At school Henry goes through the same routine; home room, talks to his friends (Peter and Grace), goes to his other classes, lunch, classes, and then home. But today was a little different. While Henry was making his way to his third class of the day, one of his classmates from his home room came up to him and randomly apologizes to him about his parents.

"Ayy man, I'm sorry about your Moms." His face contorted with sympathy.

"What are you talking about?"

"I heard my Mom talk about how the Mayor is having marital issues or something….You didn't know?"

"No." Henry's emotions start to flare up and it shows on his face, the student gets the unspoken hint.

"Well I'm sorry man." The student places his hand on Henry's shoulder, but Henry shoves it off as he storms off to his next class.

During lunch Peter roughly places his tray on the table, disturbing Henry's thought process, not really hearing what he was saying.

"Huh?"

"I said, sorry about your Moms man."

"Whatever." Peter just looks at Henry then scoffs.

"Dude, what's your problem?" Henry thinks for a minute then just gets up with his tray. Before he even makes it 10ft. Peter grabs his arm.

"I said, 'what's your problem?'"

"You, Peter. I'm tired of you talking about my Moms." Peter let's go of his arm and laughs for a bit.

"Is that all, they're just jokes, can't you take one?" Henry doesn't say another word, he just continues to walk off with his tray, but once again, Peter goes and grabs his arm again.

"Where you going, come back to our table and sit."

"Get the hell off of me Peter." For a minute Peter and Henry have a stare down, it's so intense that everyone is expecting a fight, but it never gets that far, Peter just lets go and allows Henry to walk off.

Henry throws the rest of his lunch away and walks to his locker. There he grabs all of his things, stuffs them into his backpack, and walks off. Henry learned the routines of all the hall monitors, something he learned from his Ma. After he made sure that everything was clear he left the building.

"I love our walks."

"Yeah, me too. You like going to the park, Kid?"

"Can I go play on the slide now?"

"Ok. Ok. Just be careful, Henry."

Henry's been walking for a while; he doesn't really know how long, he's been thinking the whole time. When he finally looks up he notices that he was at the park. Henry looks at all the slides and swings as he sits on the bench. He sighs, feeling all the stress he never knew he had.

Henry is unsure about how long it's been since he left the school, but he knows it must have been quite a while ago because he can sees him Ma's squad car. The school must have called the station when he didn't show up to his next class.

"We haven't been to the park in a while." Henry doesn't even look in her direction as she sits next to him, he doesn't even respond to her. "We used to come here every weekend when you were younger; you would always go for the slide first. You used to pretend to be the Prince of the park; you would find a stick and swing it around like a sword, fighting dragons and evil queens." Emma looks down at Henry; he still hasn't moved an inch since she arrived. "Henry, what's been going on with you? You've been…different. Is it something at school?" Henry knows something has changed, but it's not him, it's them, but he doesn't want to talk about it right now.

"Yeah, it's Peter." Emma lays her hand on his head, smoothing out those few hairs that never seem to ever corporate.
"Henry, I never understood why you hung out with that kid."

"Yeah Ma, I know. It's just…" Henry trails off as he thinks about the best way to respond. Henry knows exactly why he hangs out with Peter. Ever since they became friends, people stopped talking about his parents, at least loud enough for him to hear. The only downside is that in order to get other people to stop talking about them, he has to deal with Peter talking about them instead. He knows Peter isn't a good person, but he is a good friend… kind of, but the whole point is that he knows all he has to do is tell Peter and he'll do something about all the rumors, but that isn't Henry's style of doing things. "…It's just that he's the only one who talks to me. People have a tendency to not talk to you when your parents are both the Mayor and Sheriff." Emma looks at Henry with sad eyes, but Henry doesn't notice because he still doesn't look up from the spot on the ground he's been staring at. It's not that he was lying, Peter is the only one brave enough to even talk to Henry, Grace included, but her "superpower" was quite…powerful, no pun intended, and the last thing he wanted to talk about was what's really on his mind. His parent's marriage.

"Henry I'm sorry. I know it must be hard to make friends because of me and your Mom, but there has to be other people other than Peter Panelli, that kid has a record too long for his age." Henry nods in agreement, Peter was a really bad kid, and Henry knew that, he always has. But after what almost happened at lunch today, he kinda felt stuck in their friendship.

"Ma?"

"Yeah, Henry?"

"Have….have you ever felt stuck in something?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like in a relationship." Emma hesitates as she rubs the back of her neck.

