A/N: It's been a long time since a year. I've been busy with other stories and college stuffs. This chapter was my writer's block for a long time. So, you have it.
Before you read this chapter, it's a very SwanQueen fic with a happy ending. (Robin is in this chapter but he will be not in another chapters from now on. Also, for Captain Hook is not in this story.)
No Beta at this time.
Chapter 6: The Suspicions of the Events
Regina walked toward the body of Emma Swan, saw the glow on the skin and inspected on every details until she realized that Emma was on the preservation spell all the time. She was suspecting on the events and decided to come out to see Robin. She strode toward the men who were sitting around the bonfire and commanded them to find Robin for her. Some men scattered to search for Robin and she stood impatiently.
The brunette woman was reeling her thoughts while waiting for the thief of the woods. She looked around in the campground area and finally watched the little boy who was playing with the stick on the sand. She remembered Henry when he was young to play with the stick on the sand while they were on the beach. She unconsciously smiled at herself until the voice interrupted her thoughts. Regina finally turned around to face Robin in person.
"Do you need me?"
"Yes, why is Emma lying on your table?"
"To be honest with you, I have no idea what's going on with everything. I just knew that she died." The thief said. The brunette woman sighed dramatically. He furrowed his brows and looked at his men who were chuckling with their jokes on the table. Regina raked her hand through her brown locks and spoke lightly.
"So, where were you at that time when Emma was there on your table?"
"I was hunting with my men in the early morning. We just got back here like one hour ago before you arrived." Robin informed her while he was playing with his wedding ring. He watched his son laughing along with Will. Regina looked at the little boy and nodded with a reply.
"Thanks. So, who is that little boy?"
"Roland, my son."
"Nice. So, I think I should bring Emma back to the vault. It would be safe if I could study on the spell."
"What kind of a spell is that?" Robin asked with his curiosity. The brunette woman scoffed and walked back to the tent where the blonde woman was laying on the table. The thief took his guts to follow Regina on the way. Regina sighed and spoke lightly.
"It's a difficult spell. It's a preservation spell."
"What is it?" The thief said with his perplexed face. The brunette woman looked at him and explained while she was examining on Emma's body and finally stared at the beautiful angelic face. Robin stared at Regina with his curiosity after getting interested in her beautiful presence.
"It's like you preserve your body and it won't go into ashes or become the debris. I wonder how the spell worked."
"Oh." Robin said with his understanding look. Regina looked up at him and nodded then flicked her wrist to vanish the blonde woman's body back to her mansion. She vetoed her location, the vault. The brunette woman knew that Emma would be lonely in the vault and wanted her to be closer to her. The thief raised his eyebrow at her while he was looking on the table. Regina rolled her eyes and spoke lightly.
"It's ok. Emma is safe for now. And thank you. I see myself out. Have a good day in the woods."
"Thanks for coming." The mayor nodded and flicked her fingers to poof herself back to the mansion. Robin sighed dramatically. He thought he had no chance to ask her out but the thief knew that Regina was not his type at all. He knew his guts by telling that the brunette woman was obviously gay and madly in love with the town's savior. Robin knew that when he saw her in the town meeting. He gave up and focused on his Merry Men and Roland.
Back in the mansion, Emma was in the guest room and lying there on the bed. In few minutes later, Regina appeared in the room and walked toward the bed to check on the pulse. She knew that the blonde woman already was dead and felt stupid toward herself until she heard the familiar voice behind her. Regina whipped her head at the brunette boy who was standing in the doorway.
"Why is Emma here?"
"Ehh…" The brunette mayor stuttered her words and knew that she was nervous to tell her son about everything. Henry tilted his head and asked right away.
"She should be in the morgue since you are paying for the proper burial."
"Henry. I have something to tell you." Regina looked at the blonde woman on the bed and back to her son's emerald eyes. He was like his birthmother in some ways but his attitude was hers since she raised him in her household. The brunette woman smiled at him and explained right away.
"What?" The brunette boy nodded and said while he was walking toward the bed. He stared at his blonde mother who was looking peaceful and heard his brunette mother. Henry sat down beside Emma on the side of the bed. Regina fidgeted her hands and sat down. The brunette boy looked at his brunette mother and waited.
