Regina had to force her eyes to stay open, she didn't want to fall asleep in the back of an ambulance, so focused on David's lifeless body- now with an oxygen mask placed over his mouth and nose. She tried to imagine how he would be like as a person; kind and caring probably, maybe with a few sarcastic remarks here and there. She imagined he would be charming.

The movement stopped abruptly and unexpectedly causing Regina to jolt forward and nearly fall onto David's side. She laughed at her own clumsiness and assumed that, if he was conscious right now, he would've laughed too. The Paramedics pulled the stretcher out of the car and Regina followed, no one bothering to tell her what was going on,

"Excuse me? Where should I go? Um, excuse me?"

No one answered so she trailed behind David until they reached a taller man, with a white doctors coat and a ferry boat scrub cap. David got carried away into a room and Regina confronted the man,

"Hello, can you please tell me what's going on. Is he going to be okay?"

The man turned around and Regina read his badge, Doctor Victor Whale.

"M'am I can't promise anything at this time but if you just wait in the waiting room then I will let you know as soon as possible."

Regina sighed and began to walk away.

"And M'am? You should be proud of yourself, any later and this man would've been dead."

Regina smiled at yet another person saying that she had saved David's life.

As she arrived into the waiting room she was greeted by warmth as well as people. Her hair had began to dry but now it felt like straw and her clothes were heavy and crinkled from the rain. She scoured the room for an empty seat and saw one- the only one- next to a girl. She looked about 13, and Regina could tell she was upset. As she sat down next to her the girl jumped.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." The girl gave her a weak smile,

"It's okay." There was an awkward silence and Regina couldn't stand it,

"It's horrible waiting on your own isn't it?"

The girl just nodded.

"Are you here with anyone else?"

The girl looked up at her, "My foster mum Katherine has gone into labour."

"I'm sure she'll be fine, don't worry. Labour is so very common," Regina said but the girl didn't show any emotion,

"I'm not worried about that, I know she'll be fine- I won't be though. I know what happens next. She'll take me back, again. They always do. Once her baby is born I won't be important anymore."

Regina didn't know what to say. She knew what it was like not to be loved and left hurt and in pain, wishing things would go back to how they were.

"What did you say your name was?"

The girl pulled her blonde hair behind her ears and fiddled with her hands,

"Emma, Emma Swan."

"Well, Emma Swan, anyone to send you back is losing out. I'm sure your mum won't do that, don't worry. I'm..."

Emma rolled her eyes at yet another person giving her false hope, what's the point of even listening to a strangers advice who clearly knows nothing about the matter,

"I know who you are: Regina Mills- wife of the Mayor."

'Shit, Leo,' she thought to herself, 'I haven't told him where I am, he's gunna kill me.'

"Emma I will be right back, I just need to call my husband." Regina rushed down the hall desperately looking for a phone, leaving Emma, not hearing her whisper,

"No one ever comes back."

Finding the pay phone Regina fed it the quarters and dialled her home number. It rang, each ring increasing her heart beat. Then is stopped,

"Hello?" Said the manly voice belonging to Leopold Blanchard on the other line. Regina swallowed,

"Hey babe, it's me." She said, her voice quite and scarce.

"Where the hell are you woman?" He said and she could hear the anger boiling in his throat.

"I'm at the hospital, I found a man on the side of the road and rushed him in here, please don't be mad, I was just doing the right thing."

There was a heavy sigh, "I'm leaving now to pick you up and we are going straight home."

Regina nodded, and put down the phone. She wasn't looking forward to seeing him, and he wouldn't understand that she wanted to wait for David, to find out whether he was okay. She walked slowly back to the waiting room and Emma was gone by the time she was back.

So she waited. Alone. And then he came. Broad shoulders, a large belly and a beard covering his thin fine mouth. His grey hair looked like frost which matched the sudden chill he brought in he room when he entered. He wore a blood red suit which made his appearance even darker. Regina shivered at the sight of him and her face went pale.

"Look at the state of you," he hissed through his teeth. The scent of whisky filled Regina's nose and she had to cough.

Its okay. He won't hurt me in a public place. There are people around me. I'm safe.

She thought to herself. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards the door. Just as they reached it Doctor Whale came out of a room and called out,

"M'am!"

Regina turned around,

"Is he okay? Please tell me he's okay." The concern was real and it even surprised herself about how much she cared.

"He's fine M'am. He should be awake in a few hours but he has no emergency contact details. I would hate for him to wake up alone."

Leo tightened his grip on her wrist,

"I'm sorry but do you know who I am? The Mayor and we need to go."

Regina gave an apologetic look at the doctor, but Whale carried on talking.

"Mr Mayor, not to pry but I've heard that you need something to help you win the election in a few months. And Mr David Nolan is in a position of needing a friend during this hard time- and since your wife was the one who saved his life, it would certainly give you good publicity."

Regina held her breath. No one ever dared to speak to Leo that way. It never ended well. But then her wrist was free and Leo held out his hand to Whale,

"Nice to meet, I'm Leopold Blanchard, Mayor of this Town and I think it would be in your patients best interest to come home with me until he's back on his feet."

Whale took it and smiled, "I will be back with the discharge papers."

Leo smiled back- not a nice genuine smile that showed the signs of happiness, but a manipulative evil smile that Regina saw far too often. In reality and in her nightmares. He turned to face his wife,

"I don't give you enough credit- there is a brain in that petty head of yours."

Regina smiled weakly,

"So he's coming home with us?"

Leo nodded,

"It's perfect. The town will see me as a saviour, helping a poor young man recover and then Mary will finally appreciate me. I'm doing this for the town and for my daughter. Mary will love the fact I bought home Not for you, your just lucky it all worked out this way."

Regina didn't say anything. She was glad it all worked out this way too. Tonight she would be safe at her home; like a normal night with her husband, his daughter and now a man she had rescued from the side of a road.

David was coming home with them. Now Regina was wondering if this was all a horrible mistake.

Or the start of something new?