Chapter 44

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Hanna grabbed her backpack and was about to head downstairs when she realized she forgot to do her math homework. She lied last night and told her dad she got it done at school. She planned on doing it right before bed, but she forgot. She didn't do any of her math homework this week, now that she thought about it. Hanna just shrugged her shoulders. Oh well, it's not like she understood how to do it anyway. This chapter was kicking her butt, and she was kind of embarrassed that she didn't understand how to do it did. She really didn't want to ask for help either. She would regret this though when her teacher decided to give them a pop quiz in class today.

Hanna just stared at the paper in front of her. Crap. She had no idea how to do any of these problems. She kind of wished she would have figured out how to do this stupid math now. She glanced over at Henry, who was sitting next to her. He seemed to be answering the questions without any problem. Hanna looked up at Mr. Holden and found him busy with work at his desk. Hanna leaned over towards Henry.

"Henry," Hanna whispered, giving him a nudge.

"What?" Henry just glanced his eyes towards her, trying not to make it obvious that they were talking.

"What did you get for number…" Hanna started to ask.

"Hanna. Come up here please. Bring your quiz with you," Mr. Holden said.

Hanna slowly stood up and made her way to the front of the classroom. Her face turned red when she saw everyone stare at her as she walked by.

"You can sit there and finish your quiz," he told her as he pointed to the empty desk in the front row.

Hanna nodded her head and went over to the desk. She knew she wasn't out of the woods. She was going to be in trouble at the end of class for sure. She just tried not to think about that and attempted to answer these questions. Luckily they were multiple choice, so she had a one in four chance of getting the correct answer.

A few minutes later, the bell rang and Hanna quickly circled the letter C for the last problem, hoping it was right . She rushed to Mr. Holden's desk, turned in her quiz, and quickly went to retrieve her things she had left at her desk in the back.

"Just a second, Hanna," Mr. Holden said as Hanna was trying to leave.

Hanna sighed and walked over to him. She had almost made it out the door.

"This is for you," he said, handing her a detention slip.

Hanna took the slip from him. Looks like she'd be eating lunch in silence again.

"Also, that desk will be your new seat from now on," he told her.

"What? Why?" Hanna complained.

"You and Mr. Mills have been having too many conversations during my lessons, and I think it might be better for you if you had a seat upfront."

"No, please. I won't talk to him anymore I…"

"That's my final word," he said, holding his hand up to stop her from arguing. "You better get going or you'll be late for your next class."

Hanna slumped her shoulders in defeat and walked out of the classroom. This wasn't fair. She and Henry always sat beside each other…ever since Kindergarten. They even got lucky and had all of their classes together when they came to junior high. They sat beside each other in all of their other classes. Maybe they did talk a little more than they should have, but it wasn't like they were disruptive or anything. This was just stupid. Hanna was so done with this day and it was only second period.

"Thanks for the ride, Regina," Hanna said as she climbed out of the car. On the nights Henry was with Regina, she usually picked him up from school. She always gave Hanna a ride too so she didn't have to ride the bus alone.

"You're welcome, dear," Regina told her with a smile.

"See you tomorrow, Henry."

"Bye. Good luck up there," Henry said as he gave her an encouraging smile. They both knew she was about to be in trouble when she got upstairs.

Hanna stopped right outside the door for a moment. She really didn't feel like going in there and getting a lecture from her dad. He would know about the detention. The secretary always notifies the parents when their child gets a detention. At least her mom would be at work, and she wouldn't have to deal with her. That would have been ten times worse. Hanna reluctantly opened the door and just really hoped her dad had come up with a different punishment than last time. She was not doing anymore of her sister's filing.

"Good, you're home."

Hanna stopped in her tracks when she heard that voice. She looked up and saw her mom standing there with her dad. Crap. What is she doing here?

"Have a seat," Snow continued as she motioned her eyes towards the table.

Hanna dropped her book bag and slowly made her way to the table. As she sat down, her parents took the seats across from her.

"How did your math quiz go today?" Snow asked with a raise of her eyebrows.

