A new story about Emma and Regina. Regina is not there from the beginning, so if you´re expecting that, you´re going to be disappointed. I hope you enjoy :) Sorry, if there´s any spelling mistakes or others. I dont have a beta.
Emma woke up, feeling disorientated and her head was hurting like hell. She looked around the light dimmed room and couldn't recognize it at all. The blonde was confused, and a tad scared as she didn't know where she was and couldn't remember who she was. A Spanish looking old woman noticed the awaken blonde and smiled to her as she walked closer to the bed.
"Cómo te sientes?" She asked. The blonde frowned as she didn't understand a word that had been said. "Me entiendes cariño?" She shook her head and the older woman smiled sadly at her before she walked away. The blonde looked around, she must be at a hospital and she didn't feel like staying. She looked to her side and saw some clothes, it must be hers. She looked around and quickly stood up to dress herself before she sneaked out of the room. Luckily it was late at night and not many nurses were around as she quickly walked down the hallway and out of the hospital. It wasn't a cold night as she walked down the foreign streets. Nothing seemed familiar to her, as she tried to get a glimpse of something that could trick her memories. She knew she had some kind of amnesia and she probably should have stayed at the hospital, but that was too late now. As she passed a huge fence, she suddenly felt very lightheaded and sat down, leaning up against the fence and closed her eyes for moment, just to fall asleep again. She felt someone shake her.
"Hey" Someone said and shook her again. "Hey you, wake up"
"I can get a bucket of water. That should wake the chick up" A gruff voice said.
"No, Leroy" A lighter voice said, and Emma was shaken again. "I think she´s awake. Hey, open your eyes" the blonde finally opened her eyes and was blinded by the daylight. She tiredly held a hand up in front of her eyes and looked up at the two people in front of her. A young girl was standing in front of her alongside with an older guy who stood with his arms crossed. She scrambled to her feet and stood swaying. "Wow take it easy tiger" The girl joked.
"Maybe she doesn't understand you" The guy said huffing. The girl sighed and thought about it.
"Yeah, it could be. Oh, Jesus… My Spanish is soo bad. Como, no that's wrong. Habla-oh, god" She tried.
"I can understand you" Emma said, and the girl breathed out in relief.
"Thank god! I really suck at Spanish and you really don't want me to-"
"Tink…" Leroy said. "Cut to the case"
"Yeah right" Tink said and turned to the blonde. "What are you doing here? It´s a bit of a private area at the moment" The blonde looked around and saw a huge tent in the middle of the area and wagons scattered around in the area.
"I don't know" She muttered. Both Leroy and Tink looked sceptically at her. "No, I really don't know. I walked around last night, I got dizzy and the next thing I know, you two are waking me up here" Emma said frustrated.
"Alright" Tink said. "What´s your name?"
"I don't know"
"Yeah right" Leroy huffed not believing a word the blonde had told her. "Look, just get out of here" Tink send him a look and he huffed again.
"Look, I woke up last night at a hospital. I can´t remember shit and I don't even know my own name! I don't know where I come from or why I´m here" She said almost crying. "You got to believe me" Emma said pleading with the young girl who looked sympathetic at her.
"Leroy…" Tink said.
"No" Tink looked at him with her big pleading eyes "No I said" His arms uncrossed as she pouted and blinked at him. "We can´t. Granny would throw a fit!" The blonde looked confused between the two of them, not really understanding what was going on.
"Please" Tink tried again. Leroy huffed as he threw his arms up in the air.
"Alright! But you can´t tell anyone or she can´t come with us" Tink zipped her lips and smiled widely. Leroy rolled his eyes and walked away towards the wagons.
"What´s going on?" The blonde asked.
"You´re coming with us" She said and took her hand as she dragged her towards a wagon. Tink looked around and almost got to it when someone yelled out for her.
"Tink!"
"Ah, fuck…" Tink muttered as Ruby came running towards her. She smiled but looked confused at the blonde next to her friend.
"Who is your friend?" Ruby asked.
