Disclaimer: Still don't own Once Upon a Time. Never have, never will. Only Ally is mine.
03- Snow Falls
The next night Ally is hanging out in the diner while her mom and Gigi work. It's too quiet at home for her to stay there again. The loneliness is beginning to get to her. Ally fiddles with her cup of hot chocolate at the counter. Henry and Rose are having a forced family night with their mom so Ally can't hang out with him.
"What's with the long face pup?" Ruby asks her daughter coming around the counter to face Ally. Ally pulls in her lower lip and keeps her gaze down.
"Nothing…" She says. Ruby frowns for she hardly ever sees Ally upset like this before.
"Come on pup. I know you better than that. Something's on your mind, and I think it'd make you feel better to tell me." She coaxes trying to make her spill. Ally looks up at me mom with hopeful eyes.
"Well… Mom, could we maybe watch a movie together tonight? It's been a while since we've done so. I have my homework done and everything." Ally tells her earnestly. A remorseful look comes over Ruby's face.
"Ah pup, I'm sorry. I already made plans for tonight, and you know that it's not nice to break an engagement with someone after you've already agreed. How about this though, you can watch a movie yourself tonight, and maybe tomorrow we can sit down together." She says trying to make a deal with her kid.
Ally deflates in her seat. "Oh, okay." She sighs. Ruby bites her lip at the less than enthusiastic response.
"I'm sorry Ally." She apologizes before being summoned away by another customer. Ally tries to hold back her disappointment at being second best again. She knows that they won't watch a movie tomorrow as well. It took weeks of struggle to make the last night happen. She looks around the dinner and pauses when she sees her teacher Ms. Blanchard at a booth across from Dr. Whale.
Ally raised an eyebrow at the fancy dress and awkward conversation. They must be on a date, at least that's how Rose describes how you're supposed to act and look on one.
The girl scowls when she notices Dr. Whale not paying attention to her teacher but rather to her mom who is clearing a table. It seems like Mary Margaret has noticed as well for she doesn't look happy. "Ruby!" She cries. Ruby goes over to the table with a smile.
"Check please!" Mary Margaret requests. Ally watches with some satisfaction as Dr. Whale scrambles for a pathetic excuse and her mom brings the check back to the table.
But as soon as the bad date leaves the diner she has nothing else of real interest to do anymore. So, when her mom suggests leaving and getting to bed, Ally doesn't fight the decision.
The next day Ally is back where she's happiest, by Henry's side and on a field trip at school. Today Ms. Blanchard has taken the class to the hospital so that they can put up hand made decorations in the recovery wards, and cheer up the patients in general.
Of course Henry and Ally take this as the prime chance to see if they can identify anyone else who is a fairy tale character. "So, how was your time with Emma after therapy?" Ally asks him, curious and a little envious. Henry grins at his friend.
"It was cool. We talked a lot about Operation Cobra. Why weren't you with us? I could have used some help with the specifics." Henry tells her. Ally fidgets with the 'Get Well Soon' sign in her hand.
"I just wanted you to have some alone time with your mom. You haven't gotten to spend much time with her as it is." Ally points out. Henry gives Ally a serious look and grabs her hand, pulling her into a different room and closes the door.
"Ally, just because I've found my mom doesn't mean that I'm going to abandon her. You're all alone all of the time. I'm not going to let you go through that by yourself. Besides Emma told me that she liked you and that she was fine with it. She doesn't want you to be alone until you get your mom back either." Henry tells her with a reassuring smile.
Ally shuffles her feet nervously still. "Are you sure? You haven't seen her in a long time." She says. Henry laughs, and Ally smiles.
"I haven't seen her since I was born, and she's not going to leave me again, so there will be plenty of time." He laughs. Ally beams at her best friend and pulls him into a tight hug which he returns.
"So, have you recognized anyone? Where are we by the way?" Ally asks looking around the glass patient room. Henry turns around as well, and freezes when he notices the man lying asleep in the bed.
