"Oh my god" Emma whispered under her breath. She could not believe her eyes. Regina was barely conscience whimpering incoherent words.

"Mom what's happening?" Henry called from inside the car.

Emma froze unable to think of something to tell him. She would need his help getting the woman into her car but could Emma did not want her son seeing Regina this way.

"Baby I need you to stay in the car," Emma commanded Henry in a shaky voice.

"You only call me baby when something is wrong, so what's wrong?" Henry asked as disobeyed his mother by stepping out of the car.

Henry instantly became speechless. His eyes filled with tears and his stomach dropped. His mother, the woman who raise him and loved him since he was an infant lay almost lifeless on the street. Instantly Henry grew angry, angry at himself. He treated her so poorly last time they talked and he couldn't he just couldn't let that be the last thing she heard him say. What if he had already said his last words to her? His last words to her in anger, said out of hate.

"Save her! We have to save her!" a panicked Henry screamed. "Come on let's go to the hospital! Dr. Whale can save her!"

"No," Regina's small voice was barely audible. She recalled Dr. Whale the previous night, it immediately gave her chills. Regina prayed that they would not take her to him.

Regina looked Emma in the eye, "Please don't take me to him, or any of them." Emma didn't know what it was but something about Regina was different. She could tell this went beyond damaging her pride.

"Okay honey," Emma responded.

Emma scooped Regina up in her arms. She held the cold woman in her arms.

"I am going to keep you safe. I promise I won't let anything more happen to you," Emma whispered to Regina. Emma sat Regina down across the back seats of the car and hurried to the mansion.

Once at the mansion Emma carried Regina again. She was like a mother carrying her sleeping child to her room. Emma laid Regina down on her bed. Henry sat down next to Regina. He reached out and held her hand. This meant the world to Regina. Having her son hold her hand was the best feeling she ever had.

Emma made Henry go to bed against after fighting for a while. Once Henry was gone she could begin to help Regina.

"Why?" Emma asked.

"I am the Evil Queen, they wanted revenge." Regina answered.

Emma just gave Regina a look, a look of sorrow and understanding, even a look of love. Regina was going to use magic to heal her wounds, but she decided not to. She only allowed herself to fix her major scars. Regina wanted the people who hurt her to see what they had done. She wanted them to see her bruises and she needed them to know they didn't break her.

Regina took a shower and put on clean cloths, with Emma's help.

"Okay, you should really go to sleep now. You need your rest," Emma said.

Although Regina didn't want to, she listened. Emma couldn't go to sleep until she knew the brunette was. After Regina fell asleep, Emma watched her for a moment. She looked so peaceful. Emma leaned over and placed a small tender kiss on Regina's forehead.

"Everything is going to be okay," Emma whispered. "I will protect you and I will not let them near you."