Inked future

A/N: So I have been thinking of this idea since last Sunday because, let's be real, the thing that Regina wants to change her future changing the book is like "carte blanche" for the SQeers and it certainly looks like an idea from a fic. So I started playing with the muses in my head and albeit I haven't written everything yet I have a very good idea of what I want to write.

Ah, and for the ones that read "Over my frozen heart" I'm thinking a little fic in which I continue the idea ;)

Also for anyone that is reading The Holiday I will submit the next chapter in a couple of hours since I'm still working but I couldn't wait to submit this chapter ^^''

Disclaimer: I don't own OUAT or any of her characters.

Regina poofed herself in front of a big house half-hidden between the trees, the caramel tone in which the place had been built made a curious trick with the eyes, for a couple of seconds Regina had to focus again in the walls of the building because it looked like it was disappearing from sight.

The brunette frowned, after helping Robin with Marian she had decided to search the curious stream of magic that was certainly running in the town but except the ice-cream shop, Rumplestiskin pawn shop and her own house the other place that had enough magic to be dangerous or a threat was there, in front of her. Carefully she started to approach the house with her magic ready to explode if it was necessary. At the same time that she touched the wooden craved door she shivered, the magic that was inside was powerful but it looked weak, almost like it was constrained by something. Humming she opened the door with a push and for a moment considered the option of returning to Storybrooke and talk to Emma, Charming and the rest of "The Miraculous gang" but she dismissed the idea almost as quickly as she had thought about it, she knew that Henry would feel disappointed with her but she needed to search the magic alone.

The insides of the house were of the same caramel tone of the outsides, all of the cottage was built in wood and almost all the surfaces had symbols craved in it, the ex-mayor touched briefly one of the symbols, wondering what they could mean: she didn't recognize the meanings but she also felt the power that was contained in every single one of them.

- Interesting- muttered when one of the symbols lighted up when she touched it. Obviously the place had some kind of magical being trapped inside, that reacted when someone magical was near it but what type of magical being could be trapped between the walls of the house was a mystery.

She kept looking inside the house, admiring the ballroom and the dormitories, gazing briefly across the living room and enjoying the view that it existed thanks to the big windows in it.

Maybe it was the magical scent of Rumplestiskin or the faint glow that came up from a little table but she squinted the place again and followed the scent of the Dark One, it wasn't powerful but definitely Rumple had been there albeit she didn't know when or why, raising her right hand she performed a spell, hoping that whatever was hiding from her eyes made an appearance.

And when in a surge of magical power something began to take form the brunette smirked, maybe she wasn't evil anymore but she definitely knew how to cast a spell. The glow that she had seen earlier returned, this time with a dark shade of blue in tow, Regina knelt, lining her eyes with the table in which a hat had appeared, at first she thought that it was a trick from Gold, maybe even a test but the hat remained when she created a fire ball and threw it at it.

- It can't be…- murmured the brunette while considering the idea of taking the hat with he. At her back the silence had turned strained, dangerous even. She knew that the magic of the house was watching her, waiting for her to do a bad move and she knew that she needed to make a decision fast. But all her years studying magic weren't enough preparation for this, the Sorceress hat, the hat that Merlin had created before disappearing.- If the hat is here this must be the Glass Palace*- said the Queen aloud, looking at the house with new found respect, she was inside of one of the most important spells in the history of magic and she bowed her head a little while considering what she could found in the Palace, now she understood the trick of the walls, obviously the house didn't want to be found although knowing that Morgana had been an interesting creature it could also mean that the house was playing with her mind. "Rumplestisking knew about the house so he probably already know everything" thought while searching for something more, something with the enough power to save Marian or, maybe, with the enough power to change the book.

She looked through the house once again, this time knowing what type of things and magic she could found in it and it wasn't long before the house started to react to her own power, the light inside of the house disappearing for a couple of seconds become a common thing and soon enough Regina lost track of the time. After another set of trembles and flickering lights she huffed and created another fire ball. Letting the ball float above her head, she opened her mouth and with her best Evil Queen voice she warned Merlin's magic:

- I know that you are there but you didn't stop Morgana and you won't stop me, so I command you to help me, Merlin.

There was another tremble but it didn't last long, Regina smirked, Merlin couldn't escape, the symbols and the house were his own jail but anyone with magic could enter in the place and she knew that the magician had only tried to scare her. Pitifully for the mage she wasn't Snow White.

- Now, I see that you had seen the light; I need a couple of things from you…

SQ

Emma gritted her teeth while listening to Hook, the man sometimes got on her nerves, he was talking about that they needed some place to live, some kind of sign that they were having something serious but the blonde refused the idea of living with Hook. She certainly liked him but sometimes she felt that the pirate wanted everything from her in a blink of an eye, she wasn't the only one with trust problems, she expected to be understood when she asked for more time to think about it but after her speech about not wanting to lose the pirate Hook had believed that they needed to live together as soon as possible.

- Listen Hook- started, trying to not raise her voice because her father was definitely listening to the conversation that they were having in the sheriff office- I told you, I don't want something like this right now, I don't feel prepared and you know that if I felt trapped I tend to run.

- Love- said the pirate grinning a little- I promise that I would treat you well.

Emma sighed in annoyance; the man in front of her wouldn't listen, when she started to think in something that could buy her some more time David interrupted, his eyes fixing in her daughter and one of his hands in his gun.

