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Emma woke up with a strong smell invading her lungs, it smelled like smoke. The blonde got up slowly still half-asleep, put on a pair of shorts that were in Regina's closet and a t-shirt before walking out of the room and downstairs.
She could barely keep her eyes open, she was still very tired. However she could smell the smoke that started to appear in front of her and everything came at her like out of a nightmare.
"FUCK!" she shouted when she realized that the house was on fire, her head immediately screamed to her Regina! And the blonde ran upstairs storming inside of the room.
"REGINA!" the girl screamed but the brunette was fast asleep, Emma tried not to panic and walked to the bed grabbing Regina by her shoulders.
"Regina GET UP NOW!" Emma was shaking Regina's body and the brunette started to wake up slowly.
"Gosh Emma! What?" the brunette let out annoyed and still with one eye closed.
Emma shook her own head and grabbed Regina "We need to get out of here" the blonde said pulling Regina out of bed.
That was when Regina noticed the smell of smoke "What's that smell?" the brunette asked alarmed and the look of panic in Emma's eyes made her realize everything.
"Shit, Emma let's go, NOW!" Regina screamed grabbing Emma's hand and running out of the room, they tried to go downstairs but the fire was already half the way trough the stairs and they quickly understood they couldn't leave by the front door.
The flames were growing fast and the heat was burning their skin, it all seemed like a nightmare.
Regina was in shock, her house, her things burning in front of her, every memory, every picture burning right in front of her eyes.
"Regina we need to get out!" Emma yelled trying to bring Regina back to the reality.
The brunette turned to look at the blonde with tears in her eyes "Emma, the door is blocked, we are stuck" she said trembling.
Emma couldn't give up. She was afraid, she was scared and tired but she knew she couldn't give up, she had to at least save Regina, no matter the cost.
The fire was already on the top floor when finally a thought came trough Emma's mind.
Without thinking twice the blonde grabbed Regina's arm and pulled the woman back to the room, Regina was speechless.
Emma looked at the window, it wasn't very high but a fall from there could hurt them badly.
She looked at Regina feeling the flames getting closer.
"Do you trust me?" Emma asked to the brunette grabbing her chin.
Regina didn't answer, she was too shocked.
Emma repeated the question "Regina!" she yelled until the brunette was paying attention to her "Do you trust me?"
Regina nodded squeezing Emma's hand, the blonde smiled at her.
"We will jump" the younger girl said pulling Regina closer to the window and opening it.
Regina's eyes were wide open "What? We could die!" Regina said in panic.
Emma smiled again at her "You've said you trust me, nothing bad will happen to you, I promise" the blonde said kissing Regina's forehead.
They both sat on the window ledge "Regina, grab my waist!" the blonde ordered "Don't let go, and close your eyes!"
Regina obeyed and grabbed the blonde with all her strength.
Emma smiled for a second and then without thinking twice, she jumped using her body to protect Regina from the fall.
The only thought in Emma's mind was that she needed to protect Regina and so she turned the brunette in middle air so that her own body was the first to strike the floor, she wrapped her arms around Regina to keep her closer and still.
The impact of Emma's body on the floor was loud. Regina opened her eyes, she was OK, but then she looked at the blonde beneath her and her heart stopped.
Emma was unconscious and nothing seemed to be able to wake her "Emma!" Regina said painfully "Emma please wake up! Move please!" the brunette was crying.
Luckily the fire department arrived only a few minutes after, they found Regina crying over Emma's body "Please Emma, wake up" the brunette repeated time after time desperate.
Everything happened too fast, the paramedics arrived and pulled her away from Emma's body, grabbed Emma and put her inside the ambulance.
"Miss? Are you alright?" one of the paramedics asked to the brunette but the woman was petrified looking at Emma's body being carried to the ambulance.
She couldn't hear a sound around her, all her world had stopped when she saw Emma's body lying still on the floor.
"Miss, you're bleeding!" the man beside her said touching gently her right arm that had a huge and deep cut. "You need to come with us" the man continued and Regina nodded without even looking at her own arm, she would go with them anyway, she wouldn't leave Emma.
During the ride to the hospital not once did Regina let go of Emma's hand, her tears covering the blonde's face "I'm sorry Emma" she whispered when she realized that if the blonde wasn't trying to protect her from the fall it would be her there unconscious and not Emma.
"Miss is there someone we should call?" the same paramedic from before asked touching Regina's shoulder.
Regina took a few minutes to reorganize her ideas and then she nodded "Yes, you need to call her parents, Mary Margaret and David Nolan" the brunette managed to say before bursting again into tears.
They arrived to the hospital and Emma was taken to a separate room from Regina, the brunette protested but there was nothing she could do, her arm was bleeding bad.
Twenty minutes later Mary Margaret and David arrived and Regina looked at them feeling guilty, it was all her fault she thought to herself.
"Where is Emma?!" the brunette heard David scream to one of the doctors there and she got up and walked to them despite the protests from the nurse that was treating her arm.
When she walked to them Mary Margaret was the first one to talk "Ms. Mills" she said surprised "what are you doing here?" the woman asked confused.
Regina took a deep breath before speaking "I was with her when everything happened" the brunette let out.
M. Margaret and David looked at her clueless "Why were you with her? What the hell happened?" David said sharply.
The former teacher took another deep breath before answering "She was at my house when the fire started" the brunette admitted finally.
After a minute of silence she heard something that she had already told herself.
"This is all your fault!"