Bucket List

by BlackHelix

147 days ago Regina's life came crashing down around her. Now determined to pick her life back up she makes a Bucket List but when Emma tracks her down and tries to force her back to Storybrooke for Henry Regina refuses until she has completed everything on the list. With Emma begrudgingly tagging along they start at number one: Party At Mardi Gras.

10. Viva Las Vegas

Okay I have to let you guys know that this is all out craziness, a small tad of movie 'The Hangover' but I did a lot of things differently. Also, some references in this chapter may have connections to the one-shot that ties in with this chapter and explains the link between the last chapter and this one 'A Day At The Carnival'. If you haven't read it, it's not really necessary but it may help to make more sense of things. Hopefully it adds up to what you expect from a chapter from a story like this.

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Regina kept herself looking straight ahead as she took in the glamour. Yet, to her right in the passenger seat and in the back seat of the large hulking vehicle they were sitting in, the two women had their faces plastered too the windows looking at all the different colored, flashing and non-flashing lights. Regina wanted to tell the two women to get their faces away from her pristine window or they'd be cleaning it, but she didn't have the heart. Yes, surprising.

"Oh my god!" Snow exclaimed from the back seat. "Look at that light, it spins."

"Yes dear, very, interesting." Regina said plainly and very uninterested.

"So what's the plan?" Emma asked looking over towards Regina and into the rear view mirror at her mother.

"Well, my flight isn't until the day after tomorrow." Snow pointed out.

"And I do have Las Vegas on my list." Regina added and Snow's face immediately lit up at the idea of spending a night on the town, in a town with so many pretty lights and strange looking people.

"Really? Las Vegas?" Emma shook her head, "I shouldn't be surprised. Why am I surprised?"

Snow clapped her hands together. "Oooh! Look at that fountain!" Snow exclaimed in joy yet again at the towering building with the spouting in wave's water fountain out the front.

"That is where we will be sleeping."

"Yeah, sleeping off hangovers." Emma retorted with a snort of sarcasm.

"Miss Swan, really?" Regina asked with disbelief. "You actually intend to drink after the last fiasco?"

"It's Vegas, baby!" Emma exclaimed with her own joy as she turned to look at the brunette.

Regina gave Emma a condescending look and chastised. "No, Miss Swan, no."

"To baby or drinking?" Emma asked.

Regina gave her a look. The look that said 'you really have to ask?'. "Both!"

XXX

Regina walked down the Bellagio hotel Penthouse Suite floor at the top looking for their room number while Emma behind them, huffed, strained and heaved to push the trolley full off their luggage out of the elevator they had just exited. Snow was following along behind Regina looking around at the luxury halls.

"Geez. Think you've got enough bags here, Regina? Did you, I don't know, forget the kitchen sink?" Emma asked in her normal sarcastic tone which made Regina roll her eyes.

"If I recall you told the young man whose job it was to push the trolley up, that you were going to do it. Not my fault you put yourself in this position. Although, I do find it quite difficult to hold back an 'I told you so'."

"Yeah, yeah," Emma rolled her eyes and strained to push the trolley along at the pace Regina and her mother were going. "At least a little assistance Regina. Please?"

Regina released a sigh but waved her hand nonetheless. The trolley jerked backwards once before along on its own. Emma looked around and quickly placed her hands on the side bars of the trolley, earning surprised looks from passing hotel guests at the ease of which she was pushing the trolley. She just smiled at them and flexed slightly.

"Finally!" Regina called from up front as she stepped up to the Penthouse Suite door that would be there's for the three nights they were in Vegas for. She popped the card into the lock, listened for the click and opened the door to a dark foyer. Regina fumbled around for a few minutes as she ran her hands along the wall near the door looking for a light switch.

"Stop!"

Regina and Emma both jumped at the scream that emanated from Snow White. It was one filled with terror, one she would only use if Regina went all Evil Queen on her and threatened her beloved Charming. Emma gave her a curious look, even Regina was giving her a "what the fuck?' look.

"We can't turn on the lights." Snow replied to the questioning looks.

"What on Earth are you talking about, Miss Blanchard?" Regina asked with a huff in her voice as she returned to her task of finding the light switch. She ignored a few more pleas from the woman before she found the switch, but before she could flick it on a large body careened into hers, tackling her to the ground with an 'oomph'. They rolled a few times before Regina had enough room to ignite a flame in her left hand menacingly. "Get off me." She ordered her voice low and deadly.

Emma yanked her mother up and away from Regina before anything bad happened and she would yet again have to take sides. Things weren't fixed by no means. They had a discussion. It more ignited then fixed things but it had set the 'food out on platter' so to speak, now all she was waiting for was someone to take the first bite. "Mom!" She looked at the pixie haired woman, "What up? Why no lights?" She asked gently and watched as Regina extinguished the hand and stood up brushing the imaginary dirt of herself. Emma would be surprised if the hotel workers weren't germ phobic. The place was so neat, it nearly made Regina seem normal.

"Remember what the man said?" Snow asked her daughter who shook her head, so she continued. "The story he told us about the woman returning to her dorm room?"

Emma paused and rolled her eyes. "It's just a story." She told her and quickly reached over towards the light switch she had seen Regina find before the woman had landed on the floor with her mother on top of her. She flicked it on and stepped into the foyer even more so. "See, nothing here." She told, waving her hands around the room.

Snow quietly and cautiously stepped into the room, Regina behind her. She glanced around the room taking in the furniture and surely the non-bloody writing on walls. It was clean. Sparkling nearly. Then the room went dark. A hand fell on her shoulder and-

"Boo!"

Snow screamed, jumped and landed in her daughter's eyes.

Regina laughed. Hard. In the midst of her amusement she switched the light back on and bent over in her fit of laughing. She didn't actually believe it would work, after all it was just them in the room, but from the sight before her; Snow in her daughter's arms clinging on for dear life in fear, it seemed it had worked. "I...can't...believe...you...fell...for...that," she managed between her laughter and heavy heaves for oxygen.

XXX

Regina woke with a groan and a strained neck. She opened her eyes to find herself looking out over the lights of Las Vegas. She closed her eyes again and took a deep breath of the city Las Vegas air. She smiled. She froze. Opened her eyes again and took in the sights before pushing herself backwards with a scream. She rolled over a separate body which also groaned, rolled over and pulled the blankets higher over their head.