"Why do you ask?" Henry finally looks at his Ma, searching her eyes for something, not really knowing what, but the air felt weird after he asked his question.

"Just wondering."

"Hmm, but to answer your question: No, I haven't." Henry just nods.

"Come on, let's go home." Henry snaps his attention to his Ma.

"You're not taking me back to school?"

"…No, I think it's best that we go home."

"Thanks, Ma." Henry gives Emma a weak smile and Emma gives one right back.

Henry and Emma make it home in complete silence, everything that needed to be said was said at the park. Once inside the house Henry tries to go straight upstairs, but he's stopped by his Mom.

"Henry, please come here." Henry groans, but not loud enough for Regina to hear. Henry slowly walks into his Mom's study.

"Yeah, Mom?"

"Henry, the school called me and said you never went in your classes after lunch. What happened?"

"I already talked about this with Ma, can't you ask her?" Henry shuffles his feet and his face expresses his gloomy attitude.

"No, Henry, I'm asking you. What has gotten in to you lately, you're not acting like yourself?" Henry really wanted to go upstairs, he was physically tired from the walk, emotionally tired from finding out about his parents, and mentally tired from coming up with excuses about his behavior. All he wanted was to go to his room and read his comic books, he just couldn't take it anymore. "Henry! Answer me."

"I don't know!" Henry's face changes twice, from gloomy, to angered, then finally uncomfortable. If he wasn't shuffling then, Henry is really feeling nervous now. "I'm sorry. Can't I go now?" Regina doesn't really know how to respond, Henry never really behaved like this, so she had nothing else to say other than, "Yes, you may go."

In his room Henry didn't go near his comics like he planned, instead he just went to his bed and laid there until he fell asleep.

"Henry, wake up, we have a surprise for you."

"What is it?"

"You'll have to get up and find out."

"You like it?...I'll take that as a yes."

Henry wakes up somehow in his pajamas and under the covers. He just goes back to sleep.

In the morning Henry gets ready for school as usual, but on his way down his parents call him to his Mother's study.

"Yeah?" Both of his parents are in there, a surprise to say the least, not to mention that they're standing right next to each other. He knew something was happening today.

"You won't be going to school today. I already called your Principle, he'll have one of your classmates bring over any missed work." Henry is entirely confused, his Mom has never let his miss school, unless his was sick or had a broken limb, he had to always go to school.

"Oookay….umm, why?" Henry places his backpack down next to him as he sits down on the couch. Regina and Emma looks at one another. Regina takes a deep breath before speaking.

"Emma told me what you two talked about at the park and-"

"You told her!?" Regina looks at Henry feeling hurt, but her voice was still stern.

"Of course she told me Henry, I'm your Mother, and I needed to know." Henry crosses his arms, feeling a little betrayed, but he continues to listen. "And we feel as if we haven't been acting as a family lately." Regina moves to sit next to Henry while Emma continues to awkwardly lean against Regina's desk. "So we're going to do that today." Regina gives a weak smile and her eyes made her look tired. Henry's been noticing, she's been getting worse little by little. He doesn't try to argue, he just nods his head and mimics his Mother's sad smile.

The family finally agrees on a place to go. Granny's. It's been a long while since they had all gone together. They've all been there in the last two weeks, but individually, not as a family. They thought it would be a good idea to try and go back to how things used to be, pretend that nothing had ever gone wrong. Regina orders herself a Cesar Salad, Emma orders herself a Bacon Cheese Burger with extra Fries, and Henry orders the same but with a regular order of Fries and extra Bacon. Things go well at the beginning, they eat their food, they have small talk, they even smile every once and a while. At the moment, they're like any other typical family.

After everyone has eaten, they decide to go to the park, take a walk around the swings, you know, act like a real family. To the naked eye they look normal, but to Henry, he can see how hard it is for his parents to keep up the charade. He had a mixture of feelings; anger, sympathy, pity. He wanted to confront his parents about the lie they're displaying, but at the same time, he knew they were doing it to protect him. Unfortunately they couldn't protect him enough, their personal life had already reached school, and who knows how much of the town already knew. Storybrooke was a very small place. It was nice since everyone was like family, but when it came to secrets, there were none. Henry felt he had all the right to let them know otherwise, but he didn't want to make things worse for them, whatever they were going through it was hard on them. He didn't believe it had anything to do with their marriage, though they've been married for 14 years, he's seen them happy, everyone has. They were like soul mates; true loves, it had to be something else, but if it was their marriage, Henry didn't know what he'll do.

