Catalyst

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Chapter 164: Catalyst

Snow and David gave her anxious and fearful stares, as she uttered those four little words, for nothing good ever came from the phrase, we need to talk.

"It's about Emma...isn't it?" Snow asked fearfully. Regina cast her gaze downward, before looking back up at them.

"Regina..." David said, as they saw the tears in her eyes.

"No..." he uttered.

"I'm sorry..." she cried.

"NO!" David refuted, as he clenched the counter top and his knuckles turned white.

"She can't be..." Snow pleaded, as tears were swimming in her eyes. Tears fell from David's eyes as well, as Regina came out from behind the bar.

"Nana? It can't be true," Bobby said. Tears slipped down Regina's cheeks, as she fell to her knees and hugged him.

"I'm sorry...Emma's dead," she said. At those words, Snow's knees buckled and she let out an anguished cry that chilled Regina to her bones. She had heard that same agonizing cry from her only twice before. One was the night of the first curse when she had invaded their castle and heard such echoing through the halls. It was the moment that she had sent Charming away with Emma to place her in the wardrobe. The next time was the moment Snow crushed David's heart in Atlantis and he fell dead to the ground. And now...it was because she had lost Emma again, perhaps forever this time.

David managed to catch Snow, before she collapsed to the floor and they collapsed together, sobbing in each other's arms.

"How...how did this happen?" David choked.

"David..." Regina protested.

"How? How did I fail my daughter? I need...I need to know," he cried.

"You didn't fail her...you never have," Regina sniffed.

"Did we block it out...is that why we don't remember?" he asked, as Snow sobbed uncontrollably against his chest.

"I...I don't know why. It could be the chalice...we don't know where it is or what's happening with it. Weaver is trying to find it," Regina responded.

"Clayton...he did this," David growled.

"And Gothel...she's the mastermind behind all of this," Regina added.

"Then she's here...somewhere too," Snow sniffed.

"Victoria has her under her thumb right now, but I don't know how much longer that will be true. That witch is manipulating her and she can't even see it," Regina replied.

"We need to see what happened that night," David insisted. Regina sighed.

"It's only going to bring you pain," she warned.

"We know...but we have to see," Snow said. Regina glanced at Bobby and then took out a small vial from behind the bar, which had a tiny drop of potion remaining in it.

"Take this home and put it in some water. Then you both need to drink it...it should wake you up the rest of the way," Regina said, as she handed the vial to Snow.

"Then once you know...Weaver is counting on you both being ready to fight," she added. David looked at her and his jaw was set in determination.

"Tell him we'll be ready...they're not going to know what hit them when we get done," he said.

"They killed our daughter...there's no mercy or forgiveness for that," Snow added harshly. The looks in their eyes worried Regina a bit, as she had only seen them like this a couple times. Each time they had faced some sort of separation or curse, Snow and David had a feral air about them when it came to finding each other or protecting one another. But this was a step further than that and she knew this is what Weaver wanted. He knew the news of Emma's death would get them ready to fight in a way they never had before. She didn't like it either. She didn't want them to do things that would darken their heart, but this was a loss of a child they were dealing with and she knew that there was no way that it couldn't have this effect on them. She just knew that she would have to be there to pull them back from the edge when the time came and only hoped their other children could keep them grounded.

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