the other woman's hands in her own, "I know you are scared and this speedy pregnancy isn't ideal, but I promise I will be right beside you no matter what happens."
Green eyes stared into puffy brown ones and Regina didn't say anything, she just let her forehead rest against the blondes and closed her eyes. Emma brought her lips to the brunettes and kissed her.
Snow walked over and handed the older woman a tissue, and Emma stood up letting her lover clean her face and blow her nose.
David asked, "SO, besides how fast the baby is growing, is it healthy?"
Snow answered, "The doctor said it was very healthy and he also said that everything is good with Regina too."
David nodded and smiled, "Well that is good news."
Regina let out a small laugh and wiped her nose. She glanced up and looked around the room, "Where is Henry."
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Henry moved quietly around the room looking for another exit. It was dark and the only light he could see, was that in which shown from under the door that the voices had come from.
He crept closer to it and listened. The voices had stopped and he was sure he heard the footsteps move away. The boy took a deep breath and slowly opened the door. It was the back stage hallway and luckily it was empty.
He tiptoed towards the back curtain and could hear more talking.
"What did I tell you Kevin? If you didn't come back with anything, you don't eat", Felix's voice was clear.
Henry got up close to the curtain and could see Felix was sitting in a chair and about seven other boys standing in a line in front of the older boy on the stage.
"Come on Felix, I always bring stuff back. Today is the only day I didn't because the people came home early and I had to run", Kevin said.
Henry noticed that all of the other boys were holding things that he assumed they stolen.
"I said no!" the older boy pushed Kevin back causing him to fall.
Henry didn't understand, all of these boys were placed in foster homes all over Story Brooke. He had even heard a number of the families wanted to adopt the boys. He wondered if his mom was aware of this.
A little boy that looked to be about five or six years old step forward holding a purse. Felix looked at him and then held out his hand. The boy placed the purse in his hands and he started rummaging through it.
The older boy pulled out a wallet and opened it, "There's no money in here stupid."
The littler boy looked scared, "I didn't have time to look in it."
Felix glared, "Then you don't have time to eat Benny." He pushed the boy back by the face.
Henry remembered how he had been bullied and how he had promised himself that he would never let someone else go through that, so he pushed passed the curtain and onto the stage, "Leave him alone!"
Felix jumped up from his chair, at first startled but then anger took over, "What the hell are you doing here?"
Henry stood a few feet from the older boy, "I could ask you the same thing."
"Look boys, it the one who betrayed Pan", the older boy said over his should to the others.
"What are you doing man? These kids have families that want them." Henry said crossing his arms.
Felix looked around at all of the faces, "Those peoplewere trying to break our family up. Peter would have never stood for that. He would have fought to keep us all together."
Henry shook his head, "Peter Pan was not your family. He only used you all for his own selfish wants. Is this how Peter decided who ate and who didn't back in Neverland?" He asked pointing to the purse that was thrown on the ground.
"Peter taught us to be men, and men only get rewarded when they prove themselves" Felix said.
Henry turned to the littlest boy, "When you were with the foster family, did you eat every night?"
The little boy nodded his head, and Henry asked, "Where they good to you?"
Again the little boy nodded.
"Oh you can't ask him, he's an idiot", the older boy sneered.
Henry shook his head and looked around the stage at the boy's, "Why are you all with this clown?"
Felix whipped his head up and glared at everyone, who in return lowered their gaze to the floor.
The older boy looked at Henry, "You should learn to mind your own business."
"You mean like you did by stealing Pandora's Box?" Henry asked.
The boy looked confused, "How did you know about that?"
Henry clenched his fist, "Because of you a lot of people have been hurt."
Felix laughed, "What are you talking about, I didn't hurt anyone."
Henry stepped closer, "Your stupidity caused my mom to get hurt."
The older boy looked around the stage then back to Henry, "Oh right, I heard she was attacked by Robin Hood. Hey weren't the two of them a couple or some shit?"
"Be careful Felix." Henry warned.
"I was just wondering how it was rape if they were a couple. I mean if you're a couple you can't claim rape, right?" The older boy grinned.
Henry lunged forward hitting the older boy so hard that he flew back and fell to the floor, "These guys may be afraid of you, but I'm not."
Slowly the older boy climbed to his feet, "You're going to pay for that."
Felix ran forward tackling Henry to the floor, as he hit him in the mouth. The younger boy was so angry he was numb. He flipped their position to where Henry was now on top and he hit the older one again in the face.
This time Felix had to shake his head in attempt to get his bearings, but before he could Henry hit him again knocking him back. The older boy's eyes were glassy as he raised his head and Henry hit him again knocking him out cold.
Henry stood up a little unsteady. He wiped the blood from his newly busted lips and looked around at the other boys, "Is this how you want to live, where you have to fight for food and steal from people. He and Pan are not your families, but there are some people here in Story Brooke that wants you to be theirs."
A moan came from the boy on the ground. Henry shoved him with his foot, "Get up! You're coming with me." He grabbed the older boy by the arm and pulled him to his feet.
Felix yanked is arm back, "I'm not going anywhere with you."
"Yes you are." One of the other boys' said as they all stepped forward with threatening expressions. Felix swallowed, but said not thing.
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"I can't go through this again Emma. Where is he and why isn't he answering his phone?" Regina said as her eyes welled with tears for the millionth time that week.
Emma sighed, "It's only been a little over an hour, I'm sure he is fine." Regina gave a doubtful glare and Emma added, "But I will take a drive around town and see if I can find him."
The sound of the station door opening caused everyone to pause.
Regina stood up straight, "Henry?"
Henry walked around the corner and Regina gasped at his swollen lip, "What happ", her question died on her lips as she saw Felix round the corner with a black eye, bloody nose and busted lip, follow by seven other boys.
