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Emma's POV - 3 month before

It's been a few weeks since Maleficent returned from the 'dead' and so far it seems she is looking for something but is failing and each day I see her she is sadder then the day before. 'Maybe I should speak to her and offer my help?' I sit for a little while longer in Granny's Diner, my hands wrapped around a still warm mug of coco, just letting myself think.

"Hay, can I get anything else for you Emma? Or maybe just a person to talk to?" I look up to see Ruby stood there in her work uniform with a pitcher of coffee in one hand, "yeah, um could I just get a bear claw to go please?" I watched as she walked back to counter grabbing a pastry bag and tongs putting a single bear claw in the bag.

I down the rest of my drink and stand up to meet Ruby at the counter seeing her hold out the bag for me "thanks Rubs" giving her a smile I take the bag paying for the pastry. Walking out of the diner door only having one location in mind to walk to, letting my mind drift through thoughts I hardly notice where I am until I nearly trip over a fallen log. Looking up all I see is forest, beautiful green forest, going back to the log I nearly fell over sitting down and just listening to the different sounds of the forest, I come here to clear my head and think, and with the whole Maleficent being back thing there has just been thoughts and moments that haven't made sense to me.

In the past few weeks that Maleficent has been back I have only bumped into her once and since then I've been on edge but not because she is back but because something just feels different, something animalistic and pure instinct driven, it terrifies me most of the time it's difficult to control but it seems no one has noticed or if they have they haven't said anything. 'Maybe I should talk to Ruby? As bad as it sounds she's the best with these things and her wolf side can help as well.'

A sudden chill runs down my spine and a warm feeling spreads over my back but mainly on my shoulder blades it feels like a fire has just erupted. A scream echoes round the forest and I'm left breathing hard on my hands and knees, sweat clinging to my skin and little droplets falling from my face "what 'huff' the hell 'wheeze' was that?" I say as I try to even out my breathing but the inferno is still there and it's only getting hotter, the pain begins to blur out my other senses my hearing and vision are completely gone, so when I feel arms wrap around my waist it's understandable as to why I flinch 'did I scream as well?'

I try to fight against the arms still around me but even with my sight gone I can tell the world is spinning, feeling my side collide with a solid surface? Object? I finally give in and everything is just gone my mind blank of any thoughts, it's truly a terrifying experience just everything going and being left in a void like state. But with everything leaving the inferno won't leave but it has now spread down to my upper arm and that's when I'm truly gone giving into the flame that's burning me.

Maleficent POV

Now I didn't expect that a calm walk in the forest could turn into sprinting towards a sudden pull finding it went in the direction of the pain filled scream but finding a shivering sweat covered savior was not what I was expecting. Her body tense and her shoulders especially twitching every now and then. She is just in her signature tank top and jeans and because of the tank top it was clear to see the dark red patches over her shoulder blades, seeing this I sprang into action by wrapping my arms around her waist.

This only causes her to scream again along with a powerful flitch that jerks her whole body causing her to fall to the hard forest floor her body quivering harder than before. Then everything but the twitching stops and her breathing gets even harsher if that's possible, a fire like glow begins on her left upper arm the shape circular but spiked in places.

As the fire begins to fade what it left is a burning sun in bright yellow, red and orange colures making it stand out against her slightly pale skin, I'm snapped away from the savior by a burning on my own wrist and watching in fascination and shock as the same marks as the Blondes appears on my own wrist. 'This can only mean one thing' I think as tears begin to fall down my cheeks, I bring my now trembling hand up to my wrist and smooth my thumb over the mark of the sun when it didn't rub off the tears came faster and faster as she had finally found one of them. One of them had been returned to her but anger simmered on the edge as she remembered that the idiots had not only stolen them but they had also tricked one of them into think she is something she is not.

Looking up just enough to see the Blonde I'm amazed at how much she looks like me 'how could I have missed this till now, and why was she in pain earlier?' The Blonde still lays there unconscious but her shoulders are still bleeding and twitching, decided I move over to look at her back by slowly lifting up the back of her top I had just gotten to the bottom of her shoulder blades when it gets stuck and Emma breaths in a harsh gasp in obvious pain.

