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“Henry!” Mary Margaret was running up the path with David close behind her, she grabbed the boy and pulled him close and squeezed him, “I was so worried!”

Henry fidgeted in the grasp, “it’s Emma we should be worried about,” he pressed.

David caught up to them, “it’s okay, Henry, Ruby’s on the case. With her sense of smell she’ll easily be able to track Emma down.”

Henry pulled out of Mary Margaret’s embrace and shook his head, “no, because she doesn’t know where to start and Emma’s scent will be everywhere! She’s the Sheriff, she does patrols so how will Ruby know where to look,” he turned to look at Regina firmly, “you have to find her.”

“Henry..” Regina started calmly.

“No.. I know you can do it,” he said, “you must have some magic that can find her.”

“Henry,” she said a little louder this time, “if you’d let me finish you’d hear me say that of course I will help to find her.”

Regina looked back in the house at Grace who was still in her chair on the dining room table where Regina had been eating breakfast. She gestured for them to all enter the house, “I will perform a locating spell, I need something of Emma’s to do so. And then,” she turned to look at the three of them, “Snow, you will remain here with Henry and Grace, David and I will find Emma. Is that understood?”

They all nodded and David and Mary Margaret looked at each other and started to look through their pockets.

“What are you doing?” Regina frowned at them.

“Looking for something of Emma’s,” Mary Margaret replied as she check through sweet wrappers and receipts in her pocket.

Regina covered her face with her hand and muttered, “unbelievable.”

“I don’t have anything,” David told Mary Margaret but looked up with Regina coughed.

Mary Margaret and David looked at the older woman who was standing with Henry in front of her, her hands on his shoulders, “may I introduce you to your grandson, for the purposes of this spell, something of Emma’s.”

Henry smiled happily Regina gently turned him around and knelt in front of him and held his hand and looked up at his face, “Henry, firstly, it was very wrong to run away like that, you can’t do that, okay?”

Henry recognised the serious tone and nodded sincerely and Regina continued, “there’s a bond between you and Emma, when you think of her there is an emotion within you, you probably don’t even know you’re doing it. I need you to think of Emma and I’m going to be able to feel that emotion and then I should be able to use it to track her, okay?”

Henry nodded and Regina closed her eyes and held both of his hands, he looked down at her and smiled before closing his eyes and thinking about Emma as hard as he could. He focused on the mental image of her he had in his mind, he thought about her speech, her scent, her laugh. He pushed with all of his might to focus on her and suddenly Regina stood up, he opened his eyes and he could see a tiny purple fleck in both her eyes.

She turned to David, “let’s go,” she told him in a tone that held no argument and he quickly turned opened the front door and she breezed through it and walked down the path.

Mary Margaret put her arm around Henry and pulled him tightly to her, “well done, Henry,” she smiled down at him.

Regina stood by the pickup truck and looked left and then right up the street and then gestured to the truck, “drive,” she ordered David and he nodded and quickly opened the door for her to climb in. Once she was in he slammed the door and sprinted to the other side and climbed in and started the truck.

“Which way,” he questioned hesitantly, he could tell Regina was desperately trying to hold on to the feeling. Like someone who was attempting to remember a long telephone number while searching for a pen.

“Any,” she said softly, “I’ll know when we start moving.”

He started the truck and drove off down the street, at the end of the road he made an executive decision and turned left and started to take a series of roads in different directions. He didn’t know exactly how the spell worked but he could tell that it was similar to a magnet and time was of the essence.

“This way,” Regina said in a haze and raised a perfectly manicured finger to point to David’s left.

He turned up the next available street and Regina nodded, “yes, this direction..”

They passed through a few roads before Regina started to shake her head, “no,” she breathed, “this is wrong.”

“Shall I try turning right?” David asked.

“Yes,” Regina said as she moved her head but seemingly couldn’t see the streets of Storybrooke but something else instead.

David drove on looking for the next right hand turn and Regina frowned, “turn right,” she told him.

“I will, at the next turn,” he replied and that sealed it for him that Regina could no longer see what he could see. He turned right and began to speed up and Regina nodded again, “yes, definitely this way.”

“Towards the edge of town,” he commented, “maybe she is in the woods.”

“Maybe,” Regina commented softly, “I’m starting to lose the trail..”