A/N: I heartily apologize to those who were waiting for an update. Life got in the way in a very no time for writing sort of way. But, here's one part, and there'll be another (almost done working on it, don't know if I'll post it today or soon-ish).

Emma stared up at Regina. Though she didn't have to look far since Regina was still on top of her and their faces were mere inches from each other. "Reg..." Regina tried to push herself up, get off of Emma, but Emma didn't let her. "Reg, Regina, thank you."

Regina tried to get up again, and Emma let her. But Regina didn't move far, she knelt by Emma and checked her wound. Then stood and blinked in surprise. They weren't alone. Five women and a man in a Sheriff's uniform had joined them in the barn. Though there wasn't a red garbed soldier in sight any longer.

Two of the women looked like they'd just stepped out of a fractured Caesar's Palace show. One was tall with dark long hair and had on a leather skirt and top with armor over it. While the other was shorter with short blonde hair and had on what looked like a red-ish bra sort of thing and a sporty skort looking skirt.

There was another tall dark haired woman across the way, though she wore the unofficial female Detective suit. A brightly colored collared shirt with black slacks, and semi-clunky shoes. She had her arm protectively around a blonde with a bandage on her shoulder and who looked to be dressed in very fashionable threads and shoes.

Finally in the corner nearest to the loft ladder was the blond man in a Sheriff's uniform and a darker skinned dark haired woman who seemed to be looking into nothingness. The man spoke, "Don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

Maura spoke up, "We could be. These stalls could be big enough for horses or cattle. Although, Kansas' state animal isn't actually the cow, but the American buffalo, its bird is..."

"Maura..." Jane couldn't help herself, she smiled, "Jane Rizzoli, and the walking encyclopedia is Doctor Maura Isles."

Silence fell for a moment, the the only guy in the place spoke up, "Jack Carter." He looked over at Allison, "And I wouldn't presume to..."

"Carter."

Jack bit back a laugh, "That means that I'm in trouble."

Allison gave Jack a gentle shove and looked towards where Jane had spoken, "Allison Blake."

Jack interrupted her, "She's a doctor also..." and got another shove in his gut.

Emma tried to get to her feet, but Regina didn't even let her sit up. "Doctor... Isles, Doctor Blake. My... Miss Swan needs your assistance. She was run through by a sword shortly before we came to... wherever we are."

Maura spoke first, "I'm not a physician or surgeon, but a Medical Examiner. Not to mention I have only one hand at the moment."

Allison chimed in, "And I'm blind, although I do have two hands. Perhaps between the two of us we can figure out why she's moaning like a dying cat.."

"Hey." Emma tried to sit up again, but Regina stopped her again, and then stepped back as Maura and Allison got down onto the floor.

Jack spoke as he looked at Regina, "Do you have a name?"

Regina looked him up and down, "Regina Mills. That's Emma Swan. Do you have any other pointless questions?" She turned towards the two women who hadn't spoken, "And do the two of you have names?"

"Gabrielle."

The dark haired woman was silent, a frown on her face, staring at the two doctors over Emma.

Finally Gabrielle spoke again, "She's Xena... and we shouldn't be here. We're dead."

Xena finally spoke, though she didn't take her eyes off of the two doctors and Emma. "Why isn't she dead yet? I know sword wounds, and that should have at least punctured her lung, if not gone all the way through."

Regina glanced over her shoulder, "I don't..."

With the fastest hands that Regina had ever seen suddenly Xena was poking at the dark haired mayor's neck. Regina fell to her knees, and one hand went to her throat, "I've cut off the flow of blood to your brain. In thirty seconds you will die." That spurred both Jack and Jane to move towards Xena. But even as they attacked her at the same time they both wound up on their back. Taken out with lightning fast moves. "Stay out of this..."

Xena looked over at Gabrielle put her hand on Xena's shoulder, "X-"

Xena shook her head, "Tell me what you did Regina, and live..."

Regina stared up at Xena in obvious pain, but not uttering a sound. "H-honey, Vin-vinegar."

The only reason that Emma hadn't joined the fray was that the two doctors were practically sitting on her to keep her on the ground. And Gabrielle almost looked ready to reverse whatever Xena had done to Regina herself.

