The Queen's Daughter

by AFanofALotOfThings227

The Evil Queen failed to cast her curse. But she has another way of ruining the happiness of Snow White. Kidnapping her first-born and raising her to hate her. 28 years later comes The Evil Queen's defeat, to which Emma blames her mother. She decides to cast The Dark Curse herself. Now it's up to Snow's two other daughters to make Emma fulfil her destiny as The Savior.

2. The Feud

Thank you for your comments about regina and Regina. I'll try my best not to get them mixed up this time. I'll check over the chapter at the end and change any mistakes I might've made with the character roles. I always appreciate feedback.

Note: The only characters I own are Adeline, Georgia, Aaron/Josh, maybe Neal/Bernard and Regina (sort of)

Regina wondered if Georgia being here now would help unfreeze the town and everything would start changing. She wondered if she needed to get Adeline here too. But the clock started moving. She wondered why. Regina knew breaking the curse would be hard, but she was glad she, The Failed Saviour's adoptive daughter was the one to believe.

Emma was scrolling through Regina's book. How is it possible that this exists? she thought. She turned to a page about Snow & Charming's Defeat Party, the despicable event which was used to celebrate the cruel execution of Emma's mother. She turned the page round, and noticed that Georgia was her 'sister', and she was supposed to guide her into becoming the Saviour.

"Regina, what is this book?" she asked. "Why are the pages so creased?"

"It's an old book," said Regina. "Why do you care anyway?"

"I care because you think I'm the Queen's Daughter," said Emma. "That hurts me, Regina. I'm your mother."

"No you're not," Regina said.

"Then who is?" said Emma. "The woman you brought here? I don't like what she or this book are doing to you. Thankfully, both are no longer an issue." Emma heared the clock and looked shocked. "WHAT?!"

Georgia looked at herself. What was she doing there? Sure, she was there for her daughter Regina. She wanted to give her her best chance. That was not with her, but it also seemed like it wasn't with the woman who is looking after her now. So maybe she could fufill her promise to her. She also wondered about Regina's fairytale belief. It was new to some people, but her sister Adeline has always believed that fairytales are real, and she knows how hard it is to convince people out of it. She hadn't seen Adeline in years, but she didn't think she had changed her mind about fairytales.

There was a knock on the door. Emma answered it and immediately started talking.

"Did you know that honeycrisp tree is the most vigurous kind of apple tree?" she said, "It can survive tempartures as low as forty below and keep growing. I have one I've tended to since I was a little girl. And to this day, I am yet to find anything more delicious than the fruit it offers."

"Thanks?" Georgia said, confusingly.

"I'm sure you'll enjoy them on your drive home," said Emma, obviously eager to see Georgia leave.

"Actually," answered Georgia, "I'm going to stay for a while."

"I'm not sure that's a good idea," said Emma. "Regina has enough issues, she doesn't need you making them worse."

"All due respect, Madame Mayor," said Georgia. "The fact that you've threatened me twice in two days just makes me want to stay more."

"Since when were apples a threat?" asked a furstrated Emma.

"I can read between the lines," said Georgia. "I just want to make sure Regina's okay."

"Oh, she's fine, dear," said Emma, rudely. "Any problems she has are being taken care of."

"What does that mean?" asked Georgia, now seriously losing her temper.

"It means I have her in therapy," said Emma. "Take my advice, Miss Swan, only one of us knows what's best for Regina."

"Yeah, I'm starting to think you're right about that," said Georgia, clearly implying that she was the one who knew what was best.

"It's time for you to go, Miss Swan," said Emma.

"Or what?" exclaimed Georgia.

"Don't underestimate me, Miss Swan," said Emma. "You have no idea what I'm capable of."

Emma walked back into her palace to find her loyal subjects there. She had just threatened to cast the Dark Curse, even though she had no idea how to actually do it.

"Do you need a drink?" asked Emma's loyal servant Cedric.

When they were young, Emma had a friendship with Cedric, she wouldn't call it a relationship, although it might have got a little bit close to that. When Emma's mother found out about that, she banned him from cleaning Emma's room, but now she was servant to Emma again. Emma didn't hold this against her mother, at least she didn't crush his heart like her grandmother did to Regina.

