Holding on to Hope (Once Upon A Time)

Chapter 1: Explain

{Henry's pov}

"So what exactly happened?" I asked Regina as we sat on my bed, I had a room at Regina's palace. I'd been staying here since we got to the Enchanted Forest. It was weird, honestly. It looked like something I'd studied in social studies, the clothes, the palaces, everything.

It hurt to talk about, what happened to my mom. Everyone had try to shelter me from the truth, about what exactly had happened. But it wasn't working.

"Henry, I-" she started but I cut her off.

"Never mind," I say pushing up off the bed and walking out. Thankfully, she didn't follow me. I just kept walking and walking and walking. Along dirt paths, over rocks, around trees until I was in the village. I still hadn't learned to ride a horse in the six months we'd been here.

I walked a little more and came upon what looked like a farmers market, no clue exactly what to call them here.

There were people everywhere, all ages and sizes walking around. But one person stuck out in particular.

Jamie.

I hadn't so much as seen her since we were in Storybrooke. She had a basket on her forearm full of food. Her cloak was pulled over her head but there was no mistaking it was her. Her little sister, Jessie I think is her name, was tugging on her cloak.

I couldn't hear what she said but she turned to her sister and said something but I couldn't hear.

She turned back to the fruit stand.

I turned on my heel and walked back the way I came.

Way to screw up with her. I thought as I kept walking. But as they say, only know you love her when you let her go.

I walked around a little while longer before I made my way back to Regina's palace.

When I got there she was standing in the room. "Henry, I'm sorry," she said nervously playing with her hands.

"I'm sorry," I said hugging walking over and hugging her.

"I'm ready to tell you, the whole story this time," she said pulling out of the hug.

"It's okay, you don't have to."

"Yes, yes, I do. You deserve to know the truth," she said quietly.

We sat down at the table.

"The spell, was called the Áldozat spell, and what it does is, eliminate the lightest and darkest by combining the two. The power was neutralized, by combining the two, which is what I believe to be what brought us here," she explained.

"So they're both..." I trailed off.

"Yeah," she said quietly, looking at the floor.

"I really should get some sleep, maybe tomorrow you could teach me how to ride a horse?" I asked hopefully, trying to erase some of the sorrow from our previous discussion.

"Maybe," she said with a small smile that never reached her eyes that looked glassy with tears.

{Snow's pov}

"Elsa sent flowers," Charming said as he set a beautiful bouquet of light blue roses on the table. "Said she wishes she could deliver them in person but they were having problems with break-ins at the palace and they needed her there."

"Okay," I whispered.

"Hey, he said placing his hands on my shoulders. "We said no tears, remember?" he asked. We had made that agreement, as we had discussed, moping around wasn't getting us anywhere.

"Easier said than done," I said.

"The only bright side is the Dark One is gone and there will never be another one again."

{Cruella's pov}

"How exactly do you plan on making this work, Darling," I asked, letting the words roll off my tongue.

"Relax, everything will work itself out. Now, take the prisoner her food," she said shoving a tray full of food in my face. Gee, thanks.

I rolled my eyes before I started the climb up the tower.

Upon my arrival she turned her head up, causing a few locks of her long hair to fall in her eyes.

"Eat up, Darling," I said in a singsong voice as I set the tray on the floor in front of her.

Before I could stand back up she grabbed my arm, "You shouldn't have brought me back," she hissed.

Smirking I stood up, and her arms that once had a death grip on my forearms fell back to the floor, the chains around her wrists keeping her in place.

And with that I left.

___________________________________________________________________ Really short update today... anyway, I'm really excited about this book. I'm evil not letting you guys know what exactly what I have planned, cause personally I think it's friggin awesome. I'm done with school now so I'll probably start updating more often.

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