Now fully awake, Regina took in the sights around her. She could see the fake monuments that were erected in Las Vegas as tourist's attractions. She could see the different hotels. The main road in Las Vegas. The strip. She could see the whole god damn Strip. The whole god damn Las Vegas Strip. Blinking furiously, she noted this wasn't a dream and quickly scampered over towards the other body. She yanked the blankets down from the head of the body curled underneath them. She expected blonde hair but came face to face with the mother of such person she was expecting. She shook her own head before shaking the woman roughly. "Snow!"

"Mmm, later, Regina." Snow mumbled. "I love you too Charming," Snow said lovingly in her sleep state.

Regina scrunched up her nose and squashed down the bile that tried forcing itself upwards. She shook the pixie haired woman even more violently. "Snow! God damn it woman!" Well the good news is you know where Emma get's it from. "Shut up!" Regina ordered her internal voice before returning to shaking the woman. "If you don't get up I will throw you off this building!" Snow didn't budge just smiled even wider and more lovingly. Regina rolled her eyes, leaned in closer towards the woman's ear and whispered in her Evil Queen voice, "Hope you enjoyed your sleep."

Snow shot upright at the tone and quickly scampered away until she felt herself slip and fall. She screamed as a hand clasped around her wrist. She looked up to find Regina looking down at her as she held on tightly to the woman. "Regina?"

Regina groaned as she held onto the not-so-light-as-she-looks woman. A brief thought flickered into her mind this is your chance, Regina. All you have to do is let go and you can be rid of the woman. The very woman that caused you so much pain. Who betrayed you. Took your, Daniel, away from you.

Snow watched the expression of a woman trying to pull someone up from a ledge, slip from Regina's face to be replaced by a thoughtful expression. Then one she hadn't seen in so long. The Evil Queen face made her swallow, hard, she looked down the building to the small people that now resembled ants. Looking back up at Regina she noted the smirk that was spread across the woman's face.

Do it! Let go! The voice ordered. You'll finally be rid of her and the best part is, you really can get away with it. She slipped, that's all. Regina released her grip slightly and watched as Snow slipped until they were grasping hands instead of her grasping at the woman's wrist. One more time, Regina! Do it! It hit Regina. Hard and fast. That voice wasn't the same internal voice she had told to 'shut up' just a few seconds ago. No this one was the one she was trying to combat against. Trying to battle against. For Henry. For Emma. The very same Emma that's mother she was now holding onto.

Snow watched as Regina's expression changed once again. The battle of emotions. Of thoughts. Of actions. All played across, Regina's face as she continued holding onto the dangling Snow White. She wondered, was this the day the Evil Queen finally won, once again for all. "Regina," she said in a soft tone. "Please." She pleaded, begged.

Regina snapped her mind away from her thoughts and looked into the woman's eyes. She didn't see Snow White the woman, she saw Snow White the girl. The very girl she had saved from a runaway horse. The very girl who betrayed you her Evil internal voice reminded her. She quickly countered it the very girl that may have given me chance, through Emma. She locked her free arm in place and heaved until Snow had enough of the ledge to grab onto and pull herself up onto the rooftop. Noooooo! Her mind screamed and somewhere deep inside, Regina she smiled.

On her hands and knees, Snow breathed deeply, taking in the oxygen to her burning lungs while she tried to calm her frantically beating heart. She glanced up at Regina. "You saved me."

Regina smiled, much like she did the day she had saved Snow from the runaway horse. "Are you okay?"

"Fine. Thank you." As she said it Snow had a flashback to that fateful day. She wondered if she hadn't told Cora about Daniel, would things have turned out the way they did?

"You can't hide from fate and you can't escape destiny." Regina answered for the woman, "Things...happen for a reason. Everything happens for a reason."

Snow blinked. She gave a weak smile of sadness to Regina before nodding. Dropping the conversation for the moment she looked around her. "Where are we?"

"On a roof." Regina answered.

"Where's Emma?" Snow inquired as she and Regina looked around the roof for any sight of the blonde. From what they could see. She wasn't there.

XXX

Emma shook her head from side to side as she woke up with a throbbing headache and blurry vision. It was a hangover and a rather large one at that. She opened her mouth to speak but at the taste of cloth in her mouth she shut it just as quickly. Looking around she moved to find her arms bound behind the chair. She struggled a few moments before a young looking Chinese man stepped forth. She eyed him curiously as he removed the gag.

"Well, well, you finally awake." He spoke in broken English but Emma understood non-the-less.

"What do you want with me?" Emma quickly asked.

"Nobody screws my boss over. He not very happy with you."

Emma scrunched up her face in confusion as more Chinese men carrying weapons entered. She looked around the room. "I want to speak to this...boss of yours."

Another man, much older, possibly in his fifties stepped up to her. "And what is it you wish to ask of me?" His English was much less broken but still the accent made it a little hard to read what he was saying.

"Why am I tied up?"

"You destroyed my Warehouse."

"Warehouse?" Emma asked with a odd look.

Previous Night

"Run!" Emma called out as she lit fireworks in the thought to be abandoned Warehouse.

Regina, Snow and Emma took off with a loud laugh and giggle. Ten minutes later all three women turned to face the exploding Warehouse. It shot off with a loud bang and instead off just a few escaping fireworks that would create a light show. The Warehouse went up with a rather loud bang as pink, purple, blue, green, red and other assortments of colors lit the sky.

Regina, Snow and Emma looked down at the box in the drunken blonde Sheriff's hands. Emma spoke first. "That's some powerful shit!" She exclaimed as they all nod in their haze turning back to the light show.

Present

"Ooooh," Emma drew out before frowning. "That Warehouse."

The men just nodded.

XXX

Regina barged into their Penthouse Suite room, Snow behind her hesitantly bringing up the rear. They had spent a good twenty minutes scouring the roof top. Running back and forth but now luck had been established. So with a shake of their heads they had ran down the stairs that lead to the top level and down the hall to their room where they now stood.

"She isn't here!" Snow exclaimed as she entered the foyer to find a 'forcing' herself to be calm, Regina.

"I've noticed, Snow." Regina said through gritted teeth as she rubbed her temples to try and ease the throbbing headache.

Both women stopped upon the low growl heard coming from the shared bedroom, bathroom. With a look at one another they stepped over towards the bathroom pressed their ears against the door, listening. A loud roar rose from behind the door and both Regina and Snow bounced away from it.

"What the hell was that?!" Snow exclaimed.

"I don't know. You want to find out?" Regina asked once again through gritted teeth.

