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Chapter 4 Regina's POV

Watching as Emma continued to back away from me hurt more then I thought it would she looked horrified at me which didn't surprise me as I was just about to give her mouth to mouth. If someone was to offer me mouth to mouth I would refuse and act horrified as well so I can't blame Emma for her reaction "are you … … … okay … Emma?" I asked keeping my voice calm and sweet as not to scare her, her eyes turned to focus on me but her gaze was hazy and unfocused now that I look at her she is very pale and slightly shaking 'did she actually end up injured after that small fall but she stopped it before she hit the ground' my silent question was answered as Emma proceeded to pass out in front of me now bringing my attention to the blood running down her back…

Ruby's POV

Closing hour had come and gone, the neon light outside had slowly flickered and died, stables stools had been flipped and I'm now left with sweeping the floor, Belle is here too just sitting behind the bar reading a book, the pages were turning constantly, hearing the pages turn at such an alarming rate made me believe that I would have to put out a bar fire if she kept up her reading pace "finished" Belle spoke, almost disappointingly, I turned my head to look at her, a large pile of books had taken its place on the counter "… please tell me you're going to clean that up …" I asked worryingly, all she did was nod as she picked up another book and began flicking, my worry only grew. But apart from that, this whole time my thoughts have been centred on a certain blond sheriff who has been missing since todays lunch. She was acting weird then, but now around 6 pm, I could smell faint traces of blood and it was defiantly Emma's blood.

My nose was going crazy, I was worried for her safety, it wouldn't stop, twitching non-stop I had to sniff again, and again, and again and even more, I just had to check, to be certain, "what is it girl?" Belle asked calmly, I turned to her and looked at her dead in the eyes "don't call me that" I asked her calmly, she then hesitated for a moment then spoke again "what is it bitch?" "That's better" I joked while still trying to determine whether my instincts were right.

Before I could give a final verdict however the front door to the bar burst open "HEY CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN IT SAYS WERE CL- Emma? Regina?" I trailed off as I watched Regina stumble in with Emma over her shoulder, a small amount of blood was coming from her left arm "what happened?" Belle asked, unphased but showing a bit of concern for the pair, "I-I-I don't know … … … E-Emma she fell … … from the cliffs edge, a f-few miles from here … …" Regina huffed and gasped as she laid her over the counter, Emma's breathing was steady but her face was pale "she fell off of a cliff … but she should be –" "yeah Belle, she should, but she did something … I don't know, floated or something …" "floated? But Emma doesn't have magic in her body … does she?" I asked the pair in front of me while closing the open door "None that I could sense … until now she's been completely clean of magic …" Regina looked sacredly at Emma, placing a hand on Emma's. 'huh… she's actually … afraid, that's a first' I thought as I looked over Emma's single injury, nothing too big, probably caused by the fall, it wouldn't be infected either, it seems to only be a flesh wound, you could tell because of the constant weeping of the wound and – um you know what, I'm going to spare you the detailed explanation of why this isn't too bad. "Belle go into the back and grab the medical kit from under the kitchen sink" "…" I sighed at Belles silence, I love Belle, really I do, but god she can be a pain sometimes "Belle can you PLEASE go into the back and grab the medical kit from under the kitchen sink" Belle nodded happily and walked into the back room and out of sight.

Slowly approaching Regina, I lay my hand on her shoulder to get her attention "Regina I need you to take deep breaths and then explain what happened to Emma. Okay?" She gave a small nod before breathing in and out to calm herself "well Ruby, at lunch I saw that Emma was acting different from her usual self and became increasingly worried about her as she was off again yesterday when the curse broke. So when she left the diner I followed her and waited to see what she was doing, she ended up at the cliff edge I found her at yesterday however, this time she was much closer almost to the point of falling, worse part about all this is that she looked happy about the fact she could fall at any moment." She stopped speaking to catch her breath and at this point I was becoming increasingly worried for the unconscious blond next to us.

