A week later and Zelena still hadn't cast the spell. Regina was constantly on edge, having Ruby following her around 'just in case' was getting on her nerves. She had no idea what could be taking so long. Her bag had been packed and shrunk with magic so that it fit on a necklace. On the chance that her magic wouldn't work in the past, she had made the release voice activated.

In the end, Gold gave them a ten-minute warning. Just long enough to teleport to Henry and say goodbye. Ruby hugged her grandmother as Emma came to talk to Regina.

"Take care of Henry." Regina told her.

"I promise."

"What's that?" Henry asked, pointing outside.

Green lightening shot across the sky. It narrowly missed the clock tower as it passed over.

"That's our cue." Regina looked over at Ruby.

"Goodbye, we'll miss you." Ruby said, looking around.

"See you soon." Henry told her.

"If they do this right, it'll be no time at all." Gold corrected him.

"And if we don't?" Ruby asked with a smile.

"None of you will exist. Well, maybe you will as Granny won't be affected."

"Ready?" Regina held out her hand for Ruby.

The werewolf paused to give Snow a quick, last minute hug. "Ready."

A bolt of lightning shot onto the middle of the street outside. Emma jumped as it tore into the ground, leaving a long gash on the road.

"Isn't that a little close?" Ruby asked, sounding worried.

Gold smiled as he explained. "It's coming for you, picking up Regina's connection to Zelena through the blood magic."

"What? No-one said anything about lightning. What if it kills us?"

Gold rolled his eyes. "A bit late to back out now dearie."

Regina headed towards the door. "Are you coming or not?"

The next bolt of lightning hit the pavement outside. As she headed towards Regina, Ruby tripped over and fell to the ground.

"Hurry up." Gold urged her.

Regina opened the door, she didn't want the lightning to accidentally hit Henry as it came for her. Thunder boomed in the sky as Regina turned back to look for Ruby. Emerald light struck her back, pushing her forwards. She felt a hand grab hers and held tight as she continued to fall.

There was a buzzing in her ears. Regina fought to open her eyes and see where she was. The sky above her was a clear blue and her hands touched grass as she tried to sit up.

"Did we make it?" Emma asked from beside her.

"Well we're not dead." Regina muttered, looking around.

"Was there much danger of that?"

"All magic comes…"

"…with a price." Emma finished for her. "I know."

"The time travel spell was mostly theoretical, the blood magic spell used to link family members for travelling had to be adapted for travelling through time and..."

"In other words, there was a good chance it wouldn't work."

"Gold had every confidence…"

Emma stood and held out a hand to help Regina up. "Well, now we're here, where do we start?"

"First I need to find a way to get you back home."

"What?"

"Ruby was supposed to come through with me, remember?" Regina reminded her, brushing off a few stray pieces of grass sticking to her clothes.

"I know, but…"

An arrow whistled past their heads. Regina pulled Emma out of the way and they landed back on the ground. She kept her hand on Emma's back, not wanting the other woman to stand until she was sure where the danger was coming from. Emma opened her mouth to speak, but Regina shushed her and listened. When she was certain of the direction it had come from, she pointed to Emma and signed which way she wanted her to go. She didn't know how her magic would react to being in the past, or if it would even work here, so she wanted Emma out of the way in case something went wrong. Emma seemed to have guessed this, because she ignored Regina's instructions and headed into the danger.

Regina swiftly followed, her hands ready to cast a spell to defend them. At first all she heard were voices, but soon she saw the group of young men. They were standing in a circle, talking and laughing as though they hadn't almost killed someone. Emma stormed towards them before Regina could stop her. She had no choice but to go after her.

Emma reached them and grabbed closest one by the front of his shirt. "Who sent you? Zelena?"

The man looked at her with wide eyes and shook his head. His friends took one look at Emma, and decided she wasn't a threat so they crowded around her. They were dressed in simple woodsmen clothes, only one had a bow and quiver of arrows.

"Put him down." Regina told her, pushing through them.

"Who are you?" One of the men asked.

"Emma, put him down." She repeated, placing a hand on Emma's arm.

"Not until he tells us why they shot at us."

"We thought you were the Sheriff's men." The one Emma was holding confessed.

"They're outlaws." Regina explained. "Look at their clothes."

"Like Robin Hood?"

"Yes, though that particular scoundrel isn't around yet."

"You knew him?"

"We never met, but I head dealings with the men who hunted him. Now, let him go."

Emma released her grip on the shirt. "Don't you want to ask them where we are?"

"I think they're more likely to cooperate if you don't rough them up first."

The further away they went from the forest, the more confident Regina became in their surroundings. She had begun picking out familiar landscapes and released the supplies from her necklace when they stopped to rest.

"How much of a head start will Zelena have?" Emma asked, refilling a flask from the river.

"Theoretically, either we should have arrived the same distance apart as we were in Storybrooke or we should have arrived at the same place."

"Do you think she knows we came back too?"

"I hope not. She may intend to persuade our mother to keep her by showing off her magic or by altering other events to her advantage."

"So we have to find Cora and keep Zelena away from her?"

"Zelena threatened to kill everyone in Storybrooke, including Henry. We're going to do a little more than that."

"Would you really kill your own sister?"

Regina frowned. "I expect that kind of assumption from your parents. As a matter of fact it was my intention to simply remove her powers."

"Right, sorry."

"We should keep moving. I have enough money to buy a couple of horses, but we have to get to the next village first."

"Can we risk that?"

"What?"

"Buying horses. You know, in case it affects history, like the poem 'For the want of a horseshoe nail'. Those horses might need to be in that village for the future."

"We're not at war. I doubt two horses will make a different, but if you want we can return them once we find Zelena."

"We'll only need one."

"Why is that?"

Emma smiled sheepishly. "I can't ride."

AN: in reply to the review about Robin Hood - what I meant (realising it sounds confusing) is that Regina hadn't met Robin back in the Enchanted Forest when she was Queen, but as the time they travelled back to was when Zelena was born Robin would have been a baby or not even born himself (not sure what the age differences are for those characters). Regina met Robin during the missing year after they returned to the EF and Zelena stole their memories so he's in Storybrooke now.