"I think that Emma is alive."
"What?" Henry asked with a perplexed face. The brunette woman ran her hand on her face and sighed until explained again.
"She is in the preservation spell."
"Like you store your body eternity?"
"Yes." Regina answered with a nod. The brunette boy furrowed his brows at her and studied on the blonde woman on the bed. The brunette woman stared at her son and glanced toward Emma's face.
The silence took over in the guest room. The Mills didn't move at all but stayed on their position until the phone rang on the table stand. Regina looked at the caller id and found out it was Mary Margaret. She sighed and picked up the phone then answered.
"Hello?"
"This is Mary Margaret, I just found out that Emma was missing again. Where was she?"
"Emma is here in my guest room since I found her in Robin Hood's campground this afternoon." The brunette mayor informed her right away while she was rolling her eyes. She knew that the idiots came in her nerves most of the time but not for Emma. Regina unconsciously smiled at herself until she looked at her son who was staring at her. Her smile faltered in a second.
"Oh. You should put Emma back to the morgue so we can have our proper burial." Mary Margaret explained after hearing the mayor's information. Regina rolled her eyes again and answered.
"This is safer because she is in the spell."
"What is the spell? Oh my god, you did it to her!?" The pixie cut brunette woman yelled over the phone. The brunette mayor pulled her landline phone away from her while they listened to the loud voice. Henry raised his eyebrows at his brunette mother and opened his mouth but Regina halted him with a reply.
"Don't worry. I didn't do it to her. It's a preservation spell. So, I have to go like now. I almost forgot to cook the dinner."
"Of course, I'm sorry to bother you at this time. Tell Henry that we love him more."
"I will. Good evening, Ms. Blanchard." Regina informed her before hanging up on her. The brunette boy raised his eyebrows at her with no reply. She put the phone back on the table stand and looked at her son with a reply.
"What?"
"Aren't you explaining every details to her about Emma's preservation spell?"
"First, I would like to research on the spell before I tell her. Because it's appropriate to have the facts straight." The brunette woman pointed out on her defense. Henry thought about it and nodded with his agreement.
"All right. So, what will we can do with her since she is on the bed?"
"Now, we cook something for our dinner. By the way, she won't vanish again." Regina answered with a warning look. The brunette boy nodded and got up then left the room. She sighed and looked at the angelic face with a reply.
"Why did someone vanish you out in the air? Who did it to you?"
No answer from the blonde woman on the bed gave Regina the chills. The room took over the silence between the ladies. The brunette woman raked her hand on her face and sighed then got up. She stared at Emma and studied on the facial features. Regina tilted her head to look upon the blonde woman's body and reached her hands on the chest where the gunshot placed.
She looked under the shirt and saw the holes on the chest. It put her to feel nauseous and knew that Emma was dead because of the gunshot wounds. The brunette woman put her hands away from touching on the gunshot wounds and closed her eyes to let her tears dripping on her cheeks. Regina looked away toward the window which it was dark outside and walked toward them.
Her tears were still dripping on her cheeks. The brunette woman stared at the reflection of herself on the window. She saw herself feeling torn because of Emma's death and wanted the blonde woman coming back alive. Regina wondered if her banters with Emma faded away since the death. Until, the familiar voice came back to stop her thoughts and she froze for a minute. It was Emma.
"Look at me."
Regina turned around to face the blonde woman and gasped. The real body was still laying on the bed and didn't do anything but just stayed still. The soul was visible to the brunette woman. Emma gave a sad smile at her and she was standing in front of her. The brunette woman looked at the body of Emma Swan on the bed then looked back to the soul of the blonde woman.
"Emma?" The brunette woman asked with a soft tone. The blonde woman smiled gently with a nod. Regina started to cry while looking at her. She couldn't feel anything but heartbroken because of the blonde woman. Emma stared at her while she caressed her touch on the brunette mayor's face and spoke lightly.
"Don't cry."
"You died." Regina whimpered while feeling hurt. The blonde woman nodded and looked at her body on the bed. The brunette woman looked down at the floor and Emma looked back at her with an answer.
"That's not how I died." Regina snapped her head after hearing the blonde woman's voice and looked at the body then looked back at her. Emma shook her head with a sad smile. The brunette woman wiped her tears with her free hand and spoke lightly.