- I'm sorry but Emma and I need to go to patrol Hook, maybe you could talk to her later?

The blonde smiled at the prince, sometimes her family looked like a living hell but some other times she was grateful for having them. Mouthing "thanks" to her deputy she caught her jacket and kissed briefly Hook's cheek.

- I will see you later, you know that after Elsa and the other Ice Queen or whatever is best if we patrol the city. Rain check?

- Of course love- answered the pirate with that pained smile that he always wore. Emma started to think that anything that she could say couldn't wipe that dammed smile.

Father and daughter started patrolling, nodding and waving every time that some Storybrooke citizen approached them asking questions about the cold or the ice wall, they didn't have the answers and since last night Regina, who had promised to help Marian was missing, Emma knew that it the brunette was needed she could reach her but the silence from the ex-mayor was still something that she dreaded. Kicking a piece of ice she considered the idea of calling Regina but she dismissed the thought, she didn't know what to say to the brunette, or even if there was something that she could say, she had screwed up and the only thing that she could do was showing to Regina that she truly wanted to apologize, it had always been like that with the brunette.

Starting another road she rubbed her forearms, even with his jacket the cold was starting to become uncomfortable, looking at his left she saw David, rubbing his nose with his fingers.

- Problems with Hook? - asked David when she saw her daughter finally acknowledge his presence.

- You could say that- agreed the blonde. - He is trying to persuade me to live with him.

- And you don't want to- stated David.

- It's not that, I think that it could be a great idea but right now is too soon to do it, we don't know each other to that point and I am not only me in the package, there is also Henry, at least half the time because now that Regina is back with talking to him I suppose we will start to share him… and I think that Hook see this relationship in one way and he didn't even try to know more about Henry. I don't know if…- the blonde sighed, defeated and kicked another piece of ice.

David smiled weakly, he didn't know how to help his daughter but, putting his hands in her pockets, she tried anyway:

- I think that you need time and I will talk to Hook if it is necessary, we came from a different land with different values in live, maybe if somebody from that talked to him…

Emma shook her head but smiled.

- Thanks Da.. David, but I will try to solve this myself.

Both of them smiled briefly and continue with the patrolling until Emma stopped again, they were in Mifflin Street and she looked at the, still?, mayoral mansion, with worry on her eyes.

- I will try to talk to her, how about we meet in Granny's?

The man shrugged, old habits die hard but he trusted his daughter and after all the things that Regina had done he started to trust the brunette too and it was obvious that Emma needed to talk to ex-Mayor.

SQ

Meanwhile Regina was opening Henry's book with a little smile in her face, she hadn't found anything that could help Mariam but instead she had found a little bit of magic that could help her with her problem. Firstly Merlin had tried to seduce her with power but as soon as she had made clear that she only wanted two specific things the mage had mellowed enough, in her hands it was a little flask with ink that seemed to be changing color every time, the ink, had told her Merlin could help her, she only needed to rewrite what she wanted or to write what she desired. Regina wondered for a moment if she could wipe Mariam off the story but refused to do that thing, Mariam was a mother, a wife and albeit the pixie dust she would never interfere in a family, and as much as she could hate her situation she understood the love for a child, Mariam deserved to live.

Sighing she opened the flask and, using a quill from her old days as a Queen she proceeded with the enchantment.

Until the voice of a blonde interrupted her, closing her eyes with irritation she raised from the chair that she had been sitting, as much as Emma made her furious if something had happened to Henry, Mariam or to the blonde herself Regina knew that it was better to open the door.

- Ms Swan. Now that we have finally figured out who is behind the curse of Marian you had managed to create something that can destroy the town?- asked with a little more venom that she had truly intended, the blonde winced but kept her feet steady.

- I only wanted to know how were you.

Regina inhaled the truth of the statement amazing her but she kept her emotions under control and gave a curt nod.

- I am fine as you can see; now you may go, Sheriff, maybe I am not the mayor anymore but I appreciate the safety as any other citizen of this town.

The other woman chewed her lip before answering, she knew that Regina was a difficult person to talk but at least she had achieved talking with her.

- Henry told me that you were planning something, I only wanted to know that you are ok, I don't doubt about your intentions- added quickly when Regina looked at her in rage. - I simply want to know that you are ok, even more with that Ice Queen in town.

The older woman closed her eyes before looking at the blonde, she was stuck with the savior as it seemed.

- Come here then, but don't touch anything.

Emma nodded and followed the older woman who brought them to her study in which the ink was still changing color every few seconds.

- What is this? - asked the blonde, one hand in the paper in which the first drop of ink was shimmering and the other grabbing the flask.

- A very dangerous thing darling, so you better stop touching it.- came the quick and curt rely from the brunette who touched with her right hand while grabbing the flask from Emma's fingers.

Before the blonde could utter something a vortex appeared above their heads and swallowed Queen and Savior.

For anyone that doesn't know what is the Glass Palace I am basing this idea in the myth of Merlin. Some of the stories says that Merlin fell in love with Morgana le Fay, a magical being that could be human or a fairy. This woman, in theory, learnt everything that she could from Merlin and later she imprisoned the man in a cage or in a palace made of glass, the palace was enchanted so nobody could hear or see Merlin so Morgana sentenced him. Later the story of Merlin and Morgana started to change but I'm basing this in the original myth

Well, what do you think? Should I continue with it?