[So after walking the corridors with slow deliberation and meeting a few truly interesting people and technically-people, Regina has made a fair headway through the building.
She thinks she's prepared for everything. She's pretty convinced she's seen everything, and yet the sight of Emma momentarily knocks her breath out of her lungs. Regina also registers Hook's presence, but doesn't much care. There was never any love lost between them.
Last she saw Emma, she was being swallowed up by darkness. Willingly swallowed up by darkness, because of Regina.
Up to now, Regina had willed herself to not think about it. Not think about it at all. The only thought of home and before she'd allowed herself had been of Henry. Henry, because she needs to get back to him.
Everything else was yet too much.
And now here's Emma, and she looks just the same, just the same she's always been. Not dark at all. It could be a trick. It could be that Emma didn't change appearance, not this soon in the game. Rumpelstiltskin became the Dark One long before Regina was born, Regina doesn't know how this works, and that is perhaps the scariest thought in all this. For the first time in a long time, she's completely out at sea.
Well. This would be as good a time as any to test the waters.]
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She thinks she's prepared for everything. She's pretty convinced she's seen everything, and yet the sight of Emma momentarily knocks her breath out of her lungs. Regina also registers Hook's presence, but doesn't much care. There was never any love lost between them.
Last she saw Emma, she was being swallowed up by darkness. Willingly swallowed up by darkness, because of Regina.
Up to now, Regina had willed herself to not think about it. Not think about it at all. The only thought of home and before she'd allowed herself had been of Henry. Henry, because she needs to get back to him.
Everything else was yet too much.
And now here's Emma, and she looks just the same, just the same she's always been. Not dark at all. It could be a trick. It could be that Emma didn't change appearance, not this soon in the game. Rumpelstiltskin became the Dark One long before Regina was born, Regina doesn't know how this works, and that is perhaps the scariest thought in all this. For the first time in a long time, she's completely out at sea.
Well. This would be as good a time as any to test the waters.]
Emma?