Trials and tribulations of Princess Emma Swan

DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything to do with once upon a time. Wish I did because if I did season 2 would be starting Sunday.

SUMMARY: Emma's past, present and future.

PREVIOUSLY: bae is beating Emma, since he and rumple have gone to get henry and then a gun goes off.

Henry was shaking with anger and fear. Bae had fallen to the ground and the blood could be seen seeping from his stomach. Snow was coming round the counter towards charming and henry. Emma was shouting to them. "Get out of here. Go now." rumple had rushed forward towards Bae. When his eyes turned towards Emma's family it was almost as if she got a surge of adrenaline. No matter how much pain she was in she had to get to her family before rumple turned his anger towards them. Bae was still breathing but barely. Rumple turned sharply and it took everything Emma had left to raise to her feet and slowly make her way to her family.

"Who has done this mark my words I will kill you both after you watch your daughter die. I will raise my grandson and I will have bae healed. Together we will raise Henry to be the man he is supposed to be." Emma was stumbling towards then using the kitchen Counter for support, when rumple held a magical fire ball in his hand ready to throw it. "Don't hurt anyone or I will shoot you too." the gun had been raised again but this time it was clearly seen by all the occupants in the room, it was also aimed at rumple. "You don't want to do this; I am your grandfather Henry. He is your father and you have shot him." Henry was shaking and the gun in his hand proved how much as it was shaking profoundly.

He had shot bae and he would shoot rumple if he tried to hurt his family. He could see his mother coming towards them; she was almost dragging herself across the counter. Bae was moaning in pain and his grandfather was holding Henry giving Henry some strength and comfort, snow was moving towards Emma to help her, Emma's pain was evident. Rumple however didn't seem to care about the fact Henry was holding a gun on him. He raised his arm in the direction of Emma and was ready to throw the ball of fire.

BANG.

"Henry" Emma shouted the gun dropped to the floor and Henry followed it down. James sank to the floor with henry cradling the now panicked boy. Snow had reached Emma and was trying to get her to sit or lay down or anything to help her stop the pain so they could get someone to heal her. Rumple shuffled his body across the floor and when he reached bae they both disappeared from sight. Emma was still going towards henry and James. Snow had decided to help Emma get to them since it was obvious Emma was going to her son no matter how much pain she was in.

Emma slowly and as painlessly as possible lowered herself to the floor beside her son. "Henry" she wanted to say more but she could feel her breathing slowing and her chest contracting. She knew she didn't have much longer, before she lost consciousness and then died. But she had to make sure Henry was ok. He had shot his biological father and his grandfather. No one should have to go through that. Especially not a 10 year old, a boy not yet a man.

Henry moved into his mother's arms and repeated the words "I had to stop them, they were going to hurt you." he repeated like a mantra. Emma held him tightly and Henry hugged her just as hard. Snow had disappeared and was talking to doc, telling him what had happened and that Emma had been coughing blood. Emma felt the pain clouding her mind. The pain had been slowly intensifying, but as Henry hugged her tighter and tighter every time he repeated his mantra the pain was becoming overbearing. It didn't matter though she was not about to let her son know and she wasn't letting him go.

The last thing Emma remembered before her mind shut down was henry's body going limp in her arms.

"Charming are they?"

"They both still have pulses, Emma's is weak but henry's is still pretty strong. I think he is in anaphylactic shock or something we had better keep them both warm."

"I have called doc he is on his way I will get, I will do, charming I don't know what I am supposed to do." snow was falling apart in front of charming "snow my love you need to stay calm. Just go get the blanket from the bed that should keep them warm."

Snow headed to the bedroom to get the blanket. James however decided that magic was needed. Emma was injured so badly that he wasn't sure if she would live without the use of magic. He called the only person he knew to be powerful. Regina.

Regina teleported straight to snows, as soon as she had hung up the phone from James. When she got there she saw Henry and Emma huddled in a blanket both unconscious. Doc was tending to Emma and the blue fairy was there tending to Henry.

"Henry is stable he was in shock. We gave him an adrenaline shoot to keep his organs functioning. He should be waking up in the next hour at the latest. Emma however her internal injuries are severe. We need to operate, and we needed to do it 20 minutes ago." Regina wasn't concerned about Emma her concern was Henry but she knew what she had to do. She grabbed doc and placed her hand on Emma and within seconds she had them both at the hospital. Once she had dropped them off. She returned to the apartment to get Henry and the blue fairy.

"It's only me that needs to go to the hospital Henry can be placed on the sofa he will be fine." Regina watched James pick Henry up and carry him towards the bedroom, before she took the blue fairy to the hospital. As soon as the blue fairy ran towards the operating room Regina went back to Henry. Emma wasn't her concern.

