Stop with the Delusions
These next two are just some ideas I had. This one is set in season 1 after Dr. Hopper tells Henry to stop with his delusions about the curse. Hanna runs into him as he's fleeing Archie's office in tears and follows him to Emma and Mary Margaret's.
Hanna was just out for a walk when she spotted him. It was Henry. He was coming out of Dr. Hopper's office. Hanna smiled and ran towards him. As she got closer, she could tell something was wrong.
"Henry, are you okay?" Hanna asked.
Henry turned to look at her. Hanna could see the tears in his eyes.
"Henry, what…" Hanna started to say, but before she could finish Henry took off running. "Where are you going? Wait!"
Hanna ran after him. She had a pretty good idea where he was headed. Henry didn't stop running until he was outside Miss Blanchard's front door. He knocked, and they waited for someone to answer
"Kid, what happened? Come on," Emma said when she opened the door to find Henry crying. She could tell something was wrong. She guided him inside and Hanna followed.
"Hanna, what happened?" Emma asked.
"I just saw him leaving Dr. Hopper's office. He was crying. I don't know…" Hanna told her. Emma nodded her head and walked over to Henry, who was sitting down at the table.
"Here, Hanna. You sit down too, sweetie," Mary Margaret said with a smile as she pulled out a chair for her. Both children were out of breath. It seemed as though they ran the whole way here from Archie's. Mary Margaret thought they could both use a little rest.
"Thanks," Hanna said as she sat next to Henry. Then she watched her mom go into the kitchen.
Emma knelt down in front of Henry. "Kid, tell me what happened. Why are you so upset?"
Henry took a deep breath and began to tell Emma what Dr. Hopper just said to him. He said that Henry had to stop with the delusions…that all of this about the curse wasn't real, and if he didn't stop then Dr. Hopper would have to lock him away. Henry thought Archie was his friend…that he was helping him. Sure, he didn't believe, yet. But Henry thought he was on his side. Apparently he was wrong.
"He said all of that to you?" Emma asked, the anger apparent on her face.
Henry just nodded his head.
Emma stood up and took a deep breath as she tried to calm herself down. How could Archie tell him those things? He had just told her not to take the fantasy away from Henry…that it would devastate him. Emma couldn't be sure why he told Henry all of those things, but she did have a pretty good guess who was really behind it.
"How about some hot chocolate?" Mary Margaret said as she set a mug down in front of Henry.
"Thank you," Henry said with a small smile.
"I made one for you too," Mary Margaret told Hanna with a wink as she gave her a mug as well.
"Thanks," Hanna said as she smiled back at her mom. She wished so much that they could figure out a way to get her to remember who she really was.
After they finished their hot chocolate and talked some more, Henry was feeling better. Emma left with the kids and was going to drop Henry off at Regina's office.
"Where do you need me to take you?" Emma asked Hanna. She knew Hanna didn't like being at the orphanage and spent a lot of her time at other places around town.
Henry gave Hanna a look, and she knew what he wanted her to do. "I'm just going to get out with Henry."
"Okay," Emma said. She dropped both of the kids off outside of Regina's office. She told them that she would see them later and drove off. She was going to go have a discussion with Dr. Hopper.
As soon as Emma was out of sight, Henry took off running again. "Henry where are you going?" Hanna called out after him. She followed, and he led her to the collapsed mine. The thing had fallen in just this morning. Hanna knew Henry thought something was down there. "We're going in there aren't we?" Hanna asked as they stood at the entrance of the mine.
"Yup," Henry said as he walked in with Hanna right behind him.