AN: So here we have a longer chapter because I couldn't stop myself. I hope you guys will like it :) Thank you very much for every review, it means the world to me!

Regina woke up in the morning, her shirt sticking to her body with dry sweat and she noticed dirt behind her nails. She turned to the side to look at Emma, but she wasn't there. Attack of sadness and a hint of panic overwhelmed Regina instantly and she shot up into sitting position. She noticed a small package on the other side, something wrapped in a cloth or possibly apron. But she didn't pay it much attention, she just needed to see Emma. Her eyes were raking around until she spotted her.

Emma was angrily pacing by the fence quite far away.

"Emma?" Regina called out, but her voice was still hoarse from her sleep. She tried once again. "Emma?"

The blonde immediately turned to the direction of where Regina was sitting. A smile spread across her face and she took off running towards her.

"Good morning! I see that you finally woke up," Emma said cheerfully as she plopped down onto her knees, facing Regina.

"Good morning," Regina smiled at her and scooted closer to the fence.

"I brought us some breakfast," Emma said and unwrapped the package, revealing a half of bread loaf. "I'm sorry it's nothing special, I couldn't sneak anything more out…"

"No it's alright, dear," Regina smiled and reached out with her hand to the fence to take Emma's. But instead she got all of the bread. She shook her head and tore the bread in half, handing one piece to Emma.

"No, it's alright, you need more energy." Emma waved it off, but Regina pushed the bread into her hand.

"We're sharing." Regina decided and only then Emma accepted with a lopsided smile.

"Thank you." She said as she took a bite.

"Where have you been?" Regina asked and motioned with her head to the direction Emma was only minutes ago.

"Oh yeah, I was… scanning the fence." Emma shrugged casually, not looking at Regina.

"You looked angry." Regina pointed out. It wasn't a question, it was a statement.

"Yeah… " Emma casted her eyes down. "I was…"

"What was the reason?" Regina asked compassionately.

"This stupid fence." Emma spat, but her voice softened when she continued. "You had some nightmares in the night you know… But there were two that I just couldn't wake you up from…" Her mind was filled with pictures of Regina sobbing, squirming and pleading in her sleep.

Regina gave her a sad look. She remembered that Emma woke her up four times from various nightmares, not only about Daniel. No one had ever done that for her.

"Thank you for being there." Regina said and let her hands with the bread fall into her lap.

"I couldn't be there! This stupid fence didn't let me!" Emma kicked the fence in anger and frustration.

"It's alright Emma, you've already done more than anybody else has ever done," Regina whispered shyly and her gaze shifted away from the blonde's face.

"I just wish I remembered…" Emma said and closed her eyes, focusing intently.

Regina watched Emma and a tear escaped her, running across her cheek. The doubts were clouding her mind and fear creeped all through her. She didn't know what she would do if Emma didn't remember. She took a quick deep breath.

"Emma… Just before you sacrificed herself, there was one thing you said to me, do you even faintly remember?"
Emma shook her head and left her eyes closed, even tighter than before.

"You said 'You worked too hard to have your happiness destroyed.'" Regina said with despair in her voice. She kept watching Emma's features for a hint of something, for a hint of remembrance or at least familiarity. But nothing. Just a lip bite and two sad green eyes focused on her.

"But there's no happy ending for me in a world where you are not." With that confession Regina broke down. Tears streamed freely down her face and shoulders shook as she sobbed. She pulled her knees to her chest and leaned her head on them, hiding behind the curtain of her hair.

Emma's insides twisted at the sight of Regina in pain. She clenched her fists and shot to her feet. She had to get behind the fence. No matter how. She didn't even try to climb, because the higher the fence went, the sharper and more like blades it became.

She began pacing angrily along it again. It looked as if a wild animal was trapped. There was no way to stop her frustration and anger building up inside her. She faced the fence and her hands smacked forcefully against the cold metal. And something happened. Emma's eyes widened and she took a step back. She looked at her hands, seeing nothing, but feeling magic.

She tried to gain some control over her powers. She aimed her palms against the fence and focused with her eyes closed, her mind depicting what she wanted to do. Make a hole in the fence. She felt tingling on both of her palms and suddenly a force came out and it knocked her on the ground. She fell with a heavy huff. She propped herself up on her elbows and looked at the fence. There was a hole. Smaller than intended, but enough.

Emma got up to her feet quickly and snuck out through the hole and ran to Regina, wrapping her arms around her in instance. Regina flinched in surprise and fear, but when she saw Emma, her eyes widened and mouth fell opened.

They both sighed at the contact. Regina took her chances and snuggled Emma's neck, the blonde caressing her back and whispering into her ear.

"It's gonna be fine, trust me."

Regina just nodded against her neck and unintentionally wiped some of her tears against Emma's skin. But no new tears came. It's gonna be fine.

Regina pulled away and offered a sad smile. Emma softly landed her hands on Regina's cheeks and wiped the tears away with her thumbs.

