The drive to Dr. Hopper's office was unnaturally quiet to say the least. At different times Emma and Regina would glance over at the other to say something, but other than what was said in Regina's bedroom, there really wasn't much more to say, and starting up some kind of normal conversation would definitely make things even more bizarre between them.

The silence however, began to eat away at Emma, and although it was only a five-minute drive to Dr. Hopper's it lagged on like they were stuck in time. She reached down for the dial to turn the radio on hoping to drown out some of the awkwardness, but of course nothing but commercials and songs she couldn't make out in time for her patience came through. Frustrated, Emma reached back down to turn the radio off and to just pick a song, any song and sing it in her head until they arrived at Archie's office, but Regina caught her hand before she had a chance to touch the dial.

"Can we keep this?" She asked in practically a whisper.

"Sure." Emma answered, curiosity striking her instantly as her ears focused on the song that she had missed while speeding through the stations. It was Joni Mitchel's, "Both Sides Now," clearly not a song to help Regina's already sun flowery mood, but Emma did love the song and made sure to bite her tongue before oozing out a sarcastic comment about it adding to Regina's already upbeat state.

As Emma thought about it though, she let a small smile seep through. It was nice to find out that Regina wasn't just a Bach and Beethoven kind of girl, but had an ear for some of her favorite classic rocks songs as well.

Thankfully, they reached the good doctor's building a few minutes later just as the song ended and Emma flashed Regina an encouraging smile as she opened the car door.

"Thank you for the ride Ms. Swan. I'll call you when Dr. Hopper and I are through."

"No need," Emma replied opening her door as well. "I'm coming up with you." Regina shot her head toward Emma, trying to conceal the annoyance in her face, but failing.

"I'd rather see the doctor by myself."

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean it that way." Emma responded immediately not wanting this whole Savior rehabilitation plan to back fire before it even had a chance to begin. "I'm not going in with you. I'm just going to wait outside Archie's office until you're finished. The first few days are the most crucial when it comes to the rehabilitation process, so I'll be hanging out with you for a while." Regina raised her eyebrows as she stared at the Savior, obviously expecting some kind of pun, but Emma only smiled back at her.

"Come on Regina," Emma started as she began to walk toward the door, "You can still glare at me while we head up to Archie's office." Regina followed, now shock glued to her face clearly not expecting Emma to be handling everything so casually.

When they reached Archie's door it was closed so they both took a seat outside his office and waited in silence. Emma tapped her foot anxiously as she picked at her cuticles causing Regina to look over at her agitated.

"It's nice to see where Henry gets his bad habits from." Emma gave her a half-smile as she placed her one hand down to calm her leg.

"Sorry, doctor's visits have always made me nervous."

"But this visit isn't for you." Emma adjusted herself in her seat still not entirely comfortable receiving a silent chuckle out of the brunette in the process, but the Savior caught it.

"At least my neuroses gets a smile out of you." Regina jerked her head over in Emma's direction about to protest, but didn't say a word and smirked back at her instead.

"Dull, is one thing you are not Ms. Swan."

"Wow, I received an apology and I believe to be a compliment from the Queen on the same day. Either Hell just froze over, or I'm really good at this Savior stuff." Regina grunted in return as she shook her head and Emma couldn't help but smile at the faint grin on Regina's face. Maybe having a support person, who wasn't her psychopathic mother was exactly what Regina needed. This rehabilitation trick may actually work, but as soon as Emma began to think of all the happy possibilities of Henry's future with his mother's side by side, Dr. Hopper's door opened and Mary Margaret and David stepped out. Shit! She forgot David was taking Mary Margaret to see Archie that day too.

Emma caught Regina's body language immediately tense up and could feel the volcanic eruption about to spill out of her eyes. The Savior jumped up and stood in front of Regina to try to deescalate the incoming tidal wave of hate that was inevitable to storm down outside Archie's office as her parents approached them.

"Emma, what are you..." David started, but his eyes widened as he caught who was standing behind his daughter. "Why is she here?"

"Regina," Dr. Hopper called out holding the door open and the brunette sauntered passed them and into his office without saying a word. Emma let out the breath she was unintentionally holding in and her body began to regain feeling slightly proud of Regina for keeping it together, but then she saw that David's expression hadn't changed.

"Emma?"

"Yeah," she answered nonchalantly, hoping they wouldn't have to get into it, but apparently the death glare her father was giving her was not going to budge until she explained herself.

"Ok look, she wasn't in good condition when I found her this morning. I'm not going to go into the details about it, because, well, it's Regina. She'd probably throw a fireball at me or something far worse if I were to break her confidence. Anyway, Henry asked me to check in on her, and we thought it was best if she'd start talking to someone again. I'm sorry, I totally spaced that you and Mary Margaret were going to be here too." David was still agitated, but his face slowly began to soften. Emma kind of got a kick out of the daddy's little girl relationship they had now, cutting at any chance for her father staying mad at her for an extended period of time.

"So, how was your visit?" Emma asked, trying to change the subject, but only received a fake faint smile from her mother with a whisper in return.

"Ok." David reached over and placed his arm around Mary Margaret doing his best to bring her comfort.

"I think it was a step in the right direction." He added.

"Anyway, since you're here, why don't we all walk home together?"

"Actually, I'm going to wait here. Regina and I are meeting up with Henry at Granny's afterwards." That of course, only added more concern to David's face, but before he had a chance to say anything else, Mary Margaret began to walk away.

"I think I'm going to go for a walk, alone." Both Emma and David shared an identical worried look, the mix of confusion and nerves multiplying as they continued to watch Mary Margaret leave without saying another word.

"You don't want any company?" David asked in his usual charming matter before she turned the corner.

