A/N: I go back to school on Saturday! I'm so excited to go back! Honestly guys, college is way better than high school. Plus, I got a new internship and MY FIRST JOB! So I'm super excited for those, although that means once I go back I won't be able to update as often. Hopefully you all hang in there with me. As always, I don't own the OUAT characters.

Regina didn't actually know where Snow and her brat were. Sure, she'd seen them in their hospital room—small and white and with no hint as to its location—but her magic had simply conjured up her little gift by Snow's bedside without the added benefit of informing Regina of her location. It seemed that despite this world's fascinating technology, or maybe because of it, her power was much more lacking than it had been in the enchanted forest.

A few weeks and a dozen checks in her mirror later and she was still no closer to finding the two banes of her existence. She scowled at her reflection in the glass of the door before slipping into the hospital, pasting a smile onto her face. She could hear the murmurs of "Good morning, Madame Mayor" as she strode through the small town hospital, but she didn't reply.

"Whale," She called, entering the hospital room where he was leaning over a younger patient. She recognized the face of the patient, one of the children from one of the villages near the castle. The forced smile on her face wavered, but she fixed it in place.

He straightened up at once and looked her way. "Madame Mayor. Good morning. May I ask what you're doing here?"

"I had a few questions about one of your patients."

Whale opened his mouth and she waved away his words before they had a chance to fill the air between them. "Don't bother with doctor-patient confidentiality. This particular patient has no family."

"Oh, the John Doe. What about him?"

"He hasn't woken up, has he?"

"Not that I know of. Although Nurse Nora said he's been moving much more often in the past few days."

Regina bit back the curse that rose to her lips. "So, he might wake up soon?"

Whale shrugged, running a hand through his dirty blonde hair. "There's no real way to tell but to tell except just to wait it out. Have you been contacted by any of his family or friends?"

"No," She snapped, before softening her tone. "I mean, I was only wondering. We're using resources on someone's who's not even a Storybrooke resident. Does he even have insurance? How is this all being paid for?"

"By the hospital and the town for now, Madame Mayor."

"Hmph. So, we're just going to continue this until…when? He wakes up? If he wakes up?"

"Well, yes. What else can we do?" Dr. Whale asked, looking warily at Regina.

The question made her smile. "Without a next of kin, the decision for his medical care rests with me. And I think it's entirely inhumane to keep this poor young man on life support."

Snow, Emma, Katie, and Lauren were all going to take a trip. The girls had a Girl Scouts trip up in Maine and Snow had offered to take them so that Vicky could stay home and work. It was the very least that she could do to begin paying Vicky and the girls back for everything that they had done, and continued to do, for her and Emma.

Besides, it didn't hurt to see the other villages ("States", Katie had corrected, giggling) that this world had to offer. Maybe—hopefully—she could find Charming in one of them.

Snow strapped Emma into her car seat in the car that she had spent the last few weeks being taught to drive (easier than riding a horse and driving a carriage—this world had it easy), double-checking to make sure that Emma was in there correctly. While learning to drive had been much easier than she had thought it would be, Emma's car seat was awful. So many buckles and straps and snaps all they were all worth it to keep her baby safe. She kissed the rosy-cheeked infant, reveling in her bright smiles, before shutting the door.

"All right, ready girls?" She asked, lifting Lauren's bag and placing it into the trunk before doing the same with Katie's.

"Yes!" They squealed in unison, racing to other side of the car.

"I get to sit in the middle next to Emma!" Lauren called, bumping Katie out of the way in their struggle to open the door.

"No fair!" Katie whined, but dutifully climbed into the car after her sister. Inside, Lauren was already playing with Emma, as evidenced by the happy giggles that came from the car.

Snow smiled to herself, grateful for the company of the girls and how eagerly they'd stepped into the roles of "big sister" for Emma. She got in the car.

"All right, girls. Let's go."