Summary:

What if Regina just needed someone to show her her happy ending. To let her see that she can love. What if she just needed her daughter? Eventually Swan Queen. Set in the episode of the Miller's daughter after the death of Cora.

Disclaimer: I don't own Once upon a time.

It can be that there are grammar mistakes, as I'm from the Netherlands, but I really tried to get all the mistakes out.

Regina's POV

I was crying while I held my mother in my arms. The energy flooded away from my mother. And while that was happening somebody else came back to life and changed back in her usual form.

Aila's POV

I was lying in the field, when suddenly there was a bright light and I couldn´t see anything. I closed my eyes to the light and despite the fact that I knew what was happening, I was beginning to feel scared. It had been so long, so long. I was about to see my mom for the first time in... I actually didn´t know. But it had been so long ago since I had seen my mom for the last time. I didn´t know for how long I stayed here, in this place. Days, months, maybe years? Everything here felt eternal. I didn´t know how much had changed since the last time I was in the real world.

'Don't be scared my daughter, open your eyes.'

As I did I see my dad standing in front of me and I practically jumped at him to hug him. He lifted me, so that my chin rested upon his shoulder and I hugged him tighter, knowing that would be the last time for many years. As I hugged him, I saw grandpa and a new woman standing behind dad. My dad let me go and I walked behind him to grandpa and the new woman. When I looked better at the new woman I recognized her, but couldn´t quiet place my finger upon it.

'Who are you?' I asked the woman curiously.

'I'm Cora, your grandmother,' the woman named Cora said.

'Have we met yet?' I asked. I knew for sure that I had seen her before.

'Yes, I was the one who sent you here,' the woman said quietly, who was looking ashamed. Oh so that was where I recognized her from.

'Aila, it's time, you can't stay much longer,' my dad said.

I looked up to Cora and said:'I forgive you.'

The woman smiled and I saw a tear streaming down her face. 'Thank you, you're a strong and true person Aila. And will you please tell me my daughter that I love her, I haven't had the chance yet and she has to know,' she said with regret.

'I will,' I said. I walked towards grandpa and he collected me into a hug. 'Please tell Regina that I forgive her and that I love her,' he whispered in my ear.

I nodded. 'You're a strong girl Aila, just like your mom,' he said and I heard in his voice something of regret for the past. Things he hadn't done, but should for the sake of his daughter.

I smiled to him and turned around and ran to my dad to once again hug him and I began to cry into his shoulder. 'I'm... I'm going to miss you dad,' I sobbed into his shoulder.

He pulled away and grabbed my shoulders instead. 'Me too my light, me too. But you're not going to be alone. Your mom is there and she loves you very much, she needs you right now. She believes that there's no happy ending for her, but there is and you have to show her and teach her to let herself love again. You'll let her see her happy ending and with that you'll be the savior of all the people.' he said.

'But I don't know what the happy ending for mom is. What if I can't do it, can't show her. What if I can't be the savior for everyone,' I said concerned.

'But you'll know when the time is right and remember darling that when you don't know what to do, you just have to look deep into your heart. And remember that when you go away from here I'm not gone, I'm here,' and while he said that he placed his hand upon where my heart is supposed to be. 'I will always protect you and be there for you.'

He squeezed my shoulders and slowly he started to fade away.'I love you, Aila,' he said.

'I love you too, dad,' I said and then he was gone and completely faded away. I was now standing in a garden. I looked around me and saw a grand mansion. Not knowing where to go I started to walk to go find my mom.

When I walked I saw that this place didn´t at all looked like the Entchanted Forrest. It looked so different. I heard a noise behind me and when I turned I saw something moving forward towards me with people in it. It made a horrible noise and it looked like some sort of monster. I started to run from it, but it was catching me up and when it passed me, nothing happened. So it wasn´t a monster after all. There were strange things in this place. The Enchanted Forrest really had changed since the last I was here.