"No, I think a walk to go over my thoughts alone will do me some good. Don't worry, I won't be too long." And with that, Snow was gone. David went to follow anyway, but Emma snagged his arm before he had a chance to take a step.

"Don't."

"I can't just let her go off on her own, not after what she did yesterday."

"I think it's safe to say that she's not going back to Regina's since she's in there." Emma responded as she gave a head tilt to Archie's door. "If she wants some alone time to go over her thoughts, I think you should let her." The sadness creeping into her father's eyes saddened her, but he nodded along in agreement.

"Ok, well, I guess I'll swing by the station to make sure everything else in town is going smoothly."

"Sounds like a good idea. Call me if you need me."

"I will," David replied as he leaned in to give her a kiss on the side of her head, "And good luck." He added with widened eyes.

"Thanks."

Emma sat outside Archie's office checking her phone several times as she fidgeted in her seat. Regina's visit with Dr. Hopper was lasting longer than the usual hour and she was beginning to worry. Regina could have tied up Archie, and poofed herself home not able to actually begin with her treatment all over again, or she could have snapped and done something dreadfully worse. Emma stood up and began to pace back and forth in front of Dr. Hopper's office door debating with herself on what she should do. She wanted to make sure Archie was ok, but at the same time, the last time she accused Regina of doing something terrible to him, she was wrong, and it was that doubt in the former Evil Queen that weakened Regina causing her to fall into Cora's clutches.

Thankfully, the door to Dr. Hopper's office finally opened and Archie escorted Regina out in to the hall settling the battle in Emma's head.

"I know you're still hesitant about everything Regina, but this was a good step." Regina gave him a closed mouth smile and turned, stunned that Emma was standing directly in front of her.

"Ms. Swan, you're still here?"

"I told you I would be." Regina hummed.

"Indeed you did," She then glanced back over at Archie, "tomorrow Dr. Hopper?"

"I look forward to it. Have a good day Regina, Emma."

"You too Archie," Emma responded for the both of them as Regina forced a kind smile and made her way out of the building.

When Emma walked outside, she found Regina already in her yellow bug and she couldn't help but chuckle. This woman would have rather walked on shards of glass a few days ago rather than set foot in her car, yet there she was, the so-called Evil Queen, sitting compliantly in the Savior's joke of a car waiting for Emma to escort her to her next destination.

Emma kept the smirk on her face as she came up to the passenger side window and tapped on the glass. Regina jumped as she glanced over, clearly deep in her head. Her annoyance with Emma and the bug were still there as she fought to roll down the window.

"You really need a new vehicle Ms. Swan." Regina mentioned, as she stared at Emma waiting for her to explain what she was doing.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Since you hate my car so much, how about we walk?" Regina let out an aggravated sigh as she struggled with the sticky handle to roll the window back up, and stepped out of the bug shaking the car off of her in the process.

Like earlier, neither woman said anything as they made their way to Granny's. But there was no way Emma could deal with this day in and day out if she was going to continue to help Regina.

"So, everything go ok?" Regina glanced over at her not responding at first, but looking to see if there was any hidden meaning behind her words.

"Fine," she answered eventually.

"Good, you're taking the right steps." This time Regina grunted.

"I don't need you to be my cheerleader Ms. Swan."

"I'm not. I just wanted to make pleasant conversation."

"Why?" Regina asked as she stopped walked causing a baffled look from Emma in return.

"Why what?"

"Why do you want to have a normal conversation, with me?" Emma stared at her even more dumbfounded.

"Because that's what people do."

"I don't need your pity Ms. Swan." Emma had done a good job at hiding her usual snappy comments so far, but leave it to Regina to push it out of her.

"Jesus Regina, why do you have to make everything so difficult? It's like the minute someone shows you some form of kindness, other than Henry, you think it's pity, or a trap. It's like you don't even know how to have a normal conversation. Haven't you ever had a friend in your life where you just talked, with no ulterior motive, you just talked?" But the look Regina was giving her was enough to answer her question.

"Seriously? You had to have someone other than Henry and Daniel that's cared for you?" Regina turned her gaze away from Emma, but the Savior could have sworn she saw tears beginning to develop in her eyes. Before Emma could say anything to cut through the unsettling moment she had created, Henry came running down the street clearing it all away for her instead.

"Mom," he cried as he approached, tossing his arms around Regina. "I was really worried," he added as he broke away.

"I'm sorry I did that to you sweetheart."

"So what happened?" Regina glanced up at Emma trying to hide the terrified look in her eyes. They forgot about what they were going to tell Henry, and the last thing either of them wanted to do was lie to him, but right now was such a delicate time, so Emma came in and did what she felt was right.

"Your mom's phone just went a little haywire kid. Don't worry, I fixed it for her."

"Oh," he replied and Emma watched as Regina's body began to ease.

"Why don't you go and get us a table. We'll be right in."

"Ok."

Once Henry was out of earshot Regina looked back at Emma.

"You didn't have to do that." Emma shrugged it off.

"It's no big deal. I just replaced you going haywire with the phone, my bad." Regina let a small smirk out as she shook her head. "Besides he's already worried enough about Mary Margaret. The last thing he needs to know is that you were in the same condition she was in last night." A range of emotions went through Regina's face, too many for Emma to pin point which one was meant for her, until she spoke.

"Thank you Emma," Then Regina walked into the diner to join their son leaving the Savior outside for a moment alone.

"See Regina," Emma said to the door. "Not everyone is out to get you." But there was no way she would let her know that she cared just yet. Regina was already taking the right steps to get better for Henry, the Savior didn't want to overdo the kindness in case it was too much for her to handle all at once and bailed from the suffocation like she would have done in her situation years ago.