Chapter 29

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Once she made it out of the building, it only took Hanna approximately 30 seconds to regret her decision to leave the apartment. She knew it was a mistake. What am I doing? she thought to herself as she walked down the sidewalk. She really wasn't thinking when she left…she just did. She was just so tried of being stuck inside and her mom was really getting on her nerves. Hanna knew she was going to be in so much trouble when she finally went back. She just shrugged her shoulders though…she was already out here, so she might as well enjoy it.

Hanna knew she couldn't be out where others could see her, so walking through town was not an option. Everyone in town knew who she was, and they knew Snow White and Prince Charming would not want their young princess out all by herself, especially with the Wicked Witch running around. It would only take a quick phone call to her parents to let them know of their daughter's whereabouts. Hanna decided to take a few side streets and make her way into the woods. She would walk along the trail that led her to the beach. That's where she really wanted to go anyways. She loved to feel the ocean breeze in her hair while she sat and watched the waves.

Hanna quickly found the trail and made it to the beach pretty easily. This part of the beach was pretty secluded, so Hanna was sure no one would find her here. She sat down in the sand and made herself comfortable. Hanna only got to enjoy the relaxation of the beach for a few minutes though.

"Hanna!" yelled a voice from behind.

Hanna quickly turned around to see her dad walking straight towards her. Crap, he sure found me fast, Hanna thought as she stood up to face him. "Dad, what are you doing here?" Hanna asked, trying to sound innocent.

"Hanna, are you alright? We thought she took you," David said as he wrapped her in his arms.

"What? Nobody took me. I'm fine," Hanna told him. She was confused. Why did he think somebody took her?

"Want to tell me how you got here, then?" David said as he crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows, waiting for an explanation from his daughter.

Hanna looked up at him and noticed that the look of concern and worry he had when he first saw her was replaced by one of anger. He was totally mad at her. She was definitely in trouble. She thought maybe she should have played along and pretended that someone actually did take her.

"Hanna I'm waiting," David said when she didn't answer him.

Hanna sighed. "I left the loft and walked here."

"What the hell were you thinking?" David yelled. He had no idea what could have possible motivated her to wander out on her own with everything that had been going on in town.

"I don't know," Hanna said as she looked down.

"Do you realize how dangerous it is for you to be out here by yourself?"

"It's not dangerous. As you can see I'm perfectly fine," Hanna told him with a little more attitude than she realized.

"Yeah and you're lucky I was able to find you so quickly or you might not be," David said as he thought about that witch and the fact that she has been turning people into flying monkeys. That could easily have happened to Hanna.

"Whatever, I just needed to get out of the house for awhile," Hanna said with a roll of her eyes.

Hanna noticed the look on her dad's face change again…he was even madder than before. Hanna was pretty sure she rolled her eyes during that last statement. I really need to stop doing that. Both of her parents had told her several times to quit the eye rolling, but she couldn't help it.

"Let's go," David said as he grabbed Hanna by the arm and pulled her towards his truck. He was done talking to her. He just wanted to get her home. His wife was at home, out of her mind with worry.

"Dad, I'm sorry."

David just continued to walk towards the truck, his hand firmly grasped on his daughter's arm. He didn't want to hear it right now.

"Can't we just stay here for a little bit, since we're already here?" Hanna begged as she tried to loosen his grip on her arm. She didn't even get to be here for very long.

"Absolutely not. Get in the truck," David said as he let go of Hanna's arm and opened the door for her to get in.

Hanna just stood there with her arms crossed. She didn't want to leave. She wasn't a child. Her dad was being ridiculous.

"Hanna, don't make me put you in the truck myself," David warned.

Hanna continued to stand there, raising her eyebrows at him. She was really testing his patience.

"Okay fine," David said as he moved towards her.

"Okay, okay, I'll get in," Hanna said as she quickly climbed into the truck. She thought about pushing it further. She kind of wanted to see just how far she could go with him, but the look on his face told her that probably wasn't the best choice. He really would have put her in that truck himself and Hanna knew that would only get herself into more trouble.

As David got into the truck, he pulled out his phone to call Snow. He had to let her know that Hanna was safe.

"What are you doing?" Hanna asked as she watched her dad start to call someone on his phone.

"Calling your mother."

"No. Why?"

"Hanna, she is worried sick about you," David told her.

"But do we have to tell her? We can just pretend whoever you think took me actually took me," Hanna tried. She knew it was a long shot, but she had to try something. Her mom was going to be furious with her when she found out she up and left the loft on her own.

David just gave his daughter a look. A look that told her nice try, but it's not going to happen.

Hanna sighed. It was worth a shot. "Is it the Wicked Witch? Is that who you think took me?"

"We'll talk about it later," David said as the phone started to ring.