Back at the apartment Regina headed towards the bedroom where she had seen James taking Henry.

"He will be ok Regina, he will be ok." snow told Regina. Regina looked at snow and saw the tears in her eyes. Her mind instantly taking her to another time. A time when she had seen snow upset and distraught. The night she had caught up to snow, after snow had witnessed Regina and Daniel in the barn. Regina's concern was Henry but with the fact that that particular memory had resurfaced Regina did something so out of character. She did what she had done all those years ago; she took snow by the shoulders and imparted some wisdom on her. "Snow you need to be strong. Emma's fate is unchangeable, what happens is beyond us now. But Henry needs you to be strong for him. I don't know exactly what happened today but from what James said on the phone I have enough to guess. Henry is going to need us, especially if Emma doesn't make it." Regina knew what she said had hurt snow but she also knew that it had to be said. Snow surprised Regina then, for she hadn't turned away from Regina because of her words instead she hugged Regina, the worst thing was Regina found herself hugging snow back.

It didn't last long, because as soon as they embraced "mum" was murmured from the person laid on the bed. Regina and snow moved away from each other and towards the bed where Henry was slowly but surely waking up. Before snow could shout for charming he came in holding a tray of mugs, he had made everyone coffee. He gave them both their drinks, and stood by the end of the bed waiting for Henry to open his eyes. "Mum" was murmured again from Henry but it seemed as if he wasn't waking up but dreaming. At least that was a good sign. Regina watched snow and wondered how the hell she had allowed snow to hug her. Snow on the other hand was watching Regina from beneath hooded eyes and wondered when the woman she remembered had started to make her return.

James was unaware of what had happened between the two women whilst he was making the coffee but he could see that they were watching each other while trying not to be noticed.

"MUM" Henry shouted and vaulted upright, his breathing was fast and erratic but as snow placed her arm around him he calmed a little.

"Henry are you ok." Regina asked as she sat on the edge of the bed and scooted closer to him.

"Where's mum." he looked at everyone in the room and then looked towards the door as if expecting Emma to walk through it.

James noticed Henry trying to see through the wall into the other room to find Emma. The kid definitely wasn't superman but it didn't stop him from try to get his vision to penetrate the wall.

"Henry what is the last thing you remember." James asked

"Why what has happened, didn't mum come back from her walk before mu... Regina got here. She said she would be back."

Oh no James thought. He doesn't remember anything that happened. How do you tell a 10 year old that your father had beaten your mother so badly she could die, oh and the little matter that the said 10 year old had shot his father and grandfather, to protect his mother.

There was a noise outside the bedroom and henrys eyes lit up, in anticipation of his mother entering the room but instead a wolf came walking in. The wolf entered the room and lay on the bed by henry's feet. Henry started to hyperventilate as soon as the wolf had entered. "Wait mum came home. I remember her, bringing the wolf. What has happened where is my mum." snow held Henry tighter. He hadn't remembered what had happened yet and she didn't know what to say; she looked at charming and then at Regina asking the silent question of whether or not they should tell him what had gone off. Before Henry could ask again Regina took Henry from snows arms kissed his brow and whispered a few words. Sleep took over Henry a few second later. "It will only last a moment or two but I thought we should decide what to tell him, before he works himself into a state." Regina told the others.

They decided to tell Henry that Emma had to go away for a few days and she had left her cell phone so she didn't know Henry had passed out, but if she called tonight they could tell her and she would probably come straight home. They all hoped, even Regina was hoping that they wouldn't have to tell Henry that his Mother was dead. When Henry came out of the sleep spell Regina had cast she told him the story they had come up with. Henry had taken it extremely well. "When she calls you don't need to tell her. I am ok now, and if she left then it must have been important because she would not just leave, not with" Henry paused almost as if he was remembering something but he just shook his head and finished what he was saying. "She would not leave me unless it was something she absolutely had to do because of bae. She doesn't want him near me." Henry said but he yawned out the last few words. He was tired. Snow and charming left the bedroom, but Regina lingered behind. When she reached the bedroom door she turned to look at Henry. When she saw he was asleep again she whispered "you are right Henry she loves you that much she might have just willingly given her life to protect you from bae." When she reached the kitchen snow was on the phone, James was trying to get her attention but snow was ignoring him. "She's out of surgery and they managed to stop the internal bleeding. Her hand however isn't just broken it is shattered and she will need to have another operation to mend it but they don't want to put her through another operation until she comes round from this one." Regina realized it must have been doc on the phone with the details. "Why don't you both go and see her I will stay with Henry until you get back." Regina offered. They accepted and both went out the door. Regina knew they would be at the hospital a while so she decided to snoop around the apartment.

