I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket as I started walking to the elementary school that morning. I looked at it and saw it was from Emma
Something's wrong with Henry, come to the hospital as soon as you can
I nearly dropped my phone when I saw the text. I ran as quickly as I could to the hospital. Even though my legs were protesting against me and telling me to slow down, but I didn't dare stop for a moment as I stomped up the steps. I ran into the room and saw Mary Margaret sitting by Henry's bedside. He was as pale as ever and didn't even look alive.
"He ate some sort of apple turnover and then went into this state" Dr. Whale explained before I could even ask questions. I nodded and nearly pushed him out of the way as I walked over to Mary Margaret. She enveloped me in one of those amazingly tight hugs she's so good at giving.
Where's Emma and my mom I wrote.
"They went to go get something," she shrugged, as she sniffled a bit. She seemed like she was in a haze or something. I didn't blame her I was too. All I could think about now was my little brother and whether or not he was going to be ok. I sat down by his bedside and grabbed his cold hand. Mary Margaret sat down next to me and rested her head on my shoulder. We sat in silence for a little while not knowing what to do, it's not like we could help him out or anything. I texted Finn at one point telling him about what was going on and he promised that he'd be over there as soon as he could.
Around noonish Mary Margaret looked at Henry's storybook that was on his bedside table. She grabbed it and started reading to him the story of Snow White. She was really good at telling stories. Her calm voice made me drift off to sleep and I laid my head down beside Henry's arm.
When Mary Margaret finished up her story, she looked at the red haired girl beside her and gave her a small smile.
"I'll be right back," she whispered to her as she got up and went to go get her and Andi some coffee from the cafeteria. The room was eerily silent for a moment and then suddenly one of the curtains was pulled back revealing Killian Jones behind it. He gazed around the room for a moment trying to discover where he was. It finally came to him that he was in a dream again when he saw Ariel asleep by a little boys bedside. She looked so calm and happy, he wondered if she was dreaming of him. He thought about waking her up to see if she would recognize him. His hand neared towards her voluminous hair until a voice stopped him.
"I wouldn't wake her up if I were you," Killian looked up at the voice and saw a familiar face.
"Hatter?" he asked.
"Jefferson, captain," he corrected, Killian giving him a little mock of a salute.
"You're a physician in this world?" Killian asked noticing the man's strange clothing.
"No it's a disguise, like you I also have unfinished business in this here," Jefferson explained.
"So how come you can recognize me?" Killian asked.
"It's a long story" Jefferson sighed.
"Why can't I wake her?" Killian asked.
"How do you think she'd react to a pirate waking her up. She doesn't know who you are in this world. Not to mention that now is not the time,"
"You have no idea how long I've waited though-"
"Believe me I've doing my share of waiting as well. I've been away from my daughter nearly 3 decades," Jefferson counteracted his argument. The two men heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"You should go now," Jefferson advised. Killian looked at Ariel longingly, just to have her look at him the way she used to, would be worth all of his waiting.
"I'll make sure you can see her again soon," Jefferson promised.
"That's a hard promise too keep when we're in two different worlds,"
"Things are going to change," the footsteps grew louder.
"Go," Jefferson whispered. Killian nodded and felt himself disappear as he woke up from his dream.
I woke up to hear this loud beeping noise. I felt my heartbeat increase as I took a guess at what it was. I got up and looked at Henry's heart monitor and saw a flat line. I shook my head and vigorously shook Henry's shoulder trying to wake him up. I felt someone grab me from behind and drag me out of the room as a bunch of doctor's ran in looking frantic. I wanted to see what was going on but whoever was holding me back was really strong and wouldn't let me go. I started to scratch at this person's hands.
"Stop, it's me!" Jefferson told me as he let go. Where had he been? I hadn't heard from him in days. Not to mention Emma and Mary Margaret had told me he'd gone all psycho on them.
I turned towards him and he grabbed onto my shoulders and looked into my eyes intensely.
"Listen to me, you have to go the docks and get Tristan to take you out into the sea. There's gonna be a storm coming and it's going to be dangerous to sail in, there might even be a whirlpool, go towards it. It'll take you back to him," he quickly explained. I just gave him a confused look.
"You have to do this," he told me. I looked towards Henry.
"ARIEL HE'LL BE FINE!" Jefferson yelled.
