Here's Chapter 7! Let's see how Victoria got home.

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Chapter 7: The Tree

The Woods

"Ugh, where the hell am I? The woods don't seem complicated in the day, and how the hell did I even ended up here?" Victoria mumbled to herself as she kept walking through the woods, making sure where to step so she wouldn't fall or stumble.

"Where's my phone, perhaps I can call Emma…" She began to search through the pockets of Henry's dungaree, and found nothing, oh great; she forgot her phone back home, so stupid, Victoria. She thought before huff out and start rubbing her own arms, she was getting cold since underneath the dungaree she was only wearing an old baggy t-shirt.

She was really having a big trouble on knowing where the hell she was, perhaps she should've listen to Regina and stick around her house while waiting for Emma. But something told Victoria to not stay there, the same time something told her to stay there and even wish to spend the night and make Emma forget about her, but Victoria couldn't do that, she could tell there was something about Regina that called her attention, but she needs to focus on Zelena and forget her 'desires' or whatever it really is. The redhead seems more and more interested on developing their relationship, they have been together for two months now, so Victoria highly doubts Zelena will ask her to marry her soon or move in, but she does feel that's what Zelena's planning to do.

"Perhaps if I climb this huge tree I can see something..." Victoria wondered as she shrugged and decided to go for it. The tree was tall, but it had branches everywhere, you could climb it like you were going upstairs, but using your hands too.

Whenever she was at the top, well mostly at the middle, since she could already see through few trees by where she was. She sat down over a large branch and began to look around the woods, finally she could see something else that stayed above the all trees, she quickly spotted out Storybrooke, every building light was turned off, and the only thing lighten up the small town as the lights by the roads. "So now I only have to take this trail and then- AH!" She gasped and quickly raised her hand to shield her face, why? Because a crow was flying towards her direction, why the hell was the crow almost aiming to her face? Was it blind or what? But when she done that, her heart skipped and something quickly came out from her finger tips, which made the crow freeze in the midair, covered in ice then just fall down, hitting against the ground and breaking in pieces. "Holy shit! What the hell was that?!" Victoria gasped as she looked down to see where the crow landed, then she looked at her own palms wondering if she done that? Was this magic? Was she supposed to do this? What the hell was going on? Regina never mentioned about everybody having magic, she said only a 'couple' of people have it, so why the hell Victoria done that? She leaned forward to see the crow again, but this time she forgot her palms weren't pressed against the branches since she was staring down at them, so with that lack of support Victoria simple lose her balance over the branch and fell.

She gasped in pain each time her body hit a branch while she fell, till it stopped once she hit the ground. It hurt way too much, she felt like she was bleeding from her head, since it was super warm and she could see some liquid covering her eyes, then she tried to move and her ribs hurt like well, and she couldn't move her right arm. "Ouch…" It was the only last thing she said before her body allowed her to fall unconscious to void anymore suffering from the pain.

Ingrid was by her Snow Lair almost about to fall asleep till she quickly felt some magic around her, she could feel somebody else used their magic closer to her lair, and it bothered her a bit because the magic felt just like hers, or at least close to it. This only meant one thing, well, two, either Elsa was around, or...

Thinking perhaps it was Victoria, Ingrid left her lair and got herself dressed in some tight jeans, a dark sweater then a jacket over her shoulders since it was chilly this night. That's when she finally spotted something on the ground that pretty much looked like a human body. She rushed her way towards it, and that's when she noticed that it was Victoria, unconscious on the ground and with a big bleeding on her forehead, and then some slight bleeding scratches all over her body, that ripped a bit of her clothes. "Victoria!" Ingrid gasped as she got on her knees closer to the brunette young woman, she pressed her fingers against her neck, and was damn glad that she was still alive, but she need medical assistance, and right now.

Ingrid removed her own phone from her jacket and began to call an ambulance, the only thing she said is that she found somebody unconscious in the woods and that she would freeze few trees to show them the way to get where they were, after giving that information, she just stared at Victoria, she wanted to do something, but she feared whatever she done would only make things worse, so she just hoped the ambulance would get here, and quickly.