How did she know about that? Hanna tried to keep her composure on the outside, but inside her mind was racing. Why wasn't she asking me about detention? Hanna couldn't figure it out. The secretary surely would have called about it. She wouldn't have known about the math quiz though…the one Hanna was pretty sure she failed. Unless, Mr. Holden called her parents. If he called about that, then he must have told them she hadn't turned in her math homework at all this week either. Crap. Crap. Crap. She was going to be in so much trouble.

"Hanna…" David said sternly.

"What? I think I did fine," Hanna lied.

"Really?" Snow asked.

"Uh, huh," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"How could you have possibly done fine if you haven't been turning in your homework?" Snow asked her.

"What do you mean?" Hanna asked innocently.

"Hanna cut it out." Snow told her firmly. "Your teacher called us, and we know everything."

Hanna just folded her arms and avoided making eye contact with either of her parents.

"Do you have anything to say for yourself?" David asked.

"No…" Hanna answered.

"Well, why don't you start off by telling us why you haven't been doing your homework?" Snow said.

Hanna just shrugged her shoulders.

"That's not an acceptable answer. Why haven't you been doing your math homework, Hanna?" Snow asked again.

"Because I don't want to. I don't like math," Hanna said, not wanting to admit that she didn't understand how to do it.

"Oh, that's not true. You like math," Snow said, not buying what Hanna was telling her. She had Hanna in class. She knew that Hanna always made excellent grades in math.

"I don't like it anymore," Hanna told her.

"Well there has to be a reason," David said.

"There's not. What's the big deal anyways? It's just stupid homework."

"It is a big deal, Hanna. You failed your quiz," Snow said as she set Hanna's quiz onto the table in front of her.

"How did you…" Hanna had no idea how her mom had gotten her hands on this.

"It doesn't matter. What matters is you failed this quiz. You got one answer correct," Snow said pointing to the paper.

Hanna turned the paper over and pushed it across the table towards her parents. "So what, it's just one quiz."

"And you're going to have more of these if you don't start doing your homework," Snow told her.

Hanna just rolled her eyes.

"Stop it," Snow warned. She hated it when her daughter rolled her eyes at her. "Teachers don't just give homework for the heck of it, Hanna. It's for you to practice what you've learned at school, so that when you're tested on the material you know you can do it."

"Okay, whatever. I'll do my stupid homework," Hanna said. She really just wanted this lecture to end.

"I hope so," Snow said.

"Now tell us why you got detention. We know you didn't get it because of the homework," David said.

"Ugh…why are you even asking when you already know?" Hanna groaned as she rolled her eyes again.

"Hanna if those eyes roll back into your head one more time…" Snow warned again.

"Sorry…fine. I was talking to Henry during the quiz. I wanted him to help me."

"So you were willing to jeopardize his grade and get him into trouble as well?" Snow asked her.

"No. I didn't really think about that," Hanna sighed.

"Well maybe you should consider that next time before you try talking to him during a quiz."

"It's not like it matters anyway. I have to sit in the front of the class now."

"Well, good. I think that will help," Snow said.

"It's not good. I always sit by Henry at school," Hanna complained.

"Well maybe you shouldn't," Snow said with a laugh.

"Why are you laughing? It's not fair," Hanna said as she crossed her arms.

"Oh please, Hanna. I almost moved you two away from each other several times when you were in my class. You two never stop talking to each other."

"That's not true!"

Snow just raised her eyebrows at her daughter.

"Why do you even care about all of this? It's not like you're ever around anymore anyways," Hanna mumbled. She really didn't mean to say that out loud.

"Hanna that's not fair. You know I'm…"

"The mayor I know, I know," Hanna said with a roll of her eyes.

"Okay, this conversation is over," Snow said as she stood up from the table. She had had it with Hanna's eye rolling. "You are going to go up to your room and complete all of the homework you haven't done this week."

"But…"

"Go," Snow said as she held out a folder that contained all of Hanna's incomplete assignments. She got those along with Hanna's quiz. "We'll be up to talk with you more about this later."

"But that's going to take all night and…" Hanna didn't have any clue how to do this work. She would never be able to get it done. She was too stubborn to tell them that though.

"Hanna stop arguing and go to your room," David told her as he pointed to the stairs.

Hanna grabbed the folder from her mom, picked her book bag up from the floor, and stomped up the stairs. She could hear Neal's cries when she got to the top. Her stomping had woken him. Hanna sighed. She didn't mean to do that.

