Once Upon A Time ~ Book 1

Chapter 130 - Magic Is Coming

Mr. Gold placed the decorative, gold egg on the table in the back of his shop with his ringed hands. He then took from a mini set of drawers a little golden key. He put the key inside the keyhole in the egg and twisted three times until it clicked and opened. He left it open on the table and took from the solf grey-navy cushioning the vile of purple, sparkling liquid. He gazed at it and held it up to the light, but then the store doorbell chimed softy at the front of the shop and he quickly slipped the vile into his pocket and hid the golden egg from sight in a wooden chest.
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Gold?" asked Belle, stepping in from behind the thick patterned curtains and into the back of the shop.
Mr. Gold didn't look around but replyed to the polite, soft voice he didn't recognise as firmilure.
"Yes, I am. But I'm afraid the shop is closed." he then finally turned around a caught a glimpse of her elegant, gentle face behind the dirt, dark shadows and tangled, messy hair. "I was....I was told to find you and tell you that Regina locked me up."
Mr. Gold put his hand on the wooden table for balance as his knees shook and his dark eyes widened in disbelieve.
"Does that mean anything to you?" she asked, confused and hoping for a little for informatio and backstory.
He limped slowly on his black, wooden walking stick towards her, not believing what he was seeing or hearing. He reached out and grasped her am, his fingers digging into the stolen, knitted coat she wore. "Your real." he breathed. He gazed at her with his big brown eyes. "Your alive."
She tilted her head in confusion.
"She did this to you?" he said repolsivly.
"I was told you'd protect me."
"Oh, yes!" he cryed, throwing his old, shaking arms around her and holding her close to him. "Yes, I'll protect you." he said through his tears.
"I'm sorry. Do I... Do I know you?" she said as he broke away and she gazed at him surprised with her shimmering blue eyes that seemed to shimmer like a stream in the moonlight.
He quivered his head. "No..... But you will." he dark eyes were now swimming in tears.

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Regina sobbed by the door,  inside the room now as she gazed at him, her dark eyes filed with tears. Dr. Whale stood sadly behind her and Mother Superior held her hand up to her face, holding her necklace with the cross in prayer.
"No." Regina sobbed and she turned to Dr. Whale and buried her head in his shoulder. "No." he rubbed her arms, attempting downy to sooth her.
Emma stood by Henry's bed, her pale face now red and tear-stained, full of sorrow and grief that would never leave her, that would live on inside her, nest, leave a huge whole in her heart. She reached out and placed her hand on his little, pale, cold hand as she gazed at him face, the tears flowing from her like the only light and happiness left. Her mouth quivered and she attempted to say something, but she couldn't, as though she had suddenly gone mute, like her throat had closed up, preventing her from ever speaking or breathing again. Losing her only son was like cutting the cord keeping her alive, piercing the heart pumping in her chest, poisoning the blood flowing through her, crushing the bones holding her together, tearing the soul from what was left of her crumbling, miserable body.
She braced herself and lifted her hand from his and brushed his hazel hair from his pale, white face that was almost like a ghost. She combed her shaking fingers through his strands of hair then leaned forward, her warm, light tears falling in droplets on his pale cold face, and she whispered softly under her breath. "......I love you, Henry....." she then pressed her quivering, pale red lips against his head, her hand still in his hair as she kissed him.
Then suddenly a shudder gushed from the touch of her lips on his cold skin, blowing her blond hair back that cloaked around his face like a curtain, and blasting out through the room, through the people as they gazed, amazed at the sight of Henry's eyes shooting open and gasping, breathing in the oxygen his lungs had missed.
Emma stared down at him in relief, her face lighting up happily as she held his head and saw the live back in her son.
"I love you, too." said Henry.
Emma chuckled through her tears that had changed from misery to joy.
"You saved me." he smiled.
She chuckled agian happily.
"You did it!" said Regina, relieved, happier than ever before.