The darkness surrounded her body lifting her in the air as it latched on to her, and then without warning both Emma and the darkness disappeared, and a sword fell to the ground, her name etched into the blade. But Emma was no where to be seen she had simply just vanished.

Regina sank to her knees still staring at the sport where Emma had vanished tears flowing down her face. She felt as if her heart would break into a million pieces, she held a secret that she had never told anyone not even Emma and now Emma had just made the ultimate sacrifice for her.

And now Regina realized that there was a chance she might never get to tell her how she really felt about her. She stood and walked to the spot where Emma had been only moments before and gently picked up the dagger, and held it close.

She sent a look over to both the charming and Hook "Let me keep it, let me protect Emma's dagger I'm the only one here that has enough magic to keep it safe from being stolen I can put spells and wards all around the dagger and keep everyone else from being able to touch it I can also put an anti theft charm on it to keep common thieves from getting it as well."

She watched as the Charmings and Hook both only nodded. David in tears only whispered "please do, just please what ever you do protect it and don't use it for anything."

Regina looked at the father of the woman she secretly loved and replied "Don't worry David, Emma just sacrificed herself for me, I am the one that should protect it, it is the least I can do to repay her for what she just did. That darkness had been meant for me, but she took it for me and became the new dark one in my place I will protect this dagger with my life, I won't let anyone use or control Emma, and when we find her, I will give the dagger right back to her, and she will not be in my control she will be able to control herself."

Holding the dagger close to her chest she walked away from the road and headed straight to her vault where she planned to hide the dagger until they could find Emma, she had a spot in the vault that not even her sister had managed to find a secret compartment a secret cubbyhole that you wouldn't know was there unless you were Regina! She walked into her secret room which was from the palace which was hidden by a magic barrier, where she kept her real mirror, here she walked over to a far corner waved her hand and gently lay Emma's dagger into the drawer that appeared. After shutting it she placed wards and all kinds of anit thieving spells all around it as well as magic that not even a blood magic could destroy only Regina herself would be able to get passed the wards and spells that were all over that corner.

Regina then turned around and left the vault, and headed off home to start packing some things, she was going to go on a trip to try and find her Swan, her savior the woman that she secretly loved more then she loved anything else including her own magic. Regina would do what ever it took to track her down.

But she knew that she would have to steal from Rumpelstiltskin's shop first or make Belle give it to her, she was going to need a locator spell, so that she can use an object of Emma's to track her down. Slinging a small back back over her shoulders she headed first to the Charming's apartment were she was sure she would find an object that belonged to Emma Swan.

Regina walked briskly up the stairs the whole time her mind kept mentally saying the same words over and over "Some how some way Emma I will find you! And when I do I am going to hug you and tell you the truth I will finally tell you exactly how I really feel about you!"