Would you look at that, a month and I finally have an update. Sorry about that, and I'll also be gone for two more weeks. I know, shame X, But for now, Enjoy X.

She hadn't slept in days, and people had left her alone all that time. Her.. Snow. Snow was just sitting around moping about the fact she was a manipulative murder, david at her heels doing everything she needed doing. Henry was choosing not to ignore her, she doesn't know how mad he is about Neal, but she guesses it has to be at least a little.

So no one has told her to get any rest, which she doesn't need anyways. She needs Regina to be awake. When she wakes up though, and then she's not sure if she will ever be able to rest, wondering just what kind of a curse the people put her under.

She interviews and talks to everyone and it all points to Whale being the only one to know anything, just like the first mob he had riled up. She goes to him, confronts him more than once, but he just sneers and say he owes her nothing.

Which just adds to her pile of things.

So she's surprised when she gets a visit from Gold. The two people weren't exactly the bestest of friends, that much she can guess (Unless they got real kinky and that's how gold tied her to that chair) but she's even more surprised the imp isn't speaking in any riddles.

"Miss Swan, I see you're struggling with our former mayors situation still" He announces, tapping his cane as he leans on it to enter the room.

She's still a little pissed because the man may well be what has them in this 'situation' in the first place.

"Quit it gold, if you have a way of me helping her, then by all means, speak up. If not, go away."
She growls, turning to face Regina again, pulling the bed covers up further against her, away as a form of protection against him.

"Actually Miss Swan, I do."

She turns to look at him then, but there wasn't any really indication of a lie, so a subtle nod of her head tells him to continue.

" I was taunting her with how I explained your connection. She foresaw some things - which is powerful magic, might I add - that she wasn't supposed to be able to see. Added along with the things I told her, she no longer draws the same conclusion as she did previously. I believe you both were under the impression that this was body jumping, of some sort, yes?"

She merely nodded, confused and wondering where the man was going.

"Do not tell me you put her under a sleeping curse-"

"-What? How would I- No, more importantly, why would I do that?"

"Ah, well she told you that putting her under, and then waking her up from a sleeping curse was the only way if one of you was left dragged in a void, if you both didn't meet for this 'dream jumping' nonsense, did she not?"

"She mentioned something.."

"But you didn't do that, did you?" He asked distractedly, at her nod, he continued, bobbing his head as he spoke. "Good, good." He mumbled. "Then we have means to act. You need to be put under the curse."

"Excuse me?!" She yelled, standing up to meet gold. "What the hell do you think I'm doing that for?"

"Well, you haven't met her in your sleep have you, so that means your slumber has to be deep enough, and that would mean you would both be in that realm together.." The imp trailed off, shaking his head at his own thoughts. How could the child of true love not have magic powerful enough to make that connection? "..You haven't slept, have you?" He softly asked, and tried to not let it sound so creepy. She nodded, and he motioned for her to sit on the bed next to Regina.

"Sleep. Meet her in the realm, and do not, Miss Swan, allow yourself to be awoken by anything other than natural means. Whatever stopped you from meeting our former mayor last time caused this." He advised, before spinning on his heel and leaving. He couldn't waste such time with these amateurs!

She lay down on the bed, atop the covers and turned her head to look at her. She had already, at many points, tried to wake her up with a kiss, but it was futile, so she just kissed her cheek before turning on her side to look at her, and it was not long before her exhausted body was pulled off to sleep.

She felt herself being pulled through a void of darkness, and it was eerily quiet, black surrounding her. It sent chills down her spine but she ignored it and stepped forward.

It was almost surprising that she could do that. She hadn't expected there to be anything for her to step onto, but there was.

She kept reaching forward, and she was glad to note that the darkness wasn't so suffocating that it would swallow her arm entirely when it was outstretched.

She blindly stumbled about and kept calling the brunette's name.

She got no response.

She kept stumbling forward, which was scaring her almost as much as the quiet, because it looked as though there was no ground beneath her feet, but somehow there was.

She called the brunette's name a few more times, and spun around when she heard something to her left.

"Emma?" It was muttered so softly, she was sure she didn't hear it.

"Regina?" She yelled out, wincing when she heard it echo.

"Emma?" She heard again, stronger in the force of the voice but it wavered weakly, surrounded by quiet she somehow had more time to analyse her voice.

God, her voice. She was so glad she could hear it again.

"Regina where are you?"

"I don't know, Emma." Came a huffed out response. Thank god for the snark that was the former mayor.

"Uh, I don't know then. Marco?"

"Polo, you buffoon."

She repeated this game of Marco Polo until she was so sure Regina could be next to her.

"Hey, Regina, I'll just flail my arms about until I find you.." She muttered swinging her arms around in a blind attempt to reach for the woman.

That was when her hand collided with regina's shoulder, and the room was suddenly encased in light.

Though it wasn't a room, it was where Tana had died, just outside that old home..

God, she thought she'd blocked that part from her memories.

She ignored it as she looked down at a Regina with bright red and tear-swollen eyes.

"Shit, Regina are you okay? What happened?" She muttered, pulling her face to look at her, checking her over before swallowing her in a tight embrace.

"I'm fine, Emma." She said, patting the blonde stiffly on the back.

"What happened? When I came down to your vault you were unconscious and there was another stupid mob. Are you mad about what I said, because I can't stop, you know-"

"Emma. I am fine. What you said was unexpected, and you really should stop, but it's okay."

"I love you then, Regina Mills." Emma smiled.

Regina ducked her head and considered what had happened when she had looked to their future. She had seemed happy with Emma. MAybe it was time to give into that thought.

"I.. love you to, Emma Swan." She muttered, softly still looking at the ground beneath her feet. Glad to have seen something in the darkness that had enveloped her for.. How long?

"How long has it been?"

Emma stiffened, and shifted about, but turned her body towards Regina's. Not only that, but away from the house.

"Uh, three days."

"Three days?! How did it get to three days?!" Regina shifted her away when she yelled.

"Um, well.. I was worried about you, so I couldn't really go to sleep, you know? So I just kinda stayed with you. Made sure you were okay. Then Gold basically told me off for not sleeping because apparently that's how we get out of this. I think he was right."

"And you trusted his word?"
"Well yeah, that or curse you and then wake you up and I thought you were still mad and I didn't think you'd love me so.. I just, yeah. And you'd done all the sleeping for three days while I had done none. I was delirious from sleep-deprivation, you can't blame me." She huffed, lightly slapping Regina's shoulder.

The brunette took this in, and then seemed to notice the environment around her.

"Emma, where are we."

"I don't know." Came the terse reply.

"It's where Tana died, isn't it?" Regina inquired softly.

Emma's head snapped up at that, how could she have known?

"It's this.. Thing. First Daniel's tree, and then where you last saw her alive, and then the stables, and now here. I didn't see it before, Emma. But they're connected. Next time this happens it will most likely be about Daniel, and I have a feeling these two people, our past loves, they correlate somehow." She offered up as explanation, also supplying a somehow regal shrug to go with it.

Emma sighed, before nodding.

"If we had to sleep last time, what do we have to do this time?" She asked softly.

"I suspect sleeping again, though I shan't sleep, if only for a minute, on highly unhygienic concrete. Are there beds inside?" She stood, holding out a hand to Emma.

"Yes but we .. I just, I can't not there." She stood, before interlocking their fingers and settling them down in front of the pear tree that sat at the front of the garden.

"Sleep here, Regina." She said, before kissing her temple, and settling her head down to lean against her.

Regina leaned back against the tree and inhaled the soft scent, that reminded her of Emma, before waking back up, hands interlocked still, in her bed.

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