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Chapter 15 – Saving You to Save Me

"Snow. Charming"

Regina greeted curtly, not even chancing a single glance to the rest of the town who seemed to have gathered in her front porch.

"May I ask to what do I own this visit?"

The former queen asked, venom dripping from each word.

"You know exactly why we are here, Regina. You know what you did, and you must pay for it"

Charming replied.

"Or so you say"

Regina replied, already getting tired of all that.

"Honestly, why are you still talking to her? She cursed every one of us, why is she even alive?"

Dr. Whale's voice muffled the rest of the crowd.

"Shut up, Whale"

The mayor snapped.

"No, you shut up, your majesty." Whale began as he approached the brunette. "You sent us all here, so we wouldn't be able to have the people we love most beside us and to live unhappy forever. A fate worse than death. Don't you think we're being quite merciful, here?"

"I think that you need to stop sticking your nose where you shouldn't"

Regina spitted at him. Both were face to face with anger blazing in their eyes, and with a sudden movement, that no one had seen it coming, the doctor had cornered the brunette against the wall.

As the woman stared at him defiantly she could recognize every single emotion that passed through his eyes. Anger. Hatred. Thirst for vengeance. The only feelings she could remembered feeling in a long time. She could see the determination in his eyes, and she waited patiently for her imminent death.

Thoughts of Emma and Henry were the only ones that filled her mind. Even if the time the three of them got to spend together had been short, she was satisfied because she got her happy ending, but mostly important she was satisfied because she got what she had longed for so long. Love.

What no one was counting on, though,was that contrary to many people's belief there was still someone that thought the queen was worth of saving.

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It took Emma a whole minute to absorb everything, and when what was happening finally registered in her mind, gone was the need for sleep or any other thought at all.

She threw on the previous day's clothes and hurriedly descended the stairs.

Getting out of the building she didn't even bothered to take her car. The adrenaline coursing through her body was more than enough for her to win a marathon if needed.

Running as she had never before in her life she got to the mansion in record time.

As soon as she stopped in front of the house's open gates, she could see the commotion just a few meters away from her. Her eyes searched desperately for Regina and she sighed relived when she spotted the brunette standing regally on her porch. But her relief didn't last long as some random guy launched himself at the former queen.

"Get the hell away from her!"

Emma screamed from where she stood and the man let go of Regina. For a few long minutes everyone was quiet until a petite brunette, whom the blonde remembered seeing from her window, asked

"Who are you?"

Before Emma could even open her mouth, Regina turned to the other woman and answered.

"She's the savior"

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The angry pounding on the front door made Henry, who was never the light sleeper, to finally wake up.

He was about to go down stairs to check on his mother, when he heard the commotion outside.

As he peered through his window he saw the townspeople gathered in the front yard of the mansion. And they didn't look quite happily. Instantly he realized what all was about.

"They are after my mom"

The little boy started panicking. He couldn't lose his mom.

They had their problems once, and though he was painfully aware of all of her wrong doings, it didn't make her any less his mother and neither did it make him ever wish she was to be away from him.

She was the woman whom did everything in her power to make him happy, to make him feel loved.

Everyone always thought she wasn't a good mother, though they would never had the guts to tell the mayor. But Henry knew better. In the privacy of their home, Regina was a totally different person from the kind of human they had pictured in their cursed minds.

No one knew about how Regina would read or sing to Henry before the boy would sleep, or how she was the only one capable of calming him down when he was nervous and/or anxious about anything.

No one sensed the brunette's heartbreaking at Henry's first day of school.

Henry was the only one capable to see Regina for whom she really was, that was until his teacher gave him that book, but then Emma appeared and showed him how wrong about his adoptive mother he was.

As the boy was about to go into the brunette rescue, he saw his birth mother making her way towards the crowd, surely enough to Regina, and even though he was aware of the situation's seriousness he couldn't help but smile at the notion that Emma had come to rescue the former queen.

"Because every Queen has her White Knight"

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At hearing the words leaving Regina's mouth the entire town gasped. Though Snow White and Prince Charming kept rotted into place.

The blonde made her way towards the former queen, and not even caring about what was happening around her she went to check on the brunette.

Regina had held her mask for time enough until Emma arrived. The caring and softness in the savior's eyes were overwhelming, especially for someone like her that never had any one to stand up for her.

"Are you okay? Did he hurt you?"

Emma asked afraid she had gotten to the mansion way too late. Regina just shook her head no much to Emma's relief, though she still was quite worried about the queen.

"You sure?"

Emma asked once more, and Regina just nodded her head yes.

When the situation they were in dawned at her Emma finally moved her eyes away from her son's other mothers, only to be met with stunned expressions from the townspeople and shock from the couple that stood less than two feet away from her.

"What's your name?"

Snow asked the blonde woman after finding her voice.

Though Emma wasn't sure, she had a feeling that this woman, whoever she was, had an important role in her life.

"Swan. Emma Swan"