Regina was lying on the ground of the isolation room. She couldn't remember how many times she had been there since they had changed her therapy. She didn't know if she could keep fighting it and it only had been three days.
The creaking of the door made her stomach physically hurt. She didn't know if it was of the lack of food she had gotten or the nerves that were settling.
"Good morning Regina." Kristen greets her with a smile. She doesn't get how these people can keep smiling while making people miserable.
"Is it already morning?" She asks holding her hand up trying to protect her eyes against the light.
"Yes it is. Why didn't get much sleep?"
Regina stands up and feels her legs shaking. "No, I didn't sleep at all." She bites back and walks past Kristen. Kristen puts a hand on her shoulder and guides another way.
"No breakfast yet. Meredith wants to do another session before you eat." Kristen tells her and Regina turns around her eyes full of fear.
"Please not again." She begs. She hadn't slept or eaten in what must have been over twelve hours.
"If you stop fighting it you will get to sleep and eat. If not that this is what you need to do. So what will it be." Kristen asks.
Regina looks down at the floor. She really needs to sleep and eat. "No!" She says not finishing her thought so she can't change her own mind.
"I'll keep fighting it. It's what's right!" She says and Kristen just shakes her head.
"You're wrong Regina. You can't keep fighting this. We will break you."
They enter the room Regina has come to fear so much. Meredith is already inside checking if everything is still working.
"Hello Regina. Did you get some sleep?" Meredith asks. Regina sits down on the only chair in the room and watches how Kristen straps in her wrists and ankles. The next thing they do is placing electrodes on her temples and fingers.
"No I didn't." Regina says trying to keep the tremble out of her voice. She doesn't succeed at it and Meredith enjoys it.
"Well let's begin shall we. Are you finally going to press the button on your own or do I need to do it again?" Regina doesn't say anything. She won't do this to herself no matter how painful they make this for her.
"Alright. It's your choice." Meredith nods and Kristen who starts the beamer and pictures are show. When Regina can see a guy and girl kissing nothing happens. When she sees two girls holding eyes she feels a knife cutting pain going through her nerves system. It doesn't stop until Meredith stops pressing the button.
Regina breathes out. She can do this, she needs to be strong. The following picture are two girl kissing and again she feels the pain. This time Meredith doesn't stop pressing the button until she can hear Regina scream.
During the wait for whoever was coming Daniel and Graham had taken some time to go into another room and talk. They really needed it.
"Do you think they'll work it out?" Ruby asks Kathryn. Kathryn looks at the door her brother is behind and bites her lip.
"I hope so." She remember how happy her brother was with Daniel. She really hopes they can work it out because she knows Graham still loves him.
"Crazy right how the found each other again because of Regina." Ruby says looking at Emma. "Well you know, they thought she was the reason they had to break up but now she's bringing them together."
Emma raises her eye. "You have a weird way of looking at it Ruby." She says but puts on a smile letting Ruby know that she didn't mind.
"Do you think their fine?" Kathryn asks. "They have been in there for a long time now."
"Sure their fine. Why wouldn't they be?" Emma says. She didn't like that all of this was taking so long. If he knew where Regina was why couldn't they just go and get her.
"This is taken to long. I'm getting them." Emma says standing up and walking towards the door. She opens it and before she can say anything she slams it back close again and hurries back to her seat.
"What's wrong Emma?" Kathryn asks concerned.
Emma shakes her head. "Nothing….they…well…they worked things out."
The doors opens again with a red looking Graham and a grin wearing Daniel. "Sorry about that. We talked and got carried away."
Ruby can't hold her laughter and snores really loud. "O shit. You guys were."
"No….nope….they weren't …yet." Emma says and sees Graham becoming even more red in the face.
The doorbell rings interrupting the commotion. Daniel smooths out his shirt and walks over to the door. They can't see who is at the door but it seems to be a woman at the female voice they can hear.
When the woman shows herself the first thing Emma notices is the ginger hair and the green eyes.
"Wait." Ruby says looking at the girl suspiciously. "Are you? I know you."
"Well dear I don't know you but I would really like to know why I had to come over right away. Daniel?" The woman asks irritated and looks at Daniel.
"Alright everyone this is Zelena. Regina's sister." The woman raises an eyebrow at the way she's been introduce.
"Yes that's how I knew you. You're the sl…." Ruby catches herself before calling Zelena a slut. But yes that had been her reputation back in Storybrooke.
"Alright. Danny can you please tell me what this is about." Zelena asks a little irritated. She didn't know these people and she didn't like that they know her from Storybrooke. She had left that life behind her for a reason.
Daniel walks over to Emma and puts a hand on her shoulder. "This is Emma. Regina's girlfriend."
Zelena's mouth drops open and the ginger finds herself a chair. She let her eyes travel over Emma face before she speaks. "Where is my sister?"
