Several times Emma had tried to get close to Mary Margaret Blanchard and David Nolan but Regina would cause some sort of emergency that needed the sheriff and his two deputies which would pull Emma away from doing what she needed to do.

Regina's latest plot involved the abandoned mine Regina had lured a child into the mine using a dog then said that the child was lost in the mine Emma was the only one that was light enough to be lowered down the mine shaft much to Arthur's displeasure as the child was being pulled out the rope was rubbing against the jagged edge of the mine shaft and was partially cut through as a result.

The rope was lowered down so Emma could be pulled out but when Emma was halfway the rope snapped sending the 20 year old back down to the bottom of the shaft which then collapsed.

Arthur ran to the shaft while Graham tried to hold him back.

"Let go of me I have to get to her. Emma!"

Arthur broke free and got to work on removing the rubble finally he was at the bottom but he couldn't find Emma anywhere.

"Emma where are you?"

"Arthur I'm over here."

Following her voice Arthur found Emma sitting down against the wall with a nasty looking head wound.

"What happened?"

"As the shaft started to collapse I just managed to avoid getting trapped under the rubble but I also got struck by a falling piece of rubble."

Together Emma and Arthur found a way out as soon as they were spotted the paramedics took her to the ambulance to take care of her cut once she had stitches put in she refused to let them take her to the hospital so Arthur took her back to the inn.

Once back in their room Emma flopped down on the bed with an exasperated sigh and a wince.

"What's got you so frustrated?"

"Breaking this curse is taking longer and longer to break thanks to all these emergencies that keep coming up."

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and there stood Mary Margaret and David, Mary Margaret was holding a bottle of apple cider in her hand.

"Hi you two we didn't expect to see you today."

"We thought we would stop by after we heard what had happened at the mine, Emma are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine Mary Margaret, what's in the bottle?"

"Oh it's apple cider Regina gave it to us."

Emma snatched the bottle out of Mary Margarets hand and went straight to the kitchen where she smashed the bottle in the sink watching the liquid run down the drain.

"Emma my love why'd you do that for?"

"Arthur you heard her it was from Regina, the dragon told me that she has a thing for poisoning people."

Arthur thought of a story for what Emma did and went to tell Mary Margaret and David said story, while Emma cleaned up the broken bottle being extremely careful not to slice her hand open on any pieces of glass.

Once the bottle was cleaned up and disposed of Emma came back into the room with four glasses of red wine.

"Sorry about that."

"It's alright Arthur told us about how you don't like apples."

"Yeah if I'm even near apples my stomach acts up so even getting rid of the bottle was hard because of the smell."

"There's no need to explain."

Mary Margaret insisted on checking Emma's wound suddenly Emma pulled away.

"Did I hurt you?"

"No I just remembered I need to do something I'll be back soon."

With that Emma went to a clearing in the woods to speak with the dragon.

"Where have you been I was getting worried about you?"

"I am sorry princess but I was almost recaptured by Uther."

"How are Morgan, Merlin, Gaius and the children's?"

"They are fine just missing you and Arthur. What has been happening here? You have been wounded."

"It's nothing just a minor accident."

The dragon used his power to search Emma's mind for what really happened and found out about the mine accident.

"Your accident was because of Regina wasn't it?"

When Emma refused to answer the dragon had his answer.

"How close are you to breaking the curse?"

"It's a two steps forward and one step back kind of deal. When I break the curse will the part of the curse that slipped into Camelot break as well?"

"Not if you don't want it to."

"I don't understand."

"When you came into Camelot that part of the curse needed a host to attach itself to and it chose you, you can choose who you want to stay young forever and who you don't, just be warned if you choose Uther to be one of the ones that won't age then Arthur will never become king and anyone with magic will have to keep their powers hidden forever."

After speaking with the dragon Emma returned to the inn and invited Mary Margaret and David to stay for dinner using it as a way to try to break the curse.

"So Emma what did your parents say when you told them that you married Arthur at 18?"

Up until then Emma had a smile on her face but as soon as her parents were mentioned the smile dropped.

"I don't know I never knew my parents I was abandoned the day I was born then when I was 16 I lost all memory of my life before I met Arthur."

Mary Margaret and David decided not to mention the subject again. Soon it was time to leave and Emma gave both Mary Margaret and David a kiss on the cheek as soon as they both received a kiss a pulse emitted outwards and Mary Margaret and David remembered who they were.

"You found us." Snow said with a tear filled voice as she hugged her daughter for the first time in 20 years.

"We knew you would." David said as he too hugged Emma.

"Why'd you throw me away? Wasn't I good enough? What did I do wrong?"

"Honey you didn't do anything wrong and you are good enough we had to send you away to protect you from the curse."

Emma was crying because she knew they were telling the truth.

"Emma love is the curse broken now?"

"I don't know I need to ask the dragon."

For the second time that night Emma went to talk with the dragon.

"Is the curse broken now?"

"Not yet young one only your parents remember who they are everyone else is still oblivious."

Emma went back to the inn, by now she was exhausted and flopped down in one othe arm chairs.

"What did he say?"

"The curse is still in place I'll tell you this Arthur as soon as the curse is broken we are going straight back to Camelot."

"Emma you can't think of leaving we just got you back we are your family." Snow cried in shock that her daughter would leave as soon as she broke the curse.

"I have a family I have my husband, I have two children, not to mention Uther, Merlin, Morgana and Gaius."

"But we're your parents."

"And I've done just fine without you."