Hi everyone, here's another chapter :)
Sorry again for al the mistakes, English isn't my native language.
Emma, Killian and Olaf were quickly making their way back to the camp where they agreed to meet the others after they rescue Henry. Emma insisted on walking fast. Even though Hook gave her his coat, she felt like she was freezing. She knew it was because of Regina's magic that hit her and thought perhaps a quick walk would warm her up. It was getting late and the sun started to set down, that's when Hook suggested they would camp for the night. Emma agreed, they stopped in a small clearing and Hook brought wood to make fire and warm them both.
Regina was pacing back and forth, all she could think of was the pained look on Emma's face. She hit her in the heart, it can't be good. It all happened because she let her emotions get the better of her. It seemed that no matter if these powers were different from her magic, one thing remained the same. It was tied to her emotions.
"Don't feel. Don't feel!" she repeated to herself as she tried to control the power within her. "DON'T FEEL!" she yelled at herself and stopped pacing. That's when she heard cracking and looked around. The walls turned red, there were large icicles pointed at her from everywhere in the room. She looked at them worried. What is she going to do?
Hook was the one who stayed awake on the watch. He looked at the sleeping blonde who next to her was a sleeping Olaf. Hook had no idea snowmen could sleep, but it didn't matter. He wanted Emma despite her not wanting him back, he was sure that he could win her heart and he also knew how. He will get her back to her parents, kill Regina, that way the curse on Emma will be lifted and she will stay alive. Emma and her parents will see him as the hero and Emma would want to be with him. Her parents won't resist because he will be the one who saved them from the Evil Queen and the winter she inflicted upon them. That was a great plan. He noticed the moment Emma's hair turned complete white and got worried. He immediately went over to Emma and woke her up.
"Luv, we have to go." Hook said hurriedly.
"What happened?" Emma asked tiredly she felt heavy and cold.
"I think you're getting worse, the curse is spreading in you. We need to take you to the Crocodile; he'll know what to do." Hook didn't like it but he was her only chance. Emma nodded and barley stood up she woke up Olaf.
"Come on, it's not that far away from the camp." Hook encouraged her.
The trio walked for another hour until Emma couldn't walk anymore, she was freezing and tired, so Hook carried her. Another fifteen minutes and they arrived to the cam where everyone waited for them, including Henry.
"Emma!" Henry yelled worriedly; he was the first to notice Hook who carried almost unconscious Emma in his hands. Hook put her in a sitting position on the ground. Snow, David and Henry quickly came and lowered themselves next to her.
"What happened?" Snow asked Hook as she examined her daughter.
"Regina, she hit her heart." Hook said with no emotion. Rumple looked at him with a frown. He then walked next to the Charmings who looked at him excitingly to do something, say something.
"No, she wouldn't!" Henry insisted, he knew his mother was changing for the better and wouldn't hurt Emma. "What is that?!" Henry looked shocked at the snowman who seemed to be alive.
"That's a living snowman, apparently." Hook answered.
"Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!" The snowman introduced himself to the group. They all stared at him with shock and interest and didn't notice that Hook turned around, silently taking one sword with him and walking away to find Regina. What he didn't knew that Emma saw him and realized what he was going to do. Hook was close enough to still hear Rumple.
"Be sure that Pan and his lost boys are trying to take Regina, if not took her already." Hook smirked to himself, he knew where to find her now and make sure she was gone forever.
"Why would they take Regina?" Emma asked quietly with worry. She was concerned for the other mother of her son and was starting to think her concern wasn't related to Henry alone.
"Emma it doesn't matter, look what she did to you." David said with slight anger.
"I've never thing anything like these powers Regina has. It's not even magic. Pan would surely want to understand what it is and to do that he would take her." Rumple admitted. To that Emma tried to get up and stand, she couldn't let him take Regina. Snow and David quickly stopped her.
"No, you don't understand." Emma claimed with almost tears in her eyes. "She was scared, and tried to get away from me. I pushed her, again." She said with guilt.
"Emma, this isn't your fault." Her mother assured her. "You will sit here and rest. How can we help her?" Snow asked Rumple.
"Had Regina hit her anywhere else, I could have helped with magic. But she hit her heart, and only an act of true love can melt a frozen heart." Rumple revealed. Henry's face lit up.
"Then I can help you!" Henry kissed his mother's forehead but nothing happened. Tears started to fall down his face.
"You don't love me anymore?" He asked suddenly feeling little again.
