Arrival

Emma woke to the shrill ring of her phone, "hello? " she answered groggily. "Sorry Emma I had to get to the office, just wanted to let you know that I had an email a few mins ago from Regina, she will contact you in a bit and I'm afraid your flights been cancelled but I have managed to reschedule it for 8pm tonight so I can take you to the airport later on." Emma glanced at the time it was 10am she had plenty of time. "Okay, thanks Johanna".

"No problem Emma, see you later". Emma checked her email and saw an unread message from R. Mills. "Hello, Miss Swan, I was happy to hear from you, I live in Storybrook Maine, are you available to come here sometime soon? Henry is eager to meet the woman who drew the "pretty pictures" in his book. Thank you, Regina Mills" Emma laughed, she wasn't sure who was more eager, her or the kid. "Hey, Regina, Please call me Emma, Miss Swan is too formal. Well, I work from home so I am available at any time and I don't have any projects going on at the moment. So whenever is best for you, Emma" over the next couple hours after she had showered and changed into her comfiest jeans and favorite hoodie, Emma and Regina hashed out their plans to meet. Soon Johanna had returned ready to take Emma to the airport. They talked about Regina and the plans for Emma on their way there. "goodbye Emma, let me know when you land" they hugged and Emma rushed to the terminal and boarded the plane.

Back in Storybrook Regina had just cleaned up Henry from his rather messy breakfast. Truthfully Henry probably didn't understand who it was visiting in a few days but she was excited enough for the both of them, although she was nervous about meeting the young woman who was the reason for her little prince. She rested Henry on her hip and carried him and his book, up the stairs toward the guest bedroom, so she could make sure that Emma had everything she needed. She put Henry on the bed and gave him the book, while she scanned the room to make sure everything was perfect. She put clean towels on the chair under the window and checked that the curtains were fastened correctly. Soon she was happy and took Henry to the nursery to get him ready. She dressed him in his little blue jeans and dinosaur t-shirt. "You ready to go to the park Henry?" Henry clapped. They headed back down stairs, Regina grabbed her keys and her bag and went outside henry waddling beside her. Life carried on as normal for the next couple of days, but as that Friday drew nearer both women were a bundle of nerves.

Friday had arrived. Regina drove to Mals with Henry in his car seat, arriving early as always. She let herself in with the key under the mat and carried Henry into the living room just as Mal entered from the kitchen. " I thought id heard you come in" Regina set the sleeping Henry down on the couch, he nestled into the soft pillows and continued to snore lightly. " You sure you're alright to have him?" Regina asked while she watched her boy sleep. "of course, you need to know about this woman before he meets her, you don't want him to get attached if she just going to leave again." Regina frowned "Mal." she warned. "I'm just saying Regina, she basically threw him away, what makes you think she wont do it again?" She looked up at Mal, "I just know, and I've told you before how I feel about this, if she wants to be in his life I am not going to stop her. I want her in his life, I want to know about his birth family". Mal put her hands up in defeat. "Fine, just be careful Regina." after checking Henry had everything he needed, she hugged Mal and headed back out to her car and drove home.

Meanwhile, Emma was cruising down the country road that led to Storybrook. In all honesty, she had thought that the town had been made up. She stopped at the town line staring in disbelief at the sign that read "Welcome to Storybrook". Emma sighed. " lets do this" she thought to her self and she carried on into town. She pulled up outside the manor and saw a brunette in a tight pencil skirt and white blouse picking dark red apples from a tree in the garden. Emma sat and watched for a moment, when suddenly the sky turned black and the wind began to blow. Emma had felt it before she saw that the brunette was on the floor clutching at her head, Emma touched her head where she had felt a twinge of pain. It was forgotten a moment later when she had seen the blood on the woman's hand. Emma ran from the car towards her. As she got a few feet away a branch had been pulled from the tree beside her she ducked as it whooshed past her and dropped to the floor, another hurtled towards the woman on the floor but Emma got there first, she pushed her out of the way pinning her to the floor. The second branch caught her on the side of her head. She saw a look of horror on the other woman's face and blacked out.