"Do I look like I need a drink?" shouted an angry Emma.

"I was only trying to help!" said Cedric.

"Thank you," said Emma, still not happy, but taking the drink anyway.

"Are you really going to cast the Dark Curse?" asked the Magic Mirror. "How do you plan on doing that?! You don't even have an idea how to cast it!"

The Magic Mirror was once one of King Leopold's most loyal subjects, and before that, he was the Genie of Agrabah. Regina trapped him in a magic mirror long before Emma was born. Even though Regina treated him like dirt his entire life, he remained loyal to her all the way through. No one ever knew why stayed so loyal to Regina, but he wasn't as loyal to Emma, that's for sure.

"I'll find a way!" said Emma.

"Are you forgetting that your socalled mother traded it back?" replied the Mirror.

"That won't be a problem," said Emma.

"I don't think she'll be that happy to see you," said Cedric.

"Since when do I care?" asked Emma. "I'm going!"

Emma travelled to the Forbidden Forest, due to Regina's decreasing popularity, less and less people started to work for her, and even more guards were killed in invasions. And even then, most of the ones remaining either left or were killed because they wouldn't swear loyalty to Emma after Regina died.

"How are you, dear?" asked Lily.

"I'm fine," said Emma.

"Are you?" said Lily. "Because if my mother got killed by the side of good and not peacefully in her sleep, then I would be pissed off!"

"Just shut up, Lily," said Emma. "You know why I'm here. I need my curse."

"It's not yours anymore," said Lily. "A deal's a deal."

"The people who made that deal are both dead," said Emma. "So technically, the curse doesn't belong to anyone."

"Technically," replied Lily, "It was inherited."

"I don't care!" shouted Emma. "Just give me it!"

"Even if I wanted to, I couldn't!" said Lily. "I have no idea where my mom hid the stupid thing!"

"In the orb above her staff."

Lily said nothing.

"Just give it back!" demanded Emma.

"Must we do this?" asked Lily.

"Alas, we must," said Emma.

Emma and Lily started fighting for the Dark Curse, just like their mothers did before them. Emma used magic to draw all the weapons to her, but Lily threw them back.

"You never were the best at dark magic, were you?" asked Lily.

"Shut up!" said a furstrated Emma, who was extremely insulted.

"Oh, never mind," said Lily, walking away.

Emma stopped. She saw that Maleficent's staff was one of the weapons thrown at her. Just like she had planned. When she threw the weapons, she made sure Maleficent's staff was there, so she could take it.

"You know, you're the best at magic," said Emma. "But I'm the best at strategy."

"Don't do this!" said Lily. "You know what will happen if you do!"

"Do I care?" said Emma. "It's what my mother would want me to do."

"She wasn't your mother!" Lily shouted.

Emma ran up to Lily and freaked. "YES SHE WAS!"

"Here you go," said Ruby, randomly giving Georgia hot cocoa with cinnamon. Something she really liked, but didn't order.

"Thanks," Georgia said. "But I didn't order that."

"I know," Ruby said. "You have an admirer."

Georgia turned round, and saw the arrogant selfish annoying sheriff from last night sitting at the table.

"Ah," he said. "So you've decided to stay."

"Observant," Georgia said. "Important for a cop."

"Well, you can't say much about that, can you?" said Josh.

Georgia looked at him. Why the hell did he give her the cocoa?

"It's a joke," said Josh. "Because you ran over our sign."

"Look, the cocoa was a nice gesture," said Georgia. "And I am impressed that you knew I like cinnamon in my chocolate, because most people don't. But I'm not here to flirt, so thank you, but no thank you."

"Ha! Why would I give anyone a hot chocolate?" exclaimed Josh. "Never mind one with cinnamon."

Georgia, furstrated, threw the cocoa in Josh's face.

"You know I could get you done for that, right?" he said.

"I sent it," said Regina.

"Shouldn't you be at school?" Georgia asked, ignoring Josh.

"Duh," said Regina. "I'm ten, walk me."

Georgia sighed. When she was ten, she had a terrible time at school.

Georgia started walking Regina to school, and they started talking about the crazy curse thing that Regina believes in.

