Chapter 2

Ingrid sat in the cell and stayed silent. She hadn't said a word since Mary Margaret and David brought her there. Mary Margaret looked into space, still in shock, tears falling freely from her eyes. David looked at the Snow Queen in sheer hatred and anger. "You are going to tell us what you did to our daughter witch." said David.

Ingrid just looked up and smiled. "That was not meant for her. She was foolish for jumping in front of Anna. I never wanted to cause Emma harm. I wanted her and Elsa as my new sisters. She was special, as was Elsa and myself." Mary Margaret approached the cell.

"If you meant no harm to Emma, then why did you attack her and put an ice splinter in her heart in the first place?" Ingrid looked at Mary Margaret. "She was supposed to overcome that spell. The black ice is the one that you needed to worry about. But it doesn't matter. The black ice encased her heart. So there is nothing you can do. I don't understand what you guys expect to do. Emma is dead. Accept it."

Mary Margaret jerked Ingrid by the hem of her dress. "My daughter may be dead, but she will come back. She will not stay dead. She will always find us. That's what this family does." she said with venom in her voice.

Ingrid smiled. "Then why talk to me? Are you hoping that I will tell you a way to save her? Don't hold your breath. Once the black ice encases someone's heart, they are doomed to death. There is no way to help her."

Mary Margaret looked at David and grabbed his hand. They walked away from the cell. "What?" asked David. "I think that she just gave me an idea." said Mary Margaret, with a slight smile.

"What? Think about it. She just said that a her heart is encased in ice. Maybe Regina can take her heart and thaw it." David looked at his wife. "It's worth a try." he called Regina.

"Hello?"

"Regina, Snow had a good idea. According to the Snow Queen, Emma's heart is encased in ice. Is there maybe a way that you could take it out and thaw it?"

"It's worth a try. Why don't you and Mary Margaret come over here."

David nodded. "Be right there."

David looked at Mary Margaret. "Regina wants us over there." Mary Margaret nodded and looked at Ingrid. "This isn't over. You will still pay for what you did to Emma." Ingrid just smiled a smug smile and they left the station.

They made it to Regina's vault. "Now I don't want you to get your hopes up. This may not work." They all nodded. "Wait. Where's Hook?" asked Henry. They all looked around. "You know now that you mention it, I haven't seen the pirate in a while."

Mary Margaret looked at David. "Gold!" David nodded and took off running. Killian looked at the door of Gold's. He nodded and made his way to the door and broke it open. Belle jumped and backed away behind Gold. Gold pushed her farther behind him.

Killian grabbed Gold by the throat and pushed him into the wall. "Hook! Stop!" Belle yelled. "We asked for your help! We only asked you to help give her more time! She's dead because you wouldn't help her! And why!? Because she was with me! Your grandson had to watch his mother die in my arms!" Belle looked at Gold and Killian in horror.

"Hook, please put him down! Please!" Killian looked at her, anger evident in his eyes, tears falling from them. "Why should I? Why should the bloody Dark One have everything!? Because you promised that you would give up your revenge on him." Killian turned and there stood David.

"Come on Hook. Be the better man. Be the better man, that Emma knows you are." Killian sighed deeply, angrily. He looked at Belle's tear streaked face, and at Gold. He dropped Gold, him falling to his knees. Killian walked past David and went outside. David looked at Gold. "Saved your sorry ass." he shut the door and caught up to Killian.

"Hook, you have to calm down. You can't let your anger cloud your judgment." Killian stopped and put his fingers to the bridge of his nose. "I'm sorry mate. It's just it's like my nightmare come true. That's how Milah died. She died in my arms. And I swore that I wouldn't let anything happen to Emma. And now look what happened. She died in my arms." David put a hand on his shoulder.

"I know, this is tragic for us all. We all loved her. And she made sure that everyone was okay before herself. I couldn't be more proud of her. But we are going to get her back. And when we do, you will be able to be together." Killian nodded.

"Come on, we may have found a way." Killian nodded and they made it back to the vault. They came in to frowns, and Henry crying. "What happened?" asked David. "I can't take her heart. She is the product of true love, which means I can't take her heart. Just like my mother. Emma is the only one that can take her heart out. So we have to find another way." Killian nodded.

"We are running out of time." said Mary Margaret, looking at her daughter, her body starting to drip as the ice began to melt. Henry bowed his head. "There has to be an answer. We can't just give up." said Henry looking at the adults. "I won't give up on her. I will not lose another parent. She will not be joining my dad. Not just yet."

