T/W for some violence

Chapter eighteen

Regina blinked a few times and looked around the room once her girlfriend leaned back in her chair.

There was a time when she wouldn't have imagined that there would be so many people gathered around her sick bed, especially considering Snow White and Prince Charming could be counted in their ranks. But now, all she saw around her was her family, she had her parents, Emma and now both of her children.

At the last thought, her eyes immediately trained upon the crib where Tamsin appeared to have slept through the commotion of her mother splitting her heart in two.

She then noticed something that probably should have been the first thing she registered, "Snow…" she began, she wasn't quite sure what to ask, mostly because it was fairly obvious why the woman was in a wheelchair, mostly because she had witnessed all of it.

Snow smiled weakly and was about to explain, until the former Evil Queen interrupted and said, "do you have any idea of where Zelena took him?"

A shocked silence fell over the room and Emma eventually asked, "how do you…"

Regina rolled her eyes and replied, "I will explain later, we have bigger issues, wouldn't you agree?"

The blonde just nodded and said, "we were hoping that you would be able to help save him."

Brown eyes fell on the black arm bound that her girlfriend had been forced to wear and she instantly softened. She knew it couldn't have been easy to choose between her son and brother, and as selfish as it was, she was rather happy that she would have a chance to get a shot at her sister after what she tried to do to Tamsin. It was then that her eyes trained upon Henry who was smiling uncontrollably at the fact she was awake. Her eyes fell down to his neck where there was a very noticeable cut. She had seen what Zelena had tried to do to her son, but seeing the results in person made her blood boil.

"How do you suppose I'll be able to help?" she sighed turning back to Emma.

"Magic," the saviour replied as if it were obvious.

"It takes light magic to take that witch," the brunette pointed out.

"We have a theory about that actually," Cora announced and her daughter looked at her expectantly. "You were able to protect Tamsin with an act of True Love, plus you now share a heart with the saviour, by all rights, your magic should be a mixture of light and dark."

At the news, Regina swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood up with all the confidence that most people who woke up from comas usually lacked.

"Let's go then," she said after pulling the arm band off Emma in one swift motion, she began walking towards the door.

"Do we have a plan?" Emma whispered, she was aware that she probably did it closer to Regina's ear than was necessary, but she couldn't help but crave closeness after the past couple days of hell.

"I think stopping my insane sister from opening a time portal will be fine for now," Regina laughed as she approached the barn that her parents had tracked a large pool of magical energy to. She was oddly relaxed despite the situation, it could have been because she had the saviour by her side with all of her power returned, or because the former Queen of Hearts and the Dark One was at the hospital protecting her children. Not even having Charming present irritated her as much as he usually did, even if he was understandably tense as they approached the place where the Wicked Witch had taken his youngest child.

"So we just fire wildly at her?" Emma chuckled, she had sincerely missed her girlfriend, she was sure she wouldn't be nearly as calm in this situation without the other woman present, mostly because she was pretty sure that the former Evil Queen would have kicked her sister's ass a long time ago had there not been that stupid rule about using light magic.

"Do you have something better?" the brunette returned with a smirk.

"Can we focus, please?" David sighed, he understood that Emma was happy to have Regina back, but they could exchange their yearning looks later.

"Sorry," Emma replied, and Regina chose to point out later that it almost as if her father had actually told her off.

Finally, the three of them snuck up to the entrance of the barn and found Zelena muttering the incantations with her four symbols at each point of the square she had drawn in the dirt. Regina and David's eyes each fell upon the baby wailing violently in a basket, but the saviour seemed to be focused on something else.

"Why is there a tray of dust?" Emma whispered.

Regina tried not to roll her eyes at the blonde's curiosity and replied, "I would imagine that it's the remains of my heart which she's using as a symbol of love. Now would you mind focusing?"

Emma nodded which caused her girlfriend to just shake her head in disapproval.

Through the distraction, none of them noticed that the mutterings of the witch had come to an abrupt end and she was staring straight at them, at least not until David nudged Emma and she and Regina's eyes each snapped up to look at the red head.

The woman's face seemed to be consumed by anger as she looked at her little sister and she finally said, "how is it fair that things always work out for you?"

The mayor raised her eyebrow at the other woman, she was sure that she was one step away from stamping her foot childishly, "I'm a very patient person," she replied sardonically.

Zelena huffed and turned to continue her spell only to have her outstretched arm engulfed in a purple glow, the witch's eyes widened and she spun on her heels, "that's impossible," she hissed.

Regina shook her head and replied, "its rather ironic that you're the one who gave me the opportunity to turn my magic from dark to light. Honestly, you can blame your defeat on yourself."

The red head clenched her free hand and quickly sent a blast of energy at the blonde man who had been trying to sneak towards his son. The prince was quickly sent flying into the wall and he fell to the floor unconscious the next moment. A green glow also engulfed the saviour rendering her unable to move from her position.

"You've chosen quite the rescue party, haven't you?"

Regina inspected the look on Emma's face as she looked over to her father and she instantly felt anger consume her, how dare the witch do something that hurt the woman she loved?

The next moment, the brunette sent a similar blast of energy towards her sister, sending her sprawling across the floor. Instantly, Emma was released from the spell and she ran across the barn to her father's side.

Zelena looked up as Regina approached her, and she tried to weakly protest even though she could already feel unconsciousness beginning to take her.

"Not…fair…"

The mayor ignored the older woman's protests and leaned down to rip the necklace from around her neck.

She heard someone scrambling to their feet behind her and looked over her shoulder to see Charming pick up the wailing child. After a moment, the boy began to quiet down, clearly he felt safe in his father's arms.

With a wave of her hand, Zelena disappeared in a cloud of smoke, without the pendant she was pretty sure that the holding cell would be sufficient to hold the Wicked Witch.

They collectively let out a sigh of relief and Charming said, "thank you, Regina."

A/N Hope you guys enjoyed.

One more chapter to go, hopefully it should be up soon :)