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He waved his hand and she was pushed backwards until she was sitting on the edge of the bed. He waved his hand again and a barely visible covering appeared across the doorway, it seemed to waver like water and red particles swam throughout it.

Sidney looked back at her and folded his arms as he regarded her with a shake of the head, “sleeping with the enemy, Emma,” he sighed, “I’ve been watching you, you know.”

Emma tried to stand up and he waved his hand and she sat back down and found she couldn’t move at all and was being forced to sit and look at him. Now she couldn’t even open her mouth and she just stared at him with eyes that were wet from frustration.

“Was that the idea all along? Get me out of the way so you could have her for yourself?” Sidney asked with a tilt of the head, “did you think I wouldn’t figure it out?”

He laughed manically, “what’s wrong? Can’t think what to say?”

“Let her go, Sidney,” Regina’s voice sounded from the hallway where she watched the two while examining the force field in front of her.

“Regina,” Sidney breathed as he drank in the sight of her, “oh I’ve been waiting for this moment.”

Regina started to take a step forward and he raised his hand to stop her, “I should let you know, you can move through the field, but if you do you will lose your magic. The red dust is woven into the shield, quite ingenious, I thought,” he smiled to her.

Regina paused and looked at Emma who was desperately trying to convey a message with her eyes. Even though Emma couldn’t move nor speak Regina instantly knew that Emma was pleading with her to get out but she couldn’t do it, she couldn’t leave. The older woman’s eyes flipped between the two of them as she struggled to work out what to do, her fists clenching at her sides.

Sidney walked over to the bed and sat beside Emma as he regarded Regina who was right in front of them, “I just can’t figure out why,” he said as he looked at Emma and examined her carefully, “why her?”

“What do you mean?” Regina asked him.

“Why are you sleeping with Emma Swan of all people?” Sidney asked her, a hint of pleading laced his tone.

“We’re not sleeping together,” Regina told him flippantly, “I really don’t know where you get your information from, Sidney.”

Sidney reached up his hand and ran it through Emma’s hair from her temple to the very tips of her long locks, “I suppose I can see some appeal..” he muttered as he shamelessly ogled her.

Regina stepped over the threshold without even thinking and immediately felt her magic leave her body, Sidney looked up at her with a sinister grin, “come to save her?”

“No,” Regina said plainly as she thought quickly, “it’s you I want,” she told him.

He frowned and opened his mouth to speak, probably to deny it but Regina got in first and spoke quickly, “it’s true, I’m not sleeping with her, she is living here because of Henry and people have gotten the wrong idea. I couldn’t be interested in her, not when I still have unresolved feelings.. for you.”

Even the faintest possibility that Regina could be in anyway interest in him immediately through Sidney and he stood up and wrung his hands nervously, “why didn’t you come and see me?”

Regina hugged herself protectively and let out a low laugh as she paced the room to put a little more space between herself and Sidney, “you think the Charmings allow me to walk around freely? After what I did?”

Sidney curled his hand into a fist, “you are a prisoner in this town,” he understood with anger.

“Of course I wanted to free you after the curse was lifted but,” Regina turned to look out of the window, hoping for a Sheriff’s car patrolling the street, “I couldn’t.”

Emma could feel the spell on her weakening and realised that Sidney’s attention being distracted was allowing her to move the tips of her fingers and she focused on that feeling.

Regina spun around, “I knew I acted.. rashly,” she smiled shyly, “you know what I’m like, Sidney..”

He smiled at her and nodded, “I know, I’ve always known..”

“When I heard you’d escaped I tried to convince them that I was concerned about what you would do to me,” Regina said in a shy and quiet voice as she paced away from the window and passed Sidney again. Emma knew she had to hurry up and get free because the dance Regina was currently doing wasn’t going to last forever.

“But really,” Regina smiled at him, “I was waiting for you to come and rescue me.”

Regina risked a glance to Emma and could see that Sidney’s spell was starting to wear off and that the blonde was slowly regaining her mobility, she just needed to distract him a little more.

“I dreamed that you would one day come to your senses,” Sidney said as he stepped closer to her, effectively cutting off her escape routes.

“What is it they say?” Regina breathed, “you don’t know what you have until it’s gone?”

“Oh, Regina,” Sidney whispered and stepped closer to her.