"So, what's the deal with you and your mom?" asked Georgia.

"It's not her fault," Regina said. "It's the Evil Queen. She took over her life. Made her evil. It's the curse. We have to break it. I think we should give it a codename, like Operation Cobra."

"Cobra?" questioned Georgia. "But that has nothing to do with fairytales!"

"Exactly," said Regina. "It's a codename. To throw The Queen's Daughter off the trail."

"So everyone here is a fairytale character," said Georgia, checking if she got this right. "They just don't know it."

"That's the curse," said Regina. "Time's been frozen, until you got here."

"What about their pasts?" asked Georgia.

"They don't remember," answered Regina. "It's just a haze to them. Ask anyone here and you'll find out."

"So, for decades," said Georgia. "People have just been walking around, in a haze, with messed up memories living in a cursed town that keeps them oblivious?"

"I knew you'd get it!" exclaimed Regina.

Really? Georgia thought. This is crazier than what my sister believes!

"That's why need you," said Regina. "You and your sister. You can help my mom fix her mistake and break the curse."

"Because we're all the daughters of Snow White and Prince Charming?" questioned Georgia.

"Yes!" said Regina. "And there's a page here."

Regina gave Georgia a page where Prince Charming took Georgia into a magic wardrobe before what seems like his sad demise.

"See," exclaimed Georgia. "Your mom is Snow White!"

"Kid..."

"I know the hero never believes at first," said Regina, as they approached the school. "If it did, it wouldn't be a very good story. I have to go now! I knew you'd believe me!"

"Never said I did!" waved Georgia, stating the obvious.

"Why else would you be here!" shouted back Regina.

Because I care about you and I have experience dealing with this, thought Georgia.

Georgia approached Mary Margaret standing by the school.

"It's good to see her smile back," Mary Margaret said.

"I didn't do anything," said Georgia.

"You stayed," said Mary Margaret. "So, does the mayor know you're still here?"

"Oh, she does," said Georgia. "She's not a great people person. How'd she get elected?"

"She's been mayor as long as I can remember," said Mary Margaret. "No one's ever been brave enough to run against her. She inspires a bit of well... fear. And I'm afraid that I only made it worse by giving Regina his book. Now she thinks that she's the Queen's Daughter."

"Who does she think you are?" Georgia asked.

"It's silly," Mary Margaret said.

Georgia laughed. "I've had silly my whole life. Hit me with it!"

"He thinks I'm Snow White," said Mary Margaret.

Georgia stopped. According to Regina, Mary Margaret is her mother. She couldn't ignore that. On the very slight chance that it's true, at least this would be her mother. Even if the mayor would still be her sister. But Emma had mentioned that Mary Margaret was a mother herself.

"Who does he think you are?" Mary Margaret asked.

"I'm not in the book," Georgia lied. "Anyway, can I ask you a favour? Emma said the kid's in therapy, do you know where I can find the doctor?"

Georgia walked into the office of Dr. Archibald Hopper. She met him when she first got here, seemed like an okay guy. She was glad. But therapy did not help her sister out and it doesn't seem to be helping Regina out.

"Georgia Swan," Archie looked up. "What brings you here?"

"I'm here about Regina," said Georgia.

"I really shouldn't," said Archie.

"I know, I'm sorry," said Georgia. "Just tell me something. Do you think what she's believing is normal?"

"These stories, they're her... launguage." said Archie. "It's how he communicates. This book helps him deal with his problems."

"Because someone I used to know very well who believes in similar things," Georgia said. "And I'm not sure that therapy helped her get out of it."

"Well, maybe Regina is different," said Archie. "I don't exactly know. I've never met this woman you're talking about."

"Well, she got the book a month ago," Georgia said. "She been seeing you longer than that?"

Archie nodded.

"So, it's Emma, isn't it?" asked Georgia, stating the obvious. She knew that Archie was going to defend the mayor next, but it was worth a try anyway.

"Uh-the mayor is a very... complicated woman," said Archie. "Her attempts to bring Regina closer have only backfired." Archie went over to the file cabinet, and then took out a file, persumably Regina's. "Why don't you take a look at her file?" Archie gave Georgia the file, and Georgia took a quick look at it. "See what I mean?"