The family finally got home from their walk at the park, it was only 9pm but the walk was so long and they felt exhausted, so they all went to bed. By morning they all woke up at the same time, weird given that it was Saturday; Henry and Emma usually stays in bed by close to noon. Henry took this as a good thing, morning breakfast would be a good way to bring his family together. Henry walks down to the kitchen to find his Moms already there drinking their morning coffee.

"Morning, Dear."

"You're up early, Kid. Couldn't sleep?"

"Yeah, I just decided to get up early."

"So, what do you have planned this time, Kid?" Henry just grins. Not just a simple grin either, it was one of the grins he gives when he gets a plan stuck in his head. "Oh God." Emma lightly laughs and stands from the stool she was sitting in and goes towards the sink and sets her cup down. "So, what's the plan?" At that moment both Regina and Emma looks towards Henry who was getting his cereal.

"Umm…I don't know, Mom, any ideas?" Regina looks down into the mug she was holding, tapping the ceramic with the tip of her index finger. It's a few moments before Regina looks up and gives her answer.

"How about we take a trip?"

"A trip? That's so random…but ok, to where?" Regina sets her mug down and leans into the counter.

"I don't know, but I think it's time we took another one."

"It's ok, Kid, you'll be fine... Well, at least we know how many pancakes are too much."

"Emma, this isn't funny. I knew I shouldn't have let him have that many."

"Regina, he's fine. Look."

"Yeah, Mom, I'm fine. See?"

"Yes, Dear I see."

"It's been a while, don't you think?" Emma and Henry look at one another, they talk without really talking until they finally nod in agreement to what Regina was saying.

"Ok, Mom."

"When do we leave?"

"Why not tomorrow morning?"

"Sounds good to me. Let's go Henry, you know how long it takes us to pack everything….neatly….in the way your Mother wants it done."

Regina decided that it was best if they took her Mercedes to the cabin instead of Emma's death trap of a Bug. On the way there, a 5 hour drive, Henry thinks of ways to try and get his parents to remember the happy times, hopefully solving whatever problems they may have. He gets as far as coming up with ways to get them into the same room long enough together before he falls asleep, only 2 hours into the trip.

"Kick Henry. Good, now move your arms...Yeah, like that."

"Did you see me, Mommy!?"

"I did, you were great, dear."

"Yeah, like he was born in the water."

"Henry….Henry, we're here." Emma chuckles. "You could never stay awake during the entire trip, car rides always put you straight to sleep as a baby, I guess some things never change."

"Some things do change though, Ma." Henry thinks to himself. Everyone grabs their bags and heads inside.

The Swan-Mills has had this cabin for as long as they have been a family, even before Henry was born. They try to make it a tradition to get some time at the cabin every year, either during the summer before school begins, or even during holidays when everyone has the weekend off, but for the past few years they haven't been able to get away. Emma and/or Regina always come up with some work related excuse, promising to go later in the year, but they never do. Henry assumes their spontaneous departure has something to do with what his classmate had told him, but he wasn't too sure, although they're in the middle of the school year, the same time when his parents' jobs demand the most from them and neither of them, Regina more than Emma, ever thought to leave work during this time when the town needed them most. Henry decided to take the time to think about this later.

"Why don't we start cleaning a little before we start putting our things away?" Regina suggests. Emma and Henry hesitate, but in the end they begin to clean. Regina and Henry tackle the kitchen while Emma handles the living room. But it only takes about 20 minutes into cleaning before Emma finds old pictures in the closet, stopping any cleaning she planned to do.

"Oh wow. Henry come look at this." Henry walks into the living room from the kitchen while drying his hands, he sets the towel down on the arm of the couch before kneeling next to his Emma.

"What is it?" He grabs the picture frame Emma hands him.

"This is the photo your Mom took of you after your first swim lesson." The photo was still in perfect condition despite it being in a closet for who knows how long. It was Henry in the lake, he had one floatty on each arm and he's making a fishy-face. Henry stares at the photo as he tries to remember that day while Emma takes it back and places it on the table next to the couch.

"You were always a fast learner, took you no time to learn how to swim. You were really excited to learn too, you nearly jumped in head first before Regina caught you in time, we could tell that you wanted to learn, and it only took one lesson before you decided to try on your own, after that, you got the hang of it."

Regina could hear Emma chuckling, although she couldn't make out her words, she went into the living room to see what the noise was about. When she enters the room, she hears the last of what Emma and Henry were talking about.

