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

The Apprentice

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Henry and I decided to go visit Regina who was in her vault. I assume she was trying to find a way to unfreeze Marian. When we found her, she was reading a spell book and had ingredients in front of her. Henry started looking through the ingredients, "Eye of newt? Dragon scale? Adder's fork? Lizard's maw?" There were certainly a lot of ingredients.

Regina flipped to another page in the book and said, "Careful, Henry, unless you want to spend your teenage years as a toad."

"That would not be fun." I shivered at the thought of it.

Henry crossed his arms, "So, which one of these is gonna unfreeze Marian? "

Regina sighed and slammed her book shut in frustration, "None of them. I don't think I have anything powerful enough to counteract the snow queen's magic."

"Would that be because Robin still loves you?" I suggested. It had been pretty obvious that Robin still had feelings for her. A dumb person could even tell that he still loved her. Now with Marian in the picture, everything had gotten a lot harder for the two of them. Especially Regina

"Who told you that?" Regina asked me in a quiet voice.

Henry spoke this time, "No one. But we know how this stuff works. We know that true love's kiss didn't work on Marian because he still loves you," Regina looked down and had a sad expression on her face, "But isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't you be happy?"

Regina gave us a sad smile, "In this case, Henry, Aria, I'm afraid this may be something you're just too young to understand."

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After all the stuff with Regina, we had come back to the loft. I was hanging out in my room while Henry was most likely hanging out in his. I laid on my bed and stared at the ceiling above me. I sighed, this was starting to become really boring. I sat up and walked out of my room then to Henry's room. I walked in to see Henry sitting on his bed looking through the storybook. "Hey." I said looking around the room.

Henry looked up at me and placed the book down beside of him, "Hey."

I glanced over at the book then asked, "So how is finding the author coming along?"

Henry sighed, "Not good. I haven't found out anything about them yet."

I smiled at him, "Just give it some time. You'll find something eventually," I looked around the room some more when something caught my attention. I walked over to Henry's desk to see a book that had, 'Greek Mythology' displayed on the front. I picked it up and turned to Henry, "What's this?"

Henry stood up and walked over to me, "I'm trying to find out somethings about Hecate so we can find out what's happening to you."

I stared at him with an unreadable expression, "Really?"

Henry nodded in confusion, "Yeah, I told you that I would help you."

"Thank you." I said sincerely.

Henry smiled, "You're welcome," The two of us stare at each other. It's like I can't look away... not that I would want to anyways. Henry snapped out of it first, "Well, I should get back to work."

I snapped out of it as well and shook my head, "Uh, I can help if you want me to."

Henry nodded, "Sure."

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Henry and I were back at Regina's vault to talk to her again. We entered the vault for the second time today. We found Regina sitting down on a chest, reading a book with a bunch of books surrounding her. "Wow, you've been busy." I said looking at the books on the floor.

Henry called out to her, "Mom," Regina looked up at us, "How's it going? "

Regina closed the book, "No progress yet."

Henry started walking towards her, "Look, we know we might not understand everything that's going on with you and Robin Hood, but there is one thing we understand better than anyone else... Operation Mongoose."

"The storybook?" Regina inquired.

"We're gonna find the author, make him change it." Henry started.

"We also think we know someone who might know something about the author." I added on.

"Who?" Regina questioned.

"My grandpa." Henry replied.

Regina had a confused expression on her face, "David?"

I shook my head, "No, the other one."

Henry went more into detail, "Mr. Gold. Everyone knows Rumplestiltskin doesn't get a happy ending, but look at him now. He just married Belle. He must have figured out how to change his story, which means he might know who wrote the book."

"And I'm the last person he'd ever share that with." Regina stated. That's very true. Regina and Mr. Gold are not on good terms at all. They haven't been for a very long time.

"That's why I'm gonna find out for you." Henry told her with smile.

"How?" Regina asked.

"By going undercover." I said, smirking. This was my specialty and I'm going to be a big help with this. What better help can you get with lying and tricking people than the Cheshire Cat?