Regina having caught her breath continued but this time a sense of humour in her voice "I had stepped on a stick as I approached her she turned round so quickly that her foot slipped taking the rest of her down as well I had expected her to scream or at least shout but when I had gotten to the edge to look over she was still falling but with relief showing over her face. Ruby she was happy she was about to die why would she feel like this she always seems so happy." At the moment of hearing that Emma had fallen off that cliff was heart wrenching but my entire soul shattered at the fact she was happy to die like she meant for it to happen 'what happened to Emma to make her feel like this she's loved by so many people and yet we never went out of our ways to learn more about her, never pushed for information when she shrugged us off.' 'Only thinking about the past will not help in this moment she has many secrets and one we must find soon, or we lose her forever. Ruby we must not let this stop us from helping her now she is ours and she is hurting in more ways than one' leave it my wolf to bring me back to the present 'Sometimes my wolf I find you very useful, thank you for snapping me out of my haze. I will help Emma but this secret you speak of sounds dangerous.'

"By the time I reached her at the bottom she didn't look like she was breathing so I went to give her mouth to mouth, she must had heard me as next thing I know she's bolted up right and is backing away from me looking horrified. Her back hit the wall of the cliff and I slowly approached her asking if she was okay" she stopped to catch her breath and began again thankfully slower this time as her voice began to shake "but when she looked at me her gaze was unfocused, and she had turned very pale, I went to put my hand on her shoulder and she passed out and that's when I noticed the blood causing me to panic and rush here. Ruby we have to help her now where is Belle with the first aid kit?" Again, her rambling was difficult to follow but I got the point of what she was say Emma is hurt and needs help now.

At that moment I noticed Belle behind me waiting patiently for Regina to finish her account of the events when she saw me looking at her she came around to stand next to me med kit in hand "Ok Regina where is the main source of the blood coming from and how long has it been bleeding for?" Regina proceeded to point to Emma's back and give us a time span of an hour and a half that the wound has been bleeding for however she did say it was slowing down. We all got to work fixing up Emma however we were momentarily stunned as we removed her shirt to reveal that the saviour has a tattoo that of a pair of wings one of an angel and the other darker and broken that of a devil they lay on her back stretching from her shoulder blades to her forearm where the tip of the wings end (A/N to see picture go to wattpad and read the story.)

"Holy shit…" was the only thing heard in the now silent room as all three of us stared at Emma's back, more accurately her wings they look so real and so beautiful they somehow fit Emma as a person so well as she is the saviour but she's also very mysterious as no one knows anything of her past but no matter what they represent over all they look stunning enhancing Emma's beauty tenfold. I approach the still unconscious blond and run my fingertips across the outline of one of her wings causing her to twitch and give a whimper of pain my hand flinging back as soon as the noise leaves the blonds mouth 'if these are painful that means they are fresh but how they seem at least a year or 2 old'.

"How did no one in this town know she had this tattoo she usually wears tank tops well she used to until a couple of months ago" Belle said her voice laced with curious tone but who could blame her I can tell that all of us are curious and very much stunned by Emma's tattoo. "hmmm…...stop p plea se it hurts….." came the quite slur from Emma it sounded more like a pained whimper from which snaps all of us into action as Belle started to locate the still bleeding wound while me and Regina waited with the equipment from the med kit within 20 minutes we had sealed the wound and it has finally stop bleeding, it ended up being a long but shallow gash along the back of her hip. "Regina, how did she get this if you said she had stopped herself from falling" Regina seemed to pause for a moment probably trying to find the answer as well "well it could be from where she still fell down most of the cliff she could have caught herself on the side." After that small explanation of events we all decide that we need to calm down and wait for Emma to wake up so that's what we did we sat and talked just waiting for any sign that she is fine.

It was past midnight when she showed the first signs of waking, so far she has been out for almost 7 hours since Regina had brought her in, through these past hours Emma only made sounds in her sleep those of pain and nothing else every now and then there would be a twitch of her fingers or emotions would randomly cross her face and then it would be blank again. So to say we were worried for our friend was an understatement we were terrified we didn't know if she would wake up at one point Regina had burst into sobs saying this was all her fault and that Emma wouldn't be like this if she was nicer to the blond, it took me and Belle an hour to calm her down and prove to her that she was wrong it worked to an extent at least.

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Just as we were preparing to take Emma to the hospital her body started to twitch and move until she fell off the table and shot up right scaring the hell out of all of us. Her eyes still closed but she seemed to know where we are in the room 'can this situation get any weirder like really what's going to happen next David leaves Snow like really!' Suddenly Emma's head snaps in our direction and her eyes begin to slowly open and what we see sent a shiver down all our spines 'this just got ten times more fucked up.'