Emma looked over at Regina who was sat at her desk colouring in. Once again she was looking after Regina, however this time it was just because Mary-Margaret and David were working. This time is was to give them some time alone. Emma was more than happy to look after Regina even though she still wasn't really sure what to do with her. She sighed and then turned on her heel popping to the toilet quickly.
Regina finished her colouring and looked up to see where Emma was because she really wanted to show her the picture she had coloured as it was for her. She frowned as she didn't see Emma anywhere. She then gasped as she looked out the window. "EMMA! EMMA!" Regina shouted excitedly. She jumped off of the chair, her colouring long forgotten and she ran for the door of the Sheriff's station.
Emma was just coming out of the toilet, hurrying a little more as she had heard Regina shouting on her. She saw Regina was heading for the door and quickly ran after her, scooping her up just before she reached for the door handle. "Whoa there kid. Where do you think you are going?" Emma asked tickling Regina a little making her giggle and squirm in her arms.
"Out to play in the snow." Regina said excitedly.
Emma frowned in confusion as Regina had said that. "Snow?" Emma asked a little in disbelief. It was the middle of August how could there be snow? There wouldn't be snow. "Regina it is August. You don't get snow in August." Emma tried to explain.
"No Emma there is snow outside." Regina insisted as she pointed towards the door. "There really is. Look."
Emma sighed and she walked over to the door with Regina in her arms and she opened the door to the Sheriff's station. She walked out and gasped as she saw Regina was in fact right. There was snow covering the ground, a thick blanket of white and more and more was falling from the white skies. Emma shivered a little as the cold hit her a little more. She wasn't dressed for this kind of weather since it was Summer.
"See Emma. Snow. I wanna play!" Regina said happily and tried to squirm out of Emma's arms.
"Eh…No Regina wait. You aren't dressed right for playing in the snow." Emma said.
"Aw but Emmaaa…" Regina whined a little. "Wanna play." She huffed a little and crossed her arms over her chest.
"I know you do but if you go and play in the snow dressed as you are you will get poorly. We need to be wrapped up all nice and warm." Emma explained. "We will play later okay?" Regina sighed but nodded her head. She could see Emma wasn't going to give up and let her play in the snow so took the sensible option and agreed with Emma. Emma looked around her to see many people outside looking around just as confused as she was. She knew this wasn't normal. Although the Summers were never usually great they never got snow so she presumed perhaps this was magical and she knew that only one person could help her at the moment. She turned on her heel and walked back into the station. Placing Regina on the floor she said, "Regina go and get your coat please, we need to go out."
"Okay Emma." Regina said running over to where her coat and bag were. She grabbed her coat and ran back over to Emma. Pulling it on she stood in front of Emma. "Can you help? I can't use these buttons." Emma nodded and she crouched down and she done all the buttons up for Regina. "Thank you." Regina said smiling sweetly at Emma.
Emma returned the smile and ruffled Regina's hair a little. "Right kid, you want to take your bag? Or you gonna leave it?"
Regina put on a cute thinking face and then shook her head. "Gonna leave it."
"Okay." Emma said. She then stood up and held out her hand for Regina to take. She did so and they walked out of the station. When they walked down the path a little more Emma could see that the snow was beginning to get much deeper and she knew that Regina was going to get soaked if she walked so she leaned down and lifted her up. Regina held onto her tightly and Emma walked them down the road and over to Gold's shop thinking he would know something at least about this freak weather.
She pushed the door open and as soon as they were inside the shop she placed Regina back down on the floor. She looked up to see Gold leaning on a glass counter. "Well dearie, what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"
"I came about this weird weather…the snow outside." Emma said walking towards him. She could feel that Regina was right behind her holding onto her leg. "I presume it is magical?"
"You would presume right. Unless we shall be getting snow in Summer time now." Gold replied sarcastically making Emma roll her eyes.
"Do you have any idea who could have done this?" Emma asked leaning on the counter a little.
Gold shook his head. "It is not a power that I am familiar with. The power to freeze if a rare one and I am not practiced in it."
"Wow some magic you aren't familiar with…well that is helpful."
"Sorry dearie." Gold shrugged and then went back to what he was doing before Emma walked into the shop.
Emma just rolled her eyes and then leaned down picking Regina up again. "Come on Regina." She quickly walked out of the shop and sighed a little. "Well that was a waste of time." Emma said out loud to no one in particular.
