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Emma prudently decided to not bring up the fact that Henry was no longer Regina’s son, it was a discussion she had decided to park for another day, “you think he’d do that?”

“Of course,” Regina passed her a mug as she narrowed her eyes as she mentally strategized what Henry might be up to and what her countermove would be.

Emma put the mug down on the counter and took Regina’s mug from her hand and put it down too, “or,” she pulled Regina into her arms, “we could be happy that our son is happy for us to be in a relationship and even happier that he has disappeared for a while, effectively giving us some time alone.”

Regina grinned, “I like your thinking,” she said as she leaned in and kissed Emma before pulling back “so,” she punctuated with a kiss, “you like me, a lot?”

Emma nodded as she kissed Regina and then said, “yeah, a lot..”

Regina hastily pulled Emma even closer and wrapped her arms around the blonde, allowing her hands to track up and down the muscles of her back as she deepened the kiss. Emma pushed her body against Regina’s and used the momentum to back the brunette up against the kitchen counter and grabbed a fistful of the blue material of Regina’s dress on each hip, causing the hem to rise up

As if suddenly realising where they were and what they were doing they abruptly halted the kiss and let go of each other with a shared grin. Regina adjusted her dress so it was back to a reasonable length. Emma thought about apologising but then realise she wasn’t in the slightest bit sorry so instead she picked up her coffee mug and took a sip.

“I need to speak to Sidney,” Emma said finally.

Regina could tell by Emma’s phrasing and tone that she was reluctant for Regina to come with her so she simply nodded, “take Gold with you, he will be able to detect if any magic has been used there.”

Emma nodded, “I’ll get ready to go now..”

“Emma,” Regina said as the blonde had turned to leave.

“Yeah?” Emma asked as she turned back.

“Shouldn’t you finish your exercises first?” Regina queried as she glanced at Emma’s leg.

“It’ll be fine,” Emma said casually.

“May I.. suggest something?” Regina said with a sudden nervousness.

“Sure,” Emma shrugged with a hint of concern.

“I think you have been avoiding your exercises because you were under the impression that as long as you were.. injured.. you would have a reason to stay here. I don’t know if this was conscious reasoning or not..” Regina said carefully.

Emma opened her mouth and then thought for a second before speaking and suddenly she realised that Regina was right. She had been deliberately sabotaging herself but she hadn’t been able to figure out why. Yes the exercises were annoying and painful but it wasn’t like Emma to not take care of her body in that fashion and suddenly it was making sense.

“I think you should ensure you do your morning and evening exercises,” Regina said, “every day.”

Emma nodded as she breathed the question, “and when I’m healed?”

“Then the stairs won’t be such a burden for you, Dear,” Regina smiled.

Chapter 83

The nurse looked at Emma with her crutch and Gold with his cane and smiled, “well, don’t you two make a lovely pair?”

Normally Emma would have had something to say to the woman but the fact that she was now standing in a secretive facility under the hospital where her new girlfriend hid away people who pissed her off had her a little unsettled to say the least.

When she had called Gold and asked him to join her at the facility he seemed keen to come along and speak with Sidney himself. On the way to the hospital he had told Emma that the objects that had been taken seemed to have no connection but a lot of ingredients for potions were also missing.

Emma had asked him what kind of potions could be made with the ingredients that had been taken and the list appeared to be absolutely endless. The more Emma thought back to her previous encounters with Sidney the more her skin crawled at the manipulative and obsessive man.

“We’re here to see Glass,” Gold told the nurse with no preamble.

“At the end on the left,” the nurse said without looking up from her paperwork.

Gold limped off up the corridor and Emma followed him with a deep sense of foreboding at what lurked in each of the rooms.

“People shouldn’t be kept here,” Emma said.

“Some should,” Gold disagreed.

“No one should live like that,” Emma shook her head.

Gold paused and turned and looked at her, “think about those terrible fairy tales you read when you were a little girl, Sheriff. It wasn’t just the Evil Queen who would haunt your dreams at night, was it?”

He lifted his cane and pointed at the closed doors, “these people are here for a reason and they are not like you, they are from another world where things work very differently. Think of the things that could do if they were free.”

Emma looked around the corridor at the doors and swallowed, “it’s not right,” she muttered somewhat defeated.