I stepped outside and looked at what I had just done. The sky was still purple from where I had cast the most powerful spell ever created, and I was the one who created it. I thought and thought over the spell. I tried so many things and none of them worked. But this time, I finally got him, with all of his mind, body, and heart. I had finally created the spell to bring my one, true love back to me.

I dragged Daniel with me, making sure all of the city was still okay after what I'd done. Thankfully, the only thing that had happened was a few chairs blown over and we stopped and picked them up.

"I've missed you so much, Regina. It feels like a lifetime since I have seen you." I just chuckled, it felt like a lifetime to me too. After all, it had been at least 28 years.

"I've missed you too, Daniel. But now we can finally be together. We can start a family. We don't have to worry about my mother or anything. All we have to worry about is us."

After we checked on the whole city, we took a walk back home. "Home". It sounded so odd, though I've lived there ever since I've been in Storybrook. I guess because it's not "my" home, but it's "our" home. "Our". I love the sound of that.

I walked in the house and straight to the kitchen, "So Daniel, what would you like for dinner? You must be starving!"

"What do you have?"

"Hot dogs, mac-"

"REGINA! Why do you heat dogs? That is too cruel of you. I don't know if I can even love-"

"Calm down! It's a normal food." I laughed at his old world thought, then realized how weird and cruel that must sound to him.

"Oh. What are these 'hot dogs' you speak of?"

"Well, they're some kind of meat. You can put all different toppings on them, and you put them in between two pieces of bread."

"I'll take that."

I made him a hot dog, put some mustard, ketchup, and a little onion on it, just the way I always make mine. He took a bite of it, his first bite of hot dog. I watched as he chewed it up. He probably thought I had gone insane, watching him eat and all!

"Do you like it, sweetheart?"

"It's very good!" He looked like he was enjoying it, he spoke with his mouth so full I could hardly understand him. But I just laughed again, I was so happy to have him back.

"I'm glad you like your very first hot dog!"

After we finished eating our hot dogs, we went to the living room.

"So how have you been, Mayor Mills?" He said the last part with a bunch of sarcasm in his voice.

"I've been fine, citizen. I've been the mayor of the town for three terms, I have Henry- Oh! Henry! I totally forgot to get him!" Just as I said that, Henry walked in.

"Mom, seriously? You pick me up every day, same exact time. It's not that hard to remember." Just then I saw his eyes glance over to Daniel, "Who is this?"

"Henry, this is Daniel. My fiancé from the Enchanted Forest. Mother killed him, and I brought him back."

"Hello, Henry. It's nice to meet you! You're mother didn't really get a chance to say too much about you yet, but she was just getting started on you."

"Oh so THIS is why you forgot to pick me up? Got your little boyfriend over here." He said completely sassing me.

"Henry!"

He chuckled, "Sorry mom! But c'mon you know that was funny!" I could still feel my face blushing, even though he IS my fiancé. It just sounded weird to hear my 11 year old say that.

"So Regina, have you, uh, been...um, married or something?"

"Oh no! Oh gosh Daniel no!"

"How did this...?"

"Oh Henry is adopted. Oh my. No, I never have loved since..." I stopped myself. I remembered the last night Daniel and I had together. I was about to talk about it right in front of Henry, that's embarrassing.

I casually cleared my throat, "No. He's adopted." I brought my senses back, and sounded like myself again, not some giddy adolescent who just got her first boyfriend.

"Oh well that explains...a lot."

He sounded so relieved to find out that I hadn't ever found love since him. Truthfully, I never looked. I always knew he was the one I'd always want, and that I'd always need.

"Are you ok mom? You've got some major...er...attitude issues going on."

"Yes Henry. Why don't you go up to your room and do your homework, then we'll all go for a walk, sound good?"
"Alright!"

"Regina, I didn't mean to embarrass you. It was just such a shock to me to hear you had a son."

"Don't worry. It is to most people."

I was still thinking about that night. The last night that we had together, the last night I had truly loved. I almost started tearing up, just from my memories.

"Are you sure you're okay Regina?"

"Yes I'm fine. I'm just...remember the last night we had?"

"Yes I do. I still remember it, even after being dead for...a while."

He kind of smirked, as if he was playing back the memories. We both got quiet, until he broke the silence.

"The one day you were riding and saved that little girl-"

I grimaced. "Snow. Snow White."
"Yes that's her name! You said you had something to tell me the next day, but you never did."

He looked at me in the eyes, "Regina, do you remember what you came to tell me?"
Of course I remembered. I had never forgotten and never will forget.

"Yes."

The room briefly fell silent again.

"What was it, Regina?"

I didn't want to bring this back up at this moment. I didn't want a sad time, I just wanted to be with Daniel, making better memories than before.

"Regina? Are you going to answer me? What were you going to tell me?"

"Daniel, I-"

I just couldn't say it. My mother had done so many things to me, and this was part of them. "I was coming to say-"
I paused again.

"Spit it out!" He was getting irritated with me, I could feel it.

"I was coming to tell you I was pregnant."

Again, the room fell silent. This time it was dead silence. You could even hear Henry's pencil writing on his book all the way upstairs through a closed door.

Daniel just looked at me. "You mean...I'm a..."

"Yes. You are."

"Oh Regina. What happened? Did your mother do something?"

"What else would happen to something I love? Of course my mother did something.
I could only hide it for so long after she killed you, then I started showing. I never wanted mother to know, but she had to. I still lived with her and had no where to go. After she killed you, she made an arrangement for me to marry the King."

"King Leopold?"

"Yes. And then when she found I was pregnant, she made me give her away. I held her, never got to see her grow up."
By now I was almost bawling. Daniel took me and hugged me. I couldn't believe how fragile I was in front of him, I had hardened so much when he was killed.
There we were, sitting on my couch, with his arms wrapped around me while I was still bawling. Then I felt a tear drop, Daniel was tearing. This almost made me happy, because I realized that meant he really was alive. Then I remembered why he was crying, and started crying again.

"What happened to her?"

"I don't know. Mother took her as soon as I had given birth to her and gave her away. Never have met her."

"I'm so sorry Regina! I should've been there for you."

"It's okay Daniel. What could you have done to not get yourself killed by my mother? She's evil. She would've found another way to kill you."

"We will find her."

"Find who?"

"Our daughter."

"How will we do that? I don't even know if she's in Storybrook."

"She has to be. Everyone got carried over from the curse?"

"Yes but I don't know who she is, or what she looks like. I mean I'm the mayor, I know everyone in this town and no one has resemblance to me OR you. It's impossible."

The room became heavy and silent...again. I don't like all of the silence. This was supposed to be a happy time, I had finally gotten my love back, and we were going to start new, not dwell on the past.