Georgia was really curious and confused. "Why are you doing this?"

"She talks about you a lot," said Archie. "You're very important to her."

"Thank you," Georgia said, still confused.

Georgia took a look at Regina's file. It was still weird that Archie gave it to her, but it looked like her fairytale obession might be similar to Adeline's. Guess it runs in the family, Georgia thought to herself. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Georgia opened it, and that annoying sheriff guy was there.

"Hey there," Georgia said. "If you're here about earlier, then that barely counts as assault."

"Actually, I'm here about Dr. Archibald Hopper," said Josh, "He says you demanded to see Regina's files and when he refused, you came back and stole them."

"He gave them to me," Georgia said, complaining. Emma obviously set all this up.

"Alas, he's telling a different tale," said Josh. "Mind if I check your room?"

"Not really," said Georgia. "But go on then." Josh walked in and immediately saw the files. "This what you looking for?"

"Thank you for your confession," Josh joked, and got out the handcuffs.

"You know I'm getting set up, right?" said Georgia, stating the obvious.

"Of course," said Josh. "But for literally the first time ever, me and the mayor want the same thing, to get rid of you."

Georgia sighed. "Really?"

Josh took Georgia to the station. Everyone got annoyed by him, but this Georgia girl was the first one who actually shown it, before her, everyone just at most, sighed or gave him a look, because he was the sheriff, and wasn't nice to people who crossed him, Josh kind of found that endearing, but he still wanted revenge.

"So, he's lying," said Georgia, "And you know it?"

"I never thought Emma would go so far as a framejob," said Josh. Georgia gave him a look. "Ha! The mayor is seriously the second worst person in this town, next to Mr. Gold, of course."

"Were you always like this?" Georgia moaned. "Or did someone do this to you?"

Josh's emotions turned from literal joke to anger. What authority did this woman have to ask him about his dumb life?

"You do not know what I've been through," said Josh, sinisterly.

Just at that moment, Mary Margaret and the mayor's daughter walked in to the station.

"Regina," Josh observed. "And you're here because?"

"Her mother told her what happened," said the school teacher.

"Of course she did," moaned Georgia. "Look, Regina, I don't know what she's told you..."

"You're a genius!" exclaimed Regina.

"What?" asked Georgia.

"You were gathering intel!" continued Regina. "For Operation Cobra!"

Intel? Operation Cobra? What the hell has Emma been teaching this girl?

"Sorry," said Josh. "I have no idea what Emma is teaching you, but I have evidence that your biological mother stole Dr. Hopper's..."

"Quiet, Aaron de Carpente!" exclaimed Regina.

"Who?" Josh said.

"All you need to know is Miss Blanchard's bailing her out," said Regina, happily.

"You are?" questioned Georgia.

"I-I trust you," said Mary Margaret.

"Good," said Josh. "Well, I do hate this girl, money is always better." Josh opened the cell.

"Seriously?" Georgia said, looking like she was resisting the urge to punch him.

Aaron was on a hunt. On one hand, this would give The Dark One what he wanted someone casting The Dark Curse, on the other hand, the wrong person, the person who he still considered 'The Savior', even after everything that's happened, is casting it, the curse might never actually be broken, causing him, when he does wake up, he will be tortured for eternity wanting so much for the curse to be broken but it never happening. Of course, he won't really be there to see the torture, but who cares? But he still wanted to do something first. Aaron teleported into what was formely the Evil Queen's palace, now Emma's palace to make a deal with her.

"Emma Mills," he said.

"Aaron de Carpente!" Emma shouted, angrily. "What are you doing here?"

"To offer you a deal," said Aaron.

"I don't make deals with you," said Emma.

"Really?" said Aaron. "Because if it wasn't for me, you would've been in a wardrobe getting ready to break a curse you probably don't even believe exists."

"Fine," said Emma. "What is it?"

"I will not interfere with your curse at all," said Aaron. "If you give me a good life there."

"No!"

"No?"

"I want you to suffer as much as the people who call themselves my parents," Emma threatened.

"Well," said Aaron, "I'm off to kill your servant/best friend/secret lover. Yeah, that's right, I know."

