Regina stood there lost, Her daughter had just taken Emma. What was she going to do? She needed to get Emma Swan back, that became the new priority.

She magicked herself to her kitchen. Henry would be home soon, He would be so angry with Regina that she had let Aldara take his mom. Regina panicking more than she had been since everything started. She was unable to stop the angry tears that fell. Maybe she should call Snow and Charming they might be able to help find Emma. She quickly grabbed the home phone and dialed the Charming's house. Snow picked up the phone.

"Hello Regina, I wasn't expecting you to call today, is everything alright?" Snow asked happy but concerned.

" No" Was all Regina could say. She didn't know what to tell Snow.

"What happened Regina, Whats going on, speak to me!" Snow said urgently. Regina shuffled on the end of the phone really dreading what she had to tell the woman.

"Emma's been taken" Regina tried once more to speak, choking up when she spoke. "It's all my fault, Snow! She shouldn't have been helping me, It was my problem to deal with and now she is in danger because of me. Again." Regina said unable to control the anger she felt towards herself.

"Calm down Regina I'm on my way, you need to tell me everything. I need my daughter back." Snow said determinedly.

" I need my Emma back" Regina added quietly.

"We are going to get her back," Snow said, she stopped the call before she made her way over in the car.

Regina put the phone down and went to sit in the living room. She sat staring at the wall until Snow rung the doorbell and woke her up from her daze. She stood up and walked slowly to the door. Pulling it open to reveal a red-faced angry looking Snow.

"Who has my Daughter?" She demanded from Regina. She hadn't yet noticed Regina's eyes which were red and puffy from crying. When she did her face instantly changed to a look of confusion and sympathy. She had never seen Regina look so stressed out and guilty before. It hit a nerve with Snow. This woman who was usually so well put together and powerful looked vulnerable and desperate. Snow didn't like it at all.

"Regina?" She said softly pulling her into a hug. Which Regina would usually push away but this time she needed someone else to lean on. She wrapped her arms around Snow.

"I'm so sorry Snow, She had her I couldn't do anything, Emma's in danger and I can't do anything." She said the tears starting again as she mumbled her words into Snow's jumper. Snow pulled away a little, her hands on Regina's forearms.

"If there is anything you should have learned by now is that its never over. We just need to work out a plan. Emma is strong she will hold up until we can save her. It's you I'm worried about, Who took Emma and why are they targeting you?" Snow said. She guided Regina to the kitchen and led her to a stool. Regina sat down and Snow began to make the tea.

"She is my Daughter," Regina started snow flashed her a confused look but let her continue. " She turned up a few days ago at the town line. She was the one who put it up the force field. She was so angry at me. Shouting that I was her mother and I abandoned her with only her name Aldara and a neckless I recognized vaguely. I obviously could't take her word for it. So I contacted her using something Rumple gave me. She found Emma and me this afternoon in the forest. I borrowed her neckless to test it. It confirmed that she is my daughter. I remember nothing of her, not carrying or having her, not even abandoning her. I tried to talk to her and calm her down. I thought it was going well but I could see she was battling herself still. At the last moment, she got furious and had a knife to Emma's throat. I couldn't do anything. She just disappeared she didn't even take her neckless with her." Regina said glad that Snow came over she really needed someone's support right now. She could barely think straight let alone come up with a plan of action.

"Um that's a lot of information, But I think I kind of get it. How come when you touched the neckless it didn't trigger your memory?" Snow said knowing that's what usually happened.

"I'm not sure perhaps I never looked at her face or I made sure my heart wasn't in my chest so no strong emotion would break the spell. Either way, I just destroyed any chance I had of having a child that was actually part of me. She hates me. I've never seen such distasted. Even on the faces of families, I destroyed back in my Evil Queen days. " Regina said becoming even rawer than before. She couldn't shift the feeling of guilt she had when she thought of her old ways. Tears now and again slipped her grasp. She could feel a constant knot in her stomach that made her feel sick and exposed. Snow placed a steaming cup of tea in front of her. She sipped it gratefully, taking small sips so she didn't burn herself.

