Hello all! This is somewhat a spin-off of "All Of My Love Is Back."...sort of.

This new story is showing the death of Daniel, and Regina's new life with the king. Her new life as a queen, as a stepmother, and as a mistreated wife.

I will still also be writing my other story, to those of who may read it. No worries :)

Happy reading, and remember to leave reviews on how you like it!

Thanks,

G.

"Meet me in the stables at dark." I wrote down onto a note. I folded it up and stuck it where Daniel would see it.

I waited around until it got dark, then walked to the stables.

"Daniel!" I said excitedly, I always was happy to see him.

"Hello beautiful." He reached down and kissed me on the lips.

"I have something to tell you..." I said.

"That's great, but wait." He reached in his pocket and fumbled around a little bit. Then he pulled his hand out and showed me a ring, "Regina, will you marry me?"

I immediately started crying, "Of course!"

He put the ring on my finger and stood up, then he kissed me again.

"Regina!" A woman's voice surprised us.

I turned around and saw her, "Mother?" I said, scared as to what she would do.

She never liked Daniel, to her he was just a filthy stable boy who didn't have much of a future.

"What are you doing?" She asked, walking slowly towards us.

"I...I..." I stuttered, I didn't know what to tell her.

"Go home. Now." Cora demanded.

"Yes mother." I lowered my head and walked with her. Before walking out of the building, I turned around and smiled at Daniel.

The next day my mother surprised me with a riding lesson, from Daniel of course.

"I feel guilty from last night." She said.

"Okay." I replied. I was getting dressed. I hid the ring in my pocket so my mother wouldn't see, but I was planning on putting it back on when I got to Daniel.

"Hello Regina, are you ready for your lesson today?" Daniel said, very professionally and like nothing had happened. I could hear the sarcasm in his voice, but my mother couldn't.

"Yes, I am." I smiled.

We rode together for a while, then we stopped to rest under a tree.

"You know, we can run away together. We can get married..." Daniel said.

"Yes." I said, holding his hands close to my face. Our foreheads were touching, we were studying each other's eyes.

"And…and we can start a family." He added.

Suddenly, I felt as if someone had tugged at my heart.

"Daniel, I...I never got to tell you last night what happened..."

"What was it?" He asked.

"I...I'm..."

"Oh my gosh! That girl! She's loose on her horse!" He looked behind me, watching the girl speed away.

"I have to help her." I ran and jumped onto my horse.

I raced after her, and finally caught up to her. "Grab my hand!" I shouted to her.

She looked at me nervously and reached her hand out to grab mine. I pulled her onto my saddle with me.

We came to a stop and we both got off.

She looked up at me with tears in her eyes, "You...you saved my life." She said.

"I'm just glad you're okay." I said, smiling at her. "Let's take you home."

I had taken the girl home, it turns out her father is the king, King Leopold. Oh and did I mention, he proposed to me? Freak. And to think that my mother accepted, without my say!

"Daniel!" I said, running in the door of the stables.

"Regina, are you okay?" He asked worriedly.

"I'm fine, but we have to run away sooner than I expected. The king proposed to me today, I have to leave." I said, with tears running down my face.

"We'll leave tonight." He gently placed his rough hand on my face and wiped my tears with his thumb, "What was it that you wanted to tell me, love?" He asked.

"I um-"

"Yes, we got that far already." He joked, "Can you tell me the rest?"

"Daniel I..." I just couldn't say it. I laid my head on his chest and started crying again.

He obviously saw that something was hurting me, but he didn't know what. He took the moment to lift my chin up and kiss me on the lips. It was a long kiss, it was so reassuring. His kisses always made me feel so protected, and loved...I knew I could trust him.

"You..." I heard a little girl's voice behind us. "You don't love my father…do you?"

"Snow!" I shouted, "What are you doing in here?"

She completely ignored my question and asked her own, "Who is this?" She asked through little whimpers.

"Snow...I can't...can you keep a secret?" I asked.

"No, why does she need to keep a secret?" Cora stepped in behind her.

"Mother! What are you doing here?!" I asked, tears were starting to well up in my eyes.

"You foolish girl. Snow, go." She said to the young girl.

"Mother, what are you going to do..."

"Nothing, sweetheart. I want to congratulate your new fiancée." She walked up to him, "I hope you know that she chose you over riches, that's why I really have to do this." She said to him.

"Do what?" Daniel asked.

"This." Cora plunged her fist into his chest and ripped his heart out. "Goodbye, stable boy." She said. She crushed his heart, letting the remains fall out of her hand.

"Mother!" I ran up to him, laying on the ground, "What did you do?!" I laid my head down on his chest and began to sob.

