Chapter 1

Henry is a 10 year old boy who has a strong imagination, so strong that he actually believes his thoughts and dreams. His mind is full of universes with different creatures and people who play roles in his fantasy world he has created. He not only believes in fairy tales to be true, he believes in all sorts of wondrous tales and legends in books he's read in the library and things he's seen and heard about. One particular book Henry has read and believed in is about time travel and space. Time travel is important to Henry and he loves to believe that one day he can see the stars and the universe beyond his world. To see things that he would only have a once in a lifetime chance to see. Other planets. Other worlds that is different than his life spent in Storybrooke. To see the future and the past, and different creatures. Henry knows that this even being a possibility of happening for him is very small, but he always believed in a saying that his teacher, Mary Margaret has told him. "Always hold onto hope, Henry. Believing in even the possibility of having a happy ending is a very powerful thing. Don't give up." And that is exactly what Henry did. Held onto hope of one day seeing the universe beyond the stars and hope of the curse breaking. He knew that hope is exactly what he needs right now, and that giving up isn't an option.

Henry held onto his storybook because it held all hopes and dreams of his fantasy world of snow white and prince charming, little red riding hood and her granny, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, all the fairy tale characters. These worlds that he created taught him not to give up even when his step mom, Regina, is making things quite difficult for him. These worlds help him hold onto hope and to keep moving forward.

Henry was heading towards granny's diner holding his storybook and his time travel book. He turned the corner and walked inside the diner seeing many people sitting down and having their lunches. Henry saw Ruby who wore a sexy waitress outfit and a streak of her hair dyed red with rosy, red lips and thick eyebrows. She noticed Henry and gave him a smile as he sat down at the booth next to the front door and sat by the window. He placed down his books and looked out the window. Ruby walked over to him and smiled. Henry looked up and smiled back.

"Hey Henry," said Ruby holding her notebook and pencil. "What will it be today?"

"The usual, Ruby," said Henry. Ruby wrote it down on her notebook.

"Be right back with your cocoa and your grilled cheese," said Ruby walking away. Henry opened his books and sighed because he knew that the curse was real but no one would believe him. Not even his own teacher. No one would believe him that time travel really exists either besides his birth mother, Emma. That really made him frustrated but he wouldn't give up. He saw Emma walk in and sit down across from him with smiled.

"Hey kid," said Emma. "Got any updates on Operation Cobra?"

"Not yet, I'm still working on how to prove that time travel and the curse does exist," said Henry flipping through his books. "But I can't figure it out because no one believes!"

"Well don't give up kid, I'm sure there's something we can do," said Emma supporting Henry's imagination, hopes and dreams. When she was talking to Archie about Henry's fairy tale and science fiction obsession, he believes that Henry has a hard time showing complex emotion so he's translating as best as he can through his book. It is his language of how to deal with his personal struggles in his life, especially when he has to deal with Regina. So the best thing Emma can do is go along with Henry's beliefs and hopes that one day Henry will grow out of these obsessions. "Do you still have that list of fairy tale characters?"

"Yeah," Henry said taking it out of his backpack and handed it to Emma. Emma looked at it and sighed.

"You still haven't figured out who Mr. Gold is yet?" Emma questioned. Henry shook his head.

"Not yet, I have narrowed it down," Henry said showing Emma his new paper of possibilities of who Mr. Gold is. "He could be Rumplestiltskin. But I'm not sure yet. I still need to confirm it."

Before Emma could respond, Ruby came back with Henry's grilled cheese sandwich and hot cocoa with cinnamon. She placed it down in front of Henry on the table across from Emma.

"Thank you Ruby," said Henry taking a bite out of his sandwich. Ruby smiled and nodded then noticed Emma.

"Do you want anything, Emma?" asked Ruby holding her pencil and notebook.

"Oh, a coffee will be fine," said Emma with a smile. Ruby smiled and wrote it down and walked away. Henry looked outside his window and saw something he never seen before. Henry almost choked because it was so surprising and knew it had to be more than just a coincidence. Henry took some time to catch his breath and get a hold of himself, as Emma felt concerned for the kid.