"Henry, no! You know that's not true! I love you so much!" Emma protested. Henry walked away to the other side of the camp; Olaf followed to comfort him.
"What are we going to do?" Snow asked Rumple with worry.
"I'll need more time to figure it out..." Rumple admitted.
Regina heard a commotion outside, she went to the main doors and peaked to see what's happening. She saw the lost boys fighting the giant snowman she created yesterday to send Emma, Hook and Olaf away. She looked her gaze with one of the boys, Pan's right hand, Felix and saw the look on his face.
"The queen is there!" Felix shouted to the other lost boys. Two of the lost boys managed to run past the snowman and get into the palace. Regina quickly hurried to the highest room, the one with the balcony as two of the lost boys behind her. Once she saw there was nowhere to run, she turned back to face them. They started circling her each one from another direction, crossbows in their hand, probably with arrows filled with dreamshade.
"Stay away. Just stay away." Regina warned, she didn't want to hurt them, they were just children brainwashed by Pan. She put her hands out in warning but then the lost boy who was in front of her shot one arrow. She put her hand to protect herself and managed to freeze the arrow just in time. There she realized she would have to fight them because they won't stop. She shot ice at one of them, blocking him from each side that he would have nowhere to go but the balcony. The crossbow fell from his hands as he tried to push the ice that was pushing him outside. Regina meanwhile shot ice to the other lost boy as well, making icicles trap him to the wall, with one threateningly pointed at his throat.
Pan suddenly called her from behind. He was followed by a several lost boys.
"Regina! Don't be the monster they fear you are!" Regina was suddenly broke from her trance and breathed deeply, she looked at the lost boy that was almost falling from the balcony and stopped the ice that was pushing him. She didn't see the other lost boy pointing his arrow at her but Pan did, before he could shoot Regina, Pan moved the crossbow up and it hit the chandelier, making it start to fall down. Regina saw that with panic, she was standing right beneath it. She quickly tried to run away from it but as the chandelier crashed on the floor she slipped and hit the ground, falling unconscious.
When she woke up, she was inside a cage that had a window to the ocean, or what's left of it away way. It was entirely frozen, and completely white with snow. She stood up from the bed and went to closer to the window when she suddenly was stopped. Her hands were cuffed in metal, she couldn't even see her palms. Behind her there was a door and she heard a key opening the it. She was faced with no other than Pan himself.
"You have to let me go!" Regina stated. "I need to find Emma."
"The Savior?" Pan asked with fake concern. "She has not returned to your camp since she went looking for you. Regina had no other choice than believe him.
"I can't stay here, I'm too dangerous." Regina tried again, perhaps Pan cared about his lost boys.
"We'll figure it out what to do with you." Pan said and turned around. He left her there and looked the door behind her.
Hook found Pan talking with Felix, he knew that was his shot.
"Hello mates." Hook acknowledged the two.
"Pirate. It has been a long time since we've met." Felix replied.
"I'm here for the queen." Hook was direct. "If we want to bring back order to Neverland." Hook explained and Felix shared a look with Pan.
"Yes, it seems to be what everyone believes is the best to do." Pan muttered. He knew how important Regina was and the consequences of killing her. "But alas, I have other plans for her." Pan said and walked away. Hook sighed.
"I know the lost boys want to kill her; they disagree with Pan's plan." Felix promoted and Hook looked at him shocked.
"You'd betray Pan?" He questioned un convinced.
"I'm helping him see what is right to do." Felix insisted and Hook nodded.
"Then bring them and let's do it."
Regina heard steps coming, it sounded like several people and not just Pan. She panicked. The cell was starting quickly to get covered with ice and it locked the door, slightly preventing them from entering. Snow covered her cuffs and she knew that in just a minute she could get free of them.
"It's the ice covering the door!" Regina heard Hook's voice and frowned; he was here? So Emma must be too! That means Pan lied and they just wanted to kill her. They hit the door harder this time and it cracked open, just in time or Regina to break free from the cuffs and run away from the broken window. Hook, Felix and the lost boys walked into the cell to find it empty.
Emma saw Olaf was keeping the others occupied and knew she had to find Regina, according to the map Pan's camp was near the water, she needed to go there and find Regina. She silently rose from her sitting poison and walked away with the remaining of her strength without the others noticing.
Everything was white around her; the wind was howling forcefully and she had no idea where she was going. She tried to put a hand to block the wind but it did nothing to help.
