Chapter ten

"He's not your son, he's mine," the blonde shouted at the clearly hurt brunette.

Thrusting her arms forward, the blonde went flying backwards down the steps. Taking in a sharp intake of breath, she looked up at the other woman in complete shock. Before she could say anything however, she disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke, and a woman with a pixie cut and a man came running to her side.

"Emma, are you okay?," the woman asked.

"Are you okay?" Mary Margaret asked again.

Emma shot up to see her concerned roommate's concerned face, "what?"

"Your alarm was going off and you look really like...distressed," she frowned, and she looked oddly maternal.

Emma shook her and sighed, "weird dream," she murmured.

Mary Margaret nodded, "well I made you some coffee, aren't you meeting Regina soon?"

Emma looked at her clock, "in about an hour," she sighed.

Mary Margaret nodded awkwardly again. She felt like she should be doing more, but she felt it would be ridiculous to ask a grown woman what her nightmare was, even though she really wanted to. If she was being completely honest, she felt like she wanted to envelop the blonde in a strong hug the moment she saw her, but she just didn't know why, and she had a feeling that she wouldn't accept it. After this thought entered her mind, she smiled and awkwardly left the room.

Emma sighed and leaned back against her bed. She was trying to decide whether it was a dream or a memory, and somehow she knew that it was the latter, but she refused to believe it. I think I need to talk to Regina she thought.

Regina walked into the pawn shop, having been informed by Graham that Sidney seemed to be back to normal.

"I take it you agreed to my terms," she said as she walked up to him.

Belle (or Lacey?) walked out from the back and smiled at Gold, "what's going on?" she asked.

Rumple's expression softened when he saw her, "I just need to talk to Mayor Mills, have you finished the inventory?"

She shook her head, "nearly, are we still going for breakfast?"

"Ten minutes," she nodded and walked back to finish off.

"How did that happen?" Regina laughed.

"I gave her a job," he explained.

"Are you saying you was actually nice to her?" she chuckled.

"Well because of you she can't exactly remember, so I suppose it was my only option," he replied.

"It must be difficult to be nice to the woman that you love," she quipped.

"I believe that you have a deal to fulfil your majesty."

Regina nodded, "as long as you drew up a contract."

His jaw clenched and she laughed, sighing he pulled out a piece of paper from under the counter, "you know me far too well."

As she began to read she chuckled, "I believe it was you who inserted yourself into my life."

Once she had finally signed he replied "it was necessary, now tell me."

"He lives in New York, and once the curse is broken you can go and find him," she answered.

Nodding he sighed "I already knew that."

"But you didn't know that he is Henry's father."

Gold's eyes widened, "and why would you tell me that?"

"Lying never really got me anywhere, so I'm trying a new approach, it seems to be working well," she replied.

"And how do you plan to break the curse?" he asked, sounding almost desperate.

"I thought you would have some ideas about that, you did design the curse."

He thought for a moment, "the saviour needs to perform an act of true love, so it may take a while."

"What if she remembers what was supposed to happen?" Regina asked.

Frowning, Gold considered this, "well assuming that she truly loved someone in this alternate future, she would simply need to kiss that person and the curse would break."

Regina nodded, "why doesn't she remember, she stopped the trigger with me."

"I suppose that it's possible that she has all of the memories, but her sense of disbelief is preventing her from remembering."

Regina frowned "so I have to make her beli-" she was interrupted by the sound of a motorcycle, "August," she exclaimed, before leaving the store without another word. Gold just looked at the queen in shock as she left.

Walking out onto Main Street, Regina saw the puppet pull up to Granny's.

Quickly walking over she stood in front of him, to be met with a curious look.

"Can I help you?" he asked, and Regina noticed fear behind his words.

"I believe that I may be able to help you with making Emma believe," she answered.

"What?" he asked nervously.

"Stop pretending Pinocchio, I know exactly why you're here, and we have a common goal."

He nodded, still looking very much like a fish out of water, "but that would break your curse," he whispered, suddenly very aware that they were getting strange looks from passersby, he gestured for them to walk into the diner.

"Well I prefer it to be broken," she replied as they took a seat.

He looked at her sceptically, "why?"

"It is very difficult to explain," she replied.

He shook his head, "so how do you suppose that I can help you?"

"I believe that you are able to help her...believe," she answered.

"And why should I trust you?" he huffed.

"You don't have to, I just suggest that you try," she answered.

He inspected her for a moment, clearly thinking overtime, only to be interrupted.

"Hey Regina," Emma said awkwardly.

Regina looked up at the blonde and smiled, and August's eyes widened, having figured out exactly why the queen wanted the curse to be broken.

"I was just welcoming our newest visitor, August, this is Emma Swan," she explained.

Emma nodded and looked at the man curiously, he is definitely familiar she inwardly sighed.

"It's nice to meet you," she replied, still inspecting Regina, still thinking about the woman throwing her backwards, all she could imagine was the look of utter rage she had seen in her dream.

August offered her smile, "thank you Mayor Mills," he replied, and quickly scampered away to another table after a few moments of awkward silence.

Emma took his seat "are you always this nice to visitors?"

"Well as Mayor I fully support tourism," she replied with a smile.

"Storybrooke doesn't seem like a very touristy place," Emma frowned.

"All the more reason to be inviting to the visitors that we do get," Regina smiled.

Emma sighed, "why are you always lying?"

Regina frowned, and she felt guilt at realising she had been honest with almost everyone except the blonde, "it may be hard to believe."

"Try me," she replied.

Looking around, Regina noticed no one in the diner looking their way, "everything Henry said is true."

Emma just let out a nervous laugh and stood up, "you're all insane," she muttered, before leaving the diner.

Regina sighed and August tentatively walked over, "didn't work?"

"It most certainly didn't work," she sighed.

Gold smirked down as he shone a UV light on the bottom of the contract. He had actually fooled to queen into allowing him to put a sleeping curse on her son. He wanted the curse to be broken more than anything, and so he had taken another look into the future, so all he had to do was acquire a poison apple and he would be reunited with his son very soon.

A/N Sorry for the wait, you can probably expect another update at some point tonight, tomorrow at the latest, please review and let me know what you think :)