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"Did you know about this?" Snow asked Rumple, they were all still standing there. She looked at the Dark One who examined the ice with interest and consternation. He didn't answer and instead just met her gaze for a second, and then returned to look at the ice again.
"Of course he did!" Neal muttered with slight anger evident in his tone. Before anyone could say anything, they saw Emma and Hook returning to them.
"Emma!" David called in concern to his daughter. Emma and Hook both were out of breath, they approached the others.
"She run away, and the ocean- "Emma stopped to breathe deeply, she and Hook hurried in their return to the others and their breathe had yet to even.
"What happened to the ocean?" Tink asked worriedly, she did care about Regina and was concerned for the brunette who seemed to not be in control over her powers. Rumple stopped from his occupations, he looked at the Savior excitingly and was actually interested in what she had to say.
"She froze the ocean completely." It was Hook who finished Emma's sentence. He let everyone to process what happened, they all were shocked.
"Well, she clearly doesn't have her powers under control." Rumple said mostly to himself but Snow who was standing next to him didn't miss it and frowned.
"I don't understand, Regina never had that kind of power before, she would have used it against us if she did." Snow tried to understand, in all of her time together with Regina she never saw the woman having any sort of ice in her magic.
"Does it even matter?!" Emma asked with more force than she intended to. She was angry at herself for pushing Regina and making her run away. "We need to find her too! You go search for Henry and Hook and I will find her." Emma determinedly stated.
"Emma no, absolutely no!" David argued. "She's dangerous, you saw what she did with this magic!" David pointed at the ice that Regina shot a them few minutes prior.
"What I saw was a scared woman, whom I pushed too far." Emma sadly looked down and admitted. "I shouldn't have done that, and now I'm going to find her and help her." Emma looked back up, meeting her father's eyes with determination. Snow saw the look in Emma's face and smile, she walked to David and put gently a hand on his shoulder signaling for him not to protest to their daughter's decision. She smiled at Emma proudly.
"We'll get Henry, go find her." Snow reassured. Emma smiled warmly back at both of her parents.
"Tell Henry- " Emma stopped and smiled sadly. "Tell him that his mothers love him and will come soon." She looked at Neal with a meaningful look, he nodded.
"We will." Neal promised.
"Before you go," Rumple stopped Emma and Hook. "Head towards to north mountain, according to the wind's direction, that if I'm correct – created by Regina, you should find her there." Both Hook and Emma nodded in gratitude for the tip, they turned around and started walking. Behind them Snow, David, Rumple, Neal and Tink started going towards Pan's camp to rescue Henry.
Regina was walking now, she had no idea where she was, she only kept walking until she saw nothing but mountains surrounding her, everything was covered in snow and she couldn't help but feel the sense of irony.
She sighed, holding her hands close to her chest. The hand that was still covered by a glove was holding onto the other. She was so terrified of everyone knowing and their reaction and now that their know, now that her secret is revealed, what she feared the most happened. She saw the look on their faces, they were shocked, scared, angry.
She didn't know what to do now. This magic, it felt different. While she always felt that her magic was part of her, this was different, these ice powers, they felt different. It didn't feel like an additional part to her, like her magic. It felt like it WAS her. It felt natural. With the magic, she felt a rush while using it, but this, it felt just like using her arm to lift something, or walking. It was different, and while she was scared from their reaction, she also felt excited and curious to know what these powers could do. She wanted to find out.
She stopped walking and stood there, in the middle of a snowy nowhere, held her hands in front of her and looked at them. She made a decision right there and then, she'd not going to hide it anymore, she was going to learn about this part of herself and once she gains full control over it, she will return to the others.
"Well now they know." she mattered to herself quietly and took off her remained glove from her left hand. She was so excited and nervous she threw it away in the air not caring where it lands.
Regina opened the palm of her right hand and small snowflakes appeared, just like her fireballs did but with this, she didn't even need to concentrate and call her magic, it felt just like a part of her body she could move. She was thrilled and had to try it with her left hand as well. It worked too!
She made a circular motion with her hands that build a snowman in front of her she chuckled lightly and kept walking. She threw one hand in the air and shot a longer string of snowflakes in to the air above her, then with the other hand as well. She used both of her hands to seemingly push away the air, making the snowflakes slowly fade and swirl away with the wind.
She then realized that she wasn't even cold. She took off her blue blazer and let the wind carry it away. She started to walk faster and was filled with so much excitement from what she could do with her powers, she felt free, freer than ever.
