A/N Hi all! Have you seen the last promo? Evil!Emma is something with I could work on… -smirks- Anyway, here is the seventh chapter and, as I promised, we are going to see a little more about the interaction between Emma-Regina-Evil Queen. For the ones who had yet to read it I wrote a little drabble that I named it "Three sets of hands" in which I wrote a little bit of the smut that a few of you asked me to write regarding the three ladies.

I'm sorry for the wait also, I was with my girlfriend a few days and I tend to not write anything with I'm with her, I planned to update this story a few hours earlier but my internet went down and here we are.

To the guest: Thank you! I hope you also like this one!

To the other guest: Sorry for not answering you earlier, It would be interesting for Henry to see The Queen but I don't think that it's going to happen, at least not as "proactive" as you thought about.

The vault (Or how words turns out to be truths, still way too early for knowing to whom)

The vaporization left both brunettes at the entrance of the vault; the rotten leaves and the odor of mud filled their nostrils in the short time in which they were there.

"It's quite interesting where you have put the familiar pantheon" Muttered The Queen with a raised eyebrow as Regina pushed the door open. The familiar darkness welcoming them as both of them entered in the vault, the secret entrance already open and the stairs that directed to the magic part of it half-way covered with the leaves that had slipped through the doors thanks to the mocking wind.

"It's not like I had much time to think all the details when I sent every part of the Enchanted Forest here" Replied haughtily the older brunette as she descended the stairs, fireball in hand illuminating the way.

The Queen hummed and didn't say a thing until they were in the second level of the vault, her eyes going to the glowing wall in which hundreds of heartbeats at the same time.

"Mother's hearts" The Queen whispered as she raised her hands, stepping back a little as the importance of the place suddenly had sense "You have them here"

"It's not like I could leave them behind" Muttered back Regina, already selecting a few old books from the shelves in which she kept them. "I didn't know what could happen to them if I left them so I took them"

The Queen eyed the woman in which she was going to turn into and tilted her head.

"That's how Daniel came back, even if only was for a few hours, right?"

Regina turned, recognizing the fragileness of The Queen's voice and nodded sadly at the other brunette, her eyes gentler than ever. She also remembered the first time in which the Doctor had tried to bring Daniel back. She recalled the short-lived hope when the heart had started pulsing, and she could remember the devastating grief when everything had failed.

"Yes, it was, although I don't know how it was that it worked here and not there" Regina's voice was barely a whisper and The Queen moved forward, not knowing if she was doing that because it was difficult to grasp every syllable of because she needed to actually be near the other woman.

"How much?" The Queen asked, demanded even raising her chin and steeling herself in a fashion that Regina knew too well.

"A few hours, maybe a full day, but he wasn't… the same" Regina responded softly, the books laying again on the dusted shelves as she played with her ring.

"How did you forget him?" The Queen accused, but Regina could sense the confusion behind the harsh words and merely shrugged. She knew the woman before her, she had been there and now, that she could see the contrast, she realized that she had already changed far more that she could have even think of.

"I didn't" Was her reply as she approached The Queen, the steading beat of hundreds of hearts stocked there following the sound of her steps over the floor. "But he was right when he asked me to love again, he was gone and I… wasn't. He saw that in the couple of seconds in which he could think and he let me know that before asking for his death"

The Queen turned her head and walked until she could touch the cold surface of the metal receptacles that held the magicked hearts.

"So you did that? Love again?"

Regina narrowed her eyes, the grief for Daniel's death still inside of her but less that what she would have expected and even as surprised as she was she could still hear the sound of something more hidden in The Queen's words.

"I found the man with the lion tattoo" Regina finally answered, deciding to be truthful with herself, her hands grabbing the dusted books once again and moving them to the wooden table that was in the middle of the room. "So I suppose I tried"

The Queen turned and finally locked her own eyes with Regina, her lips now a fine line that were pale beneath the carmine that painted them.

"Where is he now?" The regal woman demanded, her voice making Regina smile a little as she recalled the startled look that Robin had sent to both herself and The Queen the night before.

"He was the man with the bow last night" Regina informed The Queen and almost smirked at the confusion that she could sense emanating from the other woman's body.

"He can't be our soulmate" The Queen said adamantly as she eyed the older woman.

Regina laughed at that and when The Queen finally seated in front of the table she muttered what she had been thinking off the entire time that Hood had been in the sheriff station the previous night.

"I know, right?"

Emma sighed as she entered the pawn shop, her entire body feeling as if she had been beaten and abandoned in some alley.

It had been bad enough to actually try to not to hear to Hook's babbling once they were outside the station, but her patience had run thinner every time that the man dropped the idea that he had left everything behind in order to save her.

"I thanked you for that, didn't I? It's not like I asked for it Hook, so thank you but I don't know how that is going to help us to send Regina back to her time" Had replied as she walked back to the dinner, thinking that Regina could have at least magicked her car near the station when she had fled with her counterpart.

"You mean The Evil Queen" Hook had said as he tried to grab her shoulder, his leather pants causing him to move slower than the blonde.

"I mean Regina, it's her name" Emma had replied with clenched teeth, she was beginning to feel tired of the entire charade that all of this had seemed to have brought to Storybrooke. As far as she was concerned they needed the past Regina to actually achieve their happy endings, the future couldn't be changed and she was happy with what she has accomplished. "Besides, The Queen is… interesting" She thought with reddening cheeks as she finally approached the dinner with Hook in tow.

