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_STORY_

"Stop." Regina looked up at Emma and smiled softly as the blondes words were absorbed into her mind.

Emma thought she had finally gotten through to Regina and squeezed her hands. Emma was frustrated when Regina spoke again, damn this woman.

"You don't need to lie to get me to stay, you've proven your point. You don't need to pretend like you care what happens to me Miss Swan. I respect you trying, and I respect you doing this for Henry, but don't insult my intelligence by lying to me. We are both adults, we both know the truth." Regina crushed the hope she'd allowed to grow with Emma's last statements, her heart wanted it to be true. Her heart wanted to think someone finally cared about her, but years of false hope and years of being proved wrong squashed the thought. Her mind took over and she rationalized the situation, what Emma was doing was no more than a strategic business move, and a brilliant one at that. Regina couldn't allow herself to even pretend Emma was being truthful, it would hurt too much when she finally proved she didn't.

Emma watched the woman in front of her fight her own little battle with herself with a slack jawed look on her face. She couldn't understand what she had to do to prove to Regina she wasn't lying to her. Sadly she considered what kind of a life had made the woman so damn cynical and non trusting. Emma shivered at the thought, she wasn't sure she wanted to know. She needed to show the woman she meant business. Emma knew she'd used magic to get in and out or Regina's nightmare, she didn't know how she'd done it, but she had. Now she needed to do it again. She could still feel the buzz of the magic coursing through her body like some sore of electrical charge. She felt like she was the energizer bunny from all those crappy commercials she remembered seeing as a kid. She had no idea how to use the magic in her, or what she could do with it, if she could even use it at all. She wanted to try to take Regina's pain away, she wanted to prove she meant what she was saying beyond a shadow of a doubt. Emma was more than a little confused with her feelings towards the former Evil Queen herself at this point, but she was positive she cared what happened to the brunette.

"Regina, seriously, I care- I really do." To hell with it she was just going to wing it and hope for the best. Price of magic be damned, Emma gripped Regina's hands tighter as she spoke, trying to convey the message through sheer force of will.

Regina looked into Emma's eyes, they were full of truth but she couldn't let herself fall for it. Her mother used to do the same things to her as a child and as a teenager. Her mother would lure her in with lies and false claims. Regina remembered she'd always resist, would know the trap she was being pulled into. Yet like always, and after enough persistence on her mother's end she would fold. Regina would go to her mother, get within a foot of her and be knocked to her ass by a fist, or a magical spell. Then her mother would tell her love was a weakness and walk away. Over fifteen years of conditioning kept her wall in place as Emma tried to convince her otherwise. She refused to be hurt again because of her own stupidity.

"I appreciate the sentiment, and the commitment you have to your story Miss Swan, I do. I know better though, I am simply too tired to argue so you win."

"DAMN YOU WOMAN, YOU ARE SO HARD-HEADED!" Emma took a breath, Emma felt like she was going to explode as her frustration boiled over. "I care, I swear on everything I have I care what happens to you! I will not stand by and let you get hurt. I am not going to leave your frustrating, annoyingly irritating-" Emma was practically ranting as she felt the charge build up in her hands, "-aggravatingly sexy, exasperating ass alone to handle all of this!" By the time she took a breath Regina was simply staring at her like she was crazy, Regina made a move like she was going to speak and Emma beat her to it. "No I'm not through yet woman, keep your mouth shut, for once let someone else run the conversation. My name is Emma- Regina, not Swan, and sure as hell not Miss Swan. Use it! Do you see me running away from you? No you don't. If I could help you I would, If I could take every ounce of pain from you to prove I mean- aggghhhhhhh!" Emma's body exploded in agony, her grip on Regina's hands tightened to a vice like grip. Emma saw a look of panic on the older woman's face and a pained wince cross her features. Shit, she was hurting her. Emma tried to let Regina go but she couldn't, her body wasn't responding to her commands. The world started spinning in her vision, up became down, down became up. Left and right spun around her like she was on a carnival ride, she felt sick, and she gasped trying to get fresh air. As she gasped it felt like every last bit of energy was pulled from her body. With a last wave of pain Emma felt her eyes roll back into her skull and felt her body go limp as unconsciousness drowned her in its presence. The last thing she saw was a look of terror on Regina's face.

_TBC_

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