This is my first time writing a mutichapter fic, so here you go! Hahaha. I've decided to keep the chapters short so I'll be able to update it faster. I got the "child comes from the future to change the past" storyline from Charmed season six, so some of you might find it a bit familiar, but aside from that I tried to bring the whole concept to the OUaT universe and put my own spin in it. I hope you enjoy it, this first chapter doesn't give you much and mostly follows the show's storyline, but the next chapter will give you a better insight on how everything turned out in Lara's version of the future and will start to differ from canon. Here it goes, I hope you enjoy it!

I do not own anything related to Once Upon a Time (this goes for all future chapters).

The New Dark One - Chapter 1

Lara sat on the last booth at Granny's Dinner. The one on the back, where nobody would notice her. She watched as the the doorbell rang, announcing the new arrivals. Her parents stepped into the dinner following her brother Roland (god it was so weird seeing him at this age!).

Robin and Regina looked so in love. Her mother had on a smile that in the future she would usually only give Lara, and even so not very often. The whole scene made it so much more difficult for Lara to watch what she knew was about to happen. She wanted to stop it, but there was nothing she could do if she wanted her mission to succeed. She could not alter the timeline, not yet at least, otherwise there was a big chance she would never even have been born.

Aunt Emma stoop up from from her sit at the back corner of the diner and made her way to Regina. That was it. It was happening.

"Regina, there's something you should know… I brought someone back from the past".

Her mother gave Emma the look Lara would come to know so well, the one that said "Well, you've obviously messed up. Now how are you going to fix it?".

"This woman… and she still thinks of you as…"

"Evil" Regina completed the sentence. All Lara wanted right now was to give her mother a hug and comfort her. It took all her strength to stay put. Over the year Lara had gather little information about that very moment. Regina didn't like to talk about it, for it always made her sad, so she would usually dismiss Lara's questions with a comment like "You and your brother Henry are all I need to be happy". But she knew that wasn't true. Yes, Regina love her children with all her heart, but a part of her had been lost that day that could never be replaced.

"I'm gonna bring her over. I already told her it's okay, but it's a little delicate. I feel like I she met you she'll see…" continued the blonde.

'"I understad"

The savior went over to her table and went back with a brunette wearing Old World clothes. "So that was how she looked like", Lara thought (she'd never actually met the woman), "mom is way prettier…"

"Regina, I would like you to meet.."

"Marian?!" the savior was cut by Robin's surprised exclamation. "I thought you were dead! I thought I'd never see you again!"

The moment she saw her mother's broken expression as she watched Robin embrace him long lost wife, Lara realized she couldn't take it anymore. She left the diner and started walking on the street. She already knew what was going to happen, she didn't have to witness her mother's heartbreak. She felt so powerless. It had been a bad idea going to the diner, that wasn't what she was there for. She had to focus on her mission. She had to succeed, otherwise there wouldn't be a future for her to come back to.

I hope you like it. Please review, so it will encourage me to upload faster. I have already planed where I want this story to go, but there are a few details along the way that I haven't quite figured out yet, so I'm always opened to suggestions. XOXO

PS. Anyone has any thoughts on who the New Dark One from the title might be?