A/N: Hi Everyone! So it's getting harder to write but thank you for you amazing support. This was a labored chapter, I felt a little stuck for a while so I apologize for any and everything that may be a little off. I'm so crazily busy lately that my muse hasn't really been cooperative. Anyways, regardless everything I hope you enjoy and comment, ask me questions etc. Also I'm more then welcome to prompts so just send me on my tumblr (oneresilientheart )and I'll write it. =*


Regina eyes go from darting fire on Emma to panic at the sound of Henry's voice. She was not ready to tell him the truth. As a matter of fact she wasn't ready for him to know how weak she was feeling. This is why Emma stayed in the room, but what she saw was the scared woman put on a mask, she saw Regina becoming the Queen in seconds… But she knows better than that, she knows that even the mask has its limits with Henry. The former Queen opened her heart too widely to try to hide something from her son now.

So Emma slightly nods to the brunette as if telling her she will give her some support in whatever excuse she will tell him. In return Regina looks deeply into her eyes and turns to the door.

"Yes, sweetheart. I'm here."

In an instant he's stepping into her room, he faces Emma with a smile.

"Finally friends? Can I trust you both alone?"

"You always could kiddo… Well kinda."

He moves forward towards her when he sets his eyes on Regina. His smile fades away and he suddenly possesses a worried look that aged him to the point he looked like an adult. Concern is all over his face. Regina quickly moves closer saying,

"Honey, it's ok. This is nothing."

"Mom, what happened?" He turns to Emma and inquiring her…

"Henry, she has nothing to do with it. She came to help me."

"Why didn't you tell me you were hurt? How did this happen?"

Regina is processing what is she going to tell him, lie to him is not an option, but the complete truth will worry him too much and will put him in risk… His curiosity will lead him to check the ice castle too. Emma then steps in,

"Okay! So, we all have some questions I guess. But kiddo your mom has been through a lot and she's still recovering from her visit to the hospital… So, why don't we sit down a little, she needs to rest and I'm sure she will tell you everything. But I was just telling her to rest a little…"

"It's fine Emma, thank you. I'll talk to him and I'll rest. It's very simple really, Henry."

She gets closer to him and invites him for a hug. "I love you. You seem you're growing everyday."

"Mom, don't change the subject."

"Alright then, I got hurt and I'm too tired to deal with the Idiots" Emma rolls her eyes on the mention, "I didn't want to worry you, because it wasn't serious. So I called Emma because she would get to me fast enough and just do what was necessary. I needed to talk to her though, that was true."

"How did you get hurt?"

"Honey, that is something that is not in the binder. I'm telling you the truth that you need to know. I'm not going to lie to you, Henry. But I'm also not telling you everything. You don't need to know everything."

Her eyes are pleading him not to continue with this. Emma doesn't know what to do. Henry can see how tired his mom is, so he rests the case.

"Alright. I just… I just want you to be careful. And thank you, Emma."

She smiles at him and nods at Regina, the other woman gives her a faint but thankful smile that the conversation is over.

"Alright, Regina are you okay now? Do you need anything?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Thank you for your assistance. I'll talk to you tomorrow Sherriff."

"Right. Ok, then. Do I get a hug kiddo?" He comes to her still wearing his worried look. She understands him and just smiles at him confirming that everything is ok. It's a simple conversation without words, but Emma hopes that it will calm him down. "See you tomorrow, take care of her."

She leaves the room thinking about the person who did this to Regina.

"Are you hungry?"

"No, mom I'm ok. But you need to rest. If I get hungry I'll have some cereal."

"I can make you some dinner…"

"No. You go and rest… And I'm still not conformed with your answer."

" Very well. I'll go to sleep. I love you."


Robin is too worried about Regina; the woman in the ice structure also intrigues him. He is also positive that she has something to do with Regina's injury; therefore he decides to visit the woman that owns his heart. He repeats to himself that he will talk only about the ice situation so Regina won't push him away. It is impossible though, and he knows it.

He knocks on the door and a curious Henry receives him.

"Good evening, Henry. Is your mom here?"

"Uh… she's resting. What do you want with her?"

" Is she ok? I rescued her and I just wanted to make sure she's fine."

"She is."

Regina is coming downstairs to take some painkillers to help her relax. Robin is already calling her,

"Regina? Regina, thanks goodness you're fine."

