A/N: So, this was a really exciting week with all the bts pics circulating. I loved it. I guess I got way too excited and wrote a longer chapter.

Again, let me know what you think about it. Review, PM me whatever works for you. Besides bts pictures, your comments certainly push me to write =)

A huge thank you to Anny Rodrigues! She's been amazing proof reading my stuff and always being so available. THANK YOU!


She really didn't think about what she's saying. "Call Emma'', that's what she said.

Snow would be all over her, full of worries and optimism; Charming… well, he's Prince Charming and the sound of his name is already infuriating for her, he would be all-chivalrous as if she's a lady in distress. No! She can't handle that. Then, there's Emma, the woman who helped her figure out the memory loss, who believed in her when no one did. The same woman who took her happy ending; the one she hasn't faced since the event at Granny's. And here she is, asking Robin to call Emma to rescue her form his arms… If she could only do it herself…

She tries to focus on her magic but she's way too drained from energy… and, focus for her own sake.


"Regina, look at me!" his voice is firm and he's worried the woman will lose conscious with the amount of blood that she loosing. The gash on her arm is deep and it looks like someone tried to slice her arm in two. The injure itself is not serious, it's just too deep, "Whale can probably stitch it together easily", Robin thinks to himself. But she lost too much blood and he has no idea for how long it has been like this. He knows it is really recent but Regina is in essence stubbornness and right now she's not willing to let him know more about it.

"I'm here, thief". Her eyes are blank, though, and she is looking into nothingness. No, she's not there and he knows it.

"Regina, keep the focus on me. Listen to my voice. Do not close your eyes. Stay awake for me, please."

She sighs. "Why would I do something for you?" Her voice is in a low volume, almost a whisper and her head is bending sideways, every time he realizes she's about to faint he cups her face and looks her in the eye while talking to her. He needs to keep her awake. He takes her on his arms and brings her into a tent. He already called Emma, and she should be on her way. Regina tries to fight a little when he lifts her up, but she's too weak for that. He puts her down gently on a blanket and starts cleaning the wound. She winces as he gets close to the deep gash. He has to keep talking to her, even though he knows she has no interest in talking to him right now, but she needs to stay awake.

"Milady, tell me what happened. How did you appeared in the middle of the forest? Why did you come here?"

She shuffles a little on the blanket. And moves her mouth but nothing comes out. Her eyes are half closed and he sees her concentrating. "Talk to me, Regina."

"I'm the Queen here, thief. I give the orders."

"There you are. I missed you, Your Majesty." The words come out of his mouth quicker than he intended it to be and there's a deeper connotation to it that he knows… and she feels it. She opens her eyes slightly to look at him, and he only sees pain. She keeps talking ignoring his words.

"Well, you're not really smart when it comes to other matters that are not bows and arrows, Robin of Locksley. If you didn't gather this information by now, I have magic." The words are coming out with much effort and her husky voice is becoming a whisper more and more, but she keeps going. "That's how I appear into places. Yet, I don't know why I appeared here, I must've been to tired and my magic… fal… faltered me." She sighs deeply. And closes her eyes for seconds. Long enough for him to touch her again in the face.

"Regina, stay with me. Here, have some water." He helps her into a sitting position and holds the cup for her but she lifts her good arm and takes the cup from him.

"Thank you."

"You shouldn't wander by yourself like this, Regina. The forest is dangerous and…" He's looking at her eyes when his attention is drawn by the change on her wound. He looks attentively to it also calling Regina's attention to it, and she abruptly turns her head to her arm. The whole motion was too fast and dizziness takes over her and as an instinct she puts her right arm on the floor, which reminds her of the great the pain of her wound and she's falling, as Robin holds her back and lays her down.

"Slow down, Your Majesty." He is still eyeing her arm; the cut has frost around it, and he thinks of the ice castle he saw and the woman inside it.

She hears him all from a distant place and his voice is more like mumbling to her now. And she feels her body becoming numb, her eyes are heavy and she knows she's drifting away. Then, it's darkness.


She fainted while he was trying to call her once more. She's cold now and he can clearly see frost around the wound so he grabs the warm water that he had heated for some tea. He wets a washcloth and places it around the wound to melt the frost. Her body temperature gets better after that.

Emma arrived couple of minutes after Regina fainted.

Little John leads her to Robin's tent. She doesn't know what to expect, Robin was very succinct concerning what happened to Regina. However, he was clear when he said that Regina asked for her assistance.