But it was Xena who with two more jabs took the pinch off of Regina herself, then smiled, "Impressive. I couldn't see any fear at all. There are greek gods who have looked more afraid with the pinch on them than you did now."

Everyone in the room seemed to breathe regularly again, and Maura spoke, "The lung, it should have..." She glanced up at Xena, "As you said, it should have an entrance and an exit wound to go along with..."

Maura shook her head and Allison looked unseeingly over towards Regina and Xena and finished Maura's thought, "You healed her."

Regina shook her head dismissively, "Of course I didn't. That would require something more than my blazer and..."

Gabrielle tilted her head to one side, "You love her."

Regina blew out a breath and started towards the barn doors, "Take care of Emma, I'll go get..."

Xena grabbed her before she could get far, "I wouldn't do that. There are quite a few soldiers coming right at us out there, and, they won't stop to ask your name."

"Do you think this was a good idea brother?"

Ares, god of war, made a face, "Of course it was."

Aphrodite looked over at her brother and tried to figure out what was going through his head, "But, don't you have enough wars going on to last you a lifetime. You're more powerful than I have ever seen you... you..." Aphrodite sighed and pushed aside a bit of her hair that no matter what she did seemed limp and lifeless these days. "You brought Xena and Gabrielle back to life with no help, with only your own power. While I..."

Ares cleared his throat, "Perhaps I didn't do it for me Dite."

"You did it for me? That'd... that'd be like me wearin' birkenstocks Ares."

Ares tilted his head to one side for a second, then shook it, "Can't see it. So, let's just leave it at maybe I thought that there's enough war in the world right now, and it needs just a little more love."

Aphrodite stared at Ares for a long minute, then threw her arms around his neck and gave him a crushing hug. "This'll be great. Xena and Gabrielle, alive again."

Ares rolled his eyes as he extricated himself from Aphrodite, "Only if the Persian Army doesn't kill 'em."

The couples had gone to their corners after Maura and Allison had finished fixing Emma enough that she wouldn't die before the army got to them. Regina sat near to Emma, but not too near. Emma was giving the dark haired Mayor a look. Finally the blonde spoke, "Were they right? Did you save me?"

Regina didn't meet Emma's eyes, keeping an eye on Xena. "I would have had to use magic or something."

Emma gave Regina a look, but, before she could speak again she coughed and coughed and coughed. That did manage to get Regina's attention. Regina paused for only a second, then carefully slid underneath Emma's head, propping the blonde Sheriff up against her chest so that breathing was easier. Finally Emma stopped coughing and got her breath back, "You could be a mutant. Doesn't one of them have healing powers? The guy that looks like a shaggy dog?"

"Wolverine, and he can't heal others, only himself." Emma looked upside down at Regina, both her eyebrows raised, "What? What do you presume Henry was reading before Miss Blanchard gave him that infernal storybook?"

"Comics. So, which one is the healing one." Regina didn't utter a word. "C'mon. I know that you know at least one. Who?"

Regina sighed, "Warren Worthington the third. He's Angel, the guy with the wings."

Emma smiled, just a little, "I'll take your word for it. So, Henry was a Marvel kid? Not DC?" Regina nodded, "I always liked DC, Superman."

Regina looked down at Emma, "The orphan thing?"

A snort came out of Emma's nose and she blushed just a bit, "Ah, are you kidding, of course not. He could bench press a planet." She paused, "How about you? Batman? Wonder Woman? You seem like a Wonder Woman woman."

"Two-Face."

Emma blinked in surprise, but when she met Regina's gaze the Mayor didn't look like she was kidding. "That explains quite a lot." She didn't break eye contact with Regina, "Did you heal me? Bear in mind now that I'm probably going to die anyway. So, secret'll be safe with me."

Regina brushed a lock of Emma's hair out of her eyes, then slowly nodded, "Yes."

Emma blinked, "Wow. That means..."

Regina looked away from Emma and back to where Xena and Gabrielle were sitting, "Yes, that means that I'm the Evil Queen."

"Xena, relax... you're at... at..."

"Defcon One?" Xena pried her eyes away from Regina and glanced at the other two couples, Allison was sitting in a circle of Jack's arms and they were talking quietly, while Jane was pacing near the door and Maura was trying to get her to sit down. "Sorry, I think all the America is rubbing off on me."

