Beyond Storybrooke

"Kyle! Watch out!" Tanya yelled gripping her brother's shoulder in panic stepping on an imaginary break as their blue sedan swerved to avoid the brunette in the street. Slamming on the breaks, both siblings panted heavily as they jolted to a halt, their hearts racing as they looked to each other before looking behind them to see if the woman was still there. Seeing the prone body on the shoulder of the road not moving they looked once more at each other before quickly unbuckling and exiting the car.

"Oh God, oh god, call an ambulance." Tanya panicked as she ran to the woman, her heart racing as she freaked out. Poking the brunette, blue eyes looked up at her brother as tears gathered. "Kyle I think," Tanya stammered out unable to finish the thought that was on the tip of her tongue.

"Yes we are on the 405 there is a woman collapsed on the road, we think she might be injured." Kyle spoke into the phone to the 911 operator as he paced agitatedly along the white line that cuts the shoulder off from the rest of the highway. "Tanya is she still breathing" He asked looking to his twin sister who was looking paler by the second. Looking into her lost blue eyes, Kyle took charge, checking for a pulse.

"Yes she is breathing but she is unconscious… no I don't see any identification… please just hurry…thank you" Clicking off the phone Kyle grabbing Tanya into a hug and sat with her next to the mysterious woman as they waited for the sirens of the ambulance to come to them.

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Emma woke with a gasping start as the door to the apartment slammed closed followed by a crash and breaking of glass. Turning her head to her alarm clock she groans at the bright red seven three zero glaring mockingly at her. Hearing another loud crash downstairs followed by the screaming cries of her brother Emma rolled out of bed to investigate. Pulling on her pants, she opens to door to David entering the hall with a drawn sword. A louder crash is heard as Emma raises her eyebrow at how ridiculous the situation seems, catching her dad's eye as he shrugs with an embarrassed smile and reluctantly lowers his weapon of choice. Turning they both head down to see what all the commotion is all about stopping immediately with shocked faces at the trashed apartment and the culprit before them.

"Henry?"

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The sirens could be heard now in the distance much to the relief of Kyle and Tanya. It had been two hours since Kyle had made the initial call to 911. Kissing Tanya on the forehead Kyle stood and waved the ambulance down as Tanya continually checked to make sure that the woman that she was sure they had injured was still alive. Speaking softly she moved soft brunette tresses out of the woman's face "it will be okay, you are going to be okay, you're going to be fine…. Please be fine. "

The squealing of tires and screaming of the sirens drowned out the rest of what Tanya was saying. Not that it mattered any as the paramedics came just as she finished and took over from there. Their questions firing so fast and frequent that it became a blur. Or maybe the blur was Tanya allowing her tears that had been building up finally fall. Looking up at the bright cheery looking sky she wondered how this could happen, and how to make it better. As the paramedics began to load the woman into their bus, Tanya broke out of her reverie and stepped forward asking if she could tag along. She needed to tag along. There was this unexplainable feeling inside of her that if she blinked or looked away the woman would disappear or die before she had a chance to… she had no idea what but she wanted to find out, at least to apologize and help right the wrong that had happened.

Kyle stared forlornly as the bus drove away, thinking about jail and every possible horrible consequence that will happen to him, for hitting the woman, even if he had no recollection of actually hitting her, he just knew that this was his fault. The ringing of his cell interrupting his troubling thoughts as he wondered if she will live or die.

"Hello?" He answered shakily.

"Kyle? Sweetie are you okay? What's wrong?" a soft motherly voice echoed on the other end of his phone.

"Mom…I… I'm in trouble." Kyle choked out.

"What? What are you talking about sweetie? Where's your sister?"

"I, Can I call you back Mom? I have to go to the hospital" Hanging up the phone without waiting for a reply he turned and walked back to the car. His movements automated as he started the car and headed to Mercy Hospital.

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"She's Gone!" Henry shouted picking up the closest thing that was within reach, which happened to be a a plate, and threw it as hard as he could.

"Henry, what the hell kid?!" Emma shouted as she jumped away from the flying glass plate that crashes into the wall and shatters.

"Mom is gone Emma, and it's all your Fault. You destroyed her and she left!" He screamed out. The anger that he had felt earlier when he had come back to the apartment after looking everywhere for his mom all night finally waning. Hours and hours of looking through every nook and cranny, Henry had one last hope. He had returned to the mansion where his search had started in hopes of finding that maybe she had returned there to sleep, instead he had found an empty shell of a home and a note that had sent his world into a tailspin.

"I finally just got her back and she Gone!" Henry fell to the ground amid the broken glass and furniture hugging his knees as he cried admitting for the first time in a while that the only thing he wanted was his mommy. "She's gone."

Tbc...