"Regina!" She heard Hook calling her from behind. She turned around to face him.
"Just keep Emma and Henry safe." Regina asked him. He tried to get closer to her but the wind was very powerful and making it hard on them to move.
"Emma? We came back from the mountains, she was freezing. Her hair was completely white." Hook revealed. And Regina looked at him with guilt and sadness. "Emma's dead. Because of you!"
Regina felt like she was punched in the stomach. There's no way Emma was dead. NO. She felt devastated, Emma was dead because of her. She fell to her knees and suddenly the wind stopped. Everything was clear again. Regina started crying on the ground and didn't notice Hook approaching her from behind with his sword.
Emma looked around finally able to see anything because the wind stopped. She felt a rush of coldness and looked down at her hands that were starting to freeze and turn to light blue ice. This is it. She was sure of it. She was going to freeze to death. She suddenly saw Regina on the ground and Hook with his sword standing behind her. She realized what he was about to do.
"Emma!" She turned behind to see her family. Snow called her with worry. They must have noticed she was gone and followed her. Everyone was there. Rumple, Neal, Tink, Snow, David and Henry and even Olaf. But she turned back to look at Regina who was oblivious to the fact that Hook was about to kill her.
Emma quickly with all of her strength run to stand between Regina and Hook just as he rose his sword up. She put her hand up in a protective motion to block the sword away and turned to ice right there. Hook's sword hit Emma's frozen hand and shuttered to pieces sending Hook to fall back from the blast.
Regina then seemed to notice that something was behind and saw it was Emma's frozen figure.
"No!" She cried out with sorrow. She quickly stood up and cupped Emma's frozen cheeks with her hands. "Emma." She started crying and hugged her. The others stood there watching the scene with disbelieve. David hugged Snow as she started crying and Neal took Henry to his embrace comforting the boy.
Regina was so busy crying for what she has done to the blonde that she didn't notice Emma's heart was beginning to unfreeze just as the rest of her body. Neal did saw it and stared hocked.
"Look!" he whispered to the group who looked up to see Emma unfreeze back to life.
Regina felt Emma moving again and looked with shock up to see the blonde looking at her with a smile.
"Emma?" Regina asked with wonder. "Emma!" she called out with relived laughter and stood up straight to hug her closely. The blonde hugged her just as hard in return.
"You saved me?" Regina asked with shock as she saw Hook lying unconscious on the ground with his broken sword next to him.
"I love you." Emma was shocked at her own boldness but was glad when she saw Regina smiling back at her. Regina stood on her tiptoes and kissed Emma on the lips, Emma was shocked but immediately return the kiss.
"I love you too." Regina admitted with a smile of her own. Both of them didn't that the entire group stood closer to them and Henry quickly came and hugged both of his mothers.
"Only an act of true love can melt a frozen heart." Olaf pointed out happily and Regina and Emma looked at one another in wonder. True love? Snow and David were next to hug Emma who was just as glad to see them again.
"Love?" Regina thought. "Of course!" She suddenly realized what she had to do in order to melt the ice.
"Regina?" Emma asked in wonder.
"Come on let's go back to the ship!" Regina said and Rumple teleported them all. The pirate included to the Jolly Roger. Regina used her hands to lift the snow and ice that was covering the ship and slowly it turned to delicate snowflakes that went up to the air. In moments all of Neverland was sunny and unfrozen as it should have been. All the snowflakes became one large in the sky and Regina made it fade away.
"That was the best day of my life!" Olaf exclaimed and they all saw him starting to melt. "And probably the last."
"Hang in there." Regina chuckled and with a circular motion put him back together and created for him a small cloud that snowed only on him. Olaf laughed with glee. Regina turned to Emma who came to her and they hugged again.
"Now can we finally go home?" Henry asked happily. Hook slowly rose back to his feet and looked at Emma shocked.
"But she froze your heart!" He cried out with anger. Regina turned to deal with him but Emma stopped her. Emma went closer to hi, he was near the ship's edge.
"The only frozen heart here, is yours!" She said angrily and punched him so heard that he lost balance and fell from the ship into to the still cold water. David smiled at her proudly.
"I know how to sail this ship back home." Neal stated and they all nodded at him. Rumple trapped the shadow in the sails and the ship started to rise from the water.
They finally were flying home.
Here's another chapter! Finally SwanQueen is here! Don't worry there is more to come, this isn't the end of the story :)