Regina looked at her son with sympathy. "We are trying honey, but you need to brace yourself for the possibility that we may need to say goodbye." Henry shook his head. "No!" He took off. "Henry!" yelled Regina. She sighed and looked at the others. "I'm sorry." Regina walked off. Mary Margaret laid her head on David's shoulder. Killian sighed and shook his head, and walked out in a huff.

Henry opened the door and ran to the counter. Belle looked at Henry. "Henry, what is it?" He sniffled and looked at her. "Belle, please, see if you can find something to help my mom! Please!"

Belle sighed and looked at Henry. "I'll see what I can do." Henry nodded. "Thank you." Elsa walked into the station and saw her aunt sitting on the cot in the cell. Ingrid looked up and smiled.

"Well, the Queen of Arendelle has decided to grace me with her presence. What can I do for you Elsa." She walked up to the cell bars.

"I want you to tell me how to save Emma's life." Ingrid laughed. "Her life? She's dead. And the sooner that everyone accepts that, the better."

Elsa gripped the bars. "I know that there is a way to help her. There is always a loophole in curses. And we will find out how to help Emma. Believe me, you will be punished for what you have done."

Elsa walked away. "I'm surprised that you blame me for what happened to her. She was the one that saved your sister. Why blame me for something that she did on her own?" Elsa turned.

"The first time you attacked her, you meant it. You meant to harm Emma." she walked out of the station. Belle opened book, after book, after book, and nothing. "Belle." She turned and there stood Gold.

"Do you realize that you have been looking through those books for hours? It's after 1 in the morning." Belle smiled and turned back to the books. "What exactly are you looking for?" Gold asked, walking behind her.

"I'm looking for any kind of spell that can help Emma." Gold sighed and rolled his eyes. "Now they have you losing sleep to help her. That captain will stop at nothing." Belle looked at her husband.

"It wasn't Hook that asked me for help. It was Henry. I don't understand you Rumple. You are so against helping Emma. Why?" Gold sighed and walked off.

"Don't walk away. Why are you so against helping Emma, your grandson's mother? What aren't you telling me Rumple?" Gold turned and looked at her.

"I just think that its unwise to look for something that doesn't exist. Don't you think that if there was, I would have used it for Baelfire?" Belle sighed and hugged him.

"Emma has done so much for this town, and for you. She got you to your son. You were able to see Baelfire once more thanks to her. She freed you from Zelena's control. She gave you a grandson. Don't you think that she deserves help from the people that she keeps safe?" Gold looked at Belle.

"I also believe that she is with Baelfire. She may be where she belongs now. She has returned to Baelfire." Belle backed away from him. "Is this about your son, or is it about causing Hook pain?" Gold opened his mouth, and then shut it.

"You don't want to help Emma because of her relationship with Hook? You would let your grandson bury her because of her relationship with him?" Gold sighed. "That pirate has taken from me before. Perhaps it is time that he feels that pain." Belle looked at him in anger.

"Hook took everything from you? You had another chance to see your son, and you got your revenge on him due to killing Milah. Now you are telling me that you still have sworn revenge on him, even though he has given up his revenge on you?" Gold looked into her eyes.

She walked back over to the books. "Well Rumple, I will not make him and her family suffer because of Hook. Now I will find a way to help." She looked at Gold. "And if you aren't going to help me, I suggest that you leave me alone. There are only three days max to help." Gold nodded and left the library.

Regina looked through numerous of her old books, but with no luck. She decided to call it a night. David, Mary Margaret, and Henry went over to the apt and sat in the living room. Mary Margaret sat on the sofa, with baby Neal in her arms. She just looked at his sleeping face. David has his arm around his wife. Henry, nodding off in one of the chairs, they were all exhausted.

Belle walked into the shop, realizing that Gold was at home and began poking around his old books, trying to find some way to help. She found an old brown leather book with weathered pages. She picked it up and blew the dust from it. It read 'Tenebrosi maledictum et Cures.' She looked through it and looked up what the words meant.

The next morning Regina went straight to her vault, to Emma even more melted. She began to panic. She didn't want to disappoint Henry. "Regina!" she turned. Belle came running. "Henry told me about everything and I found this book." She handed it to Regina.

"Tenebrosi maledictum et Cures?" Belle nodded. "I found it in the shop this morning. It translates as 'Dark Curses and Cures' I thought it might be something." Regina nodded as she opened it.

"Thank you." Belle nodded. She looked at Emma and frowned and looked back at Regina. "I hope for Henry's sake that you can save her." Regina nods. "So do I."

