Emma bit her lip. She couldn't believe she was doing this. She dialed the number she knew by hard and waited while the phone ringed. It was only once before Regina answered.

"Emma?" Regina questioned.

Emma couldn't breathe for a moment. What should she say? She cleared her throat. "Um...yeah...it's me" She answered timidly.

"Why haven't you been answering my calls, and why have you been running from me?" Regina questioned/ scolded.

"I was...am...afraid" Emma admitted. She closed her eyes. Why on earth did she just say that.

"That...I need you to listen to me" Regina snapped.

"Yes ma'am" Was Emma's automatic response. So far this conversation made no sense. None what so ever. Emma wanted to yell at Regina. She wanted to shout. She wanted to tell her how much she broke her heart. How the idea of Regina not wanting her, not loving her made her sick. Emma hadn't thought about food, she couldn't. She didn't want any. She just wanted to lye in bed, and cry.

"Emma...I had to send you away. I'm going to tell you something, you may not believe, but I had to send you away, it was for your own safety"

"My safety?" Emma questioned. Safety from what, safety from whom? The only person who wanted to hurt her that she was aware of, was Regina.

"I told you to listen Emma" Regina snapped.

'see' Emma thought to herself. Maybe calling back was a bad idea after all. When Emma remained silent Regina continued. "I remember mentioning knowing your mother to you before in the past. Well, I really do know her. And in fact, so do you" Regina stated.

"I do?" Emma asked. "Who is she?"

"Miss Blanchard" Regina admits.

Emma listens, she hears Regina, but shes not sure what Regina's angle is. Miss Blanchard is not her mother. She's so...young...single...whose her father supposed to be? Leroy?

"That silence tells me that you don't believe me. But it's true. I've never lied to you. I would never lie to you" Regina states. Emma doesn't know what to think really. "Everyone in the town, is not from this...let's say world" Regina states. She don't think she can explain to Emma what a realm is. "That includes you, we are from the Enchanted Forrest"

"The Enchanted Forrest...from like the fair tales?" Emma asks in disbelief.

"I can assure you those are not tales. Your mother is indeed Snow White. I am the evil queen. Everyone you know, everyone you have met here in Storybrooke is someone different. They just don't remember because their cursed. I cursed them. Magic...magic is real. And you have it. Do you remember that bright light that came from you, it was magic, I thought you broke my curse somehow. That's why I sent you away. I can't protect myself without magic from all those angry peasants. I couldn't protect you. I didn't want you to get hurt, so I sent you away, and how do you repay me? By going to the person I told you to stay away from" Regina explained sternly. "But here's what you are going to do, you are going to return home, where you will make it up to me. I still love you. I still want you. You're still mine" She added angrily.

"But I..." Emma started. She wanted to go back to Regina as much as she didn't want to go back to her. She was torn. Torn between what she wanted, and torn between what she should do. She knew that she should run. She should run and never return. But she didn't want to. She wanted Regina. But at the same time, this was her moment, her moment to escape. To get over Regina. Time heals all wombs right? Even a broken heart?

"But nothing. I want you back here" Regina snaps.

It's Regina's tone that's making Emma want to run more that stay at the moment. Obeying Regina had become an habit, now she had to make an effort to choose for herself.

"Regina...I...I can't...you broke my heart when you told me to go away. I think you just want me back, so that you can hurt me before you throw me away again" Emma admits quietly and sadly.

The confession makes Regina regret sending Emma away. She don't want Emma to be sad. There's a part of her, the part she considers weak, that wants to be Emma to return, and to promise that everything is going to be okay, and just get Emma in her arms and love her, and never let go. Then, there's the other side. The side that growls with possessiveness. It's demanding whats rightfully hers. Emma. And it's winning. "I thought you might say that, I have something that may help you make the right decision"

"Wha-" Emma starts but is cut off again.

"Like I told you, I'm the evil queen dear. One of my many talents...is ripping out people's heart, using them to control what they do...or, my favorite, crushing them, while I watch them die" Regina states in an evil voice.

"What are you talking about?" Emma cries. Confused by Regina's words and what they actually means. Regina's crazy.

"Pay attention dear. I have a heart in my hand, right at this very moment, you can be a good girl and come back to me, or...you can listen to our dear sheriff die and know that it's all your fault, for being a bad. little. girl..."

Emma hears a phone ringing in her hear, she's about to be placed on a three way call. Who is Regina calling, why is Regina calling them and what is Regina talking about, this all sounds crazy, Regina thinks she's an evil queen, Mary Margaret is her mother according to Regina.. All Emma could think of, is what the hell is going on?

"Sheriff Graham" Emma hears on the other line.