Hey guys, I know it has been a long time since I've updated, but when I started this fic I had something planned and for some reason thing's aren't just clicking anymore, so I've been doing a lot of thinking lately on which route I should take this fic to make it sense and not just be me randomly typing away words to create a story.

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Chapter 6: A trusting bond

Regina's Vault

Emma gasped for air and dropped on her knees when they were done teleporting. She held tightly onto the child in her arms while tears rolled down over her cheeks. She couldn't believe what had just happened…now she had Zelena's child in her arms and her family was hurt. "Why?"

The Evil Queen dusted off her long dress as she looked uninterested at her nails. "Why what?"

"I asked you to not hurt my family, yet you did it," she kept her green eyes down on the sleeping child.

"I only did what was necessary and I didn't kill any one of them now, did I?"

"You shouldn't even lay your hands on them!" Emma shouted and looked up at the brunette, with anger and teary eyes.

The Evil Queen smirked at witnessing such anger in green eyes, she was pleased to see the dark side was taking over Emma, even though she still didn't break the blonde woman, it was enjoyable to see anger in her, she couldn't wait to turn that anger towards everyone else. "You need to understand, dear, we have many wonderful things to do and this will be a lot easier if you just give in and join me in my plans."

"I will never join you in your twisted plans."

"You will if you want to see your family alive," she perked up an eyebrow at her and gave a disgusted snarl, "specially that baby."

Emma's red alert went ringing in her head which made her to quickly get on her feet and step away from the queen, holding the baby close to her chest. "No, don't you dare."

"As you can see now, Em-ma, their safety completely depends on you. If you obey me, they will live, if you don't…well then you know what will happen," she said with a devilish smirk.

"But why do you even need the baby?"

"I don't," the queen replied as she walked around the vault, trying to figure out ways to make this look bigger, because it was going to be a tight place for them to be in.

"Then why did you take her?"

"I didn't take her, remember? You did," she chuckled as she moved the sheets on the bed.

Emma frowned at her words, "you made me do that, I would never do such thing if I wasn't forced to."

"It doesn't really matter, now she is here and I guess you will have to take care of her now," she sat down on the bed and patted the seat next to her as if to call Emma to sit next to her.

But obviously that wasn't going to happen so easily, Emma kept herself on the farthest corner of the room. "Why don't we just give her back? I am sure you don't need a baby for your plans, it will only be a bothersome to have a child around," Emma was now trying to play some kind of mind games with the evil queen, perhaps reminding the brunette the burdens of a baby, she would just give the child back to Zelena and her family could see that she wasn't turned to the dark side yet and that there was still hope, that she could still save them…save everything.

The Evil Queen just huffed out, like an annoyed teenager, "I am not giving the child back, they are weaker without that baby. They will be more stressed and nervous about figuring out a new plan that they will just make a rushed decision and make things a lot easier for me," she explained as she stood up again and walked up to the entry of the vault and began to do some gestures with her hands, it was clear she was doing some kind of spell. "Like what if they came all rushing here? I will just have them stuck in my trap, trapped into this little imaginary world I created, like an endless labyrinth," she chuckled at the end of her words and then mumbled some foreign words before relaxing, her spell was completed.

"What? That's your plan? I don't want you to hurt them!" Emma complained and this time the Evil Queen was getting tired of her talking back, so in a flash she was in front of the blonde savior and hand-struck her pale cheek.

"I already told you their safety depends all on you," she said with a low demanding tone. "Now give me the child."

Emma gasped at the slap, when the queen demanded the baby, she only held her closer and turned her body slightly to the side, as if she could get away from this place.

"Emma, I won't warn you again, if you don't want me to hurt that baby, you will give her to me, right this instant."

"What if you will just hurt her anyway once I give her to you?"

The Evil Queen was silent for a few seconds after that question, then she rose her hand and gently grabbed Emma's chin, bringing her face closer, so they could look into each other's eyes. "One thing important about the bond I created by turning you into the dark one…is that you will have to trust me because eventually your entire being will be linked to mine and without trust, it'll be a very destructive bond…for both us," she was telling her the truth and also showing a bit of weakness, basically letting Emma know that she should trust her words, if she did they would be both fine, and that she wouldn't betray the blonde's trust on her promises for her own benefit as well.

Because you see, the Evil Queen didn't only turned Emma into the Dark One but also connected part of the blonde's soul to hers; basically with time they will be more linked to each other and they need to trust each other in order for that link to remain healthy and not destructive, because if it ever became destructive it would be a challenge for both of them to even keep their heads up.

Emma stared deeply into brown eyes and paid attention to her words, she couldn't believe what she was hearing but for some odd reason, she felt some calm aura around the Evil Queen, something was telling Emma that she could trust the brunette this time, so reluctantly she placed the child in the other woman's arms, hoping her gut wasn't wrong.

And the Evil Queen gently took the baby in her arms, it didn't even look like something the Evil Queen would be doing, but nothing about her touch on the child would suggest that she was would cause any harm. "Guess we'll have to just improvise something for this little one," she murmured as she walked away from Emma and close to a large chest that was against a wall. When she approached that chest, she opened it and with a twist of her wrist, the blanket and pillow of the bed showed up in the chest, looking like a very comfortable small bed and that was where the Evil Queen slowly put down the baby, making sure it was secured and comfortable.

Emma was in shock witnessing such a thing. It was like this person wasn't even the Evil Queen almost as if they left the Evil Queen behind and this was just her Regina being her usual self now. She even took a few steps forward, to watch the scene unfold more just to be sure that no harm was going to happen and also because it kind of warmed up her heart seeing this happening.

