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When Ruby got home she found Phelan with her head against a wall, her feet spread under her, and a hole in between her hands. Ruby frowned, "Where's Henry?"

Phelan made a fist against the wall, closed her eyes, and then opened them. "I had to lock him in the guest room, and break the window lock in there. I'm surprised that I haven't heard breaking glass yet. Is she..." Phelan's jaw worked, "Is Emma dead Ruby? Because I don't think that I can take the assault when we tell him. Henry's a fighter."

Ruby winced and gently touched Phelan's eye that was just starting to turn colors. "I can see that. Did he do that to the wall?"

"Ah, no..." Ruby didn't say anything, but Phelan seemed to hear something in Ruby's silence, "I'm a wolf, the damn big bad wolf, I have a temper."

Ruby pulled Phelan to her by the neck and hugged her for a long, long few minutes. Finally Phelan pulled away, "Rubes..."

Ruby shook her head, "It's worse than dead. A whole lot worse than dead."

"Shit."

"Yeah."

"What are you going to do."

Regina physically pushed Mary Margaret away, though not as hard as she wanted to. She could feel everything coursing through her. It felt like the entire town, the town that she had created, was flowing through her, and she felt as though she was going to explode. It didn't help that Mary Margaret's face reminded her of Emma's. She'd never seen it before, but... Regina put her hands up, as if trying to fend off the thoughts running through her brain, "Damnit Mary Margaret, go away."

Mary Margaret wasn't backing down, "Why? So you can go kill Gulliver. You were going to kill a man in front of your son Regina. You killed Graham, so who's next Gulliver, me, Archie, Marco, Ruby..."

"STOP! Stop it." Regina put her hands to her ears and turned away from Mary Margaret, "Just stop."

Mary Margaret didn't stop, "Or what?"

Regina slowly turned and grabbed the collar of Mary Margaret's shirt, pushing her backwards until she was up against the wall. The woman didn't blink and stared right back at Regina. "Now what Madam Mayor, will you punch me like you did Emma, or perhaps you'll strangle me with your magic like Gulliver. Hmmm?"

Regina grit her teeth and leaned in, "We were happy. I was happy."

Mary Margaret spoke in a voice just above a whisper, "So were we. You took that away from all of us."

"She was your daughter."

Mary Margaret didn't blink, "He was aiming for you."

Regina pushed Mary Margaret, causing the young woman's head to bang against the wall, "You think I don't know that? That the fact that I should be in that room, on those machines or down in the morgue isn't resonating through every Bone in my Body right now?"

Mary Margaret narrowed her eyes and then gave Regina the final push, "Then do something about it..." she paused, and then put the cherry on top, "...Your Majesty."

Henry had cried himself out several times over. And tried to fix the window's lock twice as well, not to mention trying to break the door's lock, or kick down the door. That last one had hurt quite a bit. It seemed much easier in the movies and on the TV shows, of course, they were all big adult actors too.

He was so tired and flopped on the bed for a second before a wave of worry cascaded over him. He frowned and jumped back up, pulling at the door with all his might. Pushing, pulling, pushing pulling, until he pulled and the door opened. He went sprawling backwards. It had been Ruby that opened the door. "Henry. We need to talk."

Both Ruby and Phelan stood in the door and Henry swallowed back tears that he didn't think he had. "Is... is Emma dead?"

"No. But she's in a coma, and... the doctors don't think that she'll come out of it."

Henry tried to keep a strong face on, "Ever?" Ruby nodded. "My Mom?"

Ruby shook her head, "She's fine, but, she disappeared Henry."

There was a boom and all three looked up.

Both Henry and Ruby had to jump backwards as all of a sudden there was a wolf in the room. Phelan dashed from the guest room towards the living room, knocking the gun safe off and giving it two kicks causing it to open. Still in wolf form she grabbed the gun with her mouth and was out the door just as Henry and Ruby got to the doorway of the living room.

Henry sniffed back his tears, "Ruby, why... what..."

Ruby shook her head, "I've never seen... I've never seen Woolf like that."

Henry slipped his hand from Ruby's and was out the door before Ruby could blink. "Ah, hell..." And went after him.

Regina stood in a grove. It wasn't too far from the town, but far enough. She looked down at her hands, and herself. She hadn't washed any of Emma's blood off of her suit. She ripped her blazer off and raised her hands to the heavens. Speaking under her breath.

A moment, a lifetime later, Regina didn't know, a wolf bounded into the clearing and turned into a totally naked Phelan. She picked up the gun off the ground and pointed it at Regina. "Stop-"

The sky clouded over with dark, dark clouds and Phelan looked up as rain poured down. "What are you doing?"

Regina's eyes were red rimmed and their gaze burned into Phelan's soul so pointedly that the wolf woman shuddered. The dark haired woman's voice was rough with emotion and anger as she spoke, "I created this town- I will destroy IT."

She closed her eyes and put her face up to the sky, her mouth moving with no words coming out.

Phelan growled under her breath and her hand tightened on the trigger, but before she could pull it. Henry dashed into the clearing and stumbled to a halt in the mud. "Please don't Mom. Please, please... Emma'll be okay, everything will work out, I promise. Pleeesse Mom."

Phelan took deep breaths and was happy that her hand didn't waver. "Listen to your son Mayor."

Regina whirled and Phelan only barely didn't take a step back at the look in the Mayor's eyes. "You DARE?"

Phelan swallowed, but didn't move the gun from where it was pointing. Honestly she was petrified that Henry was going to jump in front of his Mom at some point. He tended to leap before he looked.

Regina meanwhile may have been wearing a pant suit, but there was nothing earthly about her. Her eyes were the same color they always had been, but her hair seemed to be blacker than a black hole and the energy around the Mayor made Phelan's hair stand on end. "Look Mayor, the Doc said that there was a chance. If you destroy the world, then there's no chance..."

"Mom."

Regina turned back to Henry and looked down at him, "I'm sorry Henry, but... I'm evil remember, and..."

Henry yelled, "No..." and dove for his mother.