"We have to know what's in there." Snow pointed out to the brunette.

"What the fuck do you think is in there?!" Regina yelled, yep way too much time around Emma. "A teletubbie going ROAR!"

Snow's brow furrowed. "What's a teletubbie?"

Regina sighed, stood up, grasped Snow's wrist and pulled the woman out of the room and down the hall. Shutting the door behind her. Sure housekeeping was going to get a surprise when they opened the bathroom, but wasn't it their job? If not...ah well, they probably wouldn't live to question it or complain. Regina gave a small shrug to the thought and continued dragging Snow down the hall. "What's the last thing you remember?" She asked as she punched in the elevator button.

Snow thought about that for a second.

Previous Night

Regina sat at a BlackJack table with Snow on one side and Emma on the other. They had each walked in with five thousand and now three hours later together they held a total of fifty thousand. They were nearing the limit that the Casino would start questioning.

Snow threw her cards on the table clearing yet another cache of chips. She smiled and giggled under her haze of drunkenness. She folded her arms around the poker chips and drew them towards her body. It was then that Emma noticed the penguin suit dressed Casino guards stepping up beside them.

"Ladies, can we have a word?"

Regina, Snow and Emma looked around at one another.

Regina thought about it. Not for long as she quickly screamed. "Screw it!" Flipped the table much like one would do in a movie, bounded over it and tore through the Casino with a brief but loud, "Run!" Thrown over her shoulder at the two other women who split in different directions.

They tore through the Casino and quickly joined up with one another at the slot machines. Sprinting down an isle they came face to face with three guards at the end of the isle, turning they came face to face with another three at the other end of the isle. They were blocked off.

Snow glanced around and quickly offered up. "Ever seen Tarzan?" She asked of the two women.

Regina shrugged. "Plenty. Henry loved the movie when he was younger."

Emma shrugged. "Always wanted to be Tarzan when I was five."

Together they nodded at each other and as the guards closed in they tore slot machines from their table onto the ground below causing a few guards to jump back as they scampered up the machines. Just as the guards leapt for them, they jumped for the Chandeliers, using each one to swing to another Chandelier until they could reach the second story balcony of the Casino. Clambering over the rails they pushed past waiters and waitresses all the while grabbing Champagne glasses and downing them in one go.

"Excuse me." Snow said as she moved through second floor guests.

"Coming through!" Emma called as she too moved through second floor guests to catch up to her mother.

"Move!" Regina ordered as she dodged and pushed past the second floor guests in front of the other two women.

They came to a halt at a window and turned to find guards in a semi-circle closing in.

"Nowhere left to go ladies!" One guard called from the pack.

"Fuck! We're done for!" Emma declared.

Regina shook her head. "Not yet we're not." She moved towards some of the guards and ran full out towards the window before leaping and jumping until she heard the window crack and shatter as she fell towards the large and deep fountain below.

Emma and Snow looked to one another. Shrugged and followed suit. The guards clambered up to the window to look out below.

"So long suckers!"

The guards glanced around at one another before one piped up. "What the fuck just happened?"

Present

Snow shrugged. "Apparently I'm really good at a game called BlackJack."

XXX

Emma laughed and laughed harder as the feather tickled the base of her bare feet. "Okay, okay I lied. I'm ticklish." She laughed harder and harder until the man holding the feather pulled away with a sigh.

"I don't think she knows anything boss."

"Of course she does!" The man countered, "You will tell us." The man motioned with a clenched fist, shaking it in her face or the torture will continue.

Emma smirked. "Do your worst."

The men looked around at each other and nodded. It was time to bring in the big guns. Two men left the room and quickly returned carrying a large machine.

"What's that?" Emma asked hesitantly.

The men quickly pushed ear plugs into their ears before popping open the top of the machine, placing a small round disk inside before shutting the top and pressing a tiny button. Emma cringed and cried out in pain. "Oh no! Please, anything but that!" A few minutes into it and she screamed in pain. "God stop it! Stop it! Please! I beg off you!"

The men laughed. They couldn't hear the screams.

XXX

Regina and Snow exited the hotel entrance, out onto the streets of the Strip. It was beautiful even in the day time. It was gorgeous and mysterious at night, but in the day it was beautiful and still held an air of mystery and air of intrigue.

"So where do w-"

"Hey!"

Regina and Snow turned to find a Chinese man looking them over.

"Are you two, the Mills?" He asked the two women.

"Why?" Regina asked casually, standing at ready while Snow stood at her own ready beside Regina.

The man pulled out an envelope and handed it over to the two women. "I'd advise having it ready by four this afternoon if you want to see your friend unharmed."

Regina and Snow looked towards one another before looking back to where the man had been standing only a few minutes before. He had vanished. Almost like Regina could, in thin air. They blinked a few times before bending to pick the envelope up. Regina elegantly opened the letter and pulled the note out.

Dear Mills

Have two hundred and fifty thousand US dollars ready for pick-up at the spot marked on the map found with this envelope. If your not there by four. We will continue with our unpleasant treatment of your blonde friend.

Regards

Chinese Weapons Dealers

P.S. Otherwise known as Chang Wu

"Really?" Regina asked in disbelief.

Snow nodded. "What idiot actually puts his name on ransom note?" She shook her head. "Worst kidnapper ever."

"No I meant, this guy used 'your' instead of 'you're'. Seriously. It's so obvious." Regina rolled her eyes at the grammatical error.

Snow gave her a blank look and blinked in disbelief. She finally snapped out of it and dragged Regina by her elbow, "Come on. We need to take this too the police station."

XXX

Emma cried out in pain. Willing the music to stop. "I can't take it anymore!" She yelled, "I'll tell you whatever you wish to know!" She yelled over the Justin Bieber music that echoed throughout the room. She just wanted it to stop, anymore and she was going to go insane. She couldn't hold any longer. "Make it stop!"

The boss of the group nodded to another man who dutifully turned the agonizing noise off.

Emma relaxed. "Oh thank you! Thank you!"

"Now. Who are you working for?"

"Step away from the prisoner!" An American voice sounded through the large room.

Emma tried to catch a glimpse over her shoulder at who was talking but couldn't. She prayed it was help. She needed help. Instead she watched as the men in front of her pulled weapons and raised them taking aim. She froze up and suddenly bullets went flying, she squeezed her eyes shut. One hit her and immediately she cringed waiting for death to take her. A few seconds passed. A few minutes. She finally opened her eyes and looked down at herself, at the stinging pain; she was covered in red...red paint? "What the fuck?" Emma looked around the room to see two very different sides involved in an all out paintball shootout.