Judging by the hour the place didn't need to be packed and Emma really had hoped that as she didn't really have much time to actually see Henry before going back to Gold.

"… maybe after all of this we could talk a little about us, love" Hook was saying as she had turned to look at him.

"Hook… now it's not the time for all of this." She had answered back; glancing quickly at the door of the dinner Ruby's figure could be seen serving the clients so she smiled, knowing that Henry wouldn't be too far away from her.

Unfortunately Hook had thought that her smile was because of him and he moved forward trying to kiss her. When Emma felt the coldness of the hook that had caused the pirate's name she shuddered and moved quickly, jumping backwards and hitting the pirate square on his leather covered chest.

"Don't try that again" Emma had warned to the dark haired man with cold eyes

"But you kissed me" Hook had complained as Emma had turned and had walked to the dinner.

The sentence had made Emma sigh and as she finally opened the door she had quickly shouted back at Hook confused expression.

"Not enough for you to try what you just did"

Leaving the pirate at the other side of the door she approached Ruby, a little smile growing on her lips as she heard the dark haired man groaning.

"Well, that was interesting" The werewolf had commented with a little smirk of her own when Emma was close enough, her right hand holding a cup full to the brim with dark chocolate and whipped cream.

"He deserved it" Emma had replied as she had taken the beverage when Ruby had offered it to her. Licking her lips after a quick sip she had glanced back at the young woman before her. "Don't you think?"

Ruby had laughed at that and had merely nodded, pointing Emma to Henry's direction, the boy reading a comic with a similar chocolate cup between his hands.

"I think that the next time if you need help just call me" Ruby had answered as she nodded at Granny, the woman already signaling a few costumers at the other side of the room. "It's true what Snow told me about Regina?"

"That now the other one is here? Yes, it is" Emma had replied to the curious brunette, waving back at her son who had now seen her and was smiling at her.

"And what is she like?" Ruby's question made Emma's heart jump at the thought of the dark smirk that The Queen seemed to have every time that she looked at her.

"Not as bad as I could have thought" Emma had muttered, trying to appear as nonchalant as possible but when Ruby's nostrils suddenly opened she knew that the werewolf had expected that answer. "You have talked with my mother"

Ruby had smiled at that and had showed her her cellphone, Snow's ID still flashing on the screen.

"She was worried for a certain thing that The Queen had said, so I decided to investigate a little"

Emma had rolled her eyes, not sure if she needed to be mad at Ruby or at her mother but, deciding that it was better to fix their current problem, she had shrugged and had approached Henry, already talking over her shoulder.

"The Queen wanted only to mess with everyone on the room; I think that you would like that thing about her"

And with that she had finally seated in front of Henry who was firing a myriad of questions at her, his comic now laying closed at his right side.

But even the pre-teens voice couldn't hide Ruby's snicker as the werewolf passed next to them.

Emma cleared her throat once again as she tried to spot Rumple's figure over the dusty shop, her eyes landing on the objects that the man had collected over the centuries as Ruby's snicker resonated inside of her.

Henry had been as excited as worried that his mother's past was now on Storybrooke but when Emma had explained to him that the woman was actually quite interesting to be with he had decided that he wanted to meet her. Emma had finally managed to make him wait until Regina and herself talked about that, the difficult position that that kind of thing would put The Queen into too complicated to not think about it.

But even after that and once she had left the dinner Ruby's expression had haunted her, the nostrils and eyes of the werewolf had seemed to be fixed on her and even if she really didn't know how much wolf power Ruby had in her human form the mere act of that made the blonde uncomfortable. As well as that knowing smirk.

"You are already here, excellent" Gold's voice sounded at her back and effectively interrupted her thoughts "I was already reading a few things about our current predicament but I can use a few more hands dearie"

Emma nodded and looked at Belle when the woman entered in the shop from the back, her eyes looking adoringly at Gold for a second before smiling quickly at Emma.

"I have put there the objects that Rumple thinks that can help you; we are now trying to discern if that is really the case."

Emma nodded as she hid a shudder, she liked Belle but her love for the Dark One was a mystery for her.

"I will be there then; I will go to the vault in a few hours to see if they have already found something"

"You never know what Regina is able to do" Replied Gold with his usual know-it-all expression "As you never know what The Queen is going to say"

"She was wrong" Replied Emma with clenched teeth as Belle looked at both of them with a confused expression, her eyes going back to Gold from Emma's flushed face.

"I see… then let's start, shall we?" Gold replied with a quick nod but his smile was still in place when Emma finally went to the back of the shop in which she found books and different objects covering the usually tidy room.

Groaning she closed her eyes and tried to not to think about The Queen insinuation anymore, she needed to find the proverbial needle in the haystack.

As she finally started reading, her digits quickly covering with thick dust, she briefly thought what both Reginas would be doing in the vault.

A/N This one didn't have any sentence that was from the manips but there will be in the next chapter. I promise. As always check lisqueen's account on tumblr because she had many other incredible manips on it ;)

Anyway, let me know what you think about this chapter and take care! For the ones interested I hope to update Coffee Black News next.