Chapter 3

Emma had been having coughing and sneezing fits since she got home from her detention with Killian, and her brother was taking notice. "Em, are you sick?" Henry asked his older sister.

She looked at him as if he were speaking a different language. "What?"

He dramatically rolled his eyes. "Emma, everyone gets sick." He told her. "Just because you pretend to not be sick, doesn't mean you're not sick." He told her.

"I don't get sick Hen. I'm not gonna start-" She was cut off by a fit of sneezes. "Now." She finished.

"Kids!" David yelled from the living room. "Dinner's ready."

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Regina had a plan, it was quite perfect, she'd recently learned of who the Swan's were, she only had to get rid of one of them, then the prophecy of the savior's would be broken.

She only had a portion of magic available to her in this land, but this was important, Emma Swan had to die.

Regina teleported into the Nolan residence with a portion of her left over magic, and with another portion, she created a perfect replica of Emma's inhaler, only this one was empty.

She heard a noise down the hall, so she had to use the last bit of her magic to teleport out of there, if she were caught, it would all be ruined.

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Emma was sitting in homeroom with her small group of friends- Grace, Ava, Nicholas, and August- when had a bit of a coughing attack that led to her asthma acting up. "Dammit." She muttered and pulled her inhaler out of her pocket- she decided to keep it there for easy access- and tried to use it.

Miss Blanchard- who teaches Emma's homeroom along with English- walked over to make sure Emma was okay. "Emma, are you okay?"

Emma nodded and kept trying to use her inhaler, but found that the medication inside the canister was gone. Emma's coughing got worse. "Em?" Grace said worriedly.

"I… I'm out." She gasped out, shaking her inhaler. "It's… empty." She said coughing.

Immediately almost everyone in her group shot their hands up and Miss Blanchard came over. "What is it? Emma what's wrong?" She asked after seeing Emma shake the inhaler rapidly.

"Her inhaler isn't working." August said, trying not to cause a scene.

Emma tried using the inhaler again. "Can't… breathe." She wheezed out. "Need… more."

"August, run down to the nurse and bring him here. Ava you need to call the sheriff. Nick, call an ambulance. Grace, hold her hand."

Ava and Nicholas got up and went in the hall to make the phone calls. Grace stayed by Emma's side, holding her hand.

Miss Blanchard directed her attention back to Emma. "Okay sweetie, I need you to take deep breaths."

"Can't." She said shaking her head and hyperventilating.

Seconds later the nurse came in with August, Ava and Nicholas right behind them. The rest of their homeroom was watching from a distance, a few of them recording the scene.

Just after David showed up, Emma lost consciousness, then the paramedics showed up. "How long has she been out?" One of them asked.

"Less than a minute." David answered, then helped get her on the gurney. He rode in the ambulance and watched the paramedic work on her. "What are you doing?"

"I have to tube her sheriff, it'll help her breathe."

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David was pacing in the waiting room waiting to hear from doctors when the thought came to him. "Henry. Mary Margaret, I need to get Henry."

"I'll be here David. We'll all be here." She said gesturing to Emma's friends, including Killian. "Go. It's okay."

"I have to notify her social worker too." He said as if he were in some sort of daze. "I'll do that first."

"Jane Collins, what can I do for you?"

David snapped back into reality. "Miss Collins, it's David Nolan."

"Mr. Nolan? Is everything alright? Are the kids okay?"

"No," he cried. "Emma had an asthma attack at school. She ran out of medicine." He croaked out, voice cracking. "They're working on her now."

"What? She told me that she hasn't had problems with her breathing in months." The social worker said near tears. "How's Henry handling it?"

"I'm on my way to pull him out of school now." He told her. "I should go."

"Yeah. Me too." She said and ended the call.

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"David, what's going on? Why are you picking me up early?" Henry asked him on the way to the car.

Once they got outside, David sat Henry down on a bench. "Henry, something happened today. You know how Emma has asthma?"

"Did she have an asthma attack? If you give her the medicine, she'll feel better. You have to give her the medicine."

"Buddy, she ran out of medicine. The doctors are working on her right now."

Henry jumped up. "We gotta go! David, we have to go! I wanna see Emma!" He cried. "We have to see her." David pulled him into a hug.

Eventually the hug broke. "Let's go."

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Emma had no clue where she was, but it all looked so familiar to her. "Hello?" She called out, but there was no response.

She walked into a room, it was a children's room there were people there. "Hello? Where am I? Answer me!" She yelled.

She circled the people in the room, she knew them, all of them. It was David and Miss Blanchard, but they were different, more confident. They were dressed as royals. "What the hell is going on?"

She took a closer look. "My dream." She gasped. "This can't be real."

"Oh but it is dearie!" She heard an amused voice and spun around. "Hello Miss Swan."

Emma tilted her head. "Mr. Gold?" She asked. "What's going on? Where am I?"

"Why, we're in your mind dearie! You- Miss Swan- are in a coma. Compliments of the Evil Queen."

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David and Henry arrived at the hospital just in time for the doctor to come out to give an update. "Dr. Whale." David greeted.

"Sheriff, she's alive, but she hasn't woken up."

David eyed the doctor. "You mean, she hasn't woken up yet."

Dr. Whale sighed. "That's the thing sheriff, she should've woken up by now. We simply don't know."

'I know what to do.' Henry thought. "Can we see her? I wanna see her."

Whale nodded. "Room 8."

Henry ran to Emma's bed and climbed in with her and cried. He knew what to do, but he needed to be alone with her.

David grabbed her hand. "Emma." he breathed out. "You gotta wake up for us kiddo, we all need you. I need you, both of you. I love you guys." He gave her hand a gentle squeeze, then he felt her squeeze back.

He had the largest smile on his face.

That is until all the monitors started going off.

He looked at the heart monitor.

She was flatlining.

"Charge to 300!" Whale yelled to the nurses and they did as instructed. "Clear!" They shocked her, no response. "Clear!" No response. "360!" He yelled "Clear!" Nothing. "Starting CPR." Whale said and started chest compressions. After a while he looked at the sheriff and 9 year old boy watching and sighed sadly, with much regret. "Time of death; 1:38 pm."

"Let me go!" Henry cried. "Let me say goodbye." He begged. "Please."

David nodded and let him go. "I'll be right here."

Henry ran up and climbed on the bed. "I know you're in there Emmy. I know that you believe, you believe in me, and I believe in you. I believe that you truly believe. You know the truth. I know you do." He whispered in her ear. "I love you." He said and kissed Emma's forehead, a ray of light beamed throughout Storybrooke.

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Seconds later, Emma sat up, with a loud gasp. "Henry!"

"Emma!" They hugged tightly. "You did it kid. You broke the curse."

He smiled. "We did it."

Emma started getting up and David and Mary Margaret came into the room and hugged her. "Hi… Can we get out of here?"

"What?" David asked. "You're not getting out of bed." He told her firmly. "You literally died Emma." He grabbed Mary Margaret's hand. "We aren't letting you out of our sight."

"You need to stay in bed." MM told her.

Emma rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I just want to go home."

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