Chapter twelve
Emma huffed as she got in her car.
She had come to the conclusion that she should try and hear Regina out, and that this was something that she definitely couldn't wait to do. Racing over to Milfin Street, she tried to decide what she should say. At the moment she was just trying to not just turn to leave Storybrooke and never look back.
Slamming the door of her car, she frowned seeing that that the front door was open.
Walking up the steps, she crossed over the threshold, "Regina? Henry?" she unintentionally whispered.
She was about to call out louder, only to notice the two of them standing not far away, neither of them having noticed her.
"You just have to believe," Henry insisted, and Emma frowned, were they still talking about the 'curse'.
"I can't take that chance," Regina replied, and took a bite out of a pastry.
Emma rose her eyebrow, what are they talking about? she thought. She was about to make her presence known, but the words died on her tongue as the brunette fell to the floor, unconscious.
"Mom!" Henry shouted as he ran towards her.
"What the hell?" Emma said as she sank onto her knees next to the mayor, he quickly placed a kiss on her forehead, only to frown when nothing happened.
Henry looked up at the blonde, "kiss her," he demanded.
"What?" she choked out as she placed her hand on Regina's pulse point.
"You need to break the sleeping curse, kiss her now!"
"Henry, this is real life," she replied while pulling out her phone.
"Yes it is real life, she ate the poisoned apple to stop me from eating it."
Emma shook her head and called 911.
Twenty minutes later Emma and Henry sat in waiting room, and Henry mumbled "why can't you just believe?"
"Because I'm aware of the difference between reality and fantasy," she replied.
Henry looked at her in disbelief, "you saw her eat it, you know what happened."
"No, I saw her eat something that she may be allergic to, or maybe there was some kind of poison in it," she answered rather harshly. "Once the doctor has looked at her, she'll be fine."
He shook his head "Dr Whale won't be able to break the curse."
Emma sighed and crossed her arms, "so why did you want to eat it."
"Because Mr Gold tricked her into signing a contract," he replied.
"Why would she agree to feed you poison?" she asked indignantly.
"He used an invisible pen, you know when you can only see it with UV light," he answered.
"Then this 'contract' is null and void," she scoffed.
"It's different in the Enchanted Forest," he replied.
"How so?"
"You know, magic and stuff," he mumbled.
"You don't know, do you?" she said with a small laugh.
"Well I was born in this realm, but I know that Rumplestiltskin tricked a lot of people," he answered.
Emma sighed, "just drop it kid."
Henry frowned and turned away from her while they waited.
"Emma?" Mary Margaret asked, noticing the blonde in the waiting room.
"Mary Margaret, why are you here?" Emma asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I was visiting David," she blushed.
"I thought that he's married," she replied.
"Well it turns out that Kathryn had the marriage dissolved a long time ago because she thought he would never come back," Mary Margaret answered.
Emma frowned, "I thought Kathryn wanted to stay with him."
Mary Margaret shook her head, "she said that she talked to Regina about it, apparently she doesn't love him anymore, she just offered to be around to answer any of his questions. She actually said that this guy named Jim asked her out."
"That seems too easy," Emma frowned.
"You would prefer it be more difficult?" she laughed.
Emma shook her head, "it just usually is."
Mary Margaret felt unexplainable guilt, but tried to move past it, "anyway...why are you here?"
"Regina," Emma sighed.
"What happened?"
"She fell unconscious, I think that she an allergic reaction or something."
"She's not allergic to apples," Henry announced.
Emma rolled her eyes, "wasn't you getting food?"
He nodded, "I need another dollar."
"Why?"
"So I can get hot chocolate," he said as if it were obvious.
Emma sighed and dug five dollars out of her pocket, "get me one."
"Fine," he said before walking away.
"He seems...different," Mary Margaret frowned.
"He thinks that Regina is under a sleeping curse and he's mad that I wouldn't kiss her," Emma sighed deeper.
"Well what could it hurt to try?" she asked with a tilted head.
"Because it's insane," Emma said louder than intended.
"I know, but to Henry it makes perfect sense, when it doesn't work he can move onto other lines of thought. Maybe he'll stop being so angry with you," she offered.
Emma nodded, "fine, you make a good point."
Henry and Emma walked into Regina's room half an hour later, after being told that Whale had no idea what was wrong.
She looked oddly peaceful despite the situation.
Emma noticed, with a pang in her stomach, that she was hooked up to numerous machines, with a oxygen tube running up through her nose.
"What the hell happened?" she mumbled.
"I told you what happened," Henry replied to the rhetorical question.
Emma sighed, "if I test your theory will you stop acting like a five year old?"
Henry's face lit up, and nodded vigorously.
Emma walked over to the woman in the bed, and she couldn't help but feel incredibly creeped out at the prospect of kissing an unconscious woman.
She looked at Henry to make sure that this was some elaborate prank and he gestured for her to continue.
She breathed deep for a moment, before leaning down and placing a soft kiss to the woman's lips.
Rising up she looked at Henry, not exactly sure why she didn't want to look at the mayor. Henry continued smiling for a few moments, before his expression fell.
He ran forward and placed his hand on his mother's arm, "mom please wake up," he begged.
Emma sat down on one of the chairs feeling defeated, how can you be disappointed, Swan?
A/N Sorry for any confusion from the last chapter, I just need Regina to be under the sleeping curse, if you have any ideas as to how this should've happened, just write it in a review or PM and I would be happy to alter the last couple chapters if you guys think that they can be better :)