Regina turned around to look back at the island she left where the others were searching for Henry but it looked so very small. She turned around and felt the need to run. Not away from anyone, but only to feel the cold wind on her face. She stopped running when she saw a chasm separating between her and the next mountain. She trusted felt like she could trust her powers so she instinctively threw her hands to the edge of the cliff and frosted stairs of ice formed there she smiled and put a hesitated foot on it, testing to see if it's stable enough.
Once Regina saw the ice was as hard and strong as the ground, she let the ice fly from her hands and build the rest of the stair as she run on them to the top. She looked around her and at the stairs she built with awe. Then decided she'll need a place to stay in until she learns how to use her powers completely.
She walked to the center of the plain in the mountain and stopped on the ground, a giant single snowflake made of ice started forming under her feet. She slowly raised both of her hands up and with her the icy, snowflake shaped floor. Pillars were staring to form around to supported the upcoming structure, as well as walls around her. No longer out there in the open. Regina held her hands towards the floor, quickly spined around and shot both of her hands upwards and saw how the magic rushed through the wall to the top. The ceiling was slowly forming a beautiful chandelier was evolving from it.
Regina looked around, satisfied with the palace she built by herself, she slowly walked to the balcony noticing that for the first time since her stay on the island, the sun started to rise and couldn't help but smile wildly. She embraced this part of herself and was determined to unveil what else could she do. She turned around and walked back inside the palace, the balcony's doors shuttered behind her.
Emma followed Hook, he knew where to go and how to navigate in Neverland. It was cold and they were in luck that they took some extra layers before leaving. They didn't talk much except when the sun started rising and both of them looked at each other surprised and wondered if it had anything to do with Regina, Emma seemed to be far away in her thoughts and to her surprise Hook accepted that and didn't try to talk to her or run another more of his pickup lines in her. That were clearly not working, he just wouldn't get the signal.
She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice Hook stopped on his tracks and she bumped into him.
"Oops. Sorry." she apologized.
"It's okay luv, look." Hook stepped aside and Emma's jaw dropped. It was a small frozen fall with a small frozen lake connected to it. Around it all the trees were frozen and full with snow, it was magnificent and Emma couldn't help but appreciate the beauty in Regina's powers.
"Wow." Emma voiced her awe out loud. Hook couldn't help but nod in agreement, it was really something special. "It's beautiful."
"Yeah, It really is beautiful isn't it?" Emma and Hook quickly looked at one another with shock. There was someone with them. The voice came from the snow in front of them but they saw no one. "But it's so white! Have a little color, I'm think maybe like some crimson, chartreuse." Emma and Hook slowly walked ahead, towards where they heard the voice coming from.
"How about yellow? No not yellow." The voice was now heard from behind them. They looked at each other before looking back to find a snowman talking. TALKING.
"Yellow and snow?" The snowman laughed at himself. "No, no. Am I right?" he looked at Emma. Emma freaked out, she yelled and kicked its head. The head flew right into Hook's open arms who looked at the snowman's head disturbed.
"Creepy." Hook tossed the snowman's head back to Emma.
"I don't want it!" Emma threw it back to Hook who threw it back at her, that's when Emma noticed. "Ew, Ew. The body." She threw the snowman's head towards its body and he fell on the snow. Once he got up his head was connected to his body but upside down.
"Wait, what am I looking at right now? Why are you hanging off the earth like a bat?" The snowman asked. Emma was back to her wits and walked slowly to the snowman and fixed his head.
"Oh, thank you." The snowman looked at himself to see that everything was still intact.
"You're welcome." Emma replied still feeling unsure about talking with a snowman.
"Now I'm perfect." The snowman said happily.
"Well almost." Emma said and took a carrot out of her bag, it was from the food they packed to their travel. She pushed it into where the snowman was supposed to have a nose but with too much force that the carrot got out from the other side of his head and only the little piece of the end of the carrot stayed as a nose. The snowman groaned in pain.
"I'm so sorry! Are you okay?" Emma asked.
"Are you kidding me? I am wonderful!" The snowman threw his arms in the air like an excited child. "I've always wanted a nose." The snowman was so busy appreciating his new tiny nose that he didn't noticed Emma's hand going to the back of his head. Emma pushed the carrot back and his nose grew bigger as it should have been. The snowman looked at his new nose.
"I like it even more!" He sighed. "Alright, let's start this thing over. Hi everyone, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs." Olaf opened his hands. Hook and Emma looked at one another. Olaf waited but when none of them seemed like they were going to interduce themselves, Olaf promoted.
"And you are..."