This causes me to drop her shirt back down and watch her face for any more pain but it seems that it went as soon as I dropped her shirt back down 'ok that paths a no go, now what do I do?' Sitting there for a few seconds looking over Emma's back I remember that she is wearing a tank top, moving forward again instead of going from the bottom up I decide to move or really just cut the straps of the tank top off and then pull it down as it seems the pain came from pulling the fabric upwards.

As I'm pulling the now cut fabric down I'm left shocked at what has been causing the bleeding only to be extremely sympathetic with the women in front of me, removing the fabric completely from her shoulders and upper back you can clearly see pointed bones sticking out of Emma's shoulder blades.

"oh my darling" I say as I bring a hand up to my mouth to muffle my sobs as I finally take in what really caused Emma's pain "your wings were trying to come through, you poor girl." My tears freely run down my face as I use my magic to summon a bucket of water and a cloth to myself, beginning with the surrounding blood first before carefully trying to clean the already raw and still grow bone.

Every now and then Emma would hiss or groan in pain and each time I would freeze 'my baby is in pain and there's nothing I can do to help her' with her back now clean the bones begin to grow faster and I realize that the pull earlier was Emma's magic reacting to mine causing her body to react as well which lead to growing of her wings. Poor girl.

Emma's POV

It felt like days before the inferno began to ease even just a little bit, it helped that a cool but soothing sensation was running down my back but at the same time there was a spike of pain here and there causing me to flinch and whimper. The inferno was no just a warm sensation but the pain was still present, now having feeling of my body again I was able to open my eyes and look around only to stop on a figure in front of me. 'What is she doing here? Was she the one that grabbed me?'

Trying to push myself up my arms begin to shake giving way causing me to slam back to the ground, this sent a sharp pain up my back as I had clipped it and so with my hearing still muffled I couldn't hear Maleficent rushing over to me. When she grabbed me I was expecting the worse but I wasn't expecting her to lay me in her lap and have it so my back is away from literally everything apart from the air.

"um, not that I'm not happy you're here and everything but why are you here?" as I watched the slight hurt flash across her eyes I felt something in my heart tear causing me to whimper and hold my hands up to my chest where my heart is. Looking up Maleficent is giving me a sympathetic look "oh darling, I'm here because I happened to be in the forest when you screamed but I know have so many more reasons and so much to explain to you. And trust me it's going to be a lot to take in."

What the hell is she talking about, what did she find out? I'm so confused but at the same time I've been meaning to ask her what my parents did to her to make her hate them so much.

"Dear you said all of that out loud" she says with a chuckle as she looks at me with a smile but I can see the rage in her eyes "and I will gladly tell you anything you would like to know and to start everything off. Those idiot noble bastards are not your parents." Her rage grew as she spoke about them but I was left so dumbstruck that I nearly missed it.

"What do you mean there not my parents? That's ridiculous I broke the curse, I think that kinda makes me their child. But if you think back to Regina actually broke the curse but she isn't their kid either so that theory is kinda out of the window isn't it?" I ramble out as she just looks at me, I can tell that she is trying not to laugh at my rambling and also seems to be failing quite badly.

"Well my dear that is a very long and emotional story and trust me if I still get pissed off about it to this day I have pretty good idea of how you will react." The smirk on her face shows the edges of her slightly longer than normal canines giving her a wicked smile. But I'm left thinking of scenarios of what Snow and David could have done to piss off this beautiful women. "Why thank you for the compliment dear" "god dammit I said that out load again?" looking up when I hear her sing out a beautiful laugh that I can't even be grumpy about this.

"Well it seems that you have a knack for doing that dear." Giving her a toothy grin and chuckling quietly "yeah it seems I do" rubbing the back of my neck I now only realize that my tank top is pretty much gone….

"Um what happened to my shirt? And do you have anything that I can cover myself with?" my cheeks turn red as I say this but it does fade quickly when I see the sad look in her eyes "I do have something you can use dear but you won't be able to cover your back. Well unless you want to be in a large amount of pain but trust me I will explain with everything else just please take my word for this."

"ok that's fine I just want to at least cover up my front" I say as I watch her place me down gently forgetting that I have been in her lap this whole time, watching as she removed her outer coat and laying on my front. I was about to lean back when she picked me and placed me back in her lap which now without anything on my mind was a very comforting act. This caused me to cuddle further into her 'I've never had something like this with Snow…it's….nice.'