Henry may be only 11 but he was very smart and sneaky in his planning of getting his mother's together he hated that he had to put Emma in danger but it was the only way or so he thought.
A week before he was going to put his plan into action Emma was on her way to City Hall when a car came barrelling towards her, Emma saw it at the last second before it hit her, the force sent her up onto the hood of the car, across the roof and down the other side, the driver didn't stop they just kept going.
Henry was keeping an eye out for Emma because both he and Regina were waiting for her and he saw the car slam into her.
"Emma!" Henry cried out as he bolted out of the diner door heading to his blonde mother.
Regina was right behind Henry as they both dashed across the road to get to Emma's side.
After a call to the ambulance service Emma was taken to hospital and when she woke she saw both Henry and Regina there, she shifted slightly and let out a groan as a look of pain came across her face, Regina lay a hand on the blondes left shoulder gently.
"Take it easy Emma, you're in no condition to move yet."
"What happened?"
When she went to move her legs Emma realised that she couldn't even feel them.
"Regina? Why can't I feel my legs?" Regina could tell that Emma was starting to panic.
"Emma calm down dear. You were in an accident, a car hit you. You broke your arm, dislocated your shoulder, there's a deep laceration on your right arm and you have a spinal injury. That's why you can't feel your legs, but don't worry I was told that it is only temporary." Regina said soothingly as she stroked Emma's blonde tresses.
6 weeks later Emma's bones had healed the laceration had healed but scarred and her shoulder had healed as well, her spine was a different kettle of fish it was taking longer to heal being the most severe injury, she had physical therapy but she felt like she was going no where and she was getting there fast.
About 2 weeks the therapist had given up on helping the stubborn sheriff, Regina who had, had enough of the blondes attitude decided to take matters into her own hands after all if she could get a stubborn horse who had severely injured itself to walk again, then a stubborn 2 legged blonde should be no problem.
"Alright Emma that does it!"
Emma looked at Regina with confusion.
"Since you have made the physical therapist give up trying to help you, I will and I won't give up till you can walk."
Regina went over to Emma grabbed her by the arms and pulled her up out of the wheelchair that she was in.
"Ok we will take this slowly just one step at a time."
Knowing better then to fight Regina on this Emma resigned herself to let Regina help her, and slowly but surely Emma was walking even if Regina was helping.
About 30 minutes later Emma was getting tired so Regina took her back to her room after getting her settled in bed Regina lay beside Emma and wrapped her arms around her giving her a warm hug.
"I am so proud of you Emma, you do very well when you stop being so stubborn." She said with a smile.
When no reply came Regina looked down only to see that Emma had fallen asleep, soon Regina followed.
When Emma's next therapy session arrived Regina was late getting there to help when she arrived she found Emma's chair was on it's side and Emma on the floor using her arms to get herself into a sitting position, Regina overcome with concern and worry rushed over to Emma and got her sitting up.
"What happened?"
"I didn't know if you were coming or not so I tried to do it myself." Emma replied with tears in her eyes.
"Emma you could have set yourself back in your progress."
"I just wanted you to be proud of me."
Regina's heart ached when she heard how upset Emma sounded.
"You must have fallen asleep as soon as your head was on the pillow last time because I sId I was proud of you. What brought this on anyway?"
"My whole life from childhood to the time I was 16 no one ever said they were proud of me when I did well in school or did a good job at something I just need at least one person to say they proud but it never came, so I ended up feeling like there was something wrong with me or that I did something wrong, like I wasn't good enough."
At that moment Regina felt like her heart was shattering knowing that she was the one that condemned this poor girl to a life of unhappiness, Emma picked up on what Regina was feeling.
"Regina it's not your fault it's Gold's he made the dark curse not you, don't blame yourself because I don't." Emma said with a smile that told Regina that she was telling the truth and she wrapped her arms around the blonde giving her a hug before helping her back into her wheelchair.
Once Emma was settled and asleep Regina did an X-ray using her magic on Emma's spine and saw that Emma's spine was healing but not fast enough after all this time as it still was pretty bad and that was why Emma wasn't progressing in the physical therapy sessions with her and being with an actual therapist wouldn't change that, Emma's spine was just not healing at the proper speed as the therapy sessions continued Regina noticed that Emma's mood was changing.
When Emma would fall asleep Regina would use her magic to X-ray Emma's spine and she noticed that the more Emma's mood changed the slower her spine healed, she then realised that it was the hospital making Emma's mood tank straight into the downward spiral.
Regina decided to talk to Whale about Emma having a change in sleeping quarters, a Whale agreed that it may help to speed up the healing by elevating Emma's mood, so Whale made the arrangements for Emma to be transferred to Regina's home.
As soon as Emma was through the door of the mayoral mansion she felt her mood brighten, Regina had magically placed an elevator into the wall next to the stairs so Emma could move between the two floors with ease, she noticed that Emma was becoming happier and with each X-ray she saw that Emma's spine was healing faster and she knew having Emma moved out of the hospital was the right decision.
Weeks passed and Emma's spine was almost finished healing and all that would be left would be to get the blonde walking again.
The day after Emma had finished healing Regina came into her room.
"Emma are you awake dear?"
"No." Came a muffled reply as Emma buried her face in her pillows.
Regina smirked typical Emma Swan behaviour at least now I know who Henry gets his lack of enthusiasm for the mornings from. The brunette thought to herself.
"Too bad. Come on up and at 'em." Regina said while opening the drapes and letting the sun in.
Emma groaned and buried her head under the top pillow and pulled down the sides to block out the sunlight, chuckling Regina went over to the bed and grabbed the glass of water from the bedside table and dumped it onto the blonde.
With a shriek Emma scrambled from the bed landing on the floor because she forgot that her legs didn't work, with a look of worry Regina went over to help the sheriff into her wheelchair.
"Regina? Please let me try to do it on my own? If I can get from the bed to the chair I should be able to get from the floor to the chair."
Regina's heart swelled with pride at how independent Emma was becoming despite being wheelchair bound, as they rode down in the elevator together Regina decided to break the silence between them.
"So after breakfast and a bath we're going to do some more physical therapy. Okay?"
"Sure, sounds good to me. The sooner I walk, the sooner I can get out of this chair for good."