The Queen and her Slave - English Version

Chapter 11

Emma had to wait for two days before she could visit Regina again.
She got cautiously close to the cell, careful not to make a sound just in case she was sleeping.
Here yes filled with tears as she saw her.
«Hey...» she softly said, smiling.
Regina bareli gave her a glance.
«Princess.» she coldly replied.
«How are you feeling, Your Majesty?» the blonde asked shyly, trying to get a grip of herself.
«Seen the situation, I guess you can pass to less formal tones.» the woman replied slightly lifting on her arms, her lips pushed together to hold a moan of pain. «Now our roles are inverted.»
Emma istinctively stretched a hand thrugh the bars.
«Don't make efforts!» she exclaimed. She then looked at her own hand as if it was someone else's. She pulled it back. «No, it's not like that.» she objected then «I'm not the one who's keeping you prisoner, but those idiots...»
«Something we agree on.» the brunette smiled. «Don't worry. I've been through worse.»
Emma forced herself to smile.
«You'll never have to do it again.»
«That's what I deserve for what I've done.» Regina said standing up. «A few days, and all of this will be over.»
«I don't think you deserve this... And, as long as I'm alive, none will execute you.»
«Your parents must choose, and I think I agree with them...» Regina fixed her dark eyes in Emma's. «I'd rather die than spend my life behind the bars.»
«You won't spend your life here!» the blonde exclaimed, shocked. «I'll take you out of here, one way or another!»
«You must do nothing. Just go away.»
Emma hit a bar with an open hand.
«I'm not letting you die, get it through your head!»
«You don't get to decide that.» the brunette angrily replied, menacingly getting closer to the bars. «None will get to decide on my behalf ever again.»
«You're letting my parents decide on your behalf. I'm just trying to prevent it.» the girl objected, staring back at her.
«You won't chose wheter I live and your parent won't decide how and when I'm going to die.» the other woman gloomily stated.
«Good, perfect! Indeed, I will only get you out of here! The you'll obviously be free to go wherever you want and with whoever you desire, and you won't be under anyone's control!» Emma shouted, a note of exasperation in her voice.
«To be chased by those two idiots once again? No, enough. I've done the last thing I had to do. No I can stop fighting.»
«Over my dead body they will chase you. You oìwon't ever have to fight again.» Emma promised, her eyes widened by fear and determination.
«Emma...» regina said approaching the bars that separated them, looking in her eyes. «The time has come for you to go on.»
The blonde hit the bar again.
«I have no intentions to do so.» she said in an angry whisper, her eyes filled with tears.
«You're a princess... no, a queen. You must act like one.» Regina touched her hand. «Find a prince, a princess, whoever you want, and rule your kingdom.»
«I am acting like one. I'm protecting my people. I won't let an injustice happen, the death of a person of valor like you. A marriage wouldn't make me a true queen. If I have to rule alone, then I will, but only because you're the only person I want beside me. But I won't let my family hurt you again. If I must dethrone them to impede it, I'm ready to do it.»
«It's not an injustice. I've killed hundreds of people, and I must pay for my actions.» the brunette objected. She stretched a hand between the bars and caressed her face, taking her breath away. «You'll be a magnificent queen. That's why I gave you the palace.» she smiled at her.
Emma's voice was trembling when she answered.
«And which sovereign didn't? Every king and queen of this world have killed even thousands of people to pursue their purposes! Look at my parents now: waging war on you, how many soldiers are they sacrificing? Even George, and Stephan, that aren't even threatened by you. No, you're not worse than them. If you deserve to die, then all of them do. And I'm willing to make sure that everyone knows that.» she said, determined.
«You will have everyone standong against you, it's sensless...» the bruentte said lifting Emma's face and giving her an intense gaze. «And you can never rule with me. None would accept it, just the thought is pure madness. I should have killed you right away...» she sighed «... before you to became someone for me...»
Emma leaped back, shocked.
«W-what?»
Regina stepped awya from the bars, happy that they were here to divide them.
«Nothing. Go away now, you bored me.» she sharply commanded, turing her back to her.
Emma launched herself against the bars.
«Wait! With the people by my side, none will oppose!» she plowed on.
The brunette gave her a smile, buti t was the sadness to curve that lips upwards.
«The people wants my head.» she said, stepping again towards her. «It's pointless to argue about it. I gave you the possibility to show me who you are and you're wasting it, Princess.»
«i'm not here to show you anything. I'm here to save your life.»
«I didn't ask you this.» Regina glared at her with contempt. «i want nothing from you.»
The blonde sighed and slightly lifted her chin.
«I know. As I know that you're refusing to drink and eat.» she suddenly changed the subject. «Be aware that I'm doing the same, and I shall continue until you decide otherwise.»
