The next morning, Emma wakes up to the sound of the T.V blazing. It's just white noise, before the sound of someone speaking Spanish fluently can be heard, back to white noise. Emma opens her eyes and looks around. The first thing she notices is that the spot next to her is empty.

Where's Vada?!

Emma wonders. She sits up quickly and looks around spotting her siting Indian style on Regina's made up bed with a T.V remote in her hand. Emma relaxes, Vada's safe. Then she freezes again, because...where's Regina? Did she leave them?

"Where's Regina?" Emma asks her daughter.

Vada looks at Emma for a moment before shrugging. "I don't know mommy. She wasn't here when I woke up" Vada mumbles. She adapts a look of deep thought then whines "...is she coming back? I want her to come back"

"I..." Emma starts but stops. She doesn't know if Regina's coming back. Why did she leave in the first place? Is this what she meant by that whole, I will give you your space speech? She knew she didn't like that. She wanted Regina back.

"Mommy, can't you make Regina come back?" Vada asks/whines.

Emma opens her mouth to say something but before she can she hears keys in the door and moments later the door opens. Emma let's out a sigh of relief when she see's Regina walking back in the room. Vada stands on top of the bed and jumps off running over to Regina. "Hi Regina, your back!" Vada says excitedly.

"Yeah, your back" Emma mumbles grumpily. It comes out sounding harsh and Regina gives Emma an confused look.

"Are you alright Emma?" Regina asks.

"Gee...I don't know Regina...you didn't seem to care when you left us" Emma states angrily. She doesn't know where all the anger is coming from, it's just...there.

"Emma, I didn't leave you. I was gone 20...30 minutes top. I left a note saying I would be right back" Regina nods in the direction of a folded up note on the nightstand. Emma glances at it.

"Emma,

I'm going to grab a couple of things. I will return shortly.

- Love, Regina"

Surely enough the letter was there. Emma felt silly now. She noticed the bags in Regina's hands. "Ummm" She started but changed subjects. "What's in the bags" she asked instead.

Regina's confused look towards Emma remains. "For one, I got us some breakfast, me some clothes...I hope you don't mind but...I saw some clothes while I was at the mall that's Vada size...I couldn't help but get them" Regina mumbles almost sadly. "I'm not trying to overstep boundaries or anything...it's just that...they were so cute and I just -"

"It's fine Regina" Emma interrupts.

Regina bites her lip. "You sure?" She asks again.

Emma nods. "What else did you get?"

"I got you a wig...how do you feel about being a red head...you know, I've always had a thing for red hea-" Regina starts but stops when she realizes what she's doing.

Emma has a big smile on her face.

"I'm sorry...I wasn't trying..I'm sorry" Regina shakes her head.

Emma smiles fade away. What's with Regina. She doesn't know, but she don't like it. She needs to stop acting so...weak. So...careful. It's annoying. Emma loved Regina for Regina, not this new person Regina thinks Emma wants her to be. At this point, Emma is more than ready to admit that her faith in Regina is restored. Okay, maybe not 100 percent, but Emma believes that Regina wouldn't hurt her anymore, wouldn't abuse her. She believes her. She knows Regina would never hurt Vada. Regina is always looking at Vada as if she is the greatest, most precious thing in the world, as if she was sneeze she would break. Emma knew that look well. She was pretty sure that's how she looked at Vada. At the same time, there were more. Emma also saw the sadness in Regina's eyes when she looked at Vada. Regina missed 7 years of their daughter's life. Her daughter was starting to like Regina. She'd be damned if she let Regina hurt her daughter's feelings by not being there for her.

"Um..." Regina laughs nervously. Emma's glaring at her. Why? She said she was sorry. So she was flirting with her, it was second nature. Emma was a beautiful woman. She couldn't help it, it just came out.

"It's fine Regina" Emma states.

"Alright" comes Regina's reply. "So, that's what I got. I...I have to tell you what I saw on the news earlier. I don't want you to flip out...I don't know if you want Vada to hear this or not.." Regina say quietly even though Vada isn't listening but devouring one of the breakfast sandwiches Regina brought.

"It's fine..." Emma quickly decides. "I don't want to keep her in the dark..." She adds.

Regina nods. "Emma, this morning, I saw...another news report about you, and now...I'm in it as well...well, Regina Mills. But, they have no idea what I look like, nor can they find any information about me, because technically, I don't exist in this world. They believe that am simply using a fake name, which isn't far fetched according to them, because I am harboring and helping a...a murderer" Regina explains.

"Um...WHAT!?" Emma asks.

Regina walked over to where Emma sat on the bed and grabbed her hand. "Emma, they think that you killed Percy, and Those two guys, as well as the guy in the bar. Now they are saying that you pushed him off the building" Regina explains.

Emma doesn't really hear what Regina's saying right now. The moment their hands touched that seemed to be all she could focus on. After a moment of silence Emma looks up at Regina slightly confused. "What?" She asks.

"Emma, don't worry. They don't know it's you, you. They are just looking for a tall blonde woman...they have a poorly drawn sketch of you they keep showing on the T.V" Regina explains.

"Regina, someone is going to see that. Someone is going to say, that looks like Emma. That looks like the woman who lives in the same apartment complex as me, or that's Vada's mom. Some one will recognize me Regina" Emma whines sounding a lot like Vada. She placed her head in her hands and groaned.

"Emma, so what if they realize it's you. You're I.D is fake. You're in this country illegally. They won't be able to find you. We will be out of this country before you know it. You will be safe" Regina reassures her.

"Just...put this wig on when we go outside...no one will look at you twice...and if they do, it's because you're so hot-" Regina sighed. "Sorry...sorry...it slipped"

Emma let out a frustrated groan.

"Relax Emma. I have a plan I want to run by you" Regina states with a warm smile. She glances up at the T.V as the same commercial that gave her the ideal flashed across the screen. "I hope you can swim..." She adds looking up.

To be continued...

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