"Jackpot! Ally do you recognize him?" Henry asks quietly in a whisper. Ally scrunches her nose and joins Henry beside the man's bed. He has short sandy blond hair and a small scar on his chin. Ally eyes widen after a second and Henry bounces a little.
"Prince Charming." Ally breathes, recognizing him from the fairy tale book. Both kids couldn't believe that after all this looking that they'd finally found him. Before they can do anything else though Mary Margaret comes through the door.
"Henry, Ally. We could really use your help with the decorations." She says trying to get the pair out of the patient's room.
"Is Mr. Doe going to be okay Ms. Blanchard?" Ally asks her teacher suddenly fearful for Prince Charming's life.
"His name's not John Doe, honey. That's just what they call people when they don't know who they are." Mary Margaret attempts to explain to the ten-year-olds.
"Do you know who he is?" Henry asks her, attempting not to sound too excited.
"Nope. Just bring him flowers on my rounds." She tells them opening her arms to try to hurry them along.
"What's wrong with him?" Ally questions again, still worried.
"I don't know. He's been like this as long as I've been volunteering." She answers her.
"Does he have any family or friends?" Henry asks grilling her for more information. Mary Margaret shakes her head at the two kids. They are by far the most inquisitive of her whole class.
"No one's claimed him." She tells them. Ally looks at the man sadly while Henry frowns.
"So, he's all alone." Ally says softly understanding what that feels like. Henry grabs Ally's hand and squeezes it to remind her that she's not all alone.
"Yeah… it's quite sad." Mary Margaret agrees with her student and grabs both of them by the shoulders to leave John Doe alone. But Henry stops them from going too far.
"You sure you don't know him?" Henry asks again. Mary Margaret chuckles at his persistence.
"Course I'm sure. Come on. You two shouldn't be in here." She tells them finally leading them out of the room and away from Prince Charming, her one true love.
That afternoon after school Henry and Ally are on their abandoned castle on the beach sharing a large slice of pumpkin pie that Gigi had given them when they had stopped by the diner, and sipping milk from two large thermoses that Ally's mom had provided.
Ally was perfectly happy being back with her friend again and not alone, people watching at the diner. It didn't even really hurt all that bad when her mom told her that they'd have to postpone the movie night to another night— almost. The pair where chatting excitedly about finally finding Prince Charming, and how they should have known all along that he'd be in the hospital since he'd been near death when the curse was cast.
Both kids looked up when the crunching of boots on sand was heard, and they saw Emma. Henry smiled at her widely, while Ally gave her a shy smile in return.
"Hey kids." Emma greeted the pair as she hoisted herself up besides Henry.
"Hey Emma." Henry grins.
"Hi… are you sure you don't mind me hanging out with you?" Ally asks unsurely. Henry rolls his eyes at her while Emma gives her a soft smile and reaches out to squeeze the girl's shoulder.
"Course I don't. Truthfully it's a little weird working on Operation Cobra without all its members there." Emma says reassuringly. Both Ally and Henry smile at that statement.
"Speaking about Operation Cobra— we found your father Prince Charming." Henry declares with a wide grin, looking at Emma expectantly, but she just sighs heavily.
"Guys…" Emma starts.
"He's in the hospital, in a coma. See the scar? He has one, too." Henry tells her holding up a picture of Prince Charming in the book and pointing at it. Ally nods along in agreement.
"So? Lot's of people have scars." Emma argues.
"In the same place? Don't you see what this means? The curse is keeping them apart with the coma. Now they're stuck without each other. We have to tell Miss Blanchard we found her Prince Charming." Ally counters, wanting her teacher and mother's friend to finally be happy.
"Okay, kid. Telling someone their soulmate is in a coma is probably not helpful. Not having a happy ending is painful enough, but giving someone unrealistic hope is far worse." Emma says leveling each of them with a hard stare.
"But what if we're right? We know who they are. Now they have to know." Henry argues. Emma lets out a sigh.
"And how do you two intend to make that happen?" Emma asks.
"By reminding him. We have to get her to read their story to John Doe. Then, maybe, he'll remember who he is." Ally says coming up with the idea on the spot. Henry grins at his friend's fast thinking and high fives her.
