At the mayoral mansion Regina was reading a book and drinking some of her apple cider when she heard a voice.
"Regina if you can hear me I need you to come to the store four men are holding it up I'd deal with it myself but the leader already gave me one hell of a beating I just don't have the strength to fight him, and someone else could get hurt."
Regina recognised Emma's voice and noticed how weak she sounded even in her mind.
"Just hang on Emma I'll be there shortly."
With the link severed Regina disappeared and then reappeared in the store.
"Get away from her!"
"Come to join the party madam mayor?"
"If you don't get away from her and drop your weapons I will skin you alive."
Everyone except for the gunmen knew that Regina was not kidding and the leader delivered a hard kick to Emma's head knocking the blonde out cold.
Regina wasted no time and skinned him within seconds then she turned to the other three men.
"If you have any sense of survival you will drop your guns, leave town and never come back."
Not wasting any time two of them left straight away while the younger one stayed behind.
"I can help her but I'll need a hand."
"Why would you help her after you held everyone hostage and then didn't do anything to stop her from ending up in this condition?"
"If I had tried while he was alive he would have shot me and then I wouldn't be able to help her now."
"Ok what do you need?"
"Something frozen a bag of peas will do, something I can use as a sling and something I can use to splint her arm once I've reset it."
The little girl that Emma had saved from being shot went and got a bag of frozen veggies then came back and held it out to the man.
"Is this ok?"
The guy looked up and gave the girl a smile.
"That's perfect sweetie thanks."
Taking the frozen veggies he placed it on the spot where Emma had been pistol whipped.
"Honey can you please get me two more?"
The little girl hurried off to do as she was asked and returned with two more bags of frozen veggies which the guy placed on where Emma had been backhanded and cold cocked which happened to be the same spot that she had been kicked in which had caused her to pass out.
A groan from Emma signalled that the blonde was waking up, once her eyes were open she tried to sit up but both Regina and the guy put their hands on her to gently push her back on the ground until she was given the all clear.
"This is ridiculous I'm fine."
"That's not your decision to make Emma."
Emma became frustrated so she moved quickly which caught both Regina and the guy off guard which allowed Emma to get to her feet.
As soon as she was on her feet Emma was overcome by a wave of dizziness and nausea so she didn't complain when Regina pulled her back down to the floor with the blondes head resting in her lap while Regina stroked Emma's long blonde hair within 4 minutes Emma was asleep.
When Emma woke up she heard beeping of a heart monitor and Regina's voice as she read from one of Emma's favourite books.
Regina looked up from the book and saw the younger woman's eyes were open.
"You're finally awake."
"How bad is the damage?"
"Well you have a concussion, several cracked ribs, one hell of a gash from where you where pistol whipped, your back is pretty bruised and your right leg was shattered so before it could be fixed I used magic to reconstruct the shattered part of the bones then Dr. Whale reset the rest of it and your arm is bruised from the grip the gunman had on it. But Whale's confident that you will make a full recovery."
As the first three weeks passed Emma was healing quickly the medical staff weren't sure why Emma was recovering so fast, even Emma wasn't sure.
What they didn't know was that while she slept Emma was unconsciously drawing healing energies from the ground under the hospital's foundation and was drawing it up into her within 6 weeks Emma was healed enough to be discharged.
Considering Snow and David were busy trying to deal with Neal who was unwell and they didn't want Emma to get sick as well while she was still recovering they asked Regina if she could keep Emma just until Neal was better and once everything was explained to Emma the blonde made her way upstairs to the best of her ability.
Snow, David and Regina heard a loud thud followed by some choice words with a slight smirk on her face Regina went up the stairs to check on the blonde, who at this present moment was a walking disaster.