Regina lays back in her bed and looks up at the ceiling once Emma is gone. She closes her eyes for a split second before seeing him again. She opens her eyes immediately, panting. She shakes her head. He's not here any more, she assures herself. She wants Emma back. She curls up into a ball under her blankets and cries. She wraps her arms around her legs and pulls them to her. Her head is filled with images of the man and his whip hurting her, but she can't do anything because she is to weak. Help me.
Emma drops Henry off with Snow and goes work. She sits down at her desk and sighs. No one is there so its just her with nothing to do. She spins around in her chair for a little and then gets a phone call. She answers the phone.
"Emma Swan, sheriff's office, how may I help you?" She recites into the phone.
"Its just me Emma." Emma can tell Snow is smiling on the other end of the phone.
"Oh, hi, what do you need." Emma says a little disappointed that she still has nothing to do.
"Well I wanted to ask you something." Snow sounds a little concerned.
"What is it?" Emma asks her confused.
"What really happened, when you found Regina? You've been different even since." Emma gets nervous, is it really that obvious?
"I guess seeing Regina like that made me realize that nothing will ever be over because whatever happened while Regina was the evil queen is just going to haunt people forever. I decided that I'm going to start over with her because if someone that has been through so much is willing to let it all go and try again then we should all give them a second chance, and people haven't exactly been doing that." Emma sighs and waits for a response from the other end.
"Oh, alright. Well I have to go." Emma doesn't know what Snow would be doing, but she gets the message.
"Okay, see you later." Emma says back to her. Snow hangs up. Emma sets the phone back down and leans back in her chair. How does she really feel? She has feelings for Regina, or at least she thinks she does. Is it love or is it the feeling of guilt? But guilt for what, what did Emma do? Nothing. She did nothing, and that's the point. She could have done more for Regina. Maybe if she had found Regina earlier she wouldn't be this hurt. She covers her face with her hands and groans. She shakes her head and looks at the ceiling. Why did it have to be Regina? "Dammit!" She slams her hand on her desk causing a picture to fall off the desk. She leans down and picks it up. Its a picture of Henry, but the glass is cracked now. She sighs and puts it back up on the desk.
Regina doesn't know how she fell asleep, but when she wakes up its 2:00am and its been 10 hours since Emma visited. She rubs her eyes and sits up. No nightmares, good. She gets up and walks over to her bathroom. She closes the door and looks at herself in the mirror. She has a couple bruises and cuts that are healing. She sighs and fixes up her hair. He appears in the corner of the mirror and Regina screams. She punches the mirror and it shatters causing her hand to get cut several times. She starts crying, terrified. Her hand starts bleeding, a lot. She slides down the wall and pulls her legs to her chest sobbing. A nurse opens the door quickly and looks down at Regina.
"What happened?!" She looks at the mirror and then at Regina's bleeding hand. Regina can't say anything, she's to scared. The nurse sighs and kneels down to Regina. "Come on, lets get that hand bandaged up." Regina does move at first, but then the pain of her bleeding hand kicks in and she slowly gets up. They walk out of the bathroom and the nurse bandages Regina's hand. "There, now you're okay." The nurse smiles at Regina and goes over to the bathroom to clean up the glass. Regina looks down at her hand and stops crying. The nurse comes back. "Goodnight." She smiles.
"Goodnight." Regina says quietly. The nurse leaves. Regina sits there on her bed for a while looking at the floor before crawling back under the covers and going to sleep.
