Chapter 1: The accident
"Regina! Regina!" Daniella calls up the stairs where the brunette is preparing herself to leave. Regina almost slips with her mascara when she hears her fiancée yelling from downstairs.
"What? What's wrong?" Regina asks running towards the edge of the stairs trying to see why her love is calling out for her.
"Look what henry can do?" Daniella says while holding the little boy, she puts him on his feet. The blonde woman is only supporting the little toddler by holding his hands. Regina can't help the smile that brightens her face when the little boy takes a few steps before Daniella scoops him up again and kisses his forehead.
"You did so good little boy! You're almost walking." She says grinning at little Henry who can only laugh at his silly mommy. Regina grins and makes her way downstairs to join her little prince and his silly mother.
"I'm wondering how you are going to react when he actually starts walking without you supporting him." Regina says giving her fiancée a kiss on the mouth.
"mmm, you taste like apples. Is that a new lip close?" Regina nods and Daniella soon places another passionate kiss and the brunette's lips. " I love you." Daniella says when they break apart.
"And I will love you too if you get ready, we are already late and I know your mother she will already be worrying." Regina says taking Henry from Daniella and taking his little coat to put on so he wouldn't be cold.
After ten minutes of struggling to get Henry strapped up in his car seat they are finally on the road. "So am I finally going to meet your sister?" Regina asks while turning around in her seat to look at Henry and entertaining him so he won't be grumpy when they arrive.
"That was the plan but Emma wouldn't be Emma if she didn't change plans again. She skyped with mom and dad yesterday telling them that she is going to the amazon. A guide told her about some tribes who have never seen a white girl and she is going to stay with them for a month or two."
Regina laughs when Henry can catch her finger and puts it in his mouth to suckle on it. "You have a crazy sister, I can't believe you are twins. You two sound so different from each other."
"Yeah, physical we are twins, identical even but character wise we aren't even close. I find it crazy that you guys haven't even met before. We have been together for three years and she hasn't been home once to meet you."
Regina turns to Daniella and puts her hand on her thigh. "Don't worry about it, I'm sure I will meet her before the wedding." Regina says leaning forward and pecking Daniella on the cheek.
"I know, it's just…she's my sister and I really want you guys to meet and get along."
"We will don't…"
Regina's sentence is cut short by a big bump in the road. The car jumps with a force making Daniella loose her grip on the steering wheel , they slip of the edge of the road.
They drive further of the road and down a hill quickly. Regina grips the handle on the car door trying the brace herself for impact that will definitely come. Daniella tries to stop them by hitting the brake but the sudden action makes the car stop abruptly but only to start toppling over and they start rolling down the hill. Regina loses her grip on the car door and she smashes her head against the widow.
They would have kept on rolling if it wasn't for a tree and smashing into it.
"Fuck!Fuck!" Daniella cries out, she looks over and sees Regina lying with her head against the window. She looks behind her where Henry is crying his eyes out in total panic.
"Sssh I'ts okay honey, mommy is here, alright. It will be okay." Daniella tries to sooth the boy but Henry only keeps on screaming his lungs out.
"Regina! Regina! Wake up please baby wake up!" Daniella shakes Regina a bit and the brunette stirs.
"Yes! Regina you're okay! Wake up!" Daniella tries to remove her seatbelt but how hard she pulls it doesn't loses his grip.
"Dani? What happened?" Regina asks still groggy from the tumble.
"Regina I need you to take Henry out of the car and sooth him okay. He's really scared right now and he needs his momma." This wakes Regina up immediately. She unbuckles her seatbelt and turns to Henry who is still crying and looking at both his mommy's for help.
"Henry! Don't worry momma is coming." She says opening the door and getting Henry out of the car seat. She rubs soothing circles over his back, slowly the boy stops crying and buries his little face in Regina's neck. Regina kisses his little head and uses the time to check if he doesn't have any injuries.
When she's sure he's okay she wonders way Daniella isn't coming out of the car. "Daniella are you okay? Why aren't you coming out of the car?" Regina asks leaning over to look in.
"My seatbelt won't come off. We are going to have to wait for the emergency services to get me out. Can you call them?" Regina nods and grabs her phone out of her bag. She hold it up but can't find any signal. "Why do we live in a place where they have so bad phonoreception." Regina mumbles to herself.