Hanna didn't know how long she had been up here trying to complete this first page of homework. She tried looking though her math book and review the chapter again. She hoped something would click and she would finally understand, but it didn't work. Hanna closed her book in frustration and pushed her papers onto the floor. She hated this. She just wanted to get out of here. She couldn't stand it anymore. She needed some air. She couldn't just walked down the stairs and waltz out the front door though, and the window wasn't an option either. Hanna got an idea. Maybe she could use magic and poof herself from the room. She had done this a few times now. Sure the first time was merely an accident when she poofed herself onto the Jolly Roger, and the second time was only because she had so much rage inside of her from that spell. Plus, the second time she had only managed to get herself on the other side of a door. She did manage to get through Regina's protection spell though, so she knew her magic had to be pretty strong. If she could only figure out how to use it. Right now, she needed to get herself to the sidewalk. Hanna closed her eyes and concentrated really hard. She pictured the sidewalk in front of their building and thought really hard about how she wanted to get away from this stupid math homework. It took a few minutes, but Hanna felt it…that feeling where the ground is gone from underneath you for a split second, right before it comes back. Hanna slowly opened her eyes and hoped she had gotten herself where she needed to be. She had! She was exactly where she wanted. Hanna just smiled and headed down the street. Her parents would never know.

Hanna walked around for a good half an hour before deciding she should go back. She walked back to their building and stood outside. She closed her eyes and concentrated really hard on her bedroom. After a few minutes, nothing happened though. Hanna sighed and tried again. She thought about her room and how badly she needed to get back in there. Nothing was happening…she concentrated really hard on the fact that if she didn't get herself back into the room soon she was going to be in even more trouble with her parents. Hanna closed her eyes tighter and tighter. Hanna felt something, but this was different. She opened her eyes. She was still outside, but now everything was spinning. She was so dizzy. She felt like she was going to fall over.

"Hey Han, what are you doing out…" Emma started to say right before her sister passed out into her arms.

"Woah," Emma said as she wobbled a little. She steadied herself, then with a wave of her hand she transported them both into the loft.

Snow had just finished feeding Neal when she noticed someone appear in her living room. "Emma…Hanna?" Snow asked frantically as she rushed to her daughters

"Here, I've got her," David said as he scooped Hanna up into his arms.

"Here, will you take the baby," Snow said as she handed Neal to Emma and went with her husband into the bedroom where he was laying Hanna down onto the bed.

"What happened?" David asked Emma, who had followed behind.

"I don't know…I just saw her standing outside. I walked up to her to ask what she was doing, then she just passed out," Emma told them.

"It's a good thing you were there," David said.

"Hanna! Hanna! Open your eyes, sweetie…" Snow tried as she gently brushed the hair from Hanna's face.

Hanna slowly opened her eyes and found her mom and dad staring down at her. She looked around and realized she was lying in their bed. She looked up and saw Emma there too holding Neal.

"Are you okay?" Snow asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Hanna said, sitting up in the bed.

"What happened? How did you get outside?" David asked. He and Snow had a pretty good idea about what happened. They knew she didn't walk right out the front door

Hanna just looked down. She didn't want to answer that question.

"Hanna…" Snow said as she lifted her daughter's chin, forcing her too look at her.

"I used my magic to get myself outside," Hanna answered quietly.

"Han you shouldn't be trying to use your magic like that," Emma told her.

"It can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing," Snow added. "I'm going to call Regina."

"Mom, no. Don't," Hanna begged. "I'm fine."

"I don't like how long you were unconscious, Hanna. I just want to make sure you're going to be okay. David, where's my phone?" Snow hurried from the room, and David followed to help her find it.

Hanna was confused and looked around, trying to figure out how long it had been.

"Don't worry," Emma said as she sat on the bed next to Hanna. "You were only out for a few minutes. Mom is just being overprotective. Mom is like that isn't she Neal," Emma said as she bounced the baby in her arms.

"Mom's just a little crazy Neal," Hanna whispered to her brother. She got a little smile from him in return.

"Seriously though, what the hell were you thinking?" Emma asked her.

"I was just trying to get out of doing my homework," Hanna told her.

