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She felt horrible, ever since she had stopped that spell on the well and absorbed al the magic of it, there was something wrong. She had been almost constantly sick over the cause of these last two weeks. Of course nobody noticed that... Nobody had even noticed her absence in this town since nobody had even come looking for her. Because well there was still nobody who cared for her. Henry had Emma as his mother now and still seemed to hate her, so he didn't need her anymore. And there were no other people that really cared for her now. she was alone. completely and utterly alone, with no one here to help her as she threw her guts out in the toilet. God she really had nobody... it hit her now, how she had nobody. not one person that had a sliver of care for her in their body.
Regina was pulled out of her thoughts when someone knocked on her door. Probably Henry, he must have forgotten something in his old room that he needed to take to Emma, because he didn't just come and visit her for the fun of it. She walked to the door and opened it. As expected Henry stood in front of her. "Hello sweetheart, why have you come here?" she asked with the best smile she could muster. she already felt like throwing up again even though she hadn't eaten anything today. It seemed even her own body was now turning on her, making her life even harder than it already is.
"Uhm I forgot something in my room." Henry said but then took a quick look at his adoptive mother, She looked much paler and thinner then he remembered she looked two weeks ago. "Are you alright mom?" he asked and gave her a worried look. Of course he wasn't really worried. no he couldn't be. he was still extremely upset with his mother and didn't care. Right?
"Yes am perfectly fine. You can go and get what you forget in your room now dear, or are you going to stand here of the porch much longer?" she asked and waved his concerned comment off. After she said that he ran off to his old room to retrieve one of his old comic books. See, he didn't care about her. He just needed a stupid comic book. "What do you need that old one for? I thought you had already read all of them. Multiple times." she said and gave him a questioning look.
"Yea but Emma and I were having a discussion about wolverine, and with this one I can prove my point and show her that I was right." he said and walked out of the door, not even bothering to close it behind him and walked down Mifflin Street.
When he was completely out of sight Regina closed the door and ran to the bathroom and emptied her stomach once more. This time it was accompanied with blood. This was eating at her. Eating her from the core. Eating at her life force. Eating at her magic. Absorbing that spell was killing her. And she had no one here with here to even help her or witness it. nobody cared and now, well now she would die alone.
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"Hey Emma, I think that there is something wrong with my mom. She looks really pale and thin. And nobody has seen her after she saved you and Snow from the well by absorbing that spell." Henry said as he entered the apartment. His face was scrunch up with a mixture of confusion and worry as he looked at his birth mother.
"And what would you have me doing about it, kid?" Emma asked. But as she thought about it, she knew that there was actually quite a big chance that there was something wrong with the former Mayor of this town. she hadn't been sighted in the last two weeks and there ha been no threats made from both sides. Something had to be wrong.
"Can you just maybe, I don't know… check on her to see if she's alright?" he asked and went to his room.
And so, with that, Emma set off on her journey to Mifflin Street to check up on the adoptive mother of her-their son.
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Emma had already been knocking at Regina's door for around ten minutes now without any response. And that was not a good sign. Normally there would have at least been some response. Even if it only was a yell to be left alone. or a snarl, maybe even jus some magical response.
So Emma used her old skills and easily unlocked the brunette's front door. Once inside she heard a soft noise coming from the bathroom. It sounded like someone was throwing up their guts. She quickly made her way to the bathroom and the sight she found there was not a pretty one. Regina sat hunched over the toilet vomiting away and Emma cringed inwardly at the sight.
"Regina are you alright?" as soon as she asked it she knew it was a stupid question. Of course she wasn't alright. Why else would she be sitting hunched over a toilet and be vomiting her guts out. Emma you're such an idiot!
Regina couldn't even answer the question as she was still vomiting away, this time more blood than actual things that would have been in her stomach. Emma also saw the flash of red and got really worried, for someone to throw up blood, they had to have been doing it for quite some time… once Regina started to sit upright again, and Emma got a good look at het she saw how pale and thin Regina actually looked. And the dark circles under her eyes weren't helping either. "Regina, what's wrong?" Emma asked and crouched down beside Regina.
Regina looked around to find the blonde Saviour crouched down at eye level. "what are you doing here?" croaked Regina. Her voice completely raw from vomiting. "if you have come to blame me of something, than I can assure you, I haven't done anything." She croaked and tried to stand up, but wobbled on her feet once she was up. She steadied herself and walked out of the bathroom. "Now, would you like to explain why you have broken into my house? Because I am quite certain that I actually locked the front door." She croaks and coughs.
She coughed up even more blood, and silently questioned where the hell all tat blood was coming from. to hide the blood that was now evident on her hand she went to the sink and casually washed her hands ass if nothing had happened.
"I came here because Henry was worried about you. And it seems that the worry was justified." Emma said and walked closer to Regina.
"there is nothing wrong with me. Now please leave my house." Regina said and got a glass of water.
"No, I am not leaving you. You are unwell and I will not let Henry lose his mother over something stupid as your stubbornness. Now tell me what is wrong." Emma demanded. trying to make it look like this was only for their sared son, hoping Regina wouldn't notice the genuine worr in her eyes
"Fine." Regina huffed. "that spell I absorbed? Well that is doing this to me. Now that you know leave." Regina said and teleported Emma outside.