"Henry's in there!"
The two ran towards the school building as fast as they could and was almost knocked over by a bunch of 3rd graders that were running for their lives. Regina was first in the building and had no concept for safety but Emma knew better. In a situation like this, you certainly do not want to make yourself known.
"Regina!" Emma whispered loudly while hiding up against one of the pillars but Regina didn't answer, she was trying to get a glimpse of the people in the first classroom.
"Regina!"
"What!?" She turned around angrily. 'What could be keeping me from my son now?' She thought. Emma started walked towards her.
"We need to work together on this! We can't just run down halls and barge into any classroom we want because one, there is a killer behind one of those doors and two, there are other children inside apart from Henry and they need saving too. Imagine if someone else was in our place and they wanted to safe their child but they didn't save ours."
'Ours' Regina thought. This was the fist time that she had ever referred to Henry as 'ours'. Maybe she did have to make an effort to be nicer to his 'new' family because that could just have some advantages for her too like spending time with her apart from quick waves across the street.
Regina breathed out in defeat. " Ok, where do we start?" She asked in a small voice.
"We start in the first classroom and make our way around the school. There should be a window or escape route apart from using the door in most if the classrooms so do whatever you have to do to get them out of here." She explain while taking off her jacket revealing a white long sleeve shirt. She was also wearing a pair of blue jeans and black boots. She then put her hair up in a pong tail to get it out of the way. Regina also took off her blazer with a black tank top underneath to go with black pants and heels.
The pair made their way to the first classroom and listened at the door to see if there was any sign of the shooter in there.
"Ready?" Emma asked.
"Ready."
Emma slowly opened the door taking note to get David to put same locks on these. What greeted them was desks laying sideways with children trembling underneath. As soon as they were in the classroom Mr. Andrews stood up in front of the children.
"We are not your peasants anymore, you witch! I will not let you hurt these children!" Regina was shocked by this. She never thought that they would mistake her as the shooter. Emma was first to speak.
"She isn't here to hurt you, we heard the gun shots and came to get you out of here before anyone gets hurt."
Mr. Andrews gave Regina a look of warning as she opened the windows to let the children out. The children got up and formed a line in front of the window. It was probably a bit to tall for them to reach so Emma put a chair there to help. The first child stood up to the window, Regina had never seen her before but she reminded her of when she was little, such an innocent face that was terrified of what was to happen. Regina put her hand out and smiled at the girl to let her know it was ok. The little girl took it gently and was helped out the window and she ran straight to the others that made it out earlier.
Soon the rest of the children were out and safe. Mr. Andrews made his way to the window.
"Thank You." He said gratefully to them both.
"Your welcome, just make sure those kids are safe." Emma replied.
Regina shut the window behind him. It was time for the next class room. They made their way out and shut the door behind them as if it looked like no one had been in.
They walked quickly towards the next door and peeked in. They saw the same thing as before, terrified children under desks. Emma walked in first this time so Regina didn't startle the children.
"We are not here to hurt you. We just want to get everyone out safe and sound so can everyone please line up in front of that window." Emma said quietly.
The children started moving towards the window where Regina was already waiting.
"Emma, it's locked!"
"Can you smash it?"
"Of course I can, Ms. Swan but I don't really want the killer to know that we are letting everyone escape." Regina said sarcastically.
"Here, put a towel in front of the window and then smash it, it could muffle the noise a little." Mrs. Johnston said as she handed Regina a towel from the art area.
"Everyone, stand back." Regina warned from her place on top of a desk reaching the window. She placed the towel onto the window and hit it as hard as she could with her elbow. The window smashed to pieces with a small shatter.
"Single file please people." Emma said as she was helping the first little one out the window and two his freedom.
Emma and Regina were both helping the children out the window when Regina came across an incredibly terrified one. She had came across this look many times when she was in reign over her kingdom and thought nothing of it but now that she had a son, she couldn't bare seeing that look on any child's face. She walked over to the child that was now standing near the end of the line.
"What's your name, dear?"
The little girl was silent knowing that she was now talking to a former Evil Queen, a queen that lied, a queen that stole, a queen that killed.
"I am not going to hurt you, I just want to help."
The girl was silent for a few seconds until she finally spoke in a very small voice.
"Alison."
"Alison... What a lovely name. Now I know you might be scared right now but everything is ok. As soon as you go out that window, wait for your teacher and go and find your parents alright, dear?" Regina tried to put on the friendliest voice she could, it reminded her of the day when Snow found her and Daniel kissing in the stables and ran away, the day that she told Snow about true love and the day that practically ruined her life.
"Ok." Alison said so quietly that you wouldn't have even noticed her if she hadn't been talking a second ago.
Regina helped Alison and the teacher out of the window. Once Alison was out she gave Regina a smile and much to the brunettes surprise, she returned it.
Now was the first time that her and Emma were able to see clearly out the window and onto the playground where the children, parents, families and most of the Storybrooke residents were standing to try and get a look at the commotion. Mary-Margaret was standing with a number of students and teachers around her but just next to her was standing a small brunette boy.
"Is that... Henry..?" Emma asked, squinting into the distance.
"Thank god! He's safe..." Regina sighed in relief.
They were both starring out the window at there little boy when yet another gun shot brought them back to reality. Even though their son was safe, it still wouldn't be fair if they left the scared, desperate children inside a building with a gun man.
"Quick, we have to get going if we want to get us and the kids out alive." Emma said with a shaky voice.
"Regina, you're bleeding!" Emma said looking at a large cut just below Regina's elbow.
"Oh, it's just I'm the glass. Don't worry about it." Regina replied trying to cover it over.
The two went out the classroom door and back into the hall. They had just passed the main hall of the building and were coming up to a corner entering the area of the school for the older students. As they rounded the corner Emma gasped in shock as she saw the school cook, Mrs. Potts, lying face down in a pool of her own blood with a number of stab wounds to her back.
Emma got onto the floor next to her obviously distressed, and turned Mrs. Potts on her back to try CPR.
"She's gone, Ms. Swan." Regina said quietly.
"No, she can't be! She did nothing!" Emma was panicking now, this is real. This isn't a scene in the movies, this is really happening. This innocent lady is really dead.
"Emma! She's gone! I'm sorry, but there are children inside of these classrooms that need us unless you want them to end up like Mrs. Potts. So I suggest you pull yourself together because this could get worse before it gets better."
She sat on the ground next to the body staring into eyes that would have been wide awake a couple of minutes ago. She got up and closed the eyes of the elderly women.
" Now lets get this bastard." Even in this situation, a smirk came across
Regina lips at Emma's demeanour.
They broke into the next classroom, starting to get used to the now-forming routine. Get in classroom, open window, help kids out and leave.
"Come over to the window, we are going to get you out of here." Emma said confidently.
The students and teacher all stayed quiet, almost like the other times in the class room but something was different.
"Hurry up! We want to get out of here too!" Regina said, quickly growing impatient.
A couple of whimpers came across same of the students as they looked not at Regina but slightly past her. The pair turned around only to find the mad hatter himself behind them with a gun pointing towards Regina.
"Hello ladies."