Seed of Swan Queen

Chapter One

It had been two days since Regina had buried her mother and now she found herself alone in this big mansion once again. She couldn't think of anything else but how to get back at the Charmings for taking away all the loves in her life. But for now she decided to focus on dinner. How she longed to have someone to cook for, like Henry and recently for Cora but she would be dammed if she didn't have a good meal even if she dinned alone. She was in deep thought of using the curse of the empty hearted and deciding how to go about setting her plan in motion as she chopped the next vegetable. She didn't realize how hard she was chopping when she slightly cut herself.

"Careful." A voice startled her.

Regina jumped up and saw a young woman standing in the doorway of her kitchen. Regina got into a defensive mode as the young woman walked over to one of the counter drawers and took out a band aid. "Here you go?" She said as she handed her the Band Aid.

"Who are you? How did you know where I keep my Band-Aids? How did you get inside my house? Who sent you? Are you a spy?!" Regina demanded.

"What? Spy? No, that's crazy. I'm not gona to hurt you I promise." The young woman answered with her arms up.

Regina looked at her up and down. The young woman had long black hair styled like Ms. Swan's. She had golden skin with a thin body about her own height. There was something Regina found very familiar about the young woman once she looked her up and down, "Who are you? And watch your words dear. Your answer will decide whether or not I hurt you."

The girl gave her a cocky smile. "I doubt it."

Regina didn't think about it twice and instantly threw a fireball at her with a wave of her hand. But the girl just as easily blocked it with the wave of her own hand. "Wow, and I thought I couldn't get into more trouble than to try to sneak out of the house." The girl said very causally.

Regina was slightly impressed and then immediately furious. She stepped back and built another larger fireball, but the girl jumped and hid behind the door. Regina flung a few more when she saw girl dodge, Regina paused her flames.

"Wait, wait mami, please let me explain!" The girl yelled out from behind the door.

Regina stopped with the fireball in her hand. "What did you call me?"

"I'll come out if you promise not to kill me." The girl peeked from behind the door very endearingly and started to slowly come out.

The girl stood up and let Regina take a close look at her for the first time. She had eyes as black as Regina's with high cheeks like her mother, Cora. As Regina took another moment to study her, the young woman smiled at her and Regina got an eerie feeling that she had seen that smile before. It took her a few more seconds to realize, she had grown up seeing the smile. It was her fathers' smile. Then the girl did a little turn and bowed. It reminded Regina of the first time she meet Rumpelstiltskin.

"You have exactly five minutes to explain yourself." She slowly made the fireball disappear as she grew intrigued with the girl.

"Mami, I am your daughter from the future. My name is Rebecca and I came back because Henry is in trouble in the future. He fell in love with the wrong woman, a woman who only wanted to use him for power and in the process of saving him, you guys got frozen so I came back for your help." The girl explained sincerely.

Regina narrowed her eyes to study the girl. "That's ridiculous." She started to build another fireball.

"Wait, wait, you said I had five minutes and I can prove it." The girl pleaded.

Regina put her hand down as Rebecca continued, "Let's see, you always hide some chocolate in the last drawer of your dresser cause you don't want anyone to know you like candy. You love keeping cooking recipes, you hate to be tickled and you have some major OCD issues."

Regina rolled her eyes, "Any spy could have found out that information and you now have 2 minutes to convince me or as my mother would have said, "Off with her head."

The girl stood thoughtfully. "Mama Cora, I never met her. But you told me a lot about her even though I know it was hard for you to talk about your childhood. I remember when I was about eleven, you caught me smoking and boy did you let me have it. It was the first time you ever spanked me."

Regina grew frustrated, "How am I supposed to know that is true?"

"I wasn't done." Rebecca whined. "Afterwards I was feeling terrible, not just cause my butt was numb, but because I had never seen you so mad and I thought you hated me so I went into your room to apologize. But when I went in I found you crying." Regina folded her arms knowing this couldn't be true due to a promise she had made to herself when she was a child and she never told anyone about it. Rebecca continued, "When I asked you why you were crying you told me that you were about my age when Mama Cora had beaten you pretty bad, that's how you got the scar on your lip. You told me that on that day you promised yourself you would never to spank or use magic on any of your kids."

