The cell door shut with a clank and the keys jingled in the sheriff's hand. Emma and the mayor both knew that the only reason she was being locked up was to protect her from being killed off by the mob in town. Technically, she hadn't committed any crimes, or at least not in this realm. But it did feel liberating to lock up the Evil Queen.

"So what are you going to do? Keep me locked up until the town grows tired of coming after me?"

"Probably." Emma said, propping her feet up on the desk. She ignored the feeling of comfort doing so gave her. She couldn't remember the last time she felt at home and settled down.

"Great. What am I suppose to do?"

"I don't know Regina. Repent?" Emma smiled.

"This isn't a joke Miss Swan." Regina stared at the Savior. She couldn't believe she actually lost. Now Snow White was going to get her happy ending and she would lose hers. Again.

"I want to see Henry."

Emma looked at her, "I don't think that's the best idea."

"He's my son!"

"He's mine too! And after what you did, I don't think he wants to see you."

"You don't know that! And I never meant to harm him. Despairs what you might think, I do love Henry. I cared for him all these years. What did you do?"

The blonde ignored her. Emma regretted letting Henry go. At least she did now after seeing what situation he was in. It wasn't that he was in danger. No, he just wasn't happy and that was all she wanted her child to be. It was what all any child should be.

"You know madam mayor? Like it or not, I'm the only one protecting you from the town. If you want I can throw you back to them."

Emma smiled at Regina's scowl.

The two reminded in silence, neither sure what else to say. Emma's mind drifted to all the recent events and found it going back to the woman in Gold's house. Mary Margaret said that he didn't have any relatives, so her being his daughter was out of the question. The way he talked to her she could tell that maybe the relationship-or whatever it was-was more. Perhaps...lovers? She didn't want to think about it really. What kind of girl would bed Mr. Gold? But then again, Gold was a landlord next to the job of pawnbroker. Maybe it was some kind of deal for rent? Whatever it was it didn't make sense, and she was going to figure it out. Her thoughts were interrupted when the phone rang. She just hoped it wasn't someone calling about another mob. If so, they would have to be after Gold-or Rumpelstiltskin-since Regina was locked up.

"Hello?" Emma answered.

Regina tried to watch the Saviors expression. Hoping to figure out what was happening on the other end. Perhaps the town was calling to make sure she was locked up. Or dead. Maybe Emma would agree with them.

"Alright, I'll be right there."

Emma hung up the phone and grabbed the keys, badge, and gun. After earlier this morning and the frantic everyone was in, she figured it would be safe to have.

"Where are you going? Didn't we agree that you're the only one protecting me?!"

Emma snorted. "Don't worry, you'll be fine. I'm headed to the hospital."

"The hospital? What for? Is Henry okay?"

Emma sighed. She really didn't want to deal with this, nor did she want Regina knowing everything. "It's not Henry. Some patient escaped. I'll be back."

The sheriff left the station, not bothering to notice Regina's extremely worried expression on her way out. How does a patient escape? she thought. But than again, David escaped and now with the curse broken, who knows what other people are making a break for it.

David and Snow managed to round the mob to the town center hall. Ruby helped make the announce to everyone else who wasn't part of the mob and let them know that David and Snow were going to speak to everyone about the curse and what to do now. If only the two knew what to do themselves.

The crowd was in an uproar and showed no signs of calming down. Everyone was yelling one of two things. What do they do about Regina? And what do they do now? Next to those two questions, they wanted to know what Emma would do about Regina and if the Evil Queen would pay.

"Everyone quiet!" David sighed. He wasn't getting anywhere with these people. Like Whale, they weren't all of his and Snow's subjects back home so he knew they probably wouldn't listen to them. If only he could find a way to get their attention, but thankfully, someone else beat him to it.

"EVERYBODY STOP!"

Silence finally started to grab people and their eyes were on the little boy standing on the stage next to the prince. Young Henry Mills.

"Everyone! Please stop!" he continued before he lost them again, "I'm sorry! Okay! I'm sorry. I didn't know what breaking the curse would do to you. I just wanted to help. I didn't know it would keep your other memories. I didn't know you would be going through all this."

Finally the crowd managed to calm down a little to hear Henry's plea. "All I wanted to do was help. Listen, I know you're upset, but you can't kill my mom. Grandma's right," Snow smiled at Henry for his ability to help calm the people and how he already called her grandma. He was more accepting of that than Emma. "if you kill Regina, you're no better than her. Please, we'll figure something out. I promise."

"Henry's right. Everyone, just settle down and we will fix this."

"How?" Grumpy called out. "You've been in a coma for most of the curse. You don't know what it's like walking around with two memories and lives."

Cries of agreement were heard across the hall.

"Listen! Henry is right! You can't go killing people."

"You're our king! Do something about this!"

Uproar was starting up again. David looked down at his wife who also looked worried at that last comment. What were they going to do? Than an idea popped up in his head. He might be a king, but not here.

"Hey! I want your attention!"

No one was listening. Until Ruby also joined on stage and yelled out as well. Once everyone settled down and turned their attention back to the prince, she stepped back down and let him take over.

"I'm not a king!" He ignored Snow's confused expression. To her, they would always be royalty but it was easier for David to say something like that because he wasn't born into royalty like her. No matter how he quickly grew to liking the role of a prince, or king, he always knew what he was in the end.

"I know who I am and that's not a king. I'm a shepherd. But I'm also David Nolan!"

He breathed a sigh of relief. This finally grabbed hold of them.

"I know this is hard for everyone, I do. But you need to know that this is no longer the Enchanted Forest. This is a new world, with news laws and expectations of people. Regina hurt us all, but if we want to defeat her without killing her we need to prove to her that this curse isn't going to change anything. We are a community here. Not a kingdom. We all have a voice and we're all equals. And we need to work together to show her that we can overcome this!"

