Day 11 Character Summary
Faye woke up the next morning to find that she was in the same bed as Henry. Before she could sneak out of the room, Dr. Whale had called her, and her phone's ringtone woke Henry in turn. Faye learned from Dr. Whale that Jane Doe was missing, and she rushed to the hospital, after informing Henry about what happened and advised him to not come since he was still banned from the Hospital.
Once she arrived at the hospital, she found David Nolan, Regina Mills, and Sheriff Leland in Jane Doe's room. She learned about Jane Doe's condition from David Nolan, and told Sheriff Leland to check the security tapes, while ignoring Mayor Mills who was trying to take control over the situation as best as she could.
After David Nolan's search party (himself, Sheriff Leland and Ruby) found Jane Doe and brought her back to the hospital, Faye proceeded to check and make sure Jane Doe didn't have any other health problems. During this time, she learned from Knox that Jane Doe was really Mary Margaret, and she was married to Knox Kowalski. The information came to Knox suddenly while he was resting at home, and the files in the hospital confirmed that five years ago Knox had gotten into a car crash while entering Storybrooke and suffered a mild case of amnesia. Faye noticed that Knox's remembrance was too timely, and how Regina was acting suspicious in regards to the situation. She spoke to Regina, only to get no answers.
Later, during the afternoon, Henry came to the hospital and asked her if he could see Mary Margaret since his ban on the hospital had been lifted thanks to Mr. Gold. However, Faye refused, figuring that it was for the best for Henry and Mary Margaret. However, he didn't take the refusal well, and left the hospital, leaving Faye to continue working in the hospital feeling somewhat guilty.
Robert's day began when he got a call from the hospital that Jane Doe had gone missing. He formed a search party with David and Ruby to find her. Ruby found Jane, who had almost drowned in a river. David revived her with CPR, and she returned to the hospital where it was suddenly discovered that the hospital's security guard, Knox, was married to Jane Doe and her real name was Mary Margaret.
Afterwards, Robert talked with Sherry, sharing some of his concerns. She gave hints to look into what happened in the mines, and that she may be afraid for own safety before leaving.
Henry’s morning started with a mixture of shock and horror; he had suffered a terrible dream the night before that haunted him greatly, though he dare not speak of it to Faye. It was then that he received probably the most shocking news he had since entering Storybrooke: the Jane Doe patient was missing from the hospital. That could only mean one thing: That Snow White had woken up. Barely able to hide his excitement from the tense and slightly discomforted Dr. Stevenson; Henry asked if he could help join the search party. Faye, still somewhat nervous at the prospect of Henry being near the same patient he “assaulted”, said it’d be best for him to stay out of the way for the time being.
Hiding his own hurt with a facade of understanding, Henry let her go with no complaint. After she left, however, he headed over to Granny’s to ponder over this new bit of information – and his most terrible dream.
As if fate would have it, Henry found Mark inside; the fireman enjoying his morning coffee before heading into the station for today’s work. Both Mark and Henry seemed to have grown closer since Henry saved the convent from bankruptcy; and Henry trusted him enough to share the burden of his nightmare from the night before. That he was in Storybrooke, which had become dismal and stormy: he was standing over Mr. Gold, the pawnbroker suffering a stab wound and bleeding to death – whilst Henry held the murder weapon in his hand: a long, jagged, ebony black dagger with the name Rumpelstiltskin written on the blade in dark letters. Though Mark passed this off as simply a dream and told Henry not to dwell on it, the latecomer knew exactly what the dream meant – that he had *killed* Rumpelstiltskin, and became the Dark One.
Mark gave Henry a bit of parting advice to let his focuses divert to reality before leaving the diner to head to work, leaving Henry alone to think and to imagine….The hours passed, slow and sluggish as Henry ended up with an ample amount of free time on his hands – and nothing to do with it.
Deciding to grab a cigarette and drink, Henry went to the Rabbit Hole where he ran into a pining, miserable Ruby. Walking up behind her, Henry made a passing comment on her disposition while ordering a glass of wine, finally seeming to unwind and relax for the first time in weeks. He didn’t have to worry about any Curse breaking, alter-ego bargaining, or Evil Queen taunting; now he could just take a break and let debauchery overwhelm him.
However, he was reminded of his own past when Ruby asked him a question about doing things you know you regret – but do them anyways. This caused Henry to obscurely retell events from when he was in “New York” (a substitute for Wonderland, in this case) as a street magician, letting the wave of decadence take the place of his more serious responsibilities; and of how ashamed he was of it.