Rocking herself. Emma tipped herself over onto the floor, connecting with a loud thud, not loud enough to raise suspicion but enough to hurt. She groaned as she rocked back and forth into an awkward thudding bouncy roll. "Waaaa!" She yelled as she felt herself fall and fall and fall and fall and fall and...she wasn't falling she was hovering on a large fan that kept her floating mid air. "What the hell?"

XXX

"Officer!" Snow yelled in panic as she threw herself into the LVPD Police Station. "I need help my daughter has been kidnapped!" She declared to the room full of officer's and a few men and women being arrested.

"Hey that's them!" One of the men cuffed in the metallic cuffs declared as he looked at them.

A woman nodded . "Yeah, those are the two of the three that took our bus and loaded strippers onto it and plowed through the streets singing Kelly Clarkson. We don't even know the damn singer!" The woman declared as she looked at the two women before her.

Snow and Regina looked at one another in confusion.

Previous Night

Emma and Snow followed Regina backs pressed to the side of the bus as they moved closer to the door of the large neon purple bus with neon pink lights underneath. Regina quickly scampered up and into the bus with Emma and Snow quickly following. She pressed the button that shut the door to the bus.

Emma hesitantly asked. "Do you even know how to drive a bus?"

"Miss Swan, I am perfectly capable of dr-" A loud crash sounded and all three women cringed at the cop car Regina had jumped rammed from behind. It's trunk and back indented nearly to the middle of the vehicle. "Maybe not." She whispered.

Emma turned to find the owners of the bus and police running towards them. "To late now!" Emma declared leaning over Regina, putting the bus into reverse and putting her foot over Regina's pressing down on the accelerator. They backed up and away from the cop car watching in the rear view mirror as Snow fell backwards on her ass and cop cars from behind the bus launched themselves out of the way. Donuts and coffee mugs flying through the air. Switching gears she jerked the bus forward and together Emma and Regina tore through the streets with Snow who every now and then tried to stand only to once again land on her ass.

They drove a few miles till they reached a bright pink neon lit bar. It had three women dressed as flamingoes on the sign above the bar, doing some sought of kick. Regina pulled over and in a rush flamingo strippers entered the bus with chuckles and giggles. They quickly helped Snow up and dragged the pixie haired woman to the back off the bus. Regina and Emma looked at one another, shrugged, shut the bus door once again and drove away.

At least thirty minutes later and Emma and Regina sat on the shoulders of the strippers below. Vodka bottles raised above their heads as they yelled Kelly Clarkson's 'My Life Would Suck Without You' at the top of their lungs. Snow sat at the driver's seat, driving the bus through the Strip, while crying hysterically, pouring her heart out to the group of sympathetic strippers that patted her on the back and nodded in understanding.

"You got a piece of me!" Emma yelled. "And honestly! My life would suck without you!"

"Said you'd never come back! But here you are again!" Regina yelled.

The song was completely out of order but neither cared as they linked arms at the elbow and drank their vodka.

Snow let out a rather loud sob as she yanked the wheel to the right. "And then he...he...he..."

"Let it out honey," one of the strippers nicknamed, Patty, patted her on the back.

"He told me he'd always find me!" She yelled, "But he was with another woman! Another woman! Now I know we were cursed and everything! But another woman!"

Present

The cops in the station turned to the women and one pointed with a curious expression on his face. "Wait a second. I know you. You two are, two of the three women that spray painted the Sphinx's nose."

Regina and Snow once again looked at each other. Turned to face the inside of the police station and all the faces now looking at them. "Time to go." Regina said quickly and in a high pitched voice before herself and Snow made a hasty exit, police and cuffed people after them.

XXX

Emma waited until she heard footsteps start after her and quickly she found the bag ripped off her head. She blinked as fluorescent light hit her eyes. She squeezed them shut in pain. God, could this get worse. A rather large man stepped up to her as another medium sized man dressed impeccably, almost enough to rival that off Regina...almost. No one could actually rival the woman; she was beautiful and sexy in her clothes. She exuded power in anything she wore. A small smile tipped the corner of Emma's lips at the thought of the brunette, she hoped her and her mother were okay and not mixed up in this craziness.

XXX

"I think we lost them." Snow said.

"We lost them a while ago, Snow." Regina retorted as they moved down the footpath of the Strip. "We need to find a bank. The police surely will arrest us instead of helping. Which means it's up to us and I would prefer to do this with minimum bloodshed."

Snow followed tightly along beside Regina. "Right but if it comes down to it, Regina, I won't blame you, and I don't think anyone would."

"Because it benefits you and them." Regina said coldly, hard as she glared at Snow pulling to a stop. She quickly steeled the expression, shook her head and started down the footpath again. They both didn't need this right now. Emma was missing.

Snow got the memo and kept her mouth shut until she noticed the large sign that read 'Bank' in big letters. "There!" She exclaimed jumping up and down on the spot as she pointed towards the sign and the building.

Regina looked at the big sign and rolled her eyes. "Congratulations, Snow, you found the only bank in Las Vegas with a big sign saying 'Bank'." She said sarcastically with a roll of her eyes.

Snow crossed her arms, pouted and said. "I found it."

Another roll of her eyes and Regina took hold of Snow's elbow and pulled her along. "Come on."

They entered the bank with a jingle as the bell above the door sounded as the door both opened and closed.

"Afternoon ladies, how can I-" he paused looked them over and started, "Wait I know you two. You were two off three that came in here and convinced my daughter to run off and marry that...that...that woman." He spat in disgust. "What the hell do you think you are doing here?"

Regina looked around the small what seemed to be family owned bank and quickly spoke up in her 'all business' tone as Emma would refer to it. She prayed that the blonde was okay and nothing serious had happened to her. "I need money and I need it immediately."

"I'm not giving you one cent!" He shouted. "You can get the hell out of here and never come back! Go! Before I call the cops!"

"What will it take to get you to give us money?" Snow quickly asked before Regina could give the man a piece of her mind and go in search of another bank. They really didn't have time. Actually less than four hours.

The man paused and thought for a second before looking back at them. "My daughter's wedding. The wedding you two and the blonde convinced her was a good idea is happening this morning. If you can convince her not to marry that woman, I may be inclined to give you as much money as you want."

"Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?" Regina asked.