I saw people walking at the other side of the street and noticed that their clothes were so different from mine. I passed something that was called Granny's. I saw that there were many people inside, talking, eating and drinking. Maybe they knew where my mom was. I walked inside and towards the counter.

'Can I ask you something ma'am?' I asked a woman with red in her hair. Strange I thought to myself, never seen that before.

'Yes, of course,' she answered.

'I'm looking for my mom, but I can't find her. Do you know where she is?'

'Well, what's her name?'

'The Queen'

'What?' she asked confused.

'Other people call her the Queen or Your Majesty, but people that know her a bit call her Regina.'

'As in the... the Evil Queen?' the woman asked confused.

'My mom is no Evil Queen,' I said, a bit offended. At the same moment that I said that I heard the door ring. I looked behind me and I saw a woman with blond hair walking in. She walked straight to the counter. 'I want something strong Ruby,' she said. She looked tired and angry.

'Just a sec Em,' the woman, so called Ruby said.

'I'm sorry girl, but I can't help. But you could go ask her,' Ruby pointed at the blond woman. 'She could help you further.'

I walked to the blond woman, hesitating a bit, because she didn´t look all to happy. 'Do you know where my mom is?'

She didn´t hear it, so I asked her again.

'What?' she asked and she looked around before she saw me standing before her. 'Oh sorry kid, what was your question?'

'Do you know where my mom is?' I asked her now a bit annoyed by her. This woman really needed to learn to listen.

'Who's your mother?'

'The Queen, Regina,' I said.

'You mean...'

'I mean Regina,' I said irritated, totally frustrated by this woman. I had patience, but if someone kept going on like this, I lost my patience.

'But... But if she's your mom, you're her daughter,' she said totally confused.

I rolled my eyes at her comment, smart ass. 'Yeah, seems logical, doesn't it.'

'She never told me.'

'But can you bring me to her?'

'I don't know where she is, but you can go with me to Snow.'

'Snow as in the princess?' I asked her.

'Yeah,' she answered as I saw her frown. I wasn´t sure if I should go with her or not. She said that I could go to Snow and you could trust the princess. But I didn´t know this blond woman, she could be lying. I looked into her eyes and I saw that she was an honest person. This was a sort of power of me. I could read people through their eyes, through their eyes a saw their emotions and their intentions.

'Okay, I'll go with you,' I said and smiled at her. She smiled back and gestured to me to follow her. I followed her to one of those monsters. She got in the monster, but I hesitated.

'Get in,' she said.

'Are those monsters safe?' I asked her worried.

'These monsters are cars and they're totally safe,' she answered as I saw that she held back a laugh, but I could still see that she was amused. I saw that she did keys in something of hole and rotated them a quarter. As she did that, the so called car began to vibrate and growl and suddenly we were moving forward. I sat tense in the car as we moved forward and passed strange looking houses and people. The woman noticed that and began to talk. 'So... what's your name?'

'Why should I tell your mine if I don't know yours?' I asked her back.

She chuckled and said 'It wouldn't surprise me if you are a relative of Regina, but anyway my name is Emma. Emma Swan.'

'Aila,' I answered. It was silent again. After awhile we stopped. I got out of the car as fast as possible, still a bit freaked about by that car and walked with her through a door and up the stairs. We stopped and she got keys out of her pocket to open a door. We walked in and when I was in and looked around I saw a cozy and lovely place. I immediately saw Snow, another man and a kid who looked the same age as me. Snow looked slightly older now, like 7 years had past. So I was away for 7 years I thought to myself. That's long.

'Snow, there's someone here for you,' Emma said.

'Who?' she asked and she turned around. I saw by her eyes that she recognized me, but didn´t know from where.

'I'm Aila, Regina's daughter,' I said.

'But… but Regina doesn't have a daughter,' Snow said baffled.

'Just stop with saying that, everyone I have asked for help just keep saying that my mom doesn't have a daughter. But believe me I'm Regina's daughter,' I said to them, standing on the point to yell at them.

'So you're my mom's daughter? She never told me about you,' the boy said.