"Where we gonna go Emma?" Regina asked still clutching onto Emma tightly. She was beginning to get a little cold now, her coat not really the best one to wear when it was cold.
"We are going to go for a little walk." Emma said beginning to walk through the town. She shifted Regina up a little to make her a little more comfortable and tried to figure out what to do. This was the first time she would be facing some magical person without the grown up Regina by her side and to say she was dreading it would be an understatement. She had no idea what to do or how to stop what was happening. How could she? She barely had a handle on her own magic. She was brought out of her thoughts as she bumped into someone and stumbled back a little.
"Sorry lass." came the voice.
Emma looked up to see Hook stood in front of her she sighed a little in frustration. She really didn't have time for him right now. "It's fine." She said and quickly walked round him to continue her walk to see if she could find any evidence to what was happening.
"Swan!" Hook called after her and quickly jogged up to her to walk beside her. "Do you have any idea what is going on?"
Emma shook her head. "No I am trying to find out."
"Would you like some assistance?" Hook asked.
Emma shrugged. "I suppose." She supposed some help would be good. She didn't exactly have David with her right now to help out and was still carrying Regina who was clutching onto her even more now that Hook was with them.
"Oh Emma, princess over there." Regina said pointing.
Emma looked round to where Regina was pointing and saw a young woman with blonde hair tied into a plait wearing a light blue sparkly dress disappearing into the forest, a trail of sparkling white frost behind her. "Well spotted Regina."
Regina smiled happily and they began to follow. They walked in silence for a bit before Hook spoke up. "So you're stuck looking after the little princess then?"
"I'm not stuck looking after her, I offered to." Emma replied.
"Can't be easy to be sheriff and look after a child." Hook said.
"I think I am managing quite fine."
They fell back into silence however the silence was more awkward than ever, Emma now regretted accepting Hook's offer to help. She knew that he liked her, he never had made that unclear to her but she wasn't particularly sure she shared his feelings and she always felt so awkward in his presence. She looked up in front of her and then stopped in her tracks. Hook looked back as soon as he had noticed that Emma wasn't beside him and gave her a questioning look. "What's wrong Swan?"
"What the hell is that?" Emma asked pointing over to what looked like a huge wall of ice blocking the town line. "Is that ice?"
"Looks like it." Hook said as he looked over to what Emma was talking about.
"Who is this person?" Emma asked to no one in particular as she began to walk over to the wall of ice, Hook trailing behind her. She placed Regina down on the ground. Looking from Hook to Regina she tried to figure out what to do next. She wanted to go and have a closer look at the wall of ice and see if she could find the woman they had seen earlier but she wasn't so sure that she should have Regina with her but then could she trust Hook to look after Regina while she took a look? Looking back at the ice she sighed. She didn't want Regina to get hurt so decided to take a chance on Hook. He wouldn't hurt Regina, not if he thought it would annoy Emma. "I am going to go take a look. I want you to stay behind and watch Regina for me."
"What? Won't you need some help there?" Hook asked. He couldn't believe he was being asked to babysit. The former evil queen for that matter.
"I will be fine. I just don't think it's a good idea for Regina to go in there." Emma said. She then crouched down to Regina's height. "Regina I want you to stay here with Hook while I go take a look over there okay?"
"No Emma!" Regina said clutching onto Emma's arm. "I want to go with you."
"Regina I don't think that's a good idea. It might be dangerous." Emma said.
"No, don't want to stay here." Regina said wrapping her arms around Emma's neck.
Emma sighed and wrapped her arms around Regina. She had a small feeling that Regina wouldn't stay with Hook. She had never seemed to like him, even as a grown up. She looked over at the ice wall and then back at Regina. Perhaps it would be okay if she took her. What could happen if she was there to protect her? She stood up and looked back at Hook. "Okay change of plan. Regina is going to come with me. I want you to stay out here. Take this." Emma said handing him her walkie talkie. "If anything happens I want you to contact my dad. press this button and talk into here." Emma said showing Hook what to do. "You got it?"
Hook nodded his head. "I think so."
"Okay." Emma then took Regina's hand and began to walk. "Come on Regina. I want you to stay close to me okay?"
"I will Emma." Regina replied.
