A/N Hi there, since a few of you asked for a continuation I decided on writing this little piece taking into account the last episode of OUAT. I'm sorry for the lack of new chapters on my other stories but I've had a very complicated days with little time to actually write something good enough… -.-

"I'm not mad at you"

Regina nodded and sighed before taking another step towards Emma's car. Her job was done and Rumplestiskin already knew where she had her loyalty. The fresh night air brought her the odor of the woods alongside with something else, something powerful that she didn't want to ask what it was. For now.

She looked at her side where Emma kept helping her, carefully watching the night as they approached the yellow bug with apprehension, both women knowing that they could be assaulted by the remains of the Queens of Darkness at any moment.

"I know" Regina finally said and it was Emma's turn to nod weakly as she finally opened the door of the car, her hands trembling slightly as she helped Regina in, the older woman's legs still a little bit wobbly after the sleeping curse that Maleficent had casted upon her.

Both women knew that Regina wasn't going to ask for forgiveness. it wasn't her style, not when the brunette wanted to help someone and so Emma started the car and moved away from the vault, her phone still beeping every few minutes while different ID's flashed on the screen and even if Regna tried to not read them Snow's, David's and Hook's names appeared in scrambled order as every three of them tried to reach the disheveled blonde.

"Henry is alright?" Regina asked after a few more seconds of tense silence and for a second she thought that Emma wasn't going to answer her, the green eyes of the younger woman completely focused on the road ahead of her while her hands tightened her grip around the steering wheel.

"I haven't see him for a while but Snow and David told me that he was ok when they saw him" Emma's voice was metallic when she mentioned her parents and Regina sighed and looked through the closed window of the car as the dark trees slowly morphed into the first building of Storybrooke.

The car rode with both women immersed on their thoughts and, from time to time, the tension between them made both of them look at each other, a myriad of questions swirling inside their minds as they finally stopped in the brunette's house, a little light on the right part of the house signaling that Henry was already there.

Regina exited the car and turned, looking at the blonde woman that was already starting the engine once again and, with a tired nod to herself, the brunette tapped on Emma's side of the car until the woman looked at her.

"Come in" Regina voice was soft and for a second she doubted that Emma was going to listen to her, not after everything that had happened.

Emma, however, followed her silently, her car dying at their backs as she closed it and marched towards the now open door of the house. Once inside Regina eyed the blonde until the younger woman let out a long sigh.

"Why?" Emma asked and Regina found herself shrugging, not quite knowing what to answer to the other woman. As the seconds stretched Emma's tight jawline became more prominent and glimpses of anger started to show inside her pupils "Why Regina?"

"To protect you" Regina replied succinctly as she moved towards the living-room.

"You could have been killed" Emma's continued as she followed her, her phone beeping once again as she looked at the other woman's back.

Regina nodded silently and turned, her hands caressing the soft wood of the table in front of her as she locked her eyes with Emma's.

"So?" The brunette frowned at the sound of her own voice but Emma kept looking at her ignoring the broken sound that had come out from the older woman's lips.

"Snow couldn't bear the idea of being anything else than pure, you shouldn't have put yourself in danger because of it" Emma sat in one of the coaches as Regina kept staring at her with trembling lips.

"And what could have been the right answer then?" The brunette asked as anger seeped into her speech until her words were strongly laced with tired rage.

"Telling me the truth" Emma replied with clenched fists.

Regina snorted at that, her eyes burning with tears that she wasn't going to let fall, not now. She knew that Emma had deserved the truth, lying to her had been one of the most complicated things that she had needed to do in order to do what it was expected from her. And not only because the blonde could really read her as an open book.

"You already knew that your parents were lying to you Emma, why me and not them?"

Emma stilled and for a second Regina believed that she had pushed too far the other woman's anger. But Emma stood and approached her standing form, her eyes shining with the same tears that she wasn't going to let them fall.

"Because I asked you to be sincere with me, and when I saw that you weren't I believed that it was better that way. Because you have always believed in me, even when you didn't want to, because you never saw me like I was breakable or weak" Emma's voice became softer as she approached Regina, the words barely unintelligible as she raised her left hand as if she was going to touch the other woman's face.

However it was Regina the one that touched Emma's wrist and closed her own hand around it, their skins burning as both of them looked into each other eyes as the last remaining of anger died inside the blonde's verdant eyes.

"I could have helped" Emma finally said as she licked her lower lip making Regina's eyes looked down at the glimpse of tongue that she let it out. "I don't need protection"

"I know you could have help" Regina whispered "But I didn't want to make you see what I saw inside that cabin"

"Why?" Emma's question was said challengingly and Regina nodded to herself before doing the same thing that the other woman had done the night before; she kissed her.

Their lips crashed against each other until Emma moved her face and put her forehead in Regina's shoulder, the angle of her body making the brunette stumble as she tried to put her arms around the younger's woman frame.

"Just because" Regina replied softly and Emma trembled a little with something that the brunette didn't know if it was anger, tears or laughter.

It didn't matter though, Emma was safe.