"Okay." Emma says with a sigh giving in.
"Okay?" Henry asks unsure if he's hearing her right.
"Yeah, we'll do it. But we'll do it my way. Let me ask her." Emma says giving both kids a meaningful look. Henry nods his head, while Ally mimes zipping her lips shut and throwing away the key.
Emma shakes her head at them again, but soon changes the subject to how school was, and both kids start complaining.
The next day Emma, Henry, and Ally are sitting in a booth at Granny's diner. All three of them have hot chocolate, and Ally consistently makes faces at the fact that they like cinnamon in their hot chocolate. Henry fires back at her that peppermint is just as weird to like in that drink as well.
Emma broke it up when it got to having pretend sword fights with the candy canes that Ruby had brought over earlier. The three of them were waiting for Mary Margaret to show up and tell them how it went when she read him Snow White and Prince Charming's story to him from the book. She had agreed to do so after Emma had talked to her yesterday.
Emma slides back into the booth across from the kids after she has changed her shirt into the one that Henry had given her from his mom's closet.
"Thanks for the shirt. Hey, is this from you mom's closet?" She asks suspiciously. Henry grins meekly at her.
"She'll never notice. Besides, Rose picked it out, apparently our mom has good fashion taste or something." Henry says scrunching his nose up at the end. Emma has to grin at the confused looks on the young kids faces.
"Where does she think you are, anyway?" Emma asks him changing the subject abruptly. Henry smirks at Ally and she grins back.
"Playing Whack-A-Mole at the arcade with Ally." He tells her. Emma raises an eyebrow at that.
"And she bought that?" She asks him incredulously. Henry shrugs his shoulders.
"She wants to believe it, so she does." He says simply.
"Oh, imagine that." Emma snorts. She still can't believe the gall of her kid. Just then Mary Margaret walks into the diner.
"She's here!" Ally says excitedly.
"Don't get your hopes up kids. We're just getting started." Emma warns them, not wanting to see the kids get hurt. Mary Margaret walks over to their table and slides onto the bench next to Emma releasing a long breath of air.
"He woke up." Mary Margaret says simply and quickly. Henry and Emma grin and high five each other, while Emma looks at her dare she say it friend, shocked.
"We knew it!" Henry cries.
"I mean, he didn't 'wake up' wake up, but he grabbed my hand." She tries to explain better. That was enough for the kids though.
"He's remembering!" Ally says happily.
"What did the doctor say?" Emma asks, still not ready to believe her.
"That I imagined it, but I'm not crazy. I know it happened." Mary Margaret says seriously, looking straight at Emma.
"We have to go back. You have to read to him again." Henry declares. He gets up from his seat and Ally slides out after him. Mar Margaret nods her head and gets up as well.
"Let's go." She says. Emma looks absolutely floored now as she scrambles to follow after the teacher and two kids.
"Wait, wait what?" She sputters.
"If I got through to him, if I made a connection…" Mary Margaret says trailing off. Emma grabs her arm and shakes her head.
"You don't believe…" She starts, but is cut off.
"That he's Prince Charming? Of course not. Somehow, some way, I touched him." She tries to explain. Henry and Ally share exasperated looks as they follow the two adults out of the diner. They would believe— eventually.
A few minutes later Emma, Henry, Ally, and Mary Margaret arrive at the hospital, and take the elevator up to the recovery floor where John Doe's room is. Both of the kids were practically vibrating with excitement for their plan was going so well. Once they got near his room, though everything came screeching to a halt.
They see a bunch of doctors and nurses running around frantically and looking in John Doe's room. "You're right— he's waking up!" Henry says.
"Henry, Ally, you should stay back." Sheriff Graham says coming up to the kids, and gently guiding them back to Emma and Mary Margaret, who take hold of them.
"What's going on? Is it John Doe? Is he okay?" Mary Margaret asks, suddenly very worried about the man.
"He's missing." Graham says heavily, and Ally gasps sending Henry a frantic look. Henry on the other hand is more worried about the very pissed off looking Regina who is coming their way from John Doe's room.