THE HOSPITAL.

Snow and James sat with Emma and waited for her to come round from the Anesthetic, doc had said apart from the hand and bruises she seemed to be ok but they wouldn't know more until she woke up. It had been an hour since they had arrived. Both had been praying that she would wake up and soon. Their prayers seemed to have been answered 2 hours later. "Henry" was the first word to slip from Emma's lips. She was groggy but she seemed to be ok. "Mum, dad where's Henry. Is he alright, he went dead in my arms is he..." "He was in shock honey, he is ok. I don't know whether it is good or bad but he doesn't remember what happened. I asked doc about it and he said that it could be that he doesn't want to remember so his mind isn't letting him recall what happened."

All Emma could say to that was, "as long as he is ok I am glad he can't remember what happened."

The three of them spent the next hour talking, Emma had even spoken to Henry but she went into a bit of detail about what she was doing.

"Hi Regina is Henry awake. Mum has told me what you have told him since he doesn't remember, and thanks for helping with... With everything."

"Not a problem Emma and hold on here's Henry."

"Mum are you ok and where are you." Emma smiled at henrys worry, she always thought that it was only parents who worried but she no understood that kids did to.

"Hi Kidd I am fine, but you won't believe this. As I went out this afternoon I sort of fell and broke my wrist. Your grandparents are here with me I am hoping to be out of the hospital soon. But they have got to screw my wrist or something they can't just pot it, so I will be here a few days. Tell you something though it's the same wrist I have broken at least 100 times before." Emma chuckled and hoped the 100 times before bit through Henry off from asking too many questions. It worked like a charm

"100 times oh come on mum no one can break their wrist 100 times." Henry was laughing now and when Emma replied with "ok so I exaggerated a little I have broken it maybe 99 times" Henry dropped the phone laughing.

"Emma what did you say to Henry he is laughing so hard I swear he is going to wet the bed." Regina asked. She was extremely confused by Henry laughing so hard.

"Mum and dad are on their way home they will tell you then and thanks again Regina."

Emma didn't wait for a reply she just hung up the phone. Snow and James left the hospital then with strict instructions that they had to kiss Henry goodnight and tell him that she loved him.

SNOWS APARTMENT

Snow and James found Regina and Henry laying on their bed having a sort of picnic. They had known it was late and had gotten food from granny's but it seemed that they hadn't need to get Henry or Regina anything. "I didn't make you anything to eat; I figured you wouldn't want to eat it if I made it." Regina smiled but continued her picnic with Henry.

"That's fine Regina we picked something up from granny's. Henry your mum told us to tell you night and that she loves you." James told them as he turned to follow snow that was getting plates for them to have their dinner. Henry had smiled at the James' remark and Regina felt her jealousy rise. She had been henrys mum for 10yrs then Emma comes in and he suddenly forgets all the good times they had shared because of Emma. After the picnic was over Regina kissed Henry and told the others good night. When she was done she disappeared.

Regina didn't return home though she had decided to go to the hospital.

THE HOSPITAL

Regina approached Emma's room. They hospital staff hadn't even tried to stop her. They must all believe she was turning over a new leaf or something. When she got there she had heard a voice. A voice she knew all too well.

"Well dearie I see you are still alive. I can't say the same about my son. I watched him die. I held him as he took his last breath."

"You know what I am glad he isn't around anymore did he tell you how he got me pregnant. Did he tell you what he had done to...?"

"Miss Swan, I don't think you understand. I don't care what he did to you, all that matters is I will have my grandson but first, I think I will allow you to watch me turn him against you. Watch him kill your parents as he did to his father, I may even give him the pleasure of killing you."

"That will never happen Henry has a good heart he wouldn't do it, and nothing you could do would change that. Don't forget rumple he shot you too."

Rumple approached the bed and Emma knew there was nothing she could do to protect herself. She still hadn't fully recovered from the anesthetic and her right wrist was completely done for. All she could do was watch him as he moved closer.

All of a sudden Emma's room door opened and Emma could see rumpled dagger in the hand of...

REGINA oh god Regina had the dagger this couldn't be good. Regina pointed the dagger at rumple and said

"I heard what you said to Emma rumple. But I command thee to..."

AUTHORS NOTE

This doesn't look good for anyone. Rumple pissed that bae is dead. (I am personally glad) but Regina now has the dagger. I guess her snooping was successful. I wonder what she is going to command rumple to do