A Curse that can't be Broken

Lie Detector

*Picture of Coal*

As she drove in the rain she couldn't help but replay the night's events through her mind. Regina had seen a lot of magic... A lot of dark magic as well. But what she saw on the boy's arm was beyond her. She had heard of markings caused by the use of powerful magic, but had never seen such markings in real life. Such tales of magic like that only came from her studies when she was younger.

She heard of a strong wizard that went by the name of Uther.

The tales of Arthur and Merlin were not mystery to Storybrooke. But she knew there was far more to that story... and it held much darker magic than one could imagine.

Regina pulled up to the hospital and parked her car near the front. She turned off the ignition but failed to step out of the vehicle. Her eyes looked to the building and then up to the rainy skies.

As Emma attended to the girl and the boy, the driver spoke of a third.

"There was another person in the road... The man said he hit the figure, but the figure turned into a green and black mist upon impact. He had swerved and missed the two, only to run into a parked car. Thank god no one got hurt.

As Regina left the driver and went to Emma's side, that's when she noticed the markings on the boys arms. Black spots and swirls, burned into the skin. A few of the markings looked new and fresh while most of the others looked old and faded.

Regina withheld this information from Emma at the time. Instead she drove Henry home, dropping him off with Killian and then headed to meet Emma at the hospital. And there she was, still sitting in her car, staring at the building as the rain began to fall harder.

Regina snapped out of her daze when her cellphone went of. She jumped a bit as she reached into her pocket and answered the phone quickly. "I just arrived." She nodded to herself.

"Good." Emma answered. "I just got word from the doctor." Emma glanced over her shoulder and looked to the window, showing her the boy and girl from before. The girl sat as close as she could to the boy's bed, watching him carefully as he slept. "They said something about a drain of energy." She spoke into the phone. Her eyes watched as the young girl sat up and reached out to the sleeping boy. She brushed some of the boys wet black hair from his face before sitting back into her chair.

"Where are they now?" Regina asked as she gathered her things quickly.

"I got them set up in a room..." Emma turned away from the window and took a few steps. "The boy has yet to wake and the girl wont seem to talk."

At the mention of the girl, Regina could clearly recall the look on the girl's face when she looked at her. It was only there for a second and she couldn't really tell what the look was about, but she felt as if the girl knew her. "I'll be right up." Regina quickly ended the call before rushing from her car to the building.

Regina didn't have such a great past, but she had made up for her wrongs many of times, over and over again. But she knew that there were still some people out there who still knew her and saw her as the evil queen. She wondered if the reason for that look...

Regina made her way through the hospital and soon found Emma standing in the hallway. "That room?" Regina asked as she pointed to the room closest to Emma. Emma nodded. Regina was about to walk past Emma when Emma stopped her. "Regina." Emma glanced to the window.

Regina gave Emma a questionable look. "What?" she asked.

Emma let go of Regina and shrugged. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out.

Regina could tell a lot was running through their saviors mind. A lot was running through her own mind.

"Maybe..." Emma struggled with her words and her decision. "Maybe we should take our time with this." She suggested. "They're just kids and they've already been through a lot it seems." Emma knew what it was like to be a kid, lost, cold and scared in the world. "It looks to me that they were running from something." She added.