Emma didn't go back to sleep after that, Snow laid down next to Emma watching her the rest of the night. Emma laid down on the bed staring at the ceiling the whole night until morning. Snow wanted to help her daughter but didn't know how so she did what she could do just be next to Emma hugging her, holding her,soothing her , being there.
The sun came through the window showing it was morning, Emma was still staring at the ceiling while Snow started to wake up. Snow got up from the bed to see that Emma didn't go back to sleep at all and just stared at the ceiling thinking.
"Emma did you sleep at all after.." Snow asked rubbing her shoulder.
"No I couldn't" Emma had a lost look in her eye she knew Emma wasn't going to say anything else, MM went to go down stairs.
"Mary Margaret wait" Snow turned around surprised and confused.
"I'm sorry about last night. I don't know what happened one minute I was having a nightm.. dream and the next David was on the ground and I had attacked him" Emma explained felling guilty.
"Emma David's fine it was an accident he knows that"
"I have to apologize to him"Emma slowly got up to go, when she stumbled. Mary Margaret was quick and caught her from falling.
"Emma you have to be careful you haven't been on your feet in a long time. You need to take it one step at a time honey" Snow said to her, helping her to her feet again.
"Thanks" Emma finally stood up and allowed Mary Margaret to walk her down the loft stairs.
David was making breakfast for everyone in the kitchen, he heard someone coming down the stairs. He turned around quickly to see who with the frying pan in his hand. He saw it was Emma and Snow so he immediately put down his pan and ran over to help.
"Snow here I got her. Go and.." he pointed to the frying pan he left on the stove. MM went over to the stove to continue what David started. Emma put her hand around David shoulder so he could support her.
"David I'm so sorry what happened last night. It was and I was..."
"It's fine, you were sleeping. It was an accident" he tries to reassure her.
"I'm still sorry I don't know what came over me. It was like an instinct" Emma explained.
Snow listened with open ears from the kitchen eavesdropping. It spiked her senses when Emma said 'it was like an instinct'. She would have to talk to gold about this when she had time after Emma was back on her feet.
David guided Emma to a dinning room end table chair so she could sit.
"How are you felling and don't lie please" David saw right through her.
"I'm fine" Emma tried to shake him off.
"Emma" Mary Margaret warned from the kitchen finishing the pancakes.
"Fine my head hurt like someone took their hands and smashed it in repeatedly" Emma snapped back at them, she was angry from the pain she was felling she didn't even register what she had just said.
"Emma" he approached her with saddened eyes, snow brought over there plates. They looked to their daughter with tears in their eyes. David sat next to Emma at the table with Snow on the other side. Snow took Emma's hand in hers brushing it over.
"Is that what happened to you" Snow asked scared. When Emma's head went down their heart sunk, she had gotten beat David looked to Snow who was fighting an eternal battle to hug their daughter.
"Emma were so sorry we didn't trust you. We had no idea.."
"That's right because you can never understand" Emma backed away from them.
"We want to. We want you to tell us everything we are not going anywhere. Not anymore" and they meant it.
"I can't" Emma stood up quickly and made a beeline to the bathroom slamming the door and locking it. Snow got up from her chair and followed Emma to the bathroom, to have the door slam and lock in her face.
"Emma sweetheart open up" Snow asked knocking on the door, not just hoping she opened the door but to open up as well.
All she got was silence Charming gave her a concerned look, she knew how to get Emma out of the bathroom.
"You sure you want to be in that small bathroom with no way out but the door which is locked and.." She didn't even finish her sentence the door swung open and out came Emma shaking and looking as if she had tried not to cry. Snow felt immediately guilty for using Emma's torture to get her out of the bathroom, so she did what mothers did. Comfort.
"Oh my baby" Snow immediately took Emma in her arms and hugged her not letting go;David joined in on the hug, Emma slowly sunk down to the ground in her parents arms and finally started to cry.
Snow stroked Emma's blonde locks trying to soothe Emma's cries, but really she wanted Emma to let everything out. Emma cried out on her mother's shoulder for everything; her childhood, her adoptive parents, Neal leaving her in jail, The curse, and the hell she went through.
"Were here Emma. Not one day went by that we did not look for you. We finally found you again" Snow was crying too, holding onto Emma.
