Hi guys, after long time I've been gone I have finally returned!
I figured out the block I had and now gladly I am continuing!
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Previously on Silver Queen:
"Thanks for the salad but I should really get going back to the office. Good day Em-" Regina caught herself in time. "Ms. Swan." She turned and walked toward the town hall leaving a confused Emma.
"Your welcome." Emma shook her head and continued to eat. This conversation isn't over she promised to herself.
The phone rang and Emma groaned. It was too early in Monday's morning for her liking but she answered it anyway.
"Sheriff Swan." She tried not to sound like someone who just had been disturbed from deep sleep, after all she was the sheriff and it was her job to keep the citizens of Storybrooke safe. And she was the Savior. Yeah, there was that too.
"Sheriff, I am sorry I am calling this late in night but you see, I live by the lake and my house had been flooded." The man said, he sounded tired.
Emma coursed in her head, the man lives by the lake he should have expected this could happen.
"Yes" She encouraged him to continue so she could return to sleep.
"And it is not only that, trees started to grow everywhere, uncontrolled, tall and strong as if they were planted dozens of years ago. I swear they weren't there when I went to sleep last night."
Emma's eye suddenly flattered open, this is strange, why would the lake expand and grown trees would suddenly appear over night?
"Thank you, sir. we'll look at it in the morning, I hope you'll manage with the flood, have a good night and thank you again for notifying the sheriff department.
Emma hanged up the phone and thought how strange it was as she heard her father's voice, speaking with someone she couldn't hear over the phone. She was relived it was Regina's night to have Henry, she wanted him to have a full night rest before school and she had a feeling this is not what was waiting for her.
She walked down the stairs just as David hanged up the phone and sighed. He noticed her and smiled.
"Hey, I just got a really strange call" David looked tired, his voice was hushed, not wanting to wake Snow up.
"Let me guess, old trees suddenly appear all over town? Want some milk?" Emma said as she went to grab the milk carton from the refrigerator. David nodded his head and then frowned.
"You got a call about it too?" He asked.
"Yea, the guy who lives by the lake called. He said he's house had been flooded and trees that weren't there last night are suddenly there." She took the milk carton and poured to two cups. She handed one of them to her father.
"There isn't much we could do right now, I'll consult with Regina in the morning and see what she thinks." David nodded in agreement to her plan.
"How are things between you two? You seem to get along in the past few weeks." David stated and Emma smiled.
"Yeah, we're good. We had a nice lunch a couple of days ago and I noticed she was kinda tired yesterday when I brought Henry to the mansion, but other than that things with Henry and in general are pretty great I think."
"Good, that's good."
Across town, in Mifflin street, Regina woke up from yet another nightmare. She laid on her back in her bed under the sheets. Usually she had a nightmare of him every now and then but in the last days she had a nightmare every night and it was starting to show on her, Granny even asked her yesterday if everything was okay.
She knew she shouldn't be embarrassed about the fact she still has nightmares about her time as Leopold's wife but she just couldn't shake the feeling. She is a grown woman, and a powerful one! She is not the helpless, naive 18 years old girl she was when she married him, so why the nightmares couldn't just go away?
Regina also knew the reason to why she has more nightmares than usual lately, tomorrow will be her wedding anniversary. She sighed and shut her eyes as if the action could shield her from her memories of the past.
She reopened her eyes and looked out of the window, she saw the sun starting to rise. She got up from bed and went down. She first thought to drink some of her apple cider but she knew she needed something stronger to go through the day. It was way too early to drink by all means, she knew that, and yet she took a glass of whisky anyway. She sat in her sleeping cloths, on her armchair in her study and looked blankly at the wall. She sat there until she heard noises from upstairs which told her that her son was up and getting ready for school. She put her drink away and went to prepare for the day.
Emma knocked on the door of Regina's office and when she heard a reply, she walked in. Regina was standing by the window, looking out to the street but when she heard the door opening she turned around to see Emma.
"Hi Regina, good morning." Emma gritted with a smile which to her surprise wasn't returned. Regina walked toward her desk and sat down on her chair professionally.
"Good morning Ms. Swan. How can I help you today?" Regina asked in her mayoral tone, the one that Emma recognized from her yearly weeks of being new in town. She found Regina's behavior strange but didn't say anything, she could find out what happened later.
"Earlier this morning, David and I got a few calls from people all over the town claiming to have suddenly trees in their yards that weren't there before, like fully grown trees. The guy that lives by the lake called and said the lake was expanding and flooded his house."
Regina frowned. Why and who would do that? the only one who had magic were Rumple, Emma and the fairies and she was quite sure it was none of them. Not intentionally at least. But maybe Emma thinks it was her? Surly not, she didn't have her magic and Emma knows she wouldn't do that, but does she?
