A/N: I'M SOO sorry for not updating sooner. I have my exams right now and they really freak me out. Again I want to thank you ALL for your comments, follows and favorites they really encourage me to write more and lift my spirit up at such tough days. So please DO NOT stop that.

Unfortunatly ladywolf101 won't be able to beta me for a while but she will be back and update her story as soon as possible, be patient with her, you all know it's worth it. Sadly that also means you have to endure my poor English skills, so every mistake you find, feel free to tell me. ;)

Hope you like the chapter.

"I'm sorry Snow." Red said shyly, trying to start a conversation.

"I know Red but don't worry, she'll be back in no time." Snow answered weakly, she refused to believe otherwise. If Emma wouldn't come back, if she really had lost her baby forever then... She didn't know how she would handle that, the only thing that kept her going was the hope that Emma would come back to her. Without that she probably would still lay in the hospital bed and cry like before. Magic always worked against her so now it had to work for her, just this one time.

"Snow stop!" Red said.

"I can't we have to hurry! What if there is a time limit for resurrection or something. I won't risk any more time than necessary!" Snow said still walking straight down the street to her goal.

"Yeah but Snow..."

"I have no time for that Red. We'll talk later."

"No, Snow you have to listen to me!" Red said more insisting this time and grabbing her friends arm to stop her and turn her around, looking her deep into the eyes, begging her friend to understand.

"A resurrection Snow? Really?" Red asked panicked. "Magic is powerful but never like that! You've already seen the outcomes of it once. Do you really want your daughter back as a walking dead?" Snow shook her head widely, not even daring to think about Emma like one of the victims she has seen once.

"Of course not! But maybe there's another way. He's the most powerful man in our world, he knows everything about magic. He has to know another way."

"Why don't you ask the blue fairy first maybe.."

"Damnit Red we both know what she will say and that she won't help me with this. Why can't you let me do this? Emma never did anything wrong to deserve such a behaviour of you." Snow exclaimed outraged. Why was Red so determined to delay Emmas rescue?

"Of course not and I really want to help you but if we know something about magic than that it always comes with a price."

"Which I ´m more than willing to pay if it brings my daughter back!" Snow replied stubborn.

"And what will he want from you? You have nothing here, no money, landscape or influence."

"Which he never wanted before." she defended herself.

"Exactly! He always wanted something we couldn't get easily or didn't know the meaning of. Please Snow, I beg you to think about it. What could he want this time? We nee to be prepared!" Red said reasonable and got her friend for the first time to over think her action for a second. But the answer Red got wasn't the one she wanted, the desperate look and the panicked tone Snow had were enough for Red to know that there was no use to argue anymore.

"Don't you think I know that Red? I know your´re right! But I can't think of anything than my daughter being dead right now." Snow started to scream with all the frustration she felt right now. "The first thing I saw after a 28-year nightmare was my little girl, who I gave up for what felt like an hour ago, laying in this hospital bed and knowing that she will never wake up again because of what I did!" The queen ended letting the tears fall free from her eyes and letting Red finally see how broken she really was. "Do you remember what it feels like, to know the person you love most is dead and ripped forever from you?" Snow whispered brokenly.

"Like your heart is crashed into a million pieces." Red answered regretfully, finally understanding what Snow meant.

"The joy of waking up and finally remember everything: my friends, my husband, my past, my whole life and then to understand that the woman I admired most, that I had feelings for I couldn't understand in the slightest and that I felt responsible for in a far more way than any friend should and finally everything made totally sense. That this woman really was my daughter, the same little baby I held in my arms for just a few minutes, who I felt kick and grow for nine months and who I loved from the moment I knew she existed and which I had to sent away to save her from a curse which was created just to punish me. The price for her resurrection isn't important to me, the only thing important to me is that she comes back to me. I'll pay whatever he wants. I have to tell her so much Red and I want to know so much of her life which I missed completely until a few months ago and I won't miss another minute of it!" Snow answered determined and continued her way to Rumpelstiltskin pawn shop.

