Its Never Too Late to Start Again
A/N Set after the first curse is broke. Rumple sets the wraith onto regina but its Mary Margaret and David that get sucked into the portal. Emma must work alongside Regina to get her parents back but trying to persuade the town that Regina is no longer a threat will prove even trickier than getting her parents back.
Chapter One
The curse had been broken. Damn Emma Swan, Regina thought to herself as she made her way across town, away from the hospital and her son towards her home. When she arrived she locked the doors. It wouldn't be long before the townsfolk were out for revenge. Regina didn't blame them.
A lot of noise outside startled Regina. The mob had arrived sooner than expected. She smoothed out her trousers and went outside. Whale, or whoever he was now was leading them all. As it was getting aggressive Regina was surprised when a blonde bombshell came bursting through the crowd, demanding that she be left alone.
Emma Swan had come to her rescue. Regina was surprised, she was half sure that Emma would watch as she was ripped to shreds by the mob. As the sheriff made the crowd disperse Regina looked on. She supposed this is how it would be from now on.
Emma turned around to look at Regina. "I think you had better come with me" she said and Regina looked confused. "Excuse me?" She said. Emma just looked at her. "You need to come with me to the station. The crowd wont rest until they see that you are getting some form of punishment for what you did. I promise you'll be safe there" Emma assured her.
Not wanting to make a fuss Regina begrudgingly allowed Emma to lead her to her patrol car and drive her to the station. She was shown into one of the containing cells and Regina sat in a corner. She watched as Emma walked around the office and muttered something about having to check something.
She left the station promising Regina that she would be back ASAP. Regina just sat on the bunk in the cell. She pondered everything that had happened already and thought about the things that were yet to come. She closed her eyes. Her thoughts drifted to Henry. Regina wished she could hold him in her ams one last time. But she knew deep down that Snow and charming wouldn't allow it.
A noise outside of her cell disrupted her thoughts. She sat up and looked to find Mr Gold outside her cell. She suddenly felt very defensive. She stood immediately.
"Well isn't this a nice surprise?" Golds voice drawled.
"What do you want?" Regina scoffed in his direction.
"To give you a gift of course" he drawled back. The hairs on Reginas spine stood up.
"I want nothing from you" she shouted at him. He smiled.
"Not even to see your son?" He asked and this got to Regina. She marched to the bars but wasn't expecting Gold to make a grab for her hand once she was there. Without warning he pressed a metal object into her handing marking her. She didn't realise what it was but she knew that it was bad.
"Thats for what you did to belle" Gold whispered in her ear before letting her go. She fell to the floor. Gold was gone before she could say something else.
Regina sat staring at the mark on her hand. Waiting. It wasn't long before there was commotion outside and a loud screech sounded. The entire of the station went dark and Regina could sense that something was coming towards her. She felt it before she saw it, a cold draft. She looked to find a hooded something coming towards her. She was thrown across the cell and the cell door burst open. Regina retreated to the far back wall, as far away as she could but that didn't stop the thing coming towards her. She felt it suck at the air and she felt herself becoming weaker.
Just as she thought it was all over a bright light filled the room and The thing flew out of the door. Regina looked up to find who saved her. There standing in the cell door was Emma Swan.
"Regina" she called to her and rushed to help the former mayor to her feet. "What was that" a second voice asked and Regina looked around to find David and Mary Margaret standing in the room.
"A wraith" Regina gasped out. "what does it want?" Mary Margret asked her.
"To cause havoc and misery" she responded. "How do we stop it?" Emma asked. Regina just shook her head. "You cant stop it. It doesn't stop until it devours its prey" she held up her hand to show the room the mark. "me" she finished. She saw Emma tense up.
"Well if its you it wants its you it can have" David said. "We'll leave you here" he said and made an attempt to leave. Emma spoke next.
"I made a promise to Henry. Regina doesn't die" she called after David. He stopped and turned to look at his daughter. Regina looked at her too. She had a defiant look on her face. Ignoring her parents Emma turned to acknowledge Regina.
"There has to be something we can do?" She asked and Regina nodded.
"there is one thing. We could send it somewhere where it cant hurt anyone" and Emma nodded along to what regina was saying. "Okay we'll do that". Everyone in the room looked at each other.
A Plan was devised. Regina led the group to her old office and retrieved Jeffersons hat. She explained that she could use the hat as a portal and trick the wraith into going inside, banishing it to another realm. They set up in the town hall. David and snow prepared a fire wall to direct it towards the hat. Regina tried hard to summon her power but nothing seemed to work. She heard the commotion that signalled the arrival o the wraith and she focussed intently on the hat, willing it to work. She felt Emma kneel beside her. She offered words of encouragement and it wasn't until a touch of Emmas hand on Reginas shoulder kickstarted her magic to make the hat work. As the portal opened The wraith made a beeline for Regina. Noticing that the wraith was about to make contact with Regina, Emma pushed her out of the way. The wraith dived into the portal. Emma lost her balance and almost fell through the portal but Regina held out a hand to stop that. Snow, who had also witnessed Emma nearly falling through had made an attempt to save her daughter but somehow ended up falling and entered the portal. David let out a cry and dived in straight after his wife. Emma screamed in their direction. But as quickly as the portal opened it closed again.
Emma stared at the floor where the portal closed up. "Regina, what happened where did they go?" She asked Turing to look at the brunette who was slumped on the floor, breathless. Taking a deep breathe she replied hesitantly. "I don't know".