NOTE: I plan on having one more chapter after this, and then it will be the end. I really hope you like this chapter, it's just kind of going to be like a transition, getting preparations ready etc. Enjoy!
Henry, Emma and Killian Jones walked up the few steps to main deck of The Jolly Roger. Henry stared at the crystal blue waters ahead of him. He was pretty nervous about living on the seas, yet he was really excited; he didn't know how to express how he felt. He looked back toward Storybrooke knowing that he would no longer be living there. He had grown up there his whole life and he was suddenly leaving it. Henry turned toward his mother.
"When exactly were you planning on leaving?" Henry asked. Emma glanced between her son and Hook for a few moments before answering.
"Well we were thinking. . . Tomorrow," Emma said biting her lip.
"T—tomorrow?" Henry stammered. Emma looked over at Hook for some support.
"Well," he began, "we wanted to leave as soon as possible; we didn't want to waste any time."
"I have to say goodbye to everyone! I have to pack my things! I—"
"Slow down kid." Emma interrupted. "We'll have enough time for that, I promise you."
"Okay." Henry said quietly.
Henry sat at the edge of his bed at Emma's house and stared out the looking, not looking at anything in particular. He had only packed half of his dresser into his suitcase. Gold had enchanted their bags so they could fit more things and still have a small suitcase. Henry hated packing. He started looking at things he would miss. He looked at the library with the bell tower, remembering the day the clock started ticking again. He saw Granny's and Dr. Hopper's office. Suddenly, something occurred to him that he hadn't thought of. Henry ran downstairs as fast as he could, nearly running into his grandmother.
"Oh Henry, I didn't see you—"
"Does my mom know – Regina I mean, does she know?" Henry said cutting her off. Snow looked absolutely confused. Charming walked over from the kitchen and stood by his wife.
"Slow down Henry. What is he talking about?"
"I don't know. What are you talking about Henry? Does Regina know what?"
"Does she know that we're leaving Storybrooke tomorrow? Me, my mom and Hook."
"I… I didn't even know – she's, you're–" Just as Snow and Charming were processing this new information, Emma walked in the door. Snow turned towards her daughter. "You're leaving?" Emma looked between her parents and her son.
"I was going to tell you, just not right away…" Emma said quietly.
"Who else knows? Does anyone else know?" Snow questioned.
"Only Gold because we needed him to enchant our bags." Henry, who waited patiently for a chance to speak, finally spoke up.
"So this means my mom doesn't know?" Emma tried to give her son a sympathetic look, but he just waited for an answer.
"No, she doesn't know." Emma could see the look in her sons' eyes and knew she had to fix it. "Do you want to say goodbye now? To everyone? We can say goodbye in the morning tomorrow as well, if you want to." Henry nodded and the two of them walked together first to Granny's.
Emma hated coming here after her fight with Neal, but Neal was gone. She thought of what might happen if Neal ever decided to come back to Storybrooke and find her gone. She smiled to herself thinking of what Neal's reaction would be, but she also thought that if she ever travelled somewhere to find Hook and discovered he was gone, she would be devastated. The smile immediately disappeared off of her face.
Emma walked through the glass door hand in hand with Henry as they looked toward the front counter where Granny was calling out orders and Ruby was clearing tables and handing out food. Emma walked up the counter and sat down and ordered two milkshakes. Henry sat beside her, saying nothing. When Granny gave the two their milkshakes, Emma looked at her in the eye and she knew that Emma wanted to talk so she called Ruby over.
"So, Hook, Henry and I are leaving Storybrooke tomorrow. We are going to leave on Hook's ship and we aren't going to come back. Henry wanted to say goodbye." Two pairs of eyes landed on Henry at the same time and then they landed on each other.
"Well I hope you have a good trip." Granny said walking away. Ruby looked at her grandmother and then leaned in closer to Emma.
"Don't mind her; she's never really liked Hook. As for me, I have gotten over what's happened and I think you guys will have an amazing time." Looking down at Henry, she said, "I'm going to miss you Henry. You've been coming here since you were the size of a little pup. I have to get back to work. Granny is giving 'the look'."
Henry and Emma's next stop was Dr. Hopper's. They said goodbye and he told them he was happy as long as they kept a good conscience and they felt like they were making the right decision. They also stopped at Gold's where they said goodbye to Belle who gave Henry a book about the sea and pirate tales. Another quick stop was at the mines where the dwarves were busy at work, but still stopped for a few minutes to wish them luck.
Lastly, they stopped at Regina's house. They stood on the porch of the big white mansion before ringing the doorbell. Regina opened the door just ten seconds later.
"Well hello Emma. What brings you here?" Emma swallowed. She knew that Regina wouldn't like this. She didn't want to come to Regina's house at all, but she knew she had to do it for Henry's sake.
"Well, uh, Hook and I are leaving Storybrooke tomorrow and I'm. . . I'm taking Henry with me." Emma waited for Regina to yell, use some kind of dark magic, or even just grab Henry and drag him inside, but she just stood in her doorway. She didn't say a single word. She did however, let a single tear slide down her cheek. Finally, she decided to speak.
"Well um, that's uh, that's great. I hope you guys have fun." Regina turned away, and brought her hands to her face. When she turned around she had tear streaks down her face and her makeup was messy.
"You don't have anything to say to this?" Emma questioned, not meaning to challenge Regina, she was just shocked.
"Well, I have realized that Henry can make his own decisions and I shouldn't be controlling his life." Regina started to compose herself. "Do you really want to go Henry?" Regina asked hopefully. Henry nodded and then looked up into his adoptive mother's eyes.
"I—I want to. I have been in this town my whole life and this; this is my way of getting out of it, to be somewhere new." Henry stared at the woman who had raised him his whole life and saw how upset she was. "I'll say goodbye tomorrow before we leave, I swear." Regina lowered herself down to look Henry in the eye and she gave him a hug. When she let go it looked as if she were going to cry again.
"I'm really going to miss you Henry."
"I'm going to miss you too mom." Henry glanced toward Emma and he noticed that she wasn't paying attention. She was staring off in the distance, toward the road the led to county line.
"Mom?" Henry said, knowing he interrupted her thinking. "Can I grab something from inside?"
"Yeah, sure kid. Take your time."
Henry walked up the stairs of his old house, went to his old room, and sat on his old bed. Nothing changed except for the fact his drawers were empty of its clothing from when he moved in with his grandparents. He looked around the room until his eyes settled on the picture he was looking for. It was of him and Regina about two years before, about a year before Emma came to Storybrooke. He realized how young he looked and how much he had changed. He grabbed the picture and shoved it in his coat.
He needed something now that would be the object that he "came to get" not wanting to tell his mom that he wanted a picture of him and Regina. His eyes landed on his storybook. He didn't even realize that he had left it here. He grabbed it and looked inside of it for a moment. He looked at each fairytale, not necessarily reading them, but just glancing at the characters he recognized. There was Ariel and Eric, who now lived together in a smaller part of town next to the docks for when Ariel got tired of her legs. He also saw Belle, who saw the good in his grandfather. He looked through it some more until he found his other set of grandparents, Snow and Prince Charming. He would miss them. He returned back downstairs, book in hand; knowing that what once was a fairytale became reality and what now was reality would become a memory.
Note: So as I said before, there will be one more chapter to my story and then this travelling love will be travelling the seas, on The Jolly Roger. Hope you enjoyed!