"You stupid girl, you should've known better. Power is all you need, love is weakness." Cora said, as heartlessly as I've ever heard.

I laid on him, crying the whole night. I never did go to sleep, there was no way I could.

"I'm sorry, Daniel." I rubbed his face, "You would've been the best father." I began sobbing again.

I laid one hand on my stomach, "I'm sorry, my baby..."

I was in my room, pacing around the floor. Some of my dresses were getting tight, I didn't know what to do. What was I going to tell the king? And more importantly, my mother?

"Regina," Cora knocked on my door.

"Come in, mother." I said, crossing my arms casually, trying to hide my little bulge.

"You're wedding is just tomorrow, don't you think you should maybe spend time with the king? Have dinner with him." Her eyes widened and she snapped her fingers, "I'll arrange the details myself. Be ready in thirty minutes." She walked out of my room and I began to get dressed.

I now had a plan, one that I didn't have to tell my mother that the stable boy was the father of my child.

"Hello, King Leopold." I bowed.

"You don't have to bow anymore." Snow said in a childish voice, "You're marrying him!" She was very giddy sounding, excited to have a mother in her life.

"She's right." Leopold said.

"I'm sorry." I looked down, embarrassed at what had just gone on.

"Dinner is being prepared by our finest chef." He said. "Snow, go ahead and go in so you can eat your meal. Your soon-to-be stepmother and I would like to be alone." He said.

"Yes father." Snow White did as she was told.

After a little while, dinner was served.

"May I treat you to our finest wine, Regina?" The servant said.

"Yes, please." I answered. He scooted the cup over toward me and was about to pour it in until I stopped him, "Oh, I don't want any at this moment, but can you leave it here please?"

"As you wish." The servant set the glass of wine down next to me and went about his business. I knew what I had to do next, the hardest part of it all.

"So, King Leopold, would you like a drink?" I said, as enticing and sweet as I could possibly sound.

He nodded his head and I poured him a full glass.

"I look forward to the new life we will have together." He said, taking a sip from his glass.

"As do I." I was lying through my teeth, but he didn't know it.

"Snow is looking very forward to having a mother again."

I smiled, but then I frowned, "What happened to her mother?" I asked.

"She just died, there was no certain reason." He took another swig, "I miss her dearly." He began to whine over his departed wife, I knew this would be one long marriage.

"I'm sorry for your loss." I said, again as sweet as possible.

He had finished his whole glass of wine in this short conversation, "Please," He scooted his cup to me again.

I poured him another full glass, knowing exactly what I was doing.

I began to talk more about his wife, wanting him to drink more and more until he was so drunk he wouldn't remember any of this tomorrow.

He finished his fifth glass and was really beginning to get drunk. But it wasn't enough- yet.

"How did you meet Queen Eva?" I asked, pouring him his sixth glass.

He began to ramble on about how they met…little did I care.

After another long hour of pouring wine and listening to him babble on, he was finally drunk enough to where I knew he wouldn't remember anything.

"What do you say…we go to a more private place." I said, cringing at this thought, but it was all a part of my plan.

He looked me in the eyes and got up, we went to his bed chamber.

The next morning I woke up in a different bed, one that I had found last night trying avoiding his drunken self. Nothing happened between us, but to him it did.

"Regina," Snow said, "It's your wedding day!" She gently shook me to wake me up.

I blinked a little and stretched out, "Guess so." I yawned.

"Aren't you as excited as I am? This will be a majestic day!" She said giddily.

"Yes, yes…now go get ready, okay? I have to also."

Our wedding went fine, horrible to me but to everyone else is was the best thing that happened to the kingdom since Snow's birth. A few weeks had gone by, and I quickly found out that living with him was going to be complete loneliness. By now, I was really starting to show, and decided now was the time to tell him I was pregnant.

"Leopold, I have news." I said.

"And what is this news?"

"I'm expecting a child."

He looked at me in my eyes, confused and worried. "We've only been married a few weeks and…"

"The night you were drunk…the night before our wedding." I said, once again lying.

"Oh my." He began to pace, "I can't have this. I can't live with this embarrassment."

"Embarrassment?" I was completely hurt, I thought he'd at least be okay with this.

"Yes an embarrassment!" He shouted, "You can't have this child." He said sternly.

I was taken aback from his comment. Who was he to say I couldn't have this child? It wasn't even his! But now I couldn't tell him that!

"What do you expect me to do? Beat myself?" I asked, still shocked at his words.

"You will have the child, but you will not leave the palace until it is born. You will give the baby away to someone else."

"To someone else? I would never…"

"You will!" He scolded.

Tears began to come to my eyes. I can't believe this, my plan had backfired. What was I going to do? I didn't want to give up my baby.

