The Lost Girl, Now Found

9) Walsh

Trigger Warning: Abuse

Emma's POV

It's already 7, so Henry is probably already at Granny's waiting for me, moments later I arrive, and I was right. 

"Hi Emma!" Henry yelled from a stool next to the counter.

"Hey kid, watcha up to?"

"Nothing really, just waiting on you" he told me jokingly. 

"Yeah, sorry about that Mary Margaret couldn't decide on a dress and she practically held me prisoner" I tell him

"Dress? For what?" 

"Oh I didn't tell you?" he shakes his head. "Mary Margaret and David have a date" Henry smiles at me. And yup, that's right, I set my parents up, as weird as that may sound.

"Can I ask you a question... About my dad?" I reluctantly nod my head. "Is it Walsh?" I nod my head. "Does he know I exist?" I shake my head. "How?" I sigh, not totally wanting to talk about it.

"When I found out I was pregnant, I ran, I planned on keeping you, but when I was about 8 and a half months pregnant, I found out he was looking for me, and he got really close to actually finding me. So I left where I was staying and that's when I decided that it wasn't a safe environment for a child" I look at him and see tears forming in his eyes and he looks down. "Henry, look at me" he does what I told him. "Giving you up was the hardest thing that I have ever had to do, but if I would have kept you and raised you like I initially wanted, you could be physically hurt, or maybe even worse" I tell him, straight forward. 

"How long after I was born did he find you?"

"Less than a month" I zone out thinking about the night that Walsh found me.

10 years ago

It's been 3 weeks since I had to give my child up for adoption, I'm so glad that they let me name him, even though I couldn't keep him, I named him Henry Swan. God, I miss him so much, I wonder if he was adopted yet, I hope he doesn't have to suffer in the system, like I did.

I'm at a diner in Jackson, Wyoming, it's almost 9 pm, so I'll probably just crash in a motel tonight. After I finish my hot cocoa with cinnamon and my grilled cheese, I go to the Antler Inn Motel, I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one here, but I fell asleep faster than I have in a long time. 

I woke up to someone pulling me off of the bed in my motel room when I open my eyes I saw someone I was hoping I'd never have to see again. "Walsh? I..Uh, I-"

"Don't speak!"

"Walsh! I can't stay in this relationship! I can't take it anymore!" He slaps me across the face.

"I told you not to speak!" I immediately stop talking and Walsh grabs my arm and starts dragging me to his car. 

"Walsh! Please! Just let me go!" I yell as he's shoving me into his car.

"Shut the hell up Emma" 

Henry's POV (Present Time)

I notice Emma is zoned out, but I snap her out of it when I see Walsh coming. "Emma..."

"Huh? What is it kid?"

"Walsh... He's coming" I tell her nervously, and she looks outside and sees him. Then she leans over and hands me her phone, shortly before he walks in. 

"If anything happens, and I mean anything, you run into the bathroom and lock the door and call Mary Margaret, and you do not, I repeat, do NOT walk out of there unless Me, Mary Margaret, or David say otherwise" I nod my head.

"I-I'm scared... What if he hurts you?" 

"Henry, I'll be okay" Walsh walks in, so she pushes me behind her. "Stay behind me" I nod my head in response, but when Walsh walks in, I start to cry and hold on to her arm and I'm not letting go.

"Emma!" When he yelled, I held onto her a little bit tighter, then Walsh grabbed her other arm and started to pull on it. "You're coming with me!"

I gripped onto her arm as tight as I could. "No!!" I yelled. 

"Henry, it's gonna be okay, just do what I told you to do" 

"What'd you tell him to do?!" Walsh yelled.

I shake my head. "Emma, I don't wan-"

"Henry do it" I nod my head and start to run to the bathroom, then I see him pulling her out of the diner.

I go into the bathroom and lock the door, then I pull out Emma's phone and call Mary Margaret.

"Hello?"

"Mrs. Blanchard! Walsh took Emma!!" I told her extremely fast, while crying and freaking out. 

"Henry, slow down!"

I take a deep breath "Me and Emma were at Granny's talking, but then I saw Walsh and she gave me her phone, then he came inside and took her!! She told me to come in the bathroom and not to come out unless you or David showed up!"

"We'll be right there"

"You have to hurry Ms. Blanchard! You have to! He took her! He took my mom!!" I told her screaming and crying.

"Henry relax, me and David are on our way"

"O-o-okay" then she ended the phone call. I was sitting on the bathroom floor trying to stop myself from crying. People keep coming to the door telling me it's safe to come out. "Not without Ms. Blanchard or David!!!" A little while later I hear another knock at the door. "I told you, not without-"

"Henry, buddy, it's David" I run to the bathroom door, unlock it, then I hug David as tight as I could. "H-he took her" I tell him, crying again.

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~Jasmine