"Fine!" moaned Emma. "But this doesn't mean we're not enemies. I'll even make you in charge of the law. The sheriff, have you will."

"Sounds good," said Aaron.

Aaron thought for a moment. The Dark One would probably ask for a good life too, but maybe that would make it worse. He has a great rich prosperous life, but he gets so annoyed that Aaron has one too, and even more annoyed about the curse when he's finally awake.

Georgia went over to the mayor's house with a chainsaw ready to chop down the apple tree.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Emma exclaimed.

Georgia laughed. She didn't let this woman get in the way of it. "Picking apples," she joked.

"Are you out of your mind?" complained Emma.

"No, you are," said Georgia. "If you think a stupid framejob is enough to scare me off. You'll have to do better than that, because if you come at me again, I'm coming for the rest of this tree. Because you have no idea what I'm capable of."

The Queen's Daughter wondered why the curse wasn't working. She knew there was only one person who could help her. Someone she had actually never met before, and she wasn't sure if she should have. The Dark One. Rumplestiltskin.

"It's all right, dearie," he said. "Show yourself."

"The curse you gave my mother," said Emma. "It's not working."

"What are you talking about?" said The Dark One. "I never gave Snow White any curse."

"I mean Regina!" shouted Emma, now angry.

"Of course you do," said Rumple. "The thing is, I'm not telling you."

"Why?" said Emma.

"You were supposed to be the one to break the curse," said Rumple. "Not cast it."

"Well, it's too late for that," said The Queen's Daughter, stating the obvious. "There must be something you want."

Emma was getting so annoyed right now that she wanted to punch him so badly.

"Fine!" said Rumple. "I want a good life in this new world."

"Okay then," said Emma, curiously. "You'll be rich. You'll have an estate."

"Good enough," said Rumple.

"So, what must I do to cast this curse?" asked Emma.

"You need to sacrifice a heart," said Rumplestiltskin. "The heart of the person you love most."

"The only person I loved was my mother," said Emma.

"Are you sure?" said Rumple. "Are you sure there isn't anyone else you love."

Emma thought for a second. This why Aaron threatened Cedric. He knew the cost of the curse. Should she do it? What does she care about more. Her revenge, obviously. Nothing but her revenge.

"How far are you willing to go?" asked Rumple.

"As long as it takes," said Emma.

"Then please stop wasting everyone's time and do it!" Rumple moaned.

Emma left and thought for a moment about what he just said.

Emma was so so so so angry. What the hell did she have to do to get this woman out of her life? The good thing was that Josh, the sheriff was finally in agreement and that he wanted her out as well. Emma hated him, especially because he forced her to give him a good life, even though she really wanted him to suffer.

"She destroyed city property," said Emma. "I want her arrested."

"Again?!" exclaimed Josh. "How many times am I going to get to arrest that girl?"

"Are you complaining?" questioned Emma. "I thought you wanted her out of this town as much as I did!"

"Yeah, you're right," said Josh. "But I don't think arresting her again is going to solve the problem."

"Why not?" Emma complained.

"Because it's not working," said Josh. "She's been arrested, twice, threatened, three times, thrown out of her room, and none of this is getting her out of town. If we want her out, then we have to do something else."

Emma stopped. He had a good point. And Emma had a perfect idea how to do it. "I know exactly what to do."

Georgia was about to get in her car, but got a phone call and answered it. It was Emma.

"Yeah?" Georgia answered the phone.

"Miss Swan," said Emma. "I'd be happy to keep demonstrating my power, but me and the sheriff have both agreed that your resolve to stay is only growing?"

Georgia scoffed. Really? This had to be a joke. "You have no idea."

"Great," Emma said. "It's time we make peace, why don't you come to my office?"

Georgia walked to Emma's office in the town hall, still suspicious of her, but on the off chance that she was telling the truth, she had to take it - for Regina.

"I'd like to start by apoligising, Miss Swan," Emma said when she got there.

"What?" Georgia said.

"I'm just going to have to accept the reality that you have to be here," said Emma.

"That's right," said Georgia. "I do."

"And that you're trying to take my daughter away from me," said Emma.

