Caving In Chapter 2
"REGINA!" Emma screamed and bonked on Regina's door. She knew she could come in again by picking the lock, but she didn't want to piss Regina more off than she probably already was. "Regina, you are not alright. Please just let me help you…" Emma pleaded. She started knocking on the door again. After a few minutes of constant knocking she heard the clicking of heels approaching the door.
Regina gave in after a few minutes of Emma banging on her door, since the banging wasn't really helping the throbbing headache that started to become more and more persistent. She walked to the door and opened it slightly, so only a few inches of Regina were visible. But those few inches were enough to see how bad she was doing. And in the sunlight she even looked paler than she already was. "Why would you want to help me?" Regina asked and narrowed her eyes to Emma, and because the brightness of the outside world only made the throbbing in her head worse. "I mean, what would you gain from helping me?" She asked and sent Emma one of her usual death glares.
"No, Regina. I want to help you because you helped me. And because you don't deserve to feel this badly." Emma say and a small smile appeared on her face that Regina at least gave her another chance to talk. Her smile faded though as she saw how bad Regina was really doing. How thin and pale she actually was, since inside the mansion she didn't get a clear look of her before she was sent back outside. "And I am not doing this to gain anything. You are sick and need help. I am here to offer that help. Please don't recline it again." Emma pleaded again. Normally she wouldn't plead like this, but seeing the state Regina was in she needed Regina to accept her help.
"Emma, just leave me be. Nobody cares about me, well maybe only Henry. He cares enough for me that he doesn't want me to die but…" Regina's voice broke. "But I am still confident that he hates me again once I am better." She all but whispered. Regina looked down and she felt tears prick in her eyes. I am not going to let Emma see me so weak. So helpless and so pathetically weak. "Good day Emma." Regina said and closed the door. She put a spell on it so Emma couldn't break in again. She walked to her study and got her mother's magical book.
"for god sake!" Emma grunted and kicked against the curb. After she got sent away again se drove back home and went for a walk. She had seen how Regina's eyes started to water at the thought of Henry hating her. And sadly enough, she couldn't say Regina was lying. She couldn't say that, No Henry did love her and that he did want her to b his mother again. But that all would be a lie. Because she knew that Henry still held resentment towards Regina for lying and making him feel like he was crazy. Of course Regina had only done that so that the curse could prevail and she could keep Henry instead of losing him to Emma. But that is exactly what happened. She lost Henry, the only person she loved and now she is alone. She is trying to change, which everybody forced her to do, but now that she is doing it nobody wants to see. No in the eyes of everybody in this godforsaken town, she still is and always will be The Great and Terrible, Evil Queen. In their eyes she will never be able to redeem herself. She had saved Snow White and the Saviour, and she still is as evil as ever in everybody else's eyes. God how stupid is this town to not see the changes Regina is making. Emma didn't know for how long she was already walking, but she had no interest is going back yet. She now had three missed calls from Henry and two from Snow. She ignored them all, really not wanting to talk to anyone right now. She walked back to the mayoral mansion and knocked on the door again. "Regina please let me in and help you. I just want to help you with you illness." She said again and sank down against the door. She decided then and there that she would not leave until Regina opened the door again.
In the time that Emma was gone Regina had ran to the bathroom several times and now lay unconscious on the living room floor. The coughing up blood and vomiting more blood out of her body, her body was weakened. And now together with the throbbing pain in her head. The magic that was eating her inside out. And then with trying to do quite a hard spell from the book. Her boy couldn't take it anymore. It collapsed and she was now lying on the ground for almost an hour already. And because she was so weak, the spell that kept Emma out had evaporated. There was a shimmering at the door and the spell was gone.
Emma noticed this change as well and saw it as a bad sign. If Regina would have wanted to let Emma inside she would have said so, and would have shown her face. But that didn't happen. No. there was only a small shimmering at the door and then… nothing. She picked the lock and went inside. But what she saw… she hadn't expected that. She had expected to find Regina in her bed maybe, sleeping. But not on the living room floor with a small trail of blood running out of her mouth. Regina looked so small. So fragile like that. So Emma picked Regina up very carefully and gently and carried her to Regina's bedroom. She gently put a stray hair and brushed it back behind Regina's ear. She cleaned her face and sat down beside the now oh so small brunette. "Regina, I promise you. I will help you and I will find a cure for whatever illness it is you have."