"What the actual FUCK is he on about Regina!" Regina sighed. Gold was an ass and he knew his riddles but they usually weren't that difficult to decipher.

"Emma the dreams aren't us dreamwalking they're what he said, a powerful sorceress is building this connection between us so that she can be born." Emma flung her arms up in the air, slinking away from Regina.

"What the fuck has this-" an arm flapping in her direction, how lovely."-Got to do with anything about some goddamn sorceress being born! We don't even know who this crazy bitch is!" She sighed, so Emma had been listening to the words but not what they had meant.

"Emma," She reached out and placed an arm warily around her. "Come, I think you need to sit down for this." Emma shrank back again, shrugging of the arm that was supposed to be comforting to her.

"No I don't want anything more to do with this fucking magic thing and sorcerers and dreams and - and- all this bullcrap!" With that she pushed right past Regina and tugged on the door, opening it so hard it shuddered against the impact of the doorstop.

"Emma she needs you! She needs us!" Emma turned and glared into the soft eyes that were almost.. Pleading with her.

"No! I'm done with all these witches needing something with me! Are you working with this unborn powerful witch?!" She rounded up to her, still glaring eyes with hate, pushing Regina back from the harsh and bitterness of her words, the magic around them was swelling with emotion.

"Emma" She spoke softly, to her it felt like being around a dragon, and she didn't want to think about how this felt as familiar as being with a hormonal Maleficent. "She needs us because we are what will help her being born, please you have to believe me." Emma turned and almost sped away from Regina and her touch, when she reached the edge of her grounds she turned her head back not fully wanting to look at her.

"I've been gone for days I'm going home. And don't pull me into a dream again. Ever." And she walked away leaving Regina with the only words she could lash out at that moment.

"You were the one who needed me!"

"Emma, where've you been!"" Henry came bounding into her arms, enveloping her in a bone-crushing hug that literally made her feel as though she couldn't breathe.

"Hey, kid" She got out through strangled breaths. "I've just been dealing with some things that need to be taken care of, but we're all good, for now."

Henry pulled back from her then, a worried look in his eyes.

"Yeah, my mom she said that she was helping you with something. But you're done now and we're okay right?" He looked at her with such hope in his eyes, like he was glad to be away from his mom. Maybe he should be from the Evil Queen, but if Emma had learnt anything these past few days was that this Regina was human. Even if there was some magic higher power pushing them together.

"Emma." Her head snapped up to hear the voice calling her name.

David.

Damn, that guy was her dad, how much more complicated were things going to get before everything would calm down, she still had no idea if she was older than this guy.

"Uh, hi" David smiled but warily took a glance over at a solemn mary-margaret who was still tucked up in bed staring out of the window out into space.

"Can I talk to you for a sec?" Emma brushed Henry's hair from his eyes.

"Yeah, sure." She followed his outstretched arm to the back of the kitchen are, just out of Henry's earshot.

"What were you doing with Regina, we called and asked around but no-one's seen you for a few days, all of a sudden she's leaving her vault with a bunch of books that are 'informative' to help you with some magic problem that has us all in danger? I don't believe a word of it, Emma. What have you been doing the past few days?" Emma shrugged, if she was going to lie she had to make it no big deal.

"Uh, nothing we just had some magical.. Stuff to work out I guess. She tried to help but it doesn't matter. Turns out neither of us needs it." David's eyebrows rose at that. And oh shit, did she just…. Ffuuucckkk..

"Uhm, she needed help from you at the same time? I want the truth, and an explanation as to why I had to take Henry for three days while you just left." Emma sighed, this was not a conversation she had wanted to have, she just screeched at a woman who she had woken up to this morning, who she had kissed and who she had been through too much with who…

A woman who was…

Who was what?

What was Regina to her?

Why did this woman seem to be Evil from a book but in life she was kind and caring and compassionate and loving and..

And shit.

She had left that woman who had only wanted her to stay and made her think she thought the worst of her. But she just needed this night away from magic and witches and curses and being the Saviour.

