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Emma and Ella

Chapter 15: Mayor Mills aka The Evil Queen

One week went by and all the evidence of the stolen items was pointing to Ella. They found more than one of the items at Mary Margaret's loft, hidden in Ella's room. Regina wasn't easing up on Ella or Mary Margaret either. She was determined to either get Ella sent away from Storybrooke or get Ella taken from Mary Margaret.

Fortunately, since she was a minor, David was able to prevent that from happening. That just infuriated the Mayor more. So she thought of a new plan…

David and Emma were having dinner at Mary Margaret and Ella's house.

"Emma, you want to help me with dinner?" Mary Margaret asked kindly.

"Uh I don't know. I'm not very good in the kitchen." Emma responded.

"I'm sure you aren't that bad! Come on, I'll teach you!" Mary Margaret encouraged her.

"Ok, but don't blame me if I burn dinner " Emma told her seriously and everyone chuckled.

"I'll make sure that doesn't happen." Mary Margaret said with a smile.

Ella still had her crutches and hadn't sat down yet.

"Ella, why don't you go sit on the couch and rest your leg?"

"Mom..." Ella whined.

"Why don't you show me how to play that video game you and Emma have been playing lately?" David asked to distract her and get her to sit down without a fight.

Ella knew what he was doing, but she would rather be playing a video game then be working in the kitchen. "Ok, I guess we could do that."

"Good." David said and followed her to the couch.

Mary Margaret smiled as she watched David help Ella get settled. David looked up at her and smiled as well.

They were coming closer and closer together. And with this trouble with Regina almost over, they could continue to move forward in being a family in the future.

"How's your arm feeling?" Mary Margaret asked Emma. Emma still had her arm in her cast, but it was supposed to come off the next week.

"It's alright, I just wish that my cast was off already." Emma said with a frown.

"I know, but you haven't gotten pretty good at using one arm." Mary Margaret said with a kind smile.

"That's true, but it would be nice to have two arms again." Emma said seriously.

Mary Margaret smiled. She loved having Emma around. She felt like she had always known her.

10 minutes later there was a knock at the door and Mary Margaret went to answer. "Mayor Mills."

David stood up and walked over to stand behind Mary Margaret.

Regina rolled her eyes as she saw that David and Emma were there too. "I've come to tell you I'm dropping the charges on Ella."

"What? Really?" Mary Margaret stuttered in surprise.

"What made you change your mind?" David asked skeptically.

"I found out who Ella's real parent is." Regina said with a smirk.

Ella stiffened up and Mary Margaret looked over at Ella with a terrified look. She couldn't lose her daughter.

"Who?" David asked.

"Me. Almost thirteen years ago I had a little girl, but she was kidnapped just a few hours after she was born. I searched for her, but there were no leads and I assumed she had died. They did a DNA test and found out that I am Ella's mother."

"That's a lie! I'm not your daughter!" Ella yelled as she stood up as Emma came towards her.

"Actually you are and I'm coming to pick you up tomorrow morning at 8 am so you better have everything ready to go." Regina said sternly.

"Mayor Mills. You can't just take her. I adopted her, she's my daughter." Mary Margaret pleaded.

"I already have the paperwork and I will be taking her tomorrow." Regina said and turned to go.

"Why are you just now realizing she is your daughter? If you searched so hard wouldn't you have found her since she was right here in your own town?" David asked skeptically. He didn't believe her and he could tell something was shady with all this coming out right now. Plus if she really was finding her daughter after thirteen years, you would think she would be a lot happier.

Regina looked back at them. "I was grieving and desperate. I didn't have a reason to believe that the baby Mary Margaret had was mine." Regina told him with an icy glare.

"Be ready at 8 sharp." Regina told Ella before turning on her heel and leaving with an evil smirk.

"She can't do this, right? She can't just take Ella from me!" Mary Margaret asked David in a horrified voice.

"I don't know, but I am going to look into it. I don't believe that she is being truthful. It just doesn't make sense." David said quietly to her as he shut the door.

"Emma, what if I am her daughter? Could that be possible? That would be terrible!" Ella said as Emma helped her sit back down.

"My Dad won't let her take you. Neither will your mom." Emma reassured her.

*****OUAT*****

Despite their efforts, legally they had to let Regina take Ella. However, they would be working on getting her back. If need be, they would go to court.

"Don't you worry. You'll be back in no time." Mary Margaret said as she held Ella's face between her hands.

"I don't want to go at all, mom. She's mean and she can't be my mom. You are my mom." Ella said with tears in her eyes.

"And I always will be, but for now you have to go with her. I will do whatever I can do to get you back. I promise." Mary Margaret reassured her before bringing her in for a hug. "She will be here soon. I love you and I'll still be here for you if you need me, okay?"

"Ok. I love you too." Ella said through her tears just as there was a knock at the door.

Mary Margaret pulled away and wiped away her daughter's tears. "I love you." She whispered as she put a kiss on her daughter's head.

Ella nodded and Mary Margaret let go to open the door to Regina.

"Ms. Blanchard." Regina greeted her coldly before looking to Ella. "Ready?"

Ella nodded as she picked up her bag.

"Here is her medicine and she has an appointment on Wednesday at 1pm for her leg." Mary Margaret said as she handed her the medicine.

Regina nodded before looking at Ella, "let's go."