"Charming, did you find her? Is she alright?" Hanna heard her mom's frantic voice say through the phone.

"I have her Snow. She's fine. We'll see you in a few minutes," he assured her.

They said their goodbyes and hung up the phone.

"So, you're not going to tell her I snuck out?" Hanna asked with a smile, feeling hopeful.

"Nope, I'm not going to tell her. You are," David told Hanna.

Hanna groaned and slumped her shoulders. She really didn't want her dad to tell her mom, but she especially didn't want to be the one that had to do it. She really hoped her dad took the scenic route home. She knew once they got there it wasn't going to be pretty.

"Dad…please don't make me," Hanna said as they stood outside of the front door to the loft. She looked up at him, hoping he would give in and not make her go in there and face the wrath of her mother.

"Come on," David said as he put his hand on her back and guided her inside.

"Hanna!" Snow said as she pulled her daughter close.

"Hey mom," Hanna said quietly. She looked over and saw Emma sitting at the table. Something was wrong. Hanna could tell by the look on her face.

"Are you okay? She didn't hurt you did she?" Snow asked as she looked Hanna over for any signs of injury.

"No, I'm fine," Hanna said as she looked down.

"Hanna, what is it? Are you sure you're okay?" Snow asked as she put her fingers under Hanna's chin, lifting her head so she was looking at her.

Hanna looked into her mother's eyes and didn't know what to say. She heard her dad clear his throat beside her. She looked up at him. He nodded his head at at her, letting her know that she needed to tell her mother the truth.

"What? What is it?" Snow said, noticing the little exchange between her husband and daughter.

Hanna took a deep breath. "Mom, nobody took me."

"Really?" Snow asked as she stood back and crossed her arms, finally putting together what happened. She knew her daughter was going stir crazy staying in the house. She just didn't think she would actually leave on her own. "Well I sure hope you accidentally poofed yourself out of here or something because otherwise you're in big trouble."

"Well I guess I'm in big trouble then," Hanna said under her breath.

"Excuse me?" Snow asked.

"Well I guess I'm in big trouble then," Hanna repeated as she threw her hands up. "I left myself. I grabbed my coat and shoes and just left."

"Hanna, what were you thinking?"

"I was thinking that I needed to get out of here. You were driving me nuts," Hanna said a little louder than she realized.

"Hanna, don't raise your voice at your mother like that," David warned.

"But dad, she wouldn't let me leave and she made me sort socks all day," Hanna complained.

"Oh Hanna stop it," Snow told her. "I did not make you sort socks all day. That lasted maybe 20 minutes before you threw them everywhere."

"You threw socks everywhere?" David asked with a raise of his eyebrows, wondering just how much trouble Hanna had given her mother today.

"Yeah," Hanna said as she looked down. She did feel kind of bad about doing that. "I cleaned them up though."

"Hanna, I don't care if your mom asked you to clean this whole apartment. You do it and show her respect. Is that understood?"

"But dad, she's been cleaning this place for days. It's already clean! It's crazy," Hanna told him.

"Hanna that is enough," Snow said. She was getting really fed up with her youngest daughter right now.

"It's true though. Look at this place, it's…" Hanna started to say.

"Hanna stop it," Snow warned again. "You just need to go up to you're room for awhile and calm down."

"Mom, no I…woah, what happened to the bathroom doors?" Hanna asked when she noticed that they both looked like they had been kicked in.

"Hanna…not now," Snow sighed.

"No seriously what happened?" Hanna asked, looking over at her sister, hoping she would tell her.

"David and I kicked them in. We figured out who the Wicked Witch is," Emma told her.

Hanna thought about it for a few seconds. Her dad and Emma had figured out who the Wicked Witch was. They kicked down the bathroom doors, which meant they thought the Wicked Witch was here. The only other person that was her besides her mom was…

"Zelena, she's the witch?" Hanna asked, already knowing she was right. Now it made sense why her parents thought she took her. Hanna figured when they found the bathroom, where Zelena had been, empty and Hanna gone, they thought the worst. That she had taken Hanna. Hanna really picked a bad time to sneak out.

"Yes, she's the witch," David told her.

"I knew it! I knew there was something off about her. We called it, didn't we?" Hanna said as she looked up at her dad, who did not give her a pleasing look in return.

"I guess I don't have to apologize to her now for being rude," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Hanna, that's enough…" Snow started to say.

"Hey, I'm gonna go find Henry. I need to tell him," Emma said interrupting her mom. She didn't feel like waiting for this next argument to be over.

"Tell him what?" Hanna asked.

Emma just gave Hanna a sad look and left the loft. She would let her parents fill her sister in on what happened. She only had enough left in her to tell Henry and that was going to be hard enough.