"What the hell are you doing here? And you – I thought you were at the arcade. Now you're lying to me?" Regina growls directing the last part of her statement at Henry and consequently Ally.
"What happened to John Doe? Did someone take him?" Mary Margaret asks attempting to take the heat off of Henry.
"We don't know yet. His IVs were ripped out but there's no sign for sure there's a struggle." Graham says rubbing his cheek absently obviously stressed by the entire situation.
"What did you do?" Henry asks his mother angrily, glaring at her. Regina turns her gaze back to him.
"You think that I had something to do with this?" She asks, somewhat hurt.
"It is curious that the Mayor's here." Emma says narrowing her eyes at Regina.
"I'm here because I'm his emergency contact." Regina says angrily, looking like she wants to strangle Emma.
"You know him?" Mary Margaret asks.
"I found him. On the side of the road years ago with no ID. I brought him here." Regina explains crossing her arms. Dr. Whale comes over o the group, and joins the conversation.
"Mayor Mills saved his life." Dr. Whale states. Ally backs away from the doctor and closer to Henry. Even though he took her tonsils out all those years ago, the blond doctor has always given her the creeps, she just doesn't understand why. Maybe it is just the way that he looks at her mother.
"We he be okay?" Mary Margaret questions him worriedly.
"Okay? The man's been on feeding tubes for years on constant supervision. He needs to get back here right away or, quite honestly, 'okay' might be a pipe dream." He says seriously. Henry and Ally exchange panicked looks, and Emma gives both of their shoulders, and reassuring squeeze.
"Well then, let's quit yapping and start looking." Emma says firmly. Regina turns her gaze back to Emma, and the hate she feels is clear as day.
"That's what we're doing? Just stay out of this, dear. And since I clearly can't keep you away from my son, I guess I'm just going to have to keep my son away from you. Enjoy my shirt, because that's all you're getting. Sheriff, find John Doe. You heard Dr. Whale. Time is precious. Come along Ally, I'm taking you back with me as well." Regina says before grabbing both kids by their shoulders and leading them out of the hospital.
For the whole ride back to Henry's house, Ally tunes out the lecture that her best friend is receiving. Henry for his part doesn't seem to be paying all that much attention either, just nodding along and whining 'fine' in all the right places. Since today is a Saturday, like every weekend Ally sleeps over at Henry's house.
It's by far their favorite time of the week, and on Monday morning Rose walks both Henry and Ally to either school or the bus stop. The three finally pull up to the large white house on the end of Mifflin street, and they get out. Regina makes sure to march Henry and Ally up the walk and into the house.
"Rose!" Regina shouts up the stairs, loud enough to make both kids flinch. A few seconds later, and very huffy and annoyed looking fourteen-year-old appear at the top of the steps, with her black hair piled on the top of her head in a messy bun. Rock music can faintly be heard from her room.
"What?" Rose asks leaning against the banister and taking in the scene down below.
"Henry has been lying about his whereabouts again, and I need you to keep an eye on him and Ally until I can return. There is an emergency at the hospital and I'm needed." Regina explains, while Henry rolls his eyes. Rose glares at her mom annoyed that her plans have been ruined yet again.
"Ah come on! Why do I always have to watch them? I was going to go out with…" She starts complaining but Regina cuts her off with a glare.
"You young lady are going to watch your brother and his friend, for they are only ten. If you don't keep an eye on them, so help me I will ground you for the next month!" She snaps. Rose pales at the thought, and Regina smiles triumphantly. Henry and Ally feel somewhat sorry for Rose, since Regina always comes down hardest on her.
"Fine." Rose says. With a satisfied smile Regina turns to Henry and Ally.
"Now you two— let me make this perfectly clear. If I see any one of you near the hospital again today, I will not hesitate to ground you Henry, and tell your mom and Granny about what you've been up to Ally." She threatens before turning around and leaving the house.
As soon as the door's closed behind her, all three kids let out a sigh of relief. "You know, I don't know how we didn't see that she was the Evil Queen earlier. She's scary." Ally says breaking the silence. Henry laughs, and Rose rolls her eyes, climbing down the stairs to meet them.