"I always wanted to be found" Emma whispered into snows shoulder;They didn't say anything so they just held her enjoying the feeling of having her back in their arms.
Growing up in the orphanage they would take the kids to the local park to play,for Emma it was so hard not to look at all the other children and there mothers and fathers as they hugged or played or even got hurt and made it feel better. She knew they were out there when I was little, but the kids kept making fun of me saying they left her for dead and that she was always garbage and eventually gave up. She was 5.
Emma cried dwelling on her childhood clinging to Snow and David harder as if they were her life line.
A thought came to Emma's mind immediately, she was with her parents again and the council was still out there. They were ruthless killers trying to destroy magic, and murdered anyone in the way. She couldn't let that happen to her family, she had to fight back because if she didn't they all would die. Emma knew that the cannery changed her, she learned one thing Acceptance. Of who she is. The Savior she knew she would never let anyone suffer from these people like she did, as long as she drew breath.
Emma got out of her parents grip standing up from the hug; she walked over to the table and started eating her breakfast very fast. David watched as Emma ate, he didn't comment on it because she had been in a coma for two months and hasn't had real food.
"I don't feel so good" Emma told them in a whisper, her face looked ghostly pale and she had started shaking.
"What's the matter" Snow came over to her holding her plate from the kitchen.
"I don't know. I feel like I'm goi-" Emma rushed to the bathroom, closing the door hallway before she threw up on herself. Snow followed entering when she saw Emma throwing up on herself making her smell.
David could hear Emma retching from the bathroom, he immediately stopped eating and brought the plates to the kitchen.
"Emma you need to clean up" Snow said gesturing to the shower.
"Can you um-" Emma asked her mother who closed the door, she gestured for snow to turn around because she obviously was not leaving.
"What. You want me to turn around" Snow asked almost laughing not believing she was serious. Emma gave her a 'yes I'm serious look'.
"Emma Ruth Swan I birthed you, I have seen you naked before" Emma gave her a look pleading with really did not want Mary Margaret to see the marks all over her body. But Emma didn't know that she already had.
"Don't you give me that look Young Lady. Now. Now I'm going to have to undress you myself" Emma shied away from her mother, until snow grabbed her and undressed her until she was naked. When Emma was free of snow's grasp she ran into the shower and closed the curtain quickly before snow saw her fully, snow had to restrain herself from laughing at her daughters behavior.
It got really quiet after a few minutes, She started to worry.
"Emma are you alright" Emma didn't answer. "Emma" Snow whispered as she slowly peeled back the curtain to find Emma on the shower floor crying.
"Oh honey what happened" Snow said turning off the water.
"Soo so cold" Emma said in a whisper. Snow immediately went back to the phone call between them the first day she was taken when she said the exact same thing.
Snow sat down next to Emma on the shower floor not caring if she got wet her daughter needed her.
"You got flashes of that place didn't you" Snow said looking at Emma. Emma nodded her head in confirmation.
"Oh Emma" Snow took Emma in her arms, but was surprised when Emma wrapped her arms around her needing her. She held Emma for a while in the shower, just holding her little girl.
Inside Emma's head she kept repeating 'Their alive, Their safe, They found me'.
Snow got up and grabbed a towel she dried Emma off, especially her blonde locks of hair. Emma was wrapped in a towel sitting on the toilet, while Snow brushed her hair. Snow smiled the entire time she finally got to brush her daughter's hair, even something as simple as brushing hair got her teary eyed. Mary Margaret was taking full advantage of Emma's recovery; she got to smother her daughter and Emma couldn't do anything about it.
"You are to get back in that bed and rest. You are not going anywhere" Snow was not taking any shit now.
Emma crossed her arms and puffed until finally getting back into bed and lying down to sleep. Snow grinned at her daughter proudly.
"Good now stay there. I am going to call doctor Whale. After that I am bringing up your breakfast and you are to try to eat everything on the plate UNDERSTOOD" Snow exclaimed ranting to her.
"Yes Mom" Emma said mockingly joking around but snow took it as a compliment.
"Good. Now please try to Rest" Snow said as she slowly closed Emma's door. Emma huffed this was going to be a long recovery, if only she could sneak out of had to get away from Snow's smothering hands. God help her. She loved it any way. Not that she would ever admit that.