A/n: I'm so sorry for the wait. We just had a huge move at work and I completely forgot about posting this weeks chapter. Thank you to Reclaim for favoriting!
The Doctor
Orabella's phone rang. "Regina? I don't have Henry..."
"I saw Daniel," Regina interrupted. "H-he was standing in front of the library. He looked at me."
"Reg, calm down. I'm on my way." She hurried out the door of her shop, barely grabbing her coat. The rain pelted down the street. She quickly entered Regina's car and pulled the woman to her. "It's okay. I'm here."
"I-I didn't know who else to call," Regina sobbed into the other woman's shoulder.
"It's okay. I'm glad you called me. Let's get you home."
Regina nodded and sat up, wiping her face off. She drove to her house and curled up on her bed as Orabella made tea. "Why are you helping me," she asked her former bodyguard. "You sent Gold to kill me."
"No, I sent him to continue the story," Orabella corrected as she sat on the foot of the bed. "You kept us apart for 30 years. And some things must happen the way they were writ. You were never in any real danger, or I wouldn't have been able to suggest it."
"So you're still under my mother's power?"
"A little," Orabella admitted. "But it's weaker here, and because you gave me away." She took a sip of her tea and changed the subject. "Tomorrow we'll go see if Daniel is truly up and about."
"And if he is?" Regina's voice was quiet and strangled.
"Then we go see Whale."
Regina led the way to the psych-ward in the bowels of the hospital. "Dr. Whale? Where are you?"
Orabella pushed a door open wide. "Doctor?" The room was in complete dissarray. An overhead light flickered at an angle, dangling from the ceiling.
Regina walked to the gurney and pulled back the sheet, revealing a human arm. She jumped back, hitting the light.
Orabella spotted something behind the bed and moved it. "Whale!" The man was on the floor bleeding from his shoulder.
The women kneeled down on either side; Orabella began to use her magic to stop the bleeding as Regina bent over him. "I know you took Daniel's body, and you took one of my hearts. Why?" He didn't answer. "Why," she cried loudly, shaking him. "Did you bring him back?"
"I did it," Whale groaned through the pain.
"He's alive?"
"Yes. I brought him back, but he's not Daniel."
"What?"
"He's a monster," Whale whimpered before passing out.
"Regina, you need to go get help," Orabella said to the shocked woman, her healing spell wrapping around the doctor's stump arm.
Regina was speaking to David in the middle of the hospital hallway when Orabella came upon them. "I think it's like when you awoke from your coma. He's following his final thoughts to where he last met me," Regina was saying. "The stables."
"Henry," Orabella said worriedly.
"Henry's at the stables," David said before running out of the hospital, the women closely behind him.
"Why is Henry at the stables," Regina asked as they piled into David's truck.
Orabella and David shared a glance. "We, uh, got him a horse," he said as he raced through town.
"You what?"
"It's not a bad idea, Reg. It'll be good for him," Orabella defended.
David pulled into the stables with a fishtail, almost throwing the transmission out when he threw the truck into park. The trio ran into the stables, dodging Henry's horse and Hroar and Lucia crying about how some man was attacking Henry.
"Hey, guys, go to Mr. David's truck and get in," Orabella said pushing them towards the stable entrance.
The three of them slid to a halt in front of Henry's stall, Regina noticing first that Daniel had Henry up the wall by his neck. "Daniel! Let him go!"
Henry fell with a thud and David dragged him out of the stall. "Ora, get him outside!"
"Come on, Henry." The pair ran until they reached the truck. They got in, Henry squished between the other two children, Orabella in the drivers seat.
"What's going on? Who was that?" Henry ran his fingers through his hair as he asked his questions rapidly.
"That was Daniel. Whale brought him back," Orabella explained as she drew the seatbelt over herself and started the truck.
"Then why is he trying to kill me?"
"Nothing can bring back the dead, Henry," Lucia explained as Hroar drew the seatbelt around the three of them.
"Even Skyrim's necromancy can only be used to bring people back as adequate meat shields," their aunt sighed as she saw David walk calmly out of the stables. "He doesn't have much more time."
"What's my mom gonna do," Henry asked as he spotted David.
"Say goodbye," she answered as David swung himself into the bed of the truck and motioned for her to leave.