Henry gave a small smile, "I found Felix." He pointed to the older boy and a younger one shoved the older one forward, "He's not going to give you any problem."
The blonde looked at the older boy, "You said something about his mom, didn't you?"
The boy only scowled at her, as David took him by the arm and led him to the interrogation room.
Emma smiled on the inside at the little badass her son was becoming, but she would never let his mother know that. She looked at the remaining group of boys "So let me guess, you all are the reason that thefts have been happening around town?"
They all nodded and unison, but Emma wasn't sure what to do.
The littlest boy walked up to the sheriff and held up his wrist, "We know you have to arrest me."
Emma glanced over at Regina, then to Snow, and then back to the little boy, "What's your name?"
"Benny." He replied.
"Why would I arrest you?" Emma asked.
Benny looked up at the blonde with tears in his eyes, "Don't arrest them. They were only doing what Felix told them so they could eat. He told us that he would bring Peter back so we could all go back to Neverland."
Regina rush forward and bent down wrapping the child in her arms, "She is not going to arrest any of you."
Emma looked at the other boys, "Is that what all of you want, to go back to Neverland?"
They were all quiet for a second but then Benny said, "Not me. I liked having a mom, and a bed, and food. I was never hungry when I was at the foster family's house, and I didn't have to do anything for food." His eye lit up and he looked a Regina, "And one time I didn't pick up my toys and they still let me have supper."
Emma looked back at the older boys, "What about the rest of you? Do you want to continue fighting food, or do want a place where you will never go hungry and you will always be loved?"
"We want to stay", one of the boys said as the other's nodded in agreement.
Emma had personally inspected and ran extensive backgrounds on all of the foster parents, when the lost boys were brought back. Regina had given her a hard time about it, but of course she didn't know as much about the blonde back then.
Regina picked the littlest boy up and walked over to the phone, "How many of you remember the number of your foster parents?"
Several boys stood raised their hands, and she sat Benny down on the desk as she pick up the receiver, and then she point at one of the boys, "You first."
Emma walked towards the interrogation room, leaving Regina with all of the kids. She could tell the older woman had it handled.
As she entered the room, David said, "Tell her what you told me."
Felix rolled his eyes, but did as he was told, "I had one of the other boy's sneak into Mr. Gold's shop when he was on his honeymoon and take the box. The boys wanted to stay with those people and break up our family. They told me that they missed Peter, so I thought I would try and get him back, so I went to the warehouse to wait on the fairy to bring her bag of dust like she did every week when she would meet up to bang that bearded fellow, but I lost interest. Everyone said fairy dust some pretty potent stuff, but then I started thinking, why would I want Pan back when I could be the new leader?
They came in sooner than I thought and I accidently left the box on the ledge, when she threw her bag up it knock it down into the crates on the ground. Before I could grab it, they knocked the dust off and it went all over the box, but nothing happened, so I took it back before Gold knew it was missing."
Emma narrowed her gaze at the boy, "That's where you are wrong, because something did happen. The box mixed with fairy dust contaminated those crates of rum, which in turn was consumed. The mayor was severely hurt, two men died and everyone is still trying to clean up that mess."
He widened his eyes, "So it is my fault that the mayor was attacked?"
"You were the keystone my friend", She said.
He looked sincerely devastated, "What happens now?"
Emma ran her fingers through her hair, "How old are you, kid?"
"Seventeen," He said.
The sheriff looked at her father and then back at the kid, "Hold on a minute."
She got up and walked out of the room and hollered down the hallway, "Henry, can you come here a minute?"
Henry hurried down the hall, "Yeah, what's up?"
She gestured for him to enter the room, and he looked at her funny, but went in. Felix looked down at the ground automatically, and Emma asked, "So, we have a choice to make with the fate of Mr. Felix."
Henry looked at the other boy then by to his birth mother as she continued, "I can lock him up here, like a common criminal, or we can ship him off to juvenile hall until his eighteenth birthday. What do you think?"
The younger boy narrowed his eyes, "Then sends him to Juvenile hall, and let them deal with him."
Emma looked at her son, "Are you sure that's what you want?"
"Yeah", Henry said.
"Okay, then the choice is made, he stays with us until we can get him to the facility", she said.
Henry's eyebrows shot up, "What? He can't come home with us."
The older boy looked up with pleading eyes, "I can just stay here sheriff, there no need to go to all that trouble."
"I agree, let him stay here", Henry said.
David caught on to what was happening and hid his smile with his hand, "While you all continue discussing this matter, I believe I will excuse myself."
"The decision has been made." Emma said walking out of the room. The two boys were hot on her heels begging her, "Please don't do this!" Felix begged.
"Emma come on, this isn't fair", Henry said as they rounded the corner.
She spun around, "How is it not fair, you were the one that made the choice."
"It was a loaded choice; you didn't give me all of the information." Henry pouted.
Regina had made the last phone call as the trio caught her attention, "What's going on?"
"Emma has lost her mind, Mom, tell her he can't stay with us." Henry said pointing to the other boy.
"Yeah mayor, tell her I can just sleep in the cell", Felix looked mortified.
The mayor was speechless for a second, but she couldn't see the boy sleeping behind bars, she looked up at the blonde.
"I let Henry pick what would happen to Felix, and he choice to send him to juvenile hall. So I said he would stay with us until we could get him to the facility." Emma said with her hands in the pockets of her red leather jacket.
Regina tried to hide a smile. She didn't know if this plan would work, but she couldn't help but love the woman even more for her attempt.
"See mom, she tricked me." Henry whined.
"Sounds like the decision has been made to me" the mayor said.