A/N: Hey, thanks to everyone who has been reviewing this story. It really means a lot. If any of you are interested, I have a YouTube channel with quite a few Once fanvids on there now. There's a Gremma, a Snowing, a RumBelle, something focused on Regina, a video about Emma and Henry's relationship and a video on the show in general. My Channel is under the name PromptingShizzle and there will be more videos to come, like the Emma/Snow one I'm currently working on. I also don't mind taking requests for videos, if you can provide a song and a character or two. Anyway, onto the chapter! I hope you enjoy it!

Making Mischief

Emma and Graham hurried out of the Sheriff Station and got into the Patrol car. Emma would much rather have gone alone, but it was Regina she was dealing with this time, not Jefferson or Red. Having backup made sense, even if it meant trying to ignore how awkward she still felt around the formerly dead Sheriff.

Emma floored the accelerator, and turned on the sirens, justifying her speeding as an emergency. There was no way she would leave Henry at the school with that woman. Never.

Graham gripped the door handle, a little afraid of the speed and intensity with which Emma was driving, though he was wise enough not to say anything or ask her to slow down. As soon as they pulled up outside the school, Emma threw open the door and leapt out, already running. Flames leapt up the outside of the school building, the children and teachers evacuated out onto the playground but cowering in fear as trees stood guard, threatening to whip anyone who moved.

As she ran, hell-bent on reaching Henry before Regina could take him, Emma searched for Snow, but couldn't see her in the crowds either. Why the Evil Queen couldn't have just stayed in hiding, she didn't know. Everyone, the whole town had been happy whilst she was gone, hiding out in the woods somewhere.

Graham was left to rush after, hurrying along in her wake, only just keeping pace with Emma's feet. Feeling slower than usual, he knew he had to do some more cardio, get fitter.

Emma didn't know what was leading her, but somehow she just knew that her son was trapped inside the burning building and some puny flames weren't going to stop her from reaching him. She didn't even hear Graham calling after her as she literally diving through a window blown out by fire, landing on the floor of a classroom with the ends of her hair smoking and scorch marks all over her leather jacket.

She couldn't stop herself calling out for Henry as she staggered to her feet and inhaled a mouthful of smoke, coughing as it filled her lungs and burnt her throat.

With no shouted answer, Emma began her search, systematically working her way through the classrooms, finally coming across Henry, Snow and Regina in the gym, one of the less damaged rooms. Smoke was seeping under the doors but the room itself had yet to catch fire.

Snow saw her but was tactful enough not to yell out, "Emma!" She needn't have bothered.

Before Emma had even taken a step, Regina said, "You just had to butt in didn't you, Miss Swan?"

"Step away from my son," Emma warned, approaching with determined strides.

"Your son?! Who raised him? I did!"

Henry looked helplessly between the two women and was suddenly grateful for the fact that Snow was holding his hand, giving it a comforting squeeze.

The two women were in a full-on argument by the time Graham ran in, wheezing after running through the whole smoke-filled school in search of Emma and her family. Drawing in a few haggard breaths he fell forwards, resting his hands on his knees as he tried to learn how to breathe oxygen again.

"So it's true," Regina drawled. "I'd heard rumours you'd returned, Huntsman."

Standing to his full height, Graham locked eyes with the Evil Queen. "It's Graham, thanks," he told her cuttingly, biting the inside of his cheek as she pulled a mocking facial expression at his tone. He'd had dealings with the queen before and knew that being rash would get him nowhere in securing Emma, Snow and Henry's safety. "What do you want?"

"My son," Regina answered simply. "And I won't be leaving without him."

"Well you won't be leaving with him either," Emma interrupted.

"And how are you going to stop me, Miss Swan? Tell me, can you do this?"

Without any further ado, Regina turned, disappearing in a cloud of smoke much like the one that had rolled over the town mere moments after Emma and Henry had broken the curse. Emma wheeled around, searching for Regina with one of her hands already on her holstered gun. Graham crossed the room and stood behind Emma, the two of them covering all angles. Emma couldn't help jumping as Regina appeared suddenly right in front of her, leering in her face before laughing at her reaction.

"How about this?" Regina asked, pointing at one of the gym mats and sending it flying through the air towards them. It passed harmlessly through Regina but Emma and Graham both had to duck to avoid being hit by the object. "Or this?" Emma didn't have to look to know that Regina had lifted Graham into the air by an invisible grip around his throat. The sounds of him choking were a big enough clue.

"You know I can't," Emma replied, gritting her teeth as she tried to desperately think of some sort of plan. She had to find some way to level the playing field, to make thing more even between her and Regina.

"Then, pray tell me, how exactly are you going to stop me walking out of this room with Henry at my side?"

With no answers left, Emma pulled out her gun and levelled the weapon at Regina's head.

"You really don't want to do that."

Not heeding her words, Emma squeezed the trigger, sending a bullet hurtling towards Regina. A moment of confusion followed, as somehow the bullet turned in mid-air, as though it had collided with some sort of invisible force field, and sped towards Snow. Emma didn't even know, the bullet moving too quickly for the eye to see. She had been under no misconception as to Regina's magical ability and had been prepared for the possibility of Regina avoiding the bullet. She had already dropped the gun and sprinted towards Regina as soon as she had fired.

Whilst Regina was recovering from sending the bullet towards her step-daughter, Emma grabbed her arms and brought them around behind her. Graham dropped to the floor, massaging his throat and trying to refrain from gulping down fresh air.

Able to relax somewhat, Emma shot Snow and Henry a look to make sure they were okay and was shocked to find her mother lying on the floor, gripping her shoulder, with Henry at her side looking helpless.

"Perhaps another time," Regina hissed before disappearing again.

Forgetting about her, Emma rushed to Snow's fallen form and fell down at her side.

"Snow?"

She didn't answer.

"Snow, are you okay? Mom, answer me!"

"Bullet just scraped my shoulder," she finally answered.

Relief flooded through Emma.

A slow smile spread over Snow's face. "You called me Mom," she whispered happily.

"Yeah, well, don't get used to it," Emma muttered, taking Snow's other arm and pulling her up now that she knew she wasn't seriously injured.

A timeline so you can hopefully avoid confusion:

Reunion (Chapter 2) – Same day as the breaking of the curse

Witch Hunt (Chapter 12) – Same Day as the breaking of the curse

Parents together (Chapter 6) – 1 day later

Wooden Man (Chapter 8) – 2 days later

The Big Bad Wolf (Chapter 4) – 2 days later

A Bug's Life (Chapter 13) – 4 days later

Fathers (Chapter 14) – 6 days later

Up Goes the Beanstalk (Chapter 7) – 1 week later

Hiking trip (Chapter 9) – 1 and ½ weeks late

Huntsman (Chapter 3) – 2 weeks later

Making Mischief (Chapter 15) – 3 weeks later

Storming (Chapter 1) – 1 month later

Dance with Somebody (Chapter 11) – 1 month later

Dreaming (Chapter 5) – 5 weeks later

A Fairy Mystery (Chapter 10) – 5 weeks later

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I really would be psyched if some of you guys would check out my YouTube videos and perhaps comment, even if you don't like them because I would like to get better at making fanvids. Any thoughts on this chapter would also be very appreciated. Nobody guessed the correct fairytale identity of Henry's father last chapter, so I'm going to write another chapter with him in it at some point.

Thanks for reading! Much love, SabreDae

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