A little while later, Cora came to me, "You're such a foolish girl, Regina. You got pregnant? Really?!" She scolded me.

"I…it wasn't my fault. The king was drunk, like he is on most nights." I said.

"Well, you aren't keeping it anyways, so I'll take it."

"And what would you want with my child, mother?" I said, beginning to cry.

"Stop with the tears, I'm taking it because I don't want it going off to some other person who could possibly eat it or something." She said carelessly.

Little did she know, her words hurt me terribly. Eat it? We're talking about the precious child that I'm giving life to, and she's talking about someone eating it. This was horrible.

Months had gone by, and I was absolutely huge. The king was gone, as he was for most of my pregnancy. My mother and father would visit me every day, since I was still not allowed to leave the castle.

"Regina, you are getting bigger and bigger every day." My mother said, dry and coldhearted.

"I feel as though I'm going to pop." I replied.

"When was it again, that you know, you…" Cora started asking.

"It's been about forty weeks."

"I still can't believe it." She replied.

"Well, it's believable to me." I gently rubbed my belly, trying to get the pain to stop.

"Cora, please, let off of her." My father told her.

"Are you really taking her side? Really?" She replied to him.

"Not necessarily, but she doesn't need the stress and neither does the baby." Henry replied.

"Father…" I started.

"It's okay, Regina." He replied.

"What are you going to do to it?" I started crying, knowing my mother was still going to take it away as soon as it was born.

"I will hide it. Hopefully she'll be raised with more sense than you have."

I let out a loud cry when she said that. If Daniel were here, he would help me. What was I going to do? I couldn't lose my child…

"Please, mother. Don't." I replied, crying on my knees.

"Stop begging, foolish girl." She replied.

Suddenly I got a sharp pain in my back that went all the way down to my toes, "Ahhh!" I screamed.

"What is your problem? Get a grip on yourself." Cora replied.

"Stop it, Mother!" I replied through screams and through tears, it was all I could do to spit those three words out.

"Regina, you can't possibly miss him that much-"

"AHHHHH!" Another sharp pain shot through my back, I rolled over from my knees onto my side, curled up in a ball as tight as I could be with a nine month pregnant belly between my chest and my knees.

"Cora?!" Henry shouted, "What are you doing to her?!" He ran up to the door.

"I'm doing nothing," She slammed him against the wall with magic, "She's bringing it upon herself."

"No! I'm not- ahh!" I tried to say the words, but it wasn't working. I was in too much pain.

"Cora, she's giving birth!" Henry shouted at her.

Cora took her magic off of him and he was released from the wall. He rode his horse all the way to the doctor, to bring him here.

"Regina, breathe deep." The doctor kept telling me, but truthfully I wanted to rip his throat. Simple as that.

I got up off of my side with much help and walked over to the bed. I laid down and started crying again, both from pain and from knowing this child will be taken as soon as she's born.

"Regina, stop crying. You sound like an imbecile!" Cora said.

"Cora, please, she is in great pain." The doctor looked over at her for a quick second.

Cora turned around quickly and walked to the other end of the room.

For the life of me, I couldn't get comfortable, at least as comfortable as one can get when giving birth. My long hair was all in my face and I had nothing to tie it with, this bed was horribly uncomfortable, and everyone was watching me. The last thing made it extremely awkward.

"Regina," The doctor said while pulling the bottom of my nightgown back down, "You're not ready yet. A few more hours." He walked out of the room with my mother.

"My darling," Father came over to me and hugged me, "I'm so sorry. Is there anything I can do to make you more comfortable?"

I thought carefully about this one, what all could he really do to help me?

"Please, can you get me something to tie my hair with? It's sticking to my face from sweat." I asked as calmly as I could.

"Yes, dear. Anything else?" He asked.

"Do I have to stay in this room?" I asked him.

"Your mother…your mother wants you to." He replied with sadness in his voice.

"Daddy, please, help me. I can't give my baby up!"

He reached down and hugged me, "You are strong, Regina. Your mother is weaker than you, that is why she is doing this."

"Daddy…help me. Please!" I cried out again, I didn't know what to do anymore.

"Sweetheart I wish I could. Your mother would kill both of us if I tried to get you out of this room." His eyes filled with tears, "I'm sorry."

Hours passed, it felt like a whole day had gone by. I was in so much pain that I couldn't stay still, finally the doctor came back in.

"She's ready." He turned to Cora and stated.

Mother turned away and faced the wall like she did when she was mad.

The doctor started telling me what to do again, breathe, push, breathe, push. I got it already!

"One last time, Regina." He told me.

I held my breath and did what he said.