However he was saved by more flashbacks as Ruby interrupted his reverie with a single statement: Knox was married. And not just to anyone but to Snow White…or Mary Margaret Blanchard, in Storybrooke.
Having a hunch as to who exactly was the cause of Knox’s “sudden” realization, Henry quickly hurried out of the bar; giving Ruby a curt goodbye before he was out and gone.
Fortunately for him, not everything was out of his favor; as he received a (somewhat awkward) phone call from Rumpelstiltskin (Henry couldn’t get used to calling the Dark One Mr. Gold, now that the Imp knew his memories) informing the young man that all charges were dropped and he was allowed not only back in Granny’s, but back to the hospital as well.
Now with the clearance he desired, Henry hurried into the hospital; hoping to appeal to Faye to let him see the now-awake Snow White. But Faye’s own professional decision outweighed her emotional side, and she politely (if not bluntly) told Henry that it may not be the best idea at the moment.
Feeling hurt and betrayed that he didn’t have as much of Faye’s trust as he thought, Henry shortly rebuffed her attempts at reasoning before leaving the hospital, wanting to forget the event ever happened.
Letting melancholy and sadness plague him, Henry’s own reasoning and judgement turned to a mixture of retaliation and a wanting of revelry as he decide to go back to the Rabbit Hole – hopefully leaving with a woman in hand for he night.
Finding Ruby still there after all this time, Henry had little time to think before the obviously-drunk young woman beckoned him over to the bar, to which he curiously complied. Ruby was looking at every single copy of the Daily Mirror that had information on him in it: from when he first arrived, to the hospital incident, down to the nunnery-saving event during Miner’s Day.
Ruby, even in her over-intoxicated state, noticed something strange in all the pictures that were taken of Henry: A strange man in a trench-coat and fedora was always in the shot, somewhere obscure, yet obvious at the same time; trying to hide in every picture – except one. All Henry could make note was that the man was quite round and appeared to be in his mid-to-late fifties. Deciding to disregard the mysterious stranger who was pursuing him for more…base urges, Henry did what most any man would do in his position: buy Ruby a drink.
This only escalated to a point where both of them were drunk (Henry enjoying the effects of a nice buzz while Ruby was barely conscious). Deciding to take her home and have a bit of fun, Henry helped lead her out of the bar; but not before the woman loudly began speaking to Dr. Whale.
Hoping to leave the situation as quickly as possible, Henry curtly gave his goodbyes to the doctor before practically dragging/carrying Ruby out and down the street to Granny’s.
If the walk to Granny’s was bad, nothing prepared poor Henry for the trip *up* the stairs. Though, finally, they both made it up there in one piece. Next came the struggle to find Ruby’s keys, which just so happened to be placed in one of her pants pockets. Henry decided to be the “hero” and find them for her, perhaps letting his hands linger longer than they should have; but the drunk young woman didn’t notice or didn’t care.
As the two of them entered Ruby’s room, she asked Henry if he had been allowed back into Granny’s. Affirming this statement, Henry had little time to react before Ruby pulled him into a tight kiss. Deciding to let things happen as they would, Henry closed the door; and relished in his victory
Mark was enjoying his morning coffee before heading in to work for the day at the fire department when Henry Carlyle, looking quite troubled, entered the diner; sitting down across from Mark unannounced.
The two of them exchanged simple greetings before Mark made an audible observation on Henry’s bothered disposition, asking if the younger man would like to get something off his chest.
Henry then detailed a strange nightmare to Mark, that involved him standing over Mr. Gold; holding a devilish dagger in his hand before waking up. Mark was perplexed by the dream, but remained staunch; simply giving Henry advice not to dwell on dreams, for they’re simply disorder before getting up to leave for work.
Mark gave Henry one last bit of advice: to leave his wonderlands and focus on reality, for the world was “not so wonderful” as he put it. With a courteous, if stiff goodbye, Mark left the diner.
Staying up to properly patrol while most other security guards were off, Knox patrols the opposite side of the hospital just as Jane Doe wakes up and leaves for the forest…as the later security footage (Knox had to skim through) would attest to. None too pleased by the sheriff’s remarks, and tired to the point of losing composure and snapping; Knox decides it best to leave once the rest of the security staff sign in…but not before the Mayor says something barely audible in passing him by?
