Chapter ten

"Why so eager to leave?" Emma asked as she turned to the corner towards Henry's school.

"Just a theory," he replied.

Emma raised her eyebrow at him but he simply made a locking motion across his lips. She shook her head as she pulled up outside he grabbed his backpack, just before he got out of the car he said, "you should take mom out, she doesn't like the couch."

Emma sighed and leaned back against her seat, figuring that she still had a few hours before Regina woke up, she got out of the car and decided to go and talk to an expert on the Evil Queen.

"Hey, Emma," Snow said, as her daughter walked into her still empty classroom, "what's up?"

"I have a question about Regina," Emma said awkwardly.

"Why would you come to me?" she asked in shock.

"You've known her the longest," Emma replied.

Snow was about to protest before realising that she was right, "okay, but I don't think I know her the best."

"Henry suggested that she should get out of her house, where should I take her where she can't injure people?"

Her mother thought for a moment, "her apple tree," she suggested.

Emma cringed, "well me and Henry have this thing about no lying to her, I don't think she'll take the missing limb well."

Snow laughed and shook her head, "well than go and repair it before you go and get Regina."

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"Seriously, Emma?"

The saviour sighed, "I was hoping that the answer wouldn't be magic, but it always is."

"You really need to embrace it sweetheart," Snow laughed, the bell rang and kids started to file in.

Emma smiled when she saw Henry give her a questioning look, she quickly bade goodbye to her mother before going to regenerate a dead tree limb.

"Where are you taking me?" Regina asked, looking marginally less nervous in the bug this time.

"I said it's a surprise," Emma replied with a laugh. After arriving at the tree she had spent an hour and half trying to repair it, and then it took another two hours for Regina to wake up, so it was now lunch time and all that magic had made Emma starving.

Parking outside town hall, Emma hopped out of the car and helped Regina into her wheelchair.

Wheeling her around the back, she heard a sharp intake of breath as the apple tree came into view, "I figured you would want to see a familiar sight," Emma smiled.

"That's...very thoughtful," Regina replied with a weak smile, clearly masking the many other emotions that she was feeling.

"I'll be back in one second," Emma announced, as she ran back to the car, Regina continued to stare in awe at the tree, she hadn't even thought about it since she woke up.

Emma returned a moment later holding a picnic basket, she placed it on the bench and wheeled Regina over towards it.

Eyeing Regina laughed, "is it from the diner?"

"Well unless you want to be poisoned, you should probably see that as a good thing," Emma smirked as she began unpacking what Ruby had packed her.

After a few moments of silence, where they both ate their lunch, Regina eyed the tree suspiciously, "is there something wrong with my tree?"

Emma stopped mid-bite and gulped, "errr...what do you mean?"

Pointing at the resurrected branch, "that side looks different."

Emma visibly winced, wishing for billionenth time that she was better at magic, "you don't want to hear that story."

"Trust me, I do."

"I may have cut it down," Emma replied sheepishly.

"Why?" Regina asked indignantly.

"Because you pissed me off," Emma tried a small laugh.

"So we weren't friends?" Regina tilted her head.

"It was more of a tentative agreement that murder is too far because of Henry," Emma admitted.

"So why are you helping me?" Regina asked, still staring at the tree.

"Because I care about you, and I think we could have been friends without the whole saviour and Evil Queen thing."

Turning to look at her, Regina asked, "so you want to be my friend?"

"I enjoy being around you," Emma replied with a blush.

Regina nodded, before admitting, "you're not as insufferable as you're parents."

Emma let out a small laugh, "is that the best compliment you've got?"

"It's the best you'll get."

Silence fell again, and Emma decided to test her luck, "has any of your memory come back?"

Regina considered this for a moment before replying, "I've being having these dreams, I'm not sure if they're memories or not."

Nodding Emma came up with an idea, "okay, tell me what happened and I'll tell you whether it's real or not."

Regina thought for a moment, "that sounds surprisingly reasonable."

"I am capable of good ideas your majesty," Emma laughed.

"Okay, I dreamed throwing you down some stairs with magic," Regina began.

"Yeah, that happened and I have a scar to prove it," Emma laughed again.

Regina nodded, "I dreamed that you attacked me with a sword."

"That didn't happen, and why are all of these so violent?"

"It's how my psyche works," she replied with a shrug.

"And why is that?" Emma asked as casually as possible.

Regina shook her head and simply said "no we are not doing this."

"Doing what?" Emma asked.

"I am not telling you how I became a monster so that you can sympathise and judge me."

"You're not a monster!" Emma argued.

Regina looked at her suspiciously, before Emma's phone began to ring, looking down Emma saw that it was Henry.

"What is it kid?"

"The boiler at school is broken, you need to come and pick me up."

Sighing Emma agreed and hung up.

"I need to pick up Henry, want to come with?"

"Why not?" Regina shrugged as she allowed herself to be wheeled back to the car in complete silence.

A/N Sorry for the confusion with the last update, for some reason the wrong chapter was posted and when I tried to repost it was posted as a new chapter, but this is the actual chapter ten :)