"What the hell ?" I yell, falling on the ground.
"Sorry, I'm sorry." I hear mom saying. "I can't support both of you."
"You okay, honey ?" Regina asks me, while offering her hand. I take it, glad to be helped.
"I'm good." I smile at her. I was kind of happy to see her back in the Enchanted Forest, I knew she would come to save me. It was rather weird to see her dressed... Like that, even because it was our first time together in the Enchanted Forest, I didn't know she would go back to her old self.
"Let's take him to Rumpelstiltskin, then." She says, while helping mom and I with Robin. We drag him till Mr Gold's shop and we wait for him to find a way to save him.
"Good morning dearie" He says, talking to Regina. "I thought you had stopped killing people."
"We shall see." She tells him, grinding her teeth. "He's not dead and I didn't hurt him in any way. The ogres did."
Mr Gold looks at Regina while we make Robin lay on the floor. "We know you can help him." I whisper.
"I thought you didn't want me to help him. Wouldn't his death be your victory ?" He asks me, smirking.
"Nobody's death could ever be my victory. I am not evil." I don't know why, but Regina looks like I just stabbed her. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean..."
"It's alright." She says, looking at the ground. "Do what you need to do, I'll leave a bean here, give it to Robin when he wakes up." She tells Mr Gold, while walking back to the door.
"We're not going anywhere. We're staying here, next to him." Mom says.
I see Regina stopping for a while before turning around. "Oh, come on ! Stop it, please just stop it. Being a good person doesn't mean this. We freaking saved his life, we even brought him here, now I don't want to be there when he wakes up."
"Why ? Scared he might say something ?" Mom snaps at her.
The only thing I can see in Regina's eyes right now is rage, even if she's trying to control herself. "You're lucky I love your daughter." She says, before slamming the door behind her back.
"Mom, that was way too much. Robin already told me everything and she did too. Why can't you just trust her ?" I follow Regina's footsteps, leaving mom and Mr Gold alone with Robin.
"Regina !" I start yelling. She stops in the middle of the road and stares at me. "I'm sorry about what she said, I know you told me everything."
"Yeah, you had to go and ask him." She tells me.
"I believe I could doubt a little, couldn't I ?"
"Indeed." She lifts her chin to look at me. "But I don't understand why she can't just accept what you chose to believe. This is your life, why can't she just let you do what you want to do ?"
"She hasn't had the chance to parent me for my first 28 years," This situation is unreal and so difficult to explain. "She feels the need to protect me."
"You don't need to be protected !" She yells at me. "I am tired of her feeling the need to choose for you, I get that she's your mother and she gets to have an opinion, but this is just too much. You have to decide whether you're willing to forgive me or not, without letting her choose for you ! We both know that she doesn't like the idea of you and I being together, but we're married and she can't change that."
She turns around and walks away, leaving me in the middle of the road. She's right, I need to decide on my own, but mom has to stop interfering in our business. I need some time to think, I almost died today and I kept thinking about Henry and Regina... I can't leave them, I can't imagine my life without either of them.
"Regina !" I yell again. "Please, wait !"
"What Emma, what ? I need to go home and you should stay at your parents' place for a while."
"I love you, Regina." I tell her, grabbing her hand. "And I promise I'll think about coming back home without having my mom to interfere. I need some time, but nobody will decide for me."
She looks at me, with tears in her eyes. "I love you too." She says, before walking away.
I know that she hates to be seen as a weak person and she feels like shit whenever she cries in front of me.I can't stay here right now, so I walk back to Mr Gold's shop, finding him, my mother and Robin all sitting and talking together.
"Where did she go ?" Mom asks me.
"Home, we should go back home too." I tell her. "Use that bean to go back to the Enchanted Forest" I say, looking at Robin. I can't believe that this man created all this pain. He's just like anybody else, but he almost destroyed my family.
He nods and grabs the bean. "I'll see you again. Bye."
"I don't think you will." I tell him, staring at the door while he walks away.
"What happened ?" Mom asks me, grabbing my left arm.
"None of your business. Let's go back home, we need to talk." I snap at her.
"Yeah, yeah, magic always comes with a price, what's today's price ?" I ask Mr Gold.
"I'll talk to Regina about the price." He tells me, knowing she's the one who could possibly have something he needs.
Mom and I slowly walk back home and I can feel tension in her moves, even when she breathes.
"So, what are we going to talk about ?"
"It's rather simple. Regina and I need to fix our relationship on our own, without having anybody else to interfere, am I clear ?"
"Why ? Who's interfering ?"
"Are you serious ? You are !"
"Me ? Seriously ? I am not interfering, I know your relationship with her is not my business."
"Exactly, it's not ! But you keep judging her and talking shit about her. She doesn't deserve the way you're treating her, we already talked about what happened in your past. When we got married, you promised to act like it never happened and I believed you ! She chose to be a better person for Henry and I, because her love for us means everything to her, why can't you see how much she changed for our family ?" I am yelling again and I can feel my anger growing inside my chest.
"I can't act like it never happened, Emma ! It was a big, fat lie ! How can you forget something like what Regina did to me ?" She takes a deep breath, she's raising her voice, but she hates to yell."I'm aware that you love her and you perfectly know that I have never had problems with you liking another woman. But here we're not talking about any woman, it's Regina Mills, the woman who spent her life trying to kill me ! She killed my father, Emma. Her mother killed my mother ! How can I possibly forget that ? Please, tell me if, in your mind, there's a way to forgive somebody who tried repeatedly to ruin your life !"
"You promised you would have. I told you you didn't have to if it was too much, but you said you would have forgotten her." I have tears in my eyes. "I would have never forced you to forget what she did or to forgive her, but you chose to. Now I am paying for a promise you couldn't keep." My voice is broken, I can't really manage to talk clearly when I am crying my heart out.
We're standing in front of my parents' house, the lights are on and I can hear Henry and dad watching the tv. They don't know what happened today, I don't want to tell Henry, but dad needs to know what happened, he'll be pissed. I wipe away all the tears from my face and notice that mom's doing the same thing and this hurts me in a weird way. She looks at me and I look back at her,
"I'm sorry." I whisper. "I'm sorry, mom."
She looks at me and starts crying again, louder. "I'm sorry, Emma. I didn't want any of this to happen. I love you and I feel like I need to protect you, even if I perfectly know that you don't need to be protected. You're not used to having a mother and I am probably way too apprehensive, but I can't see you suffering. I want you to be happy."
"I am happy when I am with her, mom." I tell her, with a little smiling coming to life through the tears.
She smiles at me. "Then you should totally fix your marriage."