He scanned the group and wondered if he finally got on the right track to stopping the mob. They were right about him. He had been in a coma until Emma arrived, so he wasn't dealing with the aftermath of the curse breaking like everyone else. But in the short time he was awake, he managed to becoming a cheating husband, and that taught him a lesson he could never learn back home. That everyone made mistakes and everyone, not just a villain, could become their worst selfs by their own actions. He was more than a king here. He was a worker at an animal shelter, a divorced man, and a fool. And Regina's curse taught him all that. In a crazy way, he wanted to thank her for it. To thank her on how he actually grew as a person.

"Please. We are all confused and mostly scared and that's okay. I know it sounds crazy but the curse actually helped me grow as a person. To become a more humble me and I am thankful for that."

Everyone watched him, actually waiting for him to finish.

"Here, in this land, we are equals. We are not a king or queen and you are peasants. We are a town and we need to work together. To show Regina that she can no longer hurt us."

"How?" Someone asked.

Snow stepped up. "By going on with our lives. This may not be home, but things are better here. Like David said, we are equals. We all have a voice and no one has to bow down to anyone. Especially Regina."

"But what about her magic?"

It was a good question. "From what we know, she does not have it back. But we will ensure that she stays locked up until we decided what to do with her."

"And killing her is not an option." Henry surprisingly finished, before adding. "Besides, at least in this world you have indoor plumbing."

People laughed. It was unamionious. Although it would be hard at first everyone agreed to go on with their lives in town, as long as the Charming made sure Regina remained locked up. Or at least watched.

"Henry, you did a great job." Snow placed a hand on her grandsons shoulder after everyone filed out.

"No problem." he smiled.

David smile at the kid. "You knows, maybe one day you would make a great ruler."

Although David knew Emma wouldn't be happy about them making that decision on their own, he would have liked for one of his family members to take the throne. Even if this wasn't the Enchanted Forest.

"Maybe." Henry smiles back. He looked past his grandfather to see Archie talking on a phone. He walked up to the former cricket, seeing the confused expression on his friend's face.

"Archie, what's wrong?"

The therapist hung up the phone and looked at the two royals who joined the conversation. "That was Gold."

Obviously, they were all immediately worried. "What?"

"What did he want?" David asked.

"He just wanted to speak to me. Said there was something he needed help with "

"But Mr. Gold is worse than mom. Why is he wanting?"

"I don't know, but I'm going to find out."

"David, it's alright. I don't think he means any trouble."

The other man stopped his friend. "Listen Archie, I know you want to see the best in people, but I dealt with him before."

"David's right." his wife interjected. "Please, just let us go to make sure he's not up to anything bad."

Archie knew there wasn't any point in arguing, but he also knew they were wrong. He had talked to Gold once before and he didn't seem like a bad man. He hadn't known it them but he did now. Back then, it wasn't Gold he was talking to but rather Rumpelstiltskin. He would let David check out the situation but he knew fold was genuinely asking for help. Or else he wouldn't have called.

Emma walked up to the hospital doors, thanking the tall man who held the door open for her, and made her way to the front desk. Looking at the nurse who was putting up a file folder, she had to wonder who she really was. She made a mental note to figure out who every person was, especially Gold's girl.

"Hey, I received a call about a patience?" She realized that it was somehow felt wrong to be a sheriff towards fairytale characters. Until things felt normal, she would have to act like everything was as normal as it could be considering the situation.

"Right this way." The nurse led her to a lock door and Emma couldn't help but notice that it used a keypad to open the door. Although she was sure there was rooms only employees were allowed in, a locked keypad still seemed a little strange.

She followed the nurse down some stairs, pass a desk, and into what appeared to be a basement. What was Regina hiding down here? And than she remembered what the nurse had told her on the phone. Or who?

"We didn't notice she was gone until today. Yesterday everything was a little frantic with the curse broken and all. Today we did an inventory of patiences and realized she was gone."

"She?" Emma asked. They walked by a couple of doors that were hardly marked, except one. So that's where Sidney ended up? Why haven't I noticed he was gone?

You were too busy breaking a curse, the voice in her head told her.

The nurse stopped at one door that was open. There was no name to the patience but looking inside, Emma now knew what this hidden floor was. An asylum.

And whoever Regina was keeping down here, she didn't want anyone to find.

"Who was the patience?"

"We don't know. We never had a full name."

"Even after the curse broke?" Emma asked. That was definitely strange. You would think Regina would keep track of people she locked away.

"Even after."

The sheriff's head was buzzing with questions, trying to think of all the possibilities of what exactly was happening.

"Do you have a file on her?"

The nurse walked to the desk below the stairs and asked the nurse sitting there for the file no the missing patience. The nurse looked through the file and informed that it was missing. Or rather recently taken.

"By who?"

Next time: David and Emma clash over the situation at Gold's house. Regina goes missing and Belle continues to get worse from her treatment.

Okay, so I am leaving this here. My laptop is currently in repair and I am often typing at night on a stupid little tablet. However, my real problem with this is that I wrote this chapter and the fifth one already, and I liked the way they turned out. However, they were on my computer and not on the website (which I am learning to go ahead and write most of my stories on for that reason). So I lost those two chapters and it was hard to rewrite them because like I said, i really liked them. Especially the part about David and the town and Henry yelling. It took a while to get that right and to have to retype it was difficult. It's not the exact same but I'm done trying on that front. I really want to move on from this chapter and that part is really the only sore spot I have about it. So now I can finally move not to he rest of the story. :) Sorry for the delay again. Please review.