"You miss Henry, don't you?" Emma asked in quiet voice, as if Regina could fall apart if she spoke louder.

"Yes… And he misses us both."

At that Emma felt tears forming in her eyes too. "What if we start over? Take me home and maybe I remember with Henry or my parents?"

"It doesn't work that way Emma… You can't get away without remembering first…" Regina whispered with a sight and wrapped her arms in a loose embrace around Emma, who was still holding onto her.

"But… You can't stay here forever… I wish you would, really, but… Henry needs at least one of his moms…" Emma said and looked into Regina's eyes with heart wrenching intensity. The closeness between them made their hearts skip a beat when they felt their warm breaths mixing.

Regina's lips parted and she took in one deep shaky breath. "Emma, no…"

There was no need to finish that line.

I'm not leaving you.

Emma knew what she was going to say. She knew because it was her biggest wish at the moment. For Regina to stay.

Their lips met in a warm sweet kiss, kiss trying to say what was unspoken, what was felt.

They felt a heat, forming and cumulating in their chests until it exploded and radiated as a flash of white light, around and away from them.

They slowly pulled away and opened their eyes.

"We broke the curse." Emma whispered breathlessly. "I remember!"

Regina looked at her with a shocked face, but Emma smiled and leaned closer, capturing Regina's lips with her own once again for a brief moment before letting go again.

They sat there on the ground between pinecones and pine needles, wrapped in each other's arms. Regina's lips widened into a heartfelt smile and Emma couldn't remember a time when she looked this beautiful and captivating. She was looking into Regina's eyes and then a chuckle escaped her.

"What was that?" Regina asked with her eyebrow shooting up.

"Nothing, nothing," Emma grinned and tried to wave it off.

"No, tell me, you're obligated to-"
"Obligated, Your Majesty?" Emma raised eyebrow with amused smirk.

"I saved you from the claws of a dark curse, if I remember," Regina said smugly and loosened her hold onto Emma to pull away slightly and look deeply into her eyes.

"Yes, you are my Saviour. How ironic." Emma grinned teasingly.

"Ironic indeed." Regina nodded and then nudged her softly to her ribs. "Now what was it?"

"Ah, nothing. It was just a feeling." Emma shifted and connected her hands behind Regina's back.
"What feeling?" Regina couldn't help but smile widely at Emma.

"A warm feeling in my stomach, felt… nice. If I had to go cliché, I would say butterflies." Emma laughed shyly and when she lifted her gaze, she saw Regina looking at her lovingly.

"I felt that too." Regina smiled and caressed Emma's upper arm.

"But…" Emma started thinking and her cheerful expression fell. "Robin is your true love-"
"He is not. Tinker Bell came to me with an apology for that. She said she was right about the place, but it happened to be in different time than the one when my True love was supposed to be there." Regina explained and at that Emma's expression unexpectedly fell even more.

"What's the matter?" Regina whispered and put her finger under Emma's chin.

"It's nothing, don't worry 'bout it." Emma dismissed it, like she did with most emotions.

"Emma, talk to me." Regina pressed and lifted Emma's head with the finger under her chin, forcing her to look her in the eyes.

"It's just that I saw that Robin doesn't make you happy enough, so I dared to be in his place, because I knew I would try my best to give you the world, but now there's someone out there, who's destined to be with you and I'm just standing in the way…" Emma explained sadly, what was weighing her heart down.

"Emma, listen… Maybe I don't want that. Maybe I don't want forced 'True Loves' anymore. Like Daniel wasn't forced. Maybe for once again, I want to choose for myself. Like we have chosen each other repeatedly, many times in the recent past, I want to choose you again." Regina said and added an encouraging smile, which seemed to work on Emma.

"Okay," Emma smiled shyly. "Now, what are we gonna do to get back to Henry? How did you even get here?" she added with confusion.

"Tinker Bell gave me two magic beans." Regina explained and Emma jumped in immediately.

"Great! Let's go home!"

"Actually, there are issues I have to take care of before." Regina stopped her excitement and was absentmindedly drawing patterns on the back of Emma's hand.

"Which are?" Emma smiled as she was watching their joined hands, like they were made for each other, fitting perfectly.

"I have to obtain the necklace Morgana is currently in possession of." Regina said with a purse of her lips. "I hoped you could help me defeat her, with your magic…"

"Yeah, no problem. Do you have any plan?" Emma asked before repositioning her numb leg under Regina, cradling the woman closer.

"I want to save Zelena. She deserves a second chance too." Regina thought out loud and Emma just nodded in agreement. She was proud of Regina and of how far the woman had come since they had met. She let her hand caress Regina's upper arm again and she finally looked at her again.

"Are we just gonna barge in and kick her ass?" Emma suggested with a grin, which found its way to mirror on Regina's face.

"There's nothing much to do otherwise. After we defeat her, we will free the army of men and boys she kidnapped and we'll take Zelena with us to Storybrooke." Regina decided that much for their plan and Emma sneaked from underneath her, offering her hand to help her up. Regina accepted the offer and Emma pulled her up with too much strength, so their bodies clashed into each other.

