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"I'm sorry. Regina's doing what?" 
"She's going undercover."
"With someone who can turn into a dragon?"
"And/or a mummified beast, apparently. Although I'm still not too sure what that means exactly" Aurelia added. 
"Are you out of your mind? Why didn't you call me?" Emma exclaimed. To say she was not happy about her parent's plan was an understatement. 
They thought that sending Regina in to pretend to be evil again and infiltrate the three villains' plans would allow them to be three steps ahead. 
Emma thought it would get Regina killed. Aurelia wished they hadn't told her. They knew how bad she was at keeping secrets. 
"There wasn't time. She told us the plan. That was it" David said. 
"You should have told me," Emma said. "And you definitely should not have told me" Aurelia added. 
"Emma, you wouldn't have been able to stop her," Mary Margaret said. 
"I could've helped. I was a bail bondsperson. Pretending to be someone else was part of my job" Emma said. 
"Oh, that sounds fun," Aurelia said. 
"Trust me, it wasn't" Emma sighed. 
"Regina can take care of herself," Mary Margaret said. 
"I hope you're right. When is she supposed to check in?" Emma asked. David and Mary Margaret were silent as they looked at each other. 
"Guys. Where's Regina? When was she supposed to check in?" Aurelia asked, getting the feeling that something horrible had happened to her.
David sighed as he glanced down at the floor before looking at them. "About an hour ago."
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Aurelia sat in the passenger seat of Emma's yellow bug as they came to a screeching halt in front of Granny's. "I think I'm gonna throw up" Aurelia mumbled as they got out of the car, Emma's reckless driving nearly giving her motion sickness.
Killian came walking out of Granny's, having already checked to see if Regina was in there. 
"Find anything in there?" Emma asked him. 
"Well, a burnt table, broken bottles. And a very irate Granny. Apparently Regina and the witches drank the place dry" he told them. "I'd say she won them over."
"Oh. Well that's good. I mean not for Granny, we should probably help her clean up. But that's good for Regina! It means she's not in trouble" Aurelia said. 
"Unless that's exactly what they wanted her to think," Emma said. 
"Oh my god. You think they hurt her?" Aurelia asked as Emma's worry began to cause her own.