Regina had finally gotten Emma to come with her to search Greg Mendell's room at the B&B. Mostly because she was certain if she tried to do it herself the lasagna lady and her wolf cub would call Emma anyway. "Regina, isn't this a little paranoid." Emma said as she picked the lock.

"A little paranoia is healthy when someone is watching our son," Regina said glancing down the hall. "Besides, you need to stop thinking like a small town sheriff and start thinking like ..."

"A Savior?" Emma said with a raised eyebrow. They had a fight over that word the week before. Regina had insisted that it meant nothing other than her parents unreasonable expectations on her. Emma, because she sometimes couldn't help but fight with Regina had argued to be difficult which of course had just made the fight worse.

"Can we not have an argument about your identity crisis while we're breaking into a room. If you can't get it open I can just use magic."

As if on cue the door opened and Emma gave her a smug smile. Until they both walked into the room. It was messy, with takeout containers on several surfaces and the bed unmade. "Ashley did say he kept the do not disturb sign out..."

Emma walked over to the dresser where taped to the mirror were a dozen drawings. Crayon. Pencil. Charcoal. All of the same face. The same face that was looking back at her over her own shoulder in the bits of the mirror not covered.

"That's..."

But Regina said nothing, instead beginning to open drawers and dump belongings out.

"What are you looking for?" Emma asked, but Regina wasn't in an answering mood. "How does he have drawings of you?"

Emma looked around the room again, pulling out some papers from under the takeout containers. "Isn't this a map of the mines?"

Regina didn't seem to register what she was saying for a moment and then managed to become even more violent in her searching. Finally Regina found what she was looking for. Greg Mendell's car keys. She held them up, "We have to find Owen."

"Whose Owen?" Emma asked even more confused.

"A little boy I hurt a very long time ago."

"Talk to me Regina."

"We don't have time for me to play twenty questions Emma. We have to move." Regina's hands fluttered and they were no longer in the Bed and Breakfast but in the library.

"Oh... hello..." Belle said surprised and a little nervous her eyes landing on Regina.

"Not now Bookworm," she moved over to the elevator opening the panel. "Has Greg Mendell been here?"

"He checked out some material on historic mining in the area a few days ago..."

The string of curse words that came from Regina's mouth surprised them both. "We have to find it before he does..."

"It?"

"The town's self destruct."

"Wait... WHAT?!" Emma asked.

"There is a magical trigger to destroy the town and ... everyone in it."

"Who would make something like that?" Emma asked incredulously.

Belle cleared her throat and Regina glanced over, "I wasn't exactly at the height of sanity when I killed my father and cast a Dark Curse to take away everyone's happiness okay."

"So this man Greg..."

"Owen." Regina corrected.

"Knows you how."

"I ... it doesn't matter," Regina waved her hand and the elevator descended.

"How would he find this trigger thing?" Emma asked. "It's going to do what... blow up the town?"

"Revert it to the state it was before Storybrooke was made. Killing everyone in it from the Enchanted Forest." Regina folded her arms, "Except Henry."

"Why except Henry?" Emma asked, feeling like everything was moving too fast. Because it was.

"He was born here... he's of this world not ours."

The elevator hit the bottom of the shaft and Regina went running towards the glass coffin while Emma looked around the cavern she was last in fighting a dragon. There was a giant pile of ash in the center. "That's ... the dragon I killed?"

"Not killed. You didn't kill Maleficent she's only mostly dead." Regina said distracted as she broke a pane of glass in the coffin and another string of curses came. "We have to find him before he sets it off."

"How?"

"Call your parents and get them to bring their blood hound."

It took Ruby half an hour to find him, now a trail of the entire Charming family in tow. He was deep in the dust mines standing over the little black diamond with a pickax.

"Owen ... you don't have to do this."

Both Emma and David had their guns out leveled at him. "You can shoot me but I'll destroy this hell hole before I die."

Regina stepped forward a bit, "Owen, your problem is with me, not with this town. Talk to me."

"Do they even know what you did?" Owen asked, crazed anger in his eyes.

"I don't need anyone to tell me about Regina's darkness, or her goodness. I've seen both in a lifetime." Snow said from behind her.

"Your sudden confidence in me is not really what's needed right now, Snow."

"You're Snow Fucking White and that's the Evil Queen and you are trying to tell me she doesn't deserve to die?" Owen Flynn shouted and waved the pickax about.

"You are right, Owen. I do deserve to die."

"What the fuck are you doing Regina?" Emma said alarmed as Regina stepped closer towards the man.

He shook his head, "They don't know do they? They don't know that you are going to be the cause of all of their deaths."

Regina shook her head and looked into his eyes. "They don't need to die, I do."

"Mom, no!"

Regina whipped her head around, Henry must have snuck into the mine behind them. "Miss. Lucas would you please get my son out of here." And for a moment, just a moment, Ruby and Regina shared an understanding and Ruby did as she was asked, Henry kicking and screaming the entire time. Regina turned back to Owen. "You don't need their lives you need mine."

He smiled, the smile of a madman. "Your son. I remember I once told you that you'd make a great mom. What did that cost me?"

"Too much." She said quietly.

"Whose child did you steal? Whose dead parents does Henry belong to?"

"Henry is my son. I didn't steal him from anyone." Regina said firmly. "But I took something from you I had no right to and you can take my life in return.

She opened her hands and lowered herself to her knees, to allow him to deliver the killing blow with the pickax.

Snow shouted a protest, but Regina gave the Charmings a smile, "Ironic, that I should die by one of those annoying dwarf's axes. Maybe Disney didn't get it so wrong after all."

Emma was shaking her head, and Regina saw it. "No Emma. This... this is my fault. It's fitting that I should die so the town can be safe."

She looked up at Owen waiting for the death blow. The ax swung, though not into Regina's skull, into the diamond.

The earth shuck and the diamond sprung into the air glowing blue and ominous.

"You don't get to die a hero bitch."

Regina was in shock, and Emma crossed the distance between them and punched the laughing Greg Mendell.