"Oh, eh… it´s- you see-"Tink stuttered and Ruby raised an eyebrow at the stuttering woman. "I don't know" She finally said.
"You don't know? You just brought some random woman into your wagon?"
"She can´t remember who she is. I just thought it would be nice to give her some place to stay. She´s from America" Tink said. The blonde felt awkward standing there. Ruby looked at her.
"You can´t remember your name?" The blonde shook her head. Ruby sighed. "Okay. I won´t tell Granny. I just wanted to say that we´re leaving this deadbeat town and going back to the states. We´ve lost too much money on this tour and Granny wants to take the rest of the season back home. We´ll finish in Boston" Something in the blondes mind tricked and she looked up.
"Boston?"
"Yes. Are you from there?" Ruby asked.
"I-I don't know, just… It sounds familiar"
"Yeah, well it´s a well-known city in the states" Ruby stated with a bit of sarcasm.
"Ruby! Take it easy on her"
"Sorry" Ruby said and looked apologetically at the blonde who shrugged.
"When are we leaving?" Tink asked.
"Tonight. They´re already pulling down the tent and packing up stuff. So, you better hide her if you´re planning to take her to the states" Ruby said. "Just be careful, alright?" Tink nodded and Ruby smiled at her before walking away.
"Get in here. You better be quiet. I´ll make sure we´re going to pass the borders without anyone finding out about you" Tink smiled reassuringly before leaving the wagon and the blonde by herself. She looked around the small place before slumping down on the bed and sighing heavily, hoping Tink´s plan would work.
As they neared the border, Emma was getting nervous.
"What if it doesn't work and they find out?" She asked Tink, who were making some mac and cheese.
"They won´t, relax blondie. Just trust me" She said relaxed. Ruby jumped out of her wagon and ran down to Granny´s.
"Just a second" She yelled out to the guards as she ran down the convoy of wagons. She knocked and opened the door. "Granny, we´re at the border" Granny turned around towards Ruby.
"Excellent. Come in here and take the passports" Ruby stepped inside at took the offered papers. "Bring them over at security and make sure everyone is reporting to a security check"
"Will do" Ruby said and walked back outside, just as an security walked inside.
"Hello, Granny"
"Hello, Carl" She greeted.
"You came back faster than expected" Granny shrugged and put her hands in her jacket pockets.
"Yes. It was a bad idea with a tour down in Mexico. Now, we take the rest of the season in the States and get the finances back up again. The Americans have never let us down, they have always been very loyal to us" She walked over to her desk and found some papers. "I´ve already send Ruby with the passports. We had to leave Garibaldi the Clown in a hospital in Mexico, but besides that, we´re the same amount of people as when we left the country. "Here´s the list" She said and handed him the papers. He accepted it with a smile.
"Great. Let´s take a walkthrough then" He said, and they walked outside. Jack and Kelly stepped out from the wagon as a security came towards them. Kelly lighted a cigarette and took a drag of it.
"Are you Jack White?"
"Yes, and this is my partner Kelly"
"Hi" Kelly smiled flirtatiously at the security. He ignored her.
"Do you have any customs duty?"
"No. we haven't" Jack answered
"Well, I make a check" The security man said and walked inside their wagon. Jack leaned up against the wagons wall with his hands in his pockets. Kelly poked him in his side.
"Do you think they´ll find out?"
"We have promised to stay quiet" Jack spoke gravely.
"Take it easy. I won´t say anything" She took a long drag of her cigarette and blew the smoke out. "Not yet anyways" Jack frowned but didn't dare to say anything to her. They watched as Granny and Carl walked by them.
"It´s a big group, you have going on here" Carl said as he looked through the list.
"Yes, we are sixteen artists, four musicians, five drivers and eleven workers. We also have twelve horse" Granny said. "Oh, and then we have Tink. I´ve almost forgotten Tink"
"Tink?" Carl asked. "Is that another horse?" A window flew up and smoke filled up the air.
"No, that's me!" Tink grinned as she tried to fan away the smoke. A sizzling sound could be heard from the wagon. Granny and Carl looked alarmed.
