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This one-shot is based after chapter 3.
I do not own OUAT or its characters just my imagination.
Chapter 5: Can't keep Emma away
Emma was driving down the road as fast as the law would let her, and it wasn't fast enough for her. It had only been a few days since she was in Storybrooke, joining her son and his mom for the fall festival. He had been fine then; he has happy and smiling the whole time. Then Emma had gotten the call a couple hours ago from Regina, she was taking Henry to the hospital. The kid it turned out had been complaining about his stomach bothering him, but since he had no fever Regina sent him to school anyway. Regina had gotten a call from the school nurse at 10 that morning that Henry had a fever and complaining of a stomach ache, it wasn't till Regina had him home almost 2 hours that she realized where on his stomach he said the pain was, making Regina take him to the hospital, and she called Emma once they were on the road.
So here was Emma driving back to Storybrooke, for her sick kid, she was still waiting to hear from Regina on how the kid was. But it was driving Emma insane, she now understood when people talked about the first time your kid is sick, how scary it was, she never understood, until now. She was worried sick, Henry was only 9 and a bit on the small side "Pull yourself together Emma; he's going to be fine. Henry is strong and he will be fine" she says out loud to herself. Emma turns up the music hoping to distract herself a bit so she wasn't so worried about the kid. After a couple of songs her phone rings, she sees it's Regina and pulls over to the side of the road to answer her phone. "Regina?"
"Yeah it's me Emma" Regina says.
"So what's up, how's Henry?" Emma asks worriedly.
"The doctor finally saw him… they think it's his appendix. They are currently running some tests to make sure, but Doctor Whale is pretty certain that's it."
Emma breaths out a sigh of relief "Thank god, appendix… if that's it, they just need to remove it right?"
"Yes, it's pretty easy he said Henry will just have to spend a couple days here after" Regina says.
"Alright… so when should they know for sure if that's it?" Emma says picking a bit at her steering wheel.
"It sounds like it should be soon" Regina says sounding more relieved by the second. "I will call you back soon once I hear; they are bringing him back now."
Emma nods her head "Ok… let me know when you can."
"I will talk to you soon Emma" Regina says and she hangs up.
Emma closes her eyes and takes a deep breath letting out a teary laugh or relief "Thank god… he's going to be ok." Emma drives another half hour, she was starting to feel better now, she wanted to get to the kid and hold him now. Her phone rings again, again she pulls over to the side of the road to answer the phone "Hey Regina" she says, knowing she sounded less worried this time.
"Hey Emma… so it is Henry's appendix, they are getting ready to take him into surgery" says Regina.
Emma's eyes teared up "Can I talk to him?"
"Of course Emma, he wanted to talk to you too" Regina says.
There is some rustling sound before she hears Henry say "Emma?"
"Hey kid" Emma says trying to sound as calm as possible.
"Are you going to be here before they take me Emma?" Henry asks, worry in his voice.
Emma closes her eyes trying to will the tears away "Sorry kid no" she says "but I will be there when you wake up ok?"
Henry sighs "Yeah, I want you here now though."
"I know kid, I wish I was too, to hug you and hold your hand" Emma says, she was quickly losing the fight against the tears though.
"But you promise to be here when I wake up?"
"I promise kid, cross my heart" Emma says.
"Ok, mom wants to talk to you" Henry says.
"Ok Emma, they need to take him now" says Regina.
"Ok just put him back on one second" Emma says, and she hears Regina say something.
"Yeah Emma?" Henry says.
"I love you kid" Emma answers.
"Love you to" Henry says.
And the phone is hung up; Emma knew that meant they had to get him going. Emma was getting close to town now, she was grateful when all was said in done she won't need to wait around long in the hospital, granted she would do anything for the kid, she hated hospitals. Emma gets to the hospital 45 minutes later; she parks and goes in asking to see Henry Mills. She is sent to the 3rd floor and was told to follow the blue line when she got off the elevator. Emma follows the line and finds Regina sitting in a chair, legging bouncing from nervous.
Emma walks over "Hey."
Regina turns to see Emma and hugs her "They should be almost done."
"So no word yet?" Emma asks.
"Not yet, they said it could take anywhere from a half hour to a hour" Regina says.
Emma nods and looks at her watch "Well assuming they started not long after we hung up, they should be done soon."
They sit their together mostly in silence, both feeling better that there is someone to worry with now. After about 10 minutes Dr. Whale comes out "Regina" he calls out walking into the waiting room.
"Doctor Whale, and this is Emma, Henry's birth mom" Regina says.
"Nice to meet you Emma" Whale says.
"Same… so how is he?" Emma says just wanting to know how Henry was.
"Well Henry did great; we were able to get his appendix out without any problem. He will be moved to recovery shortly, and you ladies can go sit with him. He will still be a bit groggy for a while, he will wake up, go back to sleep a few times before he fully wakes up."
"Thank you Whale" Regina says, and the woman follow him to the room Henry will be put in. As they walk down the hall, they see Henry being wheeled into the room.
Both women take a seat on either side of Henry; Emma on his left, and Regina on his right.
After about 10 minutes Henry starts to stir, he looks to his left "Emma?" he says hoarsely.
Emma, who had been holding his hand, squeezes it lightly "Yeah kid I'm right here."
Then Henry looks to his right "Mom?"
"Right here sweetheart" Regina says taking his hand into hers.
Henry looks back over to Emma with a sleepy look "Who made it."
Emma smiles "I told ya kid." Henry gives her a goofy grin, and his eyes drift shut again "Sleep away kid, we will be here when you wake up" she says moving some hair off his forehead.
The women sit there talking here and there while waiting for him to wake up again. It happens about 15 minutes after the first wake up.
"Mom?" Henry says.
"Hey sweetheart" Regina says cupping his cheek "how are you feeling?"
Henry shrugs "I don't feel anything."
"Must be good pain medicine" Emma jokes.
Henry turns his head to see Emma, and he gets a big grin on his face "Emma" he says sounding younger then he was.
Emma chuckles "Think I lied when I said I would be here?" she says poking his arm.
Henry shakes his head "I knew it, just happy I was right" he said. Then he straightens up "Can I have juice?"
As if on cue a nurse walks in to check on him "Did I hear the patient ask about juice?" she says checking out the monitors and IVs.
"Can I please have some?" Henry asks.
The nurse smiles at him "Of course handsome. Orange or apple?"
Henry thinks a minute "Apple please."
The nurse walks out to get his drink. Henry lays there holding his mom's hands, having them there made it less scary. Henry looks at Regina "Thanks for calling Emma, mom. I feel better with you both here" he says a bit shyly.
"It's no problem sweetheart. I know Emma would want to know, and I highly doubt I could have kept her away if I tried" Regina says.
"She's right kid, you couldn't keep me away" Emma says rubbing his knuckles with her thumb. "If my best bud is sick… I'm here for him" she says with a soft smile.
That's when the nurse walks back in and hands Henry the cup of juice "Thanks" Henry says, and gulps down most of the cup.
"Take it easy Henry" Regina warns softly.
"Sorry" Henry says sheepishly.
"Do you know what's cool about getting your appendix out?" Emma asks.
Henry's eyes go big "What?"
"You get to eat ice cream, and your mom can't stop ya" Emma says.
Regina rolls her eyes, of course she would point that out to the boy "But don't get used to it though" Regina adds.
Henry nods "Fine" he says with a wine.
Emma ruffles his hair with his laugh "You're a good sport kid."
A little while later Henry sits in his hospital bed eating a bowl of ice cream, both women watching him with smiles. They both managed to help him through his first scary experience with them in his life. He was one lucky kid to have them on his side.
Thoughts?
