Brace yourselves. The Cricket game posts are coming. Spoilers

[theboywiththebook]

[Henry looks extremely upset. And why wouldn't he? He just found out Regina killed Dr.Hopper. He's complete inconsolable.]

I thought...I really thought she had wanted to change. But even after all this, mun...she's still the evil Queen?

[The mun really wants to say otherwise but he's not sure how to actually tell the truth here. After all, big scary muns aren't well liked by their muses.]

I thought she loved me, mun....I thought she'd change for me...but she didn't...

[And here he is just sobbing.]

Comments

[theboytwin]

People say a lot of things. It's their actions you have to watch.

Did she tell you she was going to change?

[theboywiththebook]

She did...and she was really trying too. She saved Emma and Mary Margret....

[But this? How could she...?]

[theboytwin]

And then what?

[theboywiththebook]

She was trying to be good.

[unvarnished]

Henry... [can he just emo over here? Can that be a thing?]

I can't spell apparently

[theboywiththebook]

[No words. He knows how much Jiminey...Dr.Hopper probably meant to August. ]

that is okay :)

[unvarnished]

[and people wonder why he avoids all this]

[andwolf]

I'm really sorry, Henry.

my feels are just....dead

[theboywiththebook]

It's not your fault, Red...I just...

[Sorry, just crying some more.]

I know that feel. :c

[andwolf]

I know it's not, but I still feel bad.

You had so much hope in her, I could tell. But Pongo ...

[evilqueenmayor]

Henry, please believe me when I tell you that I am innocent!

/SHOT FULL OF FEELINGS

[theboywiththebook]

How can I trust you? Emma saw you! Ruby saw you!

/OMG ME TOO

[evilqueenmayor]

Emma saw something that Gold made her see using magic! As for Ruby... I can't explain that any way other than she is lying. Don't you see, Henry, they all hate me and want me to suffer. What better way than to turn you against me?

[seetheresemblance]

[Oh Henry no, this is literally the worst and she doesn't. Know how to fix it. That's why she stopped fighting it, isn't it, because there was no convincing Emma, and that...woman poisoned him against her.

Her son.]

Henry-- [The thing about being a mother is that it doesn't matter how much you're hurting. When your child is sobbing, you'd do anything. So she's swallowing back tears because she needs to be strong for him, even if he won't take it.]

Henry, I would do anything for you.

/second dose of SHOT IN THE FEELINGS

[theboywiththebook]

[Henry's keeping far back. Emma's told him what Regina's done and now...his heart has just been smashed. If he could ever experience having his heart being taken out of his chest and crushed like the Evil queen has done in the past...this would be it.

She took all his faith, his trust in her only to throw it away over an argument.

But do anything for him? Yeah, she's shown that she has, she showed that she would risk her life saving Emma and Mary Margret but what else? She's also shown that she would kill, poison, and frame the people he loved to keep him. So he's standing back.]

You said you would change...

god two in a row I'm sorry :C

[seetheresemblance]

[She doesn't reach for him, though she wants nothing more. He doesn't trust her - he hasn't since he got his hands on that book, and that has always been the worst of it, that he would believe a storybook over his memories.]

I have chan-- [Her voice starts to crack, though, and she stops, putting a hand over her mouth and closing her eyes for a moment. She can do this. Because he has to understand, she can do this for him.]

Henry, I didn't kill Dr. Hopper.

[toldinthebook]

I know you did. [ There's a sigh. Emma doesn't know if she entirely believed it, truly believed that Regina could change but for Henry, and for his hope? She wanted it for that, to at least give her a chance - she was given one, and Henry would have tried no matter what ] But... change is hard. [ She's trying to soften it a little, for him. No matter what she might think of Regina she doesn't want to hurt Henry more, and it's not his fault that Regina did this, hurt him, and she won't let him think that (even if he doesn't) ]

[theboywiththebook]

[He knows what Emma was trying to do was right, but in the end it doesn't matter how good intentioned she was trying to be. It still hurts. She did tell him she tried to prove that Regina was innocent so there's that...but still...]

But, she was doing so well...

[toldinthebook]

I know. But- [ It's not any easier, trying to find the right things to say (just talking, never mind parenting), and this is Henry. Henry the brilliant boy who manages to find things out anyway, or even just has a way of getting you to tell him things ] She's been using magic a lot longer.

[rogueprincess]

It's not your fault, Henry. You and Emma, you have extended your hands... It truly pains me that she couldn't reach back enough.

[It's disappointing... every time. Sadly, at this point... it's also not surprising.]

We'll get through this, Henry. We're here for you.

[theboywiththebook]

It just doesn't make sense...

[He's run it over in his head over and over. Surely, Regina loved him enough to want to change and he loved her enough to give her that chance...but looking back. She killed her own father to start a curse to make everyone suffer. What's different now?]

I just hoped...

[But could he even have hope anymore?]

[rogueprincess]

I know, Henry. We all... we all did.

[At some point or another.]

But... change is difficult. It takes a lot of courage and. Well, you have to be able to live with a lot of setbacks. I think Regina wanted to be with you, very much, but. But maybe she's not strong enough for that kind of change.

[neverneverlandboy]

Some people grow up too fast. [ In other words, you're mom sucks and you should'nt know that.]

[theboywiththebook]

What's that mean?

[neverneverlandboy]

It means, even at the best of times. Parents sometimes disappoint you in ways they never thought they could. And it means...what it means. [ Peter shrugs with a little faint smile.]