Payback

A guest asked for a oneshot of the Queens of evil kidnapping Emma by way of revenge for what Snowing did to them. I hope for the person that asked for a sequel to "When a nightmare becomes reality" this will do!

Snow frowned as she dished out the lasagne. She knew it was one of Emma's favourites. Normally after a little whiff of it Emma came practically floating down the stairs to the kitchen drooling until she got her plate. She had been up in her room for well over an hour, she said she was just grabbing her phone! Sure she might have got distracted checking emails or something, but she was awful quiet. Charming had tried to call her down twice now, but she gave no answer. Had she fallen asleep? Or put on headphones?

"Charming, could you finish putting dinner together? I'm going to go bring her down."

"Sure." Charming answered her. He finished bouncing little Neal up and down on his lap and placed him in his highchair as Snow began to climb the stairs.

"Emma, come on. Your father already told you-" Snow stopped when she opened the door and saw that nobody was there- but that wasn't what made her heart turn to ice or her skin drain of all colour. What made Snow fill with so much dread was a small wooden dragon left on Emma's bed. To anyone else, that could have meant anything. It could have been Emma's own possession, or perhaps Neal or Henry's. But Snow knew it wasn't, she knew it had been left by Maleficent as a sign. A sign that they had taken Emma. Snow flew back down the stairs as fast as her legs would carry her and grabbed Neal from his highchair. "They've taken her." She told Charming before he could even ask what had gotten into her. He didn't need to ask who "they" were, he knew it was the Queens of evil. He ran with Snow out to the cruiser and they sped off towards the town line. They knew that's where they'd be, it was the only mutual location here and it was threatening too. They knew the Queens could easily force Emma over the line meaning she could never return, the Queens were still in possession of Ingrid's scroll.

Sure enough, that's where they were. Snow and Charming silently decided to leave Neal in his car seat, he would be safer in the car than with them in this situation. Maleficent was standing with her staff pointing at Emma, clearly stopping her from moving or speaking. Cruella and Ursula were standing either side of her grinning like Cheshire cats.

"Well look who's decided to join us Emma," Maleficent said "mommy and daddy."

"Maleficent this isn't funny." Charming said, sounding totally terrified. "We know what we did to you was wrong, we accept responsibility for that. Don't punish Emma for our mistake. Let her go and we'll go with you willingly." Emma mumbled wildly against her magical gag, clearly both protesting with her parents and wanting to know what on Earth was going on. What had her parents done that was so bad, and why were these three so crazy?!

"Who says we want to trade for you? We could keep the girl. We just thought it might be nice to say goodbye to the Emma that you knew. Because when you see her next her heart with have turned dark. She'll be a villain, just like us. You must be so proud." Ursula taunted them. "Of course the other option is that we kill her. That could be fun too." She added, just to see them suffer. Snow couldn't restrain herself, she charged at Ursula with every intention of breaking her gilly neck. The only thing that stopped her in her tracks was a scream. Snow knew that was Emma's scream. Her head whipped round to see Emma now had a long gash down her cheek.

"Try to attack one of us one more time Snow White and things will only get worse for Emma here." Maleficent said coolly. Snow could hear her heart pounding in her ears. Maleficent could really hurt Emma and the prospect terrified Snow.

"Please," Snow begged. She extended her arms out as though wanting someone to hand her Neal "just give her back to me." Maleficent just smiled.

"No, I don't think we will. You deserve this pain after what you both did."

"Exactly, we do! Not Emma!" Charming shouted.

"Parents pay for the sins of their parents, unfortunately that's just the way it is." Cruella said matter of factly. Emma could see that Maleficent was distracted now, she was letting her gloating get the better of her. When she was focusing Maleficent's power was far stronger than Emma's- but when she wasn't paying attention Emma could overpower the hold she had on her with her staff. Emma used all the energy she had in her to send out a massive wave of magic, forcing the three witches back. Before they hit the town line they disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke. Emma would have collapsed on the spot if her father hadn't caught her. He picked her up in his strong arms.

"What's going on?" Emma said weakly. "Why are they after you?"

"Later." Charming answered her. "Once you've rested." Snow opened the door allowing Charming to slide Emma into the back and place her seatbelt on. He then got into the front beside Snow and they shared a look. There would be no lying to Emma after this. They would have to tell her what they did, and she might never speak to them again.

And I'm going to leave it to this week's (hopefully) episode to reveal whatever that might be!