That should make her more confident about this, but it is quite the opposite, she's sure it was more of a lack of options kinda situation. The whole thing is a deep puddle of awkwardness, she's there to pick up the woman that she devastated couple of days ago, unintentionally; but it still happened. Plus she's taking her from the man that was supposed to be her… lover? She's nervous. She doesn't know what to expect and from the very little that Robin said she gathered that Regina was badly wounded. So, she left the house without giving much information to Henry, in fact, he has no idea Emma left to pick Regina up and bring her to the hospital.

She asked a Mary Margaret to have lunch with him… somewhere else but Regina's place.

She enters the tent to find a very pale Regina lying on a blanket on the floor and a very concerned Robin pressing a washcloth to her arm. Regina's shirt has a lot of blood and looking from the distance she could still see the depth of the cut even through the tore fabric of her shirt.

"Is she ok?"

"She's lost quite a lot of blood. The gash was deeper than I thought… and… I think that she was still not fully recovered from the last couple of days. I'm sure Dr. Whale will fix this easily, but she needs to go to the hospital, she's too weak."

"Did she really want me here?"

"She required you."

"Yeah, that she did. Did she say how did this happened?"

"No. But I have a clue." He looks at Regina then faces Emma. "There was frost around the gash and she was really cold. It melted after I cleaned it with warm water. You… You should take her, she won't be happy if she wakes up here."

"I'm not sure she will be happy to wake up at the hospital either. Can you bring her to my car?"

"Yes." He picks her up with so much care that the view hurts Emma. Did she really destroy this? He clearly cares for her.

She's heading to the hospital when she has a last thought about it. Actually, she has a pretty clear vision of how pissed Regina will be if she wakes up at the hospital. She grabs her phone,

"Whale?"

"Morning, Sheriff. Or should I say afternoon? How can I assist you?"

"So, Regina got hurt… Nothing serious. She'll probably just need some…" She glances at the unconscious woman on her backseat, "many stiches and some painkillers. I have her in my car but I'm well aware of her aversion to hospitals."

"What is it that you need from me, Miss Swan?"

"Do you think you could come over to the mansion and treat her there?"

"I'm not a ambulant hospital, Sheriff."

"Whale, cut the crap. You're coming, or I'll pick you up. Oh! I forgot to mention she's unconscious you might need something to hydrate her. I'll see you in 10."

"Giving orders now… I guess you fit the princess status. I'll try to be there by then."


Emma calls her father on her way to Regina's house and lets him know what is going on. At first, she thought about asking him to come over to help her getting the former queen inside the house. But then, she thought she could handle her… physically and emotionally once she woke up. Luckily for Emma, Regina started to slowly wake up and by the time they parked on her driveway, the brunette was some sort of conscious… not completely though.

"Do you think you can do this?"

"Does it matter, Miss Swan? I'll have to get in there somehow."

Emma had a slight grin on her face. "Well, she's conscious enough to keep up with her sassiness", she thought. She places one arm around the woman's waist and helps her out of the car. She felt the weight of Regina on her body; she lost blood but not enough to make her that weak, she thinks. But clearly, Regina hasn't recovered from the past battles with her sister and Emma was sure that Regina was in agony for accepting Emma's help.

"Whale is on his way here, we should get you cleaned first." She helps her to sit on her bed. She thinks about asking Regina if she needs help to shower. But she's positive that the stubborn woman will never admit needing help, so… she changes her approach.

"Can I help you to clean yourself?"

Emma looks at Regina and the former queen is pale, she has dark circles under her eyes, she's putting her weight on her uninjured side, her eyes are skipping from one emotion to another. Emma can see the war inside of her; Regina just looks at her but doesn't answer.

"Regina… I just want to help you to get ready for Whale. Henry… Henry wants to see you, he doesn't know what happened…" Regina stares at Emma as if she's looking into the blond woman's soul… almost as if she's looking for a confirmation of what she's say is true or not.

"…You know he would never forgive me if I don't help you and he will certainly give you a pep talk if he finds out you didn't accept my help."

"Let's get over with this, Miss Swan. Yes… you… you may help me."

Emma turns on the water to fill up the bathtub, and then she helps Regina to take her blouse off, being excessively careful with her arm, which didn't really help, but she tried. Whale arrived right after Regina got dressed and she was lying on her bed when Emma said,

"Alright then, he's here. I'll get the door."

Regina just felt like going to sleep. Although, the pain on her arm was getting worse by the minute and she was sure it would be impossible to fall asleep. There was also the constant coldness she was feeling since she met the supposed to be queen in the forest. She didn't eat anything all morning, except for the cup of coffee she had. She just felt like resting and being left alone.