"David, look. I'm not gonna lie, We had to go to Mr. Gold for his help on this one, he said all this crap about a witch 'ripping apart the veils of time' or whatever to get us into some dreamwalking state thing. I didn't get half of it but we're working on it." David flew his hands up to the roof and eventually settled on bristling them through his hair and turning away to breathe for a bit.

"Great another evil witch coming after my family. I need a goddamn break." Emma scoffed yup. This was another one of those Storybrooke situations.

"Yeah an unborn one at that." Davids head snapped up and she actually thought he was about to lock her away like her foster parents used to.

"What did Gold tell you?" Emma shrugged.

"I didn't understand half of it, but some unborn sorceress or whatever is ripping through time to like, I dunno make a connection between me and Regina, it's weird, it made us do something she called Dreamwalking, but Gold says it isn't that and that this sorceress is our future and we can't stop the dreams. I dunno, I'll deal with that stuff later, but now it's late, Im gonna take Henry to Granny's for dinner. Coming?" David shook his head and nodded towards his wife.

"I have somethings to take care of." Sensing he meant mary-margaret and the state she was in she quietly led the kid to the door.

"What the hell have you done with my daughter?" She stiffened, this fool had the nerve to show up here and yell at her?

"Why hello David, I don't recall inviting you into my home." because she didn't. He just barged through her door like it was his birthright, Honest to the gods, that man was as much an obnoxious Prince as his deceased twin.

"You did something to her, I won't stand for it." God he was coming closer, and she hoped he didn't notice Emma's baggy sweater behind her back, she wouldn't give him the satisfaction

"I did nothing! The future has to make it's way back into the past to break us here and that imp made it out to be something I thought it could have been but she pushed me away! What's she done now, prince? Taking my Henry away isn't she? Leaving is she? Back off to Boston?"

David shook his head and there was something mixed with the hate in his eyes, like he felt sorry for her, gripping the sweater in her hands she willed it away so he couldn't see it.

"No, she's not leaving." And the magic connection she and Emma had ebbed away all of her tense anger and flooded her with relief.

"But, she won't tell me what the hell is going on here. Who is this witch?" Regina shook her head, she had a vague idea, but it was too strong a magic for even rumplestiltskin to posses on his own.

But what he had thought could be possible if? If Emma gave a damn, which she made clear she didn't she was only staying for her family. She'd been waiting 28 years for the insufferable Snow and her prince charming.

"The sorceress isn't born yet. What Gold said, was that she needed to bend the fabric of time in order to enforce the magical connection between Emma and I." David shook his head, confused, what a lovely state it was for him to be in. It reminded her of the way Emma looked when she was..

Nope,

No emma, because Emma didn't care what would happen to her.

"And that she's doing that because she isn't born yet, for whatever reason." Act as clueless as the charmings always are and he'll leave.

"You know what? I think you're lying." How very bold for the shepherd, point gained.

"How very bold, to accuse the Evil Queen of lying, but I do suggest that you leave if you care for your safety because that is the truth, but If you wish to gather more information on this sorceress, then by all means, please do go visit Mr. Gold, he'll be glad of another intrusion I'm sure."

He huffed and grumbled and begrudgingly left, and she only allowed herself to feel when she heard her door slam.

And she stumbled up into her bedroom where she broke down, the sheets were still rumpled from where Emma had left.

Emma had gone.

"Okay gold, I know you know something so what's your price?" Gold sniggered, which for him made David's skin crawl. People can't make that sound. It's… impish and awful. Basically Mr. Gold in a nutshell.

"Ah, but I can't tell you something that has not yet come to pass." He sucked in a breath. Not going to get pissed about this. Nope. Not-Gonna-Happen.

"What's your price for the information on this sorceress and her aims for this… whatever it is."

And a laugh that pierced the air, and god, it was so cold and shrill.

"Simple, your silence to either of the two women involved. They can't know, to know of your future is as dangerous as toying with it unknowingly, which is admittedly, what their sorceress is doing."