"How?"
"I just remembered that I was in cabin."
"Yes, you died in the cabin. Did you see anyone coming after you?"
"That's the problem. I didn't remember whom to shoot me. But I remembered that someone put me on the fairy dust." Emma said with her memory lane. The brunette woman furrowed her brows and walked toward the bed. The blonde woman sighed and turned around to face her then watched Regina doing the magic.
The brunette woman lifted her hands up and chanted some words to make a spell on the blonde woman on the bed. She closed her eyes and envisioned the scene in the cabin. Regina focused on Emma's emerald eyes gazing everywhere in the cabin before she died.
- Few weeks ago in the cabin –
Emma blinked several times when she was waking up. She slowly looked around herself and felt the ropes wrapping her hands and legs attaching to the chair. The blonde woman looked at herself and found out that she was wearing her tank top and a boyshort. She was having the questions but looked around in the cabin.
It was a very dirty cabin and it seemed that way no one used the cabin for the years. Emma took a mental note about the cabin's location and checked over everything sharp on the floor or the kitchen nearby. There were no knives or sharp weapons so she could free herself from the chair. It was no luck for her.
The blonde woman sighed and felt a pain on her head. She winced when she felt little dizzy. Emma tried to shake her head for few minutes until she heard the car coming in the distance. She started to panicked and looked around to find a hiding spot but the chair was trapped with the screws on the floor. It was fucked up plan for her to get out of the cabin.
Emma scowled at herself when the door opened to slam on the wall. It was loud when it happened. She looked up at the masked man and spoke lightly.
"Who are you!?"
"The masked man. I just was coming to check on you if you are awake. But now, you just are awake." He said.
"Fuck you. Why did you take me here away from Storybrooke?"
"Because I have to." He answered while walking to the kitchen for his drink. Emma followed him with her emerald eyes and scowled. The cold air was blowing straight ahead at her and the blonde woman started to shiver. It was a night time. The problem was that the blonde woman had no idea that she was stranded in the cabin for three days.
Her stomach started to growl and Emma stared at the masked man who was eating his dinner. The smell was pushing her to get food and she decided to demand after him. The masked man was ignoring her while he was plotting over his plan.
"Hey! Get me food. I'm starving!"
The masked man finally finished with his meal and found a rot bread from the plate. He walked to her and threw it at her face with a reply.
"This is your food. I will be back in the morning. Sleep tight." The masked man sneered and left the cabin after closing the door behind him. Emma scowled at him and wiggled her legs to lose the rot bread on the ground then kicked it off with her right foot. The blonde woman was looking up at the window which it was a little bit far from the door. It was the woods. She sighed and tried to wiggle her hands into the rope but it was too tightly.
The pain was swelling her wrists and legs. Emma felt it and screamed after burning the red lines on her wrists and decided to give up. She wondered how many days she stranded herself since the masked man took her to the cabin. In her thoughts, she was worried about Regina and Henry if they couldn't find her at all since few days.
-End of the Flashback –
Regina finished with her spell and blinked her eyes several times. Emma was sitting on the chair and watched over the brunette woman who was envisioning herself as Emma in the cabin. She shook her head and looked up at the blonde woman with a reply.
"It was a masked man but he had no name."
"Did you hear his voice? Can you identify it?" Emma asked with her curiosity. The brunette woman gave a sad smile and shook her head. The blonde woman sighed and nodded at herself. Regina tilted her head and asked.
"How long did you stay in the cabin after the masked man took you from your apartment?"
"I didn't know."
"Ok. I have to investigate on the case with David tomorrow morning. Right now, I'm focusing on the dinner." Regina said while getting up from the bed. Emma stood up after seeing the brunette woman walking toward the door. The brunette woman turned around to see the blonde woman's soul vanishing in the air and sighed then left on her way to the kitchen downstairs with her son.
A/N: This story have 9 more chapters left. I decided to shorten this story with 2K words. I'm sorry that I've been not back on this story for a while. Now, I'm working on My Emma Swan - Chapter 17 right now.
If you haven't had a chance to read 'Fate Must Be Bitch!', go ahead. Enjoy your time.
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