Regina looked through the book. Belle returned to the shop. "Where is my book?" She turned to find to an angry Gold. "I gave it to Regina. You gave the Evil Queen one of my oldest books?" Belle sighed angrily.

"Yes I did. I wanted to see if it can help save Emma. Why didn't you ask me for the book instead of taking it?" Belle looked at Gold.

"Because you wouldn't have given it to me. Now I'm tired of this thing you have with Hook. He has given up his revenge on you. So shouldn't you do the same for him?" Gold sighed and looked at her.

"Emma has done so much. We owe her so much. She made sure that you returned to me. I feel like she deserves my help, and if giving a book is all I can do, then that's what I'm going to do."

Gold nodded. "And it hurts me that you are willing to sacrifice her just so you could have more revenge on Hook. He has suffered enough." Gold nodded.

"You are right. Let me ask you this. What if there was a way that I can get Emma to get her heart out of her body so that it could perhaps be warmed?" Belle looked at Gold.

"That's a start." Gold nodded. "Call everyone and tell them to meet at Regina's vault." Belle nodded.

Belle called everyone and they all met up at the vault. Gold took a piece of weathered and stained paper from his pocket. He put his hand over it. "Sicut ego hodie praecipio tibi ut facias fuscus imperat impero sumi ex corde."

Emma started to glow and her eyes opened. Everyone gasped and Killian took a step toward her. Emma reached into her chest and pulled her heart out. The heart was still, with black ice encased around it. Gold took it and Emma's body became still once. Killian moved hair from her face.

Gold handed the heart over to Regina. "Better get to work dearie. She only have another day. Using that spell knocked two days off. You have to have it thawed by tomorrow at midnight or Emma Swan will remain dead." He looked at Killian, who nodded. Gold walked out of the vault.

Regina looked at the Charmings and Henry. "I promise that I will try my hardest." They nodded. Killian kissed Emma's head. 'I wish the kiss of true love would work. I wish I could have you back.' Killian kissed her cold, pale lips.

He looked at her still, pale face. 'I love you Emma.' Regina looked at Henry. "Please Henry, you have to still be ready for the possibility." Henry nodded.

"But I will try whatever I can to thaw her heart. But this is dark ice magic. I'm not sure what to do but I will exhaust any possibility to help her." Henry nodded and hugged her.

"Thank you mom. This means so much to me." Regina smiled and hugged him back. Regina looked at Snow and Charming. "Why don't you go home and relax. Henry and I will look around my vault and in the book that Belle gave me."

They nodded. They left and Henry and Regina got to work, trying to find a counter spell. "Maybe we should go and talk to the one that cast this magic in the first place." said Henry.

"The Snow Queen? I doubt that she would talk. So then we make her talk." said Killian. Regina looked at Henry and at Killian, and nodded. "Let's go and see the ice bitch." Killian, Regina, and Henry all walked into the station.

Ingrid looked over and smiled. "To what do I owe the pleasure?" Killian opened the cell door and grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into the wall. "Hook! Are you insane!?" Regina yelled.

"No, I am tired if tiptoeing around this bloody witch. Now we came here for answers and we are not leaving without them." He looked at Regina and Henry. Henry nodded and walked alongside Killian.

"Now this magic that you used to curse my mom, why did you do it?" Ingrid looked at Henry and shrugged her shoulders. Killian put his arm on her throat and pushed. "Don't bloody test me, I may be nice, but I am still a pirate." Ingrid choked and he eased up.

"I used the ice magic the first time on Emma to make her stronger. So we can move onto the next step in my plan. She was the one that jumped in the way of the black ice magic. That is all on her."

Killian looked in her eyes. "Okay then tell us ice bitch, what can we do to undo the damage of the magic?" Killian asked. Ingrid laughed. "I have told you, there is no way to undo it. Emma will remain dead." Killian pushed her further into the wall. "Take her heart."

Henry and Regina looked at Killian in shock. He looked at them. "Take her heart, and then you can make her tell us what we can do." Regina shook her head. "No. I don't take hearts." Henry looked at his mom.

"Go ahead mom. That may be the only way to save mom." Regina looked at Henry. "Henry?" he nodded. Ingrid smiled.

"Go ahead. You still won't get the answer you want." Killian put his hook over her heart. "Maybe we won't give you that brief pain." He pushed a little harder into her chest and Ingrid gasped.

Regina looked at Henry. "Maybe you shouldn't be here Henry." Henry looked at her in disbelief.

