— Henry Mills

— When you put a pen to a piece of paper and create s o m e t h i n g from absolutely n o t h i n g , that is magic.

[— Henry Mills @FervidAuthor]

@SeductressMills — cooking, that was for sure.

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@SeductressMills — glad to be hope and be eating a homecooked meal that it felt ridiculous. Never again would he take for granted Regina's —

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@SeductressMills — some of the mess he made, then moved to the fridge and started to get the ingredients for the salad out.

He was so —

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@SeductressMills — the question?" He laughed, then nodded. "Salad, I guess. And garlic bread..."

Henry busied himself with cleaning —

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@SeductressMills Henry shrugged his shoulders at his mother's question, then angled his body towards her.

"I guess fries are out of —

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@ArdentSprout — away less if she had gone to the office after dropping him off.

[— Henry Mills @FervidAuthor]

@ArdentSprout — his mom let him. But she wasn’t there to tell him “no” anymore, a fact which felt strange even though he knew she was only ten minutes —

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@ArdentSprout — picked up his menu. After all, he knew it by heart. “But I’ve always gotten the burger and chocolate milkshake.” At least, he did when —

[— Henry Mills @FervidAuthor]

@ArdentSprout — in guys, they were roommates - that was a recipe for disaster, was it not?

“Depends on who you ask,” Henry admitted, not even having —

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@ArdentSprout — He forced the thoughts out of his mind, though, determined not to allow himself to get weird around Charlie. Even if he /was/ interested—

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@ArdentSprout — them calling you names after the curse broke and they realized your moms were the /Evil Queen/ and the /Savior/. —

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@ArdentSprout — all of Storybrooke had known him his entire life and it was hard to find guys attractive when you could still remember —

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@ArdentSprout — from him.

Now, every time Charlie smiled, Henry got butterflies in his stomach that he had ignored for years, because —

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@ArdentSprout — be returning to the loft or the mansion or Emma’s house, but rather to his dorm that he shared with the lovely boy across —

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@ArdentSprout — that he wasn’t interested in her.)

Now, he was sitting there with his new friend Charlie from /college/, and he wouldn’t —

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@ArdentSprout — friends with Violet for this long, even after they didn’t work out in a relationship. After all, it wasn’t /her/ fault —

[— Henry Mills @FervidAuthor]

@ArdentSprout — wasn’t waiting for his moms or his grandparents, or Violet or some other friend from school. (And yes, he had remained —

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@ArdentSprout — infant and that one year where he had been in New York, and yet for the first time, it was /different/.

Because now, he —

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@ArdentSprout — Henry.

He had been coming there for his entire life, save for the three weeks that he didn’t live in Storybrooke as an —

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@ArdentSprout — get there easily too.

It was so familiar as they stepped inside and found a booth, but yet it felt so different to —