Regina was stunned in disbelief. "How did you know that?"

"I told you; you told me. Come on mami, don't you recognize me at all?"

Regina took another moment to look at the girl closely. She did closely resemble Regina's side of the family very much, but there was something else about this girl that she was trying extremely hard to recognize. She couldn't quite put her finger on it. Rebecca hooked her thumbs on the tight blue jeans she was wearing, with high black boots topped with an old raggedy jacket. But Regina needed more proof than just a look alike. "So you simply expect me to believe that you're my future daughter and that I get frozen because Henry fell in love?"

"No, he fell in love with the wrong woman and he has let her brain wash him. He's like her little puppet even though he knows she doesn't love him back so he turned to dark magic to get her to love him but it didn't work because of you. But all magic comes with a price and you guys got frozen." Regina only seemed somewhat convinced and was starting to feel frustrated.

"Look, if you don't believe that's fine and if you want me to leave, I will. But before I go, can I just…give you a hug?" Rebecca started stepping closer to her alleged mother. It didn't take more than a few moments for her to nuzzle her way onto her Regina's shoulder. Rebecca couldn't help it, the smell of apples, the short hair and her mothers' arms were too much for Rebecca to contain herself. She started to cry and hold Regina tighter. "Mami, my beautiful mami, I missed you so much." Rebecca began to pepper Regina's cheeks with small kisses like she used to when she was a little girl being carried by her beautiful mother.

Regina was taken aback by the girls' reactions, unable to be taken in by the warmth. It was the first time anyone shown Regina any affection in such a long time. She took a moment to hug Rebecca back and she felt genuine love in her daughter's embrace. She realized that this young girl could indeed be her daughter. She decided to accept the love Rebecca bestowed and held on to her tighter. She was speechless when she heard Rebecca begin to sob then felt overwhelmed when Rebecca gave her another much firmer kiss on the cheek. Regina felt as much yearning for love as Rebecca did and she let herself take her daughter in her arms.

After several minutes of embracing her mother, Rebecca let go and composed herself. She smiled at Regina feeling that she had convinced her that she really was her daughter. Regina smiled back with some tears in her eyes as well. "Let me look at you." Regina asked and Rebecca happily complied by spinning around. "You're beautiful. You look so much like my parents."

"You're the beautiful one mami. Mama Snow said I got your side of the family like Henry got their side."

Regina grew annoyed at the mention of Snow White. She quivered at the thought of her still being a part of her life in the future. "What else did Snow say?" She asked very coldly.

"Well Mama Snow and the Blue Fairy were the ones who came up with the idea for me to come back here when you still had magic so you could defend us and talk some sense into Henry, but really, I just think we need true loves kiss."

Regina was caught by surprise yet again, "Mama Snow? Why should she care about me or you?"

Rebecca looked at her confused. "Umm, because she's my grandmother." Rebecca answered matter-of-factly.

Regina put on a very serious face. She started to feel a pain in the pit of her stomach as she realized why this young woman did seem so familiar from the moment she saw her but she refused to accept the possibility that her instinct could be true. "Just a minute, who exactly is your father?" Regina gulped.

Rebecca stood with one foot in front of the other, putting her weight on her back leg and then swaying a little. "Well, I don't exactly have a father. See, that's why you lose your magic in the future cuz when you magically got pregnant, you lost your magic to have me." Then she hooked her thumbs on the back of her jeans and shyly looked up at her mother.

Regina got a flashback of seeing all those exact same gestures over a year ago at the steps of her mansion, but in the form of a blonde. The pain in her stomach grew. "Rebecca, in the future, who is my true love?" Regina had a horrified expression.

"Well, I know Mama Snow said you guys supposedly didn't really get along during this time, but I could never even imagine that because you guys break the barriers between good and evil and become the most infamous tale of true love of all time." Rebecca smiled with pride.

"No, no that is absurd. It is IMPOSSIBLE. You mean my true love is…" Regina couldn't even get herself to say it out loud.

So Rebecca finished for her, "Emma."