Chapter 3

The bell to the pawn shop rang noisily as Emma barged in, on a mission. Gold was behind the counter going throw some inventory, but when the marched in he rolled his eyes to the ceiling and looked up at them, "I'm not in the mood today Ms. Swan." "Well get in the mood," was her retort, "Henry's missing." Gold gave her a confused look, "And that's my problem, how?" Regina stepped up so she was standing beside Emma, frowning at Gold, "Did you do something to him, because if you did.."

"As much as your threats DON'T scare me," Gold interupted, sarcastically, "I didn't do anything to Henry." Emma studied him and once she could tell he wasn't lying, said, "He's missing, he was sucked into a vortex at the bridge." "I'm sorry, but I can't help you, I'm quite busy today," Gold went back to the objects on the counter. Regina shook her head annoyingly, "Come on, we're wasting time here with him," and she headed out. Emma stayed, staring at Gold, wondering how he could refuse helping Henry, Neil's son. "Emma," Snow spoke gently to her, "she's right, we should go." Emma turned and followed Regina out.

Just before they made it to the door, Gold looked up and added, "I suggest going to where he dissapeared in investigating there first, it's always a good idea to retrace steps to find what you're looking for." Then he was back to what he was doing once again. "I can't believe I'm agreeing with the crocodile, but maybe he's right about searching the bridge," Hook said as they walked away from the shop. Emma stopped and looked at the ground, she needed to come up with a plan, she then looked at Snow and David, not wanting them to take her little brother to a potentially dangerous spot, "Mom, dad, why don't you go to the library and ask Belle for any information about weird yellow smoke portals and we'll go to the bridge," she looked at Hook and Regina.

David nodded at the idea, "Good idea," and he left with Snow to the library. Regina followed Emma and Hook to the bridge, "What are we even supposed to be looking for there?" she asked. "Anything," answered Emma, "any clues on whatever dimension or world he was sucked into." In the library, Belle was putting away some books. David and Snow walked in and walked up to her, "Belle, we need your help," said Snow. Belle looked over to them with concern, "Of course, what's the problem?" "Henry's missing," David spoke, "he was sucked into some kind of portal with yellow smoke and green sparks."

"Oh dear, well do you know where he could have ended up?" Belle said then noticed baby Neil looking at her curiously and she smiled at him. Snow shook her head, "No, we have no clue and we were hoping you could help us with that." "Yeah, I'll help any way I can," Belle began looking for any books about portals. Once at the bridge, Emma, Regina and Hook began looking around for anything suspecious and after only a few minutes, Regina threw up her hands, "This is useless, we're not accomplishing anything by looking around here, there's nothing." She put her hands on her hips and paced a little, getting more worried by the second.

Emma looked over at her, trying to stay calm for all of them, "We'll find him and bring him home, I promise." Regina looked back at her and was able to calm down some, knowing deep down she was right. Hook looked between the women then got an idea, "Hey, isn't Gold able to find people in different lands or something?" Emma snorted, "You heard him, he doesn't want to help us."

Regina looked from Hook to Emma with a grin, "Then we'll make him."

end of Chapter 3