So this is your pager. If we find a heart for you, we will contact you." Doctor Whale hands Regina the black devise. "Thank you doctor." Regina says putting the pager in her bag and gathering the last of her things.
"Do you want me to go ahead and put your bags in the car, miss Mills?" Charlotte asks.
"Yes." Regina says. She hears a small cough and looks into Emma's direction who is standing by the window. Regina gives her a 'What now?' look.
"Aren't you going to say thank you?" Emma asks making Regina roll her eyes but she does what Emma ask. "Charlotte." She calls out before Charlotte can leave the room.
"Yes miss Mills?" Charlotte asks.
"I just wanted to say." Regina looks at Emma again and takes a deep breath. "Thank you, dear."
Charlotte's mouth falls open in shock but the girl snaps herself out of her shocked state quickly and the shock turns into a bright smile.
"Your welcome miss Mills." The girl says beaming an leaves the room with a little skip in her step.
"Did you see that?" Emma asks with a smug face. "You just made someone really happy by only saying thank you. Doesn't that feel good?" Emma asks wondering.
Regina looks Emma up and down before saying. "Hardly." Regina takes her handbag and leaves the room as well.
Emma rolls her eyes. Baby steps.
When they walked out of the building the sun was shining brightly and Emma missed the feeling of the warm streams on her skin. She watched Regina walked towards a large town car. When the brunette was almost at the passenger door, a large muscled man quickly made his way around it and opened the door for her. Emma started laughing very loudly making Regina spin around and glare at her, forgetting for a moment that she was the only one that could exactly see her.
"Why the hell are you laughing." Regina snaps at her but before the blonde could reply the driver cleared his throat. "Miss Mills? Are you okay?" He asked tentatively. Regina's eyes grew wide when she realised what she just had done. She must look like a crazy person. She could feel herself grow red from embarrassment. She turns around and looks down, avoiding any eye contact with her driver. She didn't say anything else and step inside the car. She was Regina Mills, she didn't have to explain herself to anyone.
When Regina was secured in the car and the little shield that separated her and the driver was up, she turned her body to Emma.
"What the hell were you laughing about?" Regina asks the blonde irritated. Emma snorts at seeing Regina's irritated face.
"I'm sorry, I just found it so typical that you would have your own personal driver to drive you around." Emma explains and still can't help herself from laughing.
"I hardly think it's that comical." Regina growls and turns away from Emma to look out of the window.
"Oh no, that's wasn't indeed so comical but the face you made when your driver asked if you were fine that, that was so funny. You were so red!" Emma keeps grinning and the only thing Regina can think of to do is roll her eyes.
"You are such a child!"
"And the problem with you is that you are not!" Emma's fires back. Why can't this woman lighten up for just a second.
"Thank god for that!" Regina says wanting to have the last word.
Emma huffs and crosses her arms. Why does she have to be like this? Why is she so up tied. She doesn't laugh and she doesn't appreciate the things people do for her. Why I'm I doing this again? Maybe I shouldn't waste my time and just give up. Maybe there's a reason why she's about to die. Maybe she deserves it.
Emma shakes her head. No she's can't think like this. She has to give Regina a change. There is something about the stuck up woman. It's buried deep inside but there is definitely something and that's what Emma wants to find.
"Tell your driver to go to 106 StoneStreet." Emma says breaking the silence but without looking at Regina.
"What?" Regina asks.
"Tell your driver…"
"I heard what you said the first time. Where are you taking me?" Regina questions.
"I'm not going to tell you. You just going to have to find out." Emma states coldly.
"And what if I refuse." Regina says and this makes Emma turn back to her.
"Then I guess you don't need my heart anymore." Emma raises her eye brown and waits for Regina next move. Regina sigh deeply and knocks on the shield. The shield is lowered down and Regina tells her driver the address. She just hopes that this is all worth it.
"No! Hell no!" Regina says when she's standing in front of the large building. It's huge and the bright letters FUN HOUSE are staring right at her.
"Hell yes!" Emma says standing next to Regina with her hands in her side. Fun House is an indoor amusement park with roller coasters and other fun stuff. When Emma was twelve her mother took her here for her birthday. It was her best birthday ever because it was just her and her mother. And that day she got the change to completely relax and forget the fact that her dad her left her and her mom.
"It's going to be so much fun. Come on!" Emma tries again to convince Regina.
"For you it's fun. No one can see you. If I go in I'm the weird old lady, who is talking to herself."
Emma raises her eyebrow. "And you care about that because?"
"Because I'll be embarrassed." Regina says while fidgeting nervously with the sleeve of her blouse.
"Don't be! Come one, live a little." Emma winks at Regina challenging her to do it.
Regina scoffs at Emma but raises her chin and walks inside the Fun house.
The moment the doors open the hallowing sound of children, laughing, crying and running is making its way through her ear canal.
"Race you to the roller coaster." Emma says and takes off. Regina rolls her eyes, no way that she is going to run like a child through this building. She walks behind Emma but unknown to herself it's just a little faster.
Regina looked up and her mouth was hanging open. She had imaged the rollercoaster to be smaller and more for kids but looking at the thing she felt a little nervous going on it.
"Come on what are you waiting for?" Emma asks standing next to Regina.
