Today Was A Fairytale// Lucerys Velaryon / OUAT / Criston Cole

19. Delusion

"Is the baby really coming?"

"Ohh yeah. Don't worry – the hospital isn't that far." Davina offered

" No! No, no, no. Take me to Boston. I can't go back there." Helan begged.

"Oh no, we don't have four hours. Trust me – I know."

"I can't go back there. Please. He's going to take my baby." Helan sobbed.

"This is gross." Luke decided.

"I won't let that happen. Do you know what you're asking for? If you keep this child, are you really ready?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure? Because I wasn't." Davina admitted, Hazels face fell. Davina couldnt look at her.

" You weren't?"

"Nope. If you want to give this kid its best chance, it's going to be with someone who's ready, so know what that means. Your whole life is going to change and once you decide that it's yours, this 'running away' can't happen. You have to grow up and you can't ever leave. Understand?"

Hazel looked to Luke, they were in similar situations, their parents had left them. Davina had hoped Hazel would have had a better life, one she couldnt give her. Luke's parents, well he had only ever known his foster dad Lenny and he treated the boys like they were his own sons.

"Yes. I want my baby." Helan demanded.

"You know, Davina. You're different." Hazel told her as they waited for Helan to deliver the baby in the hospital.

"What's that?"

" You're the only one who could do it."

" Break the curse? Yes, I know. You keep telling me that."

" No. Leave. You're the only one who can leave Storybrooke." Hazel countered.

"You left and came and found me in Boston."

" But I came back. I'm ten – I had no choice. But if anyone else tried to go, bad things would happen." Hazel reminded her.

" Anyone, except me?"

" You're the savior. You can do whatever you want. You can go." Hazel agreed. "What a magical life."

"Miss Tate." Doctor Beesbury remarked "Baby is a healthy six pound girl and the mother is doing fine.

"What lovely news. Excellent work, Miss Tate. " Otto remarked.

"You are not getting her baby" Hazel declared. Otto's eyes shifted to her. "It's ... Helan's baby, she wants her baby."

"You get Davina's loud mouth thats for sure." Otto remarked. " I like your confidence. Charming. But all I have to do is press charges. She did, after all, break into my shop."

"Let me guess – to steal a contract?" Davina questioned.

" Who knows what she was after?"

"You know no jury in the world will put a woman in jail, whose only reason for breaking and entering was to keep her child. I'm willing to roll the dice that contract doesn't stand up. Are you? Not to mention what might come out about you in the process. Somehow, I suspect, there is more to you than a simple pawn broker. You really want to start that fight?"

""I like you, Miss Tate. You're not afraid of me, and that's either cocky or presumptuous. Either way, I'd rather have you on my side."

"Tear it up then." Davina agreed. "Your contract."

"That's not what I do. You see, contracts – deals – well, they're the very foundation of all civilized existence. So, I put it to you now. If you want Helan to have that baby, are you willing to make a deal with me?"