Henry didn't see his mom coming downstairs and he turns to watch his nervous mom talking to the outlaw.

"What are you doing here?"

"Well, for starters I'm learning that this is a common procedure, to question guests in your home. I was worried and I wanted to talk about what happened."

Henry looks at him trying to gather any information. Regina stares at Robin to let him know that he should be quiet around Henry.

"Oh, if you have the time, of course, milady."

"I'm fine thief. I was about to rest a little, we can talk later on… actually tomorrow."

She heads to her kitchen as a sign for him to leave.

"Regina can I just tell you something?"

"What?" They share a look and Regina walks towards Henry and cups his face,

"Do you mind going upstairs, little prince, I'll be there soon."

Henry frowns at her, but he knows he cannot win this fight so he obeys.

"What is it that can't wait?"

"I think I know who did this to you?" She's observing how worried he is about her and it hurts, she can see his concern in helping her figure this out. "I visited the ice place and when I was leaving with Emma and Charming, I saw someone there, a woman…"

"And what makes you think I know what you're talking about?"

He looks her in the eyes, " There was frost around your arm and you were freezing cold when Roland found you." Her face deceived her and he knew he was right. "Regina, the frost around the gash was what was keeping you from bleeding even more and also keeping your flesh in place, this should be a even worse cut, but the ice kept it like it is."

" It was her. But I don't remember much. I'm not sure she meant to do it, I think we both got scared and it was an accident."

She sighs, because the confession came much too easy, it just shows how much she still trusts him.

"Now, please leave. You saw what happened and you should understand that I need to rest."

"Of course." He turns around and she's closing the door, then she calls him,

"Robin! Keep Roland close. I don't know what is going on."

"I will. Please, take care."


Elsa couldn't stop thinking about the wounded woman. She doesn't think she went there to attack her, it was an instinct. She hopes that even though the brunette didn't allow her to touch her arm, she placed the frost on the right place to maintain the wound closed. But, there was so much blood.

She's afraid of this new land. Her castle is calling too much attention. She doesn't know how she came to this land, who brought her. She doesn't know how long it has been since she saw Anna for the last time.

But one thing startled her. Whoever that woman was, she, too, has magic. Fire. For the first time, Elsa is not an exception. She thinks that maybe the stranger woman will be the one to help her, or at least tell her what's happened.

The only problem now is that Elsa's mind is rushing through thoughts. She's pondering on everything that happened, and how she's in an unknown place, the fact that she will be identified as a bad person because she attacked the woman, that she's by herself once again. All of these come to her while she decides to go after Regina. Fear is once again taking over her, and her powers are controlled by her feelings… She runs through the ice doors towards the city and she doesn't realize that behind her something is taking shape. Something is taking the shape of her feelings, of fear, and anxiety, and frustration… a snow monster is coming to life.

She enters the city and is surprised by a speedy bicycle crossing her way. People are starring at her, their clothes are different, and she wonders if her dress is calling way too much attention; on the pavement she sees a piece of paper and she bent down to get it. On the front part it showed a picture of a couple, she went through the pages of this weird book to find a picture of Mayor Mills and a short paragraph about her changes for Deputy and the confirmation of the Sheriff as Emma Swan.

"Mayor Mills. That's who the woman was." Elsa said to herself.

Elsa stopped when she heard the roar of what could be a monster. Even worse a giant snowman fed by her fear and anxiety. The sight of the snow monster made Else grow even more afraid of her own powers. Control became an inexistent word on her vocabulary. She saw the civilians of the city running as the coldness approached the town and the roar became louder.

The quickest thought that Elsa has is to try detecting the other woman's magic and trying to find her. So she does. She follows her instincts until a wide street and she decides to call out for the woman:

"Mayor Mills! Mayor Mills"


Regina is in a light stage of sleep when opens her eyes abruptly. She has no idea why she'd waken up so suddenly and it takes few seconds for her to take everything around her. She's comfortable nested under her blankets. She thinks that the temperature has been really bipolar lately and it feels really cold.

She reaches out to her injured arm and winces and then sits down with her feet touching the floor. A desperate voice reaches her ears and she recognizes what's it's calling upon. It's calling her. She goes downstairs hoping that Henry did not hear the screams. When she gets to the door she storms outside, a ball of fire on her good hand. As soon as she's standing on the porch she identifies the source of the noise. It's the same woman that hurt her. She furiously stares at the woman and prepares herself to throw the fireball on her.


