Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 5 of Jar of Hearts. I want to thank those who have left reviews for this story. It truly does mean a lot to me. I can't wait to show you guys what will happen next. Updates take time to come up with new parts of this story. But I promise you that you'll love this next part. Without further ado Chapter 5. ENJOY!
Chapter 5
Emma, Graham, Mary Margaret, and MacKenzie walked through the woods searching for John Doe.
"Are you certain that you want to be coming along with us, MacKenzie?" Graham asked, looking back at Mac with a concerned look across his face. He didn't want her to come along if she was that hurt. He didn't want her to be pushing herself so far that she would do more damage to herself. He really did care about her, but he didn't want to show his concern about her in front of this new woman in town. After all, Emma could go to Regina and point out the fact that he was showing care to MacKenzie.
"It's just some stitches." Mac said, pushing the fact that she had gotten shoved by John Doe.
Emma noticed something that Graham saw. "What is it?"
"The trail runs out here." Graham said, looking at Emma.
"You sure? Because I thought tracking was one of your skills?" Emma said, crossing her arms.
"Just give me a second. This is my world. I got it." Graham told her.
"Right... sorry."
"What does he mean? 'His world.'? Isn't finding people your thing too?"
"Sure. Just, people I find usually run places like Vegas. Not a lot hit the woods." Emma explained to Mary Margaret.
Mac put her hands into her pockets. "Well... that would explain why he said his word."
"That's an interesting job... finding people. How did you fall into it?" Mary Margaret asked, looking at Emma. "Looking for people is just what I've done. As long as I can remember."
"What made you start? Your parents? Henry told me that... that you were from a similar situation to his own. Did you ever find them?"
"Depends on who you ask." Emma said, shrugging her shoulders.
They heard a crack of a branch behind them causing them to turn and see Henry running down the hill.
"Henry!" Mary Margaret said in shock looking at him with wide eyes.
"Did you find him yet?" Henry asked in wonder hoping that they found him.
"No not yet. You shouldn't be here." Emma said, looking down at her son.
"Your mother will be very upset that you're here Henry you know that. She will have our heads if she knows that you are here with us."
"I can help." Henry said pleading with them. "I know where he's going."
"And where's that?" Mary Margaret asked as she questioned looking at him.
"He's looking for you."
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The five of them were still hunting for John Doe.
"You're the one who woke him up. You're the last one he saw. He wants to find you." Henry explained to Mary Margaret.
"Henry, it's not about me. I just... I think he's lost and confused. He's been in a coma a long time."
"But he loves you. You need to stop chasing him, and let him find you."
"Kid. You need to go home. Where's your mom? She's going to kill me and then you... and then me again."
"She dropped me at the house. Then, went right out."
"Well, we need to get you back immediately."
"No!"
"Guys!" Graham called out to them.
"My god." Mac said, picking up the band carefully into her hand.
"Is that..."
"Blood." Emma confirmed.
"He has to be somewhere around here then." Mac said softly. "He can't be too far away if he is bleeding."
Graham looked over at Mac and saw the look that was upon her face. The look of concern that was etched across her face. He could tell that even though she was hit that she cared about what happened to this person.
The five of them were searching the woods. They came across the toll bridge.
"Where is he? Can you see him?" Mary Margaret asked Graham.
"Mary... You need to calm down." MacKenzie said, looking at her friend as she carefully walked slowly over the wooded terrain.
"The trail dies at the water line." Graham explained to them.
"Graham." MacKenzie said, looking at him.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!" Mary Margaret shouted in shock, her hands cupped over her mouth in shock.
Graham pulled out his walkie talkie. "I need an ambulance! At the toll bridge, as soon as possible."
Mary Margaret, Emma, Graham, and Mac pulled him back onto the shore line.
"No, no, no, no, no! No, no, no! I just found you!" Mary Margaret said moving some of his hair away from his face.
"It's going to be okay." Emma told Mary Margaret.
"Help's coming." Graham told Mary Margaret softly.
"Graham's right Mary." Mac said with a small smile.
"Is he okay?" Henry asked, looking with wide eyes.
