Season 1 - Episode 3: I still don't know where I am.

Emma woke up from her sleep with a start. It's a dream Emma told herself but looking around she found herself still trapped in the dungeons. Sighing she heard the clamber of a guard walking to her cell. Sitting up she wait for him to arrive.

" 'ere." He said gruffly throwing a tray full of muck and water. "Eat up. The queen has plans for yous." He walked away.

"Gross." Emma curled her lips at the disgusting meal. She needed to get out of that hell hole. Lucky for her the queen had not believed Emma when she said had done bad things. Not super bad things but enough to help her pick up a few tricks like pickpocketing and lock picking. She called it criminal ingenuity. Checking her pockets she found her trusty lock pick. "Obviously even the queen is stupid enough not to check a thief's pocket." Emma smiled as she started working on the lock.

Memory of what happened after everyone left

"I can't." Emma struggled out still recovering. The Evil Queen gave a dark chuckle, "I can't, because I can tell that no matter what I say you will not believe me. That even if I tell you I just spent my birthday in the city of Boston where the last thing I remember was blowing out a candle on a stupid cupcake that you will not believe me. I know that no matter how much I beg you to understand that I have spent the last 19 years alone in a world that doesn't see me that you will not believe me." Emma tried to pour as much truth as she could into her statement to arouse some pity on the Queen. The Queen stayed silent, so Emma took this as her chance. "Where I come from, we do not have royalty so I have no idea how to address you, but if there is any way a person in you stature could believe a single word from my mouth please know that I am lost and I just want to go back home to my invisible life." Dead silence filled the room. Then the hall filled with deep laughing.

"You expect me to believe a word you have just said? You disappeared for 8 months and you expect me to believe that you have not been gathering a rebellion."

"Yes! Because if I was gathering a rebellion why would I wander into a town without them. Why would I allow myself to get caught if I was looking to over throw you? None of this makes fucking sense!"

"Silence!" the Queens voice boomed. "You will tell me where your bands of misfits are so I can kill them then you." The Queen seethed.

"I don't know what you are talking about!" Emma yelled.

"LEAVE THE ROOM ALL OF YOU!" the men reached for Emma, "Not her." Emma swallowed hard trying to hide her fear. Bodies quickly left the room leaving Emma to face the queen. The evil queen turned from her and faced the large window. "Do you know what it's like to be in this position? I wanted you caught so badly so I could see the life drain from your eyes. Yet, I never wanted to catch you because then the last of the light I had in my soul would die." Her voice was soft now reminding her of the caring apple picking voice.

"If I knew where the rebellion was I would tell you." Emma tried, but Regina just chuckled.

"Always so eager to please me. Do you know why I fell in love with you?" Regina finally turned to look at her. Emma was shocked. 'Love'. She was so confused. "I fell in love with the way you would always did what I wanted, but then you let your mother take you away from me."

"I don't have a moth-"

"Yes, yes you have told me that once before, but then you let her and your love sick father out of my dungeon." She bit at Emma. "I loved you Emma," she was all of a sudden in Emma was on her feet and the queen in her space. "You were MY everything and you betrayed me. WHY!"

"I am trying to tell you-"

"STOP PLAYING STUPID!" Emma was pushed to the floor. Hitting Hard Emma groaned in pain.

"Maybe that is why I left you," Emma stupidly mumbled.

"What did you say?" it came out like a growl.

"Maybe if you would listen I wouldn't have. Or maybe laying your hands on me was my last straw."

"Did your mother brain wash you so much that you would actually believe I would hurt you? I never laid an unwanted finger on you." They stared at each other, but exhausted of this never ending back and forth.

"Look if I am your Emma Swan. Which I am not sure I am even though you know my name and apparently I look like her. I am sorry I betrayed you. I may have had a good reason too, but I am telling you I don't remember doing that. What I know is that I was found in the forest as a child put into the foster care system until I ran away. Did a bunch of stuff I am not proud of. Got my life together and now I live in Boston." She then realized that the other woman was listening to her. "I mean look how I am dressed compared to how you are dress. This isn't a costume these are the clothes I wear on a daily basis." They sat for a minute and Emma prayed she had reached the queen. "Before you kill let me prove to you that I am not lying."

Back in the cell

With a loud click the cell door opened. "It's all about the tumblers," she smiled closing the door behind her and putting the pick in her boot. Emma walked quietly along the dimly lit dungeon for about five minutes finally finding a way out that had only one lonely guard. Quickly and quietly she knocked the guy out. Fresh air filled her lungs as she wandered the castle has it was rather late or it looked late. It was dark and there were not many people wandering around. It was the perfect chance for her to make her escape, but that would only make it worse. The Evil Queen would send her army after her. No. Emma thought better. She made her way through the castle searching for a specific room. Twenty minutes later she got lucky and pulled the door to the room she knew was the one she was looking for. Which was a good thing considering her escape had not gone unnoticed and soldiers were starting to emerge to search for her.

The room was dark, but cozy. The bed was huge, but looked small compared to the size of the room. She noticed a balcony and found herself outside watching the commotion below her. It was a cold night and she was just happy she remembered to bring her jacket during her escape. The door to the room suddenly flung open startling her.

"I do not care what it takes!" the Queen yelled, "You better find her or all of you will burn!" the door slammed shut. The Queen walked into the room hands on her hip. "And to think you were going to believe her." Emma hid behind a pillar, but was able to see and hear the other woman. "Why? Why do you let your love for that stupid blonde makes you do stupid things?" Regina had walked over to her vanity angrily sliding stuff to the floor all it landing with loud crash. Regina covered her face, but Emma knew she was crying. For some odd reason Emma's heart strings tugged forcing her to come out of the shadows to reveal herself.

"You know while I appreciate you not killing me that dungeon was kind of an over kill."