The man stared at them wide eyed but nodded nonetheless.

Regina sighed. "Very well. We have a deal." She felt like Rumple or like she was accepting one of his deals, she cringed at the thought. "Where is this Chapel?"

XXX

"Do you know why you are here?" The medium built man asked with an Italian accent.

Emma shook her head. Preferring to remain silent. As long as there was no Bieber she could manage.

"You, your girlfriend and your friend cost me five hundred thousand American dollars." He told her. "I don't know how you did it but I know you cheated me, I don't like being cheated."

Previous Night

"Come on!" Snow yelled as she struggled to hold the woman on top of her up. Regina was down on her hands and knees besides her focusing her attention on keeping the women upright and none of them toppling over.

"Tada!" Emma called as she stood on top of the pyramid that the group of women had made. She did a little dance on top of pyramid as some of the crowd groaned and yelled throwing down their betting slips. Most yelled and cheered as the women slowly climbed back down. "Underground, cheerleading, who knew such a thing, existed?"

Snow nodded, "Who knew it would be so much fun?"

Regina dusted of her pant legs. "Next time I'm on top."

Emma wiggled her eyebrows suggestively. "You can be on top anytime you like."

Regina looked at her in disbelief. "Really? Really, Emma?" She pointed over to Snow, "With your mother standing right here?"

Emma turned to her mother and quickly told her with a mischievous twinkle in hers eyes and smirk on her face. "Mom, block your ears."

Present

"What are you going to do to me?" Emma asked looking around the room at the big guys.

He snapped his fingers and the men exited the room. "Be prepared to experience the most horrible pain ever."

"Nothing's worse than Bieber." She declared outright.

The man leant in closer as the two men returned with a TV. "This will be excruciating. You will beg me for Bieber but I will not relent until you tell me where my money is and how you did it."

XXX

Regina and Snow entered the room. It was a small apartment like building that housed numerous businesses, including the all night wedding Chapel that they were now currently standing.

"Hey! Look who it is!" One of the men dressed up in what Regina could tell was a rental suit, made his way over to them as he pointed for the other workers to take notice.

"What did we do now?" Snow sighed.

The man looked around for a few seconds before his brow furrowed. "Where's objection girl!"

Regina and Snow shared a look before turning back to the man. "Who?"

"Uh," he clenched his fist in thought before shaking his head and turning to one of the other suit dressed men. "Hey, Carl, what did objection girl look like again?"

The man named Carl looked over at them and answered. "She was blonde, her eyes changed from blue to green stood a little taller than," he waved at Regina, "the woman she was in love with." He shook his head, "I feel sorry for that lass."

Regina and Snow tensed and this time they refused to share a look as Snow question. "What exactly was she objecting too?"

The man laughed. "You two getting married of course." He continued laughing before noticing that they weren't he stopped, sighed and turned to the men again. "We got another couple who drunkenly married."

Regina stepped up to him before motioning between her and Snow. "We're married."

He shrugged and nodded. "Yep. Well sought of she signed with Snow White, not actually a legal name and-"

"Hey Gina! MM!"

Regina and Snow turned their attention to the interruption and the man took this as his sign to vanish. He did so in thin air much like the man who had delivered the letter. Regina turned back to him, "Where'd he go?"

"It's Vegas," the girl spoke. "Magicians are everywhere here." She smiled brightly, "I'm glad you're here. I want to thank you for convincing me that 'true love' is something we should grab while we can. I can't imagine marrying anyone else." She looked over lovingly at the woman she was set to marry. "I love her more than anything."

Regina opened her mouth to speak but Snow quickly slapped a hand over it, a death glare was shot her way at the motion and Snow believed she wouldn't live to see her plane flight the next night. Still she smiled at the young girl. "We just wanted to wish you luck. Everyone deserves a happy ending."

Regina's temper grew. Oh how she wished she had have dropped Snow right at this moment. "No w-" Regina tried but a second hand was clamped over her mouth. She was going to murder this woman and bury her body in the Nevada desert, somewhere near Area 51.

The girl beamed brightly before looking up at Regina. "It was really you and Emma, Gina. You two helped us realize the love we have for one another." She smiled lightly, "I'm so glad that she chucked a fit last night and stopped you two from marrying each other."

Regina tore Snow's hands away from her mouth and inquired, "You mean..." she waved a finger between her and Snow "...aren't married?"

The girl shook her head. "Nope like Jim said you signed with Snow White, got close but it didn't pass. Also, Emma kinda went mad and burnt the page to the ground before lifting Regina over her shoulders and carrying her out all the while screaming at you." She pointed at Snow.

Regina and Snow released a sigh of relief. That was good news, but it still didn't solve their kidnapped Emma.

"Also, guys, we really don't need five hundred thousand dollars." The girl shook her head. "It's too much of a present. We want you to have it back."

Regina and Snow shared a look and simultaneously mouthed to one another 'five hundred thousand'. Turning back to look at the girl Regina quickly asked before Snow could shut her up again. "Five hundred thousand?"

The girl nodded. "In cash as well."

Regina smiled. "Well I suppose we could take half of it, you still deserve a marriage gift. From us to you."

The girl nodded enthusiastically. "Of course, sure thing." She waved them over to the woman she was marrying and quickly pulled out a bag from underneath the seat. Regina and Snow grinned happily. They were close to finding Emma.

XXX

"You know this ain't so bad." Emma said as she ate the handful of popcorn one of the men held out in his hand. Her own were useless and tied behind her back, so she ate from his.

The big man cried softly beside her, while the boss whimpered silently behind her. They were currently watching Bambi; it was at 'THE' scene...that sad scene that tore at heart strings. Emma looked around her. "Wusses." She huffed and shook her head, returning to the movie, another handful of popcorn being shoved up to her face as the man cried quietly to himself.

XXX

Regina pulled to a stop at the designated spot on the map. Two black SUV's already sat quietly in the desert sand of Nevada. She stepped out first, sunglasses covering her eyes. Snow stepped out afterwards, her own sunglasses covering her eyes. They did the badass walk over to the middle of the circle the three vehicles formed.

Four men jumped out of their vehicle, one of them popped open the back seat of one of the SUV's and pulled out a bag covered figure. Regina cracked her neck and Snow cracked her knuckles as the seven of them stood now facing each other.

"You got the money?" The man that had delivered the envelope asked.

Regina nodded and threw the duffel bag down at his feet. "Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Cash." She told the man in her Mayoral tone. "Now give us Emma."

