What happened when...

Found

(I know Ruby isn't supposed to be present in Storybrooke during the rewritten of the story, and so she isn't here in the Enchanted Forest with reversal roles, but I do as if she was. Alternative Universe, so... yeah, she is here. And yes, there is a little Ruby/Snow White that is suggested. By Henry. Because I don't know why but I kind of ship Evil Snow with Ruby. Don't ask me why, but after I wrote the previous chapter, I though that I could develop this in this one, more than I did with the previous.)

... Henry found his mother

He was running. He ran as fast as he could, in order to find his mom. Yes, this was pointless, in a sens, because he didn't really need to do it. But he was so afraid not to find her in time, that he immediately did it after Hades put the spell of the object he had from Emma.

Henry wasn't trembling any more, as he did in the queen's castle, in her cellar. After Ruby's death, under his eyes, and before the god came and found him, he was desperate.

In some way, he still was.

His grand-mother would do anything to stop them, even if she had to kill people from her family. Henry hated Gold a little more because of that. To see the look on Ruby's face, her terror, and her pain also, had been terrible.

And seeing the kind of awkward and maybe unconventional relationship they seemed to have was quite... disturbing. Yes, Henry wasn't blind, and event though it had been during a short time, he saw something strange between them that shouldn't have been there.

It wasn't love, not at all. The Evil Queen couldn't love, never could, or lost this ability after her dear "James" had been killed and replaced by this heartless man (literary speaking) that Charming became.

There was something in his grand-mother's eyes, a thing that he wished he never saw in her eyes.

Lust.

And not for Charming, he may accepted this if it had been(he wasn't a child any more, and there was things he knew now. And yes, with Snow White being the Evil Queen, that and these other things... well, it was still disturbing.)

It was for Ruby. As he didn't have nor time nor interest to figure out this, he didn't know if it was the same for Ruby.

Maybe.

Or maybe not.

And it didn't change the fact that Charming was his grand-mother's true love.

But try to explain this to a bloodthirsty Evil Queen (not only of this, if he goodly analyzed her look on Ruby.)

Yep, it looked like his grand-mother and Ruby seemed to have a relationship. As the formal real Evil Queen had with Graham.

(He also knew that, of course.)

Because of the curse, yeah, that was clear.

And still disturbing.

So, as he was running, he also ran from those memories and trying to forget he saw it.

Just imagine Snow and Ruby together was so... weird.

Even if it did make sense, in some strange and twisted way.

And then, he didn't think about it anymore, because he was where he was supposed to be.

His mother was there, standing alone, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Mom ! He said.

She turned back, and then, she saw him.

- Henry ?"

They fell in the arms of each other in a long and great embrace.

"Where were you ? She asked.

- In the queen's castle. I mean... in grand-ma's. She put me in one of her cellars, and left me alone.

- She didn't hurt you ?

There was both fear, anger and relief in Emma's voice.

- No. not physically, I would say, he whispered to himself, not even being sure that she would hear him. She didn't seem to.

- You're alright ?

- Yes... in a way. And what about you mom ?"

She offered him a sad and a little tired smile. She couldn't lie to him, it had been a very, very harsh day.

"I... I don't really feel good kid. And... I don't think I want to talk about this with you."

Henry nodded. He understood, of course.

Killian Jones' death affected his mother, he saw it, seeing that she really tried not to cry.

But to find a way to destroy all of this.

"How did you find me?

- Well... it's a long story. I met someone who helped me find you.

- Who ?

- He told me his name was Hades. I'm not sure it's true, but I think that after people and characters like the Evil Queen, Snow White and Charming or Peter Pan, I can't really believe it can't be true.

- Wait... really ? Like in... Hades the god of the Underworld ?

- He said it was him.

- Why did he help you ? And why was he here by the way ?

- Trying to find someone who disappeared, apparently because of what Isaac did.

- If I find him, whispered Emma, I swear I will punch in the face for what he did to us."

Again, Henry nodded.

He completely agreed to it. That was almost all that he had to tell her. He was happy to find her again, that she was alive, and had not been taken by the queen's soldiers.

He didn't tell her about Ruby. He just wasn't able to do it, because he may still hoped that they could fix it, in the end, and do the same with Hook.

Hope wasn't enough, yes, but it was a beginning.

He then explained to her what Hades told him, and also the kind of "deal" he made with him.

"You think he will help us ?

- He told me he would.

- And where is he now ?

- Trying to find the person he lost... And he also wants to do it because apparently, Isaac made disappear someone as he rewrote the story.

- You know what ? I'm not even surprised. This man makes me think to Rumplestiltskin... Have great power, could do great things, but use it for an evil purpose.

(If she only knew that he wasn't completely the culprit in all this story.)

- I think I kind of understand him... a little, in a way.

- You what ?

- I saw him, when he was in... well... our land. Thanks to what he did he became an author that is loved, appreciated and read. You know, if there wasn't the fate of her our family in the balance, I could almost accept him motivations.

- You really do son ?

- Yes... See, he didn't ask for riches, or to conquer the world, as many villains do. Or to get revenge on his enemies, as... many people we know did. He wanted to be an author, and it didn't work, so he tried something else. Even though I still think he shouldn't have done this.

- I agree, answered Emma."

And then, they decided to wait for a moment, just before he asked the god again, so they could find a way to find the Author, as Emma knew where he was.

They found each other, so, they could wait for a time...