Chapter 25! Guys! Woooohooooo!

Chapter 25.

(Snow pov.)

I told Charming a thousand times: 'She is a teenager, she will make her own decisions' before we got to sleep. And we've only gotten two hours of sleep before we both woke up because of a scream. A very, very loud scream. And we both recognized it. We look up at each other.

"Emma" we said at the same time. We jump out of the bed and run out of the room. I see our children standing in the hall in their sleeping clothes. Well, what you can call sleeping clothes... Neal is in a sweatpants and has a bare chest, the same for Ahren. And Eva? She looks just like Emma. Underwear and tank top.

"Mom that was Emma" Ahren says. He doesn't call me mama anymore... We nod and run into the dungeons. I run towards Emma's cell and see her sitting on the stone bed. The blanket is all around her to keep her warm. She looks up with big green eyes full of pain. It remembers me of the night before she became The Dark One.

"Emma?! Are you alright?" I ask. She nods but I see a tear stream down her face. "You are not, what happened" she shakes her head and whispers something to herself. Ohno...

"Is the voice back?" Charming asks before I can ask it. She shakes her head. I look up at Charming and he looks at me with a worried face.

"Can we do something?" I ask her. Emma shakes her head. I narrow my eyes. I need to help her... "Don't lie okay? What happened that you screamed?"

"I got a nightmare, it's nothing..." Emma says to me. "I won't be able to sleep again"

"I will stay with you" Neal says and sits down and lays his sword on the ground. Emma shakes her head.

"No, you guys need to sleep" Emma refuses. Eva sits down next to Neal and Ahren does too. Emma looks up at me and Charming.

"Sorry but we all need to sleep, Emma are you really fine?" I ask her. Emma nods and Charming helps the children up. "Try to sleep for a little bit okay, sweetie?" I ask and Emma nods again. I sigh and we walk away.

(Charming pov.)

I walk into the dungeons with a plate full with food. Bread, cheese, toast. All of that. And some milk. I walk towards the dungeons and see Emma sleeping on the bed with her back at me. I look at the guard who immediately looks up at me.

"Can you open the cell?" I ask and he nods. He opens the cell and walk inside. I tell him to close it again and he does. I sit down on the bed and stroke her white locks. She sits up and squeezes my hand very hard. I mean like really hard. I look up at her and see her irritated green eyes. But then she hears my hand creak and they widen in shock. She lets go and squeezes herself against the wall.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't want too! What the hell are you doing inside?" She asks me with big eyes of shock. She is scared.

"Relax, Emma. It's okay" I say, but it hurts really much... "I just wanted to wake you up and give you breakfast" I say and lay the plate before her. I lay the cup on the stone floor.

"It is NOT okay" Emma says "look at your hand dad, it is becoming purple" I look at my hand and I do see it is becoming purple slowly. "Oh god... What did I do? This is horrible... I could've killed you"

"Emma relax" I say and hold out my good hand. "It's alright" she shakes her head and stands up.

"It isn't okay!" Emma protests looking right in my eyes. "Dad you need to get out of the cell... I don't trust myself"

"Emma..." I sigh and stand up. She shakes her head.

"Please?" She begs and I nod with a sigh.

OUATOUATOUAT

That night Snow shakes me awake. I sit up immediately, ready to run towards the dungeons.

"Emma?" I ask.

"Eva has a nightmare" Snow says. Eva.. Our other little girl. She is in her teenage years, so she starts to have an own will. She went with Neal to his old house in the evening. She knew we would never approve. We stand up and run inside her room. She is all wrapped in the blankets and she is whimpering and mumbling. I shake her awake and she gasps while sitting up. She looks around with big eyes and Snow wraps her arms around her. Eva starts to cry out and I stroke her back.

"Do you want to talk about it, Eva?" Snow asks.

"It wasn't about me... It was Emma" Eva sniffs and looks up at me "It was a memory of her when she was my age..."

"What happened?" I ask and take her hand.

"E-Emma... She was 14 or maybe 15, I guess she ran away but she was in some city with big houses and towers. She had glasses and a big bag on her back. It was dark and she was r-running through the streets. Some boys were following her. When they g-got her they started to kick her and slap her and it was like I could feel the pain d-dad..."

"You felt the pain?" Snow asks and Eva nods. She looks up at me.

"Magic, lets go to Emma" I say and start walking already.

(Emma pov.)

"Emma? Sweetie wake up" I hear my mother's voice. What is she doing here? I groan and open my eyes.

"What?" I mumble "mom it is like... Very early" I hear mom chuckle so I sit up and look up at them. I see Eva standing with my parents. She has been crying. "What's wrong? Did I hurt you? I'm so..."

"Emma, Emma" mom says fast "you didn't hurt her, she had a nightmare" I frown.

"You are waking me up this early because of a fucking nightmare?" I growl. I gasp and shake my head. "That wasn't me, I swear" Eva looks hurt but nods. "What's wrong, blondie?"

"I had a nightmare about you" Eva mumbles. Ohno... She is getting nightmares about me.

"What.. Eh... Did I do?" I ask her.

"Nothing bad Emma, it was more a memory of you" dad says. I frown.

"Did you ever got chased by boys? When you were Eva's age?" mom asks me. The blood flows out of my face and I look up at my parents.