"What´s wrong? Is there a fire?!" Granny asked.
"No, it´s an accident" Tink said and pulled out a pot filled with smoke. "What a circus, huh? I was making mac and cheese" She looked at the blackened content. "It looks like I´ll have to find something else" She said and put down the pot again.
"Are you Tinker Bell?" Carl asked.
"Yup, that's me. Born in Auckland, New Zealand. My dad did a somersault at my birth and my mother was the woman without a lower body. So, you see sir, the time of miracles is not over yet" She grinned. Carl laughed.
"She´s joking" Granny said smiling, and Carl nodded.
"Did you bring to customs duty?" He asked.
"Nope" She said and closed her window.
"What is she for the circus?" Carl asked Granny.
"Essential" She answered, and they shared a laugh and walked away. When everything was checked, they could pass through the borders. Tink sighed in relief as she sat down on a chair.
"We made it. You´re in the states now, Blondie" Tink said and smiled. Emma smirked and arched and eyebrow.
"Yeah, and if I haven't made it, it probably would have been from inhaling too much smoke. How can you burn mac and cheese?" She said and grinned.
"Ha ha ha. Just laugh at me. You probably had burned a lot of food" Tink said not thinking about what she was saying.
"I wouldn't know" Emma said and shrugged.
"Sorry" Tink said.
"It´s alright. It´s not your fault"
"There´s not been anything remotely familiar to you? Anything you suddenly remembered?" Tink asked and handed Emma a cup of coffee. Emma shook her head.
"Nope" She took a sip of her coffee. "So, where are we going now?"
"I think I heard Ruby talk about Roswell. It´s a town about four hours away from here, so take a nap or something. There´s not much else to do now" Tink said and pulled out a book. Emma nodded and lay down on the bed. She wished that she could remember something, her name for example, but no. Nothing at all. It was frustrating, and it was confusing. What was she doing in Mexico, did she live there or was she passing through? So many questions, and nobody to answer them. She sighed heavily as she turned on her side away from Tink and closed her eyes. She was shaken awake a while later.
"What is it with you? Do you just love to shake people or something?" Emma asked.
"Yup. Now, get up. We´re here and I must go and help the others. We have a show in three hours and everything has to be ready by then" Tink said with a smirk and left the wagon. As she stepped out of the wagon, she saw Ashley coming towards Sean who were working on hammering a pole in the earth. She smiled at the young couple talking, before she saw Sean´s father Mitchell coming from behind another wagon. "Watch out, Sean. Your father is coming" Sean and Ashley looked up at the drunk man.
"He´s been drinking again" Sean muttered angrily before looking softly at Ashley. "One day, we´re running away"
"I wish we could" Ashley said.
"Why haven't you woken me up?" Mitchell slurred heavily as he held on to a rope.
"We thought you were sleeping, dad" Sean said carefully.
"It´s better to kiss and such nonsense without me nearby, aren't it?" He chuckled angrily. "Sean, get away form that girl!" He yelled at them. Ashley glanced at Sean before sighing and walking away. Sean followed her with his eyes before turning to his father with a scornful look. Tink, who had seen it all, shook her head and walked towards the food tent where, unfortunately, Mitchell was standing with his bottle of beer. He swayed as he stood there.
"Can I get a cup of coffee?" She asked the lady. She nodded and poured Tink a cup. She glanced at Mithcell. "Why do you look so mad, Mitchell?" She asked with a chance. She had never done anything to him.
"Sean and Ashley´s little relationship…" He muttered "I don't want it"
"She´s such a sweet young lady" The dinner lady said.
"Yeah, and a great artist" Tink said with a smile.
"What she can, she had learned from me" He said and walked out of the tent. The dinner lady gave Tink her coffee and she took a sip of it. It was much better than the coffee she had in her home. Kelly stormed in with a cigarette in her hand. Like it was attached to her hand.
"Granny wants to talk to you" She said to Tink. "She said ´Get Miss Bell".
"She said that?" Tink grinned as Kelly nodded. "Then it´s seriously bad. When I´m on her good side, it´s Tink or Tinker, but when it´s Miss. Then it´s bad" She swallows the coffee and walks to Granny´s wagon. She knocks on the door.