"Is everything alright, Henry?" Emma asked worried for Henry.

"Look outside!" Henry exclaimed as he looked through his time travel book to find the picture of the same thing. Emma looked outside the window and grew very shocked as well. Her eyes bugged out and her head was pondering with so many questions. A nine foot blue phone box being delivered by a delivery truck. It lowered it down right in front of Mr. Gold's pawnshop and a man came out of the truck and went inside the pawnshop. Emma turned to her son who was scanning through his time travel book. Then she got a little confused.

"Henry… what are you doing?" asked Emma.

"Finding…" Henry started then he found the page and showed it to Emma which made her go into more of a shock than before. It was exactly the same box in the picture and outside. "This. It's exactly the same, Emma. It can't just be a coincidence. There was a reason why the TARDIS came to Storybrooke."

"The what?" Emma asked even more confused when Henry took the book back to read about it.

"The TARDIS. It stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space," Henry explained to his birth mother as he read on. "A product of Time Lord technology. Properly maintained and piloted. The TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and space."

"So.. you're saying is that box… the TARDIS... that got delivered to what it seems to be.. Mr. Gold.. is a time traveling machine.. type.. thing?" Emma clarified still a bit confused about why Mr. Gold would have that box delivered to him and why it looks exactly like the picture in Henry's book. Henry nodded excitedly as he stood up.

"Yes, the TARDIS is in Storybrooke, we gotta go see it!" Henry exclaimed in an overly excited tone.

"Kid.." Emma managed to say before he ran outside without her finishing her sentence. Emma got worried and stood up before Ruby had a chance to deliver her coffee. She ran out the door after him. "Kid! Slow down!"

Henry stopped in front of the TARDIS as Emma ran up beside him and caught her breath. She looked up at the blue police box and took a moment to examine it. It had doors in front of it and has a light on the centre of the roof. It looked a lot bigger up close than it did from granny's diner.

"Kid, don't run off like that!" Emma scolded. "I don't even want to think about what Regina would do to me if she found out…"

"Nevermind that, Emma!" Henry said excitedly as he ran to the doors. "You are never going to believe your eyes when I show you…" Henry opened the doors and was completely shocked at what he saw. It was a phone booth. A regular phone booth. "What?" Henry walked inside and looked around upset. "It's supposed to be a time machine! What happened to it?" he looked at Emma annoyed and shocked still. "Emma.. what do you think happened? This isn't right!"

"Henry…" Emma started but she got cut off by Mr. Gold who stepped outside of his shop and approached her and Henry who was still inside the police box.

"Good afternoon Miss. Swan," Mr. Gold greeted leaning on his cane then looked over at Henry touching all the sides of the police box visibly confused. "And Hello to you, Henry."

Henry cared in the least that Mr. Gold was standing by Emma, he was too focused on why the box is a phone booth and not a time machine. Emma crossed her arms over her chest and questioned Mr. Gold: "Why the hell did you purchase a police phone booth? It's 9 feel high for god sakes! What are you going to do with it?"

"Oh, quite the nosy one, aren't you Miss. Swan?" Mr. Gold said with a chuckle which made Emma much more annoyed. "Just thought that we needed something to brighten up our little town. Don't you think?"

"What I think is when Regina sees this ridiculous thing, you aren't going to hear the end of it from her," Emma said with a smirk.

"I can handle Regina," Mr. Gold said before looking at Henry. "Seems your boy takes a deep interest in the phone booth."

Emma looks over at her son and takes a deep breath worried that this box is going to affect his whole obsessions with science fiction and fairytales even further. Emma already had a hard time dealing with the fact that Henry has a wild imagination, but now a time machine? This might increase his whole fantasy world and make it even harder for him to separate reality to stories and legends.

"Yeah.. Henry!" Emma said which got his attention. "Let's go. You have a session with Archie soon."

Henry nodded and walked out of the police box. He turned around and looked at the booth and sighed. What really happened to the time machine? It made Henry want to exelate operation cobra even further since he found the police box.

Mr. Gold watches as Emma and Henry walk off towards Archie's office. He turns around and walks to the door of his shop, opens the door which made little bell jingle and closes the door behind him.