Emma grinned apologetically and Regina placed a soft kiss on the corner of her lips.

"Let's go."

They sneaked through the hole in the fence and walked side by side to the main gate to the castle.
There were two grown up men in dark metal armours, guarding the entrance. Before they could even react to seeing two intruders in front of them, Regina threw them into unconsciousness with one flick of her wrist. When they fell limp on the ground, Emma gave her an afraid look.

"Just unconscious." Regina assured her, because she knew exactly what went through Emma's mind. She knew Emma believed in her, but there was this one moment of fear that the Enchanted Forest had an effect on Regina that sent her reverting to her old ways and mindlessly killing people without batting an eye about it.
Emma stepped forward and opened the heavy wings of the gate, following Regina inside. The corridor they found themselves in had high ceiling, everything was made of dark marble, decorations in colours of black as ocean depth and green as seaweed.

Regina was pursing her lips again and Emma threw a questioning look her way.

"She has no style whatsoever." Regina shrugged and Emma couldn't help but let out a laugh.

Regina used her magic to get nearly a dozen guards out of their way until they reached what they guessed was Morgana's main chamber.

"So do we like knock or?" Emma asked as they stopped in front of the door in silence.

Regina shot her one of her 'don't be an idiot' looks and lashed out with her right arm, opening the door in front of them. The sight in front of them was centred on the giant throne of dark metal, with Morgana sitting comfortably on it.

"YOU!" she screamed out angrily and pointed to Emma. "You haven't done your duty very well… your destiny awaits you… And it's not a pleasant one…" Morgana smirked devilishly as one tentacle lashed out and wrapped tightly around Emma's body, lifting her off the ground.

Regina's lips parted and her pupils widened. She spotted the guards running towards her and another Morgana's tentacle aiming her way. She conjured a fireball and threw it in the direction of Morgana's crawling tentacle. The sorceress hissed in pain and jerked away, which gave Regina time to knock the guards unconscious with a simple spell.

Her focus became on Morgana only. She sent another fireball, carefully aimed, to the tentacle holding Emma. The fire burnt the nerves of suckers on the bottom side of Morgana's tentacle, so she lost the capture of her victim and Emma fell on the floor with a dull thud.

"Emma!" Regina shouted, her eyes wide open with fear.

Morgana used that situation to throw a spell Regina's way, which sent her flying backwards, hitting the wall. A muffled shout escaped Regina's lips as she felt ice-cold chains tight around her wrists. Morgana let out a triumphal cackle while Regina was squirming.

"Well well well, isn't this the famous Evil Queen? Pleasure to meet you, really. Thought you would be stronger." Morgana snickered as she walked closer. Regina gave her a death glare and stopped moving.
Emma supported herself on her arms and tried to lift herself up from the cold floor. She checked the situation and found Regina bound to the wall. She stared at her with surprise, shocked that Regina did absolutely nothing to fight Morgana. She raised her arms and sent a bolt of light magic at the sorceress. It certainly caught her off guard, she wasn't expecting that, but her tentacle found its way around Emma's waist again in a heartbeat. This time Emma didn't give up. She focused all the magic, all the emotions she felt, all the need to protect Regina and she tried to free herself.

And Morgana busied herself with Regina.

"I tried to get you here, to get you on my side. We could have run the world. You should have chosen the right side. Because now I am the queen of this land and you will bow down before me." She said with overly precise pronunciation.

Regina just smirked to her face. "How many times have you rehearsed that? You lack refinement of a Queen, dear."

And that was the moment she fought back. The chains around her wrists started getting red until they caught on flame and fell off, freeing Regina. At the same time, Emma finally succeeded in breaking herself free as well, which caught Morgana by surprise and she turned around to Emma.

Regina's and Emma's eyes met and they exchanged a nod. Both pairs of arms raised and two flows of magic hit Morgana at the same time. She was squirming under the blow, but was powerless. Her body fell to the ground, unmoving.

"We did it," Emma said with the same hint of wonder she had after every time their magic saved the day.

"Yes, we did." Regina let out a deep breath and kneeled next to Morgana. She reached behind her neck and unfastened the necklace, shoving it into her pouch with money and tucking it into her cleavage.

Emma watched the action with parted lips and not even batting an eye until Regina rose back up and maintained eye contact with her.

"Something wrong?" Regina asked casually and Emma snapped back into the reality.

"Nope. No. Let's go free the boys." she spouted and stepped out towards a door, expecting Regina to follow.

But the Queen stayed at the place and coughed softly to get Emma's attention.

"Emma? The prisons are that way." She pointed to different direction than Emma was heading, so the blonde turned on her heel and made a little walk of shame back to Regina, expecting mocking from her. But the brunette took her hand and pulled her closer, caressing Emma's cheek. Then their lips met in a brief kiss before they both pulled away and their hands let go of each other. But the smiles they exchanged, those spoke for everything.