"…and then Mom took a bucket and dumped ice cold water on you as revenge." Upon hearing that, Regina knew exactly what they were talking about. She smiles to herself as she takes the photo from the table, remembering that day clearly.

"You both learned a lesson that day." Both Emma and Henry look towards Regina still smiling.

"But I think Ma's lesson was the easiest to learn." Emma blushes as she thinks back to how it was a cold and lonely night lesson indeed.

"It was also the most important lesson I've ever learned; never mess with your Mom, she holds too much power."

The family goes back to cleaning for the next couple hours, most of their time wasted on Regina actually getting Emma and Henry to do their work. When they finally get things done it's pretty late into the night, so they all decide to watch a movie. It takes them a while to agree on something, but they finally settle on a couple of home movies from when Henry as younger.

"When did this even happen, and how old was I, two!?" Both of his parents just laugh as they think back on the details of that day.

"No, you were actually three and a half, and we had just bought you that blanket. You loved it so much that you took it everywhere you went, and because of that, it was always dirty." Emma started to laugh as the screen showed Henry crying as Regina tries to take the blanket again so she could wash it.

"Emma, put the camera down and help me!"

"I'm sorry, Regina, but this is too funny to not record, it's pure gold, plus, we could use this in the future." Regina just rolls her eyes and sighs in frustration, dealing with two children is always the hardest when one of them is a grown woman. Instead of arguing she just goes back into trying to coax Henry out of the blanket and from under the dinner table. After getting nowhere, Emma finally sets the camera down on its tripod still pointed at Henry and helps Regina out.

"Come on Henry, don't you want Mr. Blankie clean so he can smell good?"

"NO!" Henry continues to cry as he holds on to his blanket for dear life, Emma laughs and Regina throws up her arms in defeat.

"This is ridiculous! Henry, give me the blanket!"

"NOOOOO! He's mine."

"Come on kid, you'll get him back, I promise. Mommy is just going to make him like new again. Don't you like it when Mr. Blankie is clean?" Henry just shakes his head in disagreement and Emma lowers her head in defeat. Both woman get up off of the floor and walk towards the living room so Henry would not hear them as they talked.

"We'll just have to wait until he falls asleep." Regina sighs in frustration once again, but happy that the situation finally has a solution, although not the one she was hoping for.

"Very well." After that it's just Emma walking towards the camera turning it off.

"Mr. Blankie? Really?"

"We said the same thing." Emma begins to chuckle once more before a yawn escapes from her lips.

"Yeah, I think we should all go to bed." Both Emma and Henry nod in agreement.

Henry goes up to his room and picks out the pajamas he had brought for the trip. Growing up, his Mom had always bought him a set pair every year, as a toddler they would always have monkeys on them, his favorite animal according to his parents, but as he got older she started to go more towards NASCAR, that was until he turned 11 and he finally told Regina how much he didn't really care much for them. He thought it would upset her, but instead it just kind of made her twitch with a smile as she just nodded her head. In the sense of what to wear to be, he was every bit like Emma, casual, he wears whatever he finds lying around. Growing up, Henry would have these quirks his parents would notice from time to time and they either set his parents off, or made them giggle, and no matter which one it was, Emma and/or Regina would point out the resemblance of each other he displayed. It was in those moments people, even the family itself, noticed how much of a family they really were. Despite Henry being Emma's birth child, you would never know by Henry's behavior alone, he might look like Emma, but his facial expressions made him look like Regina, and although his spontaneous behavior remind people of Emma, it's his "take charge" attitude that shows the Regina in him. It was always the little things that brought the town to do their stereotypical "aww's" when they saw the trio. It was those same moments Henry wanted to recreate while on their trip.

While getting dressed for bed, Henry ran through every possible plan he could come up with, already naming it, Operation Swan-Mills, but it wasn't until he had come up with this plan in particular did he see any hope in their spontaneous vacation. Yes his family had seemed to be getting along, acting decent in front of one other, but they've been doing that for who even knows how long, now. It wasn't until his classmate how told him about the rumor did Henry truly realize anything was wrong. And it was that realization that lowered his expectations of any of this ever working.

It took Henry a while to actually get to sleep, his mind constantly thinking about his plan, moving too fast for him to concentrate on anything else. But after an hour or two of tossing and turning, hard to tell exactly with no clock, Henry finally calms his mind enough to drift off to sleep.