The more she stared at the blood from Victoria's wounds, the more ideas she was getting, perhaps she should get Victoria's blood from her wounds, but wouldn't that be taking advantage of the poor girl? Well, this is the only way she can get blood from her anyway, Victoria needs to have her flesh open to bleed, and there's enough blood for Regina's spell, so perhaps she should just do it. Moving her hand around she made the bottle appear and open it, she pressed it against Victoria's forehead but under the wound, as she allowed the blood fall down in the bottle, and when she thought it was enough, she closed the bottle and put it in pocket of her jacket. "You are going to be okay.." Ingrid mumbled as she took Victoria's hand in hers and gave a gentle squeeze.

The Snow Queen while waiting took a look around and that's when she noticed some ice on the ground that wasn't melting, which meant it could only be magic, she didn't done that, so the only answer came from Victoria, Ingrid looked back at Victoria's unconscious face and gave a weak smile. "You are the one…"


Regina's Mansion

After crying on her mother's arms, Regina decided the day had ended for her, she didn't even bothered to make dinner because she felt too exhausted, and her mother understood just fine. But when she thought she would finally have a peaceful sleep after such day, she was wrong, because the bell from her house rang, and that woke her up. Groaning a bit sleepily, she rose herself up from the bed and checked the time, it was 1:30am, who the hell was by her door at such hour? So she decided ignore, perhaps it was her mind paying her some pranks, till the bells began to ring again and this time faster than before.

Huffing out, Regina forced herself to step out of the bed and her room, now walking downstairs, she walked up to the door in her silk pajamas, she open her door without thinking twice, it's not like she feared what or who would be at outside, she had her own magic which was more powerful than a shotgun.

"Emma, what are you doing here?" Regina asked as she perked up an eyebrow and tried to remain more awake.

"Regina, I'm sorry, I know it's late, but have you seen Victoria? I asked Ruby and she said she saw her spending time with your mother." Emma asked worried sick and she seemed anxious since she couldn't stop balancing on the heels of her shoes.

"She hasn't come back home?" Regina frowned now, getting more awake and worried like Emma.

"I…no, at first I thought she was only going to be late because of your mother, but then it was 10pm, and she wasn't home, so I thought she would be with Zelena, but then Snow told me that she saw Zelena alone thirty minutes before, so the 10pm, turned into might night, and I after few minutes I finally decided to go out and search for her, she didn't even took her phone." Emma finished her words as she showed Regina, Victoria's phone on her palm.

"She was here till eight almost nine, I tried to let her stay in for dinner, but she declined and said you were probably worried sick so she went home. I told her it was dark, and that I would give you a call to come pick you up, but that didn't stopped her." Regina said with a frown, as her lower lip tremble for a quick second, she folded her arms in front of her chest; she was really trying her best to not show how much she cared for Victoria.

"I see damnit she should've listened to you." Emma huffed out as she checked her watch again, it was getting even more late and yet there was no news of Victoria. She sent Charming and Ruby search for Victoria, Henry wanted to help but Emma decided he should be with Snow and help her out with the little ones, Liam and Neal. Emma's eyes landed on Regina as she noticed that the mayor was trying her best to remain rigid and careless about the situation, but of course Emma knew better. "Regina, come on, you don't have to pretend around me, I know what you feel, so just let it out."

"Miss. Swan, I'm not going to discuss my feelings to you again."

"You don't have to, but you don't have to hide them around me. I'm not judging you, you know."

"I- I know, let's… not talk about this again." Regina's frown got deeper but then she allowed herself to relax as she removed her arms from her chest.

Emma could notice this was making Regina feel extremely uncomfortable so she decide to let it go, maybe it was better like that, perhaps Emma shouldn't let Regina feel too much or else the mayor can get her heart broken, or more broken, from the chit chats she has time to time with Victoria, she can tell her relationship Zelena is going through a serious path, Victoria doesn't seem to have a girly thrilled side towards that, but of course she's happy to find out what will come from that.

"Regina, dear. Who are you talking to?" Cora asked as she came from the kitchen with a silk robe hiding her figure as she rubbed her eye gently before take a better look at the door. "Sheriff, is something wrong?"