"Henry..." Emma grabbed him to make sure that he didn't get too close to John Doe.
"Is he going to be okay?"
"Henry, don't look. Okay? Don't look."
"Come back to us. Come back to me." Mary Margaret began to start CPR on him.
John Doe coughed up water. "You saved me."
"She did it. She did it ! She woke him up." Henry said happily, glad that Mary Margaret was able to wake him up.
"Yeah, kid.. She did."
"Thank you." He said softly.
"Who are you?" She asked, looking down at him with soft eyes.
"I don't know."
"It's okay. You're going to be okay." She told him softly.
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John Doe was brought back to the hospital.
"Watch your back. Coming through!" The nurse shouted.
"We got it from here."
The five of them watched from the window.
Mac let out a sigh of relief.
Leroy came running up to his sister. "What you did was crazy." He said looking at her. He didn't like the fact that she had left the hospital. She should have stayed here and should have stayed in the hospital and stayed there and waited for him to get off of work.
"Sorry Leroy." She apologized to him. She didn't like the fact that she was being treated as a child.
Kathryn, his wife, burst into his room rushing to his side. "David! David, is that you?"
"Excuse me, ma'am." Dr. Whale said in surprise.
"Oh my god..."
"Ma'am, you can't be in here. Please, you can't be here right now."
"David..."
"You can't be here, ma'am. Can you wait over there for a second, okay?" He asked to move her over somewhere else.
"Who is that?" Mary Margaret asked, looking in concern.
Regina walked up behind them. "His wife."
Mac looked back at Regina with wide eyes. Now this could be the cruelest thing that Regina could have done.
Regina looked at Henry, Emma, Mary Margaret, and MacKenzie who were out in the hallway with her. "His name is David Nolan. And that's his wife, Kathryn. And the joy on her face, well, it put me quite in the forgiving mood. We'll talk about your insubordination later. Do you know what insubordination means? It means your grounded." She said looking at Henry.
Henry looked at MacKenzie hoping that she would be able to help him out of this.
MacKenzie shook her head knowing that she wouldn't be able to help him out of this grounding. There was no way that she would be able to help him out of Regina's wrath once you were in it you were stuck in it permanently. There was no way to get out of it. You were stuck.
Katheryn came out of David's room and walked up to Regina. "Thank you. Thank you for finding my David." She said in a thankful tone.
"Um, I... I don't understand. You didn't... You didn't know that he was here in a coma?" Mary Margaret asked, looking at Katheryn.
"A few years ago, David and I were not getting along. It was my fault, I know that now. I was difficult and unsupportive. I told him if he didn't like things, he could leave. And he did. And I didn't stop him. It was the worst mistake I ever made."
"I assumed he'd left town all this time. And now I know why I never heard from him. Now I get to do what I've wanted to do forever... say I'm sorry. Now we have a second chance." Kathryn said with a small smile.
"That's wonderful." Mary Margaret said, forcing a smile onto her lips.
Mac held onto Mary Margaret's hand knowing that this was hurting her.
Dr. Whale came out. "Well, it's something of a miracle."
"He's okay?" Kathryn said, looking at him.
"Ah, physically, he's on the mend, um, his memory is another issue. It may take time, if at all."
"What brought him back?" Mary Margaret asked, looking at Dr. Whale in confusion.
"That's the thing. There's no explanation. Something just clicked in him."
"He just got up and decided to shove MacKenzie and go for a stroll?" Emma asked, raising her eyebrow.
"He woke up and he was delirious and his first instinct was to go find something, I guess."
"Someone." Henry corrected.
"Can I see him?" Kathryn asked, looking at Dr. Whale.
"Yeah of course." Dr. Whale said, nodding his head.
Kathryn walked into David's room.
Regina looked at Henry. "Henry, let's go."
"Wait, my backpack." Henry ran and grabbed his bag. He leaned up to Mary Margaret. "Don't believe them. You're the one he was looking for."
"Henry..."
"He was going to the Troll Bridge. It's like the end of the story."
"Henry, he was going there because it's the last thing I read to him."
"No, it's because you belong together."
