Author's Note: I know this chapter is not long, but I wanted some focus on these two as well. I shall return to Emma and Regina in the next chapter which I am writing as we speak.
The wolf and the boy named Henry…
Henry Mills was like at most other boys his age. He went to school, he fought with his mother, from time to time growing up. He hated to eat vegetables, he loved candy, he hated homework and he loved videogames.
Up to the part where he broke the second curse by hugging his mother, he didn't even remember he had two of them. Now it was all messed up, because he remembered how he was raised by Regina from the start and he had more than one mother. He remembered how he ran away from her to find Emma, how he used to fight them both, and not just Emma. He remembered how much he loved Regina's lasagna and how much he missed his cooking as Emma wasn't really a good cook. He also remembered how much he loved New York pizza and eating it with Emma. It was like the memories was being mixed up and he didn't know what to think anymore.
Then it was the fact that he knew he was not a regular boy, no matter how he tossed and turned on it, he was the son of the savior, and the evil Queen. Of course he did have a father that was dead, but mainly the son of two females. Two strong females, one of them now fighting for her life due to spells he had cast on her. He looked over at Red that right now was standing at the counter in her small kitchen area. She was making hot chocolate, his favorite. He hated to admit how much he missed the diner when he was in New York, he hated even more to admit that the hot chocolate Regina made for him was much better than the one at the diner. Emma didn't make hot chocolate, at least not that was to speak of.
Emma, his mother, biological, the one that had pissed him off lately by taking him back. The one that he for some time had thought raised him… She was stubborn and pigheaded, much like him. She loved video games like him. Henry looked over at Red asking, "Red, I mean Ruby, do you have paper and crayons?"
"I do, if you give me a second," she said and gave him the mug of hot chocolate, before leaving the room.
He looked around, the apartment was almost the same to that of Mary Margaret and David. The kitchen at least, the living room area was a bit bigger and the bedroom had to be inside the door she had just went. It was a bed in the living room as well, guest bed he assume. He looked at the kitchen closet, drawings of wolves, quite good, he assumed she had made them. There was another as well, of Zelena.
Zelena the wicked witch. The sister of his mother it would seem after what he had heard above while being at her house Cora had been there talking to them also. He knew he loved Red, so she had to know she was a werewolf, and wolves mated for life…
Red came back and handed him what he had asked for, saying, "Mind if I make a call?"
"No, not at all," he said finding a pencil sharpener before he started to draw, while taking a sip of his hot chocolate.
She walked back to the kitchen where she dialed Zelena's number, she didn't pick up. Red let out a sigh of sadness. She put the phone aside, figuring she would try later.
Ruby Red Lucas was not like anyone else, she most likely had known that from early on. From the days when she was young and her Granny had used to close up their cabin from the wolf. The big bad wolf. Everyone feared it. She was of course afraid, but she was sure she could capture it also.
She had missed growing up without her parents, everyone of the kids her age had a mother and a father. It was not that she didn't love her granny as she did, she simply just wanted parents also.
Maybe that was why she could understand Henry's frustration over his parents, especially Regina growing up. The need for his real mom, now he however could finally see just how much she loved him. She smiled at him, the young boy that slowly was becoming a man, growing up day by day. She could still remember him as a baby. A baby…
Of course Red wanted that as well, she really did, but she was afraid that the baby would have her genes and become a wolf as well. It was only too late that she found out just how dangerous she was. Too late to save her Peter, from herself, the big bad wolf.
She couldn't even get how Zelena could love her as much as she did, she however was grateful that her love was returned. She really did love her. She called her again, getting her in the other end this time saying, "Hi beautiful."
"Hi dear, where are you?" Red asked her curiously.
"At home, going back to Regina's later why?" asked the older woman.
"I was wondering if you wanted to spend the night with me," said she.
"I think I need the night alone if you don't mind," said She honestly.
"Alright, I will be by Regina's house in the morning with Henry, met up later?" she wondered.
"Mm, I will call you, and Red?" said Zelena in the other end.
"Yes?" the brunette wondered.
"I love you," came from her.
"I love you too," said Red and hung up. She put away the phone and let out a sad sigh. She had really hoped she would come over, even if she knew she most likely needed some time after what happened. She didn't even know what she and Regina had done upstairs yet. She figured she would tell her in time.
"You okay?" Henry asked her with wondering eyes.
"Fine, any room for me?" she wondered as she sat down next to him.
"You want to draw as well?" he wondered, handing her some white sheets.
"Yes I do," she said, looking over at what he was working on. It was a get well I am sorry card for his mother. She smiled as she took some crayons before she took a sip from her beer. He didn't say anything, just continued. In the end they just sat there drawing, before falling asleep next to each other on the couch.
Red being a nocturnal animal woke up later on smiling at him. She carefully carried him to bed. Her bed, tucking him in, she didn't feel like waking up to get him undress. She knew he had to be exhausted and needed sleep. She smiled, stroking some hair away from his face. It was not the first time she had babysat for him, she had done it from time to time as he grew up as well. To her this young boy was special and she cared for him in a sisterly way. She just hoped that his mother would not punish him to hard for his actions.
"Sleep tight, little prince," she whispered, pressing a kiss to his forehead.
He didn't react, he was at peace in a world beyond she knew. It was weird to think that the little boy Regina once brought home from the adoption agency was now all grown up. It was hard to think that this young boy had changed an once evil queen so much. She knew for a fact Henry was the one Regina loved the most. He was the main reason for her change. He was perhaps more of her savior than Emma would be. This young boy that had now practiced magic for the first time. She smiled whispering, "You'll be okay, Henry, and your mom will be okay as well."
She turned on the radio and listened to a song playing, singing along gently, "It is you and me and you and all other people, and I don't know why, but I can't keep my eyes out of you."
He could sleep for now, the little prince, come morning she would wake him to take him back. For now he was allowed to be in a place where there was no worries. She heard a sound from her cell and walked over to the counter to open a text, from Zelena.
"I was listening to the radio and Cause it's you and me and all of the people, with nothing to do, nothing to prove, And it's you and me and all of the people, and I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you." Red smiled as she wrote back, "I love you too Zelena."
Then she curled up on the couch with a piece of paper trying to draw her great love as she pictured her right then.
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