"Did you say you still have the neckless?" Snow said. She had been listening hard to Regina hoping something would come up that would mean she could help Regina find Emma.

"Yes she left so fast I didn't have time to give it her back," Regina said not quite catching on to what Snow was getting at.

"Regina? Use the Neckless to find Emma" Snow said trying to wake Regina from her daze. Regina's eyes went wide. She reached into her pocket and got the neckless out. Just as she was about to put a locator spell on it Henry came through the front door.

"Hey Moms I'm home" Henry shouted in the hallway. He walked into the kitchen.

" Hey, Grandma why are you here, wheres Emma?" Henry asked starting to worry about what had happened whilst he was in school. Regina smiled slightly at him. She let Snow tell Henry what had happened unable to go through the story again.

" So Aldara took Mom, we need to get her back, quick do the spell so we can try and find her," Henry said panicking now he knew what had happened.

"Henry it's getting dark?" Regina said as an excuse, in reality, she wanted to go by herself, so no one else would come with her and get hurt. This was just a feeble attempt to stop Henry and Snow coming with her. Of course, it didn't work. Nothing could stop a charming once they have to save someone.

" It doesn't matter Mom the longer Emma is with her more chance there is that she might get hurt," Henry said knowing his Mom was just trying to do it by herself.

" Aldara might do something she can't come back from," Regina said quietly. Snow had heard her.

" Regina to be honest Aldara's innocence is the last thing we need to worry about," Snow said not really thinking about how Regina would take that comment.

"Actually Snow it's something I am worrying about greatly, that poor girl has lived her entire life thinking I didn't love her. I left my own baby in the woods and now because of it, she hates me and wants to destroy everything I have, even if it means that she will be unhappy and alone forever" Regina said passionately. Snow hadn't realized how much Regina cared for Aldara she would have thought that she would have hated her now that she had taken Emma.

Clearly, the Queen felt horrible about what she had done to Aldara.

" I'm sorry Regina I didn't realize you still wanted to try and get her to listen. We will make sure she knows she has a place with us" Snow said understanding now why Regina had gotten so worked up.

"Yeah, Mom we will make her see she's apart of our family, we never give up on our family. Do the spell so we can find them, together" Henry said smiling at his Mom and reaching his hand over to place it reassuringly on his mothers. He hoping she would let them help her.

Regina nodded defeated by logic and loyalty. She waved her hand over the neckless to cast the spell. It floated from her hand and started to drift towards the front door. The three of them followed it. It led them out the house. The all started running after the neckless as it flew through town finally stopping at an abandoned creepy looking house. 7

The windows were boarded up and the front door looked heavy and outdated. The trees around them loomed over the area creating a dark and intimidating atmosphere. Regina walked over to the old door. She knocked it hard. No one answered for a while. she waited a few minutes, Regina tried again louder this time. As soon as she had stopped Aldara appeared behind the three of them.

"Seriously, do you have a death wish?" Aldara said her hateful gaze directed at Regina. Snow was shocked, to say the least. This woman looked so much like Regina and yet she didn't. She clearly enjoyed the color black as much as her mother did.

Regina couldn't talk. Seeing her own daughter stare at her like that, broke something inside her.

"We are here for Emma," Snow said trying to help Regina a little.

Aldara getting a little closer to Snow to inspect her.

"You must be her mother. I heard you did the same to her as that evil witch did to me" She said clearly just as angry with Snow as she was with Regina. What else had they expected from an abandoned child with no answers?

"Please release my Mom, I really want to see if she ok. Aldara we can help you. Whatever it is you are looking for we can help you find it." Henry said trying desperately to save Emma.

"You must be Henry my adopted brother, how nice to meet you. I am very sorry but I can't release your Mom. She is a part of my plan to destroy our mother's happy ending." Aldara smiled darkly at her brother.

