A/N: This story plot was orginially for His Love, but as I posted I needed some help. The plot is mainly the same but there are now twists to the story and it is going to be moving more quickly. Don't worry we are still going to use the chapters I post of His Love in this. The character of Nathan Black (who wasn't introduced yet) is now William "Liam" Black.

A/N2: MacabreMonster is my co-writer =] and we are working very hard on this so be gentle please. but R&R

Disclaimer: We own nothing of Once Upon A Time, we are just borrowing the characters for entertainment. We do own the OC's, Seth and Liam.

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Emma pulled the bug next to the curb in-front of the large white house. She took it in and felt a small since of relief. At least the kid had a nice home. "Alright kid, let's go. I'm sure your parents are worried."

They got out of the yellow wreck and walked up to the home. Emma saw movement in the window and then the door opened. "Henry!" yelled a brunette as she ran to hug her son.

Henry hugged her back, realizing her worry. "I didn't mean to scare you."

Emma stood back not wanting to ruin their moment. The brunette was stunning but obviously married as a man had followed her out.

"Henry..." She hugged him tightly. Then the women looked up at Emma with an arctic stare. She let go of Henry and crossed her arms. "And you would be?" She said in a velvety smooth voice.

Emma opened her mouth to answer but Henry cut her off. He knew that tone. This had to go smoothly or everything he planned would fail. He moved to stand between them. "This is Emma Swan, my other mother. She's my birth mother." He gave Regina his best innocent face hoping it would help the blow he was delivering.

Regina raised an eyebrow. She looked over Emma thoroughly. "Henry, why don't you go inside?" Her tone had become much softer.

Henry hesitated but knew he needed to listen. He reached up and hugged Regina around the waist, "I'm sorry I scared you mom. I had to do this though. Please be nice." The last part he whispered to her.

Regina patted Henry on the back before he let go. Once he was inside she took a few steps towards Emma. "Ms. Swan..." Regina started. She did not look that happy. There was a long pause before she spoke again. "Ms. Swan thank you for returning Henry, but this is a closed adoption. Do you understand me?" Her voice wasn't harsh, but it was cold.

Emma took a step back raising her hands in surrender, "I was the one who wanted a closed adoption. Trust me, I'm just as thrown as you are. He found me! I don't know how but he did."

"Good, we both understand. Have a nice trip back to where ever..." her voice trailed off as she turned around to walk back into her lavish home.

Emma chuckled to herself at how much of a bitch this woman was, "Boston. I'm from Boston. Sorry to disturb you and your husband by returning your son who took a bus by himself to find me!" Emma turned to leave.

Regina stopped and turned around. "He's not my husband."

Graham looked between the women then to Regina, "I'm just going to go check on the boy."

"Sorry just assumed. He was," Emma called over her shoulder. She reached the gate then stopped to look back at Regina, "I have just one question. Henry…do you love him?"

"Yes I do," she snapped. Regina stood there and smirked at Emma. She couldn't help but admire Emma's eyes, so beautiful. Then she snapped to her senses, "Goodbye Ms. Swan."

Emma rolled her eyes and walked through the gate. She got in the bug and looked back at the house watching the brunette walk in. She sighed and looked down at the clock. Part of Emma wanted to stay the night because she was so tired, but the other part of her wanted to get away from this town. She started the bug, "I'll just leave first thing in the morning. Now just to find somewhere to stay."
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Regina was walking up the stairs when Graham met her at the top. "He's fine, just tired." She was relieved. Regina peeked inside his room. Henry was snoring softly. She gave a small smile into the darkness.

"See perfectly fine. Now you can relax." Graham said carefully putting a hand on Regina's waist.

Regina was ready to relax. She was ready to sleep after a day of worrying beyond belief. She walked into her bedroom, ignoring Graham, and changed into her short silk nightgown.

Graham looked around the hallway, "Night to you too." Then he made his way out of the house.

Regina laid herself in bed and pulled the covers over her. Slowly she let herself unwind. Soon she was sleeping.
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Mommy! Mommy where are you?" A young boy's voice echoed through the dark woods. The night air wasn't what was causing chills to go down Regina's spine. The tone in the young boy's voice did. He was scared she could tell.

Regina dodged trees as she traveled briskly through the woods. A wide clearing came into view. There stood Rumpelstiltskin with his dagger to the boy's throat. She took a step and the dagger moved closer to his pale skin. The boy was terrified. Rumple grimaced at Regina. "You've lost."

The boy looked at Regina with hope, "Mommy..."

Regina anxiety was spiking to an all time high. How was she to save her little prince? "Let him go!" Regina's voice was strong and tough, magic began to dance between her fingertips. She knew that would have no effect Rumple but maybe calm the boy some.

Rumple just chuckled, "Really?" The boy looked up at him and then to his mother, Regina.

"I am not letting him go. He is going to be our downfall! He has to go." Rumple laughed trailing the dagger back and forth on the child's neck. The boy shivered and tears slowly rolled down his checks. He knew he needed to be strong for his mother, he was the dark prince. He shouldn't be scared. She would fix this.