The man nodded and another pushed the bag covered figure towards them. Snow caught them and quickly the men grabbed the duffel and jumped in their vehicles, revving them up and by the time Snow had pulled off the bag from the figures head, they were nearly out of sight.

XXX

"FREEZE BAMBI WANNABES!"

Emma jumped as did the other men. She hopped into a circle until she was facing the rather rude interaction. "Who the hell are you? You're interrupting the movie. Shut the fuck up!" She shook her head and it was just getting to the good part.

"You Emma Swan?"

Emma shrugged. "I'm thinking about changing it."

"Grab her!" The same man ordered and in rappelled black, balaclava dressed figures. They took hold of her and vanished in a cloud of smoke.

The men in the room looked around and once the smoke started to settle they noticed that the blonde was missing along with the attackers. "Fucking Vegas, magicians."

XXX

"Who the hell are you?!" Snow asked wide eyed at the man before her. "You're definitely not my daughter."

"Ya think." Regina retorted with a role of her eyes as she removed the gag. "Now who are you?"

"My name is Khan Glukhovsky," he told her.

Regina let out a frustrated scream, turned away and turned back to them man. "Run." She said deathly cold and emotionless.

"What?" He asked in his Russian accent.

"Run." She repeated.

He didn't question her again at the cold eyes that were staring back at him. His feet threw him into a fitful run. He ran for his life, dirt kicking up behind him, he felt and more than likely looked like one of those American cartoons where the legs were moving but they weren't getting anywhere fast enough.

Regina kicked the tire of her car and let out another frustrated scream.

"We'll find her." Snow said gently.

Regina turned those cold eyes onto Snow. "This is your entire fault."

Snow jerked backwards in shock. "Mine. How's it mine?"

Regina threw her hands into the air. "I don't know but somehow, someway it is, it's always your fault when something in my life goes good! You come along and screw it straight up!"

"Yeah, well, that streak goes both ways!" Snow yelled right back.

"Oh!" She let out a manic laugh, "You want to get into this now?!"

"Why not?!" Snow retorted, "Now's the best time!"

"Fine." Regina huffed, "You screwed me over! More than once! You've done horrendous things and yet I'm classified as the Evil one!"

"You killed people!"

"You use people, to kill other people!"

"You know as well as I do she deserved it!"

"What about Daniel?! Did he?!"

Snow's demeanor and tension quickly left her body. She looked down at the boots of her feet. "No." She whispered. "What happened to us Regina? We used to be close. I idolized you."

"And I trusted you!" Regina breathed heavily, heaving for the air burning her lungs. Rubbing a hand over her face, she kicked her Hummer's tire. She really should invest in a portable punching bag...or just use Snow. She shook her head. "Why?" She asked softly.

Snow looked up. "Excuse me?"

Regina's back hit the Hummer and she slid down the vehicle to the ground. "Why'd you do it? I trusted you and you betrayed me. Why?"

"Your mother she...she was rather convincing. I believed she wanted what you wanted and I didn't want you to lose your mother like I did. Back then I didn't know what Cora did, what she was up too, I just...I...I just thought that I was doing the right thing." Snow stepped over to Regina but made sure there was enough distance between them that if she needed to run she'd have a good chance...well if Regina didn't use magic.

Regina looked at her shoes, tears slowly falling from her eyes. "I trusted you. Now he's gone. I've lost my happy ending." She looked at her hands, the very hands that had taken so many lives in her blind quest for vengeance. "Look at me. I've lost everything and here I am crying in front of the one who took it all from me." She shook her head and huffed at the irony of the situation. "You've finally won." She looked up at Snow, "You win. You beat the Evil Queen. Cracked her beyond repair."

Snow frowned and finally braved closer, she pressed her back against the Hummer and slid down beside the brunette. Reaching over she gently took Regina's hand in hers giving it a small squeeze. "I can never go back in time and change what I've done and truthfully I don't want to."

Regina looked over to Snow, anger in her eyes. If this was her attempt at a speech, it was a pretty pathetic one.

Snow shook her head and grasped Regina's hand tighter with both of her own this time. She wasn't going to let Regina pull away and bottle up all that anger once again, only to have a dormant volcano waiting to erupt whenever she returned to Storybrooke. "A lot of good things came out of this. Henry," she watched as the corners of Regina's lips twitched in a small smile at the mention of the shared son. She gave a small smile of her own. "Emma."

Regina's attention snapped up to Snow.

"Let's face it. If I had never have said anything, you would never have met Emma and I know that deep down inside as much as she annoys the hell out of you. You care about her." She smiled a little more, "Maybe even a little more."

Regina looked away. She didn't say anything. She didn't know what to say. She felt so small in front of her mortal enemy. Someone she fought ever so long with. She was tired. Exhausted really. It had taken so much out of her. Out of both of them.

"I saw you two on the Ferris Wheel at the Carnival the other day." Again her smile widened, "Emma looked so...content. I haven't been around her long but whenever I saw her she looked somewhat hollow, as if she had to push to stay here on this Earth every day, but I never wanted to believe before but every time she sees you or your see her. Yes, even the times you both are being bitches or assholes, you both have this flame ignited within you that lights a fuse and you both crackle around each other until the explosion happens. You are dangerous together but together you had feelings, good or bad feelings. You still had them and it was the only time I saw her look full and not having to try. On that Ferris Wheel she was happy and she might not know it but, she loves you."

Regina scoffed. "I'm the Evil Queen, dear, in case you've forgotten."

Snow shook her head. "That day on the Ferris Wheel, I didn't see Regina. I saw the very girl whose happy ending I took away from her. I saw the Regina from before she allowed the manipulations and games to be played. I saw the real you and Emma, Emma sees that deep down inside of you, no matter where you are or however you're acting."

Regina squeezed her eyes shut. She didn't want to listen anymore. She just wanted the pain to fade. To vanish. She was so very tired. So very exhausted.

Snow gripped the hands tighter. "As I said I can't change the past and I won't. I'll never be able to take back what I've done but. I'll be able to make it up to you. But I would like to start again. So what do you say?"

Regina looked towards Snow. So very tired. So very exhausted. She nodded, it was time to start again, the past was the past and nothing was to be gained from continuous fighting.

Snow released Regina's grip and extended her hand. "I'm Snow White."

Regina let out a small chuckle amidst the sniffles as she took Snow's hand and shook it. "Regina...Regina Mills."

