Once Upon A Time ~ Book 1

Chapter 110 - Welcome Home Party

Kathryn lay asleep in her bed in the hospital. David walked inside and stood in front of the bed, his hand on it as he stared at Kathryn peacefully asleep. He then stepped to the top of the bed and leaned forward, about to kiss her forehead before she gasped and jumped in surprise.
"I'm sorry!" said David.
Kathryn eyes widened in surprise. "What are you doing?"
"I was trying to kiss you on your forehead. It was meant to be sweet."
She chuckled. "Well thank you." she smiled. "It's good to see you."
"Kathryn, I'm sorry...... I'm sorry I lied to you........ I'm sorry I cheated on you...... I'm just so sorry for all this."
"David, it's okay." she said quitely. "You know, what we had, it wasn't it for you. Maybe for both of us. I can't blame you for just being the first one to see it."
He chuckled. "You are........kind of amazing."
She smiled. "Yeah. I am." she chuckled and so did he. "Now go on, get out of here so I can get some rest."
"I'm gonna give you that kiss on the forehead now."
"Knock yourself out." she smiled.
He leabed forward and pressed his lips against her forehead.
Then she smiled up at him and he left the room.

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Granny walked into Mary Margaret's apartment with pie in her hands. Inside her apartment there was a huge colourful banner with fairylights hanging accross the room reading Welcome Home Mary Margaret and the whole apartment was filed with people. Nice soft music played and everyone was smiling and laughing.
"Hi!" said Granny walking over to the counter.
Archie turned around. "Hey."
Emma and Mary Margaret stood together by the counter, looking around the room.
"All these people just to welcome me home?" asked Mary Margaret.
"You got a lot of friends." answered Emma, pouring some drinks.
"Didn't feel like that yesterday."
She walked over to a crowd by the table and held out a tray of drinks. "Here you go."
"Great."
"Thank you."
"Thank you." They all replyed.
"How bad was it?" Henry asked August who sat opposite him in the apartment.
"Getting caught in his office? Not bad. I played it off."
"What were you looking for? Did you find it?"
"Nope. But I've a feeling it's gonna find me." he looked up. "There she is." he said looking at Mary Margaret accross the room. "Why don't you give her your present?"
Henry stood up and walked to Mary Margaret, a silver wrapped present and a giant card in his hands. "Hey. I have something for you." he said to Mary Margaret.
"Oh, thank you!" she said, taking the card he held out to her. The cover was pink and beautifully decorated. She opened it and read it aloud. "We're so glad you didn't kill Mrs. Nolan."
Everyone listened laughed in amusement and Mary Margaret looked up surprised.
"It's from the whole class. And I got you a bell." Henry smiled, shaking the present, making the bell jingle inside.
"Thank you. Tell everyone I'll be back soon."
"Okay."
Emma walked towards him. "Henry, we gotta get you home before your mom finds out. That won't be pretty." she walked with him to the door.
August smiled at Henry as he walked past then caught from the corner of his eye, Mr. Gold standing in the apartment, far off from everyone else, alone in shadows of the kitchen.
Emma opened the door to find David outside in the hall.
"Hey, Henry. Are you leaving already?" David asked him as he walked into the hall.
"Yeah, gotta go home and do homework.
"David." Emma quickly hissed accross the room to Mary Margaret while he talked to Henry.
"Oh, no......." she mouthed.
David looked up at Emma when she had turned around.
"She's kind of tired." Emma answered his silent question.
David glanced inside at her.
"I think you should give it some time......."
"But I just wanted to........."
"Hey, Henry......" she called down the hall. ".......why don't you head home with David?"
"Okay." he smiled.
David looked at Emma.
"Sorry." she said.
He nodded and glanced once more into the apartment at Mary Margaret. "Okay." he breathed and Emma shut the door.
"Hard to let him go isn't it?...... Your son." asked Mr. Gold walking towards her as she shut the door and stared at it, as if she could see through.
She looked at him. "Yeah. Pretty much the hardest thing. Speaking of something we weren't talking about, was it you?"
"Was what me?"
"Did you make Kathryn suddenly materialize? Because it sure played that way to me. Was that the magic you were going to work? Because if you kidnapped that poor, innocent woman, just to let her go......."
"Are you proposing that I'm working with Regina or against her?"
"I don't know. Maybe....... diagonally."
"Well, you keep working on that one." he smiled. "My question is about something else. What do you know about him?" he pointed to August, who stood at the other end of the room, talking to Dr. Whale and some other guys.
Emma looked around at him. "Goes by August. He's a writer. A typewriter wrapped in an enigma wrapped in stubble. Why?"
"He was poking around my ship today. August Wayne Booth, clearly a false name. If there's one thing I know about, it's names."
"Writers go by pseudonyms. Why does that matter?"
He looked at her. "You trust him?"
"Yeah... A lot more than I trust you."
He smiled a little and she walked away, towards August and the others.
Mr. Gold stared at him suspiciously.

