"Moms…Moms!" Henry tried to wake is mothers.
"Huh…Henry? What's the matter?" Emma asked.
"Something is wrong with Lena" he said worried.
That sentence woke up both woman with shock, blowing all the haze out of their eyes. Regina reached Lena's room first, followed by Emma and Henry. The door stood still ajar from when Henry opened it. Regina pushed the door open wider and what she saw scared the hell out her. Lena was still lying in bed but shaking all over.
"What is wrong with her?" Regina said, running to her daughter.
"It looks like she's having a seizure or something" Emma said, already running for her phone: "I'm calling 911."
"Is she gonna be okay?" Henry asked. He didn't know what to do to help. When his mother looked up from his sister, he saw the worry and helplessness in her eyes.
"They have send an ambulance" Emma said coming back into Lena's room: "Henry, can you go downstairs and wait for them?"
"Yeah" he said, glad he could do something to help.
Emma turned to Regina: "They said that we have to lay her on her side and see that she can't hurt herself by bumping into something but definitively not restrain her."
Together they pushed Lena, who was still jerking all over, to her right side. Regina sat herself on the bed behind Lena's back so she couldn't roll back. She looked at her daughter. She wished she could do more than this. She felt a hand fall on her arm. When she looked up she looked straight into Emma's beautiful big green eyes, telling her it was going to be okay.
It was the second time that night Regina heard that awful noise. Nurses and dokters ran into the room and Emma pulled her back. Lena's heart had stopped beating…again. The first time happened right after the ambulance had arrived at the hospital. Lena's seizure had stopped, which was good, but her heart had stopped too, which wasn't good.
"Why does this keep happening?" Regina asked Dr. Whale when they finally got Lena's heart beating again: "You better give some answers quick." For a moment Regina wore that typical 'evil queen' look.
"We're running every test there is Madame Mayor" Dr. Whale answered.
"Thank you Dr." Emma cut in before her girlfriend could lash out again. Dr. Whale nodded and left.
Regina turned to fall in Emma's strong arms and the tears just started flowing: "I can't take this anymore…I can't lose her, Emma…"
Emma knew nothing she would say that could take away Regina's worries and sadness so she just hugged her. Nothing more, nothing less. Just a supporting hug while Regina let her tears fall.
Regina woke up to the smell of bad coffee. She had fallen asleep sitting in a chair with her head on the hospital bed next to Lena. Soft lips were pressed to Regina's cheek.
"Morning" Emma whispered into Regina's ear.
Regina looked up to see Emma walk around the bed. Then she turned to look at the young girl lying in the hospital bed. It had been three days with no change. At least Lena's heart hadn't stopped beating anymore. According to Dr. Whale the test they did told them that medically there was nothing wrong with Lena. "Then why isn't she waking up?" Regina had asked angrily. Dr. Whale didn't have an answer to that.
"My parents are bringing Henry over later today" Emma said.
"How is he doing?" Regina asked. She missed her son but she was glad that Snow and David had welcomed him back into their home for the past days and nights.
"He's worried but considering he's doing pretty good."
"…Good…"
"Yeah."
"I was thinking last night…"
"Okay? About?"
"I think we should ask Gold for help."
"Gold?"
"There's nothing medically wrong with her so it has to be magical."
"Yeah, maybe. But even if it is magical do you really think it's wise to ask Gold for help?"
Regina sighed and let her head fall into her hands, leaning with her elbows on the bed: "No…I just don't know what else to do…"
"I'll go by the library later. Maybe Belle has found something. She's been searching through books ever since… It just seems a safer choice than Gold."
Regina nodded in agreement: "But if Belle doesn't have anything, I'm going to Gold."
"I think I've found it, or at least something" Belle said, walking into the hospital room holding a book in the air. The whole Mills and Charming family was there.
"You did?" Henry asked, eager to know what the bookworm found out.
"I found this book about dragons, more specifically what they do when they feel their end is coming" Belle said.
"And what has this got to do with my daughter?" Regina asked, feeling all the hope she had before being punched out of her.
"Well, Lena said that Elliot was trying to tell her something. She said that Elliot was leaving her, right?"
Regina nodded.
"Well apparently dragons have a habit of isolating themselves when they feel they are going to die. I think this is Elliot's way of isolating himself. He's withdrawing within Lena because he can't go to a quiet cave or something like he would do normally. The only problem is that he's pulling Lena with him."
"Do you mean my daughter is going to die?" Regina asked, almost angry at the librarian for finding the book.
"I…I don't know" Belle stuttered, fearing the evil queen could return any minute. "There's something else…" she continued: "I found a chapter on a kind of dragon that describes Elliot pretty good. The book says that before this kind of dragon dies, they lay an egg."
"An egg?" Emma asked wide-eyed.
"Yes, but according to the book the dragon would only let go of his life if it has found someone or something that would take care of their offspring."
"And who would that be?" Snow asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered but all their eyes turned to the young girl lying quietly on the hospital bed.
Next chapter coming soon.