Charming insisted on accompanying Emma back to the sheriff's office with the two young men who were accused of causing the crash where Regina was hurt. He didn't like the whole situation, although he was at a loss to say why exactly.
Before he had even approached Emma at the scene, he had seen her standing there, her eyes never leaving Regina. There was something in that look which seemed to speak more than simple concern of a sheriff for a town's resident. But when she had dismissed going to find Henry to tell him about the crash, and then insisted on questioning the suspects, he knew something was wrong.
Emma had developed into a great mother. He also knew her and Regina had worked closely at shared parenting so maybe it was natural for her concern to be greater, but something told him that wasn't it either.
They got to the sheriff's office with the suspects and put each one in an interrogation room.
"I'm taking him," Emma said indicating the young man, Derek Shaw, who was the first one to make impact with Regina's car.
"We can do this together," Charming said.
"Fine," she said entering the room. She didn't sit down, instead leaned over the table with fists pressed against it.
"Let me guess, you were just out to have a little joy ride and you didn't mean to hurt anyone? Or it was no big deal, after all you just hit the Evil Queen – no big loss. Hell, maybe you targeted her. That is her normal route home. Did you wait for her to pass through the intersection? Did you accelerate to cause the most damage? Did it make you happy to see her limp, bleeding body in that wreck of metal?"
Derek was getting scared as her volume continued to increase. He looked from her to Charming. "No, no that isn't what …"
"If she dies, I'm going to charge you with murder," Emma said. "Maybe you would like it if she dies. Then you can brag to all your friends how you killed the bitch."
"Hey, no … wait. I didn't even know it was her."
"So it doesn't matter who you killed is that what you are saying?"
"No man. Just let me explain."
"Explain what? Do you want to tell me what happened? Do you want to tell me how you have no regard for a person's life? And this person – she's great. She's the reason you even have a car to drive. She's the reason you have all the comforts of this world instead of living in some backwoods forest. She saved all of you from Pan's curse, from Zelena's plans and this is how you treat her," she yelled. "She's the mother of my son you bastard."
Emma crossed over to him, pushing the chair down and jamming her foot onto his chest. Charming grabbed her from bind, and despite her struggles managed to get her out of the room.
"Let go of me," she said pulling free.
"Emma, calm down."
"Calm down! Do you know what he did?"
"Yes, I know but you have to get a hold of yourself. If I hadn't been there what would you have done to him?" "I would have … " she calmed down a little but not so much that she didn't kick the desk in front of her moving it several inches.
"Leave. I've got this handled here. I will log the reports and to the interrogations, he said. "Go find Henry. He needs his mom right now."
"He needs his mother to not be fighting for her life right now," she said.
"Henry is probably at the hospital and that is where you should be right now. You know that right?"
"Yes I do."