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Rumplestiltskin and Bae walked into their new, giant home by the forest will patterned wallpaper, polished furniture with ornaments and food on the table.
The maid inside with blond hair finished making the beds then stood by the door silently.
"Thank you, Onora." Rumplestiltskin said to her. "You can fetch our supper now, dearie."
Bae lifted his leg up onto the stool and looked at the bloody scab behind his cloths. "You killed that man."
"We, you were hurt. Speaking of which......" he say down on the table next to him and lifted his hand, magic surrounding it.
"No." he pushed his hand down. "I don't want magic. It's just a scrape."
"Well, this will heal it."
He walked away to a glass cabinet. "So will this." he took a box from the carbinet and handed it to his father.
"As you wish." he opened the little wooden box and took from it some herbs and healing solutions.
"You're different now. You see it, don't you? You hurt people all the time."
"I created a truse in the Ogres war, Bae. I walked into the field of battle and I made it stop. I led the children home! Surely a man who's saved a thousand lives........"
"Is done. A man who's saved a thousand lives can be done with it. You can stop doing things."
Rumplestiltskin poured the healing solution over his cut and he winced.
"Ow!"
He stood up and walked to the other side of the table. "I can't. I need more power, so I can protect you."
"I wouldn't need protecting if you didn't have so much power." he argued.
"Well I can't get rid of it."
"Have you tried?"
"Tried." he pulled the silver, wavy dagger, decorated in black, reading Rumplestiltskin from his cloak and sat down. He held the dagger between his dirty, inhuman hands. "Someone kills me with this, then they gain the power. Now, you know that, Bae. Is that what you want?"
"That's not what I want! I just think there might be other ways to get rid of the power. Have you looked for......."
Suddenly the front door opened and the maid, Onora stepped inside.
Rumplestiltskin looked over at her then put the dagger back into his cloak.
The maid shut the door and walked into the kitchen where they sat, the supper in her hands.
"Well, you look for other ways, Bae. But don't get your hopes up."
She placed the pot down on the table and Rumplestiltskin waved his hand for her to leave.
He took a wooden bowl and put some of the stew from the pot inside.
The door shut as Onora left.
"Papa, if I find a way for you to get rid of the power, a way that doesn't kill you or hurtle, would you do it?"
"It's not possible."
"If it was, would you do it? Don't you miss how it was?"
He put the bowl down. "Are you really that unhappy, Bae?..... I can conjure anything you desire." he said waving his hands.
Bae said nothing, his face down.
"Name it. What do you want?"
"I want my father."
"All I want is your happiness, Bae." he said after a moment. "If you find a way......I'll do it."
Bae's sad face light up and grew into a smile. "Good." he held out his hand as his father ate his stew.
Rumplestiltskin looked at his hand nervously and hesitated before taking his hand and shaking it.
"The deal is struck." he smiled.
"Struck." he ate chewed the food nervously and looked down at the table, then he looked up at Bae's happy face and smiled.