They walked over to the ice wall and Emma looked over it, looking for some kind of opening. Her eyes soon landed on an opening and she gently pulled on Regina's hand and they climbed up a little and over to the opening. They both shivered as they entered into the ice.
"Wow." Regina gasped as she looked around. "It like an ice castle."
Emma huffed out a little laugh. Little Regina always had a way of making a situation somehow just that little bit better. "Yea it is kid." Emma replied. She then glanced over to see the young woman they had seen before. The young woman stared at them with a fearful look on her face, her hands held up in some kind of defence against them. "Hey…" Emma starts and then notices that the young woman's hand is beginning to glow white. "Whoa it's okay. We're not going to hurt you." Emma replied motioning to herself and then to Regina who was looking up at them with a sweet look on her face. "We just wanted to know who you were?"
"My name is Elsa…" The young woman said forcefully still not so sure of the blonde woman and small child, her hand was still glowing and beginning to get a little brighter as her magic pulsed through her.
"Okay Elsa, it's alright." Emma said holding up her free hand in a bit of a surrender to try and show Elsa that she did not want to hurt her. "I'm Emma." She said beginning to step forward with Regina right behind her.
"And who is that?" Elsa asked motioning down to Regina.
Emma looked down at Regina and then back up at Elsa. "This is Regina. She's my…" Emma hesitated for a moment but soon spoke up again. "She's my little sister." Elsa looked between Emma and Regina a confused look on her face but Emma wanted to change the subject quickly. "What are you doing out here? I am guessing you have something to do with all this snow? And well this wall…"
"I'm looking for someone. My sister." Elsa said glancing from Emma, down to Regina and then back up to Emma. "I can't find her. She has been lost to me for some time. Where is she?!" The last part was said more forcefully again.
"I have no idea." Emma replied. She then let go of Regina's hand but Regina wrapped her arms around Emma's leg tightly. "But if you want me to help you then you need to help me. What's her name?"
"Anna…" Elsa responded. She didn't know how this blonde woman and her sister could help her. She had no idea if she could trust them so she stayed back a little.
"Okay…well I will help you to find her…I don't know how right now but I will…but first…" Emma said but was soon interrupted as she heard Hook shouting her name. She rolled her eyes and groaned a little when she heard him. He really had no concept of good timing.
"Emma!" He shouted again.
Emma glanced up at Elsa and then back to Hook. She could see that Elsa was frightened. She didn't want anyone else near her. "No, wait stop!" Emma shouted back to Hook. She had to get him to leave them. She was sure she was gaining Elsa's trust before. "It's okay."
But Hook didn't listen and Emma glanced over to Elsa. She could see that her breathing had quickened and her hands were beginning to glow again. A wind picked up and a flurry of snow flew around them. The ground began to shake and Emma could see more ice forming in front of them blocking the entrance. Regina screamed a little and held onto Emma tighter.
"EMMA!" Hook shouted again but soon he could not be seen as the gap in the wall was filled.
Emma crouched down and she wrapped her arms onto a now scared Regina. She looked up at Elsa not sure what to do or say now. They were stuck in a huge wall of ice. This was not good. This was not part of her plan. "Okay …well that was not what I had planned." Emma said quietly.
Meanwhile outside of the ice wall Hook was trying his best to dig some sort of hole through the ice with his hook but was quickly finding he was getting nowhere fast. He then remembered what Emma had told him to do if anything happened. He pulled out the device she gave him and looked it over trying to remember what button she told him to press. He saw the button pressed it and began to speak into where she had told him.
"Hello…prince…" Hook said not knowing what else to call the man. He had no idea how this device worked. "Hello…"
He let go of the button and then the device started to buzz and a voice came through. "Emma?" A confused voice said.
"No not Emma. Hook." He replied.
"Hook? What the hell are you doing with Emma's walkie talkie?" David asked. It was not unusual for Emma to leave her walkie talkie lying about but usually it was Regina who would steal it to use telling everyone she wanted to pretend to be a sheriff just like Emma.
"There has been a problem lad…some ice witch has captured Emma and Regina."
"What?! Where are you?" Came the quick and panicked reply.
Hook told him where he was and David soon replied telling him that he and Mary-Margaret would be there soon.
Emma stood up, Regina clutching to her leg and she looked around them trying to see if there was some way they could get out of this frozen ice cave. Sighing she saw no exit and she looked down at Regina who was shivering and had a frightened look in her eyes.