"Why?" I ask.

"You had glasses, you wore a black leather jacket with a tank top and some weird pants. You were running through a city" Eva tells me.

"New York" I sigh with a nod. "I've been chased"

"You never told us that" dad says.

"I didn't tell you guys everything" I say with a shrug. "It was nothing, trust me"

"They kicked you and slapped you" Eva said softly. "I felt the pain in my sleep. It was horrible"

"It wasn't that bad, I survived" I protest. "But how could you feel it?"

"We thought you knew, did you have the same dream?" mom asks me. I shake my head.

"I can't use magic either" I tell them. "I swear" they nod with a sigh.

"Can I stay with you tonight?" Eva asks me. I bite on my lower lip.

"I don't trust myself that much… I'm sorry, Eva" I say.

"But… But I trust you" she says to me with tears in her eyes. I look at my parents for back up but they try to look away from me. But then my dad looks up at me.

"I think that will be a good training" he says.

"I broke your hand" I say to him. "I don't want to break any bones again"

"And you won't, we trust you" mom says to me.

"Please?" Eva begs. I sigh and nod. Dad opens my cell and I feel that my legs start to shake. Wanting to leave. But I hold onto the bed while Eva comes in. it closes again and I let her lay down next to me. She smiles at me and closes her eyes. I see my parents walk away so I close my eyes and try to sleep.

OUATOUATOUAT

"Emma? Are you awake?" Eva asks me when I blink a couple times. I mumble a yes and sit up. Eva sits at the end and smiles kindly at me. I smile back and sit up against the wall. "How do you feel?"

"Nope, blondie" I say and she frowns "this is about you, you are the one who had a nightmare. How do you feel?"

"But you are the one who is supposed to be alone and locked up in here" Eva says.

"Yes but I am here most of the time and now this is about you" I say. She rolls her eyes and sighs.

"I'm fine, I just... Why did you get chased?" Eva asks.

"I just did something I wasn't supposed to do, you know I got raised in the system?" I ask and she nods. "Well, I didn't like it there so I ran away much. That time I ran away again, and I stole some money and a phone of those guys"

"A phone?" Eva asks confused.

"It's some device we used for talking, anyway" I start "I stole those and ran away but they got me and started to kick me. They took all the money I got and the only thing they let me have was my phone and earphones"

"Woah, and what did you do?" Eva asks with curiosity in her eyes.

"I slept in that alley because it was night and the next morning I stole some money again" I tell her. "I stole much when I ran away those years"

"Well, you had too right?" Eva asks and I nod.

"Yeah kiddo, otherwise I would have starved to death" I tell her. "But, I survived and got out of that mess"

"And into another mess" Eva says and I nod with smile. "Yeah kiddo" before I know her eyes begin to tear up and her lower lip starts quivering.

"Blondie… come here" I say and she wraps her arms around my shoulders. She lays her face in my shoulder and I stroke her back to calm her down a bit. "What's suddenly wrong, blondie?"

"You… I don't want to lose you a-again" Eva sniffs and looks up at me. "Y-you already l-look like The Dark O-one, and y-you are here in t-the cell"

"I'm going to be fine, I am. Trust me" I smile at Eva and wipe away her tears.

"But you've already b-been through so much… also in America" Eva sniffs. America… That's it… That's it! My eyes widen and I look up at Eva. "W-what?"

"You are so fucking brilliant" I gasp and I smile brightly. "Listen, we need to get me out of this cell and these chains off me"

"What? Is The Dark One talking?" Eva asks.

"No, no, no. I'm serious" I say while I shake my head fast. The doors of the dungeons open and mom walks towards us. I stand up and lean against the bars. "Mom? We need to go to New York" she frowns.

"New York? Why?" Mom asks.

"Because, in New York I will be partly free of the curse" I say.

"But sweetie, we can't say there forever" mom says. I sigh and nod.

"Right..." I sigh "sorry"

"That's okay" mom smiles kindly at me and strokes my cheek through the bars. I close my eyes and lay my face against the cold bars.

(Neal pov.)

Snow comes in with Eva who smiles at me and Ahren and sits down next to us for breakfast. We are already eating so she also immediately starts. I'm listening music while I'm eating so I don't hear them talking. I don't like to talk in the morning. I just always need music in the morning. When I lived with Emma, we both listened to music on our mp3 players when we were eating breakfast or whatever. It was really cool.

"Neal!" I hear through my music. I look up and see my father looking at me. I pull out my earphones. "Isn't it a good time to talk about what happened now?"

"It isn't" I say "Not in the morning" I say and I hear Henry chuckle. Henry is a nice guy. He sort of understands me. I like him.

"Neal..." Charming says but I put in my earphones again. I see him sigh and looks up at his wife who shrugs. I can't hear her when she tells him something. But I can read her lips. She said: "We need Emma with him" and it was true. If Emma would tell me to talk about it now I would. But she wouldn't. Because she hates morning talking as much as I do. I see that Eva is happy that I said I didn't want to talk about it now. She had a sort of nightmare about Emma's past as a child. She slept with her tonight. I think I'm gonna hunt a bit or something. Or read some... Then I hear a loud scream. Really loud. I pull out my earphones and stand up. I take my sword out of my belt and look up, ready to attack. But then I realize who it was.

"Emma" I say.