A growing migraine make it hard for him to get home, but he manages. Thinking about his options, shower or sleep, he chooses the shower in hopes that it’d provide some relief from what he felt must have been a tension headache/migraine. After some time, Ruby comes into his home and calls out to him. Not being one to leave a woman hanging, he gets out, towels off, and covering up as much as he needs to. Him and Ruby make their usual flirty small talk, mentioning how the search went…and vanilla wafers…before settling onto the couch, together, for a long rest.
During his rest, Knox has two very specific and clear dreams of a woman named Mary Margaret...who is the town’s Jane Doe. His first meeting with her at a pet store, and the last clear moment of time they spent together at a park. Waking up, the dreams escape him, but only long enough to shock him after giving Ruby a gentle wake up kiss. Memories surfacing in an instant, frighteningly so, coupled with the current hard situation, the fact that Jane Doe was in a coma for years…Knox panics, and calls the hospital and asks for Dr Stevenson to tell her the news.
Likely presenting Ruby with the cold hard facts of him being married, him having to take care of his defenseless, ailing wife, Knox’s heart felt especially heavy as he watched the girl run off. At the hospital, he meets with Dr Stevenson and eventually…his wife, who still has no recollection of him. Though he blames himself for this entirely, having caused Mary Margaret to come to Storybrooke early and end up in whatever accident that caused her coma, not properly being there for her recovery and out of the coma, then hurting Ruby…Knox vowed to be there for his wife, and for her memories to come back with much effort on his part.
Mr. Gold had a pretty busy morning tying up loose ends during the morning. Despite his complications from the night before, he had managed to make a few phone calls and got Regina the papers for Mason's adoption that were now sitting on Sheriff Leland's desk, his own little personal touch to rub it into the Sheriff's face. Mr. Gold then made a quick phone call to Henry, telling him that all charges put against him were finally dropped, and he had a clean record once more.
The flasback of what happened between Rumpelstiltskin and Milah continued, Rumpelstiltskin following Killian and MIlah aboard Killian's ship where he found Milah to be more than comfortable around the pirates, even having a sense of leadership as they listened to her barking commands. A bitter taste formed in his mouth, seeing how happy she was but remained quiet as Milah was brought a small satchel taken from a prisoner.
Inside the satchel was something so rare, that Rumpelstiltskin had never seen one until now. It was a magic bean, capable of taking Rumpelstiltskin to a new world where he could finally have the chance to be with Baelfire again. Milah and Killian had told Rumpelstiltskin that while they were traveling worlds, Baelfire had been seperated from them, and was lost in a land without magic. They offered the bean to Rumpelstiltskin so long as he let them live in peace, but Rumpelstiltskin needed Milah to hear what he had to say.
Anger boiled through The Dark One as he recounted what she had done to him, the misery she had inflicted on him by making him believe that she had been first stolen from him, and then killed. Upon asking why she left him in the first place, Milah bravely stated that she never loved Rumpelstiltskin, and before he knew what he was doing, his hand reached out and pulled out her heart, crushing it in front of Killian; their last words to one another about their love and adoration to the other making Rumpelstiltskin feel incredibly sick.
Rumpelstiltskin then cut off Killian's hand with a sword, as the hand held safely the magic bean that Rumpelstiltskin needed. Killian attempted to kill Rumpelstiltskin out of anger with a hook he pulled from the main mast but Rumpelstiltskin couldn't be killed, not like that, and so with a giggle, Rumpelstiltskin vanished to return back home where he then discovered that the hand he had taken from Killian no longer held the bean; the pirate had tricked him, and his chance of ever finding Baelfire was gone with the wind.
Presently, Regina came to visit Mr. Gold in his pawnhop with worries of her tree dying, Snow White being awake and fear that the curse was weakening because of Henry. Mr. Gold offered no help, this time, refusing to make any more deals with Regina since she no longer had anything he wanted. Regina was persistant however, and Mr. Gold used the word 'please' to get her to leave him and fetch the apple she still owed him for the favor of keeping Mason and watched with an amused grin as The Evil Queen had no choice but to do what he said, and then returned to his trip booklet to mark in a few more notes about where Baelfire might be in this land without magic.
Ruby had opted to stay at the hospital with Knox, looking over the second floor until morning came. She was surprised when suddenly David Nolan came to her and informed her of the situation of Jane Doe, and was even more surprised that David had asked her to come with him to find her. She supposed it had something to do with how easily she found Mason in the mines, and possibly even finding Mr. Gold a few weeks back to take him to the hospital. She believed it was all luck though, but David convinced her to tag along and they left the hospital with Robert through the back door where they had seen Jane Doe walk out of on the security footage.