«What I do is non of your business! You're none!» the other one shouted, angry. «Do you really thingìk that just because I saved your life you mean anything to me? You're wrong.»
Emma nodded anc clenched her jaw.
«If you don't care, do go on. One more body to dispose of won't be a problem for the kingdom.»
«Go away and never com back!» Regina yelled at her hitting the bars with her hands.
Emma stayed still where she was, simply gazing at her. She didn't move even when the woman turned her back to her and layed on the bunk, facing the wall. Silent and hidden tears ran over the prisoner queen's face. The only movement that the other woman made was to look down. They stayed that way, in silence, for the time necessary to Regina to run out of patience.
«How long are you going to stay thet to stare at me?»
Emma looked up at her, surprised.
«Actually, I was staring at the floor.»
The tiniest smile appeared on the brunette's face.
«Yeah, sure, I can feel your eyes on me...» she mocked her.
The blonde's eyes brightened, lightened up by a smile.
«So, do you know how to get out of here without being caught?» she asked her, reinvigorated by Regina's tone, who held back a laughter at her question.
«Of course, yet I'm not willing to tell you.»
Emma smirked again.
«So there is a way..»
«You're a pain in the arse... don't you have anyone else to bother?» Regina gìsighed in exasperation.
«Nope. So, how do we get out of here?»
The brunette snorted.
«There are secret tunnels that lead out of the castle. Happy?»
The smile disappeared frome the young queen's face.
«No: they destroyed that passage years ago.»
«Then you're stuck here, Princess. There are no other possible ways out.»
Emma stayed still. She was looking at Regina, but her mind was elsewhere, her lips slightly departed. The brunette turned her head, made suspicious by the prolonged silence.
«Emma?» she called her.
The girl suddenly recovered. She blinked repeatedly.
«I know how.» she said, suddenly distressed.
Regina looked at her in confusion.
«Good, then you can go away and let me be...»
Emma shook her head.
«Don't worry about anything.» she murmured before taking a deep breath. «Rumplestiltskin, I summon thee.»
Regina leaped up hearing that name.
«No! What the hell are you doing?» she shouted.
A swirling black smoke appeared before Emma. A giggle announced the Dar One's arrival.
«Hello, dearie...»
Emma was mouth-agape seeing him. His looking was dreadful. His eyes, most of all, were terrifying. She recovered soon, though, determined to save the queen.
«I need your help, Dark One.» she announced, confident.
«No, that's not true!» Regina said staring at him. «Go away, we don't need you!»
The man looked at her with an annoyed grimace on his squamous face.
«Shut up, dearie, none asked for your opinion...» he scolded her before talking to the blonde. «Tell me, how can I help you, Princess? Oh, no, pardon me, you're a queen no...» he laughed.
«We need to get out of here.» she replied, ignoring the comment. «And to go to her... my castle. Safe and sound, of course.» she added, giving him a knowing look.
Regina furiously growled at him, frustrated. She looked at Emma.
«Don't listen to him! He cares only about himself. Magic always comes with a price, don't listen to him!» she begged her.
But the Dark One sneered at the blonde, showing his rotting teeth.
«Of course. But I want something in return.» he singed tilting his head and waving hishands in the air.
«Obviously...» Emma replied, giving a glance at Regina. «What is it?»
«Don't give him anything Emma, listen to me for once!»
Rumplestiltskin giggled, dramatically waving his hands.
«Oh, a simple object that your family possess... a wand, nothing more...»
The girl frowned trying to understand what he was talking about.
«Which wand?»
«No!» Regina stretched between the bars managing to grab the blonde's sleeve. «Don't give him anything!»
«The Black Fairy's wand. Blue should have it, if I'm right...» the Dark One answered.
«How on earth should I take it from her?» Emma shouted, made nervous by the rumor of steps she was starting to hear upstairs.
Regina yanked her, tearing a bit the silk sleeve.
«You mustn't indeed, damn it!» she exclaimed, a hint of desperation in her voice.
The steps were closer.
«Your problem, not mine!» the man answered, totally ignoring Regina. He then made a long scroll appear and a quill, and handed them to Emma. «Do we have a deal?» he asked looking in her eyes.
Emma hesitated looking at the scroll. She had no idea how to take the wand from the fairy.
«Emma don't sign anything!» Regina said louder, trying to catch her attention, uslessly.
«We're running out of ti-ime...» the Dark One sang making the scroll sway.
They heard the king's voice yell his daughter's name.
Emma gazed at Regina and in that moment she made her coiche. She signed the contract.
They disappeared the moment when James and his guards entered the dark hallway.