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Spoiler Season Finale..

What If Emma was meant to split up Regina and Robin? What if part of her being the savior and fulfilling the prophecy was more than just breaking the curse?

The Cursed and The Savior

Chapter One,

Emma Swan, The Savior

"You, you did this?" Horror and disbelief danced upon Regina's face. Her own brown eyes betraying her with glistening tears threatening to fall.

Even as Emma said the words she understood now the tremendous mistake she had created.

"I just wanted to save her life." She had felt propelled to save this woman in the cell next to her the way she had been propelled to save the town and help those around her. She didn't think. She didn't hesitate. It seemed like the right thing to do. As she looked into Regina's anguished eyes she felt small; she felt so stupid. All consequence of her actions finally dawning on her like a flood released from a dam.

"You're just like your mother."

A statement that Emma normally would have taken to heart as an embarrassing compliment. Yet those words uttered from Regina's lips stung like a venom. For Regina to compare her to her mother, Snow White, at this very moment could not be praise. Flashes of Henry's book and story's told from Mary Margaret flashed before her eyes. She, like her mother so long ago, had just thrown a road diverting wrench into the life of Regina Mills with the excuse of trying to do good.

"Never thinking of consequences."

" I didn't know." She wanted to scream this! Because she really didn't know. The last thing she could have ever imagined was that this woman, this cell mate was freaking Marion.

The last thing she intended was to cause Regina any pain. Despite their convoluted past. Despite everything they had been through Regina was Henry's mother! And she was changing. She HAD changed. She was finally showing that side that only Henry seemed to have known. That side which Emma had learned to appreciate and even enjoy. Dare she say she enjoyed Regina's company? She was a far cry from the happy gleeful folk of Storybrooke and Emma felt comforted by this. She was the only person with a sarcastic sense of humor similar to her own. If she even confessed this made her the only person she could sometimes stand to be around. The only person that, albeit her mother would say dark, Emma would call realistic and down to earth. She enjoyed finally having Regina on their side fighting the good fight and not having to constantly fight against her. She enjoyed being her friend. We're they finally becoming friends?

"Of course you didn't." Daggers pouring out from her glare. Emma is at a loss for words.

"Let's just hope you didn't bring anything else back." This last statement washes over Emma Swan like the wind. All she can think about is, 'what have I done to Regina and how can I fix it?'

With this Regina glances a quick once-over at Robin, Marion and their son. She then looks to Emma with one last ice-freezing stare and bolts out of Granny's diner.

"Oh My God Regina," Mary-Margaret calls out to the woman, once her step-mother, that she was slowly building a relationship of trust with again. The pain evident on her face but David grabs hold of her arm and keeps her back.

"Let her go," says David. Emma hears Mary-Margaret arguing with David over this.

She notices Robin just realized Regina is gone and is about to dash after her as Marion seems

lost in a world with her long lost son back in her arms.

Emma grabs Robin's hand, "No, you don't know what she's capable of when she's hurt."

Emma then states her thoughts mostly to herself and so quietly she can barely be heard except by those few who are surrounding her.

"I did this, I need to fix it."