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I do not own Once Upon A Time.

Author's Note:

I've had this idea after watching Frozen. This wouldn't leave me be, I had to write it down. I don't know if this has been done before. I just want to share with you all this new fic. Mistakes are mine. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Birth

Queen Eva stared out of their bedchamber's balcony enjoying the warm summer breeze while rubbing her protruding belly. She's heavily pregnant with their first child and she will meet her baby girl – her instinct tells her that her first child will be a daughter – any minute now.

She heard the quiet footfalls enter the room and the warm voice that could only belong to her husband, the King, reached her ears.

"My Queen." he said softly while reaching for her hand to kiss the back of it making the Queen smile.

She took his hand and placed it on her rounded belly where she felt a kick from their baby a moment ago. They both chuckled when they felt the baby's kick, "She heard her daddy's voice, she's happy."

"Well my child, I'm happy too. I love you and your mother so much." King Leopold bent down so he could whisper to his wife's belly. Queen Eva brushed her hands on her husband's hair while rubbing her belly with the other.

A knock on their bedchamber door broke off their little moment followed by the voice of Claude, their young head of the guards, "Your Majesties, Lady Cora has arrived and requests to talk to the Queen."

"Thank you Claude, advise Lady Cora that I will come to her shortly," the Queen said after opening the door to address the guard.

"Would you like me to accompany you, my love?" the King asked holding onto his wife's forearm. Her rounded belly makes it hard for her to walk and she is easily tired so she nods and kisses her husband softly for her assent.

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When the King and Queen walked in to the library where Lady Cora was waiting, they found her looking out the window facing away from them.

Upon hearing their arrival, Cora turned around with a sickly sweet smile on her face, "Your Majesties."

"Cora," Eva answered with no emotion. Her indifference towards the other woman was evident.

Cora Mills is Queen Eva's step sister. The former King, Eva's father, found love again and married a miller's widow – to the horror of all the leaders in the King's Court – after her mother died when she was a little girl. Her step mother, Carina and her teenage daughter, Cora, officially moved in to the Palace after the wedding ceremony. Carina was nice to her and treated her like she was her own daughter but Cora was a different story. She was sweet when they're around their parents but when it's just the two of them, it's like she's an entirely different person. Cora is rebellious and envious, who likes to cause mischief at other people's expense. She tried so hard to at least be civil with her step sister but Cora makes it so hard for her. In the end, she just ignored her.

When their parents passed away, Eva was crowned Queen. That made Cora hate her more, if it were even possible. After the Kingdom's celebration for the newly crowned Queen, Cora disappeared. She tried to find her sister but all her attempts were futile. After years of searching for nothing, she finally gave up. After a year of her marriage with Leopold, news came to her that someone has seen Cora. The informant gave her the news that frightened her to her very core. Cora was practicing magic, not just any magic but dark magic.

Now, after years of not seeing her step sister, she did not know how to feel towards her. She could feel the hate and power radiating off Cora and it made her involuntary shiver.

Leopold, oblivious about the tension between the siblings looked at both women but noticing his wife's inner distress, he wrapped his strong arms around her for support.

"Why so glum? Are you not happy to see me, my dear sister?" Cora smirked at her sister's lack of warmth towards her.

"Why are you here?" the Queen asked icily ignoring her sister's mock-affection.

"I am here to give you a present. But first, may I?" she motioned with her hand asking for the Queen's permission if she could touch her belly. At first the Queen hesitated but she nodded after a moment.

"The child is going to be a girl." Cora whispered while feeling the entirety of her sister's belly.

Hearing that made the Queen smile but then after a moment her face contorted in pain. She screamed and dropped all her weight into Leopold's arms.

Watching his wife in agony and hearing Cora's evil cackle made the King's face pale, "What did you do to her?" he screamed at the woman towering over their slumped form on the floor. Noticing the faint purple smoke on Cora's hands, he felt the panic creeping into his entire being, "Guards! Arrest this woman! Call the fairies, she's a witch!"

The guards came in and took Cora with them. The woman did not resist the arrest she just laughed wickedly it ricocheted through the Castle's walls.

"I need the midwife! Fetch me the midwife, quickly!" King Leopold screamed again when he heard his wife's agonizing screams. His panic grew even more when he saw the wetness covering the floor coming from in between his wife's legs.

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"The Queen is in labor, your Highness. She will be giving birth to your child soon." The midwife informed the pacing King outside the Queen's bedchamber.

"May I come in and see her?" the King inquired, obviously agitated because he could not help ease the pain of his wife.

"Of course, your Highness." The midwife bowed her head and then followed after the King inside the room.

"Eva, my love." Leopold settled beside the Queen on the bed. He held her clammy hand and kissed it before placing it upon his chest.

"Leopold…" she smiled at him weakly. When a contraction hit her, she screamed and gripped her husband's hand tightly. Leopold was wiping the dampness off her forehead with a white cloth while murmuring silent encouragements to her.

"One more push, your Majesty." Eva heard the midwife say to her. She felt like her body's being torn in half. The pain was nothing she's ever felt before. Giving another push, she feels weak and woozy but when she heard the most beautiful cry of her child, she knows that all the pain was worth it and she would do this experience all over again if it meant that she would be able to finally hold her baby in her arms.

"You did it, my love." She faintly heard her husband's voice and the feel of his lingering kiss on her forehead. He gave her hand a squeeze before he stood up to meet their child.

After wrapping the baby in a pink cloth and cutting the umbilical cord, the midwife passed the crying infant to the King who has a huge smile plastered on his face.

"Hello my beautiful girl, I am your papa," The King whispered to the little bundle in his arms, she stopped crying when she was placed in his loving embrace "and this wonderful woman is your mama." He added when he came back to his place on the bed beside his wife.

Queen Eva took the baby from her husband even though she was still weak from giving birth. She's been waiting for months to hold her own child in her arms. Tears flowed down her cheeks when she saw her precious baby. She had brown locks on her head, long dark lashes, a beautiful button nose, and her lips were opened in a yawn. When the baby opened her eyes, the parents both gasped upon seeing her beautiful chocolate doe eyes. She is the perfect baby girl. Their little princess.

"What are we going to name her, my love?" The King asked while wrapping his arms around his two lovely ladies.

"Regina. For one day she would be Queen." The Queen whispered while hugging her baby closer to her chest and leaning her head on her husband's shoulder.

A/N: So tell me what you think, my dears! Thank you for reading. xx