This just came to my mind for reasons. I don't usually write in English, so I'm sorry if this is crap, message me if you find any error. I like good grammar. It's based on this photoset I've put together with none of my gifs but some that inspired me. Also, I love naming my fics with song names, but not always they're related directly to the song, though indeed it might have helped me at something in the story. Enjoy that. xo.
Disclaimer: I don't own Once Upon a Time, though I wish I owned Lana. ;)
Regina never actually went to that bar down the street, she was the mayor of the town and she surely knew people that worked there, and made some visits. But always during the day and about town matters. She wasn't quite found of the kind of people that went to bars to get drunk or anything close. But that night she really needed something stronger than her marvelous apple martinis.
The thing with Henry and his savior birth mother was getting to her head and thinking about she'd deal with it all made her nuts. Losing her loved child to a newbie woman wasn't on her plans. She couldn't actually understand how that was happening in her life. When Henry was younger, he used to love Regina. Indeed, he had always been a lonely child, but this made him closer to his mother.
And now he was with Emma. At the town's fair that Regina showed up in the afternoon. Henry had begged her to go with Emma in the night to play fair games. As much as Regina hated the woman, she couldn't refuse Henry puppy eyes some times. So there she was. Alone getting in a bar.
Whiskey. That would to for her. When it was to have hard drinks, the woman would indeed go for it. She made her way in the place, looking up, as some faces turned confused to face the mayor. Regina only took three steps before freezing.
Behind some bottles was him. It was her man, her lost love, her killed lover. How? She asked herself confused. Maybe she was just too dazed, too angry and lost in her own insecurities. But why in all the world would she be seeing Daniel, her Daniel.
He sat at a table with a, now empty, glass in his hands. No tie, but a working shirt on, the same one that had a few buttons opened, permitting people to see the top of his large and strong chest. Regina remembered even the texture of his skin there, how it felt against her own skin.
Regina missed him so much. She missed his face. Regina could even smell him from across the room. He had the same scent that drove her crazy and made her grin like a teenage.
She was afraid that he'd leave if she blinked, but her thoughts made her close her eyes for two seconds. Sidney Glass was in front of her when she opened them again. Her eyes went from shocked and happy to pure madness.
"Sidney." She muttered as in a growl.
"It's so good to see you, Regina." The man looked like a full pack of happiness and excitement to have here right there in front of him. But Regina didn't seem to give him any sort of attention, as her usual, when she moved to look something behind him.
Daniel was gone. He wasn't siting at the table anymore. Was she dreaming? She thought maybe it could be. But there was something on the table. Ignoring Sidney completely, when he asked why was she there and why she looked so shocked, the mayor took some steps to where Daniel was sitting before. On the table there were some money and the empty glass.
"Who was the man sitting there?" She obviously knew who he was. She just didn't know how it was possible. Daniel was dead, she saw it herself. But she needed at least to know how that escaped from her control to the point she didn't know the love of her life had been there all the time.
"The guy who just left?" Sidney, who had obviously followed her, asked with a frown. Regina simply nodded. "You don't know him? He's the owner of the animals shelter."
She couldn't deny she was shocked. It was clear in her slightly cocked brown and half open mouth. He was the owner of the animals shelter, the same place her friend's husband worked, and she never knew he was there. This sounded so much like Gold somehow.
"His name is Dean. Why, Regina? You seem worried. You know him? He did anything to you?" The way he was shouting all the questions was pissing her off, she needed to think.
"No, Sidney! He didn't do anything to me. I don't k- know him..." At least not here, she completed in her mind. "I need to go."
"But you just arrived." Sidney tried to hold her a few more there with him by holding her arm. Furious eyes laid down on the stop Sidney held her.
"I have things to do." People around could swear Regina was about to bark, but Sidney still didn't let her go. The air got slightly tense. "Let me go." Her words were paused and Regina frowned wondering why Sidney was facing her.
"But Regina-"
"She said to let her go." The entire world stopped when the voice came from behind of Regina. Her heart almost stopped. She knew that voice. Her head turned slowly, just the necessary for her to look behind her. It really was him. Her Daniel. Actually Dean there.
By that time Sidney had already let her go, but he stood there looking confused at the scene.
"Who do you think you-" This time was Regina that stopped him.
"Shut up, Sidney. Why can't you just leave me alone and go try to find a headline somewhere else?" She looked furious but her eyes managed to soft more when she looked at Dean. She didn't know what to say, especially because the man had that adorable smile to her. "T- Thank you..."
"I'm Dean." He said holding his hand up for her.
"Regina. Regina Mills." she shook his hand, battling to don't tremble, as she swallowed hardly.
"I know, mayor. I voted for you." Dean chuckled with a cocked smile.