A/N: To be honest I have no idea of how the science works here xD. Which timeline or how things stand between the Charming family and Regina. I realise now that I am very bad at building up and it feels like I'm rushing into things... Well anyways, I appreciate your support! The reviews, the views... those things keep me going and keep me motivated as a writer :) So thank you very much!

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"EMMA!? PLEASE HELP ME!" Regina begged.

I got you. You're safe with me.

It was clear now. This was Emma's voice, soft and gentle. All of the sudden from where she was standing, Regina was sucked up into a vortex that brought her back to her room. Emma was holding a wet cloth to her forehead, having heard the panic coming from Regina's room she immediately came to her mayor's eyes flashed open and was looking straight at her. "Emma." She gasped, her heart going at a fast pace. "Hey," Emma weakly smiled. "You're okay now."

Regina felt tears welling up behind her eyes and as soon the blonde noticed she couldn't stop them from falling. "Hey…" Emma pulled the woman closer to her body, stroking her hair. "It's alright. It's over now." She whispered. She felt the older woman shiver in her arms and instinctively held her tighter. Regina then jolted back. "Ouch…" She rolled up her sleeve to discover a burn covering her entire arm. Emma carefully took the brunette's arm into her own hands. "Hold still." She waved her white glowing hand above the burn, making it disappear. "Thanks…" Regina said, leaning in closer to seek the saviour's warmth again. Emma protectively wrapped her arms around the mayor's clammy body. They said nothing. They just sat there for a few silent minutes, in each other's arms. Then eventually as Regina's tears had dried up she pulled away, weakly smiling at the saviour.

"Are you okay?" Emma asked, still a little stun by the whole situation. She had predicted the mayor was going to decline her help, like she did the night before. But instead this time she embraced it. And Emma was allowed to witness this whole new side of Regina, a side she never could've imagined of seeing.

"Yeah, I am now." Regina said. She was so accustomed to the walls she had built around herself. She was a 100% convinced she deserved nothing good. After all, she was the Evil Queen, a villain. That's all she's ever been to the people in Story Brook, why would Emma be any different?

Emma gave a proud nod, standing up to walk up to the door. "Goodnight madam Mayor." Emma said, using her infamous title to tease. "Goodnight Sheriff…" Regina replied, her mouth gaped open when Emma walked out of the room. She wanted to say 'wait'. She wanted to ask her to stay, but would that really be a good idea?

Regina woke up, her mind still a bit hazy as she went downstairs into the living room. She peeked around the corners. No saviour. Then her eyes fell on a piece of paper with Emma's handwriting.

At granny's with MM

x Emma

Regina was guessing the 'MM' stood for Mary Margaret. She sighed, feeling slightly disappointed she didn't get to have breakfast with the blonde but decided not to dwell on it.


"So what are you doing at Regina's?" Mary Margaret asked her daughter as soon they picked a table to sit at.

"Wow, subtlety mom?"

"What? I'm just curious." The pixie haired said, "Besides it's not like you have anything to hide… Right? Emma?" She then stared at the blonde, wide eyed to detect anything suspicious. She'd been well aware of her daughter's whereabouts.

"What? No." Emma scoffed, taking a large sip of her hot chocolate with cinnamon. "Regina is having some trouble dealing with nightmares. The same nightmares Henry had after that sleeping curse. I'm just… looking out for her that's all." She muttered under her breath.

"Why can't Robin do that?" Mary Margaret asked. If she was honest, she didn't like the thought of the Evil Queen around her daughter and was afraid about the influence she could have on her. Emma didn't know the person Regina was back in the Enchanted Forest. The damage she has inflicted on others.

"Ask Robin. He has ignored her calls ever since the curse has been broken." Emma told her.

"Is that true?" The black haired asked, a little surprised since she assumed things were going quite well between the two. Emma nodded, taking a bite of her sandwich and flushing it away with another sip of her hot chocolate.

Snow white took notice and wrinkled her nose. "Ew! Emma stop that." She told her daughter.

"What?" Emma looked up with still a mouthful.

"You could rethink of eating your food a bit more refined?" The short haired suggested.

