An hour had passed when Emma finally woke up.
"Good you're awake I was starting to worry you might have fallen into a coma."
"I should only be so lucky. What's the damage?"
"A few bumps, cuts and bruises but nothing too severe."
Emma had just gotten to her feet when her right ankle gave out.
"You seem to have forgotten to mention the twisted ankle."
"Sorry about that, had I known I would have said something." Regina said snapped.
"Whoa Regina chill out. It was meant as a joke to lighten the mood."
Regina's anger slipped away when she saw Emma wince.
"What's wrong?"
"My head hurts a bit not to mention my ribs."
Regina got the blonde to lay down as she checked her ribs confirming that some of them were cracked but thankfully not broken and as for the head pain that felt like a baby alien attached to her skull it was just a bump and mild concussion.
With Regina's help Emma stood up and looked around the mine.
"Do you think there's a way out of here besides up?"
"There was when Henry came down here but that was before it caved in now I'm not sure if there is another way."
Emma went over to where the mine had caved in and inspected it.
"Maybe if we move some of these rocks we can make a big enough opening and get out of here."
"I don't think that is a good idea it might be unstable."
"Well we have to try something."
With that Emma got to work on removing the rocks Regina was watching and heard the cracking of the wooden support beam.
"Emma the beam is cracking."
Emma knew that Regina was desperate because the mayor had used her first name looking around she found a fallen wooden log and using her foot she dragged it toward her unfortunately she couldn't bend down to get it because she was currently holding the beam up to the best of her ability.
"Regina I need you to lift one end of the log and shove it right where the beam is cracking so I can continue to remove the rocks when the beam has been stabilised."
Regina grabbed the log and wedged it under the beam and the cracking stopped so Emma continued with trying to get them out.
Emma had almost gotten through when the earth shook and Regina was standing right where a support beam was about to fall Emma seeing this lept into action.
"Regina! Look out!" Emma warned as she shoved the mayor out of the way.
The earth stopped shaking and Regina stood up and looked at Emma who for a second time that day had been knocked unconscious but now her right leg was trapped under the support beam.
Luckily this time Emma was only out for a few minutes instead of an hour.
"Ow my head."
"You have a nasty cut above your eye."
Emma turned as best she could and saw her leg under the beam and pushed it off.
"Well that's going to leave a mark."
Regina inspected Emma's leg and saw the bone was sticking out of the skin and it had multiple cuts and bruises when Emma sat up properly she moved her right arm and a burst of pain radiated up her arm.
"Son of a bitch."
"Miss Swan!" Regina scolded.
"Well excuse me but my shoulder and collarbone hurts like nothing I've ever felt before."
Upon inspection Regina concluded that Emma had dislocated her shoulder and broke her right clavicle.
"We really need to get you out of here and to the hospital."
"Regina the only way out is gone we're trapped in here."
Hours passed Regina checking Emma's leg to make sure an infection hadn't set in.
Realisation eventually hit Emma like a ton of bricks and her breathing became fast and shallow she was covered in a light sheen of sweat her heartbeat was racing Regina heard the way the blonde was breathing and turned to her.
"Emma are you alright dear?"
"We...we're tr...trapped there's n...no way out."
Realising that Emma was having a panic attack Regina grabbed the younger woman and pulled her against her chest.
"Emma you need to slow your breathing down and relax or you'll pass out just feel how I'm breathing and match it."
Slowly Emma's breathing became deep, slow and even and she relaxed against Regina as the mayor stroked the blonde's hair soothingly.
"Are you alright now?"
"Yeah. Thank you Regina."
"What happened?"
"I'm claustrophobic. It happened when I was 14 there was this group of boys in my class they were popular, always got what they wanted until me. They wanted me to give up my virginity and when I said no and walked away they decided to teach me a lesson so they grabbed me after school and locked me in the boot of one of their cars and we drove for hours when we stopped they got me out and threw me into an animal cage like one you'd put a big cat in or a bear or something. Anyway they kept making me the same offer of give up my virginity and they'll let me go or refuse and stay in the cage I was in there for weeks until one day."
"What happened?"
"A wolf came into the barn where I was kept and it somehow ripped the door to the cage off, at first I thought it wanted to eat me when it grabbed my clothes in its teeth but it just tugged gently and that's when I realised that it wanted me to follow it so I did, I would have let it eat me if it meant that I would be free of those boys. The wolf took me to its den which fortunately for me was a cave, there was a pack after a growl from the alpha they accepted me as his alpha female even though I am human."
"Did you ever go home?"
"Not to my foster parents there was this couple which studied the wolves and when they saw that a human girl ran with them they adopted me and let me run with the pack whenever I wanted I love them so much and the pack moves to woodland areas of whichever town or city I move to, they won't leave me."
By now night had fallen and Regina was shaking as was Emma but Emma deciding that Regina needed it more removed her leather jacket and wrapped it around the brunette's shoulders.
"What are you doing sheriff?"
"You're shaking so I'm giving you my jacket."
"Miss Swan I don't need the chivalry."
"I'm trying to be nice here."
"I didn't ask you to be."
"Well if you're going to be ungrateful perhaps we just shouldn't speak to each other for however long we're going to be trapped here for."
"That's just fine with me Miss Swan."
So both women sat in silence even though Regina had just argued with Emma she was grateful for the blonde's gesture and inhaled Emma's scent she was amazed at how Emma's scent of vanilla and strawberries calmed her she looked towards the sheriff and saw that Emma had moved away from her and was curled in on herself trying to keep as much body heat in as she could plus she was trying to stop the pain she was in.
Seeing this Regina instantly felt bad that she had been rude to Emma for the blonde was suffering in silence and yet still thought of Regina by giving the mayor her leather jacket even though she too was cold.