I was sitting in my office looking out the window with my hand holding the circlet on my necklace. I looked out the window what I had done. I remember how Regina looked when none of us believed her and when I told her not to get near the Henry. Those expressions told me that she was and is innocent, but someone wants everyone to believe that she is guilty and want her broken. I fingered my necklace again. Henry was devastated when I told him about Archie and that it was Regina, like me he didn't believe that it was Regina, but I had to make sure that whoever framed her believed he or she had won. I was the only one who believes that Regina is innocent, though Red had a little bit of a doubt that she didn't listen to. I fingered the necklace again; all I have to do to know what is going on in this town is take off the necklace. I just can't not after what happened, how I betrayed everyone who actually cared for me, my team.
I heard the door to the office open and Henry run in followed by David, my dad and Mary Margaret, my mom. They had brought food from Granny.
"Mom!" Henry came to running to hug me. I don't know what I would have done without him.
"Hey Kid. How are you?"
"I'm ok"
"Emma?" I saw Mary Margaret looking at me. "Is everything ok?"
"Yeah" No "I was just debating a few things."
"What?" David asked.
"My life before all of this." I said and I saw them turn to me.
"Can you tell us about it?" Mom asked.
"That is what I was debating." I said. Should I tell them? Would they look at me like they did Regina? "I don't know if I should."
"Mom, I wan to know." Henry said.
"It would help us get to know you." Dad said. And you would hate me for it. I nodded, telling them my past specifically my life since fourteen would help to clear Regina's innocence.
"Well, to tell you of my past I would have to explain the outside world a little."
"What about it?" David asked.
"Outside of Storybrooke, Maine there are a humans that have powers called mutants." I started "They are being hunted for being different."
"What does this have to do with you?" Mary Margaret asked.
"I grew up in that world remember?" I said. "Besides I am one."
"really?" Henry asked "What is your power?"
"I am a telepath and I can turn my skin into diamond form."
"Wow. Can we see?" Henry asked
"Let me tell you my story and I will." They nodded "I grew up in a series of foster homes and I never stayed more than a few years in each one." I could see my parents look down sad. "It became more difficult at the age of fourteen to keep myself in a family especially when I developed my super power as I called it. I could tell what people were thinking and it helped me figure out that many of the families didn't like me and only wanted me for the money. When I turned 17 I ran from the system and got a job at a diner" I said for Henry's sake. I couldn't destroy the images of his parents like that. "Where I met Henry's father" I could see David believe everything while Mary Margaret look at me with a knowing look, she'll want the real story later on. "More on that later" I really didn't want to repeat the lie. "After I got out of prison I met a group of mutants that believed that we had to do what was best for mutant kind. Most mutants thought that way, humans were hunting us down and we needed to defend ourselves. But this group, the Hellfire Club, was a group of mutants who believed the best for all humanity was the finding and destruction of the Phoenix who usually lived in the subconscious of a strong telepath. I helped them find the phoenix that was in a telepath named Jean Grey and helped them get to it."
"What happened exactly?"
"I tried to force the pheonix out but ended up causing an explosion instead. Jean Grey is a teacher in a school for mutants, so the explosion was in the school thankfully no one got majorly hurt but it tumbled the building to the ground. A year after this the school was rebuilt but the owner and principal of the school was missing and i offered my services to find him. In reality I had placed him in Genosha a country for mutants ruled by Eric Lensherr also known as Magneto. They needed a telepath to be able to use a machine called cerebro that could find all mutants. It would also help me to find Jean Grey, the reason this mess started with. While I was spying on the students and teachers I saw that they were all like a family and I wanted that for myself, so much so that when the time came I couldn't go through with it and ended up faking my own death with the use of the pheonix. I was hiding from all mutants when henry found me."
"Wow!" Henry said "Are you done with the story now? Can I see the diamond form now?"I reached towards the back of my neck to take of the necklace with the circlet on it.
"That is one of the first thing I did after I faked my death, was to find a way to supress my powers. I did by geting this necklace that suppress all my powers to the point that it makes me feel like I have no powers though at times I can tell if someone is lying to me. It's how I figured that Hook was lying to us when we met him somehow in the enchanted forest the necklace worked less than what it does now. It is also how I was convinced that it wasnt Regina."
"Can you check to make sure?" Henry asked me
"It is the reason I decided to tell you. I know someone like Regina who tried to change but noe one trusted her, so she faked her own death and took her old name."
"I doubt you did things as evil as her." Mary Margaret said.
"Maybe, but I do know how it feels to try and change but the moment something wrong happens be the first one to be blamed." I took of my necklace at that moment and felt and heard the rush of thoughts that I haven't felt since two years earlier. I controlled it as soon as I could but I could still feel the thoughts of people. To hide from the thoughts from me I turned to my diamond form.
"You look great!" I heard Henry. I prepared myself to get the onlsaught of thoughts again and turned back it was then that I coudl hear the thoughts of a pirate i never thought i would hear again. If he was hear than it meant that Regina was innocent and that...
"Cora is here."