What'd he'd just call me? I thought. He hugged me really tight.
"This might be the last time I see you, so I want to say thank you for watching over her, and out of all the people I've managed to befriend in this world during this curse, I'm glad it was you," he whispered into my ear.
What's he talking about? I didn't understand everything he was saying just sounded like nonsense to me.
"Go now," he said before he ran through the door leading to the Psych wards. I know I should've just ignored him and gone back to Henry but part of me wanted to do what he was saying. I found myself quickly running down the stairs and heading towards Tristan's aquarium. Suddenly though everything sort of froze for a moment and I felt this shock run through me. It was so strong that I fell to the ground, grabbing my head as images flashed through my mind and I realized they were memories. I felt this aching pain in my heart as they came back to me and the last thing that ran through my mind was the pained look I saw on Killian's face before the curse hit me. When they stopped I let out a silent gasp and felt tears streaming down my face. Then for some reason I smiled to myself as I finally remembered who I was. It was like I had been locked away for years and I was finally seeing the sun again. My phone vibrated as I got a text from Mary Margaret, or Snow White I guess, telling me that Henry was alive. I tried to let out an excited scream as I jumped up and down with happiness but stopped when no noise came out.
So still no voice then. Oh my god wait what is going on here? I got my heart ripped out, but I'm alive? How the hell did I exactly get here? What the hell is going on? All these questions raced through my mind. There was one thought though that was most important of them all.
Where's Killian? I turned around and headed in the other direction towards my house. Whatever Jefferson wanted me to do would have to wait. I had to see him first. That was what was most important. Already I saw a small mob forming outside Regina's house, when I finally reached it. I went through the back door and found the house completely empty, I heard sobs upstairs and followed them to find Regina in Henry's room clutching onto his pillow. She was probably finally realizing that he was never going to be with her ever again. When I reached the doorway she turned around and saw me.
"Andi!" she smiled running to me and hugging me. I pushed her away.
Where is he? I signed.
"What? Andi listen, you know I love you right. I'm the mother you never had-" she tried to tell me.
Not now and it's Ariel I corrected her. She stayed silent.
Where is he? I repeated.
"Sweetie I don't know who you're talking about?" she asked. If she was gonna lie fine then I would prove to her who I was talking about. I ran to my room and searched for any of my old notebooks, that I had around, on my bookshelves. I knew I must have had drawings of him somewhere. That was making a lot more sense of now on why I had been doodling a random man and pirate things. Those were my old memories trying to seep through. I searched through my shelves but couldn't find any of them. When I turned to the doorway I saw Regina looking at her feet.
"I burned them," she told me giving up on lying now.
Why? I signed.
"Ariel, you have to understand. I don't want you to leave me. This whole time you've been with me I have let nothing bad happen to you. I let you have almost anything you wanted, unlike your father," she tried to explain.
Maybe it's time I left I suggested.
"He's not here," she told me. I paused and looked at her as I felt my heart shatter into a million pieces.
"For all I know he could be dead or..." I shook my head at her covering my ears.
"Or he could be in our world" I could hear her mumble.
I thought it was gone? I asked.
"There are some parts that managed to make it through the curse. I can teach you to go back to get back to him" she bribed. It almost sounded convincing what she was telling me.
How do you plan on doing that? I asked. I looked out the window in my room as we heard people screaming outside. Regina and I both looked out the window and saw this sort of hurricane-like cloud coming towards the town. I saw Regina's face brighten up in a way that I didn't like.
"Because my dear Ariel, magic is returning," she smirked.
Yeah ok so originally this was going to be super long but um yeah the sleeping fairy has like slapped me in the face and now my eyelids weigh like a bajillion pounds so I'm going to have to stop here. But do not fret people of the internet expect and update tomorrow before I leave for the week! Cuz I'm going to DISNEYLAND! WOOOHOOOOO! Also got my third acceptance letter this weekend woohooo! Only waiting for two more guys ahhhhhhh. Oh yeah and I'm pretty sure I'm going to get 100 reviews soon lets celebrate for that guys! I seriously didn't think this story would make it past 20 but you all proved me wrong. Thank you all for sticking by me guys and I love you all and I want to give you all hugs and stuff and yeah that is. Good night guys! or good morning whenever you're reading this.