"What are you asking exactly? I even don't have my magic, so if you're going to blame me - it wasn't me." Regina snapped, she wasn't really in the mood today and preferred to be left alone but apparently some people had other plans for her day.
"Jesus Regina! I wasn't blaming you. I was trying to consult with you about what is happening and what could we do!" Emma sighed and lowered herself to the seat opposite to Regina.
"What is going on with you? You look really tired and that attitude- " Emma said, she was sincerely concerned about her friend. Wait, were they friends? Was Regina considering her as her friend? Probably not, they were just co-parenting Henry and maintaining civil towards each other for his sake. No, that wasn't completely true either. Emma did care for Regina, even if it wasn't returned.
"What attitude Ms. Swan?" Regina was annoyed "Just tell me what you want and let's get this over with, I have a long day ahead of me." she sighed. Emma knew she wasn't getting more than that so she went straight to her request.
"I would like you to come with me to one of the places that called us last night to see what happened. I know you don't have your magic but can you still detect if there is someone's else in the trees?" Emma asked hopeful.
"Yes, I can." Regina replied.
"Good. Do you have some free time now, so we go check it?"
"No. I'm the mayor I have work to do, but I'll come because it is more urgent if this is what I think it is." Emma saw actual concern in Regina's eyes.
Emma, David and Regina arrived to Sean and Ashley's house aka prince Charming and Cinderella. They were greeted by the young couple and went to the back yard where they saw five fully grown trees that looked very out of place, like they were belong to the forest. The young couple let the three royals to investigate. After some time of wandering around the trees Regina turned to the Charmings.
"What do you say?" Emma asked Regina.
"I went to some more people today, you know what they all had in common? They lived in the town's edges." David cut in before Regina could answer, he wanted her to take that information into consideration as well.
"I couldn't detect any magical trace." Regina said. And they were surprised.
"What do you mean?" David frowned.
"That means that no one did this with magic."
"Then how this could possibly happen?" Emma curiously.
"My theory is that the curse is breaking." Emma and David look questioningly.
"But Emma already broke the curse." David pointed out.
"What she did was make time move again and return everyone their memories, but we are still here in Storybrooke, Maine instead of the Enchanted Forest. And I think this is what happening. The town reverting back to the forest it was before Storybrooke was created." Regina explained and the Charmings looked worriedly at her.
"What can we do? Can you undo it?" Emma asked nervously.
"I don't know. We need first to understand what caused the town to revert in the first place and based on that we could start thinking about what to do." Regina sighed.
"Okay. Then we'll go and ask Gold about it, see what he has to say about the matter." David said.
"You'll go; I still have work in my office to finish." Emma knew Regina was still avoiding Gold and frankly she didn't blame her, she would have done the same if she was in her place so she nodded her head and they each drove to their way.
Later that day, at the evening Emma went to check on Henry it was his bed time and it was Emma's night to have him. When she saw he was asleep, she went down stairs to her parents. David and her already filled Snow with what is going on. She saw her parents sit together on the couch drinking coco with cinnamon from their cups.
"I'm going to tell Regina about what we found out at Gold's." She smiled at them, they nodded and she left the loft.
When she reached Regina's mansion she saw that the was no light on and that immediately got her suspicious. It was only nine and even if Regina went to sleep, Emma knew she keeps at least one light on in case she needs something in the middle of the night.
Emma approached the mansion's door. She slowly and quietly pulled her gun out. She tried to open the door quietly and the door was indeed open. She frowned and knew that something was wrong, Regina wouldn't leave the door open.
She slowly walked farther into the dark house, and quietly closing the door behind her. The only way she could see the objects in the house was from the street light that came in from the windows.
"Regina!" Emma called her but didn't receive any reply. She started searching for her, she went to the kitchen and then decided to search upstairs in case Regina indeed had gone to sleep. She searched every room in the second floor, when she arrived to Regina's room it was dark but there was enough light from outside to see there was no one in the bed and that got her worried. She sighed and walked to the bathroom, she first knocked but when she didn't get an answer she opened the door finding the bathroom empty.
Then she heard glass shattering from downstairs, really? She thought, now someone was breaking to Regina's house? She tried to remember if the brunette told her that she was going out of town or something and somehow, someone knew and was trying to steal but she didn't remember Regina saying anything like that.
She walked slowly, step by step, knowing from personal experience that thieves could have guns with them even in such a small town as Storybrooke. It was deadly quite now; she didn't hear anything besides her own breathes. When she was downstairs she replayed the sound she heard in her mind trying to detect where it came from. She turned to look at the kitchen seeing if there is someone there but again, no one. She didn't hear them coming, nor saw them but all of the sudden someone kicked her legs from behind, she was unprepared for this and she fell on the floor, she turned to look who it was and saw it was Regina who looked shocked to see Emma.