There were a lot of things Zelena regretted in her life but her biggest regret was leaving her sister behind with her hypocrite parents. But she had seen no other way. There was a reason why Zelena had gotten the reputation of being the town's slut. She indeed had a few boyfriends and she went to wild parties but when the rumour started that she was pregnant everything had gone to hell.
She wasn't really pregnant but that didn't matter, she was severely punished anyway. Her father had hit her so hard, she didn't understand why she was still alive. They hadn't taken her to the hospital no instead they had locked her into her bedroom. Zelena had been so scared that she had only seen one way out. She had to leave and leave everything behind so her parents wouldn't find her. But she couldn't do that completely no she left a letter promising Regina she would get her as soon as she was capable of taking care of her.
And she was almost there. She had worked as a waitress for the first two years and found herself a dump of an apartment. Later she started taking evening classes and managed to get her accountant degree. Now she had a steady job doing the finances of a law firm. It's where she met Daniel, he was doing an internship at the law firm. They had been shocked to find each other like this and had soon formed a friendship. Now her friend was telling her the most horrific news she could have ever hear.
Her baby sister was in danger and she was not there to protect her. Zelena was crying while listen to Emma's story. Emma told her everything from the moment she had met Regina to the bullying her and loving her. When Emma came to the moment where she was pulled away from Regina and had to watch her drive away she was in tears as well.
"I tried. I really did. But they just kept pulling and no one was there to help us." Emma sobs and Zelena reaches out and pulls Emma to her. Emma tenses for a moment but finds herself soon sobbing into Zelena's shoulder.
"You did everything you could Emma." Zelena told her. "Thank you for loving my baby sister." When the moment was finally there where they stop hugging and crying Zelena turn to Daniel with fire in her eyes.
"We need to get her. You know where she is. Tell us the plan." Zelena demands from Danny who nods and starts explaining what they are going to do next.
The fact that Zelena was Regina's sister worked in their favour. She could demand to see Regina because she was family. Regina only needed to tell them she wanted to go and they could go to the police to fill an complaint against the camp. Which would cause an internal investigation meaning that Regina would be send home during the investigation. That was the moment Zelena is going fight for Regina's custody. They could drag that out until Regina was eighteen and old enough to make her own decisions.
Either way they were going to save Regina and bring her home to Emma.
She's back lying on her side in the darkness of the isolation room. She was in pain, it was like she could still feel the electricity going through her body. She couldn't move her muscles protested against any movement, even breathing was difficult. They had given her a sandwich which had gone down with much difficulty. She was feeling sick and the smell that was lingering didn't help either. She felt disgusted that the smell was coming from her. She had pied herself during the shock session and they didn't allow her to clean herself up before throwing her back into isolation.
The door creaked again but this time it wasn't Meredith or one of the others. She recognized this figure as Mal.
"Regina?" She whispers and crutches down beside Regina. "You okay?" She asks her hand moving towards Regina's head but the moment Mal touches her Regina had to bite her lip. They weren't pushing the bottom but it was like she could feel the pain anyway.
"please stop touching me." She says her voice hoarse from all the screaming she had been doing.
"I'm sorry. I know, what you are feeling but it isn't real Regina. Your brain is reacting to something that isn't there. You need to fight it."
Regina shakes her head and sobs. "No, I can't. I can't do it anymore."
Mal doesn't listen to Regina's pleads and grabs her under her armpits and pulls her upright. Regina groans and wants to scream but she can't anymore. She doesn't have the energy.
"You need to leave." Mal says draping Regina's arm around her shoulder and taking a step. Regina's legs buckled but Mal pulls her back up.
"Regina! You need to listen to me right now!" Mal's voice was cold and hard. "You are leaving this place tonight! Understand. So wake up and fight. Don't you want to see Emma again?"
Regina turns her head towards Mal. How dare she question that. Of course she wants to see Emma again. She puts her feet on the ground ignoring the pain she's feeling. Mal is right, there is no reason why she should feel this pain.
"That's the spirit." Mal says when she can feel Regina standing up on more steady legs.
"Let's go."
It's dark outside and Regina doesn't know what time it is but she doesn't care. She let herself breath in the fresh air. It had been days since she had seen the outside. Mal motions her to follow. They reach the out ends of the fence that is placed around the premises. They can't climb it but it seems like Mal had found something else.
"I don't know who did this or what but you could pass through it, don't you?" Mal asks Regina pointing at the little hole in the ground that on the other side of the fence reappears again. Regina looks down and yes she is small and tin enough to pass through it.
"I think so." Regina says.
"Then go!" Mal says. "Go and tell someone about what is happening here Regina. I'm too big to go with you."
Regina looks wary at the hole and back to Mal. "I'll find help. I promise."
Regina ducks down and starts crawling down the hole. There isn't a lot of room and she's getting dirt into her mouth but she eventually manages to come back up at the other side. Mal is still standing there and Regina can see the glistering of tears in her eyes.
"I'll get you and everyone else out. I promise." Regina tells her before turning around and walking away. Mal watches her go until she can't see Regina anymore.