Ella started to freak out. "No! I'm not going. Mom don't let her take me!" Ella pleaded.

Regina took her by the arm and pulled her out of the apartment.

"I'll get you back, I promise!" Mary Margaret said with tears in her eyes.

Ella tried to get away from Regina and go to her mom, but Regina pulled her with her.

Ella struggled all the way to Regina's car. "No! No! I'm not going with you!" Ella yelled at her as she struggled to get away from.

Regina wasted no time in swatting her backside before turning her towards her. Ella froze in fear of Regina. "This is how this is going to go. If you don't listen to me, I'm shipping you to boarding school far from here. I don't care about you one bit and I won't hesitate to send you away. Now get in and be quiet." Regina threatened her.

Ella gulped and got in the car. She was terrified of Regina. She saw no love in Regina's eyes. She had started to second guess if she really was Snow White's daughter. It would make sense if she was Regina's daughter with her having dark hair, but then again Mary Margaret had dark hair too. Then again in the storybook, Snow White and Prince Charming only had one child and her name was Emma. Emma was a spitting image of both of them combined. She had her mom's chin and green eyes with her dad's blonde hair. She was a perfect mixture of them and she was in the book. She wasn't in the book at all. Not as their daughter and not as the Evil Queen's daughter. Now though she knew she couldn't be Regina's daughter - or at least she hoped she wasn't - she couldn't be the daughter of the Evil Queen! She just couldn't be!

She still had to keep the hope that she wasn't her daughter and she was Mary Margaret's daughter. Also that her real mom and David would get her back again.

*****OUAT*****

2 weeks later...

"I heard Regina talking and I know that I'm not her daughter. She was on the phone with somebody and she said I wasn't her daughter. She said she has never even been pregnant!" Ella whispered to Emma at school.

"Seriously? How did she fake the DNA testing?" Emma said in confusion.

"I'm sure she bribed someone or more likely threatened someone." Ella said.

"Yeah. Most likely. She is a scary lady. I can't believe you have been living with her for two weeks now." Emma said with a grimace.

"I know. Do you think my mom and your dad will get me out of there soon?" Ella asked losing hope already.

"Yes. They are doing everything they can. I promise." Emma reassured her. "She's just..."

"Evil." Ella finished for her.

"Basically. She is making it so hard for them." Emma said with a frown.

"Well at least she hadn't sent me away to boarding school yet." Ella said with a sigh.

"What?!" Emma said in shock.

"Oh I guess I never told anyone that she threatened me the day she took me from mom that if I didn't listen to her she wouldn't hesitate to send me away to boarding school." Ella said jokingly, but her eyes told Emma another story.

"That's terrible. Is that why you haven't tried running away from her?"

Ella nodded.

"I was so sure you would have run away as soon as you got there."

"I was planning on it, but then she told me that and I could tell she meant it." Ella said sadly.

"But I better go. She is picking me up and she won't like it if I'm late." Ella said as she started to walk with Emma to the front doors.

Regina was parked at the end of the curb and David was just pulling up to the school. "Ella! Come here." David called quickly.

Ella glanced at Regina's car and then walked quickly over to David's truck.

"How's your leg, honey?" David asked worriedly since she was still limping even though she wasn't using her crutches. She had been wearing a walking boot for a week now, but he wasn't sure if that meant she could bear all her weight on her leg yet.

"It's alright. I think." Ella said. She had stopped using the crutches even though the doctor didn't clear it. Regina didn't care that she wasn't using them.

David frowned. "Did the doctor tell you that you could stop using your crutches?" David asked.

"Of course." Ella lied quickly.

David looked at her skeptically before letting it go. "Is she treating you okay?" David asked in concern.

Ella looked to the car to see Regina getting out. "Yeah. I'm fine."

"Let's go, Ella!" Regina called with a glare at her.

"I've got go!" Ella said quickly before walking or more correctly limping off towards Regina's car.

"Get in the car. Now." Regina said firmly.

David and Emma watched as Ella got in. Regina sent a glare to David, but David didn't flinch.

"We got to get her away from her, Dad." Emma said in worry as Regina drove off.

"I know. We are trying, but it is proving to be a lot more difficult then we thought it would be." David said in a defeated voice.

"Ella told me that she threatened to send her away to boarding school." Emma told him.

David looked over at Emma with a worried look. "She said that?"

Emma nodded her head. "You can't give up on her." Emma pleaded.

"I'm not, Emma." David answered seriously.

"Good because Regina hates her. Did you see how she looked at her?"

"I did. We will fix this Emma. It just may take some time."

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"I don't want you talking to Mr. Nolan or Emma anymore." Regina told Ella in frustration as they drove home.

"What? Why?" Ella asked.

Regina looked over at her. "Because I said so!" She snapped at her. "Don't you dare forget that I will send you away if you don't obey me!"

"But she's my friend." Ella said sadly.

"Make new friends." Regina replied without concern.

Ella felt like crying. She didn't want to stop being friends with Emma or stop talking to David. Next, it would be she couldn't see her mom, good thing she was her teacher so she would see her everyday at school. Regina made sure though that Ella wasn't at school very early or very late so that she couldn't spend any more time with her mom.

Hope you liked this chapter! Oh and I was wondering if any of you had an idea who Mr. Wood actually is? I would love to hear if you have any ideas.