David snorted as a response. "I can't promise you anything of the sort, now spit it out." Gold picked up his cane and strutted out from behind one of the counters containing only he knows what.

"Actually, yes you can, see magic knows no bounds, dearie. So, your silence for the motives of this sorceress, yes?" David folded his arms as defiance, but both men knew that he would give in with a little added manipulation from Gold, but David was in the satisfaction of being able at the very least not to show it, or his frustration with the man who so easily manipulated all of their fates.

"Fine, now tell me what you know from this sorceress and her motives against my daughter."

Gold waved his hand using his magic to prevent David to be able to speak to anyone involved.

"Now that you can't tell her, their sorceress isn't going to use anything against them…"

She collapsed onto her bed, after such a long day, begrudgingly she pulled herself back up off her bed, shrugging off her jacket and padding down to take a bath, that would calm her down and relax her before bed, and the kid couldn't walk in on her either asking more questions about if his mom was still evil, she didn't even know that herself.

She walked in and set the water running, shrugging off some of her clothes she stopped to turn the water off and began taking off her clothes again, gasping a little as the cold water hit her foot she sighed and pushed her full weight into the water submerging herself, shuddering a little at the cold she added a little more hot water, sighing from her relaxing state once it was warm enough, she told herself not to think of the past events of the last few days and just to enjoy herself a little more.

That was when she slumped further into the tub, submerged in not just water, but sleep.

"What the hell Regina?!" She stood forward noticing that it wasn't sunny grassy fields and stables or looming trees they were surrounded by anymore, it wasn't where she had last seen Tana alive either. She was -

"Wait are we in your mansion? Am I like, asleep in my real body because I was in the bath and I swear to god if you drown me Regina-"

"-Miss Swan, I assure you, you are not going to take any time in this realm, you will awake in your body seconds from when you lapsed into this realm." Okay, good.

"As for your question as to our whereabouts, no we are not in my mansion, we are simply in a realm that has resemblance to it." And silently, she motioned to the staircase where Emma should follow, walking up the stairs.

"What are you -" But she was cut off by the mayor opening the door to what was usually Henry's room, which she supposed it was, but it was filled like a nursery, a crib with a small Henry wrapped in blankets as he squirmed in her sleep was what caught her breath, ignoring all the other features of the room.

"You can't touch him, he is just a creation from a memory in this realm." Regardless, she reached out to touch him, her hand sliding through his form, she settled for hovering her hand where it could barely touch his skin, without going through, telling herself she was able to touch him, tears flowing unabashedly from his face.

"Thank you." She whispered, thinking regina wouldn't be able to hear it but the woman was studying her reaction to the still sleeping form of the baby she once gave up.

"What are you thanking me for I haven't done anything, if you hadn't pulled me to this realm earlier I wouldn't have the knowledge that you-"

"Regina."

"-Wouldn't be drowning in this second in your awful so-called apartment, though I hardly-"

"Regina." She spoke more confidently but was ignored.

"-Think it should be a problem, maybe this time I won't be accused of-"

"REGINA! Damn! I'm saying thank you for showing me him, not just for raising him for ten years. I'm saying thank you for being his mom. I'm mostly saying thank you for making him who he is."

Regina nodded, taking in her previous bashfulness and the blonde's outburst though hardly seeming to.

"Yes, well. It's nothing." Emma merely shook her head and pulled herself closer to the other woman, resting her hands on her shoulders, not shaking her to her senses, because as she was about to do so her eyes found hers and she barely even need speak her next words.

"It's not, thank you." And she leant in and gently kissing her, warmth spreading through her, realising that maybe this woman wasn't just a comfort or company, that this woman knew her, and showed her parts of herself that even after years were still raw, not in hopes that she could patch them up, but in hopes that she would show herself the raw parts of her too.

That was when Emma Swan realised, that -oh shit- she was head-over-heels in love with the Evil Queen.

HAHA! All I'm sayin'...

;) Review?