Elsa felt relieved when she saw the brunette by the door, but as she presumed the woman thought she was going to attack and was waiting for her with fire on her hands. Magic.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to hurt you." She says the words while she runs towards the other woman. "I need your help. Please." She has tears in her eyes when she reaches the porch. "I created… I… I don't know how… please…"

Regina sees the fear on the queen's eyes, but she can't understand what's happening until she sees a gigantic snowman furiously coming into town. She stares at the queen and at the monster. She finally understood what she was asking help for. Regina tried to concentrate despite her weakness and tiresome to evolve her fireball into something bigger. As she managed to modify her spell she realized that the younger woman was astonished and the fear was growing in her eyes. She also noticed the coincidence of the anger growing in the monster. She, then, figured out the connection and she knew what she needed to do.

"I need you to calm down. I'll destroy the monster… but you need to calm down."

Elsa looked at Regina and tried to concentrate on the brown eyes.

While Regina dealt with the crisis, Henry woke up and came downstairs following his mother's voice.

"Mom, what's going on?"

"Henry! Go inside. I need you to be safe."

"Mom, who's… what is…" Henry's eyes fell on the monster. Elsa lost her concentration with the arrival of Henry. Regina had to do something quickly. She grabbed the last string of power in her and threw a continue stream of fire on the monster. At first he fought it, but slowly he started to partly melt and also evaporate. Elsa grew calmer as she saw the woman had everything under control, but she saw the exhaustion on the other woman. Henry approached his mother as she let her arm fall to her side.

"Mom are you ok?"

"Yes. Yes. I need you to go inside Henry, please." She gave him pleading eyes and a smile that ensured him he had no word on the situation.


Regina glanced at the mess that the snow monster left behind and finally laid her eyes on the queen. Her eyes showed a broken, scared and lost woman.

"Who are you? And don't give me 'I'm the queen' answer. Because, as far as I know I am the queen. And in less then 48 hours you threatened me and the whole town."

"I'm sorry… I… I don't know how to control my magic properly and… I thought you were going to hurt me in the forest. I am the queen of Arendale, My name is Elsa. But I haven't been there for many years now."

"Arendale?"

"I apologize for harming you. I was going to heal you there but you vanished. I'm happy to see you're fine. The ice monster is a result of… of my fears. I haven't really met another person with magic. Where I come from I was the only one, except for the trolls and a legend of an old Snow Queen that ruled for many years centuries before I was born. I came to town to apologize and to check if you were fine, I was afraid you had… you were badly injured. The monster followed me and when I got to town I looked for you then I saw the monster and I remembered you had fire. Fire should defeat the ice man…"

"Alright. Enough with the justification babbling." Regina was really tired and annoyed with the lately happenings around Storybrooke.

"You have to believe me Mayor Mills, I mean no harm."

"Alright, Alright." She knew her son was hearing from behind the door. She knew he heard Elsa apologizing for hurting her. She knew he would be upset. She also had a gut feeling Elsa was telling the truth, she needed to act before the whole town came after her tracking down the ice monster.

"Elsa, you said? Well I'll tell you right now that if you do anything to hurt me or my son I will kill you." Elsa just nodded. "With that said, come inside. We need to figure out how you came here to Storybrooke."

Regina turned to her door and said, " Henry? Show yourself." The boy stepped out from behind the door, his look hard on his mom but it softened a little when he saw her tired looks.

"I'm here, mom."

"This is Elsa. She's joining us tonight, but… but I need you to trust me and give us some time alone."

"But I heard her telling she hurt you, and…"

"And you also heard her promising she won't hurt me again. It's ok honey, I just need to help her." She looked to the woman. "Elsa, this is my son, Henry. Now follow me."

Henry stayed at the door while his mom and Elsa passed by him. He saw when his mom pointed to her office, guiding the young queen to get in the room. He saw when she stopped for a second to balance herself on the wall and then took a deep breath.

He wonders for how long she will be in this armor of strength. He decides that he will wait a little but he will call Emma soon to deal with this too.

"I know you think you're doing the right thing mom, but I can't risk loosing you again." He whispers as she walks to the room. Before closing the doors, she looks back and smiles at Henry, "Thank you and eat some dinner. I'll check on you very soon."