"Oh um, I'm Emma." Emma introduced herself.
"Hook." The pirate looked suspiciously at the snowman. Too cheerful for his liking.
"Oh" Olaf looked at the hook instead of a hand. "I get it."
"Olaf-" Emma called the snowman who seemed to be fascinated with Hook's hook. Olaf returned his attention to the blonde. "Did Regina build you?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Do you know where she is?" Emma asked hopefully.
"Yeah, why?" Hook took one of Olaf's hands and looked as it still moved even though it wasn't connected to the snowman's body.
"Do you think you could show us the way?" Emma wanted to be sure.
"Yeah, why?" Hook tried to move the fingers of the wooden hand.
"How does this work?" He asked with wonder and frowned. The hand slapped him and Olaf took his hand back from the pirate.
"Stop it Hook, trying to focus here!" Olaf turned back to Emma. "Yeah why?"
"I'll tell you why." Hook answered and Olaf turned to look at him. "We need to find Regina and stop this winter."
"Ohh come on then! Let's go find her!" The snowman yelled with excitement and started walking both Emma and Hook following him.
They have been walking for a while, Olaf was constantly chattering and they had no choice but listen, they needed him to take them to Regina.
"So how exactly are you planning to stop this weather?" Hook asked Emma curiosity.
"Oh I'm going to talk to Regina." Emma said, she knew it didn't sound so good because those were her words that caused them to be where they are today but it was all she got.
"That's your plan?" Hook raised an eyebrow. "Talk to the queen?"
"Yeah." Emma knew it wasn't much but it was what she got and she had to be confident.
"So you're not at all afraid of her?" Hook asked.
"Why would I be?" Emma returned the question.
"Yeah, I bet she's the nicest, gentlest, warmest person ever." Olaf wondered without noticing he was being spiked on one of the ices. Once he realized that he started laughing. "Oh look at that, I've been impaled."
They were still walking, Hook didn't continue asking Emma questions after they helped Olaf out of the icy spike and now, they were facing a cliff from the bottom. Emma and Hook looked up so measure its height.
"What now?" Emma asked with a sigh.
"We don't have enough rope for the both of us." Hook admitted. "How do you even know she wants to see you?"
"You're right, she probably doesn't. But I need to get her back home, where she belongs. Back to her son, and apologize to her." Emma said determined.
"Hey Hook! Not sure if this is gonna solve the problem but I found a staircase that leads exactly where you wanted to go!" Olaf called from ahead of them. They both looked at each other. Then Emma rushed to see what the snowman was referring to. They both walked to see a staircase made of ice that led to a huge castle made entirely from ice as well. They looked at it with awe and started to climb up the stairs to finally meet Regina. They reached to the top and stood in front of two large closed doors which Emma hesitated upon knocking. She knocked forcefully three times and the huge doors opened. She turned around to her companions.
"You should probably wait out here." Emma looked at Hook. "She doesn't extremely like you..."
"She doesn't like you either Swan." Hook pointed out; he was actually curious to see what's on the inside.
"I know, but it is better if I do it by myself."
"Bye Hook!" Olaf waved goodbye to the pirate and started to walk towards he entrance but Emma quickly stopped him.
"You too Olaf." She said gently. "Just give us a minute."
"Okay." The snowman agreed and started counting seconds. He went to sit on the stairs next to Hook.
Emma walked in and looked around her. The place was enchanting, she has never seen anything like it.
"Regina! It's me, Emma." She called, hoped the brunette would come. She almost slipped on the ice and didn't notice Regina coming to stand on the top of the staircase.
"Emma?" Regina walked towards her, but not leaving to top of the stairs, she was only in her red silk shirt and black jeans but her hair was longer, reaching under her shoulders. She looked fresh her red lips were far more visible in the paler complexion of Regina's skin. She looked breathtaking.
"Wow Regina, you look different." Emma not sure about what to say, he felt very nervous. "Good different." She reassured. "And this place, it's amazing."
"Thank you." Regina offered a small smile. "I never knew what I was capable of."
"I'm so sorry about what happened." Emma said sincerely and reached to the bottom of the staircase. "If I had known..."
"No, no. It's okay." Regina said quickly and took a few steps back as she saw Emma getting closer. "You don't have to apologize. But you should go, please." Regina said and turned away from Emma.
"But I just got here." Emma pointed out.
"You need to go, save Henry and be with him." Regina insisted.
"So do you." Emma didn't back down.
"No, Emma. I need to stay here. Alone. Where I be who I am, without hurting anyone he cares about." Regina said sadly.