"You haven't seen the half of it." She mutters crossing her arms. Rose looks over the kids, and sees how they're not making any moves to take out their jackets and shows. "God, you're going back out again." She groans.
"Yep. We have to help Emma and Mary Margaret find Prince Charming. He's lost in the woods." Henry says sharing his theory for the first time. Ally nods along agreeing with the guess.
"Seriously? Why can't you guys actually do what you're told to for once? Mom is seriously going to freak out if she finds out about this." Rose tells them. Henry shrugs his shoulders, and starts for the back door. Ally follows behind him. Rose watches them leave for a few minutes before groaning.
"Why do I have to care about what happens to them so much?" She moans, and grabs her own coat, racing after them.
After a few minutes of running they're in the woods behind the hospital, and they take a minute to find the path that they would most likely have taken. Ally is leading the small band, since she's been all over these woods, and has become fairly skilled at tracking.
A few minutes later the group of Mary Margaret, Sheriff Graham, and Emma are in sigh. The kids snap a twig, and make the three adults jump, in their hurry to get down the hill and to the group.
"Henry, Ally, Rose!" Mary Margaret cries, shocked to see her two students, and former student there.
"Did you find him yet?" Henry asks. Graham and Emma both shake their heads, as Rose doubles over to catch her breath, not used to having to run so much, unlike the younger kids.
"No, not yet. You three shouldn't be here? Rose you let them come here?" Emma says. Rose glares at Emma irritated.
"You have met them before right. They would have come whether or not I came with them." Rose points out.
"We can help. I know where he's going." Henry interrupts the fight that's brewing.
"And where's that?" Mary Margaret asks eyeing the kids warily. Henry and Ally smile at her.
"He's looking for you." Ally states. The group is pretty much struck dumb after that statement. The adults and teenager decide to ignore that statement, and continue on in the hunt for John Doe. Ally is in the front of the group beside Graham since he's caught her more times in the woods than he can remember, and she knows the way to the old toll bridge better than he does.
"You're the one who woke him up. You're the last one he saw. He wants to find you!" Henry says, attempting to convince Mary Margaret that her Prince Charming is looking for her.
"Henry, it's not about me. I just… I think he's lost and confused. He's been in a coma a long time." She says trying to play off his theory.
"But he loves you! You need to stop chasing him, and let him find you." Henry protests. Rose has finally had enough crazy fairy tale talk for the day.
"Enough Henry! We don't need to hear any more about your fairy tale wonderland." Rose snaps. Mary Margaret places a hand on the girl's arm to calm her down, and surprisingly she does. No one has been able to do that in a long time, and it shocks both Mary Margaret and Graham.
Henry and Ally on the other hand, share a look. They both know the truth about who Rose really is in the book, and who she is to Mary Margaret and Emma. "Kid. You guys need to go home. Where's your mom? She's going to kill me and then you…and then me again." Emma says attempting to make them leave.
"She dropped us at the house, then went right out again." Henry says moving to catch up with Ally. Strength in numbers after all.
"Well, we need to get you back immediately." Emma calls after him.
"No!" Henry shouts back.
"Guys!" Graham yells over everyone to get their attention. Everyone turns to see what he's looking at. On the ground amongst the leaves is John Doe's hospital bracelet. Ally grabs Henry's hand and he holds onto her. Rose moves over to the little kids.
"Is that…" Mary Margaret says in a shaky voice.
"Blood." Emma says solemnly.
Finding John Doe's bloody hospital bracelet, speeds up the search for him faster. Ally has taken to following every short cut she has found to get to the toll bridge. Graham is right behind her wondering how on earth the girl had managed to find all of these paths without any experience.
Finally after a few very long minutes the group comes across the old rotted toll bridge along the babbling brook that Storybrooke is named after.
"Where is he? Can you see him?" Mary Margaret demands looking around urgently.
"The trail dies at the water line." Graham and Ally say together, each glancing at the other. Henry beams at his best friend's talent. He was going to have to go out exploring with her more often. Suddenly the group spots John Doe lying in the water.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!" Mary Margaret cries rushing into the water to John Doe's side with Emma shortly behind her. Rose grabs both Henry and Ally, holding them close to her.