Emma looked up at Cora. "I, well actually-"

"It's about Victoria, she hasn't returned home yet." Regina replayed as she quickly went upstairs after finishing her words.

Emma pressed her lips together awkwardly, while Cora was left speechless by the door as she watched her daughter going upstairs, then her eyes landed on the sheriff. "That young woman got her hard."

"Huh?"

"Victoria, Regina fell hard for her. I have never seen her like this, not even with Daniel."

"Oh right…" Emma looked down as she kept balancing herself on her heels; perhaps Cora didn't knew Victoria was actually Regina's true soul mate.

Cora perked up an eyebrow as she eyed Emma up and down. "You know something more than this, don't you?"

Emma quickly cleared her throat. "What makes you think that? I totally don't know more than you. Regina obviously voids that topic every time."

"Hum…" Cora turned her nose. "I got my eye on you, Swan."

"I'm ready, let's go." Regina said a she came down the stairs with some tight blue jeans, dark flat shoes, a blazer and underneath it a dark blue shirt.

Emma looked up at Regina and for the first time she was seeing the mayor wearing flat shoes and jeans. "Huh, yeah right. Let's go." Emma shrugged before turn around but while she done that she could see Cora's glare on her, and she even rose her hand pointing her two fingers to her own eyes then at Emma while mouthing 'I'm watching you', Cora really needs to stop watching Henry and his friends, she's freaking Emma out.

As Cora was about to close the door since Emma and Regina were reaching Emma's yellow car, some loud noise made them stop in their tracks, it was the loud noise from the ambulance sirens, and this made their heart race, or somebody decided to have a stroke, or this was Victoria.

"Emma!" Regina gasped as she looked at Emma horrified.

"Right, let's go!" Emma shared the same horrified feeling. She quickly unlocked her car and they got inside, but before Emma could speed up, Cora got her way inside the car, even if she was still wearing her silk robe and some flat sleepers.


Hospital

"How is she?" The Snow Queen quickly rose from her chair as she approached the doctor that was stepping closer to them. Yes, them, because in the waiting room, was Ingrid, Regina, Emma, Cora, David and even Tinkerbell.

The doctor stepped back when everybody stood up the same time Ingrid did, he was wondering if they were all going to attack him because of this? Well it only showed this new Storybrooke visitor had more "power" over everybody than they thought. "She's…stable. Luckily she has no concussion, so the wound on her head is just superficial so is the all scratches she has on her, we cleaned them and there's no danger of getting infection. We just finished the surgery of her broken arm; she will need to stay with the cast for six weeks; about her broken rib she has to go through few appointments to see if it's healing correctly or not, obviously it will be very painful every time she breathes, laughs, coughs, or whatever she does that requires the need of her lungs. I will pass a prescription of a certain pain killer for that."

"And how long will the broken rib to heal?" Emma asked perking up an eyebrow.

"It usually takes six weeks as well."

Ingrid and Regina frowned slightly, while Ingrid showed a maternal care, Regina showed another kind of care, like your partner is in pain and you can't do much about it. Victoria will spend lots of time in pain because of her broken rib, and her broken arm as well, it will be over a month with this struggle, but she will have support of everybody else, and the medication as well.

"Can we see her now?" Cora asked.

"She isn't still awake, but yes you can. Only two people at the time, please." The doctor finished his words before turn around and start walking away to go warn a nurse to get the right medication for the patient.

"Me and Tinkerbell!" Cora quickly spoke as she wrapped her arm around Tinkerbell's and quickly began to head to the room where Victoria stayed.

"Mother…" Regina was about to complain but it was already too late.

Ingrid wanted to go first, perhaps she and Regina could go, but of course Cora beat them to it and got there first, she didn't know why but the Queen of Hearts was planning something.

"Soooooo…" Emma balanced on her heels again as she stared awkwardly at everybody else.

"I believe we have some questions for you, Sarah." David said as he placed his palm against his side while eyeing Ingrid.

"Me?" Ingrid perked up an eyebrow as she looked at David, wondering what wrong she done now.

