The morning came too fast for Fiona's taste, she wanted more time to rest and gain new strength, she had to think of a plan.
She sat up in bed and began to think about what she was going to do today step by step.
She suddenly remembered that she had fallen asleep while she waited for Henry to come home, she did not know if he had ever come home.
She got out of bed and took the robe on the door and put it on and only then she leaves her room in the direction of Henry's room.
She thought it might be better for her to knock on the door before she came in but then she remembered that she should not give Henry the feeling that she respected his limits in any way.
So she decided to call his name before she opened the door, "Henry, did you got up, you have to go to school." Fiona said before she entered the room, but when she entered the room it was empty, Henry was not there.
She immediately went down the stairs to the kitchen, she thought there was no way Henry slept in the street all night.
When she arrived to the kitchen it was also empty, she immediately went back to her room and began to change clothes and get ready to leave.
Fiona was ready to leave within 15 minutes. She decided to go to the school first to see if Henry was there.
The school was 10 minutes away from her house and she arrived before most of the children came to school.
She stood at the gate of the school and tried to identify Henry among the children who had already come to school.
She did not notice the approaching teacher, "Madam Mayor, good morning, can I help you?" the teacher ask Fiona.
She immediately turned to the teacher and said, "Yes, I'm looking for Henry, have you seen him this morning?"
"Ahh ... not yet, but usually he comes with the school bus, is everything all right?" She asked, looking at Fiona's face and saw fear.
Fiona immediately noticed that the teacher was looking at her and smiled at her, "It's all right Henry just forgot to take his lunch. But it's okay. I'll be at lunchtime to bring him his food."
The teacher nodded, "Have a good day." Fiona said and turned to go toward the car.
Fiona got in the car and started driving, she would make a round around the neighborhood and go back to school later and wait to see if Henry had arrived at school.
She dried around the neighborhood for 10 minutes and made her way back to school.
She waited patiently for the school bus to reach its destination. A few minutes later, the bus stopped in front of the school gate and lowered the students.
She tried to see if she could see Henry coming into school, and only after all the students got off the bus did Henry finally descend.
He stood with a few friends outside the school gate and spoke with them just before the school bell rang to mark the start of school.
Fiona was furious she wanted to know where Henry had been all night.
She would wait for him after school and pick up Henry herself, so she could question him about his disappearance at night.
She drove to the hospital to visit Emma and have a brief conversation about Henry's behavior; perhaps Emma could talk to Henry about not coming home yesterday.
When she entered the hospital, the head nurse of the psychiatric ward greeted her. "Good morning, Madame Mayor, what can I do for you?" She asked her with a smile.
"I'm here to talk to Emma" she said simply, and walked to Emma's room, but she stopped when the nurse spoke to her.
"Miss Swan is not in her room, she has given us your permission to let her out of the hospital for a short period of time so she can be with her son ... your son." The hospital nurse mentioned to Fiona. She could not believe what she was hearing. "I did not give her permission to go anywhere and certainly not to be with my son." Fiona shouted at the nurse, she knew she was not to blame but she did not know who to shout at.
"Did you not think you should call to check it out with me first?"
Fiona asked the nurse in front of her, the nurse did not know what to say to her and said stammering, "Uh ... your son brought us the permit so we did not think it was not okay on your part."
She looked at the mayor's face with fear. Fiona immediately passed the nurse and walked quickly to Emma's room and opened the door, she looked around the room, most of her things were inside, and nothing was missing. Fiona breathed a sigh of relief. At least she knew Emma had not left town.
Fiona thought to herself, "Her mistake, she should have run away when she had the chance."
Suddenly she remembered that Regina was in the hospital as well, she immediately ran from Emma's room toward the basement to the isolation rooms.
She went down the stairs quickly and went to the last cell. She opened the door and saw an empty cell.
All the color from Fiona's face has disappeared, she has lost the most important ingredient in her success and if she does not find her quickly she is going to lose everything she has built.
She immediately went back upstairs and went to the head nurse. "When was the last time Emma was here?" She asked immediately, she wanted to know how long Emma was out of the hospital.
"Ah, I do not know. I have to check the release record, just a second." The nurse immediately went to the nurses' station and opened the release record; the last time Emma had been in the hospital was two days age.