"I need an ambulance! At the old Toll Bridge, as soon as possible." Graham radios before joining the other two in the water, to drag him to shore.
"Is he going to be all right?" Ally asks Rose worriedly looking up at her. Rose bite down on her lip hard, unsure what to tell the younger kids, when she herself is freaking out.
"No, no, no, no, no! No, no, no! I found you!" Mary Margaret cries, quickly losing it.
"It's going to be okay." Emma says trying to reassure everyone at the moment. Graham looks down at the man worriedly.
"Help's coming." He assures them.
"Is he okay?" Henry repeats Ally's question.
"Henry…" Emma says but he cuts her off.
"Is he going to be okay?" Henry demands.
"Henry, guys, don't look. Okay? Don't look." Emma tells the kids.
"Come back to us. Come back to me." Mary Margaret cries to the unconscious John Doe. Ally's lower lip starts to wobble, and she leans in closer to Rose, who wraps her arm around her tighter along with Henry. Mary Margaret begins CPR, and when she puts her mouth on his, he starts breathing again, and coughing up water.
Henry and Ally share a relieved and knowing look, while everyone else sighs in relief. John Doe looks up at her with a stunned look on his face. "You save me." He tells her softly.
"She did it. She did it! She woke him up." Henry and Ally cheer pulling away from Rose, and jumping up and down for joy. Prince Charming and Snow White where finally reunited. Emma comes over to the kids with an amused look on her face.
"Yeah, kids. She did." Emma says. John Doe looks at Mary Margaret gratefully.
"Thank you." He says.
"Who are you?" Mary Margaret asks him. John Doe gives her a blank look.
"I don't know." He says worriedly. Mary Margaret gives him a calming, and understanding look.
"It's okay. You're going to be okay." She tells him. The moment is ruined by the sounds of the ambulance sirens coming into the meadow and approaching the ragtag rescue team. Rose groans in remembrance.
"What's wrong?" Emma asks the teen worried about her. Rose turns her gaze on Emma and the younger kids.
"This means that we're going to see mom, and that she's going to kill us." She says unhappily. Henry and Ally grimace, and Emma doesn't look too happy about the situation either.
Everyone makes it back to the hospital where John Doe is going to get help. "Watch your back. Coming through!" The nurse shouts wheeling John Doe on the gurney back to his room. Dr. Whale walks up to meet them.
"We got it from here." He tells them, as they take him back into his room and close the door behind them. The group watches as Dr. Whale and the nurse begin to treat him. Suddenly a blond woman rushes past them, and burst in the room where he is, and goes right to his side.
"David! David!" She cries, tears streaming down her face. Everyone shares a confused look at what's going on.
"Excuse me, ma'am?" Dr. Whale says, annoyed at not being able to get to his patient.
"Oh my god…" She says.
"Ma'am, you can't be in here. Please, you can't be here right now." He tries to get her out again, but she continues to ignore him.
"David…" She says yet again. Henry and Ally exchange uneasy looks. They know who she is in the book, but not who she is in Storybrooke for they've never seen her before.
"You can't be here, ma'am. Can you wait over here for a second, okay?" Dr. Whale tries again with her, getting seriously annoyed. Ally doesn't think that he was ever really supposed to be a doctor.
"Who is that?" Mary Margaret asks uneasily, finally asking the question that everyone has been wondering.
"His wife." Regina says, coming up behind the group not sounding very happy at all. Henry, Rose, and Ally flinch knowing that they're going to be in so much trouble. Even though Ally isn't Regina's child, she spends so much time with the Mills that she's practically family now.
"His name is David Nolan. And that's his wife, Kathryn. And the joy on her face, well, it's put me in quite the forgiving mood. We'll talk about your insubordination later. Do you know what insubordination means? It means you're grounded." She says the last part to Henry and Rose. Both of them cringe, and Ally shuffles nervously knowing that she's not escaping trouble either.
