Falling In Love

Part 8

Red and blue lights blinking outside the apartment building. Two police cars, three cops, and one hell of a morning. There was one crying mom sobbing over her little girl, one father trying to figure out a way to find her, two good friends utterly worried about her. Every person that cares about emma was gathered in the apartment. Regina wiped her damp, cold eyes. She walked over to mary margaret who was sitting on the couch. Regina sat down next to the women as she awkwardly tried to comfort the women by extending her hand on the woman's back. Mary Margaret eased up her head, slowly facing the brunette. Regina couldn't hold it anymore, the pain of emma missing or worse being hurt, she let it all go. Brown eyes glistening in rolling stones of hot wet tears. Emma's mom did not hesitate to wrap her arms around her enemies daughter. She couldn't be happier that cora got locked away.

"We tried calling her but she won't answer her phone",

Explained david to ruby, regina and mary margaret. A police officer came from behind, with a shattered phone parts in his hand.

"I think that's the reason she can't pick up".

He put the pieces of what's left of the phone in the evidence bag. David placed both hands on his hips, puffing his strong chest up and down. Meanwhile, Regina started to get an idea of where emma might be. The brunette grabbed ruby's hand as they quietly snuck upstairs to emma's bedroom. Mary Margaret saw them but didn't say anything. Regina started to rampaging emma's room, opening drawers , skimming through old papers, and a couple of candy wrappers.

"Help me find a notebook. If emma has a diary or something, that may help us find her"

"How the hell did you get so smart?",

Ruby was on the left side of emma's bed, looking through the bottom drawer of her desk. Regina took a deep breathe, her nostrils flared with heat, tossing lots of plastic wrappers, and a few papers.

"When the girl that I fell in love with told me to live without her".

Regina's eyes lowered to the floor for a second. She thought about emma's goofy smile, then she thought about what emma said before her left. Regina was so unbelievably angry that she could rip apart this room and chuck someone out the window. The brunette shook her head, "But I can't live without her, so can you just help me find her"

Ruby nodded her head, not needing to be told twice. They both started tear apart everything, trying to find a diary. Ruby knew from the start when she first saw regina and emma at her party. The way Regina took her place next to emma the second ruby arrived, the way emma backed up in the safety of regina's space, the way Regina looked at emma as she was the only girl she could fall for, or the way the brunette talked to emma like she was the only who mattered. Ruby took a look at regina, she could see that she really cared about emma and that she won't give up on her.

"I think I found something".

Regina hopped off the treasure chest before she grabbed a black spiral note book from the top shelf of emma's closet. Ruby's eyes shifted to the notebook, not taking her eyes off of it for one second as she came around the bed, sitting next to Regina. The brunette opened the notebook, preparing herself for what she was about to see. Regina's eyes scanned through the first page as she read each of emma's words out loud. Her heart started to swell, tracing the words with her fingertips of how emma described regina.

Her heart shattered in the beginning of emma's sad, poor, childhood. Regina's grip got tighter. She wanted to punish everyone who had hurt emma, the ones who did her wrong, and left her in the dirt. Regina more than thankful that david and mary margret come around for her. Ruby put her arm around the brunette, gently squeezing her. She turns to the next page, and to the next. Her eyes focused on any clue of where emma might be. Ruby's eyes spotted a word that said, "Woods" and "Cellular".

"Wait, I know where she is". Ruby grabbed the notebook, tossing it on the bed. She pulled Regina up from the bed. "Do you trust me". The brunette put both hands on regina's arms, looking deep in her best friends brown eyes.

"Let's go find Emma"

Ruby smiled. "Okay, I saw that she said something about the woods and a cellular"

"The cellular? My mom's. We used to go their when we were kids"

"Yes, now let's go"

Regina and Ruby had told them they were going home. Ruby drove them to the woods as they both got out of the car. The brunette took a big wiff of the fresh air. Regina had faith that she will find emma. She could never understand what emma could have done in the past. That girl was so sweet and innocent. What broke her heart even more, emma didn't keep her promise.

"Emma!" Regina shouted through the woods. "Emma!". Regina protested to open her mouth one more time but closed it when she heard something. The brunette looked at ruby who was next to a big large oak tree. Regina didn't say word. Her feet stomped through the dirty, running as fast as her feet can take her.

The loud sound echoed pass the big trees. Regina and Ruby could hear an object clamping against some kind of metal. They started to get even closer, as they slowed down, regina saw a hand sticking out next to a big square rock on the left side of the cellular. The cellular was surrounded by two big side walls, old cracked stairs that led down to a chained door. Regina's heart started to speed up, just as her heart was about to burst out of her chest, she clinged on to ruby's arms. Foot step after food step, crunching on the leaves, until they stopped.

"Emma".

Regina let go of ruby's hand, pushing herself to her knees. Emma was bleeding pretty badly from her wrist, a small sharp rock that had blood on it. Emma could barely move, her eyes slightly opened. The brunette cupped emma's face in her hands, giving her a soft kiss on her forehead. "You're going to be okay". Regina's tears streamed down her face, gathering emma in her arms. She gently rocked emma back and forth.

"Ruby go call them, tell them we found her"

"You found me". Emma weakly whispered. She closed her eyes tightly, moaning at the pain.

"I'll always find you"

"I'm sorry"

"Don't be, you should have told me though, you promised me". Emma sobbed out, unable to breathe as she buried her face in regina's chest. The brunette held her tighter.