Lithium (Once Upon a Time)

Chapter Thirteen: Message from a Mills

Storybrooke, present days....

Henry: Things had been quite even after Emma and Regina's departure, yet I missed my moms more than ever.

It had been six weeks since I last saw them, and I missed them way to much. Snow and David didn't like to be separated from their daughter as well, especially after losing her for twenty- eight years and knowing how difficult travelling through realms could be.

At least I had Drizella to make me company and my daughter, Clara, even though she was now in a kind of a teenage rebel phase and spent more time with Zelena training magic than with her parents.

"Henry, don't worry, they'll be back! If there's something I know about your family is that..."

"They always find each other." I completed my wife's words, placing my hands above hers. "I know...I know...But it usually takes decades for us to find each other at times."

"Don't worry, I'm sure they're having a lot of fun in their honeymoon. It would be bad for them if they had to endure seven nosy dwarves breathing down their necks, they can be quite irritating."

I chuckled, only Drizella's jokes about the dwarves to make my day better!

"You're right, Leroy can be quite upsetting at times."

"Plus, they deserve a few time together, to know each other, especially after so many years concealing their love."

"Right as always, my lady..." I jerked around, kissing her hand, and then bringing her body into mine, as I chuckled and kissed her bright gold cheek.

"Oh Henry, you're embarrassing me." She said, as she grabbed my arms gently and saw the reaction of everyone in town, since we were kissing in the docks, near the Jolly Roger.

"I love you..."

"Me too..." She whispered back, and our lips jointed in a blissful passionate kiss.

As our lips were crushed against one another and our minds were distracted with the moment of seduction, something reached the surface of the night pitch black sea.

It was a small magical vortex with a huge silver like light in the center, from where a small bottle came.

"What the hell is that?" Drizella said, once she noticed the strange spectacle.

"Oh, what...Let's get back to the kissing." I said, pulling her again into my embrace. I wouldn't have another Storybrooke weird incident ruining my moment.

"No, Henry, look!" I nodded, rolling my eyes. I still wanted the kissing instead of facing whatever rose to Storybrooke's surface.

"What?" I asked.

"It's a message in a bottle."

"Where did it come from?"

"A portal maybe...Wait." Drizella lifted her hand and in a poof of purple smoke, the bottle appeared in her hand.

"Let's open it." I said, while Drizella heard my words.

"Look...It says: Dear Henry, I hope this message got to you. Me and Emma faced the vindictive prince Hamlet, in the land of untold stories and now he took her! Please, help us. I'm so sorry I have to ask your help, dear, but the town might also be in danger and only the author can stop Hamlet. With love, Regina."

"Oh my...It's my moms, they're in trouble!" I said, placing my hands on my head and widening my eyes in absolute worry.

"The land of untold stories...Where the hell is that?"

"Far! We need to get to them, Drizella, we must save them!"

"Yes, of course. We will, honey, don't worry. But how exactly do we get to the land of untold stories?"

"I don't have a choice, with my moms' life on the line, I have to use the author's powers."

"But Henry, no! Remember what happened to Isaac." I loved her so much when she was overprotective.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. But right now, we have to save my moms."

"Henry? What's going on?" Snow asked. She and David were also night-walking in the docks.

"Grandma, it's my moms, they were taken by Hamlet! Me and Drizella were going there right now, to rescue them."

"What?! Oh my...Henry, we're coming too."

"You are?" I asked.

"Of course! What, just because we're old doesn't mean we can't fight." Snow stated, with an angry face.

"Well...To be fair your aim turned kind of bad." David whispered.

"David!" Snow screamed, angry at her husband.

I started laughing hard at the situation, Drizella grabbed my arm, terrified with the thought of reaching that age.

"Okay, then let's go! We have no time to waste!"

"Go? Go where?" Zelena asked, apparently, night walking in the docks was something...

"Zelena, you're here too?..."

"Small towns." Drizella joked, whispering in my ear.

"Well hello to you too. Now tell me where you are going?" Zelena asked, delicated as always.

"To save Emma and Regina, they were taken by Hamlet."

"That's right, and we have no time to waste!"

"I'm coming too."

"Okay, fine!"

"Let's do this, then!"

I picked my authorial pen and when I looked to Drizella she knew exactly what she need to do! She made a small cloud of purple smoke and a storybook appeared out of it.

I picked the storybook and opened in the first blank page, writing "Once Upon a Time..." It was a nostalgic feeling. I didn't use the pen in a long time, let alone to change the course of things.

We would travel to a new land, to rescue my moms from the biggest threat we've ever faced, and to live a new story, after being used to the magic of Storybrooke's happy endings!