Kathryn exists David's room and comes over to the group. She's wiping the tears off her face. "Thank you. Thank you for finding my David." She tells them. Henry leans in close to Ally and whispers in her ear.
"That's not her David." He says. Ally nods along already knowing that.
"Um, I-I don't understand. You didn't… You didn't know that he was here in a coma?" Mary Margaret says trying to understand how such a giant mistake like that could possibly be made. Even the kids couldn't find this remotely possible.
"A few years ago, David and I were not getting along. It was my fault, I know that now. I was difficult and unsupportive. I told him if he didn't like things, he could leave. And he did. And I didn't stop him. It was the worst mistake I ever made." Kathryn says shakily.
"You didn't go look for him?" Emma asks dubiously crossing her arms over her chest. She knows when she's being fed a story, and this one smells of lies.
"I assumed he'd left town all this time. And now I know why I never heard from him. Now I get to do what I've wanted to do forever – say I'm sorry. Now we get a second chance." Kathryn says looking gratefully at both Mary Margaret and Regina. Ally leans in close to Henry this time.
"I don't buy it for a minute." She whispers. He nods back.
"That's wonderful." Mary Margaret says even though she doesn't look like she means it very much. Dr. Whale comes out of David's room and approaches the group.
"Well, it's something of a miracle." He says shaking his head in wonderment.
"He's okay?" Kathryn asks him worriedly.
"Ah, physically, he's on the mend, um, his memory is another issue. It may take time, if at all." He explains. Henry and Ally share another look. They really need to get alone and talk all this through.
"What brought him back?" Mary Margaret asks.
"That's the thing. There's no explanation. Something just clicked in him." Dr. Whale shrugs. Some doctor he is.
"He just got up and decided to go for a stroll?" Emma says not liking the explanation at all.
"He woke up and he was delirious and his first instinct was to go find something, I guess." He says.
"Someone." Henry and Ally both say. Regina glares at both of the kids.
"Can I see him?" Kathryn asks the doctor.
"Of course." He tells her showing her back to the room. Regina turn to the three kids, now shuffling uncomfortably.
"Rose, Henry, Ally, let's go." She snaps. Rose groans and follows after her mother while Henry and Ally glance at the saddened Mary Margaret.
"Wait our backpacks!" Ally cries rushing over to them by the woman. Henry grabs his and turns to her.
"Don't believe them. You're the one he was looking for." He tells Mary Margaret.
"Henry…" She says not knowing what to say. Ally comes up beside him.
"He was going to the Troll Bridge. It's like the end of the story." Ally adds, and the teacher shakes her head. She's really starting to regret giving the pair of them that book.
"Henry, Ally, he was going there because it's the last thing I read to him." She tells them sadly. Henry and Ally start backpedaling for they can feel Regina's angry glare.
"No, it's because you belong together." Henry calls, and the two of them hurried over to Rose and Regina, and they got into the elevator.
It was a very uncomfortable ride down to the car, since Regina was too mad to speak, Rose too scared, and Henry too mad. Ally just hated that she was stuck in the middle of yet another Mills conflict, she was a Lucas, and Lucas' stayed away from the affairs of others. Or well, at least they should.
They manage to get out front of the hospital when Emma catches up with them. "Madam Mayor!" She calls out. Regina turns back to the kids.
"Wait by the car." She orders. The three walk to the car slowly watch the confrontation from afar.
"Boy, Emma sure knows how to get under mom's skin. I wouldn't put it past her to forget to punish us for a few hours now. She'll be steaming over that conversation tonight." Rose says shaking her head.
Henry looks at them worriedly. "I'm not too worried." He admits. Rose can't believe her brother and his eternal optimism. Nothing ever goes well, after their mom determines that they've been insubordinate.
"Well Gigi will be angry, and Mom won't mind. I'll have to lay low for a day or two, then they'll forget all about it. They're too busy." Ally tells them, watching the confrontation as well.
Rose scoffs at that. "I wish that our mom would be too busy and forget to punish us, but if anything that's the one thing she remembers." Rose sighs. Henry turns and looks at the girls.
"That's because she's evil." He says.