"Yeah, well that was pretty stupid. You're lucky something worse didn't happen."

Hanna just ignored her sister. She noticed her parents were about to come back into the room. "Here, let me hold him," Hanna said as she reached out her arms for Neal.

"Oh you want to use our little bro as a shield from mom and dad do you?" Emma asked with a raise of her eyebrows.

"No…" Hanna lied. Emma was partially right. Hanna knew her mom and dad wouldn't yell at her if she was holding the baby, but she also hasn't held her baby brother all day, and she missed him.

"Uh huh, sure," Emma said, but she handed Neal over to her sister.

"Regina's coming over," Snow said as she came into the room.

"Mom, why?" Hanna moaned. "Emma, call her and tell her not to come."

"Too late. I'm here," Regina said as she walked in and stood next to Hanna.

"Well that was fast," Hanna mumbled.

"Yes, well when you know what your doing with magic it's easy to get places quickly," Regina said as she raised her eyebrows at Hanna.

Hanna held on tight to Neal and cowered back into the bed. Even though Regina was nice now, her looks were still a little terrifying.

"Here, I'll take Neal," David said as he came over next to Hanna.

"Dad wait…" Hanna started to say before her little brother was out of her arms. Hanna sighed as she watched her dad leave the room with the baby.

"Hanna, tell Regina what happened," Snow said.

"I just used my magic to poof myself from my room. Then I couldn't poof myself back in…it's no big deal," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"You really shouldn't be doing that," Regina told her.

"Why? It's not like I haven't done it before."

"Yes, well from what I recall the first time was an accident and the other time…well that was just lucky." Regina still couldn't believe Hanna was able to get out from behind her protection spell. "What happened when you tried to poof yourself back inside?"

"I got really dizzy and it felt like everything was spinning. Then I guess I passed out because the next thing I knew I was here," Hanna said pointing to the bed.

"How do you feel now?" Regina asked.

"Fine," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Hanna, tell Regina the truth. If you're feeling badly we need to know," Snow told her.

"Mom, I swear. I feel fine," Hanna said as she looked right into her mother's eyes so she would know she was telling the truth.

"You don't have a headache or feel nauseous?" Regina asked.

"No," Hanna said as she shook her head.

"Are you sure?" Regina asked. This surprised her. She could remember how awful she felt when she first started learning how to transport herself places.

"Yes," Hanna said with a sigh. She really wished they would stop asking her. "I told you it's not a big deal."

"Well, it is actually," Regina told her with a raise of her eyebrows. "Don't think just because you don't feel poorly this time you won't the next. You were lucky this time."

Hanna just shrugged her shoulders.

"Hanna, I'm serious. You could really make yourself sick if you try doing that again. You're not properly trained," Regina warned.

"She won't do it again," Snow said as she raised her eyebrows at her daughter. "Right, Hanna?"

"Yes," Hanna answered.

"I hope not," Regina said, giving Hanna a very serious look.

Hanna sighed. She didn't see what the big deal was. She was fine, and from what Emma said she wasn't even unconscious for that long. Hanna figured the more she practiced, the better she would get. She wouldn't pass out next time she tried it. She would be fine. Everyone was just overreacting.

"I want you to get your homework done before you do anything else," David told Hanna as they walked into the loft the next day after school.

"Okay," Hanna said as she headed for the stairs.

"Oh no, right here," David said as he pointed to the table.

"Dad, why? I always do my homework upstairs."

"Not anymore," David said, shaking his head.

"But I like to lay in my bed while I do it," Hanna told him.

"Sit down, please," David said as he pulled out a chair for her.

"But…"

"You clearly can't be trusted to do it in your bedroom," David said, referring to last nights little incident.

"Dad…" Hanna whined.

"Hanna, I'm not going to argue with you," David warned. "You are doing your homework down here where I can see you. Now sit."

"Ugh, fine," Hanna said as she sat down, but not in the chair her dad had pulled out for her.

"I'm going to go feed your brother. Let me know if you need any help," David said, giving his daughter a kiss on the top of her head before going into the kitchen to prepare a bottle for Neal.

She was not going to ask him for help no matter how hard this homework was. Hanna thought she had a better understanding of how to do it after math class today though. At least enough to get through this homework. She would never admit it, but sitting upfront and away from Henry did help her pay attention a little better.