Regina even perked up an eyebrow at this so now she was looking between David and Ingrid, wondering if the Ice Queen really had something to do with this, Regina told her to get blood from Victoria, was this her solution? No, impossible, Ingrid wasn't that evil anymore, she was a kind person, even more kind than Regina.

"Yes, you were the one who found her, right? Did you saw what happen?" David questioned her.

"Yes, I did found her, and no I did not see what happen to her."

"Are you sure? I doubt Victoria would be so reckless to climb a big tree and then fall from it." David frowned.

"H-Hey, David, come on. I don't think it's time to start an interrogation, plus there's no reason to interrogate Sarah." Emma said trying to calm down her father, she didn't knew why he was acting like this, perhaps he didn't' forgot what the Snow Queen made them go through.

"No, Emma, I believe we need to know if what happen to Victoria was an accident or not. I already find this mysterious how she got in Storybrooke by falling from the sky and hit Regina's car without a single scratch, and yet she falls from a tree and hurts herself. How is this even possible?" David looked at Emma, but when he spoke about Regina's car he looked at her, giving one suspicious look.

"Now you want to interrogate me as well?" Regina rolled her eyes before shake her head slowly, she had no time for this ignorant interrogations, she was as clueless as everybody else, and she tried to find Victoria on the book or on the other records, but she's nowhere to be seen.

"I'm just saying this is very suspicious." David shrugged.

"Maybe it is, but there's no reason to interrogate Sarah and Regina, you should b thankful that Sarah found Victoria in the right time, or else things could be worse for her." Emma said trying her best to make David ignore this.

"I'm thankful, but it doesn't mean that I still have my doubts about their intentions. I know we already had visitors show up, but Victoria showed up through the weirdest way possible, and she doesn't remember a thing, I thought the curse was broken, why doesn't she remember?" David showed his frustration, he really wanted to know what was going on.

"Pardon me? Are you saying that I erased her memories?" Regina sounded rather offended by David's words and she allowed that to show.

"I didn't mean that, I just-"

"Then what did you meant!? This is absurd! Since she got in this town I've been doing my best to find out more about her and figure if she's from the book or not, I don't see you doing none of that, so perhaps you should look better at your own actions!" Regina was getting furious, she hated that David thought she was going to harm Victoria when she wanted the actual opposite of that.

Ingrid raised her palm and placed it over Regina's arm to try calm her down. "I understand your concern, but we have really nothing to do with it. Just because we have magic doesn't mean we are able to make people show up out of thin air, perhaps Rumple would have a better answer for you."

"Yeah, great, bring Rumple into this and put the all blame in him." David said sarcastically before raise his hands like he was giving up on the matter.

"Perhaps he's the one to blame and you are here judging us!" Regina shouted at him.

"Hey, hey guys! Listen here!" Emma tried to call out for them to make them stop this useless argument.

The nurse walked through the hallway and while she was going to get into Victoria's room she noticed that the rest of the group that stayed behind was having some sort of argument, but she decided to ignore it and just get in the room. "How is our patient?"

Cora and Tinkerbell quickly removed their hands from Victoria's body as they stepped away with a guilty expression on their face. "Fine, fine." Cora said with a forced smile.

The nurse perked up an eyebrow as she watched the two women with guilty expressions but since Victoria still seemed asleep and calm, she just shrugged it off. "Ooookay…I've got the pain killers and other medication that she needs to take. The information needed is written on the paper." She said as she handed a plastic bag with three kinds of medications.

"Thank you." Tinkerbell thanked the nurse as she took the plastic bag on her hands.

"That will be all." The nurse said and when she was about to leave she remembered something "Oh! Whenever she wakes up and if she's still in much pain, you are allowed you give her one pain killer, just one." And with that the nurse was gone.

"Now she's gone, help me turn her around." Cora said as she landed her palms over Victoria's left arm, the one that wasn't broken.

"Are you insane?! She's injured; we can't move her like that." Tinkerbell complained.

"Then unless you have x-vision try to make sure you find some mark or a tattoo on her!" Cora huffed out as she removed her hands away and folded her arms in front of her chest.