'Mom? What do you mean with mom? She's not your mom,' I said to him confused. It just kept getting weirder with every second.

'Let's forget that for a second. Who's your father then?' Snow said, having found her voice again.

'My dad's name is Daniel,' I said with a huff. Why all these questions? What was the problem here?

'Oh my god,' Snow said.

'Can you just please get me my mother, I want to see her, I missed her,' I sobbed now, just tired and needing my mom. I didn´t need all these problems now. Everyone was silent. Suddenly Emma spoke up again. 'I'll get you your mother.'

'Henry,' Emma now directing her to the boy, 'could you call your mother, I think it's for the best now. Explain to her short what's happening and ask her to come over. Okay, kid?'

'Okay,' he said and he grabbed some sort of box and began pushing on buttons. After a while he began to speak into the thing.

'Hello, with Henry.'

'Mom, there's a girl here and her name is Aila. She asks for you.'

'She's coming I think. When she heard the name, she mumbled something about coming and just hang up,' Henry now talked to us. It was silent again. I was waiting for what seemed like hours, when suddenly the bell rang..

I stood up from the couch and rushed forward towards the door, being there the first to open the door. When I opened the door, I just stood there, shocked. I felt tears well up in my eyes and saw that the same happened to my mom. 'Mom?' I sobbed, tears streaming down my face.

Regina's POV

Hearing her name was enough for me to handle automatically. My brain shot down and I had only one thing in my head. Going to Aila. I hadn´t heard her name for years. Not having allowed myself to think about her, to prevent myself for losing myself for good.

I didn't know how I got at Snow's place. The only thing that mattered now was Aila. Everything seemed to take hours, even getting out of the car, when it supposedly took a second. Walking the stairs up, it seemed like the highest stairs ever. When I rang the bell, I was nervous. Scared that I had hallucinated all of this. I had forgotten about what Snow did to me just hours ago. When the door opened I saw Aila. Aila. I was shocked and just stood there, not believing this. Tears were forming in my eyes. It was when Aila sobbed Mom that I was pulled out of my trance. I immediately pulled her into a hug and probably crushed her. I let the tears finally go and I cried openly. Not caring who was standing there. So many years, so many years without her and now she was finally back. I thought that she was dead. I pushed her into a place in my heart and built walls around it, to protect me from losing myself. And now I was just hugging her, she was alive. I felt the tears from Aila dripping down on my shoulder. I pulled away to only pepper kisses all over her face.

'I missed you so much, Aila. So much. I thought that I had lost. That you were dead. I missed everything about you. I missed the sounds of your steps, your laugh, your voice even the times that you were angry and so much more. I love you so much and I don't want to lose you ever again,' I sobbed and felt myself smiling despite the fact that I was crying. Just glad that I had her again.

'I'm never going away mom, never. This was the only and the last time,' Aila said. I pulled her into a hug again and tightened my arms around her.

'Mom...Mom I can't... can't breathe,' she choked out.

'Oh I'm so sorry sweetie, but you just have to adjust to it, because I'm going to hug you every minute I can,' I told her jokingly. I looked around me and realized now where I was. They all looked really shocked about what just occurred. I immediately adjusted my composure and stood straight, knowing that they had seen me cry is something that I wished they had never seen. I pulled Aila towards my side. I could see the confusion all over her face, as she saw my change in emotions.

'Mom, what's wrong?'

'Nothing, dear. Let's just get home, away from the two idiots and their precious daughter,' I said looking darkly at Snow. I turned around to walk to the door, but turned around one more time and walked to Henry: 'Henry, I know this is very confusing and all, but I will explain in later to you, if you want. And this doesn't change my love for you, never.' I said, wanting to pull him in a hug, but not knowing his reaction to it, I touched his cheek softly instead and gave him a smile. I turned around to Aila to take her hand. But she quickly pulled her hand from me and walked to Emma.

'Thank you, for bringing my mother to me.' Aila said and with that she walked to me and once again I took her hand and we walked out of the apartment to home.

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