Battle Scars

Chapter 3

Emma was up and about very early in the morning, she made breakfast for herself at around 6 am and at 7 she was running down the beloved streets of Storybrooke clearing her head about everything. She was thinking about what Henry said just the day before about something going on with Regina she was re-thinking what she said, maybe there was something going on. She hasn't heard from her best friend in a month and a bit, it's been lonely. She went through the same thing with Hook so she understood that Regina needed space but was this too much space?

After her run she stopped at Granny's for breakfast which to Emma Swan was a black coffee and a bear claw. Ruby one of her closest friends after Regina was the waitress working today so she sat down instead of taking her somewhat breakfast to go.

"Hey! How are you doing Duckling?" Ruby asked once Emma sat down and unplugged her ear buds.

"Hey Wolfie it's great!" Emma replied not as convincing as she had hoped it would sound.

"Liar, whats going on Em?" Ruby asked concern clear in her voice now.

"It's nothing, I'm just worried about Regina, she barely leaves the house I just wanna know she's okay?" Emma sighed and took the mug of steaming coffee the tall brunette had handed to her.

"I get it, I think she just needs time Em, it was a tragic loss for many people and it just hit her badly, but she's healing you can't speed up her process by forcing her to join civilization again." Ruby answered while taking a seat next to the blonde at the bar.

"I don't know, I feel like there might be more going on than what she seems to let out."

"I know babe but you can't force her to talk to you, she moves at her own pace, just let her breathe a bit" Ruby tried with a hopeful smile.

"But it's been a month and a half Rubes! I don't know how much more time she can take before she goes mad all by herself." Emma answered meeting her emerald green eyes with dark brown ones.

"Em, relax I'm sure Regina is fine and you don't need to worry, if you think something bad is happening ask Henry, didn't he spend the night there last night?" The brunette asked.

"Oh shit Henry! I'm gonna be late to pick him up. Bye Rubes thanks for breakfast Love ya, see you tomorrow" She said while practically running out the door to the diner.

Emma knew she wouldn't have enough time to run back to her loft in the middle of town so she decided to go with her best option, magic. Within seconds she was wrapped around in white/grey smoke and once it disappeared she was in her bedroom. She threw off her clothes sending them all over the hardwood floor and grabbed her towel and sprinted towards the bathroom.

Within 10 minutes she was at her closet picking out her favourite pair of blue skinny jeans along with a white tank top and went to her dresser to grab a new pair of underwear along with a bra. Once she had everything she grabbed her knee high brown leather boots and her keys and was out the door so fast she nearly forgot to lock the door. She started the car and headed towards the white mansion.
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Henry finally decided after a sleepless night that he wouldn't mention what he saw the night before in his mother's bedroom. He still couldn't believe his mother would do something like that, ever! He made himself breakfast since his mother never got up. Usually he would go wake her but he really didn't want to face his mother at the moment and he figured she could use some sleep. He made some eggs and toast, he went for something a little more filling than cereal but again not too hard to make, he knew how to cook pretty well his mother taught him growing up but it just felt weird cooking things they used to make in this kitchen without her here.

After he ate and cleaned up the kitchen he ran up to his room to pack his stuff knowing his other ma would be here soon to pick him up to go back to her house. He loved living in the apartment and living with his ma was great but he really did miss his mom sometimes, especially lately with how things worked out with Robin Hood and everything else.

Before Henry could go deeper into thought his ma knocked on the door and it startled him half to death. He quietly made his way to the door to make sure he didn't wake his mom up and opened it to find a smiling Emma on the other side.

"Hey ma!" Henry said while reaching out to hug his tall blonde mother.

"Hey kid, how was your night?" She asked full of hope, that Henry was able to get Regina out of the house or to do something with him.

"Ehh it was okay, mom made dinner and went to bed, I stayed up reading comics then went to bed too." He answered with a sigh.

"Well where's your momma now?" Emma asked curiously.

"Bed." Henry replied straight forwardly as if it were normal.

"Hen it's almost 11 am what is she still doing in bed? What is going on with her! She's normally an early riser no? I mean she used to always get up and make you breakfast."

"Mom calm down, I'm sure it's just Robin, I'm fine at least I got to see her! Can we just go I'll call her later and tell her I left safely." Henry said while grabbing his stuff and closing the door behind him. He looked towards Emma with a knowing smirk and Emma laughed at her son's face. She then made an overly dramatic hand wave and locked Regina's doors with magic.

Once they got back home and all settled Emma asked Henry what exactly happened last night at the beautiful mansion. Henry explained as he did before, he literally did nothing and explained that in vivid detail. Emma looked at him with a slight frown knowing he was keeping something from her, but she didn't want to push him to talk. Henry knew that look and decided it was time to leave the conversation so he said he was going to take a nap, that wasn't a complete lie because he was exhausted from barely sleeping all night so that's what he went with as an excuse. Emma smiled and said:

"Ok, call me if you need anything."

Henry nodded and ran up the stairs to his room and closed the door, once Emma heard the click she let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding in. She sat on one of the barstools in the kitchen and just started to think about Regina.

"What if there really is something wrong, something bad, dangerous...?" She thought to herself.

"I can't handle losing you too Regina!" She whispered with tears in her eyes, slowly building fear in the pit of her stomach that something bad was actually happening to the beautiful brunette. As a single tear trickled down the blondes face she whispered to no one in particular,

"Fuck, Regina will you ever understand how much I love you!"