"Please Henry go to Mary Margaret's. Please." Henry sighed and nodded. "I will call in ten minutes to make sure you're there." Henry nodded and walked out. She turned back to Killian and Ingrid.

"Now we are going to play a game. We are going to ask you questions, and if we think you're lying or we don't like the answer, Hook here gets to hurt you."

"Now, what were you doing here in Storybrooke?" Ingrid looked at them and rolled her eyes. Hook pushed a little harder, enough to break the skin. Ingrid grunted in pain.

"Who taught you that dark ice magic? I have never seen it before." said Regina. Ingrid looked at her and kept her mouth shut.

Hook ran his hook over her arm quickly, cutting her. She grunted in pain. "Hurry love, it won't be long before your white dress will be a different color." Ingrid looked at Killian and smiled.

"Tell me something pirate, when you learned that Emma was gifted, did you fear her? Didn't even a little piece of you fear what she was capable of?" Killian pushed a little harder on her throat.

"I warned you not to push me. We are the ones that are going to be asking questions. Now answer the queen. Where did you learn the dark ice magic?" Killian asked dangerously, sending a slight chill even up Regina's spine.

Ingrid laughed. "Who do you think I learned it from? You really think that Regina was the only person that was taught dark magic? Who does anyone go to that wants to learn dark magic?" Killian looked at Regina.

"The Dark One." Regina looked back at him. Killian looked back at Ingrid. "Well if you learned the magic from the Dark One, then that means he taught you how to undo the magic." Ingrid smiled.

"Even if he did, I wouldn't tell you." Killian put his hook to her heart and pushed harder, causing a bit more blood to flow. "You will if you want to live."

Ingrid laughed. "I do not fear you pirate. Besides Emma's not around to impress." Killian pushed her into the bars. Regina grabbed his arm. "Take it easy Hook." Killian blinked and nodded. He looked at Ingrid.

"You are wasting your time anyway." Killian dropped her and stormed out of the station. Regina looked at Ingrid.

She grabbed Ingrid by the throat and pushed her to the wall, a fireball in her hand. "Now we are going to play the game my way. Each time you lie, or I don't like the answer, you get a burn. How's that?" Ingrid rolled her eyes.

Mary Margaret laid a blanket on the sleeping form of Henry. She smiled and sat at the bar with David. She sighed, and looked at David.

"David I fear that we will not get to Emma in enough time. I fear that we will fail our daughter. I try to put on a brave face for Henry, but in reality I don't think that we will have our daughter any more. I..."

Mary Margaret broke down. David hugged his wife. "We will save her, and we will have our daughter." Mary Margaret nodded and cried into her husband's chest.

Killian stood at the docks and looked at the waves. The waves, that usually calmed, and soothed him, no longer held their effect on his broken self. He feared for the worst at this point. He wanted to believe that he would see her again. He wanted to believe that he would be able to taste her lips once again. He feared that he would never see her emerald green eyes again.

The past two days were worse than the year that he spent from her. At least there he knew that she was safe. She was alive. He wanted to see the look on her face when he told her that he loved her and he wanted to be with her forever. He wanted to hear the words escape her lips. He wanted to hear her finish her sentence before she died in his arms.

He blamed himself for her death. 'I should have paid more attention to her. I should have been there when she needed me. I should have been the one to have taken the blow. How could I have let her go by herself. And how could I have let her go...how...'

Killian dropped to his knees and cried. He let the agony crush him, as his sobs shook his body. "Emma please, you have to come back to me. I won't survive it this time. I won't survive your death. It will truly kill me." He sobbed. "I don't know what else to do. Trust me when I say I would take your place if I could." he bowed his head as we punched at the blacktop.

Ingrid screamed again as another fireball got her in the chest. She dropped to the ground. She looked up at Regina. "I am telling you the truth I do not know how to overcome this. And I still wouldn't tell you."

Regina burned her and threw her into the bars. "I'll bet those shackles are a pain, neutralizing your powers so you can't fight back." Ingrid looked at Regina with anger.

Regina locked the door and walked out of the station and walked back to her vault. 'I don't know what else to do. I am running out of time and ideas.' She closed the book and she focused a gentle little flame and out it to Emma's heart.

"Please work. I am out of ideas." she looked at the book and opened it up and found a spell. Regina picked up the heart and focused.

"I , arcesse solvere flamma gelu tenebrarum magicae." she opened her eyes as a very little piece of ice began to melt. Regina smiled slightly. 'Perhaps there is hope yet.'