Magic in the air:-A gift of love.
Chapter 1:-Humiliation
It had been three years since Regina and King Leopold got married. Her relationship with Leopold had been a difficult. Regina never wanted to marry the King in the first place and secondly the King was look to Regina to bare him an heir.
For all these three years King Leopold and Regina had tried to produce an heir but failed to do so. At the beginning the Royal physician Katelin Moore decide that Regina was a nervous wife and that had somehow impeded the process of getting pregnant. Eight months later Katelin conceded that Regina should of gotten pregnant, as the King and Regina had done the deed on numerous occasions.
Five months later Regina still unable to get pregnant got asked by Leopold to go back to the Royal physician. She had done this over the past year anyway but the King insisted on that the physician get to the bottom of why Regina was unable to produce an heir.
The Royal physician Katelin Moore started to take a different approach this time around. A mental test needed to be done first. Katelin had noted over the past year that Regina was still apprehensive and some sort of stress there as well. She also noticed that Regina showed little or no emotion in the Royal Court. She also noticed that when Regina and herself was alone that Regina on occasion let some of her masked down.
This time when Katelin examined Regina, Regina let her masks down. All Katelin saw from Regina was pain, hurt, loneliness and a feeling of been trap in some way. Those masks that came down for only a couple of minutes and went back up very quickly. Katelin need ask Regina some hard questions, "Your Majesty, would you like to talk about what is troubling you so?"
Regina knew the answer but talking about Daniel and his death to the Royal physician would not be wise as there was a risk of that information reaching King Leopold's ears. Regina had suspected that Leopold from time to time read her personnel dairy, which irritated her immensely.
"No Katelin I would not like to talk about what is troubling me", replying to the question and giving the physician a stare to say just drop the subject and do not ask again.
Reporting back to the King, Katelin reported that physically Regina was able to conceive a child but her nervousness and stress could impede her been getting pregnant. The physician's recommendation was to try to look for ways in bringing their stress levels down in their relationship. The couple tried to make their marriage less stressful but Regina simply was unable to get pregnant and Leopold started to get frustrated in Regina, as she was unable to produce an heir.
King Leopold and Regina try to conceive a child for the next two years with out success. This brought more strain to their relationship and their marriage started to deteriorate further. Summoning the Royal physician with much irritation King Leopold frustration that his wife was unable to produce an heir for the past three years.
Ordering Regina to take another examination with Katelin. The King had become distrustful of the Royal physician, as she had promised that there was nothing wrong with his wife. The King also brought in two new physicians to examine Regina as well. Regina feeling humiliated and violate by having these two strange physicians examining her, but her husband the King insisted on it. Regina wanted a child, but she also felt betrayed.
After examining Regina, all three of physicians came up with the same conclusion. Asking for a private audience with King Leopold. Katelin spoke on behalf of the other two physicians there, "Your Majesty. After examing Queen Regina thoroughly we have come to a prognosis. Our prognosis is that she will never produce a child."
With those words the memory of the examination came flooding in. It was humiliating to say the least.
The King's anger boiled over and he directed that anger towards his wife. Regina had deceived him into believing that she could have children but the fact is that she knew she was actually barren. His anger also started to be directed towards Katelin as well.
"Are you sure of your findings?" in frustration of the situation.
"Yes, Your Majesty. Our findings are conclusive." Replied Katelin.
"Then why for three years have been tell me that it just nervousness and stress?'
"At that time Queen Regina was a newly wed and I concluded that it was just newly wed jitters. Later on Her Majesty became anxious and stressed. The was no indication that she was barren."
"So why the change of prognosis?"
"Since Your Majesties have been trying for the past three years and the extensive examination, we have concluded that Queen Regina is unable to bare a child"
Regina still reeling from the revelation of having a barren womb spoke for the first time, "Are you sure about the prognosis?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. I am sure of the prognosis"
For the rest of the day went into a blur and the next couple of months the Leopold ignored her. Though Leopold was polite to her, she started to feel like an outsider and sometimes even an intruder as well into Leopold and Snow's lives. Leopold started to pay more and more attention to Snow.
King Leopold and Queen Regina had functions on a regular basis this was no exception. But today's function was different. Today Leopold ignored Regina horribly and used this opportunity to highlight his daughter instead.
Sitting quietly at the back of the hall, Regina heard Leopold express these words towards his daughter, "Snow you are the fairest in all the land, as fair as your mother." This had been the first time that Leopold used these words. When he said "mother" he did not refer to Regina but to Snow's birth mother.
Regina feeling like someone had driven a hot red poker into her heart. Getting up quickly she made her way to the only safe place and only real thing in her life. It was her childhood apple tree brought to the castle from her family estate.
Starring into the gardens tears started to well up as all the pain, hurt and humiliation came flooding back. In a moment of weakness all she wanted to do was share her pain with someone.
At that moment as she looked into the garden, she noticed that a blue star. The star moved closer and closer until that blue star became the Blue fairy.