Hanna watched as Emma left the loft. She knew she wasn't going to tell Henry about the Wicked Witch. Henry didn't have his memories, so he wouldn't even know what Emma was talking about. Something else happened…something that was not good.

"What's going on?" Hanna asked her parents.

"Hanna, you need to just go upstairs. We'll talk about this later," Snow told her. She was not ready to talk to Hanna about this yet. She needed some time to cool off…they both did.

"No, please tell me what happened. Somethings wrong."

"Hanna go to your room," David told her firmly.

"But…" Hanna started to object, but quickly stopped. The look on her father's face told her to get her butt upstairs. She was pretty sure he would take her up there himself if she didn't listen, just like he threatened when she wouldn't get into the truck. Hanna didn't want that to happen, so she reluctantly went up without saying another word.

Hanna sat upstairs for what seemed like forever. She thought about all of the events that just recently took place…not about her sneaking out. She didn't want to think about that right now. She was thinking about their discovery that Zelena was the Wicked Witch. Zelena was the one that cast the curse and brought them all here, erasing all of their memories, but why? What was she planning? Why did she pretend to be a midwife? Zelena wanted to get close to her mom and the baby for some reason, but Hanna just wasn't sure what that reason was. She wasn't going to let anyone hurt her baby brother or sister though.

After awhile, Hanna finally heard footsteps coming up the stairs. She knew one or both of her parents would be coming up here at some point to talk to her. Now the question was is it going to be her mom or her dad that comes up here? Or was she going to be double teamed?

Double teamed it is, Hanna thought when she saw her mom walk in, followed by her dad. They didn't look as mad as they did earlier, which was good. Maybe they wouldn't be too hard on her. Hanna sat up on her bed and waited for the lecture that was sure to come.

"Hey," Snow said as she sat down on the edge of Hanna's bed.

"Hi," Hanna responded quietly.

"I think we need to talk," Snow told her.

"Yeah, I think we do," Hanna replied.

"Listen, I'm sorry that I've been keeping you cooped up in the house for the past couple of days. I understand that it hasn't been fun for you, but it was all to keep you safe. I was not going to let that witch turn my little girl into a flying monkey," Snow said.

"I know you just wanted to keep me safe. I'm sorry I snuck out," Hanna said. She really was sorry. She knew the moment she left that she shouldn't have.

"Hanna we can't go back to this. We can't have you sneaking out all of the time and worrying about where you are, especially with that witch out there," David told her. He and Snow went though this with her before and they didn't want to do it again.

"Okay," Hanna said with a nod of her head.

"We mean it Hanna. It can't happen anymore," David said, wanting to reinforce what he was he was telling her. Hanna had told them several times that she wouldn't sneak out anymore, but she still did it.

"Dad, I know. I won't do again. I promise," Hanna told him seriously. "I'm really sorry for what I did and that I made you guys worry so much. I'm sorry for giving you such a hard time the past couple of days too, Mom."

"Thank you Hanna, we accept your apology," Snow told her as she wrapped her arms around her and gave her a kiss on the top of her head.

"So does that mean I'm not in trouble?" Hanna asked innocently as she looked up at her parents.

"Oh no, you're totally grounded," Snow told her.

"Yeah, until you're 30," Charming added.

"Dad…" Hanna said with a grin.

"Okay, definitely until further notice though," he told her seriously.

"Alright, I guess I deserve that," Hanna said as she looked down. "Mom? What's going on with Emma?" Hanna asked as she looked back up. She knew something was going on with her sister.

Snow sighed and looked up at her husband, trying to decide the best way to tell Hanna just exactly how they knew Zelena was the Wicked Witch.

Snow and Charming told Hanna about what happened to Neal. That he had sacrificed himself to revive his father. They told her that Rumplestiltskin absorbed Neal, so he wouldn't die. Neal sacrificed himself again when he told Emma to separate him from his father, so Rumplestiltskin could tell them who the witch was. Rumple knew, but wasn't able to tell them because of the conflicting voices in his head.

"So what happened to Neal when Emma separated them?" Hanna asked, pretty sure she already knew the answer.

"He's gone sweetie," Snow told her.

"He's really gone this time? Are you sure?" Hanna asked.

"Yeah kiddo, we are," David said sadly.

Hanna let all of this sink in. Neal was gone. He wasn't coming back this time. She instantly thought of Henry and how he was going to feel about all of this. He didn't even really remember his father. All he knew about him was that he set his mom up to take the blame for his crimes, causing her to go to jail. He didn't remember that his dad really was a good person. Hanna didn't really know Neal all that well, but she knew he loved Henry. He fought his way to Neverland to save him from Pan. Hanna was just so sad about all of this. She just leaned into her parents and let them embrace her as the tears started to fall from her eyes.