Henry was with Snow, but she guessed he would be home soon… He would get upset to know she got hurt, that is for sure. But, a more pressing issue is who that woman is, and if she's really a queen where from… Regina felt like mentioning about her encounter in the forest couple of times to Emma… but…she needs more information. She wasn't sure if the supposed queen really intended on hurting her.

"Your Majesty? What is it that's troubling you now?" Whale asked with a very sarcastic tone from the bedroom door.

"It's just a cut. If you're competent enough I'm sure you can handle this and soon we will be free from each other's presence and back in the curse to finding a happy ending, yes?"

Whale places his tools on the cabinet by her bed and sends her a defying look. He, then, takes her arm to look at the deep cut.

"Where did… actually, who did this to you?"

"Is this information somehow relevant to your job right now? I don't think so."

"Always the kindest, aren't you Regina?. This is going to hurt, but once it's done you will be fine."

He grabbed some cotton to clean the area with alcohol and started to stitch her skin together. Emma watched the scene by the door, the former queen winced as Whale pulled the skin together, and at some point she saw a tear running down her cheek. However, the woman lay still as a rock on the bed. When he finished he wrapped her arm gently so it wouldn't press too much the injury, but it was firm enough to prevent her from moving the injured area. He also said she could keep taking the painkillers and in a few days she should come over to the hospital so he could take a look and eventually remove the stitches. He also told her to eat something and try to rest for a day or two due to the amount of blood she lost and the headaches that she was still dealing with.


The Sheriff walks Whale to the door and comes back to the bedroom to find a puzzled Regina looking at the window. Emma brought a toast and a glass of juice with her. She placed the tray on the bed when she heard Regina's voice.

"Ask what you've been anxiously waiting to ask, Miss Swan." Regina says without even facing the other woman.

"Before answering me, you have to decide what you'll say to a very worried Henry. I told him you wanted to talk to me, when Robin called me, and then I told him that he should go to Mary Margaret's to have lunch and be back in the afternoon… so, he will be here soon."

"I'll tell him the truth. At least the truth that he needs to know." Emma can feel the honesty on her voice; she knows that Regina will keep her word of not lying to Henry ever again. Even if the price for that would be greater than she thought he could handle.

"Fair enough. Now, what happened Regina? What were you doing in the forest? Robin told me that you didn't say anything to him… But he said you asked for me so I have the right to know."

"You assumed wrongly, Miss Swan. No. You have no right to know anything about me. What I was doing in the forest is none of your concern. I will tell you though, what happened because it's a town issue. There's an…"

"Ice structure in the middle of the forest?" Emma completed the sentence with a concerned look on her face.

Regina turned to face her walked to her bed to take a sit. "How did you know? "

The former queen asks while rubbing her temple and then she decides to have some of the juice Emma bought her. Emma nods and smiles when she sees her drinking the juice.

"Robin found the ice track when he was heading to his camp. He said he wanted to call you but he thought you wouldn't answer", Regina took a glance of Emma for a second she held it there just starring at the blonde woman. "So he called me and asked me to come and check it out with David. We followed the track and got to the… castle?. In the end we thought it would be appropriate to ask Gold if he knows something about it."

"Did you talk to the imp?"

"No, not yet."

Regina sighs, because she knows she will need to tell her everything, though she's so tired.

"Alright then, there was a woman in this castle you mentioned. I went to the forest because I felt the presence of magic around… a different brand of magic and I needed to get some… My reasons for doing that are pointless to the situation. Anyhow I heard something while I was there and lit up a ball of fire in my hand… And then there was this woman and I think she got scared and attacked me with… with snow, which put my fireball down and then… it turned into ice and hit my arm."

"Did you talk to her? Do you know who she is?"

"Yes and No. She came really close to me but I soon as I was hit I felt an excruciating pain and things got fuzzy… I didn't even realize she was so close to me. " Regina the rubbing her temple again as if she's trying to remember more details about it. "She said she was… a queen and then, she was motioning to touch my arm, but… but I felt really dizzy and I knew I had to get away from there so I used magic to get out. I guess I was getting to weak or simply dizzy and I ended up at Robin's place."

"Regina, he was really worried about you. I'm sorry about… everything. I didn't know…"

"Miss Swan, I asked for you because I ran out of options and I was not in the mood to deal with your obnoxiously hopelessly optimistic mother. And not because I wanted to have a heart-to-heart… So, thank you for helping. But now you can go back to your…"

She stopped speaking when she heard someone coming upstairs and by the heaviness of the steps she knew it was a clumsy teenage Henry coming.

"Mom? Are you upstairs?"


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