"Why are you so determinate on finding some tattoos on her?" Tinkerbell asked with a huff, since they were trying to see in Victoria's body some tattoo before the nurse walk in.

"Because I feel like Emma is hiding me something and so is Regina. There's no way my daughter would fall so hard for somebody without a real reason."

"What? Regina is falling for Victoria?" Tinkerbell looked at Cora shocked, yet very interested, she liked gossip.

"Yes, she is, now if you help me find a tattoo on Victoria, I would see if she's the one or not."

"Wait, wait, you are trying to find out if Victoria is Regina's true love?" Tinkerbell asked her with a perked up eyebrow.

"Yes, I thought you were the one who said something about Regina's true love have some tattoo that would let her know who really was, right?"

"Yeah, the tattoo is like some rose full of thorns in an infinite symbol." Tinkerbell said as she placed the plastic bag over some chair and approached Victoria.

"Good, now let's find it." Cora placed her palms again over Victoria the same time as Tinkerbell. They were about to move Victoria around till…

"Ugh…" Victoria groaned slowly as she tried her best to open her eyes.

"Ohshit!" Cora gasped since she got scared, she wasn't waiting for Victoria to wake up, so it scared her, and as much as she complains about how a proper lady doesn't curse, she couldn't void it.

Both Cora and Tinkerbell stepped away from Victoria.

"Where am I?" Victoria mumbled under her breath as she open her eyes but only half of her eyelids were raised. She felt a bit…high? Perhaps it was the drugs from the surgery, but her body still hurt like hell, specially her ribs, she was about to pull herself up to sit down, but then she noticed she couldn't move her right arm and even the slight move of her upper body it was like getting smashed.

"Victoria, its Cora. Are you alright?" Cora said as she approached the young woman.

Tinkerbell looked down at the bed remote, and tried it out, luckily for her; she done it just right and the upper part of the bed rose slowly so Victoria could be in a better position to look at them.

"No…It hurts, everywhere. What happen?" Victoria spoke slowly and tried to breathe as well, but every time she done that, her ribs hurt, but she couldn't stop breathing.

"Well, it seems you fell from a tree in the woods. The sno- Sarah Fisher was the one who found you." Tinkerbell replayed her.

"Sarah Fisher?" Victoria perked up an eyebrow, or at least tried to. "And who are you?"

"Yes, Sarah Fisher the woman from the ice-creams, you know her, and that's Tinkerbell." Cora answered Victoria.

"Oh right…" Victoria groaned again in pain, remembering who that Sarah Fisher was now. "Tinkerbell? Like from Peter Pan?"

Tinkerbell chuckled slightly before nod her head.

"That's so coooooooooool…." Victoria sounded like she was moaning the word cool, it's obvious she was high because of the drugs.

"You really don't sound okay…" Cora stated.

"Of course not. Like, this hurts a lot…." And when she finished those words she was crying, but she wasn't making any noises, only a bunch of tears fell down from her eyes.

"Oh my god, are you crying?" Tinkerbell gasped as she quickly took out a tissue from her jacket and wiped Victoria's tears.

"It just hurts way too much. Like..I need to breath, but every time I do it, it hurts, why it hurts?" She sounded like she was begging.

"Hum…we got pain killers, the nurse said we could give it to you." Tinkerbell suggested.

"Yes, we can give you that. You broke a rib and your right arm, also you got few scratches on you, and big wound on your forehead, but everything is fine now. Other than spend over six weeks with that, but it's okay." Cora wasn't really good with the pep talk. She removed a pain killer from the plastic bag and handed it to Victoria while Tinkerbell opened a bottle of water and helped Victoria drink it after having the pill in her mouth.

"Now we just wait for the effect to kick in…." Tinkerbell mumbled as she watched Victoria still groaning in pain but trying her best to breathe slowly.

Cora's eyes landed on the wheelchair, and she was getting a big idea just by looking at that, perhaps she should cheer up Victoria? "Hey…do you want to try out the wheelchair?"

What did Cora really had in mind?...


Yeah, I decided to stop here because I want next chapter to still be based on this, at least half of it. – Tell me what you thought about this and I hope you liked it!

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