Ruby, David and Robert found themselves in the forest; Robert had found a set of muddy, bare-footed tracks on a trail which the small group followed for a while when suddenly Ruby caught wind of something...a sound, a smell...it was enough to make her stop abruptly and tell the others. Ruby strayed off of the trail and into the foilage where she then found the wristband of the Jane Doe, little splatters of blood on the tag to cause the group to worry.
Catching a new sound, Ruby headed off again towards the Toll Bridge where she found the Jane Doe passed out uncousious halfway into the river. David rushed forward to pull her out, fearing that she might have drowned while Robert called for an ambulence. Ruby couldn't explain it...once more she was able to hear and smell things that the other's couldn't, and once again she was able to lead the search party right to the missing person. If she hadn't been so worried that the Jane Doe might have been dead, Ruby would have stopped to think more on the matter, but instead watched as David gave the Jane Doe CPR and brought her back to them.
Relief flooded Ruby; she wasn't dead, however the Jane Doe didn't seem to know anything about herself or her situation, so David led the Jane Doe away to the ambulence that had just arrived. Tired physically and emotionally beyond belief, Ruby just wanted to go home and sleep, but figured she should tell Knox about what had happened, and headed to his house hearing that he had gone home from the hospital a little while ago.
When Ruby arrived at Knox's house, she used the housekey that she hadn't given back to let herself in and heard the shower running, so to tie her over until she went back to Granny's, Ruby went through Knox's cupboards and found some vanilla wafers and munched on them until Knox finished his shower. When he came out Ruby briefed him on the Jane Doe situation. Knox made another point to thank Ruby for staying at the hospital with him to help out during the power outage, and then suggested that she should get some rest.
Knox pulled her into a slight hug and then walked Ruby over to the couch where he laid down and positioned her on his chest in a comfortable position before the two drifted off to catch some much needed sleep.
Ruby suddenly woke to a very hysteric Knox. He kept apologizing over and over and pulled himself away from Ruby and the couch. Ruby was beside herself in confusion until Knox pulled out his cellphone and called the hospital, asking for Dr. Stevenson. It was then that Ruby learned that Knox had recalled his memories from the accident she vaguely remember hearing about. Knox was married to the Jane Doe, which meant that their relationship was entirely over before it even had a chance to begin.
Ruby went to The Rabbit Hole in hopes that she could drown away her missery, but wasn't in much of any kind of mood to drink. Her drink remained untouched as suddenly Henry came into The Rabbit Hole and took a seat next to her, ordering himself a drink. Henry got Ruby to open up about her problems, but when Ruby mentioned that Knox was married to the Jane Doe (now Mary Margaret) something seemed to snap in Henry and caused for him to leave in a hurry. Ruby didn't care though, and finally took to her drink to begin a very long evening of solitude.
How much time had gone by Ruby had no idea, but she had plenty of drinks by the time that Henry came back, looking more dejected than ever. Ruby had been keeping busy though, a whole bunch of random newspaper articles spread out in front of her at the bar. Ruby (despite her drunken state) had noticed something odd about the newspaper photos, each one of them that had a picture of Henry also had another man in it, a man that Ruby had never seen in Storybrooke before, and a man that if there hadn't been pictures of him, wouldn't have existed.
Ruby pointed out the man to Henry, but he seemed to upset to even notice, and turned to drinking, easing Ruby out of the conversation and into a more flirtatious nature as Henry offered to buy her a couple more drinks before escorting her back to Granny's. When they had reached the room Ruby was staying in, Ruby was so drunk she couldn't even remember where she put her keys aiding the help from Henry as he let his hands wander over her hips to check her pockets. By the time he had found them, Ruby was so heated up that she pulled Henry into a heat of the moment kiss, and the two of them retreated into her bedroom for the night.
With the Jane Doe missing, Regina took it upon herself to give Robert a call and ordered him to come down to the station with a briefing on what had happened. While she waited for him to arrive, she continued to hound Dr. Whale with questions that he just didn't have the answers to and quietly excused himself to make a short phonecall to Dr. Stevenson, as Jane Doe was her patient. Robert arrived quicker than Regina had thought and was just beginning to ask questions when David Nolan then came to the hospital followed immediately by Dr. Faye Stevenson.
