Saviours Sometimes Come in Pairs

Chapter 3

Cameron

With nothing else to do, I head back to House's office again, one hand resting on my pager. I'm waiting for the page from Emma telling me she has her proof, although I'm not sure why I've got my hand on it, as it doesn't vibrate.

Everyone looks up when I walk in, and I know I'm in for an interrogation.

"So," Foreman starts, getting a look from Robert that I can't quite place, "what did you find out?" Putting my lab coat over the back of the chair, I sit down and cross my legs. I think we may be here a while.

"Technically, she's not your patient anymore and she's not really mine either, so I don't have to tell you anything," I say, knowing without a doubt that House will think I'm insane if I even mention the magic thing.

"She's obviously found out something secret," House states, raising his eyebrows suggestively. I roll my eyes. "What is it, Cameron?"

Luckily, my pager bleeps before I have to reply, so I grab my coat and head out the door, shooting an apology—and a glare—behind me.

I arrive in Emma's room a few minutes later, and am surprised to see another woman—I think her name is Regina—still there. Emma is holding what appears to be a dreamcatcher, and she gestures to the seat next to her.

"Before I start, put your hand through here." She reaches for my hand, giving the dreamcatcher to her friend to hold, and puts my fingers through the middle. "I want to show you that it's not a screen, or a trick. Again, please don't freak out." From that statement, I jump to the conclusion that she's going to do more of what she believes to be magic. Although I can't for the life of me work out how it would work without it, I still don't believe the fireball was actually magic.

She waves her hand around the dreamcatcher and a gasp escapes me as an image appears in it. It appears to be a wedding, possibly of royalty, as there are two people stood in the middle of a massive room, surrounded by hundreds of people. Looking closer, I realise that the two people are the other two people who have been visiting Emma: the people Emma claims are Snow White and Prince Charming—and our parents.

I watch, transfixed, as they start their vows, but they are interrupted by a massive bang as the doors fly open to reveal a woman, who looks almost identical to Regina. It must be her. She strides toward the couple, the crowd parting for her like the red sea, and says something I can't hear. She's clearly threatening them.

The scene switches to a bedroom, ornate and massive. 'Snow White' is led on the bed, and her husband is holding her hand. Her face contorts in pain and her mouth widens, screaming. It takes me a while, but I realise she's giving birth. An old man comes in the door and says something. A conversation ensues, which ends in Snow White finally giving birth. The Prince kisses her forehead and she hands over the baby, before he heads out the door, stopping to grab a sword on his way out.

The memory follows him as he makes his way through the hallways, fighting guards dressed all in black while protecting his child.

He enters a nursery, the main centrepiece of which is a massive wardrobe fashioned out of a tree trunk. Fighting the last of the guards, he opens it and hurriedly places the baby inside, shutting her in. More guards appear behind him, and the scene fades as they stab him in the stomach.

Emma

As Dad's memory of my birthday fades, I look at Allison's face. Even though she couldn't hear what was being said, she seems to have gotten the gist of what was going on, and tears well up in her eyes.

"That's my parents wedding and my birth. If we're right in thinking that we're twins, it makes it your birth as well. It just means someone altered the memory." I pause, giving her time to take everything in. I hand the dreamcatcher to Regina, and she exchanges me for the one I put my memories into. "These are my memories, from my twenty-eighth birthday up to now." I wave my hand over it once more and hand it to her as the memories start showing, but I tune out. I don't want or need to watch, since I lived through it anyway. Especially as there are some memories in there I don't want to live through again.