Chapter One~
Emma's POV~
Crashing.
Tumbling.
Everything falling apart.
Falling out of me.
A chaotic whirlpool of terror screaming through the universe, destroying everything in its path.
A huge fire writhing with agony and burning life to ashes.
A raging river with power so grand that it's terrifying.
That is how I feel inside.
Instead of the joy and raw sunlight I should be feeling on my wedding day, I feel like everything inside of me is breaking, turning to indiscernible night.
Because the most important part of who I am, the person I was about to unite with today, is not here with me.
As soon as I heard those words, the world around me broke. I was no longer living here. I was merely an observer, a watcher of an odd dream.
"Your fiancé has been in a tragic car accident" they said.
They told me that it was going to be a tough time for me.
What they didn't tell me is how it felt like I was dying when I saw her all wrapped up in cords and tubes on a hospital bed.
What they didn't tell me is how when she woke up, and couldn't remember who I was, how that felt like I had lost my entire identity, and like I no longer knew who I was, either.
Tough times for me? They might as well have told me 'prepare yourself for more pain than you've ever experienced'.
But somehow, I keep living on. I do not let this sorrow control me. Even though I want to let it seep in, to let it take over my mind and body and soul, I do not let it. She would not want me to. Regina wouldn't want me to let my grief turn me into a monster; she wouldn't want me to suffer the same fate she did. And even though the Regina in the hospital is not the Regina I once knew; the woman I fell in love with despite all odds and the woman I was going to marry; I know that that woman still lives inside of her somewhere and is rooting for me to pull out of this. To pull both of us out of this.
And so pull I will. I will do whatever it takes to make Regina remember me.