" How is hurting Emma going to stop Mom's happy ending. Emma had nothing to do with it other than helping her to see she could have one." Henry asked confused. His mom never usually depended on others to get her a happy ending. Regina had let Henry in because she couldn't stop herself from loving and caring for her son but Emma and Regina were always arguing about something.

"I believe Regina will fight hard to get her savior back, isn't that right Mummy," She said glaring intensely at Regina. " In fact, I will go as far to say she will always find her" Aldara smirked clearly picking up on something. Regina didn't say anything back. She didn't want Snow nosing about in her private affairs even if it included Emma.

"What is she insinuating with that Regina?" Snow shouted clearly noticing she had missed something. She knew Regina and Emma had been getting close of late. Maybe she just hadn't realized how close.

" Nothing that concerns you Snow butt out," Regina said clearly a little touchy about her and Emma's secret budding relationship. Her cheeks went a little red even though she was trying to keep herself composed.

" Fine but this isn't over," Snow said letting it go for now knowing that they had other, bigger things to deal with. Regina rolled her eyes.

"Are you two done arguing?" Aldara asked impatiently. " If you don't mind I think I will go back inside," Aldara said. She was about to leave when she heard Regina say something that grabbed her attention.

" I have your neckless." Regina said holding it up by the chain to show Aldara, " I'll give it you back as soon as I have Emma back" Regina had said it quietly but confident like she knew how much the charm meant to Aldara. The younger woman's eyes locked straight onto the neckless. Her eyes never leaving it.

"Give it back" She spat viciously.

"Not until I have Emma," Regina said authority filling her voice.

" What will stop me from just taking it from you?" Aldara asked.

"Because I know that if you could, you would have already," Regina said knowing that Aldara would be thinking as hard as she could to come up with a solution.

"No!" Aldara screamed she shot a fireball towards her mother, Who expertly deflected it. Sending a spell of her own to her daughter. Unable to recover fast enough from casting her fireball, she was hit with Regina's spell which placed a bracelet on her wrist.

"What, you used jewelry to attack me. Oh no, she put a leather cuff on me it burns?" Aldara said sarcastically. " I thought you were better than that Evil Queen." The young woman laughed maliciously. She tried again to cast a fireball towards Regina but nothing came from her hands. Her magic wasn't working.

"What is this thing, get it off me," She said clawing at it to try and prize it off. Anger bubbling up and taking over as she desperately tried to get the cuff off. She dropped to the ground hopelessly, still trying in vain to release its grip on her wrist

"That won't work dear, It stops your magic, maybe now you will listen to me. I need Emma Swan back here and safe. She is the one person who saw the good in me when everyone else couldn't. She is this town's savior without her around this place will go to hell." Regina said stepping closer to her daughter and crouching. She knew now was her chance to get too Aldara. Her daughter looked up at her through her eyelashes. Hate evident from the glare she gave her mother.

"NEVER! Aldara shouted in Regina's face. She pushed The older woman away from her. Regina landed on her bum. Shocked at her reaction. She had expected her to be angry but she was just rejecting Regina completely.

" You ruined my life! I was brought up by a loathsome old witch in a tiny wooden shed. I had to do everything she told me or I would be punished. I stole from people, hurt innocents and there was nothing I could do. As soon as I realized I had powers too, I sent her to OZ and I ran away. I heard she was killed later on by a cyclone. I was so happy she was gone. Then I could focus everything on finding you and getting my revenge." Aldara said her words so malicious and vindictive that Regina couldn't help but feel a little threatened by her daughter. Aldara could tell she had scared her, she stood up so she towered over her mother.

"This isn't over, I will see you break yet Mother!" She sneered at Regina. Aldara ran off leaving a stunned Regina sat on the floor. Snow and Henry let her go knowing it wouldn't help to go after the furious woman.

"She's your daughter, I can really see the resemblance." Snow joked she had expected Regina to glare or snap at her. Instead, she just burst into tears. Regina was hurt more than Snow thought was possible for the resilient woman sat on the floor in pieces. Henry went over to his mom crouching beside her and pulling her into a hug. Snow went over and joined them. She knew Regina was going to need all the support she could get.