With that being said Snow brought Regina to her shoulder and the brunette did something she would never have expected from her. Never would have imagined. Never in her wildest dreams and thoughts would she have imagined would be happening. But when she did it, Snow didn't release, didn't let go, just clung tighter to the woman letting her own tears stream down her face.

There in the middle of the heated desert of Nevada. A war so very old had been stopped and Regina Mills cried.

XXX

Emma groaned as the bag was lifted of her head. She was really getting tired of getting thrown from one group to another. Seriously, how many groups could you possibly piss off in one night? Emma sighed and upright asked the question. "So what did I do this time?"

"You found my crop did you not?" A grey haired man with a thick Russian accent asked.

Emma sighed. First Chinese, then Italians, now Russians...what's next? The United Nations? "Crop?"

"Yes, my crop on the outskirts of Vegas."

Emma strained her mind back to think of the night before. She nodded. "Oh the Jelly bean crop!"

The Russian man turned to one of his henchmen who shrugged but offered a suggestion in Russian. She didn't understand and frankly she couldn't care less.

The Russian she suspected was the boss nodded. "Yes, my Jelly bean crop as you put it."

XXX

"Think if I opened my door I'd hit him?" Regina asked over at Snow who gave her a look that told her 'be nice'.

"He might know something."

With a sigh, Regina pulled over and jumped out of the car. The man stared wide eyed at them before taking of sprinting. "Hey! Get back here!" She yelled and quickly tore after him. "Stop running!"

"Crazy woman, stay 'way from me." He ran as fast as his legs would take him.

"Shut up and stop!" She yelled before lunging and spear tackling the man to the ground. She rolled away from him and picked him up by the scruff of his collar. Snow had finally made it over and Regina released the man.

"Khan right?" Snow asked gently of the man whose eyes were filled with fear.

The man nodded. Keeping his eyes on the brunette.

"Do you know a blonde woman?" Snow asked pleadingly.

He nodded. "Saw her but didn't speak to her. The Italians grabbed her before hand and I heard the men who had me talking on the phone. The Russians have her now."

"Russians?" Regina widened her eyes in a hope of tension release.

The man nodded. "Yes, Russians. They have a small Warehouse. They probably took her there."

"Where is it?" Regina inquired.

"I can take you there."

Regina nodded. "Now."

XXX

The Russian man pulled out his gun and shot her once. The paintball didn't break open and it stung. It really hurt especially at such a close range. She could feel the welt starting to form and knew it was forming over a previous one that she had gotten from their Paintball escape a few days ago. Yeah, she really was over paintball.

"Dude, they're just Jelly beans!" She exclaimed.

"Just Jelly beans?" He gave her a curious look.

"Yes, red, purple, green, white, black, you know Jelly friggin' beans. Those sugary treats. Now I'm not exactly how you plan on growing Jelly beans but I'd hate to be the one to tell...no really, but Jelly beans don't grow on plants." Emma said with a slight wince of pain.

The Russian turned to his henchmen in surprise. Turning back to Emma he asked, "You mean real Jelly beans?"

Emma nodded. "What the hell did you think I meant?

"Well you were in trouble with the Italian underground cheerleading mob and there was the Chinese Paint Dealers." He shrugged, "So we thought."

XXX

"There!" He pointed, "Now may I go?"

Regina nodded cut his bonds and ordered, "Now get out!"

He nodded jumped out and preceded to run.

"Never going to lose that are you?" Snow asked.

Regina shrugged innocently. "Some things you just adopt for life."

Snow chuckled and together they exited the Hummer. They made their way along the dirt path up to the Warehouse in the far distance. As they got closer Snow asked, "What now?" There were men, lots of men surrounding the Warehouse all armed.

Regina took a deep breath and proceeded. "Guns blazing." With that they shared a nod. Screamed a battle cry and charged.

They sped through the halls dodging incoming bullets as they ran corner for corner and Regina wished she had have kept up with her morning runs she had started for the first year in Storybrooke. It would have come in handy. Snow on the other hand, had had more than her fair share of running and this was nothing new to her.

XXX

"Wait!" Emma declared screwing up her face in confusion. "They were illegally shipping and dealing in Paintball supplies? For an illegal paintball tournament." She said slowly making sure she was getting all of it correct. She shook her head at the nods, "How does that even make sense?"

Regina barged through the door, Snow behind her and a group of men hot on their tails. Shutting the door behind them they grabbed the nearest filing cabinet pushed it over and used it to block the door. In deep breaths they turned to face the new threat. There Emma sat tied to a chair. Regina and Snow ran their eyes over the occupants and a plan almost immediately hit Regina as the man clung to the gun in his hand. Emma took note that they didn't have any idea it was just a paintball gun.

"I challenge you to a duel!" Regina dared as she held her chin up.

"What are you doing?" Snow asked wide eyed.

"Be ready." Regina whispered out of the corner of her mouth to Snow.

"You challenge me?" The man asked.

"Yes." Regina said with force. "If I win me and my friends walk away unscathed, if I lose do what you will with them."

"Regina." Snow hissed.

"Trust me," Regina whispered back at the woman. Looking her in the eye. Trust was a very fragile thing. A very fragile first step.

Snow watched the eyes flicker with a promise. Whatever Regina was up to the woman was sure it would work and Snow had no proof that it wouldn't. Where the Evil Queen would use force and magic to get what she wanted, Regina had been stuck in a world that didn't have magic and had only recently gotten it back but while she hadn't had it she had, had to rely on planning, plotting, ingenuity and her intelligence. She was a woman who was not to be messed with when she had a plan mapped out in her head. Also, Snow owed her this much. She nodded subtly but Regina saw it.

Turning back to the Russian man she looked him dead in the eye. "Are the terms accepted?"

The Russian man looked around at his own men and shrugged before looking back at the beautiful brunette. "Sure."

They faced off close together. Emma was at the far end that Regina would walk too and Snow stood close beside, paint guns raised at the two of them. Only Regina and Snow didn't know that. God, Emma wished she could tell them. Did she mention? She was so over paintball. Paint period actually.

With a nod they turned and started their stride. Regina closed in on Emma and Snow and when she reached them, she turned as they prepared to fire. Like an all out Wild West Showdown. "Now!" She screamed, dropped the gun and took hold of Emma and Snow and quickly poofed them out of the room.

The men stood their wide eyed at the spot the women had been at only seconds ago. "Vegas, magicians." The Russian man whispered in disbelief with a small sigh as he shook his head.