"She's going to make you pay," He tried to say with as much strength as he could. Rumple laughed once more.

"No my dear lad, you are."

Regina looked at the boy. Her eyes were full of fear for him. They burned with anger, the normally brown orbs turning purple. Then she disappeared into purple smoke and reappeared near the boy.

The boy reached for his mother. Rumple tightened his grip on him and put a force field around them. "This ends now Regina!" He drew the dagger across his throat, a small slit that would slowly kill the boy.

"Mommy!" The boy yelled as he slowly fell into Rumple.

Regina stood there. She couldn't move the pain and anger froze her. "No," she whispered. Rumple pushed the boy to the ground then disappeared. Regina ran to her now dying son. She held him close to her. "He can't be gone," she thought to herself.

He looked up at his mother, "I'm sorry mommy."

She held him tighter, "Shhh...Don't be sorry." Tears were streaming from Regina's eyes. Some fell onto the boy's face. His eyes began to close.

The boy went limp against her, his chest no longer raising and falling. "Mom," a voice echoed through the forest.

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Henry crawled onto Regina's bed and shook her gently, "Mom...mom wake up..."

Regina's eyes flashed open. They were red. She had been sobbing in her sleep. She looked over at him. "Henry..." She grasped him. She needed to hold onto someone.

Henry carefully moved into her arms, "It was just a bad dream, it wasn't real. You're safe now." He repeated the words that she always spoke to him.

"It felt so... I don't know." Regina was uncertain about how to explain to Henry. She knew it felt like more than a dream. She let Henry go and stared at the ceiling.

"You were dreaming about him, weren't you?" Henry sat up to look down into her eyes.

Regina sat up. "Dreaming about who Henry?" She wondered how Henry knew.

"The Dark Prince..." He stated with caution.

Regina stared into his eyes. How did he know! "How do you know this?" Regina's voice was so serious and cold.

Henry's eyes got wide and he sat up straighter, "It's true?"

Regina had just realized what she had done. "They are just fairy tales. I've heard the stories. I must have had a dream about it..." She tried to cover up her fatal mistake.

"Mom, I know the stories are true! You are...were...the Evil Queen." He moved onto his knees, his eyes filled with excitement.

"They aren't," Regina snapped. She didn't mean to though. She wrapped her arms around Henry. Regina's heart felt a bit warmer knowing he said she was the evil queen showing he didn't see her as that person anymore.

"Mom, I want to help. That's why I..." Henry stopped himself before he reviled his plan.

"Why what? Henry...is that why you brought her here!" Regina was somewhat angry but she was also feeling something else she couldn't identify.

Henry got up and ran into his room grabbing the book he hid under his bed. He ran back to his mom and jumped on the bed, "This has everything in it, prophecies and all. We can make this right! Maybe if we start fixing things he'll come back." Henry opened the book to the page where the Blue Fairy put the Dark Prince into the wardrobe, "They sent him here. But with the curse you can't go find him. Maybe if we weaken it, he'll come here."

Regina grabbed the book from him. She slowly turned to pages. She stopped at one. There was her and the little dark prince. She never forgot him. All the pain of losing him weld up inside her. She stayed silent staring at the page. She was surprised Henry was willing to help knowing what she'd done.

Henry reached for her right wrist. He had to know for sure. The boy pushed the sleeve of Regina's night robe up. He gasped, "The mark..."

The mark she usually kept concealed with makeup showed. She jerked away her arm. "Henry..."

He looked into her eyes, "You can fix this. The curse is going to break." Henry looked down to the book still on the same page, "The savior will break it and the Dark Prince will save you. He's going to come. I just know it."

Regina looked at Henry. She saw in his eyes he truly believed, but she couldn't.

"I can do this with or without your help mom. But I'm going to fix this." Henry moved to get off the bed, taking the book with him.

Regina fell backwards onto her pillow. As she closed her eyes pictures of the Dark Prince danced behind her eyes. She hadn't dreamed of him in years. Yes he was constantly on her mind, but the dreams had stopped. "It's only because I thought I lost Henry," She told herself. The fear of losing another son had woken up emotions she had long ago locked away. Regina had adopted Henry in hopes of filling the hole in her heart of losing her first son had made. It had worked. Henry wasn't his replacement, just an addition to her heart. The Dark Prince would always be her baby boy and Henry would always be sweetheart.

A deep sigh escaped her lips as she turned her head to look at the clock. Going back to sleep was not an option, she knew that. The clock read 4:30am. "Might as well get up and start the day." She stood and made her way to the bathroom to get ready. Halfway there she froze. Her body felt like it was on fire, not painfully so, just extremely warm and tingly. She had only felt this once before. Quickly she pushed the sleeve up her wrist as Henry had done moments before. Instead of the mark being black like it had been for the last 28 years, it was a glowing violet.

"Liam..." the name slipped off her lips as an awed whisper. Everything was about to change.