"Emma finds out that Gold sent Ruby flying and gets angry."
7) How Gold Gets a Plateful of Fuck You with a Dash of Ass-kicking (Red Swan)
"It was completely unnecessary," Emma spat at the man — as he presented himself these days — as she struggled to keep her clenched fist from somehow accidentally twitching right in the general direction of his wrinkly face.
"Need I remind you that we were convinced, based on our own experience, that you and your mother were both dead by then?" Rumpel shot back, the ever-present cane supporting most of his weight like the innocuous, watchful bystander forming a not-so-living shield between him and a Sheriff whose momentary aura was all pain and no game.
"You and Regina were, not us. Look, I don't know how things worked back at Pride Rock, but in my world, you don't get to decide how other people feel, what they believe or what they do about it." Emma crossed the remaining distance between them and was met with no resistance as her fingers curled greedily, almost spasmodically, around the collar of his shirt, which only made her stomach flip all the more. "I've noticed you like to play with fire, Gold. Just make sure you don't get burned — or that someone else doesn't burn you."