"Henry." Regina called for him again.
Henry quickly followed Regina out the door.
Emma looked at the two women. "I will be right back."
"Go do what you need to do Emma." Mac said with a small smile.
Emma nodded her head and walked out of the hospital. "Madam Mayor!"
"Wait by the car." Regina told Henry.
Henry walked towards the car leaving the two of them alone to talk. "Miss Swan, I let you off the hook back there. Don't press it."
"I'm sorry, but Mrs. Nolan? Kind of feels like her story could be a load of crap. All this time, there's a John Doe lying around in a coma and nobody puts it in the news, nobody goes looking. Something's not right here."
"Well, what else would make sense to you? Why would Miss Nolan lie? Do you think I cast a spell on her?"
"I think it's rather strange you've been his emergency contact all these years and you only found her now." Emma pointed out looking at her crossing her arms.
"Well, this town is bigger than you know. It's entirely possible to get lost here. It's entirely possible for bad things to happen." Regina said, looking at her, giving her a smug smile.
"And just when it's convenient you manage to solve the mystery?"
"Thanks to you. That tape you found was a stroke of genius. So, we went back and looked at past tapes. Turns out Mr. Doe's been talking in his sleep. He's been calling out for a Kathryn. After that, it wasn't hard to put the pieces together. And here I thought you and Mary Margaret would be pleased. True love won out. So bask in the moment, dear. Were it not for you two, they would have their lives completely alone. That's why I'm willing to forgive your incessant rudeness. But all this has reminded me of something oh-so very important. How grateful I am to have Henry. Because not having someone? Well, that's the worst curse imaginable."
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"Mary Margaret?" Mac asked, looking at her sadly.
Mary Margaret looked at her.
"I have to get to work."
Graham looked at Mac.
"Oh... I will let you go. I'll be fine."
"You sure?" Mac asked, concerned, about her friend.
Mary Margaret nodded her head.
"Okay." She said softly.
"I will give you a ride to work." Graham said, giving her a smile. She liked walking and it always gave her something to do. She loved feeling the wind going through her hair. It made her feel somewhat at peace. She didn't have anything to worry about in the world. But maybe the wandering eye of the pawn shop owner Mr. Gold.
Mac looked at him with wide eyes. "Graham you don't have to. Won't Regina, you know... get upset?"
Graham shrugged his shoulders. "I just want to give you a lift to work. I know you don't drive. You walk everywhere you go. And Leroy would be upset if you fainted going to work."
Mac bit her lip shyly. She wasn't so sure of him taking her to work. She was actually afraid of him taking her to work. After all if Regina saw Regina would be in a jealous rage and Mac would be in Regina's warpath. And that would not be a good thing and that was something that Mac didn't want to be caught in the middle of. She also knew that Leroy was going to be upset with her if she passed out again on her way to work since he had a working car and he was the one that used it most of the time and she didn't like driving and she was the one that preferred to walk.
"You should take him up on his offer, Mac." Mary Margaret said with a small smile.
Mac nodded her head. "Okay." She said softly. "As long as you think Regina doesn't mind it."
"She won't. She would be concerned if you passed out again on your way to work."
"How did she find out about it?"
Graham rubbed the back of his neck. "I may have told her about it."
"Why would you do that?" MacKenzie was surprised that he had told Regina had told her about it.
"She asked how you were." Graham told her, admitting the truth. He really didn't want her walking alone, not truly. He was more afraid that something was going to end up happening to her. He wouldn't really admit it to Regina that he cared about Mac because he knew that would condemn him. But he knew that she needed help, he knew that Mr. Gold had taken some kind of interest in her and that bothered him quite a bit. He wasn't sure how to take it. Someone Mr. Gold's age shouldn't be bothering a young woman like MacKenzie.
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This is the end of Chapter 5. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I tried my best with trying to write it out. I promise you there is more to come in future chapters. I promise there will be more MacKenzie in this story. And I know she's very quirky at the moment, but I promise you everything will make sense soon enough. Who do you think MacKenzie is in Fairytale world? Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I hopefully will have a brand new chapter out soon.