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[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.]

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[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.

no it's okay I'll just try to repair my broken heart. No one is at fault just Cora.

[theboywiththebook]

[And he wishes he could hug her but knowing the truth, or what is the truth right now. But knowing she went back on her promise to change...it's to devastating.]

Ruby saw you and so did Emma...

stay calm and BLAME CORA x-(

[seetheresemblance]

[She hates the pair of them, there's such a flash of rage that she looks down. They did this, they did this when she has done nothing but try.]

I don't know what they saw, but it wasn't me. [She can't tell him that if she had decided to kill Archie, she never would have been seen; he doesn't need to know how accomplished at murder she is. At least, she won't have him hear it from her.]

I just - need you to have a little faith in me right now, Henry. [Because if she's lost even him, if there's no hope of him ever forgiving her, she doesn't think she could take it. She would have nothing.]

[theboywiththebook]

[Could he have faith again? She's tried to crush it before. Tried to make him think he was crazy. Old feelings of hurt are just coming back of all the things she did to him. Even if she won't tell him about who she killed he definitely knows all the lives she's ruined from his book.

So he backs away even more.]

Prove it. Prove you didn't do it.

[He's asked for a lot, always asking her to keep proving herself but now, it matters more than ever. She's just killed someone he loves and he wants more than anything to believe it's someone else and this was all a mistake. But is it really? Emma would never make up such a lie, neither would his grandparents. But, Regina? There's little doubt she would.]

[seetheresemblance]

[He doesn't trust her.

Her son doesn't trust her.

Regina presses a hand over her mouth again, because tears are threatening and she is trying so hard not to lose it.

But her son doesn't trust her, and the worst part is--]

I can't.

[theboywiththebook]

[And that...is what hurts the most.]

You can't? Or you won't?

[seetheresemblance]

If I could, I would in a heartbeat! [She can hate Emma for this, Ruby, but this breaks her heart.] I was home all night. [The town wants her to hang; she wouldn't be surprised if anyone framed her. Not for a moment.]

I wouldn't throw everything away over an argument, Henry!

oh god the next episode is going to either make or break my depiction of Henry now

[theboywiththebook]

...Do you promise me?

[Because as much as he wants to believe that, he's still so unsure.]

YUP the next episode might just. kill me. And it comes out on my birthday, sob

[seetheresemblance]

[Is that hope? She's almost afraid to latch onto it, because it's been shot down so often before, but...]

I swear I didn't kill him.

[theboywiththebook]

[It is hope, if only a small ray. Because his hope all been smashed to hell.]

...okay.

[seetheresemblance]

[Small, but it might just be better than nothing. She lifts her hand, like she might reach out to him, but thinks better and drops it.

She hates that she can't just run her fingers over his hair, she hates that she can't comfort him, she hates that years of motherhood have been effectively erased. It isn't fair, but she can't blame him for it.

She can blame Emma, though.]

Thank you, Henry.