"Regina! Regina!" She was lying on the ground; she had passed out after touching the spell scroll.

"Emma…" Her voice was breathless. I helped her stand but she was shaky.

"Are you okay? What'd you see?"

"I'm fine. But I know what I have to do." Her voice cracked as she looked at me. There was something in her dark eyes that made my heart ache.

"Magic always comes with a price…what's our price?" A faint smile crossed Regina's lips but soon faded.

"It's not our price. It's my price. I have to save goodbye to the thing I love most." Regina's eyes started to glisten with tears that she refused to shed. "I have to finish what I started."

"We'll all go back to the enchanted forest and Storybrooke will fade?" I knew it was the truth but I didn't want it to be.

"Yes. All of us will go back but not Henry. He was born here. Emma, you're the Savior therefore you can, once again, escape the curse."

"I don't want to. I want to go back with you…and everyone else." Guilt filled me. I didn't want to leave her and I knew Henry didn't either.

"You have to. If I don't pay the price, none of this will work." Thunder cracked and the wind picked up. Tears welled in my eyes and a lump formed in my throat. There had to be something…anything…I could do.

"Emma, you have to go. Before it's too late." Mary Margaret was torn. She wanted me to go but didn't want to lose her daughter and grandson.

"But I'm the Savior. I'm supposed to bring back all the happy endings."

"Happy endings aren't always what we think they will be." I looked into Regina's eyes and could see she was having the same flashbacks I was. Flashbacks about Henry and us working together to save our son. "It's time for you to believe in yourself Emma. It's time for you to find hope."

"I've known you for some time and all I've wanted was for you to get the hell out of my life so I could be with my son. Really what I want is for Henry to be happy. We have no choice. You have to go." I knew there was no changing this. As much as it killed me I knew that look in Regina's eyes and I knew her. She was willing to pay the ultimate price to save Henry. After I said my goodbyes to my family I walked up to Regina again.

"What's going to happen to us?"

"I don't know." It was all either of us could do not to cry.

"That doesn't sound like much of a happy ending."

"It's not. But I can give you one." Regina took my hand in hers. A tear ran down my cheek. This was the last time I would ever see her. The last time I would see the woman I had grown to love. "A good life for you and Henry. You will have always been together. You will have never given him up." It was now or never.

"Regina, I love you." She smiled a sad smile.

"I love you too." She placed her hand on my cheek. "Now go." She chuckled slightly. "This is the final step of operation save Henry." I bowed my head; more tears fell. Henry hugged Regina tight and I wanted to do the same but couldn't. If I did, I wouldn't let go. We got into my bug and drove off. I watched as Regina's purple smoke took over the town.