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Emma awoke the next morning alone and cold in the big bed.
She hadn't expected her friends to stay with her, but she wished they had.
She didn't feel so paralysed today, instead she felt lonely.
She opened her eyes as visions of betrayal and being left behind penetrated her mind.
She sat up quickly, shaking herself to throw the images from her head.
Next her hands flew up to her temples, massaging the side of her face, before she stood up.
Within 60 seconds she had grabbed her car keys and fled the door.
About 15 minutes later Mary Margaret had disturbed from her own sleep, padding gently down the stairs.
She felt her heart start to race as she saw the bed empty.
She rushed down the remaining few stairs, skipping the bottom two and landing on her two feet with a thud.
She searched the bed side table and the breakfast bar for any kind of note. But there was none.
"Shit." Mary Margaret cursed, she had absolutely no problem with Emma leaving without their knowledge, but she always left a note and had her phone, this time she had neither.
"Shit." Mary Margaret said again.
She saw the four tablets on the side, realising Emma hadn't taken them yesterday and without them her head seemed to spin, not always allowing her to make the best decisions.
"David!" She called up the stairs, her hand fumbling with her own phone, desperately dialling Ruby's number.
"Ugh…" David trundled down the stairs, grunting, his eyes still heavy with sleep.
"Emma's gone." Those two words woke David up immediately, his face becoming alert and worried.
"She didn't leave a note?" He asked, Mary Margaret shaking her head worriedly.
"I'm phoning Ruby…" David nodded, sitting down on the breakfast stool, taking Mary Margaret's and in his own as the phone continued to ring.
"Ruby…" Mary Margaret let out a small breath of relief as the woman finally picked up the phone.
"Hey…" Ruby groaned, she too having been asleep until Mary Margaret had called.
"I'm sorry if I woke you, it's just Emma's gone, she's run…"
"Oh fuck." Ruby wasn't one for swearing, but Emma's disappearances certainly heightened her panic levels.
"Yeah, well, we don't want a repeat of last time." Mary Margaret closed her eyes, remembering the last time Emma had decided to run.
Mary Margaret and David had been having a hard time becoming accustomed to Emma's new found need to cling to them all of the time.
They had coddled and soothed Emma all evening, not leaving her side until neither of the pair could keep their eyes open any longer.
They had come down the following morning, all of Emma's tablets in the bin, her duffel bag missing and half of her clothes.
Mary Margaret had immediately blamed herself for not staying with Emma and making sure she was ok.
They had eventually found the blonde, after 5 hours of searching.
She was stood dangerously at the top of the open clock tower, staring down at the town below.
David had sent Mary Margaret back down, when her sobs had caused Emma to edge even closer to the edge.
Emma's lack of medication meant her moods went haywire, her ability to think straight was impaired and every emotion she felt was too deep for Emma to comprehend.
David had spent the food part of 3 hours talking the hyperventilating blonde down enough, until he could take her in his arms and carry her home.
Nothing about that experience made Mary Margaret want to repeat that.
"I take it she's not with you then." Mary Margaret bit her lip, David biting her lip and wondering where else she could be.
"No, but I'm up now, I'll have a scout around her usual spots, I'll let you know if I see her." Ruby promised.
"I owe you one." Mary Margaret smiled at her friends giving nature.
"See you soon." Ruby reassure her, hanging up the phone.
"Nope." Mary Margaret shook her head, watching the tears flow from her eyes, completely terrified as to what Emma was doing all by herself.
"Alright, we'll find her." David stood up, wrapping his arms around his Wife.
"She hasn't taken any of her clothes, I don't think she's going anywhere, so what's she doing?" Mary Margaret sobbed.
"She's going to be ok, we're going to find her. I'm going to phone Regina, then we're going to find her, ok?" He rubbed Mary Margaret's back.
"She hasn't taken her tablets." The brunette looked up at David who turned his lips down sadly.
"I know, I know…" David comforted Mary Margaret much like she did Emma a lot of the time.
David then pulled out his phone and phones Regina's number.
"Good Morning." Regina's chipper voice sounded through the phone, hoping David was phoning her to say Emma was feeling better today.
"Emma's gone, she's ran away." He breathed out, Regina drawing in a quick breath.
"She's not here, is she with Ruby?" Regina suggested quickly, David could hear her pulling clothes out of her wardrobe, as if she were ready to walk out of the door that second if she needed to.
"We've phoned her already, she's not with Ruby, but she's out looking for her." David informed Regina.
There was a pause in the phone.
"Henry Mills, put your shoes on!" Regina's voice sounded tense and upset. "I'm going to the town line, there's only one way out of this town, I know a shortcut from my house, I can be there in 10 minutes, I can try and cut her off if she tries to run out of town."