Georgia sighed. Again. She was literally fed up with this woman. "Let's be clear - I have no intention of taking her off anyone."

"Then why are you here?" asked Emma, pretty sternly.

"You know I'm not a mother," said Georgia, knowing that was probably self-evident. "But I did have her - and I can't help it - she got into my head and I want to make sure she's okay. The more you try to push me out, the more I want to stay. I've seen what she's going through before, and... it's never healthy."

"You don't think what she believes is healthy?" said Emma.

"No," said Georgia. "My older sister believed these things when she was 18, and I stopped believing when I was like 5, she had no friends, no money, and basically she couldn't tell the difference between fantasy and reality. It seems Regina is just the same."

Georgia turned round, and Regina was standing there watching and listening to the conversation.

"Do you think I'm crazy?" she said.

"Not exactly..." Georgia tried to talk.

Regina left the room, and Georgia sighed. "What were you trying to do?"

"Showing her what you really think of her," said Emma.

"You have no soul," said Georgia. "How did you end up like this?"

"Did you get your answer?" asked the Magic Mirror.

"Yes," said Emma. "Call for Cedric."

"Cedric?" said Magic Mirror. "He's the one you most love?"

"Most love?" said Emma. "How did you know that?"

"You think I could spend that much time with Regina and not know the thing which messed up the curse?" said the Magic Mirror. "That's why it was stopped. Aaron killed her father before she could, so she no longer had anything she loved."

"YOU ANNOYING INSOLENT PEICE OF GLASS!" shouted Emma, seriously losing her temper now. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!"

"I was loyal to Regina," said the Mirror. "Not you."

Emma picked the magic mirror up, and smashed it on the floor into peices, killing the Magic Mirror, previously the Genie of Agrabah. She knew he deserved to get cursed, but she just got so furstrated.

"CEDRIC!" she called.

"You called for me, miss?" said Emma's faithful servant.

"I'm sorry, Cedric," said Emma. "I really didn't wanna do this."

"Do what?"

"I have to sacrifice someone," said Emma. "Someone... I'm quite fond of." Emma didn't want to confess her love to the servant at this very moment.

"Me?" said Cedric. "I'm honoured."

"Really?" said Emma. "You're not going to talk me out of this? You... want to die."

Emma had tears in her eyes.

"Of course not," said Cedric. "But... if this curse will make you happy, maybe you might have to do this."

Emma stopped and went in to kiss Cedric. That was the first - and last time they would kiss. After it was finished, Emma reached into Cedric's chest and pulled out a heart. This trick was really hard for her, since her magic was mostly light, although after years of learning, she finally found out how to learn this trick.

"I love you," Emma said, as she crushed the heart into the cauldron. The curse started all around them.

Georgia decided, before she left. She had to leave. Regina was only going to get hurt more if she stayed any longer, sometimes, she thought this was just what Emma wanted, and that she was just letting her win. But she was doing this for Regina, not for anyone else.

"Hey," she said. "I just wanted to say thank you, and pay me back the bail money."

Mary Margaret saw that Georgia was upset. "You look like you need a talk."

Georgia sat down with Mary Margaret, as she was drinking a hot cocoa, and putting cookies out. "Oh, I'm sorry," she said. "I should've asked. It's kind of a quirk of mine, do you mind?"

Just then, a teenage boy entered the room.

"Mom," said the boy who Georgia assumed was Mary Margaret's son Emma mentioned yesterday. "I've lost my phone. Do you have any idea where it is?"

"Sorry, Bernie, I haven't seen it," Mary Margaret said.

"Ooh, cookies!" said Bernie, taking one. "Who's this, Mom?"

"This is Georgia Swan," said Mary Margaret, "She's... the biological mother of the mayor's daughter."

"Okay," said the son. "Nice to see that we have a guest in our house. How long has it been? Since before I was born?"

Bernie walked away to his room.

"Sorry," said Mary Margaret, "My son can be a little bit... nosy."

"Not at all," Georgia said. "I was... kind of like that at his age."

Georgia thought of Bernie as just a regular rebellious teenager. When she was 16, she was just yelling at everyone, especially Adeline.

