A Story That Will Never Die {Henry Mills/OUAT} [2]

Heart of the Truest Believer

We were inside the portal, on our way to Neverland. The ship was getting rocked back and forth by the wind. We all held onto the ropes, trying not to fall off the boat. Which was actually kind of hard because I almost lost my grip, what? Like... 8 times. Finally, we reached the end of the portal and the boat shot up. Then, it landed on the water. The ship was no longer getting rocked so we all let go of the rope we were holding onto. Everyone of us looked around in confusion.

"Is that it?!" Emma asked.

"Aye, Neverland." Hook confirmed. We all gazed at the island in front of us.

Awhile later, I was standing in front of one of the railings of the ship. I looked down at the water, my feeling about it was bad. Why? I had no idea. Maybe there was something down there. If there was would it be good or bad? Hopefully, it would be good because we are kind of in a hurry here. While looking out at the sea, I started to overhear Mary-Margret, David, and Emma's conversation.

"Hey." Mary-Margret hesitated. From the corner of my eye, I saw her look back at David then turn to Emma again, "What happened to Neal and Henry - it's not your fault. You can't blame yourself."

"I don't. I blame you." Mary-Margret and David's head shot up at what she said. "All this happened because I listened to you. You say good always wins. It doesn't. I didn't grow up in some fairy tale land. My experience is different. That's all I can go on."

"And all we have to go on is ours, so if you would just let us share our wisdom--" Mary-Margret started, but was cut off by Emma.

"I appreciate you trying to be parents, but we're the same age. We have equal amounts of wisdom. And all I want is Henry back. I should never have broken the curse. I should've just taken Henry and--"

"You're right. Th-Then you'd be together. We missed you growing up Emma, and it haunts us every day." Mary-Margret said.

David continued for her, "And that's why we're here now. We don't want you to have to go through the same thing, too, and you won't. We are gonna get our family back."

"How can you two be so infuriatingly optimistic?!" Emma yelled at them. Well, you can only hope and I think that's what they're trying to do. Plus, I think it's one of the only emotions they have, so yeah. Mary-Margret looked at a loss for words.

"It's who we are." David replied.

"Why? Ever since you got your memories back, ever since you remembered that you're Snow White and Prince Charming, your lives have... they've... well, they've sucked!" Emma stated.

"No. No, we found you." David denied.

"And lost Henry and Neal, and countless other people!" Emma shouted. I drew in a sharp breath.

"Emma, the minute I let go of the belief that things will get better is the minute that I know they won't. We'll find Henry." Mary-Margret said to the woman.

"No, you won't." We all heard somebody say. I jumped a little and turned around, along with everybody else. When we turned around we saw Mr. Gold wearing his clothes from the Enchanted Forest. I walked over to the others and looked up at the man, who oh so graciously, scared me to death.

"Oh, that's a great use of our time—a wardrobe change." Hook said, sarcastically.

"I'm gonna get Henry." Mr. Gold said. Emma grabbed the nearest lantern and walked up the steps a little.

"We agreed to do this together." Regina informed him.

"Actually, we made no such agreement." Mr. Gold stated.

Emma lowered the lantern and looked up at the man,"Why are you doing this?"

"Because I wanna succeed." Mr. Gold simply replied.