Regina brought them back home. Snow's idea had just given Regina an idea. She just needed to find something of Emma that would work.

Emma had been in the dark all day. Aldara had left her a piece of toast which she didn't eat and a dirty glass of water. In all honesty, Emma wasn't going to touch anything Aldara gave her.

Emma had used her time in the dark to feel out her surroundings. There was an old rickety chair in the one corner and a bucket. There was an old worn out mattress lay on the floor for her to sleep on. There was nothing she could use to escape she had already tried to use it all to reach the trapdoor on the ceiling. She had been trying to use her magic to float herself up like when Regina had been teaching her. She was getting there but progress was slow with the danger of falling to her death absent. She knew her incentive she should probably be just the same, considering death was still a threat but her magic wasn't as strong when Regina wasn't with her.

She had been trying for a while when Aldara made her jump out of her skin. The light from the hole burnt into her retinas. She looked away instinctively.

" Hello Emma, I saw Mother earlier, might have scared her a little, too bad you weren't there to help her. You should have seen her I'm so close to breaking her. I just have a few more things to see too, so the job is done properly, don't want her to have hope now." Aldara said teasingly. She slammed the lid shut and left Emma once again in the dark.

Emma used what she could to create light so she could see. She needed a better plan. She thought through every spell Regina had taught her or she had read about on an occasion. She riffled through her memories. Willing anything to jump out at her. Nothing did. Hopefully, Regina would find her soon otherwise she might just go mad. She had no idea how long she had been hidden for, it could have been hours it could have been minutes, It felt like forever. She knew Regina would find her. She still felt hope, knowing her family would come to save her.

She sat down against a wall, she would just have to wait.

Regina had teleported the three of them to Snow's apartment as soon as she knew what she was doing. She ran to Emma's room, Snow and Henry following her not quite understanding what had Regina so frantic.

" Why are we here Regina?" Snow asked the shock this afternoon filling up her thoughts with questions. Regina searched silently, she also did it neatly, making sure not to ruin the room.

"Why doesn't she own anything?" Regina shouted more to herself than Henry and Snow.

"Mom, what are you doing," Henry said going over to Regina and stopping her for a second so she would listen to him.

"I'm looking for something I can use to find Emma, Henry what did she buy in here." Regina asked not having a clue what was Emmas and what Emma had borrowed or "borrowed".

"I have something that might work mum, but it might be a little strange, she hasn't used it for a while. She gave it to me to give to someone else when I needed to for operations" He said he quickly left the room. leaving Regina stood there confused.

"Well, that was vague?" Regina said. She sat on the bed and ran her hands through her hair stressed. Snow came to sit next to her.

"Henry's found something, you know him, We will have her back by the end of today Regina, Aldara doesn't have magic now what can she do?" Snow said trying to calm Regina down. Regina stayed quite, after a while she looked at Snow.

"It depends who she talks too," Regina said know there would be a few people in this town able to take the bracelet off and also help Aldara keep Emma from them. Regina just needed to get to Emma before Aldara found out how to get it off. She thought through what had happened and what Aldara had told them of her past. She would definitely have to talk to Zelena to see if she knew of the old witch who looked after Aldara as a baby. It could help to know what kind of person brought her daughter up. She couldn't believe everything that had happened. She and Emma were finally going to talk properly about had been happing with them, she had struggled to talk about it but now she was sure of her feelings she couldn't keep them in anymore.

" So we will find her first and finish this battle like Hero's should, then we will get on with finding your happy ending." Snow said knowing Regina could do this

" I know this might be a bad time to tell you but I'm in love with your daughter," Regina said relieved she had finally told someone. She had only worked it out herself a few minutes before. She hadn't been able to put her finger on why Emma being taken had hurt her so much, She hadn't even been like that when Henry was taken to Neverland. She had put it down to who had taken her but Aldara had made it obvious that she had worked out before Regina what had happened between the two woman.