A/N: In which Emma explodes at an inconvenient time.
Oh god, this was so not the time.
Her mother was in labour and there was a literally wicked witch out to steal the baby and use it as the last ingredient in a spell that would apparently erase her entire existence along with her mother, her son, her unborn sibling, and Regina. And yet—
“Wait, so Glinda the Good Witch told you the only way to stop Zelena was to cast the dark curse?”
Mary Margaret winced, though whether because of the question or a contraction she wasn’t sure. “Well, not... technically. She said that only the most powerful of light magic would be able to defeat her and we knew that meant you were our only hope. We had to get back to you.”
“How were you going to do that anyways? I mean, you didn’t send the message or the potion to Hook, but you knew I didn’t have my memories. How were you going to get me to come back to Storybrooke when you were cursing yourselves and knew you wouldn’t be able to leave?”
“I was able to go to Boston to adopt Henry the first time. Your mother would have been able to bring you back — if Zelena hadn’t added the memory loss and a flying monkey border patrol.” Regina had both hands on her hips like she didn’t even want to be in the room, let alone in the conversation.
“But she did! The curse hurt you guys more than it did her, and she already had Walsh keeping an eye on me, she knew she’d get advance warning if someone tried to come and get me. You cursed everyone for nothing!”
David crossed his arms. “Not for nothing. For you.”
“How can you even pretend that this was about me? You did it for yourselves. If you’d done it to get back to me you would have done it sooner. You would have found another way before Zelena even had a chance to threaten your child! Did you even know what her plan was? Why she wanted it? The whole time travel thing? Did you know I was also in danger or did you just decide you needed the Saviour to get you out of your mess?”
“Emma, there was no other way.”
“Then how the hell did Hook get here?” she screamed. Regina turned to the pirate as if to ask him exactly that but Emma was verging on hysterical now and couldn’t stop if she had wanted to. “Glinda told you the only way to defeat her was light magic so you decided to cast a curse created by the Dark One that was designed specifically to take away happy endings and you’re surprised it blew up in your face? Why didn’t you find another way? Why didn’t you find me sooner?”
“I... we knew that you and Henry were happy. We wanted you to have that.” Mary Margaret sounded so small and defensive and in pain and oh god she was a horrible person.
“Yet you didn’t hesitate to take it away when it was suddenly inconvenient to you and you still wonder why I wish I could go back to New York!”
“Enough! There is a baby coming. Everybody get out!”
As one, they all turned as Dr. Whale and a nurse entered the already crowded delivery room. Emma’s mouth opened and closed on its own and she suddenly couldn’t make eye contact with anyone in the room. Pushing her way past them and out, it took every bit of determination she had not to make even more of a scene and start running. Making for the nearest exit, she broke out into the fresh air and tried to force herself to calm down with deep breaths. She needed to breathe. Needed to be away. She just- she just needed- she needed...
“Rum?”
Emma gave a breathy, still somewhat hysterical laugh and pushed the hair out of her face. “God, yes.”
Hook popped the flask open with his teeth and held it out to her. She took a long drink before pressing the back of her hand to her mouth. The fresh air was helping, a little, as was being away from everyone.
It wasn’t even strange to her anymore that Killian wasn’t someone she needed space from.
“I should go back,” she said after a few minutes of silence. “Apologize.”
“You’ve nothing to apologize for, love.”
Emma turned to look at him but he was facing away from her and she’d never felt the distance between them more keenly. She hated Zelena for cursing him and doing this but knew that she was just as responsible for the divide between them.
“Still, Zelena might— I should...”
“Aye.”
She took another swig from the flask before handing it back to him and turning towards to hospital. When it was clear he wasn’t planning on coming with her she stopped and turned back.
“I’m not going to ask how you did it, but thank you.”
She waited a moment longer, but he kept his back turned to her and gave no sign that he’d even heard her. Taking a deep breath, Emma dug her nails into her palms and walked back towards her family.
alandwithmagic replied to your post:I think we should all wait the episode and see the context and what happens afterwards. We know the 2-hour finale will be all about Emma. JMo said it would be good. + Emma and Killian in FTL :)
imagine what our rage would be like if we didn’t have jmo’s words to fall back on?
lol and then emma can be the one to actually *kill* her because she’s not as good and merciful as saint regina!! (i’m not in a positive mood today can you tell?)
otherwise they wouldn’t make emma work on her magic skills and come forward accepting that she’s the saviour for everyone to see. it just wouldn’t make sense. i get why regina had to defeat her sis, but there’s surely more to emma too.
but eh the way she defeated her... :/ yeaaah cool. too damn easy. the light magic thing continues to piss me off (& will never stop, probably)
alandwithmagic replied to your post: paradisdesbilles replied to your post:...
i’ve stopped expecting a CS TLK at this point, because they’ve just been bulding it up since 311, it would be too boring to actually do it
lol at least i hope there will be some kind of interesting twist to it.
other than that, tbh, i've no opinion on a cs tlk. *shrugs* idk why. (probably bc everyone keeps talking about it)
lol because giving every single emma characteristic to regina is SUCH stellar writing. also regina has saved the day (at least partly) in: 2A finale, 2B finale, 3A finale and now. wtf
(i still facepalm at that occassionally) (read: all the time) (in fact i'm still so angry about it i can barely express my anger unless it's swearing)
but hey, when the SAVIOUR is doing the SAVING it's so BORING RIGHT
alandwithmagic said: bc what cs has is better? honesty lol, would you really want their relationship to be resolved in like 3 episodes with minimal development? oq has really shitty writing right now tbh
at this point i'd settle for mutual smiles and make-outs tbh.
all my ships have gone to hell in a hand-basket and my nerves are shot.
