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Pain & Heartache
3 months later
Regina stood in the forest, trying to hide her tears.
When she heard a movement a few feet away from her. She quickly rubbed her eyes, not wanting to let anyone see she was hurt.
"Regina, what are you doing here?"
She turned to find Belle standing there.
"I could ask the same of you." Regina said, coldly.
"I just got married, Regina, is there something wrong?"
"What do you care?" She asked.
"Regina," Belle said.
"No, you got your happily ever after, you don't need to come and gloat that I lost..okay!? I got it. Please, just go and leave me alone."
"Regina, that's not what I want." She said.
"Then what did you want, Belle?" Regina spat. "I'm getting exactly what you wanted. Pay back…revenge. Why don't you leave me alone, and go be with your new husband?"
"Regina, listen, I don't know how it feels to be you. But I do know, how it feels for a loved one to be torn from you."
Regina glared at the young woman standing beside her. How could she know about true love being taken away? That's what Regina has always known. Her first love was taken from her. And her second? Well, let's just say that the fairies lied to her. And she did not take to be lied to, well.
"How do you know?" Regina spat. "You never had two true loves, did you?"
Belle, innocently, shook her head. "Well, how would you feel if you lost both of them? The first one, because of you, and the second….you could've saved…but couldn't?"
Belle remained silent. "I loved him, Belle, then his wife had to come back and ruin everything! He was supposed to be my true love! Mine!" Regina cried, upset.
Regina had never let herself go like this before, in front of anyone, including Robin. But, she was hurt, and she was tired of hiding her true emotions.
She quickly turned her back on Belle, wiping her eyes quickly.
"Regina," Belle tried again, making a step forward.
"Just go…please….before I do something I may regret." Regina replied.
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Emma smiled.
They were sitting at the kitchen table, and Henry was pointing at apartments in the newspaper.
"There's one by the sea," He said, with a smile. "It looks cool, do you think we can check it out later?"
Emma smiled, happy to be back home. "Of course, Killian would like to come along, too." She said.
"Okay, I'll go find him." Henry volunteered.
"Be careful." Emma replied.
Henry only nodded.
Mary-Margaret was just coming out of her room. "Found an apartment?" She whispered.
"I don't know…Henry thinks he has found one, I mean it's by the sea…Killian loves the sea."
"You sure you want to move in with Killian? I mean, aren't you moving too fast?"
"I don't think it's moving fast, when for the past few years all I wanted was to get out of here, I could think of a no better way of celebrating our relationship than moving in together."
Mary-Margaret smiled.
"Moving in with who?" David asked.
He had just come back from the station, and had no idea of what his wife and daughter were talking about.
"Nothing." Both of them said, in unison, as Emma took a drink of the coffee in front of her.
"Where's Neal?" David asked, leaning into give his wife a kiss.
"Asleep, as usual." Mary-Margaret answered, giving her daughter an eye.
Just as David disappeared into the nursery.
"You know, you're going to have to tell him about you and Hook, I mean, it's going to be hard when you're walking down the street with him, and Hook kisses you…or something."
"I don't know…we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, I have to go to the station and do some things…" Emma said, hugging her mother good-bye.
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Robin got out of bed, and heard someone shift.
"You're up." Marion replied.
"I thought you were still sleeping." Robin said, softly.
He looked to find his wife, smiling up at him. He slowly, kissed her lips. "I thought I lost you," He whispered, wiping a stray strand of hair away from her face.
"I thought I lost you, too." She whispered. "I thought for sure, I was going to die, and all I could think about was you…and Roland…I couldn't bear the thought of leaving you." She said.
Robin smiled, bringing her hand to his lips and kissing it.
"You're everything that I remembered you to be,"
"Same to you, I love you, Robin…" She said.
"I love you, too." He whispered, kissing her on the forehead before he left.
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Regina walked through the forest, still thinking.
Suddenly, she came to a tree, and placed a hand over her heart. The pain was too much to bear. She couldn't have the luxury of her heart anymore.
Having a heart was not for evil villains. Hearts were for heroes, people who still believed in love, and Regina did not. She couldn't allow that. Every time she lowers her walls, and lets love in, something tragic always happens…and she knew that if it happened again, she wouldn't be able to live with herself.
With tears in her eyes, she put her hand into her chest and grabbed her heart. She heaved a huge breath, when she saw her heart, but used to taking so many hearts, she did not let that moment stop her. She knelt to her knees, and set her heart in her lap, and began to dig.
Just then, her heart was gone. Not again. She quickly rose, looking everywhere.
"Who is out there?" She asked.
No response. Regina raised a hand, craftily in the air.
"I'll give you one more chance, whoever the hell you are, you better show yourself!"
"Relax…relax…I just wanted to talk."
Regina turned to find a young woman, in a blue dress, holding her heart in her hands.
"Who are you? And what do you want with my heart?" Regina demanded.
"Don't worry, I don't plan on keeping it…I just want some answers."
"What kind of answer?" Regina asked, brows furrowed.
The woman had stopped just short of the visible light. Despite it being morning, she hid herself quite well.
"I want to know who this Emma Swan is."
"Emma Swan?" Regina asked. "Why? What for?"
"Just tell me, who she is and how powerful she is."
Regina frowned. "I don't know who you are, why would I tell a complete stranger who she is."
"Because I am a great deal powerful, Regina…I'm the person your stories always warned about. Don't tell me who Emma Swan is, then fine, I'll start killing people you love until you answer my question." She threatened.
"Emma Swan, is the savior of this town, and no matter what kind of magic you think you're capable of, she's a lot more than you." Regina spat through clenched teeth. "Now give me my heart back."
The woman giggled, holding the heart her hand and holding it up to the light to observe it.
"Why did you take your heart out, if you don't mind me asking, your highness?" She asked. "That's right, I know who you are, the Evil queen."
Regina frowned, unnerved.
"None of your business, now, give me my heart back…or prepare to face the consequences." She said, waving her hand in the air and a fireball became apparent.
She made a move to throw it at the intruder, but before it left her hand, it froze.
"What the hell?"
"Now, now…that's not a good way to talk to someone who's trying to help."
"Help? I think you're doing quite the opposite..you have wanted, now leave me be and give me back my heart!"
"You see…I don't think I can do that," She said, stepping further into the light.
"I need you, Regina…I think we would be a great team." The woman said, with a very sinister smile.
A/N: Thank you for reading this story. This story is inspired by the Season 3 finale of "Once Upon a Time", these are the main characters/couples being focused on: Hook & Emma, Charming & Snow, Rumple & Belle, and Regina & Robin. This story will follow the crew based off of events in the finale. And I'm going to try to get the characters act as normally as possible, something I have had a hard time following in the past…so hope you enjoy this story…and reviews/comments are greatly appreciated.