Disclaimer: I don't own OUAT, sadly

Court was always kind of boring but today was something else entirely. Normally there was at least something to interest her; intelligence reports, feuding neighbours that soon realised it was better to sort it out by their selves after a few sarcastic words and magic problems tended to be the most common but occasionally there was the case that just interested Regina. So far today there hadn't been anything of the sort and Regina was pretty sure that if she listened to many more cases she'd go insane. She sat up slightly as the two farmers left after having wasted her time by talking and solving their problem by themselves (they could have done that anywhere, but for some reason felt the need to bother her, it was frustrating). Bursting into the audience chamber and pushing the farmers aside came the most annoying Lady (she used the term loosely) Regina had ever met. Cruella De Vil. Following Cruella at a much slower pace were a couple and a spotted dog. Regina had to admit that the dog's colouring was interesting.

"Lady De Vil. What can I do for you?"

Cruella started to talk, rant really about how the couple had stolen her dogs and puppies and some other things that just turned into nothing more than garbled noise. She held up a hand and Cruella stopped speaking. The dog wasn't Cruella's. That much was obvious, she wouldn't have come to Regina for something like that unless the local law enforcement had already told her to go away.

"What is your name?"

The man stepped forward and started to speak but Regina quickly cut him off.

"Not you."

There was silence in the hall before the spotted dog let out a brief bark.

"It's nice to meet you Pongo. My name is Regina. Now, tell me what this is about."

Pongo started to bark and yip while Cruella stared at Regina with horror. The couple just looked confused in that sort of dumb way that Regina had seen on Charming so many times.

Regina sighed. "He's not your dog, Cruella. I'd suggest you leave him and his family alone otherwise I'll turn you into a fur coat."

"I don't have any fur!"

Regina sneered at Cruella. "I can fix that if you'd like."

Cruella turned and fled the audience chamber. At least that was slightly interesting.