The Lost Girl, Now Found

5) I'll Be Okay

Trigger warning: Abuse

I reluctantly take the storybook from him and I see flashes in my head, it's like I'm watching a movie. I see my baby blanket. Mary Margaret? Mary Margaret's coma boyfriend? Wait, they're my parents? "Shit..." I whisper to myself.

"You have to break the curse Emma, you're the savior" Henry tells me, breaking me away from my train of thought.

"Savior?" I ask him, and he nods his head in response. "How am I supposed to be a savior, if I can't even save myself?"

"You will Emma, you just have to have hope" he tells me, smiling. 

I look at my phone and I see that I have 8 missed calls from Walsh. "Shoot, I gotta run kid, see you soon" I jump down from where I was sitting on the castle, but Henry grabs onto my arm. 

"Please don't go back home to him Emma, I don't want him to hurt you" he told me, scared for my safety. 

"Henry, I'll be okay, I have to go back to him, but meet me here tomorrow after school, and we can talk more then"

"We can call it operation cobra" he said smiling, then he jumped down and hugged me. 

"I'll be okay kid" I told him, unsure whether it was a lie or not. 

"Okay, keep the book, tell Ms. Blanchard to read it to David, maybe it'll wake him"

I take the book and leave and I nervously walk home. Twenty minutes later, I find myself outside of my front door, hovering my hand over the door knob, frightened to open the door, then I hear a calming voice next to me, but she was concerned. 

"Emma" Mary Margaret said to me, not even trying to hide how concerned she was. 

"I'll be okay, I-I'll be okay, it'll be fine, I'll be fine" I told her, with a shaky voice, how the hell can I miss 8 calls, I'm so stupid. 

"Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" 

I give her a weak smile and hand her the book. "Here, read this to your boyfriend" I say trying to be funny she responds with a slight giggle. Then I walk inside to a fuming and drunk Walsh and shut the door behind me. "I'm sorry I-"

"Shut the hell up!!!!" I do as I'm told, as I always do when he gets like this. "How the hell do you miss 8 calls from me?!"

"I didn't hear-"

"I told you to shut up, didn't I??" He yelled and he punched me in the stomach, which caused me to fall to the ground and hit my head on the corner of the coffee table, as that happened he kicked me, multiple times, it felt as if i could hear my ribs breaking, then all of a sudden it stopped and my vision was blurred, then everything went black. 

Mary Margaret's POV

I open my door to see Emma trembling in fear, her hand hovering over her door knob, terrified to go inside. "Emma" I say to her, concerned for her life.

"I'll be okay, I-I'll be okay, it'll be fine, I'll be fine" she told me, still trembling in fear. 

"Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" 

He gives me an extremely fake and weak smile and hands me a book, telling me to read it to David, I take the book and I look down to giggle, when I look up, she is already inside, shutting the door behind her. Then I hear him screaming and a loud thump. I can't just listen to him beat her, I run into my apartment, with the storybook still in my hand and grab the first thing I see that can hurt him, not kill him, just temporarily hurt him, which happens to be a frying pan. 

I quietly make my way into their apartment and I see Emma on the ground with a head wound, barely conscious and I also see Walsh repeatedly kicking her. He's gonna kill her, I run over to them and hit him upside the head with the frying pan. He falls to the ground and I see Emma lose consciousness. "Emma, wake up!" No response, so I call an ambulance.

Less than 10 minutes later, the ambulance arrives and they let me ride with them, because they recognized me from the hospital, the whole ride to the hospital, I refuse to let go of Emma's hand, that was until we arrived and Dr. Whale practically has to pry our hands apart. "Mary Margaret, you have to let go!" He told me while pulling us apart. "You have to leave the room"

"I-I understand" I leave the room and I look down at my hands and notice that one is covered in blood and the other I see the storybook that I always see Henry carrying around. I needed a distraction, so I went into David's room and I read to him, like Emma asked me to do. I decided to read the story of Snow White and Prince Charming, then after about 15 minutes of reading, I see his eyes flutter open. "Oh my God, you're awake"

"Snow?" He says to me and I just give him a puzzled look.