A/N: Okay, I have fallen down the hole of EC fanfic. I think I've read most of them and I decided to a go at writing one. Let me know what you think? If people like it, I'll keep uploading more! If not, I'll write for myself since I know the end already! -Kaila

Chapter One:

Regina Mills was, dare she say it? Happy. Regina Mills (soon to be Nolan) was actually happy. What had started out as a need for revenge on Snow White had turned into the best thing to ever happen to her. David had asked for her hand in marriage, and she'd said yes without hesitation.

Sure, things weren't perfect. Henry, for example, was still set on exposing her curse. He was probably not going to be happy about the engagement, since he'd been accusing her of using David all along. She knew, though, that he was slowly coming around. He didn't cringe nearly as much when David kissed her, and he had started calling her Mom again.

"Henry, darling, please come sit down." Regina smiled at her son. She and David were seated across from him at the kitchen table. "We have something we'd like to talk with you about."

"Is this about the book again? I don't have it." Henry insisted.

Regina knew the book was in Emma Swan's possession, and she'd been trying to get it back. She didn't need Henry to get anymore ideas from it. Emma was close to cracking, and Regina couldn't let that happen.

"No, kid, it's something else." David smiled. "I asked your mother to marry me, and she said yes. We're going to be a family, Henry."

"You have a family!" Henry shouted, rising from his seat. "Snow White is your true love, and Emma is your daughter! You can't marry the Evil Queen!"

"Henry, enough!" Regina exclaimed. She knew it was unfair to keep letting Henry feel like he was crazy, but she was not going to lose another person she loved. "Fairytales are just stories, Henry. David is not married to some princess, he is going to marry me."

"No!" Henry continued. "I won't let you keep them apart! Emma will break the curse, and we will all be together, and you will be alone!"

"Henry," David began in a firm, fatherly tone. "I will never, under any circumstances, leave your mother alone. I love her, and only her. There is no one else."

Henry shoved the chair away from the table and stormed up the stairs. Regina tried to calm her breathing. She couldn't lose Henry, but she was too selfish to give up David. She had to do something. Something drastic.

Regina rushed through the hospital doors. Her son had eaten the turnover meant for Emma, and now he was fighting for his life. She and Emma had worked together, but Gold had outsmarted them. Now, their son laid lifeless in that hospital bed. Regina would never forgive herself if Henry died because of that turnover. This was all her fault. She had tried to do damage control and only ended up making things worse. It was just a sign that she would never truly be able to be happy.

Emma leaned down and placed kiss upon Henry's forehead. Bright white light shot through the room. Henry's eyes popped open. Regina was relieved that her son was alive. Then she realized what had happened. Her curse was broken. She was going to lose everything.

"If I were you, your majesty, I'd find a place to hide." The blue fairy warned her.

Regina took her advice. She needed to get out of there. David was probably searching for Snow. Her heart couldn't bare the thought. He may have started out as her final piece of revenge, but Regina did love David.

"Regina!" She flinched when she heard the front door to the mansion open. "Regina, I know you're home!"

David. What was he doing here? Why hadn't he gone running back to his wife? He wasn't making things any easier for her. Letting him go was going to hurt, and the pain would only be worse the more he came around.

"Regina?" He opens the door to Henry's bedroom. She was sitting on the bed, holding Henry's pillow to her chest. Her face was streaked with runny mascara.

"Go away, David!" She cried.

"Not until you answer my questions. You've got about ten minutes before the angry mob arrives, so you better start talking." His voice was demanding, harder than he usually was with her. "How could you pretend to love me? How did I not know? I mean, god damn Regina, I was going to marry you!"

"I-I guess you're a lot more dense than I thought." She lied.

"No." David shook his head. "It was more than that. Tell me, Regina. The truth."

"David I-"

She was cut off by a commotion outside her home. The mob David had warned her about was here. Whatever Regina had about to tell him was going to have to wait. She needed to deal with the angry citizens who were set on murdering her.

David followed her down the stairs and out the door. Whale grabbed ahold her by her throat before David even had time to react. The mad doctor pinned her to the large, white pillar and began threatening her life.

"No!" Emma's voice exclaimed. She pushed her way through the mob. "She's not dying."

"David?" Snow's voice was next. "What are you doing here?"

"He thought he could beat the crowd, and kill me." Regina lied, shoving Whale off her.

David was shocked. Why was she not rubbing their affair in Snow's face? Wasn't that what this whole thing had been about? Revenge? Because if so, she had missed a perfectly good opportunity.

"Well then, what's stopping us?" Whale sneered, stepping closer to Regina again. David was shocked by his urge to protect the queen.

"Henry." Emma answered. "I promised him that she wouldn't die."

Regina's heart warmed a bit. He son wanted them to keep her alive. He still cared for. She could maybe survive the loss of David if she had Henry to keep her afloat. But she doubted they were going to let her seem him anytime soon.

"So we lock her up." David announced. "At the station where we can keep an eye on her."

Somehow, David had managed to convince Snow that he should take the first shift in watching over Regina. There had been a warning that Rumple was after Regina, and they all agreed to not let that happen.

As soon as Emma and Snow were off to deal with the town, David pulled a chair up to the cell door. He didn't expect his heart to hurt at the sight of her behind bars, but it did. He couldn't explain any of what he was feeling. He should have wanted to catch up with his wife or get to know his daughter he had been separated from for twenty eight years, but all he could think about was Regina.

"Are you going to finish telling me what you started earlier?" David asked. She shrugged. "Regina, don't do that. Don't act like I am no different than the others."

"You locked me in a jail cell, David!" She exclaimed. "What about my son?"

"Emma will take care of him." It pained David to see the hurt in her eyes when he said those words.

"I am his mother!" She cried.

"You are." David agreed. "And if you want any chance of being that to him, you better start answering some questions."

"Okay." She said weakly.

"Did you ever actually love me?"

"Can we start with something easier?" She asked. He just stared. That was no. "Fine. Yes."

"When?"

"I don't know." She lied.

"God damn it, Regina!" He exclaimed in frustration. "Just tell me the truth!"

"Okay!" She could feel the tears in her face, but made no move to wipe them away. "It was after we had been sleeping together for a few weeks. Henry had been accusing me of using you which, at the time, was correct. I was going to call things off, after all, my plan to sleep with Snow's husband had been fulfilled. I told you I was done with our little affair. I told you to leave and you did."

"But I came back." David remembered. "I brought you a bouquet of red roses, not because they're cliche, but because they're your favorite."

"You told me I'd have to try harder to get rid of you." She smiled a little. "And I realized, I couldn't try any harder. I, I was no longer pretending."

Before David could respond, his phone started ringing. Emma was calling for backup or something. As much as hated to do so, he knew they had to table this conversation. He vowed that this wasn't the end, though. Regina still had a lot of answering to do.