AN: Hey everyone sorry about the wait. I did not like this chapter after I had first written it so I had to rewrite it a few times. Also I had got into the Final Fantasy 14 beta and that was taking up a lot of my time lol. I will be playing it a lot once it comes out this weekend so updates maybe a little slow. If any one play on Adamantoise fill free to hit me up. I have two characters Van Fanle who is a Lancer and Regina Mills who is a Arcanist. I'll most likely be playing Regina the most I really like that Arcanist job class its really fun. And the idea of Regina as a summoner is just bad ass lol. I'm kind of sad that only a few caught my labyrinth reference in the last chapter.

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Chapter 7 The other side of the coin

"Why are you here?" The question rolled around in Emma's head. She kept her eyes on Regina's deep brown ones, trying to make them as gentle and open as she could. She wasn't sure how to answer the question.

"I'm...I'm here because I needed to be." She finally replied. "I couldn't sit back and watch you be hurt anymore." Reaching out to put what she hoped was a comforting hand on Regina's shoulder. She heard the other gasp staring wide eyed at Emma's arm. Following her gaze Emma found that her hand had not landed on her shoulder as intended, but had passed right through and into her chest.

Emma let out a startled yelp before jumping back. Sending her off the bench and into the hard stone floor, Emma briefly notice that she felt no pain. She quickly stammered out an apology.

For Regina when the hand made contact with her. She was filled, for the first time since Daniel's death, a sense of warmth and protectiveness. It took her only moments to conclude that the feeling were coming from Emma. Seeing the blonde fall off the bench and stammering apologies. Regina could not help the giggle that escaped her, Emma had the most adorable look on her face.

"Please Emma calm yourself, I'm fine. It felt kind of nice, really." With a blush on her face she told the blonde who had yet to arise from the floor.

Emma calmed herself, a blush of her own coloring her face. As she listens to Regina laugh, she thought it was one of the most beautiful sounds she had ever heard. She pouts at Regina when she realizes that she's being laughed at. She rises slowly from the floor and sits back down with Regina, a pout still on her lips.

"Why is it that I can't touch you?" Regina asked a small grin still on her lips.

"I...I guess because I'm not really here. I'm not from this Realm." Emma answered after she was able to tear her eyes away from that cute little grin. "It seems I was only able project part of myself here."

Regina's eyes lit up at the mention of other Realms. It was a topic that had only briefly come up in her studies growing up. It had always fascinated her. She use to dream about going to other worlds and seeing all the many wonders things.

She could not help but ask the blonde all about her world. What it was like, the things she did there. How she grew up in the other world. Emma could not help but smile at her eagerness. She felt it was only fair that she share her life with Regina, after all the things she had seen about the brunette without her knowing.

She talked about a world without magic. A world ruled, not by magic but by science. About cities that were larger than anything Regina could imagine. She talked about cars and all the strange and wonderful things about her world.

Then she told her about being found on the side of the road as a baby. About all the foster homes, both the good and the bad. She talked for hours, letting out eighteen years of pain and loneliness. She never felt the tears roll down her face.

Regina sat helplessly beside the other girl, her heart breaking a little more with each unloving home, every hit she took, each cruel word spoken. Regina felt her own tears fall. She reached out and tried to take Emma's hand; only for it to pass right through again.

Although Regina couldn't feel Emma's skin as she found she so desperately wanted. She was however once more filled with that same warmth as before.

Emma too felt the warmth and care that came with their joined hands. She let it give her strength she needed to keep going. She talked about Neal and their relationship. And although part of her wished not too, Emma talked about her time in jail and the baby she had to give away.

Once she was done speaking the two sat in silence for a long time. Nether knowing how to help the other. The blonde glances out towards the balcony, from the position of the moon Emma could tell that it was getting late.

"It's getting late. You should get cleaned up then get some rest." Emma told her. Regina looked hesitant. "I'll be here when you get back." She reassured the young queen. Regina lingered for a moment longer before nodding. She made her way to what Emma assumed was the bathroom, closing the door behind her.

Only now that she is alone does she really have time to contemplate this new form she's taken on. One thing she was sure of was that this was not her true body. If the fact that her hand passing through Regina was not enough of a dead giveaway. The way her senses seemed dulled, and there seemed to be a lag between the commands her brain was giving and the time it took her body to follow said commands. "So then what was this?" She wondered. The closest thing she could come up with was a form of astral projection. It was the only thing that made any kind of sense. God, not that anything really made sense in her life anymore. She tried to feel her magic only to find that her reserves were very low. She did not think she had long left.

A short time later Regina returned, she wore a new nightgown this one a dark blue. The soft material clung to her damp body in such a way that it took all Emma's self control to not ogle at the other girl. She tried to keep her eyes above neck level, which may not have been a good idea either as she found it just as hard to think while looking into Regina's eyes.

She could see how tired Regina looked, but it seemed that the brunette was trying to fight off sleep. No doubt dreading the nightmares that would haunt her once she shut her eyes. "I know you may not want to but you need to get some rest." Emma told her as gently but firmly as she could.

Regina bit her lip as she stared at Emma for a moment contemplating something. "Would...would you stay with me till I fall asleep?" She asked in a timid voice that was so quiet that Emma almost missed it. Regina it seemed, had realized like Emma, had that she more than likely did not have much time left.

"Of course." She replied with a nod. Emma let Regina crawl under the covers before she joined her on the bed, both laying on their sides facing each other. Emma longed to wrap her arms around the other girl but knew this form would not allow that. She settled for resting her palm on Regina's stomach, absentmindedly drawing patterns across her skin.

It didn't take Regina long to fall asleep. As her breathing evened out and her mind came a rest. Emma slowly disappeared in a cloud of green motes of light.