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Chapter 7

It was a long cold night in the jail cell Emma confined me in. She did offered me the one phone call, but I told her it could wait til the morning. She needed her sleep. I was left alone in the cold and the darkness to think. What was I going to do? He could still try and blame Ruby. Drop the charges against me and press charges against her. That would be his style. Either way he had me trapped. "RIVER!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I just hoped that shouting her name would bring her here to me.

The lights flicked on "Oh hello to you too." She laughed. I turned to see her walking over to me in a red cocktail dress. "Well this can't be right. Aren't I meant to be the one in the cell?"

"Yeah well, you weren't the one who put Rumpelstiltskin in hospital." I stood up and walked over to her.

"But I thought he was..."

"...in a parallel world." I finished for her as I grabbed the bars. "Yeah well, so did I."

"But how?"

"Apparently it's some curse that only Snow White's daughter can break."

Her eyebrow rose. "Really?"

"Yeah and if I want him to drop the charges, I have to agree to his terms."

"Sophie" She looked me in the eyes as she put her hands on mine. "What does he want?"

"Me"

"NO!" she ordered. "Don't you dare!"

"I have no choice." I pleaded.

"Jail would be better."

"Yeah well I'm actually taking the blame for a friend. I can't let her go to jail. She was so drunk and it was my fault. Besides she won't even remember it in the morning."

"Sophie" She put her hand to my face. "He doesn't know how to love. You know that!"

I pushed her hand away. "He loved Baelfire! He became what he is today to save him!" I rebutted.

"Yeah and what happened next?"

My face fell "That wasn't his fault."

"Why are you defending him? You hate him. You've spent years trying to move on from what he did to you. How he hurt you. So what's changed? Why the hell are you defending him?"

"Because he has me trapped, River!" I feel the tears starting to round down my face. "There's nothing I can do! All I have left now to hold on to is... hope."

"I'll..."

"You'll nothing! You'll nothing River!" I screeched.

"Then why did you call me?" She shrieked.

"Because I needed a friend."

Her face fell in realisation. "You didn't want me to stop you. You wanted to say goodbye."

"Yeah" Another tear ran down my face.

She pulled a hairpin out of her hair and proceeded to unlock the jail door. Once it was open she pulled me into her arms. "This isn't goodbye, this is never goodbye."

"River, we meet in the wrong order. It's not goodbye for you, but it is for me." I sobbed.

"No" I felt her tears run into mine. "I'll visit you."

I pushed her back. "You can't!"

"I'll find a way."

"There isn't, you don't belong in my world and I don't belong in yours."

"But you do, you do belong. You'll always belong." She pulled me back into her embrace.

"You've been a friend, a sister and an aunt to me. I love you. I do; but there are some lines that shouldn't be crossed. And this is one of them. Goodbye River." I pulled away from her and sat back down on the metal bed. "Turn the lights off on the way out."

She wiped her eyes before closing the door on me. "This isn't goodbye" she whispered just loud enough for me to hear before hitting the lights.

All that was left was the cold, the darkness and the silent tears that won't stop rolling down my face.

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