"I'm hoping for you to change your mind!" Regina replies hopeful. Regina bites her lip and moves to the wait line of the attraction. There are just a few children with their parents in front of her. When the previews ride arrives back in the station there is a little commotion in the front of the waiting line that catches Regina's attention.
"Sorry kid if your under twelve you need adult supervision. I can't let you on the ride." The guy who manages the ride says to a small boy.
"Oh please, I'll be safe." The boy pleads but the guy still doesn't allow him on the ride by himself.
"That's okay! I'll go with him." Regina says surprising the boy and herself.
"You will?" The boy asks hopefully. Regina nods and takes a seat on the ride. The boy beams at her and takes a seat as well.
"Thank you! Normally my dad would come." The boy says pointing at a man in the distance who is busy talking in his phone. "But he's too busy with work." Regina gives him a sad smile. She would probably be just like him if she would have any children. She's glad she made the decision to not have any children while she was too busy with her job. But now she wonders if she was ever not going to be busy with her work. If this plan works and Emma does give her a new heart that could be the first thing she could do different. Have a child and be there for them. The ride starts and Regina grips on the metal safety bar.
The whole ride doesn't even take 5 minutes but still Regina can't help but scream and laugh when it's go fast or down. The boy next to her scream with her and both are laughing genuinely when they arrive back at the station.
"That was awesome!" The boy yells putting his fists in the air.
"Yes it was wasn't it?" Regina says laughing.
"Let's go again!" The boy says turning to Regina and showing her is best puppy eyes. No matter what Regina is not going to be able to say no to this boy. So Regina and the boy go on the ride five more times until Regina gets sick and runs away to puke in a trashcan.
"No more rides!" Regina pleas and the boy smiles nodding.
"I know what will help your stomach." The boy grins and points at a food stand. "Ice cream!" He takes Regina's hand and pulls her over to the stand.
"So what's your name?" The boy asks sitting next to Regina while they both keep licking their ice cream.
"Regina and what's your name?" Regina asks a little timid.
"It's Henry." Henry replies and tries to lick his own chin feeling that ice scream and dripping down from it. Regina chuckles and grabs some paper tissues and whips away the mess he created.
"Well it's nice to meet you Henry." Regina holds out her hand and Henry takes it and shakes it.
"Nice to meet you too Regina! So how come you are here all alone?" Henry asks raising his eyebrow.
"A friend dared me to come by myself. She said I needed to let loose and have fun." Regina finishes her ice cream and starts cleaning her hands from the sticky mess.
"It sure looked like you had fun." Henry says smiling.
"I did, didn't I?" Regina could slap herself. She looked around and was happy to not see Emma's smug face staring at her right now.
"Henry! There you are!" A loud voice yelled. "I have been looking for you all over this place! I thought you were going to the chance games?" The man Regina presumed was Henry father walked up to them angry.
"And who the hell do you think you are? Buying my son ice cream! What are you? Some kind of pervert?" The man now turns his anger to Regina.
Regina wanted to snap at the man but Henry was quicker. "She's no pervert! She's Regina and she went with me on the roller coaster because you were too busy to actually spend any time with me!" The man's look softened and rubs his temples.
"I'm sorry Henry." He looked at Regina. "I'm sorry, thank you for taking care of my son. Come on Henry we need to go home." He held out his hand and waited. Henry turned to Regina and instead of only a goodbye he lifted his tiny arms and engulfed Regina in a hug. The brunette was to shock to return it but Henry didn't care.
"Thank you Regina! Have a nice day." Regina gave a genuine warm smile and nodded. "You to Henry."
Regina watched him and his dad take off and decided to go find Emma. She hadn't seen the blonde for a while now and she was starting to get worried. She found Emma sitting in front of the carousel, her eyes were closed and she swayed with the music. Regina took a seat next to her and watched how the horses went up and down.
"So how did you enjoy your ride on the roller coaster?" Emma asked breaking the silence.
"It wasn't a total nightmare." Regina answers honestly, there was no need to lie to Emma.
"I saw you sitting with that little boy." Regina hummed.
"You seemed to really enjoy your time with him. It's makes me wonder why you don't have any children?"
"I didn't want to raise a child when my job took up so much of my time. But now…" Regina sighed. "I don't think I have made the right decision. I should have friends, I should have a child, I should have a lover." Regina closes her eyes and feels tears coming. "What good is my life when I have no one to share it with?"
Regina was crying big tears now and Emma felt guilty. She wanted to show to woman a better way to living her life but she didn't mean to make her cry. She puts her hand on Regina's back to comfort her but of course the woman doesn't feel it and Emma curses the prison she is trapped in.
"Things are going to change. I'm going to help you change them. I want you to be happy Regina." Emma says and Regina looks up into the woman's eyes.
"But why? You have seen first handed how I treat people, how I have treated you. Maybe I don't deserve to be happy." Regina says taking a tissue from her purse and drying her tears.
"You do! Because the woman that was talking to this boy and went on a ride 5 times until she puked, that woman are you as well and she deserves to be happy. Let's get you home and some rest." Regina doesn't say anything to Emma's admission. The woman that talked to the boy was someone she had forgotten about a long time ago and it felt good bringing her out again.