Chapter 5

The Well, Present Day

"What's going on!" Emma came running.

"I don't know! Jasmine's face is . . . Emma!" Emma gave her mom a confused face.

"What?" Emma pulled out her phone and checked herself in the camera. She was mortified. Her lipstick was all over her face, her hair covered in knots from Killian's hands through it. Her eye makeup was smudged and the top buttons of her blouse hanging open revealing the top of her bra. She quickly fixed herself, taking more time than necessary out of embarrassment. She did not want to face her mother after this.

When she finally straightened herself up and turned to her mother she noticed Jasmine sitting on the ground. She was clutching her face which held a sick cut. "What happened!?" She rushed over to where her mother was trying to apply bandages to the princess' face.

"Someone shot an arrow at her … at her face. It grazed her cheek." Upon hearing the confirmation of what happened, Jasmine let out a strangled cry from the searing pain.

"StoryBrooke local hospital - How can I help you?" The phone chirped.

"Whale! We need Whale! It's an emergency." After making sure Jasmine was okay, Emma pulled out her gun to survey the area. She wanted to make sure the arrow-wielder wasn't still lurking. After a few moments, she rushed back into the clearing between the trees. "The area's clear. Where's Whale!?" She exclaimed while turning on the safety and shoving her gun back into her jacket's pocket.

"Right here!" He ran into the clearing. Before Emma could blink or Snow could back away, he began. Snow held Jasmine's hand while Whale ripped off the bandages hastily. A burning sensation fled through Jasmine's face. She gripped Snow's hand harder and let out a cry.

"It's okay!" Snow cooed to her like she did when Neal cried or Henry tripped up the steps. Emma couldn't help but think that she could never do that - she could never calm someone so quickly like her mother did. Whale injected a needle with numbing medication. Soon; the pain faded from her face and Whale took Jasmine back to the hospital for stitches in the back of his van.

Emma turned to her mom with a frightened look. "What happened?" Snow frowned, look down, and bit her lip contemplating what happened.

"We were taking a walk during our lunch break like we usually did. She talked about how this was her favorite place to walk, about what was going on with Aladdin. I head a stick snap and pulled out my bow. Suddenly, the arrow whizzed past Jasmine. It cut her and then …" She turned around realizing this. "And it flew over here!" She pointed and ran in that direction. There was the arrow.

"The tip!" Emma exclaimed. "It's … gold." Snow nodded in agreement.

"Why?"

"I don't know." Emma admitted. "But there was only one person who was skilled in archery."

"Robin." Snow's face falled.


StoryBrooke Hospital, Present Day

"What the hell is going on?" Emma frowned from her place next to her mother. They had been staring through the window at the sleeping princess. Emma turned and walked toward Regina.

"Regina, I think you and me should talk." She led the reluctant and complaining former queen out to her yellow bug. Emma swung into the driver's seat while Regina claimed shotgun. "Regina today Jasmine was attacked. By someone in the forest. They had this." She handed Regina the arrow.

"This is bad. This is bad." Regina frowned.

"What?" Emma questioned.

"Robin's quiver full of arrows and bow went missing. I thought they were misplaced in the chaos of Zelena moving in. It seems like they were stolen, seeing as this is Robin's arrow.

"That's not that bad." Emma tried to coax a smile out of Regina, trying to make the best of the situation.

"Emma this bow was enchanted by King Midas. Robin received it as a thank you for defeating an ogre that was threatening their kingdom. It has Midas' powers . . . Midas' touch."
"So?"

"So? So! You have to be kidding me, you don't know what Midas' touch does?"

"No. What does it mean?"

"UGH!" Regina groaned. "It turns anything it pierces into gold." Emma's eyes widened in fear. She immediately sprinted out of the car and into the hospital doors. Before grumbling, Regina followed her.

What they found was scary. Jasmine's face was starting to get a golden, sparkly shimmer over half of her face. It looked as if someone had dumped eyeshadow all over her face. Without thinking, she ripped out Jasmine's heart.

"Emma!" Snow screeched.

"The dark swan has risen again!" yelled Leroy from the waiting room, fleeing through the hospital revolving doors.

"No." Emma shook her head. "That arrow was enchanted by King Medas."

"King Midas." Regina corrected entering the small room. "Jasmine was pierced by it. She is going to turn gold. Ms. Swan here did the right thing. Separating her heart from her body could save her." Regina grabbed the red, pulsing heart and poofed a special heart box into her palm. She tucked the red blob into the box.

"Sorry." Snow murmured looking down. Suddenly she looked up at Emma quickly. "But who would do this!?"

"I don't know." Regina muttered deep in thought. Snow's eyes darted between the two women.

Suddenly Emma felt the fmiliar shaking in her palm. It swept over her body until she was convulsing. She fell on the floor, foam spewing out of her mouth and her body dlopping like a fish out of water.

"NURSE NURSE!" screamed Regina.

"Emma!" Cried Snow shaking her daughter's body. "EMMA!" Gut-wrenching sobs raked her body as the doctors came to try to sedate her, as they pulled her daughter away Regina held her back.