The following morning, Emma and Regina decided to grab breakfast at Granny's. On their way there, they overhear two random citizens bad mouthing Regina. They complained about the crime being so high in Storybrooke and they don't think Regina can fix things. They claimed that she only won because of Emma.
They sat at a booth where Ruby took their orders. Emma saw how hurt Regina appeared and was shocked that Regina didn't attack back. She felt sorry for her. "I'm sure they don't mean that." Emma reassured Regina.
"Maybe it's true though," Regina admitted. "There was a time where I was this evil heartless mayor, but you came along and changed things." Regina looked into Emma's eyes. "You changed me. You were the only one in this damn town who believed I could change. Hell I didn't even believe it. You saved me." Regina held Emma's hand and looked deep into her eyes. With the touch of Regina's hands, Emma remembered the time when Emma saved Regina from a fire.
Emma smiled at Regina. Emma inquired, "so what are your plans for today?"
Regina responded, "We are planting some trees in the forest today as part of my restoration plan. You should come by later if you have time."
"Will do."
After they finished breakfast, Emma went back to work at the station. Henry had forget-me-not flowers delivered to Emma's but he wrote on the card. "Please forget me not. Love, Regina." Emma thought it was adorable. She sniffed the flowers and it triggered Emma to remember how she and Regina would give each other these flowers.
She couldn't stop thinking about Regina. She thought about calling or texting her several times. She kept looking at her phone hoping Regina would text her something. She thought about making some excuse just to communicate with Regina. For goodness sakes, she's my wife after all. I'm just going to see how she's doing. She reaches for her phone ready to dial Regina's number when David and Arthur came back. They found Merlin's phone but they couldn't unlock Merlin's so they gave it to Emma. "Maybe we should ask Regina for advice. I'll call her on my phone." Emma suggested.
David responded, "Usually you're the expert at hacking into peoples phones. Regina's not that great with technology. "
Emma took the phone and played around with it and somehow was able to unlock the phone. "I can't believe I did that. I guess it's like riding a bike." She discovered that before Merlin's disappearance, he was texting what appeared to be his lover, Nimue.
Emma discovered that Merlin was planning to meet Nimue at a tree house.
As they were about to go to that tree house to find Merlin, breaking news appeared on the TV. There were reports of bear attacks in the forest. Emma freaked out since she knew Regina was working in that area. She told David to go on the tree house on his own since she had to go save Regina.
Emma was driving recklessly going 80 mph on a 40 mph street and swerving around other cars. She finally arrived on the side of the road near the forest and ran quickly with a tranquilizer gun looking for her wife. "Regina! Where are you?" She yelled" She spotted Regina on the ground about to be bitten by the bear. She shot the bear with the tranquilizer gun and the bear fell on the ground. She ran towards Regina, "are you alright?"
"I am now thanks to you." Regina hugged her and smiled.
Emma hugged her back as if she'd never let go. "I saw the attacks on the news and I was so worried about you."
"I'm so glad you came when you did. A minute later and I would have been Yogi's lunch"