I so sorry for the long wait but hopefully this long chapter will make up for it and warning things might get a little bit sad.
Regina stood in front of the body that laid in front of her in disbelief, how could of this happened, one of her only friends laid dead in front of her. Emma was surprised by the brunettes reaction she had no idea that Regina possessed a friend other than David. "I'll give you a minute" the blonde said.
"What happened to you?" Regina asked Kathryn in a near whisper, even tho she knew she wouldn't get a response. She brought the back of her hand up to the side of Kathryn's face and traced it down to the red lines that wrapped around her neck. Once Emma returned back she asked the blonde "what happened to her?". Emma walked around to the other side of the metal table to face Regina, she opened her mouth only to close it again as she was unsure of what to say. "Well" Regina said her eyes still on the woman that laid in front of her. "We're not sure" Emma replied.
"Not sure of what Miss Swan"
"If it was a suicide or a homicide"
"How could you not know?"
"Well these lines" Emma said as she pointed to the red lines around the body's neck "suggest that she attempted suicide, she was found hanging from a rope in her house but"
"But what?"
"The autopsy shows that she had lethal drugs in her blood stream"
"What are you saying Miss Swan, that she was drugged to death and then hung by a rope to make it look like suicide"
"That is one possibility"
"I want you to keep looking, I want the son of a bitch who did this brought to justice" she said before storming out of the room.
She walked out into the sherif office only to run into David. "David" she said startled.
"Emma called, is true" he replied. Her eyes fell to the floor as her arms hung loosely beside her. David's heart broke for the woman who stood in front of him, she had just lost one of the only people who had actually cared to get to know her. "Hey" he said as he pulled her into his arms "they'll find who ever did this, I promise". She didn't reply back instead she held him tighter in fear that she might lose him to.
Regina stood at the door of Emmelias room, her little princess was now sleeping peacefully. If anything happens to her, Henry or David, she would have no idea what to do, her life wouldn't be worth living, they kept her going whether they knew it or not. David hated seeing her like this, his strong beautiful woman broken down. She would try to hide it from him but he knew, he always knew. He wrapped his arms around her waist from behind causing her posture to stiffen at the sudden action. "It's only me" he said his voice soothing her. She leant in to his touch and spun herself around so she was now facing him with her head resting on his chest. He moved his right hand and tilted her head up so he could capture his lips in hers. "No one is going to hurt you or our family, you know I won't let that happen" he said.
"You're just one man David" she replied.
"Yes one man that would go to any lengths to protect the ones he loves"
The towns people all gathered in the town hall, frightened about the news of a murder. "Please calm down, we have this all under control as we speak we have petrol cars looking for the murderer" Regina told the crowd.
"Do you know who did this" some one yelled from the crowd.
"As of yet, no"
"Then how do you know who to look for"
"To be honest I don't" she said. The crowd started to talk "but" she said loudly to get their attention "what I do know is this we have our best hands working on this case, we need to have trust in the system that this murderer will be brought to justice" . Her words sounded confident nearly enough to trick her self but in reality she was scared, scared that they would fail and scared at the thought of losing her family, but it was enough to persuade the crowd and that's what mattered. "Madame Mayor" Sidney Glass said "is it true that the victim was an old friend of yours".
"Yes that is true"
"And that he got her unexpectedly by poisoning her then he stumbled the police by making it look like it was a suicide".
"This is one thing I can tell you dear, this act was just the fuel to rage the fire and has made me more determined then ever to catch this killer. No one and I mean no one messes with any one in my town and expects to get away with it". The towns people cheered at her words, one thing they knew for sure was that Regina had a way with words.
It had been a week since Kathryn's murder and yet the killer still hadn't been found. Regina paced back and forth in her office as piles of complaints started to pile up. The towns people were scared and so was she, she wasn't afraid of dying when you're the evil queen death becomes your friend but now she had people to care about and it was their safety she feared. When her mobile phone started to ring her heart stopped, no one would call her on it while she was at work unless it was an emergency. She picked up her phone to see that it was the sheriffs station. Maybe it was good news, maybe they had caught the killer, there was only one way she was going to find out and that was if she answered. "Regina Mills speaking" she answered. Her heart skipped a beat as her phone slipped thro her fingers dropping to the ground and landing with a thud. "Madame Mayor, Madame Mayor" the words could be heard from the speaker. A freak accident they said.
Her whole world slowed down at the sight in front of her. Her little boy laid in hospital connected up to what seemed like a thousand machines. "How did this happen?" David asked her as she walked into the room. "They said that it was a freak accident and that Henry was the only one to suffer major injuries" she replied "it's him he's after our family, he wants revenge on me"
"Regina don't speak like that, why would anyone be after you"
"I'm the mayor the most powerful person in town and that can get you a lot of enemies David". They were interrupted when Dr Whale walked into the room. "Your son has suffered some major injuries to his vital organs and brain".
"Is he going to live" David asked as he pulled his wife closer to him afraid of what he would say. "We don't know only time will t" his sentence was cut short by the sound on Henry's monitors, he was flat lining. "Henry"
Regina screamed.
That was it there little boy was gone. Regina felt her legs go weak at the knees, she could no longer hold her own body weight. She dropped to the ground with her head in the palms of her hands as tears ran uncontrollably down her face. David fell to his knees beside and pulled her into him tightly. He could here her sobs as she mumbled broken words "this... This is... All my...fault".
Nearly the whole town had gathered at Henry's funeral. Each and every one of them bringing nothing but a simple red rose. But the attire they wore was nothing that you would expect to see in a normal funeral, instead they wore costumes of what Henry had thought them to be. Everyone wore a costume except Regina, she never wanted to be the evil queen, she only ever wanted to be Regina so that's who she came as. The grave stone was anything but normal, instead it was shaped as Henry's favourites heroes weapon, Prince Charming's sword. Every little detail that was in the sword in the book was added to the stone.
Once the ceremony was finished and all the guest had left only David, Emma and Regina remained to mourn the loss of their son. Ruby and granny had offered to look after Emmelia until things calm down.