She went back to the mayor and told her the information she had.
"Two days ago, okay I have time to look for her; I just hope there's no connection between the cases." She thought to herself.
Suddenly she had an idea. "I need to see the hospital security cameras". She immediately demanded from the nurse.
The nurse nodded and asked the security guard to accompany the mayor to the control room.
Fiona sat down with the security guard and they went through security tapes from two days ago. She could see the day Emma was in the morning, at noon she could see that Henry had come to visit her; she thought it was because she had asked him to come to her to make the talk Fiona had asked her to do.
After 20 minutes she could see herself coming to the hospital to talk to Emma, she watched herself enter Emma's room and after 10 minutes she left.
Fiona was uncomfortable with the security guard who was with her and asked him to leave the room. The security guard was afraid to annoy the mayor and did exactly what she told him to do.
She watched the video, she saw herself moving toward the isolation cells in the basement and going in after typing the code, a few minutes later she could see Emma and Henry follow her into the basement, she could assume how the story would end then but kept watching anyway.
She continued to run the video until she noticed that she was coming out of the basement, she knew there was no security camera in the isolation cells and so she continued watching the video.
30 minutes later in the video she saw Emma and Henry coming out of the basement with Regina in Emma's hands, Regina was still unconscious because of the drug she had given her.
She continued to follow their movement until they left the hospital.
To say that Fiona was angry would not begin to describe the rage inside her, out of anger she threw the chair on the wall and he broke down.
The security guard hurried into the room and noticed the broken chair. "Is everything all right, do you need help?" He asked innocently.
She turned to look at his face; he could see the madness in her eyes, "All peachy, I thank you for your help." She told him and left the room.
She began to walk toward the exit, she got into the car after a few minutes and took out her cell phone and began dialing Sydney.
The phone rang several times before it was answered, "Hello ...?"
"Sydney, I'm not in a very good mood, for your sake, I hope you have information that can help me." She said threateningly.
Sydney began to stammer, "Uh ... Madame Mayor ha…. I don't have any useful information for you right now; I was at school all morning, watching Henry." He was afraid of her reaction; he did not want to get into trouble with her.
"You're really useless; I do not understand why I asked you to help me. You'd better have important and relevant information for me tomorrow because otherwise tomorrow will be your last day on earth, am I clear?" She shouted at him on the phone and hung up.
She needs to get to school and she has an important conversation to do with Henry, she will know exactly where these girls are located even if she will have to use unacceptable ways.
….
Fiona was so nervous after the hospital discovery that she did not notice she was late to take Henry out of school; she missed her chance to try to know what was going on around her.
She immediately called Sydney, "Sydney I hope you're still after Henry."
"Yes, I follow his every move; he's in Granny's right now if you want to get to him."
"No, too many people, keep watching him, I'll think about what to do about him."
"No problem boss, whatever you say."
"Do not let me down Sydney." She ended the conversation.
She decided she could not wait any longer and had to speed up her plan that way as soon as she found Emma and Regina she could immediately act and maintain her curse.
She got into the car and started driving toward the town hall. After a few minutes she arrived and immediately went down to the basement in the building.
The basement was so old that for years no one was in this room; it was perfect for her to keep all her magic things. No one would think of looking for her here. In the basement were a big long table on one side of the room, she had a work station for smaller things, and in the middle of the room was a simple but large bed so that once she found Regina she could lock her in the basement with her, she would not make the same mistake twice.
She immediately began working on the magic she needed to preserve her curse so that the last ingredient she needed was Regina and once she was in her hands, no one could stop her.
She was in the basement for a few hours. She did not feel the time pass quickly, when she looked at the clock. It was late, close to nine in the evening.
She immediately began to arrange things in the room and prepare to leave, but before she finished organizing her things her phone rang, she checked to see who it might be and Sydney's name appeared on the screen she immediately answered the phone call, "Hello…"
Sydney's voice was heard on the other side. "I wanted to let you know that the boy entered the library two hours ago and he has not come out yet. I do not know what he's doing inside but I thought you'd like to know." Sydney finished reporting.
"Thank you Sydney, its good information to know, you've done a good job, I'll check the library myself." Fiona closed the phone and started getting ready to go out. She did not know what to expect when she got to the library, but whatever it was, she could handle it.