"Okay, now that's settled, you should rest too, tomorrow is a big day for you, Dark One," and she was back to her usual devilish self.

Emma frowned at her, going back to a defensive stance. "I don't need to rest."

"Sure you do, dear, everyone does, even the evil ones," she said while walking up to the bed, she used the blanket for the child and the pillow but there was still one pillow left and the sheet covering the mattress, so it was still fine to sleep in.

"I am not evil," Emma told her with an angry tone.

"Call yourself whatever you'd like, but for now you are the Dark One, so you know what that means," she sat down on the bed and patted the spot next to her once again, hoping this time Emma would come to her by her own will, but of course nothing was easy with the light haired woman. So, with a sigh she used her magic to drag Emma towards her and force her to sit close to her. "We are going to share the bed, darling," she said with a grin and looked at Emma's thin lips while tracing her fingertips over Emma's thigh.

Emma clenched her jaw and tried to move her body against the Evil Queen's magic, but obviously that was no use. "I don't need to sleep, and I will be just fine on the floor," she talked through clenched teeth.

The Evil Queen stared into green eyes and then frowned, removing her hand from Emma's thigh. "Just so you know, Emma…I will never touch you in that way if you don't want me to," she said very seriously. It was obvious she desired the blonde because almost all of her entire being was Regina's darkest desires and needs and her dark past. – However, she was never going to touch Emma like that if the blonde didn't desire her back or permitted such thing to happen, she wasn't entirely evil as you could witness with the way she held the child and how she mentioned this right now. "But the very moment you let me do it…I will make sure you will never regret your decision," she whispered those words in Emma's ear, with a very seductive low tone, and after a couple seconds of silence she just stopped doing her game and laid down on the bed, moving closer to one edge, so Emma would also have her own space.

Emma just didn't move or flinch with what just happened, she did blush however, the evil queen's seductive tone was spot on and she was also relieved and surprised that the Evil Queen wasn't going to take any sexual advantage of this situation but she still wasn't comfortable on sharing a bed with the brunette, she wasn't going to forget today's events just like that, it wasn't possible. So, when the other woman laid down, Emma figured this would be her chance now to just stand up and find some spot in this small vault that she could use as a bed.

But the very moment she stood up the Evil Queen sighed out and summoned the dagger in her palm. "Dark one, I command you to lay down on this bed," and with that Emma was quick to lay down on the bed. "Sleep now darling," she mumbled those words and closed her eyes, making the dagger vanish again and leaving an annoyed and angry Emma struggling against the dagger's control.

Hospital

Henry was the only one in the waiting room along with Belle and his grandmother. Everyone else got injured in the incident that happened earlier, his grandfather got a broken arm and his mother just a twisted ankle but his aunt Zelena still hadn't woken up, the doctor said everyone would be fine but some injuries would take longer to heal than others and that everyone should be very careful with how they are going to approach Zelena because she will be very confused once she wakes up and he knows her child is missing so it's best to not cause her more stress and deal the situation with caution.

"I can't believe this just happened," Belle mumbled while hugging herself.

"Why does she need Zelena's baby?" Snow asked while looking up at the white ceiling of the waiting room.

"Probably for another evil plan of hers. She hurt Rumple, took Emma and now the baby, whatever she is planning it can't be good," Belle said with teary eyes, trying to remain strong but this situation was just becoming unbearable specially because Rumple still hadn't woken up and Regina told her before that she didn't know when he would wake up if he would even wake up.

"We need to stop her," Henry said as he was leaning forward, with his elbows over his legs and his hands under his chin, "but we have to be smart about it, she is stronger now with my mom by her side, and she is using her."

Snow looked at Henry with a concerned glare. "How are we going to do that?"

"I don't know…but I do know if we get my mom back first, she will be weaker and then we will have a chance against her," Henry told her as he stood up from his seat. "Once we separate them, bring mom back to the light side, we will be able to defeat her," he said very determined.

"Yes, we need to get your mother back," this voice now came from Regina, she managed to get out of her room once they fixed her wrist, she didn't want to be bothered anymore by the doctors or nurses, she was fine and she didn't want to rest till everyone was safe.

"Mom," Henry gasped in relief as he quickly approached his brunette mother and hugged her very carefully.

Regina accepted the embrace and felt her empty heart fill a bit with joy. They need each other, they needed family in moments like this.

"But how are we going to bring Emma back to us and remove the Dark Ones magic from her? I remember last time that happened was very dramatic," Snow said as she remembered the past events, don't get her wrong, she felt sorry for what happened to Hook but he was back now and fine and her daughter and the pirate weren't dating anymore.

"I don't know that yet," Regina said with a sigh as Henry wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "I had more information in my vault, but I assume she is staying there with Emma and we shouldn't head on now without being totally prepared."

"And Rumple isn't awake," Belle said as she looked down at her legs, she knew that her lover would be able to help them out in a situation like this but sadly that wasn't possible at the moment.

"True but perhaps grandpa has some books in his store that can help us out. I know he kept some very important books there that he didn't even allowed me to touch them," Henry said.

"Yes, and we also have the library, maybe there's something hidden among those books," Belle added a she now looked up at Henry, feeling a slight hope returning to her.

"Then we already have a plan to start on," Regina said with a forced smile, she was glad they got a heading start but she was still very worried about Emma and her niece.

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