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[fantasies]

[September hasn't been kind to Henry. First Snow, sent back home just to be cursed, and now he wakes up to find their (his, now) room is completely, terribly empty.

Alone. Again.

It's a long while later, but when he speaks into the journal, his voice is composed (if very, very small).]

The castle sent my mom home. Emma Swan. [a pause] I just, I dunno. I thought you guys should know.

[He knows he should be happy, that this means Emma can go back and break the curse like everyone at home needs her to. But he started out in Paradisa with his family whole and intact, and now....

And now he's just right back where he started.

He drags his sleeve at the corners of his eyes, and writes in a filter.]

[ Prince Charming ]

Do you wanna.... [He hesitates.] Can we get dinner?

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Comments

[whichwayyoulean]

[Henry that is so precious. It's almost depressing that the Once-ler's ability to understand people in general (or lackthereof) means he likely wouldn't have noticed anyway.

Still, he'll go in and take a seat on the couch]

Hey, giving you points for efficiency.

[fantasies]

[Henry hops over the coffee table to the TV. He points to where he has the disc already set in the slot.]

This is a DVD player. It lets you watch movies. It's great, and you should get one.

[He nudges the tray so that it slides in, hits play, and scrambles back to perch on the couch next to the Once-ler.]

[whichwayyoulean]

...You can fit a movie on that tiny little flat disc thing?

[Yes that's the part he's going to focus on]

[fantasies]

Yep. My world might not have magic, but it does have a bunch of other cool stuff.

[whichwayyoulean]

Magic is highly overrated as far as I'm concerned anyway.

[fantasies]

But magic can do everything.

[beat]

Well, almost everything. I don't know if there's a spell for watching movies. My book didn't mention it.

[whichwayyoulean]

It's not really that big of a deal where I come from. Most people don't even think it exists.

[fantasies]

They don't in my world, either. Just because you don't believe in it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, though.