"When you bailed me out, you said you trusted me," said Georgia. "Why?"

"I don't know why," said Mary Margaret. "But since you arrived, I've had the strange feeling that we've met before, it's crazy, I know."

"If you want to know what crazy is," said Georgia. "Meet my sister."

"For what it's worth, I think you're innocent," Mary Margaret said.

"For breaking and entering?" answered Georgia. "Or just in general?"

"Whichever makes you feel better," laughed Mary Margaret.

"Doesn't matter what people think I did or didn't do," said Georgia. "Thank you for everything, but I think it's for the best. If I stay, Regina's only going to keep getting hurt."

"What happens if you go?" questioned Mary Margaret. "I think the very fact that you want to leave is exactly the reason why you should stay. You care about her. If you leave, who's going to protect her?"

Georgia stopped. Mary Margaret had a good point. If she left, Emma was just going to keep treating Regina horribly and there would be no one there to stop her because it seems like she is the only one in the town who isn't afraid of her.

Georgia was glad she went to see Mary Margaret. If she didn't, she would've just ran off without thinking. She went to Archie's, thinking that Regina might be there.

"Look, Miss Swan," said Archie, as soon as Georgia came in. "The mayor, she forced me-"

"I know," Georgia interuppted. "It's fine, I get it." She turned to Regina. "Regina, I'm sorry."

"I don't want to talk to you," Regina said.

"Miss Swan," Archie protested. "If the mayor knew you were here..."

"To hell with her!" she interrupted Archie again. "Regina, there is one simple reason I stayed here and that is you. I wanted to get to know you."

"But you said this belief was the reason that I have no friends, and that I'm so simple-minded, you almost called me crazy!" Regina protested.

"Well, I don't think you're crazy," Georgia said. She didn't really. "Not really. I was harsh on my sister for believing - I'm not going to make the same mistake on you, okay? Maybe this whole thing is true. I mean sometimes reality surprises you."

"But you told my mom..." Regina began to say.

"Well, I didn't mean it like that," said Georgia. "What I was going to say was that it's okay. It doesn't have to be a problem. Anyway, if we say this, maybe she won't be onto us. And then... that could give us room for what to do later."

"Brilliant!" Regina said. "I knew you were here to help me."

"That's right, kid," said Georgia. "And nothing, not even a curse, is going to stop me from doing that."

Emma sighed. She had had a bad day. But it had all turned out well in the end. She hoped. Georgia Swan was obviously gone. Her curse was safe, Regina was safe, Storybrooke was safe, she was safe, and she could finally get back to her life.

Suddenly, Mr. Gold came over to her.

"What a mess," he said.

"Mr. Gold," Emma said. "What can I do for you?"

"Well, I was just in the neighbourhood," he said. "Thought I'd pop by. Lovely to see you in such high spirits."

"Well, I've just rid the town of an unwanted nuisance," said Emma.

"Georgia Swan, really?" said Gold. "I've just seen her strolling down the street with your girl."

"WHAT?!" she exclaimed.

"Perhaps you should've come to me," said Gold. "If Miss Swan is a problem you can't fix, I'd only be too happy to help. With a price of course."

"Well, no thanks," said Emma. "Whatever it is you've got for me, I don't want to hear it. I'm dealing with it myself."

"Okay then," said Gold. "While you and the sheriff play your little game, I'll be waiting for you, wherever that may be."

"Do you know something?" Emma said.

"What do you mean?" asked Gold. He was obviously lying.

"Who is this girl?" Emma exclaimed. "This Georgia Swan?"

"I say you know exactly who she is," Gold answered. "Now I really must be going."

Now Emma was losing her temper. "TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!"

"I'm not going to answer you dearie, so I suggest you excuse me," Gold said.

"Fine," said Emma. "But the next time I see you..."

"I'll be waiting," said Gold. "I really look forward to that conversation."

Emma didn't know Gold well in the Enchanted Forest, mostly because he was locked in a cell since before she was born. But her mother did. Gold also forced her to give him a good life, so she could know how to cast the curse. Gold wasn't happy when she was the one to cast it though. His plan had gone all wrong. If he was awake, he'd be doing everything he could to fix it.