"She hasn't taken her medication, so don't expect her to be…" David searched for the right word, not knowing what to say.
"Rational?" Regina offered, David listening to the sound of Regina's big door slamming shut. "Don't worry, I'll phone you if I find her." Regina reassured him, ushering Henry into the front of the car.
Regina drove like a maniac, trying to maintain a cool head as her son sat white as a sheet beside her in his seat, never having known his Mother to drive about 40 mph anywhere.
"Mum, what's wrong?" Henry asked.
"It's ok, my little Prince." But her voice wasn't very convincing.
"You're crying." He pouted at his Mother, feeling his own tears building up.
"Emma is just poorly, but it'll be ok, I'm just worried." Regina tried to control her tears, only to glance across to see Henry pushing his own tears off his cheeks.
"I don't want Emma to be poorly, I want her to come and watch a film with me." Henry started to sob, his strangled sobs breaking Regina's heart.
"I'm sorry Henry, she will, just not today." Regina sighed. "What if she came to stay with us after we find her?" Regina offered, not sure how Emma would appreciate the offer, but deciding to check with Henry before doing anything.
"Like a forever sleepover?" He asked, his tears lessening at the thought of spending more time with the fun blonde.
Regina nodded, Henry just clapping his hands.
"Yay." He squealed, forgetting about the fact Emma was ill far too quickly.
Regina approached the town line, parking her car sideways, so in order for anyone to leave they would have to fold her car in half.
Regina pulled the 10 year old onto her lap as they sat.
"Emma isn't always happy Henry, sometimes she just can't be happy and we just have to be really nice to her." Regina tried to explain Emma's depression in the simplest words she could think of.
"Will she be happy when she comes and lives with us?" Henry asked, glad to be in his Mother's arms, snuggling onto her chest.
"Not all of the time…" Regina sighed, not wanting everything to be so confusing for her little son.
"Will she die from being sad?" Henry looked up to his Mother, once again with watery eyes.
"No, my darling, no… It's just sometimes she might do things or say things you don't understand, you don't have to b scared, just ask me if you don't know what's going on, ok?" She asked, Henry nodding his head and crawling back onto his own seat.
Henry was humming to himself when Regina saw a yellow car approaching in the distance.
She immediately recognised it as Emma's car. Regina leapt from the car and waved her hands, for Emma to slow down.
Emma stopped a good 10 meters away from Regina's car.
Emma was breathing fast, adrenaline pumping fast through her veins.
"Emma!" Regina shouted, the blonde cautiously leaving the car. "Are you ok?" Regina asked, Emma gripping the door of her car, like if she let go the world might implode.
"I have to go." Emma suddenly said, jumping back inside the car, slamming the door and speeding off.
"Shit." Regina also ran to her car door, hurrying Henry into putting his seat belt on and racing after Emma.
"Can you phone Mary Margaret?" Regina threw her phone at Henry, assuming Henry knew how to use it better and it would be safer.
Henry nodded and very soon had the phone to his ear.
"Regina?" Mary Margaret questioned down the phone.
"It's Henry, I'm her Son." He grinned at his Mum.
"Tell her Emma is on her way back to Storybrooke…" Regina gritted her teeth as Henry wasn't paying attention.
"Is you Mum there?" Mary Margaret asked.
"She is but she's driving the car, she's actually going really fast, it's making me feel a bit sick." Henry admitted, furrowing his brows.
"Give me the dam phone." Regina grabbed it from Henry, who started to cry. Regina cursed herself for being so rude and trying to console Henry. "Henry, my little Prince, I'm sorry…"
She gave up attempting to soothe Henry, trying to focus on Emma's speeding car, the phone and Henry's wailing was too much.
"Emma is on her way back into Storybrooke." Regina swerved down a road, glad to recognise it as David and Mary Margaret's street. "Ok, I think she's coming back to yours."
"Thank you, thank you so much." Mary Margaret was sobbing again.
"Ok, me and Henry need to get something, then we'll come over, ok?" Regina asked, Mary Margaret mumbling her consent before hanging up.
Regina stopped her car in a layby before Mary Margaret's flat, glad to see Emma spring from her car and run straight up the stairs.
"Alright, Henry, I'm sorry…" Regina caressed his burning cheeks, the action almost immediately soothing the boy. "I need your help, we need to get something extra special for Emma, so she can stay with us forever, ok?"
Henry nodded, grinning up at Regina through wet lashes.
"I love you Mum." He smiled, giggling as Regina placed a wet kiss on his forehead, her heart racing after chasing Emma. "Ew…" He laughed, pushing Regina away.
"I love you too, my little Prince, now let's go!" She turned the car on again, driving off, at a much slower pace this time.
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