So lately (since pretty much season 1) I've been shipping Dragon Queen. But with what's been going on lately I've been inspired to write this. It was supposed to be a one shot but has turned out so much longer! So I'll divide into chapters.

I do not own the characters or Once Upon A Time. I would love to but sadly I do not. I've also used the dialog between Snow & Regina that they had in the end scene of 4x13 "Unforgiven".

Chapter named after song: Stronger Than Me by Connie Britton (Nashville Cast)

"Oh, here I go again walking the line

killing time between my sins

Oh, why do I come here

The ending's still the same

I'm bringing back old tears

I act like I don't know

Where this road will go."

I really hope you enjoy it!

Maleficent had kept this secret for a really long time, a secret that had been eating her alive. But she knew she had to reveal it soon enough, this was a secret that where bound to come out. Even though she never told Snow White who's baby she was carrying that night several years ago in the Enchanted Forest she knew that she had to tell the truth about the baby, a baby that disappeared because Snow White wouldn't help her keep it safe from Regina's curse.

Regina was waiting in the cold rainy weather. As a car pulled up in front of her and a figure got out of the car.

Snow walked up to Regina.

"What's with all the cloak and dagger." (Regina)

"Maleficent is back." (Snow)

"I should have known fish sticks and pound puppy where here for more than a second chance." (Regina)

"They wanna destroy our happy endings. All of them." (Snow)

"How do they hope to do that." (Regina)

"That's where you come in. We need to find out what they are planning. We need to get someone close to them. Someone they believe could be one of them. We want you to go undercover with them to help us stop their plans." (Snow)

"And you think they are just going to welcome me in their coven with open arms." (Regina)

"Regina you used to be one of them." (Snow)

"They think I'm a hero now. They'll never believe I want in." (Regina)

"So find out what would make them believe." (Snow)

"What makes you so sure they are dead set on destroying us." (Regina)

"Because of something me and David did a long time ago.

Regina you once…you once asked me to keep a secret and I couldn't. But I'm gonna ask you to keep one for me. One that Emma can never know." (Snow)

"What is it?" (Regina)

"Emma was born with potential for great darkness." (Snow)

"But she's the savior. A hero. Her magic is as light as it gets." (Regina)

"Because David and I went to extraordinary lengths to sure it was." (Snow)

"If you aren't sure she's good why can't you tell her." (Regina)

"For the same reason you don't want Henry to hear about the terrible things you did in your past. You wanna protect him. So he doesn't lose faith in the person you've become. The person he believed you could be. That's why Emma can never find out what I'm about to tell you. She's finally starting to open up her heart, and if she learns the truth if we let her down she will lose faith in us, and it could send her tumbling down a dark path. Because when you betray the people you love, when you make them see the worse parts of you, what you've done changes everything. There's no going back, you've shattered bonds you've worked so hard to forge. The stronger this bonds once were the more difficult they are to put back together. If they can be repaired at all." (Snow)

"I don't understand. What exactly did you do to Maleficent." (Regina)

"Because of us Maleficent lost her child." (Snow)

When Regina got back from her talk with Snow she sat down on the couch the words running around in her head. Mal was pregnant? How come she didn't tell her about this? All these questions were spinning in her mind. She was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't even hear the knock on her door at first. By the second knock she got up from the couch and moved to the door. She opened the door and by her surprise Mal was standing there and it looked like she was having a hard time coming up with something to say.

"Hello dear." She said simply.

"Hello." Regina answered. She stepped a side and let Mal into her mansion.

"You've done well for yourself I see…comes with being the mayor huh?"

"Something like that."

They stared at each other for a while before Regina took the matters into her own hands.

"What do you want?"

"Can't I come and visit an old friend?"

"Sure but I don't believe that's the only thing you want from me."

"True. There is something else."

Regina rolled her eyes.

"Regina Mills do not roll your eyes at me!"

Regina had forgot how big of a control Mal had on her. She still remember when she had first come to see Mal to help her with her fire magic. It was a day that would never be the same ever again. That was the day they had both fallen in love with each other but hadn't said anything to anyone, not even themselves. They had just stared at each other and nodded their agreement, it had been enough for the both of them.

Regina's face turned red and she whispered her apology.

"Sorry."

Mal smiled at her, forgiving her. Because she knew that what she was about to tell Regina could end up with her never seeing her again.

Regina mentioned for Mal to follow her. Regina sat down on the couch she had just been sitting in thinking about what Snow had told her just 30 minutes earlier.

Mal sat down trying to contain her tears. Mal didn't cry often and especially not in front of people. Regina had witnessed it once, when they had broken up.

"Regina the thing I'm about to tell you is a secret that I've been keeping for so long. I secret that can change everything, and if you do not want to talk or see me after this I will understand…" She took a deep breath.

Regina took her hand and squeezed it gently.

Mal was still trying to get her breathing in control when Regina looked up at her.

"Has this anything to do with what Snow told me just before you got here?"

"You talked with Snow White?"

"Yes. She called me and I went to see her."

Mal nodded.

"Yes I'm pretty sure it is."

She took another deep breath before she turned to face Regina.

"I was pregnant at the same time they conceived Emma. I bet you already knew that though."

Regina nodded her yes to let Mal continue.

"I went to Snow to get her to help me keep my baby safe because we knew your curse was coming…but she wouldn't help me."

"That was why she said 'Because of us Maleficent lost her baby'."

A tear fell from Maleficent's eye as Regina finished her sentence.

"But that's not the important thing in this."

"It isn't?"

"No. That baby Regina, was yours, or ours." Mal let out the breath she'd been keeping.

Regina was lost at that sentence. The only way two people of the same sex could conceive a baby was that either one of them had used magic or it was True Love.

Regina looked down and then up again at Mal.

"It was ours?"

"Yes."

Regina looked slightly confused.

"What is it?"

"The only way for us to conceive a baby is either one of us used magic or it was…"

"True Love." They both said it on the same time.

They looked into each others eyes. Regina smiled before she leaned forward and kissed Mal. They broke apart when they both needed air.

"So you're not mad at me?"

"I might be a little angry that you did not tell me sooner but at the moment I'm more mad at Snow for not helping you." Mal smiled. She thought Regina would make her leave. She really had changed.

They leaned in and kissed again.

Until next time :*