"United States."

That finally got all of Xena's attention onto Gabrielle, "Huh?"

"America is a bunch of continents. North America includes Canada, the United States and Mexico. You mean the United States is rubbing off on you."

Xena stared at Gabrielle for a long second, then a smirk came to her lips. "Right. Maybe I was wrong about our souls."

"Ah, Xena. How can our souls be in one of these couples if, ah, we're here too."

Xena shook her head, "That's your first question? Not. How are we here?"

"I assumed that it was Aphrodite or Ares, since they're the only two who know us well enough to screw with our lives. But, to bring two people back from the dead, that's... that's a lot of power."

Xena glanced up at the loft, "Haven't we both seen what's going on in the world? There's more war than ever before."

"So, you think it was Ares?"

Xena shrugged, "Love..." She brushed a bit of hay from Gabrielle's cheek, "Love is tryin' its best, but I think Ares is much stronger these days." She sighed and looked at the door, " So, are we ready for this? Again."

"I don't remember much what happened the last time around. But, what, three police officers, two small town Sheriffs and a Detective. That will help?"

Xena glanced at the door. "Mmm... I didn't need them before."

Gabrielle rolled her eyes.

Allison closed her eyelids and leaned her head back against Jack's shoulder. "I love you Jack."

Jack frowned down at Allison, "Ally, what... We're going to get out of this, just like we get out of everything else. We'll figure out your eyes and..."

"...and what if we don't."

Jack rested his chin on the top of Allison's head, "You're my ah- bashert Allison. No matter what happens. Sight, no sight, if you're smart or stupid, or..."

"Have you been google translating again Jack?" Jack sighed in a faux aggrieved way and Allison chuckled, then sighed, "I know that you get tired of the- chaos- of Eureka, I will never blame you if..."

"What, I go to Australia?" Allison was silent and Jack quickly continued, "I wouldn't. Blind, seeing, you're still smarter than the rest of the people in here combined. But I don't love you for your eyes or your brains, or even your amazing beauty."

Allison cut Jack off, "It's getting a little thick Carter."

Jack smiled, "See, your humor, your strength, your..."

Allison cut him off again, "Alright, alright Jack, I get it. You can stop molly coddling me now, I'm done feeling sorry for myself."

"Good. 'cause, I need you to channel Henry or Zane and for your big brain to come up with something made from ancient weapons that can take out a good portion of an army so that we can get home to our... ah... to the children."

Allison chuckled, "Without seeing what any of the weapons look like or where we are exactly?"

"Yep. See, told ya you were smart."

Allison gave Jack a shove. "And if you ever call our children 'the children' again... I'll sic Fargo on you."

Jack kissed the side of Allison's head. "Those two words will never cross my lips again."

"Good."

"We both got shot."

Maura watched as Jane paced back and forth. "It feels to me as though I'm the only one."

Jane looked down at Maura, "Maybe I'm dead."

"Sit." Jane raised an eyebrow and Maura put a hand up. "Please."

Jane glance towards the other couples, then lowered herself down next to Maura, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Well, it hurts quite a bit, and is getting a bit stiff, but, yes. I think I'll live."

Jane sighed and leaned her head back against the wall, "Why did you do it Maura?"

"I..." Maura trailed off, "I'm not sure. I didn't think before I did it." Jane was looking at Maura with a weird look on her face, "What?"

"I never... thought I'd hear you say those words."

Maura cleared her throat, "Yes, well, I should have thought a bit first."

Jane grasped Maura's hand, "Thank you."

Maura stared down at their intertwined fingers and slowly extracted her hand. "I simply did what you'd do."

Jane smirked, "So, does that make you stupider than usual, or me smarter than usual for not getting shot?" When the dark haired detective didn't get an answer she turned a bit and frowned at her friend. "What's wrong?"

Maura shook her head, "I'm not good with secrets." Jane stayed silent and simply waited for Maura to continue. "Every time I look at you I hate you... and... and I love you."

"Of course and..."

Maura put her fingers on Jane's lips, then leaned forward and replaced her fingers with her lips.