XXX

Regina, Snow and Emma had arrived back at the hotel after an all out day of looking for Emma and an hour and a half long drive back from the Warehouse. Regina rolled her neck releasing tension built up in quantities. Snow cracked her knuckles and Emma chatted wildly about her day and how she had a run in with Illegal Chinese Paintball Dealers, Italian Underground Cheerleading Mob and Russian Jelly Bean Crop Growers.

Finally after a few minutes of the three of them stepping into their Penthouse Suite, Emma turned to Regina and her mother and noticed. "What are you two wearing?" Emma asked in shock at the sight before her.

Regina and Snow only then took in their attire.

Regina was dressed in bright pink and purple poker dot pants, one sock on and one sock of, one red shoe, one blue shoe, a bright yellow shirt and a rainbow colored vest. Snow didn't look any better than she did but instead she was dressed in a bright blue shirt, red and green pants that had lights that lit up every time she moved, her shoes were pink and squeaked with every movement and she wasn't wearing any socks.

"You don't look any better." Snow retorted to her daughter as both her and Regina folded their arms looking very much alike.

Emma looked down at herself, never having taken in her attire during the commotion. She was wearing SpongeBob boxer shorts and a Dora the Explorer T-shirt. Her one shoe that was tied to her right foot lit up. She looked up at the other two women giving her the 'speak for yourself' look. Once again they resembled one another. She smiled lightly, they could have been sisters.

Finally Regina unfolded her arms and quietly spoke. "We will never speak of this again. Ever." No one said anything, a silent agreement. That their crazy night in Vegas would...as the saying went; what happens in Vegas. Stays in Vegas.

XXX

The next day they spent the day taking photos around Vegas, Regina marked her Bucket List journal and showed Snow some of the contents; they did everything to avoid anybody they may have screwed over. Which apparently appeared to be the majority of Vegas. But as night came, Regina drove them to the airport where they now stood just before the actual terminal.

"Goodbye Snow." Regina said with a small smile, "Be careful." She added.

Snow took a step forward towards Regina. "Come back Regina. Once you're done if you must but...just come back."

Regina looked around Snow towards Emma who stood hands in pockets rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet. "I'm sure Emma will return once she gets sick of me."

Snow scoffed, "Emma can be pretty stubborn when she wants to be."

"Really? Now that's a surprise." Regina added sarcastically but she knew the under meaning, the message between the words.

Snow chuckled briefly. With a shrug, "Well let's just say Storybrooke is pretty dull and boring without you around."

Regina gave a small genuine smile. "Look after Henry for me."

Emma watched as Snow pulled Regina to her and hugged her. What surprised her more than that was the fact that Regina enveloped her mother in her own hug. It lasted a few minutes before they pulled away, shared another smile and Regina nodded to the woman and moved away to allow Snow and Emma to have a moment.

"It's been a ball." Snow said as she stepped up to her daughter, "I don't think your Dad is going to believe even half of it."

Emma laughed. Yes, she didn't think he would either. "We'll send you the photos."

"Thanks. I think I need to make a scrapbook for our adventures."

Emma nodded and quickly looked down at her feet. This was awkward for her. She never really got attached to people she couldn't leave behind without a word but this wasn't just anyone, this was Mary-Margaret, Snow White, her Mom.

"Be gentle with her."

Emma looked up from her shoes to her mother.

"Bring back the real Regina from me. I know she's still in there; she just needs a little push from somebody as stubborn as her. Somebody who cares about her." Snow told her in a small voice barely above a whisper.

Emma gave a quick look over to Regina who had vanished over to the coffee booth and was picking out two different takeaway coffee cups. Turning back to her mother she asked in a small voice of her own. "You think it's possible to feel something twice in one life?"

Snow shrugged, "I don't know, but it's worth a try. Imagine if, you later on in life found out it was possible and you skipped this chance. You'll hate yourself. Don't live out your life in fear." She shook her head, "Don't make mistakes. Don't not talk about things. All it does is ruin your life." She hugged her daughter.

Emma clung to her like her life depended on her. For the first time she really felt like she was Mary-Margaret's-Snow White's daughter and she didn't feel odd at all.

"Take care of her." Snow pulled back, "And remember your father and I and Henry, love you so very much and we miss you."

Emma nodded and sniffed wiping the tears at her eyes. "Right back at you, tell Henry I'll be home as soon as possible." Looking over at Regina she watched as the woman strode back over to them two coffee cups in hand. She paused a small distance away, "I won't be alone."

The three said their goodbyes once again and waited until Snow passed through the gates and was out of sight before Regina handed Emma her coffee cup and they made their way out of the airport.

Out of curiosity Emma asked. "So what happened last night?" Emma hoped Regina knew as she and Regina made their way towards the Hummer. "I hardly remember a thing."

"Well apparently we ripped off and destroyed a Casino. We rammed a police car. Stole a neon purple and pink bus. Had strippers on board and drove through the town disastrously. We got in trouble with the law." Regina finished, that was all she could remember, she was sure there was more but she couldn't remember it. Pausing she held up her hand as she stepped up beside the Hummer, drivers side. Emma rounded to the passenger's side as Regina brought up...casually. "Oh, I also almost married your mother."

Emma jerked her head upwards. "What?"

Regina waved her hand dismissively. "Don't fret it didn't pass through. So nothing to fear, you and I are not related."

"Really?" Emma asked.

Regina thought for a moment before shrugging. "Apparently your mother signed with Snow White and you burnt the page." She said casually, "I'm sought of glad you did. Imagine being married to her and always having to say 'I will always find you'." Regina shuddered at the thought.

"So..." she waved a finger between the two of them "...not related?"

Regina shook her head.

Emma let out a sigh of relief and thanked whatever god was listening before she slipped into the Hummer with Regina. All was good. Just the two of them. All was as it should be.

And there you have it. That's what you get when I have a massive migraine that refuses to vanish, am pre-occupied with thoughts of tonight's episode, have some papers I have to go over, am helping a million different people with their fanfictions (but I do enjoy doing so) and am becoming addicted to Tumblr. Also, I have gotten about four hours sleep in two days. I may bring Snow back in a future chapter; she's fun to write with. Hope it was good for you. Good news though...next chapter be prepared for the return of the Powell's. Will they get their revenge on Emma and Regina or will Emma and Regina come out on top once again? Who will crush who in the next chapter? Well you'll just have to wait and see.