Part 2! I forgot disclaimers in the first chapter so:

I don't own Once Upon a Time I'm just having some fun.

There's Hook in this but don't worry, this is going to be Swan Queen. Thank you for the follows and reviews. I haven't posted anything here in quite a while, so it was good to see people still reading. Sorry it's a bit short. This has been a hectic weekend.

Emma woke up to yelling. Or at least the harsh whispered version of yelling. She was in her own bed, and while she was sore and exhausted she didn't seem to be any worse for wear from her night out with a demon. She moved to get out of the bed, wincing as the muscles in her back pulled. Ok, maybe she wasn't 100 percent but she could work with what she had.

Opening the door to her bedroom, she could make out the voices more clearly now. "How you thought that was going to help, I have no idea."

"Someone had to save her, that demon was going to kill her."

"That demon was well on it's way to being vanquished. It couldn't touch her until you went rushing in and destroyed her protection spell. And who in the hell brings an unenchanted sword to a magic fight anyway?"

Emma made her way down a few steps then stopped to watch the huddled group closely. Regina and Hook were squared off, staring one another down and from her vantage point it looked like Regina was winning. Her parents were watching the two, Snow with worry, and David with thinly veiled amusement. "It's better than just standing around to watch the show your Majesty, you probably couldn't wait for that demon to get Emma."

Cocking her head Regina took a step toward the pirate. "Emma had it under control ship rat, and if you had stopped to use your rum addled brain you would have realized that too.

Snow finally stepped in. "Ok, that's not important now. What is important is that Emma's ok. Regina, did your magic defeat it? It disappeared so is it gone?"

"I won't know anything for sure until Emma wakes up and I can talk to her. How it got loose in the first place is what I want to know."

"Well I'm awake." Four heads turned to look at her, all showing signs of relief.

Hook was there as she hit the last step reaching out a hand she tried to avoid. "We were worried about you love."

His hand clamped onto her bicep. She figured he was just trying to help, but his grip didn't feel supportive, it felt possesive. She kept walking, shaking her arm lightly to loosen his hold. "I'm fine. Just sore."

Regina was standing back, watching her carefully until she made her way to a stool at the kitchen island. "What happened out there?"

Emma turned to face the woman deciding for now to ignore the hovering pirate. "I don't know. I got to the well, said the incantation, and used the potion..."

"Those ancient incantations are impossible love." Emma scowled.

"Hook's right sweetie, it can take years to master them." Snow was smiling at her with sympathy as she slid a mug of coffee across the counter.

"I didn't say them wrong!" They both took a step back at the snapped words, and she sighed, rubbing at her temples. "Sorry. After I poured in the potion everything was quiet, so I started to leave and behind me that dark cloud just starting rolling out of the well."

Regina looked at her thoughtfully, then nodded. "I have no doubt you said the words correctly Miss Swan, but I would like to know what was in the potion the fairies gave you for that spell. We also need to figure out if it's actually gone. We don't want it just showing up when we're not ready."

Emma shot her a grateful look, getting a small smile in return.

Her mother reached out for her hand, "Emma I didn't mean to insinuate that you had done anything wrong."

She pulled back slowly, slipping off the stool. "It's all right. I'm a screwup, I don't blame you if that's the first thing that came to your mind."

"No, Emma..."

"Look if it's all right with you guys I'm just going to go upstairs and get some more rest. We'll talk later." Her eyes slid to Regina who looked at her with concern before she gave her a nod.

Her father finally stepped forward. "Of course Emma, go get some rest, we can deal with all of this later."

Emma smiled at him and turned to make her way back up the stairs. Shutting the bedroom door behind her she reached back and flipped the lock. She didn't need people checking up on her while she was trying to sleep.

Even your family thinks you're a failure Savior. Emma's breath caught, and she shook her head looking around the room. There was no one there, the room was empty except for her. Feeling her shoulders relax she trudged toward the bed. She really needed to rest.

When her eyes cracked open a few hours later, Emma felt more like herself. Her muscles were still stiff but she knew a hot shower would loosen them up. The apartment was empty when she came down the stairs and she was relieved that she wouldn't have to deal with more questions or apologetic looks. Half an hour later as she stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around herself she felt ready to take on the world.

Grabbing up her toothbrush, she took a moment to wipe the steam from the mirror, staring at her reflection for a moment. She still looked a little tired, but figured that was normal after facing down a demon in the woods for most of the night. Squeezing out a bit of toothpaste onto her brush, she looked back up at the mirror. Her reflection blinked, then started to smile maliciously.

Emma jumped away from the mirror, dropping the toothbrush. Her back hit the bathroom door, and her eyes flew up only to see her own normal reflection now staring back at her. Shaking hands jerked open the door, and she stumbled out.

Regina sat at her desk flipping through one of her mothers' old books, searching out the ingredients to the potion the fairies had given Emma. It had taken Snow White convincing them to trust Regina to give up the ingredients in the first place, along with a snide comment that the potion was just as ancient as the incantation, and she most likely wouldn't be able to find them in any of the books she had.

But the fairies had no idea what kind of books she had access too, and she prefered to keep it that way. She'd found the incantation easily enough, but these ingredients were eluding her. It instantly made her suspicious. The Blue Fairy hadn't seemed that surprised or worried that a demon might be on the loose, and Regina wasn't fooled by the promise that they were working on their own way to detect, and destroy it, if necessary. They had still warned that Halloween night was the day to worry for, and if the Savior hadn't been successful in warding off the threat early they needed to be ready for what would promise to be an even bigger problem.

Her phone began to ring and she snatched it up, seeing Emma's name flash across the screen as she answered.

"Regina." Emma's voice was distressed, and shaking. "It's still here."

Regina slammed her book closed and stood. "What happened? Where are you?"

"A-at the apartment, in the stairwell. My reflection...it changed."

The woman was headed for the door to her office before Emma finished speaking. "Stay there, I'm on my way, ok, I'm coming."