"Emma I'm cold." Regina said quietly and Emma leaned down and lifted Regina up, holding her close to her so they could share their warmth.
"I know Regina. Don't worry it will be okay." Emma said. Emma then looked over to Elsa. She too could now feel the cold that was around them but it appeared that Elsa didn't. "Are you not cold? It's freezing in here."
"The cold never bothered me." Elsa shrugged.
"Yea well I prefer warmth." Emma replied. She shifted Regina a little on her hip and Regina rested her head on Emma's shoulder. Emma then tried to keep the conversation going, trying to keep herself alert, knowing it was not just herself she had to look after but Regina also. "So your sister your trying to find her…and you think she is here?"
Elsa nodded her head. "She must be. I found her necklace here." Elsa replied holding out the necklace she had found.
"Well…I-I can t-try to help you f-find her." Emma stuttered, the cold really beginning to get to her. "But p-perhaps we s-should get out of here and g-go some place warmer."
"No. I will not leave without Anna." Elsa said.
"I-if we s-stay in here w-we won't be able t-to find Anna." Emma replied. Emma watched Elsa pace up and down the cave a little. She then looked down at Regina who was still shivering in her arms. She knew that Regina wouldn't last very long here. Her small body would not take long to give into the cold.
"E-Emma I-I am c-cold." Regina stuttered out. "I-I'm tired."
Elsa turned round at hearing what Regina said and saw that Emma was now sat down with Regina on her lap. She walked over to them and crouched down. "She can't sleep. Don't let her sleep."
"W-What do I-I d-do?" Emma asked. There was a fear in her eyes.
"We need to get her to talk to us, do whatever we can to keep her awake. Sit her up a bit more." Elsa instructed.
Emma sat Regina up in her lap and they both heard a little groan from Regina. Emma still had her arms wrapped round Regina trying to warm her up. "Regina y-you must s-stay awake." Emma told her.
"S-sleepy." Regina replied trying to rest her head back on Emma's shoulder.
"I-I know R-Regina but you h-have to stay awake." Emma said.
Regina shook her head and kept trying to rest her head on Emma's shoulder. Emma pushed her up again and sat her further up on her lap. Elsa could see they were going to struggle to keep the young girl awake. She felt the guilt build up in her. This was her fault and she needed to get them out somehow but she knew that she couldn't. Elsa looked down at Regina. "You look like a princess Regina, are you?" Elsa asked.
Regina turned her head and looked at Elsa. "M-my daddy says I-I am." Regina replied. "Are y-you a p-princess?"
"I am a queen."
"My d-daddy says my m-mommy is a queen."
Elsa smiled at the young girl. "Well I will tell you something when we get out of here I will make you a wonderful crown fit perfect for a princess but you have to do something for me."
"What?" Regina asked.
"You need to stay awake. I know it will be difficult and I know you are tired but Emma and I need you to stay awake." Elsa explained. Regina nodded her head.
David and Mary-Margaret were now stood outside of the ice cave beside hook. They looked up at the ice cave and they were all trying to figure out a way to get into it. Mary-Margaret sighed and began to pace up and down.
"There is no way to get in there. The ice is too thick." She said the worry showing on her face.
"We will figure out a way Mary-Margaret. There is always hope." David said placing his hands on her shoulders. "We will get Regina and Emma out."
"How? Look at it. It would take far too long to try and chip into that ice and by the time we did it would probably be too late."
"They will get out everything is going to be alright. I promise you." David said and then he cupped Mary-Margaret's face in his hands and placed a soft kiss to her lips. "Trust me." He whispered and she just nodded her head.
Hey! Sorry I have not updated in a little while but things have been a little hectic with Christmas coming up and everything and I have not had as much time to write as I would have liked.
As you can see I have brought Elsa into the mix. The reason I have done this is mainly for a bonding thing between Regina and Emma as I felt perhaps they should have something that really bonds them. I don't think I will delve into the whole Frozen story, of Elsa and Anna finding each other etc but in my mind I will probably just have it that Anna was in the town somewhere and Emma helps Elsa to find Anna using the necklace. The reason I don't want to go to much into the Frozen story is because I want o move on a bit with the story and age Regina slightly as I have a few other plans.
Anyway I hope you enjoy this Chapter :-)