Dr. Stevenson attempted to ask David some questions since he was the last one with the Jane Doe, and Regina felt her blood freeze over as David admitted to reading the story of Snow White to Jane Doe and knew immediately that either Mr. Gold or Henry had put him up to it; or perhaps both. Faye then asked Robert to go check on the security footage since they now had a more specific time-frame to look into and Regina followed quickly behind.
Watching the survailence tape, Regina stiffened as she watched Jane Doe...no, Snow White get up from her hospital bed and leave the room on her own accord. Regina had figured that Snow's body would have been taken, but certainly not walk away like second nature; that just wasn't possible! There was quick discussion of a search party, and Regina made it clear that she didn't want the information getting out to the people of Storybrooke. She watched with a heavy heart as those in the security room filed out to begin their search, surprised that David Nolan had suggested Ruby come with them (Regina figured that whatever parts of her wolfish nature were there could help them out some) but had little other choice than to stay back at the hospital and wait.
She was left alone with the security guard, Knox, and a devilishly wicked idea came to her, realizing that there was still a way to keep Snow White and Prince Charming apart. All she needed was for Jane Doe to have been previously married...to Knox...
Regina watched with a satesfied smirk as Knox rushed into the hospital to reclaim his wife. It had worked; Regina had managed to manipulate the already fake memories she had instilled upon them to adhere to her needs, and now Snow White and Prince Charming could never be together. Satesfied, Regina moved to leave the hospital, but a very annoying doctor rushed after her to demand some answers.
Dr. Stevenson tried dragging the truth out of Regina, but Regina wasn't going to give up information so easily. Regina knew that Faye knew something was up, but she managed to keep her head on her shoulders as she answered Faye's questions with vague remarks that could otherwise be very true, and thus making Faye look as if she were paranoid. With the score of 1-0, Faye was called away to a patient and Regina was able to revel in her victory once more as she left the hospital in very high spirits.
Later that day, Regina was in her home office and Mason working on his homework. When Regina had finished her work for the day, she promised Mason pizza after learning that he didn't much care for her cooking and then Mason left to finish up his homework at the table. It was then that Regina realized that her prized apple tree from outside was looking less than it's best, and hurried out to examine it further. Regina plucked an apple from the tree to discover that it was rotting; another impossibility. Worried, Regina left her home to go and talk with Mr. Gold, right now she needed him...needed Rumpelstiltskin.
She hurried into the pawnshop and showed Mr. Gold the rotting apple, then speculating that it was a sign of the curse weakening because of Henry. Mr. Gold seemed to only be halfway paying attention to Regina, as he was busying himself around the shop collecting things from one area to bring to another, and jotting down what Regina thought to be coordinates as he looked over maps and the globe.
Regina then made it clear; she was worried about the curse breaking and wanted Henry dead, and since it was Rumpelstiltskin who designed the curse, then Mr. Gold would have had no problems altering the curse so that she could get what she wanted, but Mr. Gold denied her outright, bringing to Regina's attention that there was no way the curse could be stopped from breaking now, and it was only a matter of time when people started to remember who they were, and remember who Regina was, and want her dead.
Speechless, Regina was then told to go and fetch the apple that she had promised Mr. Gold during their last deal, and with his annoying little 'please' she had no choice but to leave his shop and do just that and bring him the apple later the next day. Regina returned home to have dinner with Mason and to put him to bed, but after that Regina returned to her home office to listen in on a bug she had planted on Robert just a few days ago. She needed to know what others were saying, needed to know if Mr. Gold's words were true. It seemed they were.
Regina managed to catch the tail end of Robert's conversation with Sherry Attar. Strange, she didn't think those two even really knew one another. Regina heard Sherry talking about the mines, which immediately put Regina on edge. Sherry knew, she knew that Regina was keeping something under the mines, and that it was dangerous. How did she know? There was only one explination; Sherry had overheard Regina talking with Mr. Gold on a number of spread out occasions when they discussed what was down there.
Feeling paranoid beyond belief, Regina wanted to get some air and figured she should go to visit her father's grave to help her calm down and collect her thoughts. Placing the flowers on his coffin, she spoke out to her father, asking for guidence, and the rememberance of her vault that was located just below them came to mind. Regina still had Sherry's heart, a heart she had taken from The Enchanted Forest. Regina opened up her vault, took out Sherry's heart, and crushed it...the threat now vanquished.