A moment later, so much of the pressure was gone and I heard a cry, this time it wasn't from me.

"It's a girl." The doctor told me, coldhearted and no love. Just like my mother, "Do you want to hold-"

"No, she doesn't." Cora walked over to us and shot him a look.

"Mother please! You have no say-" She silenced me with a flick of her wrist.

"Trust me, she doesn't want to hold her." Cora repeated.

I was bawling, tears were streaming down my face. I was doing all I could to tell the doctor not to give her to my mother, she was horribly evil and always would be.

"Stop it, Regina!" She shouted at me, "You're such a fool. Be glad someone like the king married you."

The doctor just got my baby to be quiet, and Cora grabbed her. She immediately started crying again, screaming.

"It's okay, Grandma's got you." She rocked back and forth with my screaming baby in her arms. She wasn't giving up on the cries.

"Be quiet," She flicked her wrist again and used magic on this poor, screaming newborn baby. "That's better." She smiled evilly.

"Cora, have you changed your mind on this?" Henry asked her.

"Shut up, fool. I don't listen to you." She yelled at him.

"I'm sorry." He backed away, terrified.

She reached down and got in my baby's face, "It's time to go." She told her.

Bella was screaming and kicking, she didn't want to go with her. She knew how horrible she was.

"Cora, she wants her mother." The doctor dared to say.

"Too bad. She's not getting her." Cora replied and walked out of the door.

That was the first and last time I saw my little girl, forever. She was never coming back. When my mother left the room, my voice came back.

"How could she be so evil?!" I screamed at anyone who was listening.

"I'm sorry, Regina." The doctor was packing up his things.

I rolled over on my side and buried my face in the cold pillow. I cried for days, right there on that bed.

Cora finally visited me, "Get up." She said dryly.

"No." I replied.

"What did you just say?" She asked.

"I said no."

"You're getting up. The king is going to be back and you're not the least bit presentable." She said.

"You've taken away Daniel, you've taken away Bella, what else do you possibly want from me?"

"I want you to be happy." She smiled.

"I will never be happy with that man, you've taken all of my happiness away." I replied through tears.

"That was not happiness, Regina, that was stupidity."

"Fine, I was stupid then. But I was happy. You took it all away from me."

"Come on, stupid girl." She dragged me by my arm out the door, "Get out of these ratty clothes and into your dress. The king will be back shortly."

I peeled my smelly, ratty nightgown off that I'd been wearing since Bella was born, five days already. I looked in the mirror at my body, it looked horrible. I had never looked this awful in my life. Not only was I probably thirty pounds or more overweight, I had stretch marks all over my stomach. They were just horrible reminders of my child being taken away from me. My face was pale, and my eyes had dark circles from crying and little sleep.

I put a clean gown on, another that I had worn when I was pregnant. Another horrible reminder. I walked back in front of the mirror and took a look at myself again. I still looked horrible.

"Drink water, dearie, it helps with the circles." A voice said from behind me somewhere.

I turned around and looked at this odd creature.

"Rumplestiltskin is the name, dearie, at your service. For a price."

"I have nothing you need to service." I replied, "I don't even know you or how you got in my room."

"I have my ways." He laughed, "And I also have my ways in magic." He rubbed his hands together and smiled.

"I don't want your magic. I've seen what it does to people." I started crying again.

"Don't cry, dearie, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm going to help you by teaching you magic."

"No, get out." I replied and walked to him. I pushed him out of my door and locked it shut. "That should fix that-"

"Did you really think that could stop me?" He reappeared in my room, door still shut and locked.

"How can you help me, Rumple…Rumpleshtilt…"

"RumpleSTILTskin."

"Yes, that."

"I can help you by giving you magic, magic to defeat your mother."

This got my attention, anything to defeat my evil mother. He told me all about magic and I said I'd give it some thought. He finally left my room and stayed gone, though I had an eerie feeling that I was still being watched.

A few days later

"Here Regina, put this on." Mother walked in with a new gown.

"No."

"What?" She replied.

"No!" I turned around and pushed her against the mirror with my magic, "Goodbye mother." I flicked my wrists and into the mirror she went.

"Regina, stop this foolishness this instant." She was beating against the mirror.

"Not happening." I pushed my hands forward and shattered the mirror with more magic, I guess this really did come in handy, now that I knew how to use it.

Though I had fixed that problem, I still had the king and Snow…that wretched Snow.

I was never going to forget about my Bella, though everyone wanted me to. She was alive, somewhere, hopefully, if my mother didn't kill her.

I had to find her one day, I will.

Annnnnnd that's a wrap! What'd you guys think of the first chapter?

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Thanks,

G.