"Actually about that- " Emma stared talking but then they heard a voice from the doors' direction, both of them turned to look at Olaf who burst in.
"Wait, what is that?" Regina asked confused.
"Hi I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs." He went to stand next to Emma.
"Olaf?" Regina asked with wonder.
"You built me, remember?" Olaf asked.
"And you're alive?" Regina asked surprised.
"Um I think so?" Olaf stretched his fingers looking at them moving. Regina looked at her hands.
"Regina, you need to come with us back home. We can work this out, I know we can!" Emma insisted.
"No, We can't. Goodbye Emma." Regina hugged herself and turned around.
"Regina, wait." Emma started climbing the stairs to go after Regina.
"No. I'm just trying to protect you." Regina wanted Emma to understand the consequences of what might happen if she loses control over her magic again, the risk was too high.
"You don't have to protect me, I'm not afraid." Emma confessed. "Please don't shut me out again."
Regina was climbing another staircase towards the room with the balcony and Emma right behind her.
"Regina, I understand. We can figure it out, together!" Emma offered her help.
"Emma, go back. Your family is there, your whole life ahead of you. Henry will be safer with you and he'll have the family he always wanted with you and Neal." Regina admitted with sadness.
"I am not going to be with Neal." Emma said with slight anger.
"Doesn't matter." Regina dismissed. "Just leave me be, I might be alone but here I'm finally free. Just stay away and you'll be safe from me."
"Actually, we're not." Emma revealed nervously.
"What do you mean you're not?" Regina looked at her surprised.
"So, I get the feeling you don't know?" Emma looked down not meeting Regina's gaze.
"What do I not know?"
"All of Neverland is deep in snow." Emma admitted.
"What?!" Regina looked at her with concern.
"You kind of set off an eternal winter, everywhere."
"Everywhere?" Regina looked at her with shock and guilt.
"But it's okay you can just unfreeze it." Emma saw the panic in Regina's face and reassured her quickly.
"No I can't, I don't know how!" Regina said almost terrified. She could have hurt Henry; the cold could even kill him if he was warm enough. Her panicked thoughts make snow fall around the two woman and slowly began to swirl around them, moved by Regina's emotional struggle.
"Sure you can, I know you can." Emma tried to let Regina see that she was supporting her and having confidence in her.
"Of, I'm such a fool I can't be free." Regina claimed and turned her back to Emma. The snow was now heavier and picking up speed, swirling around her.
"You don't have to be afraid." Emma tried to fight against the wind that was caused from Regina's emotions. She needed to calm Regina down. But Regina seemed caught up in her emotions that she didn't even listen to her.
"I can't control this curse!" Regina muttered with defeat that was so much unlike her.
"We can help you deal with it." Emma promised.
"Emma please, you only make this worse!" Regina shouted at her trying to overcome the wind.
"Don't panic." Emma saw Regina struggle and suddenly the storm sucked into Regina and blasted magically out all around her, part of it hit Emma in the heart. She looked down in shock but saw nothing different, she breathed heavily. Regina saw the pain in Emma's eyes and stepped away in panic, she hurt her. The stubborn blonde couldn't just let it go and now she was hurt.
"Swan!" Hook quickly entered the room rushing to Emma's side Olaf following him. "Are you okay?"
"I'm okay." She saw Regina looking at her with fear. "I'm fine." she reassured the brunette.
"What are you doing here?" Regina asked confused. "Wait, it doesn't matter. you just have to go!" Regina didn't care why Hook was here, she was scared to hurt the blonde even more.
"No! I know we can figure this out together!" Emma insisted.
"How?" Regina looked at her pleading. "What kind of power do you have that can stop this winter? To stop me?" Regina knew that these powers were way more powerful than any magic she sensed, ever. More than Rumple's and Emma's.
"Emma, I think we should go." Hook looked around, the walls were making sounds he didn't like, as if the ice was cracking.
"No, I'm not leaving without you Regina."
"Yes. You are." Regina stated. She threw her hands towards the floor and a swirl of white started to form into a giant angry looking snowman.
The huge snowman was holding the three of them in his giant hand and threw them beyond the staircase to the snow. Emma was pissed at Regina for not returning but also understood her fear and concern. She was so deep in her thoughts that she didn't notice the tingling feeling in her head.
"Swan." Hook said and looked at her strangely, concern even? She raised an eyebrow.
"Your hair." He held the piece he was talking about to show her. "It's turning white." Emma looked down at her hair Hook was referring to with nervous.
"It's probably not a good sign isn't it?"
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