"Ah my dear queen, what a pleasure to see you again." Rumple greeted the two women who stormed into his shop. "No offense but Mary Margaret really hasn't your fire but I glad to see that it finally came back to you. Your again the fairest of them all but you should think about letting your hair grow longer again it was more like you, you know." He said smiling and getting in front of the counter.

"Save it imp." Red yelled and immediately stood before her friend to protect her from whatever he may have planed.

"Oh I really hope I haven't insulted you Red. But every book says the same of her, it's not only my opinion. It's nothing you can really change." he explained nonchalant and directed his next words again at Snow White. "What can I do for you dearie?"

His sweet voice sounded exactly like she remembered, like honey to catch beans but it didn't scare her, she knew him and how to handle him, at least a little. So Snow straightened her back and tried to make her voice sound strong and unbending. "I want my daughter back."

"Well believe it or not, Miss Swan is you daughter. Do you want me to make her younger?" he asked wickedly.

"Stop playing games with me Rumple! We both know why I'm here. I want you to bring Emma back to life." Snow screamed angered, she already had lost the little patience she had.

"Miss Swan is dead?" he asked and both woman could clearly see his surprise, obviously he hadn't know that.

"Well I'm very sorry to hear that and I offer you my condolences, she was a brave woman."

"Yes, she is and I want YOU to bring her back to me."

"As much as I want to help you I'm afraid there isn't any chance for your daughter to come back to life. Death is inevitable." he said, almost regretfully but Snow just shook her head wildly.

"No you're lying! You're the best sorcerer in the whole world and magic is powerful, I've seen it countless of times doing impossible things, you have to bring her back, there has to be a way! I'll do anything, I'll give you anything I have, I'll do anything you want, just give her back to me!" Snow cried with desperate tears in her eyes, not wanting to accept the truth and making Rumple grin his most wicked smile.

"Really anything?" he asked and took a step forward, so that now there was almost no space between himself and Snow White who observed him in wonderment. To her surprise he took a straw of her black hair between his fingers and curled it slowly, watching how Snow White tried to understand what was going to happen. "Are you really sure dearie?" he asked again, now softly touching Snows cheek and stroking it slowly. Snow froze, suppressing the urge to get away from the man in front of her. She now watched in wonderment how a flicker of something, she couldn't describe, started to beam in his eyes. With a small gesture he got even closer to Snow, leaving all space between them, then he leaned over Snow and smelled her hair.

That couldn't be right... he wouldn't want... why? He wanted her? That wasn't possible... he was Rumpelstiltskin, the Dark One, the devil himself. There was no man more evil than him,... no man... beside everything he was, he maybe was still a man... and then it wouldn't be to inconceivable to imagine...

Red gasped when the realisation of what he probably wanted from Snow came to her and she immediately wanted to interfere but Snow held her hand up and endured the procedure with a strong face. If that would be the price she had to pay that her daughter would come back to her than she would pay it. Nothing was more important than Emma right now and she could endure this for the sake of her daughter.

"Would you please let your queen and me alone Red? I'm pretty sure she doesn't want you to see this." The man said not taking his eyes of Snow White for a second.

"In your dreams imp. I will not let you do this!" Red screamed and wanted to get between her friend and the mad man but was again stopped by her friend.

"Do as he says." Snow said in a low voice making Reds eyes get bigger with shock.

"WHAT? Snow you can't be serious! You...he...James...Emma wouldn't..." but Snow interrupted her friend at the sound of her daughters name and turned her head to her friend, the anger was clear in her eyes. "Your right she wouldn't approve but she can't say anything anymore. James probably wouldn't approve either, but he would understand me and I really hope you'll understand me too, Red. I'll HAVE to do this, for her sake." The determination in Snows eyes and her voice was a clear difference to her puffy swollen. Red swore she could see something else in her friends eyes, beside grief and desperation even if it was small, hope. She had a chance to get her daughter back and she would endure this and she would never regret it if it would work.

"Please go now." Snow asked one more time and managed to give her friend a reassuring smile that everything would work out. So Red just nodded and left the shop without looking back, not wanting her friend to see the tears that flew down her own face and let Snow alone with the dark one, whose name had now a much more darker meaning than she thought ever possible.

A/N: Okay before you all yell and throw thing at me, I can explain everything...but won't untli next chapter.

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