"Where are you going?" David asked when he saw Hanna getting up from the table.

"I just want a snack." Hanna shrugged her shoulders and walked into the kitchen.

"Did you finish your homework yet?"

"Almost," Hanna said as she opened the cupboard to look for the cookies. There were two left last night, and she really hoped Emma hadn't eaten them. "Ahh, yes!" Hanna said to herself when she saw that they were still there. She looked back towards the table and noticed her dad was there…checking to see if her homework was actually as complete as she said it was. "Dad, don't" Hanna said as she ran back.

"Two problems? That's it?" David said as he held up the paper. "Hanna, you've been at this for a half an hour and this is all you've accomplished?"

"Yeah…" Hanna answered.

David sighed. "Sit down."

Hanna did as she was told and took her place at the table. Her dad sat down next to her.

"Let me see if I can help you with…" David started to say before his phone rang. "Hold on a second." He got up from the table and took the call in the other room.

He came back into the room a few minutes later with Neal's diaper bag slung over his shoulder. "Come on, I need to take you two over to your mom's office. There's a work emergency I need to deal with."

"Okay," Hanna said as she closed her book, leaving it behind, and followed him to the door.

"Oh no, bring that with you. You can finish it there," David told her as he placed Neal into his carseat.

Hanna just sighed and packed up her stuff. It was worth a try.

Now Hanna was stuck doing her homework in her mom's office. Hanna hoped that she would have to entertain Neal while her mom got work done, but Neal fell asleep on the ride over and was still napping. So, that left Hanna with nothing left to do besides her homework. She completed the first page…she was pretty sure all of her answers were wrong, but at least she had something written down. She still had one more page to do though and it was going to take forever! She couldn't bring herself to get it started. She got an idea and walked over to her mom.

"Momma…" Hanna said as innocently as she could.

"Yes…" Snow said as she folded her hands and looked up at her daughter, raising her eyebrows at her. She knew Hanna was only using that word to try and get something out of her.

"May I please have money to go down to the vending machine and get a snack?"

"No you may not," Snow told her with a smile. She knew Hanna was trying to pull one over on her and get out of doing her homework.

"Please," Hanna said, turning on the charm in her eyes.

"Nope, you already had a snack and it's going to be dinner time soon." Snow said as she looked back down at her work. She knew about the cookies Hanna had eaten before she came.

"How did you even…ugh, you and Dad tell each other literally everything!"

"Yes we do and don't ever forget it," Snow told her with a wink.

Hanna just grumbled and walked back to where she had left her work. She picked up her pencil and just stared at her homework. She didn't want to do this anymore and was going to get herself out of here. Hanna didn't care what Regina said. She probably only got dizzy last night because she tried to poof herself back into the house too soon after she poofed herself out. She wouldn't make that mistake again. If she managed to poof herself out of here this time, she wouldn't try to come back. She would just walk home and face the repercussions later. Anything would be better than sitting here trying to figure out this stupid homework. Hanna glanced up at her mom just to be sure she was preoccupied with whatever work she was doing, which she seemed to be. Hanna closed her eyes and focused on being outside and away from here. She started to get that feeling she did last night when she tried to poof herself back inside though. Hanna opened her eyes and the room was spinning a little. Hanna just decided that she needed to push through it. She could do this. She closed her eyes once more and tried again.

"Hanna stop it!" Snow said as she ran towards her daughter, shaking her shoulder a bit to break her concentration.

"What?" Hanna said as she looked up at her. Everything was blurry and it looked like there were two of her mom staring down at her right now.

"I know what you're trying to do. Don't even think about it," Snow warned.

"Okay," Hanna said as she slumped her shoulders. The blurriness was going away, but it still felt like the room was spinning.

"Come on. It's time to go home anyways. Get your things. Emma and Henry are picking up take-out from Granny's," Snow said as she went to retrieve Neal.

"Great," Hanna sighed. She didn't think she could eat anything right now.

Hanna followed her mom out of the office. She tried to keep her composure so her mom wouldn't notice, but she felt like crap. Her head was pounding, and she felt like she was going to puke. Maybe she should have listened to Regina.