A/N: Hey there guys. As always I'd like to thank my readers - both the ones that have been reading it since the very first chapter and the ones that came along after - you are amazing. I'm sorry it took me so long to post it. Thanks for all of you who reviewed, favorited and followed, it really means a lot.

I was actually waiting for my beta to send me this chapter beta-ed, but since she didn't and I have already finished writing chapter 10 I thought it would be better if I posted it.

Not beta-ed so all mistakes are mine.

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Dark Wings...

Chapter 8 – I don't want to lose you

As Regina woke up, she noticed that she lacked the strength to get out of bed. As if the events of the previous day hadn't been bad enough, she had an even worse night clouded by nightmares involving both Emma and Henry.

Regina waited nervously as Emma went down there to rescue their son. Minutes felt like for hours for her. It felt like an eternity until she heard someone saying they were pulling them up.

But they never got back. When they went to check on the rope and the others security tools Emma was using, everything had been damaged.

As they peered into the hole there was no sign of Archie, Henry or Emma.

Tears began forming in Regina's eyes and she couldn't suppress the racking sobs that took over her body at the sight of the empty rope.

Though, before anyone could notice, she ran into the woods, all the while tears blurring her vision.

When she finally came to a stop she was sobbing so hard she could barely breathe. She sunk down near a tree's trunk, as her emotions continued to overwhelm her. She wished she was the one that had died instead.

How was she supposed to go on without Henry? She couldn't imagine a life where her little boy didn't exist.

How would she be able to deal with her feelings towards Emma, now that the blonde is gone?

How was her life to go on if she just lost the only two people she actually cared about?

To know that her nightmare could have been reality gave her the chills. Even though it was just a dream it made her heart break. And the tears she tried her hardest to suppress finally came down as a mini waterfall.

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As Emma got out of bed, she massaged her forehead in the vain attempt to vanish the headache that came immediately after she woke up from her disturbing nightmare.

The aching in her heart was something that she couldn't ignore either. She knew she couldn't afford losing Regina or Henry, and the mere idea of it happening makes her nauseous.

The previous day had been quite the long one, and even though she didn't show, never in her life had she been so afraid of losing someone as she had of losing Henry.

As if it hadn't been enough her mind decided to play with her feelings by making her dream about Regina falling into the very same place Henry had, only in this case she wasn't able to rescue the mayor as she was able to rescue their son, and the thought of it scared the hell outta her.

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After finally being able to get out of bed, Regina was making her towards the bathroom to take a shower when she heard a light knock on her bedroom's door.

"Mom?"

Henry called quietly not wanting to wake his mother in case she wasn't awake.

"C'mon in, dear"

He heard her say. Slowly he opened the door and entered her room, making his way towards her bed and sitting on the edge of the mattress.

"Good morning, my boy"

Regina said to him and even though all she wanted was to gather him in her arms she restrained herself from it, the mere idea of his rejection right now was even more painful than it had been any other time.

"Good morning, mom"

He greeted back. He just sat there for a good few minutes and Regina had the sense he wanted to ask something.

"Is something wrong, Henry?"

"No. I just wanted to apologize for scaring you yesterday."

Henry said and Regina could hear the shame in his voice. She made her way to him and embraced him as if he would fade if she didn't.

Finally releasing him, she looked him in the eye and said:

"Apology accepted, but please, Henry, don't ever do something like that again. Do you have any idea of how afraid of losing you I was? Do you have any idea of how much you mean to me? Of how much I love you?"

He didn't respond as he knew it was a rhetorical question.

"I know you think I am evil, and that I hurt everyone in this town, and perhaps you're right but there's one thing I would never even dare think of it and that would be hurting you"

Regina said stroking his cheeks lightly with her fingers.

"I know"

Henry whispered. It was truth, he did know that, always had, but he didn't understand how the Evil Queen was capable of loving anyone, but maybe he was wrong, maybe she wasn't the Evil Queen or at least hasn't been for a while.

After moments of silence, something popped in Henry's mind and after debating whether or not should he ask about it, he chose to do so.

"Mom, can I ask you something?"

"Of course. What is it?"

He hesitated if only for a second before finally asking

"Do you like Emma?"

Regina almost choked when she heard his question partly because of what he was asking and partly because it was the very same question said in the very same tone he did in her dream. Knowing she couldn't lie to him, he could always tell when she wasn't telling him the truth, she gave the simplest answer.

"Yes"

She answered without averting her gaze and as Henry scanned her eyes in an attempt to detect the even small sign of lie he was both surprised and confused for not finding any.

Even though Regina tried to hide the real meaning behind her answer Henry knew what it meant. Suddenly everything made sense to him, and without a word he ran to his bedroom leaving Regina clueless to what just happened.

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"The Evil Queen's curse shall be broken when light had defeated darkness, and the sacrifice for true love had been made".

Henry re-read these very same lines so many times but only after seeing the look in his mother's eyes could he finally understand. Emma wasn't supposed to kill his mom she was supposed to save his mom. Light would defeat darkness not by fighting it with swords and magic but by love.

"Because love is most powerful magic of all"

Henry whispered to himself.

Now that he understood it he would do everything to make sure his moms ended up together.

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As Regina stood in the middle of her bedroom she wondered what had happened. Perhaps she shouldn't have said to him the truth.

"What if he didn't believe me? What if he thinks I want to harm her?"

These questions ran in her head and she feared Henry had miss interpreted her and it would drive him and Emma away from her.

And she knew she wouldn't be able to afford losing them.