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In this chapter we leave Oz and return to the Enchanted Forest. I wasn't sure whether I would jump back at forth (and at least 80% will remain with where Regina is) but thanks to a review I got from Anny Rodrigues wanting to see the reactions of the others about Regina's departure I wrote this. So if anyone else also something they would like to see let me know and I can possible work it in.

One more quick note: I reference the letters that Regina wrote to Henry, Mary Margaret, Emma and David here. If you haven't read the story that comes before this Dynamite you might be a bit confused. But if you want to read the letters they are at the end of Chapter 22 of Dynamite.

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Emma held the note from Regina in her hand it read over it again. There we so few words on it, but enough to know that Regina had left. Although she understood her reasons and admired them somewhat she couldn't help but be slightly furious, she only hoped that the letter she wrote to Henry would help him accept it somehow. Henry was up stairs sleeping, it had been a long couple of days and he was still shaken by witnessing the final battle. David and Mary Margaret sat in the next room discussing things in hushed voices, although Emma could still make out bits and pieces.

"There is no next step Mary Margaret she made it quite clear, she is taking care of things, we will take care of Storybrooke. She did something right for once, we should be grateful for that." David spoke.

Emma turned and looked towards the clock, 9:06 am. Henry never slept in this late, and just when she found herself wondering if she should wake Henry up or check to make sure he was okay she heard light footsteps on the stairs.

"David shhh." Mary Margaret whispered before standing up anxiously and walking to near where Emma was standing at the foot of the stairs. "Good morning Henry, did you sleep well?"

"Yes…" Henry answered suspiciously. "What is wrong why are you acting funny?"

"I'm not acting funny." Mary Margaret responded defensively.

"Henry come down stairs, there is something here for you."

"What is it?" Henry asked as he descended the stairs.

Emma walked over and picked up the remaining envelope from where it sat on the counter, "it is a note from your mother."

"My mom, what is it about, is something wrong?" Henry asked, he had never received a letter from his mother before, she always preferred to deliver messages face to face.

"You'll just have to read it." Emma replied.

Henry took the envelope out of her hand. It felt crisp and looking down he could see his name clearly written out in his mother's handwriting. He walked over and sat down on the stairs and started to rip open the envelope before looking up at Emma nervously. She gave him an encouraging nod before leading her parents away.

Henry read the first words; Congratulations, you are a hero and couldn't help but smile but as he read on his smile faded slightly. He read the last words, I wish more than anything to see you again my son, until then just know that I love you. She had left, in her own quest to be a hero, after everything that they had just been through. It didn't make sense, he read the words over again trying to gleam some sort of meaning that he had missed the first time through, a reason why she didn't say goodbye herself.

"She left." He finally said, standing up and holding the letter to his chest.

"Henry?"

"She didn't say goodbye."

"I think she was just trying to protect her, if we have learned anything from our letters it is that she loves you more than anything." Emma said.

"You got letters too?"

"Yes, to explain why she was leaving, it wasn't an easy choice Henry."

"What did she tell you Henry, anything that we should know?" David asked.

Henry just clenched the letter to his chest tighter, it felt to intimate to share, this was his.

"He doesn't have to share if he doesn't want to." Mary Margaret said.

"Well are we going after her?" Henry asked.

"I don't think there is a way kid, but she took care of things here for us. What she is doing is good, she doesn't want us to come after her, it could just make things more dangerous." David said.

"She doesn't always know what is right, and like you said it is dangerous, something could happen." Henry said anxiously.

"She made her choice Henry, and if you ask me it was the right one." David replied.

"But she left me." Henry said.

"She is coming back kid, your Mom is stubborn and if she says she is coming back to see you again, then she is."

"Okay…." Henry said, he wasn't in the mood to argue with adults.

"Are you okay?" Emma asked.

"I just want to see her is all, talk to her you know?"

Mary Margaret looked up suddenly, remembering a conversation she had with Belle about how real life events came to be stories in this world, "Actually Henry I think there might be a way."