Unforgettable

Chapter 41

Storybrook

"Okay so you remember everything?" Mary Margaret asks me.

"Sort of," I begin to explain. "I don't know why I would forget... but according to Doctor Whale, the only memory I've forgotten is the car accident. So I would say that technically I don't really have amnesia."

"I see." Mary Margaret replies. Currently I am laying in bed, and she is sitting in a chair next to me.

"So what have I missed?" I ask her, "did you guys find Regina?"

"Yes actually." She replies happily, "it actually was Greg and Tamara."

"I knew it." I say under my breath, "I knew they had something to do with that."

"What?" Mary Margaret asks me.

"Nothing, please continue." I reply.

"Okay, but unfortunately they dragged Henry into a portal with them... and they're gone."

"What!" I bolt up, my heart rate monitor goes up, "we have to go find him! We have to-!"

"We are..." she grabs my arm, trying to calm me, "look that's why I came. We are leaving, to go find him." I feel tears in my eyes.

"Your gonna leave me?" I ask, tears streaming down my face.

"Claire, you were just injured." She reminds me, "you can't just go running into the face of danger yet."

"Where did they take him?"

"Neverland."

Wonderland

I walk back from the tea party. That couldn't have been stranger. The tea cups were cut in half. Not from top to bottom, no, but straight down the middle. The tea tasted normal enough, I mean as normal as this world can get, I suppose. I wonder what makes Wonderland so strange. Maybe that's how it got that name, because people wonder about this land.... maybe it's just me.

I look at the map, I took from the brown rabbit when he wasn't paying attention. I took it from him, I suppose so I can explore this world while the sun is up... I guess. How long will the sun be actually up though. From what I've heard, the Queen decides when it's nighttime.... I stare at the map, where should I go first? Maybe find a nice reading spot? I can't just hide out in my home all the time, with the exception of tea parties on Thursday, those aren't optional apparently. I check the map again, and see a creek on the map. Diana typically said the best reading places were always under trees or by any body of water. This creek is called Spalding Creek, it might be a good place to start. I walk into my house and grab a random book of my shelf. Of Flora and Fauna. Sounds like a real thriller, I roll my eyes. Why has every book I've read so far have something to do with the plants here? Oh well, at least I'm getting good at the names of plants. And what plants are safe to eat and what plants are poisonous. I walk out of my house and start to follow the path to Spalding Creek.

I get there and look around. Where would a good place to read be? Back in London, if I started to read everyone would have been shocked. Now in Wonderland, there isn't really anything else to do here. I'm a stranger, none of these people I can really call my friend, yet. The Hatter is nice, and so we're the rest of the people at the tea party.... I see a tree and decide that it is the perfect reading place. What did the Hatter mean I can never age? I sit down, and open the book, but change my mind and close it. If I can't age, does that mean if I ever get home, I'll still be ten. When I get back home hopefully I can age again. I don't want to be ten forever.