At the request of...AdaliaWren! Here's the next chapter! Sorry I was in a class where we couldn't have our computers, or I would've updated sooner. Time skip next chapter!

Regina's POV

Chapter 10: Escape

I walked out of the school with Emma smiling. I had gotten her out with a note saying that Emma had a doctor's appointment, and it worked like a charm. That principal was just a plain idiot, letting a kid go out with a person who only claimed to be their emergency contact, it was never on the sheet.

Emma and I got in the car, and drove away from the school.

"Where are we going?" Emma asked. I didn't think I'd get this far, honestly. What would a mother do? I had no idea. My mother was anything but normal. What kind of mother kills her daughter's true love? A heartless one. I realized what I had just thought, and remembered all the times that I had tried to kill Snow's Prince Charming.

No. I though. She wasn't your daughter. She caused Daniel's death.

I kept driving, and it took me a minute to remember Emma's question. I looked in the rearview mirror, and realized I was scowling. Emma looked scared in the backseat.

"We'll go wherever you want to go." I said, and Emma looked out the window. She pointed out places she'd already been, and places she was bored with. She didn't want to go to the playground, she was bored with Granny's Diner, and she wanted to go in the library, but it was all boarded up. We got dangerously close to the edge of town, and Emma just wanted to keep going. I wondered what would happen if I tried to go over the town limits. Would the car crash? Would we be able to get through? I doubted we could get through. I had made the town somewhere near impossible to exit. Even if we could get over the town limits, where would we go? I didn't know anything outside of Storybrook, and I barely knew the rest of the world. My only reference was the globe in Mr. Gold's shop, and I tried to stay out of there.

I could see the outline of the town sign.

"Emma?" I asked, trying to sound sweet. Sweet wasn't exactly my forte, but I didn't want to scare Emma again. "Are you sure you don't want to go somewhere in town?"

"I don't want to go anywhere in town. It's boring there. I've been everywhere." Emma replied. "I want to see what else there is."

"Emma, we-" I was about to say can't leave town, but my curiosity got the better of me. What if we could leave town? Then I could take Emma away from Storybrook and she would never break the curse. It would completely turn my original plan around, but it seemed better than trying to gain Emma's trust and make her feel guilty about breaking the curse in twenty two years. Taking Emma from Storybrook would solve all my problems. I could leave, too. That would solve the problem of having hell to pay if I came back without Emma. I could get lost in a big city. No one would ever find me, and Emma would never find Storybrook.

"We'll definitely try to see what else is out there." I said, suddenly determined to get out of town. Maybe since I was the creator of the curse, then the no one can leave thing will be suspended for me. I only need to get out. Or maybe if I drove fast enough I could get over.

I sped up the car, ready to escape.

The Storybrook sign was so close I could almost touch it, and I saw my speedometer hit eighty miles per hour. This could work. This could work.

I might escape. I thought. That's when it all went wrong.

The car's brakes went on without my foot on the pedal, spinning the car out of control. We skidded to a halt for a split second, the car facing the sign. It was a split second of safety. My foot was still on the gas pedal, though, so we shot head first into the Storybrook sign.

Everything went black.

A/N: I know it's really super short, and I apologize. It is very hard to write long chapters while doing a Photoshop project with a teacher looking over your shoulder. But it's thanksgiving break, and I might update twice a day if I'm ambitious and actually have the ability to type two chapters a day, with the exception of thanksgiving (gobble, gobble). Anyway, keep reviewing! :)