Chapter 10 Choices

Emma

She was running through the woods knowing she was headed straight for a trap but Regina had Henry and Emma would do anything to protect him. Then she reached the clearing and saw the well but neither Regina or Henry were there.

"Regina come out I did exactly what you said, I'm alone. Now come out."

Regina came out from behind a tree but Henry still wasn't with her and Emma felt a lump form in her throat but she forced it down because she couldn't let Regina see her weak side.

"I didn't think you would listen I thought for sure you would have brought Graham."

"Where is Henry you bitch?"

"No need to swear Miss. Swan he is safe and he will stay that way as long as you follow my directions and do everything I say."

"I want to see Henry first."

"Fine."

And with that Henry magically appeared. He was tied to a chair but he was safe and that made Emma so happy.

"Let him go."

"No he is my insurance policy. I need you to do something for me."

"Anything just leave him alone."

"I'm glad you said anything. I need you to kill Graham."

"What?"

"Well I am going to make another curse and now that I know that he is your true love he needs to be eliminated."

"Why?"

"I'm glad you asked because with him out of the way there is no way to break my new curse because only you are your true love can break it so he must die you see."

"No I won't do it."

"Fine then you will never see Henry again."

"NO! Fine you win Regina."

"Excellent. We need to sell this I know he his close so I need you to scream."

"You are really evil."

"Yes now scream."

With everything she had and all the emotions that she had bottled up over the years she let out the loudest scream that she could. And she knew Graham would come running and then she would have to kill the one she loved to save her son. What made her most upset was that Regina was going to win and get her happy ending and everyone else would suffer. She collapsed to her knees and prepared for the worst moment of her life.

Graham

He was running faster than he had ever ran in his life. If Emma was hurt or in danger he was the one who had to protect her, he had made her that promise and he never broke a promise. He rounded a corner and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Emma.

But she was on the crowd crying and no one else was in sight, not even Henry. He ran to her side and brought her into his arms pulling her close. She melted into his arms but she still didn't stop crying. He stroked her back and ran his hands through her hair slowly trying to console her.

"It's ok I'm here. What happened Emma, where is Henry and Regina?"

She gathered herself long enough to answer his question and explained what had happened.

"She took Henry he's gone and it's my fault."

"No it's not Emma it's her fault."

"No if I wouldn't have broken the curse Henry wouldn't be in danger right now."

"You don't know that. You freed everyone, you saved us all and we will save Henry. I will do anything to help you and Henry. I love you."

Emma

Lying to him was killing her inside but she couldn't bring herself to tell him the truth.

"That's the problem Graham I love you and you love me."

"What do you mean I don't understand?"

"Regina wants to make a new curse and she doesn't want it broke ever. And she knows that you are my true love now and if she makes another curse we could break it." Telling him this is ripping her apart and she begins to cry again because she knows if she tells him the truth he will sacrifice himself to save her and Henry. She hopes he will convince her not to but she knows that he won't.

"It's ok Emma tell me."

"She needs me to kill you but I won't we will figure this out Graham."

His head falls as he pulls her close and kisses the top of her head. They are both crying at this point but Graham is the first to pull back.

"Do it. You don't know what she will do to Henry and you can beat her without me. You need Henry more than you need me and Henry needs you."

"No I won't Graham."

"Yes you have to save Henry. It's ok you don't cry. You gave me what I always wanted love. I love you more than anything in the world and I made a promise to protect you and this is me keeping my promise."

He pulls a knife out of his back pocket and places it in her hand as tears continue to stream down her face.

"Graham I don't think I can."

He gently places his hand above hers and guides it towards his heart. They sit there forehead to forehead just enjoying their last few minutes together.

"I love you Graham."

"I love you more than you'll ever know Emma."

"Ok you too love birds get this over with I can't take all this mushiness it makes me sick."

Neither of them had even realized that Regina had come back but she was standing over them with the biggest smirk on her face. Graham and Emma both wanted to hit her but they knew that wouldn't work.

"You think you might have won Regina but Emma will still defeat you, it's her destiny."

"Oh Graham how wrong you are. You made the wrong decision back when you let Snow live and now you are making the wrong decision again. How pitiful."

"It's called doing the right thing you bitch. I saved someone who couldn't protect themselves and had done nothing wrong. You are the one making the wrong decision by using the one's she loves against her. That will only make her come at you even harder. She is stronger than you think and you are going to be sorry."

"Yada yada yada. Just kill him Miss. Swan before I do in a very terrible way."

Graham looked right into Emma's eyes, "It's ok Emma do it I'm ready."

"I'm sorry Graham."

She lifted the knife and plunged it towards Graham's heart thinking this moment would change her life in the worst way possible.