"What the hell are you doing here Ms. Swan?!" Regina asked angrily "I thought you were an intruder!"
Emma groaned from the pain of the fall and took the hand Regina reached out for her. When she was standing she looked at Regina, or more like what she could see of Regina, it was still pretty dark inside the house.
"I came to tell you what we found out at Gold's shop. Since when do you leave your front door open? And why the hell all of the lights are off?" Emma asked worriedly, she recovered quickly from the fall and was okay now.
"The door was open?" Regina was shocked and tried to think if she locked the door or not, now when she's thinking about it she didn't lock the door. She was far too distracted. Emma nodded her head. She looked concerned at Regina.
"Regina what is going on?" She asked quietly.
"Nothing Emma, I'm just tired and didn't notice." Regina wasn't lying, they both knew that. Regina walked back towards her study and pushed the button of the light on. She was so tired she didn't even notice she called Emma by her first name.
But Emma did notice and that made her even more suspicious about what is going on.
"The hell. You looked really tired these last few days and you weren't yourself today, so please tell what is going on? Maybe I can help" Emma followed her to the study and sat at the empty space next to her on the couch. She looked at the brunette and saw the troubled look she had on her face. Knowing from personal experience whatever it was, it was deep and personal so she didn't want to push her too hard, giving Regina the opportunity to open up by herself.
"You can't help." Regina stated. She was so confused, she didn't know if she could trust Emma, if she should trust her at all. When she had gone to see Archie, he told her that having someone who you could trust and could talk about it with can help. But again, should she trust Emma? Everyone she trusted turned against her, her mother, Snow, Rumple. Was it worth it?
"When I was in my early teenage years, someone came into my life for a while and I thought we're going to be best friends. But this girl lied to me, and I pushed her away because of that lie. She asked me to forgive her but I never did. It took sometime but I realized it was a mistake and I regretted the decision but by then it was too late, the damage was already done. I don't want to make the same mistake again Regina." Emma looked at Regina whom her face was turned away from her.
"Living in Storybrooke, I've got my son and my parents. I love them. But they can't always understand me, they don't know what it feels like to be rejected and misunderstood not the way I do not the way you do." Regina turned her face so she could look at Emma.
"And somehow that makes us, I don't know, unique or maybe even special. I wasn't trying to accuse of things you didn't do, I was looking for you to be my friend."
"You thought we were friends?" Regina asked.
"Crazy right?" Emma chuckled nervously. "I thought it could be, that it was possible." Emma continued and Regina sighed.
"I'm not gonna stop trying, and not just for Henry's sake. Even if you still don't want my help." Emma finished. Regina didn't say anything and Emma took it as a sign to leave. She got up and walked towards out of the study.
"It's not that I don't want your help, whatever it was, it was long time ago. There is nothing you can do." Regina whispered but Emma heard her and stopped.
"I can be here for you." Emma suggested. Regina gave her a small smile.
"I- I don't know what to say, honestly" Regina told her.
"you don't have to say anything, we could just sit over some hot chocolate and I'll tell you what Gold had to say about our newest issue, or I could just go home if you would like that."
They sat in the kitchen with their coco mugs while Emma informed Regina of her findings. Regina mostly sat in silence though most of Emma's explanation, only asking question few times.
"So it is what I thought. The dark curse is linked to my magic, and what you broke of the curse was giving back everyone's old memories and moving time again. But we didn't go back to the enchanted forest and now that my magic is gone, it makes the town to revert back to the forest it was before." Regina concluded and Emma nodded her head in agreement.
"Did he say what can we do?" Regina asked her and Emma shook her head.
"Well, not exactly. He said that there are a few ways to approach this but at the end of the day, everyone who were born in the Enchanted Forest will die if we won't do something about it."
Regina nodded, she knew this is a possible outcome.
"That means everyone except for Henry." Emma said with concern. "He would be alone."
"No Emma" Regina put a hand over Emma's in comfort. "You'll go with him, you're the savior, you escaped the curse once and you could do it again. You'll be together." Regina reassured her.
"But we wouldn't remember you, and Henry needs his mother." Emma claimed.
"I can try and find a magic bean there must be one survived in that field you had, use the water of the Well and send everyone back to the Enchanted forest." Regina suggested.
"No!" Emma shook her head. "That means you'll die! You can do the whole bean thing, but then come with me and Henry. I am not the princessly type anyway." Regina was touched by the blonde's suggestion.
"Well then, tomorrow we'll find a magical bean." Regina said as she took another sip from her mug.
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