Prompt from Skatergirl94: Would you also consider doing canon scenes? There's so many less fluff, real angst scenes in the show that I'd love to see put down into words!

One being when Emma yells at Henry in Season 3 Ep 19. Maybe what was going through her head? :)

"Hey kid. I got to run. I got to check on a lead. You're okay to stay here longer? I'll call you later." She rambles off as quickly as possible. Maybe if she says these words fast enough he won't notice that she isn't telling the truth, that she broke the promise they lived by for years in New York, the promise that got them through all the challenges a single mom and her kid can face. The promise to never lie.

She kisses his head and notices how tense his body is. He knows. She knows he knows. She just hopes he still trusts her enough to believe that she is only lying to him for the right reasons. To protect him.

Ugh, lying to Henry sucks, she thinks as she rushes out of the dinner. She doesn't understand how other parents can do it so often. She hadn't lied to the kid in years. In New York she had shared her past with him, even the ugly parts. Everything about his dad and prison and all the things that lead up to that. She bared her soul and he accepted it and in the end they were both stronger for it. But now back in this town with all its magic, and family, and ugly little secrets, things were already falling apart. That's exactly why she couldn't stay in Storybrooke. It wasn't good for Henry, it wasn't good for either of them.

She didn't realize Henry had followed her until she was out of Granny's and his voice, cracking with age, calls out to her. She turns around, her mother, father and Regina looking on with fear in their eyes, while Henry stands on the stairs ready for a fight. Dammit.

"I told you. I'm following a lead." She scrambles, trying to put an end to this as soon as possible.

"What lead?"

Dammit. All these questions she can't answer and all she has are lame excuses and more stupid lies.

"It's my job. It's complicated."

"Is this about the person who killed my dad?" He asks and she knows it must feel foreign to him, going from no dad to a dead one.

She can feel her face scrunching up in confusion. What can she say? 'Yes, kid. Your father, who you did actually get to meet, was murdered by the Wicked Witch of the West but mommy's got the special magic that can stop her so don't worry just don't go outside for a while cause I don't want one of flying monkey's to gut you.' Why does this have to be so complicated? She knows that making it about his dad will only make Henry more interested, but maybe it will also get him to go back inside and let her get this done.

"Y..Yes."

"Then, tell me."

She's growing more frustrated. She doesn't have time for this. She has to go look for the book and get his memories back and..and give up everything they've had for the past year because life is just not that kind to her and this town, this stupid town, has made it its mission to take everything from her. Her past with her parents, her present with her son and who knows what else in the future.

"It-It would just be easier once it's all solved, Henry."

She knows it's not the answer he wanted to hear and from the way he looks at her it doesn't look like it's an answer he is going to accept easily either.

"You've been lying to me ever since we got here. I deserve to know everything." He says, punctuating every few words by angrily pointing at the ground.

Why can't he realize that she has to do this? That she wouldn't be choosing to lie to him if it weren't her only choice? She already feels like shit for lying to him and then he has to make it worse by acting like she's the jerk who is hiding the truth from him just for the hell of it.. And now she can feel Regina and her parents judging her and – and it's all just too much.

"No, you don't! I'm your mother and I know best. So, you just gonna have to deal with this for now, okay? Understood?" She says angrier then she expected she'd be.

From the corner of her eye she sees Regina practically gasp, as if Emma didn't remember all the much worse crap she saw the mayor say to their kid during the first curse, and she resists the urge to roll her eyes. Henry looks at her like she kicked a puppy and a part of her feels like she has. She just – she just wants to get away from the entire scene and find this stupid book so can get the hell out of Storybrooke.

"Yeah, I think I do." Henry says, and thinking that this fight is finally over, she turns away from him, still reeling in her own bitterness.

Her internally monologue is cut short when he calls out to her again.

"Wait. I need your keys. I left mine in the room and if I'm gonna be a prisoner I'd like to have my Game Boy."

She ignores the sarcasm because she already feels terrible for losing her cool at him and she doesn't want to make thing worse than they already are so she tosses him the keys before walking off. Her parents trail behind, still shocked. She can't wait to find this book because the sooner she find the book, the sooner she can defeat Zelena and the sooner she can get back to New York. Once she's back in New York she'll make it up to Henry. She knows she will.