"Come in, Miss Bell" Granny said and Tink walks cautiously inside. "Is it true, you have hidden a foreign person in your wagon?"
"I´m sorry, what?" Tink said, trying to win some time.
"You heard me" Granny said sternly with her hands on her hips. "Have you smuggled a man over the border without passport and papers? Yes or no?"
"No" Tink said with a small humourless laugh before she looked at Granny again. "Yes…" Granny sighed and threw her hands up in the air. "But it´s a woman" Granny huffed.
"How could you do that? You´ve known me for many years. I´ve always forbidden my people to smuggle anything over the border. The authorities trust me!" She sighed as she walked back and forth. "I have to report it to the police" She concluded. Tink sprang forward.
"No, Granny. You can´t do that. The woman is an American and has lost her memory"
"Really?" Granny said not believing her.
"Yes. I found her, and she didn't have anywhere to go. I hid her and you would have done that too"
"No, I would never have done that" Tink didn't believe her. Granny might be a hard woman on the outside, but on the inside she´s a soft as a sponge.
"Yes, you would´ve. You would never let a fellow American to rot in a foreign country" Tink said. Granny looked at her before she huffed again.
"I´m mad at you, Tink. What are we to do with her? What kind of person is she?" Tink shrugged.
"I don't know. She doesn't even know it herself!"
"Lost her memory? Everything could say that" Granny said. "Well, get her and bring her to the arena. Let me get a look at her"
"Yes, will do that" Tink said and left Granny to herself. Tink barged into her own wagon, which made Emma jump in surprise. "Come on. Granny wants to meet you" Tink grabbed her wrist and dragged her outside.
"What?!" Emma said "What does she want? How did she figure it out?"
"I don't know, but if you want to stay here, you have to listen to the big boss and the big boss wants to meet you. Now, come on!" Tink spoke quickly and dragged her towards the huge circus tent. Emma looked around in the huge tent where people was rushing by, rehearsing and making sure the equipment was good before the big night. In the middle, Granny was standing waiting on them to arrive.
"Here she is" Tink said and pulled Emma towards Granny. "This is our director, Mrs. Lucas aka Granny" Tink introduced.
"You know my name. What´s yours" Granny tried. Emma looked down.
"I´m sorry, but I don't know" Granny sighed.
"Could you have been an artist?" Emma looked around once more, but nothing seemed to do something for her. She shook her head.
"The arena doesn't remind me of anything"
"If you really are suffering from memory loss, you should be in an hospital. Not here"
"I know, but Tink said I could come with you to Boston"
"Oh, did she?" Granny said and looked unimpressed at Tink who looked down.
"Maybe if I could help you with something? Earn my staying with you?" Emma tried.
"Well, the stables always need a hand" Granny said and walked away with those words.
"That went perfect" Tink and said wrapped an arm around Emma´s shoulders. Emma gave her a small smile before a drum sounded. They looked at Kelly who stood with a small smirk on her lips. A larger flute was lying on the table and something in Emma´s mind clicked. She walked over to the table and picked it up and tentatively put it to her lips and began to play a small sound. Tink looked at her with a huge smile.
"If you can play the flute, then do it!" Emma nodded and played a happy melody. Tink grabbed a guitar and joined her. The playing came to Emma, like she was born to do it and she really enjoyed it. It was something she remembered! As the melody ended, she laughed.
"I can play!" She exclaimed with a joyous laugh. Tink joined her.
"Yes, I dare to imply" Granny who had heard it all clapped and smiled.
"Well done. That wasn't that bad" She said. Tink jumped over a chair and ran to her.
"She can join me as my partner! We still have Garibaldi´s custome, maybe with some altering and it would fit like a glove"
"The white clown? Why not, let´s try it" Granny said. Emma smiled cautiously, not having a clue about what they were talking about. She scratched her neck and followed Tink out of the arena and back to the wagon. Yeah, well… Maybe it could help her remember something, she thought.