Emma shook her head. "No time. I promised Henry I'd do a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon with him."

"Don't you have enough time to watch that? It's still morning"

"There are 4 movies! So no." Emma sputtered, continuing eating.


Hey this is Robin, at the moment I'm not here but you can leave a message at the beep thing or something? I'm not entirely sure how this device works.

Regina let out a sigh, hearing for the millionth time that stupid voicemail.

*beep*

"Robin it's Regina again. You know it's either you don't know how to open a voicemail or you're just to childish to discuss this as grownups. Which one is it Robin? Ugh… Call me back."

Regina huffed, crashing down onto her couch. Emma had messaged her that she was going to eat at her parents and would come to her house after but it was already passed 21:00 and still no sign of the saviour. She grabbed her phone from the glass plateau of her sofa table and searched for Emma in her contacts, then pressed the 'message' button. "Tsk…" She locked her phone again and dropped it in the corner of her sofa. "Stupid…" She mentally hit herself for being so weak. She shook her head, then stood up to do some cleaning in attempt of distracting herself.


Emma and Henry walked into Mary Margaret's apartment, still laughing about the fresh memory of Grumpy walking into Pongo's turd. They've had a late dinner at Granny's since they couldn't stand one more green-looking meal of the healthy phased Snow White. Though the laughter was quick to die off when they took notice on the little convention happening in the living room, including Hook. "Swan." His voice cracked. "What…. Is going on here?" Emma nervously chuckled.

"Henry, you'd best go to your room." Snow White said, her expression staying sour.

Henry worriedly looked back at Emma before running upstairs.

"What are you doing here?" Emma blurted out to Hook.

"Good to see you too darling." Hook snorted. "I haven't heard of you for days Swan. I thought we had a thing going on here." He said, trying to grab the blonde's hand but she took a few steps back.

"That doesn't mean you get to involve my parents into this." She growled. She couldn't believe this. They had only been dating for a few weeks now. And already he was being that controlling boyfriend you don't want to bring to parties.

"I just needed to know what was going on." He said. "Your parents told me about your visits to Regina?"

Emma frowned her eyebrows deeply. "Is this some kind of interrogation? Since when is it a crime to visit a friend?"

"Since that 'friend' is the most dangerous villain alive." David now bothered to butt in. "You don't know her like we do Emma. We think you need to be more cautious."

"Yeah especially since she's tried to poison you with an apple turnover not so long ago." Snow White added.

"Unlike 'you' guys. She is trying to move on. All she wants is to redeem herself. She is working her butt off to change!" Emma said, trying to control her voice. Emma has seen the things the 'so called' Evil Queen was capable of but it was always because she felt threatened to lose the one thing she cared about; Henry. "Henry sees the good in her. I… see the good in her. Why can't you guys?"

"We can't take her deeds lightly. We've been burned before. That woman is incapable of changing Emma." David said and his wife nodded agreeing.

"She is damaged.I was damaged. And I know from experience that it is hard to fight the dark alone. So against your council, I'm going back to her. And I'm going to make sure that she has someone to fall back to." Emma said before she took off and shut the door close, not as hard but with enough force to make the wall shudder and leave the Charming family and their pirate mascot with gaping mouths. "Good talk." Hook lastly said with a sigh.

Once outside Emma released a subdued sigh before angrily stepping into her yellow bug. She took out her phone out of her pocket and saw she had received one message from Regina.

Going to sleep. Key is under the doormat.

R.

That was from an hour ago. Emma stepped on it and was on the road in no time. Little had she been aware of the time and felt bad for having Regina wait that long. Her heart bounced a little faster when thinking about the mayor of Storybrooke. Playing on the radio was the song Tenerife Sea from Ed Sheeran, one of Emma's favourite artists back at Boston, not to mention this was one of her favourite songs from him.

We are surrounded by all of these lies

And people who talk too much

You got the kind of look in your eyes

As if no one knows anything but us

Should this be the last thing I see

I want you to know it's enough for me

'Cause all that you are is all that I'll ever need

Emma softly hummed along with the song, deep gone in thoughts of Regina. So many questions. So many doubts.