"I don't have any signal. I'm going to go up the hill and call them there, are you going to be okay?" She looks back too Daniella.
"Yeah, don't worry about me. I'm not going to go anywhere." She says laughing at her seatbelt.
"Okay be right back in a minute."
"Hey Regina!" Daniella calls back to her.
"What?" Regina asks a little more concerned.
"I love you." Daniella says grinning.
"You idiot! I love you too." She readjusts Henry in her arms and walks up the hill to find a signal. After holding to phone up in the air for a while she finally has a signal.
"Hello Storybrook sheriff department Ruby speaking how can I direct you call?" Regina smiles.
"Hey Ruby, it's me Regina."
"Oh hey Regina what can I do for you this evening."
"Daniella and I got into an accident and we need some help." Regina can hear a small gasp coming from the other side of the phone.
"We're fine, Henry seems okay and has just stopped crying, I only have a head wound and Daniella is stuck in the car because the seatbelt won't…" Regina turns around when a weird smell penetrate her nostril.
"Regina? Regina…..are you still there?" Ruby asks concerned.
"No!No!Dani! get out!get out! Dani!No!"
It's all Ruby hears when the connection is broken.
When Ruby arrives with David and Mary Margaret Nolan, Daniella's parents they are not prepared for the shock they feel when they see, the burnout car. Regina sitting on the hill clutching Henry to her chest and rocking back and forward. Ruby goes to sit beside her and can see the tear tracks on the woman's face.
"Regina…..?" Ruby asks, she puts a hand on Regina's shoulder waking the woman up from her shocked filth state. She looks up into Ruby's eyes and starts hearing the cries and sobs from David and Mary Margaret who are both looking at the car.
"I'm so sorry!" Regina says looking at David. "There was nothing I could do, one second I was calling and the next, the car was on fire…..and Dani….I'm so sorry." Regina sobs and David kneels before her and lifts her chin up, making sure that she is looking in his eyes.
"Regina, you couldn't have done anything. We don't blame you, so don't blame yourself. This was an accident." More tears gather in Regina's eyes when every word is registered in her brain. The emergency services arrive and Regina is helped in an ambulance so they can check on her head wound and her split lip. The injuries are not that bad but she does need stiches. After half an hour Regina is lying on a stretcher with Henry's head resting on her chest. She let her hand comb through his hair and relaxes when she feels him breath. She closes her eyes for just a moment and can't help the imagine her brain creates of Dani. Her beautiful blond locks, sparkling green eyes, it's like she can still hear her saying "I love you". Regina shakes her head, she's gone.
The following days and weeks are pure torture for Regina. She starts organizing the funeral together with Mary Margaret who starts crying after they make every decision. Regina is the only one who can keep it together long enough to make any decisions. She doesn't cry when people can see her, she only cries when she's home and lying in the bed they shared.
It's a beautiful service, many people come who knew Daniella and loved her, more people than Regina could have imagined and she let herself smile a little smile at the thought that Dani was so loved. The only thing that bothers Regina is that Dani's sister isn't there. Mary Margaret and David couldn't reach her, she's still in the amazon so they had to send a telegraph and hope that Emma will receive it.
After the funeral Regina doesn't know what to do next. She doesn't want to pick up her job as the mayor, the city council decides to replace her temporary until she wants to come back. Not finding a reason to actually go outside now Regina stays at home with Henry. She fills her days playing with Henry and trying to teach him how to speak and walk. She doesn't sleep in their shared bed anymore, she can't. She has taking one of the matrasses of the guest bedrooms and sleeps in Henry's room. Sometimes with Henry in his crib but most of the time he is sleeping on her chest.
It's how she lives for several days, she has created this almost perfect bubble where it's only her and her son and no one else. But the ringing of the doorbell breaks this fantasy. Regina looks up from the carpet she and Henry are sitting on. She doesn't want to open the door, she doesn't want to let anyone it. Henry is perfectly taking care off but she herself looks like a mess, it has been a while since she washed her hair and had a proper meal. The ringing of the bell doesn't stop instead someone starts pounding on the door. Regina sighs and picks Henry up from the floor and makes her way to the front door.
"Regina! Finally we have been so worried about you for the last couple of days." Mary Margaret says when Regina finally opens the door.
"I'm fine Mary, so need the worry about me." David is standing beside his wife and Regina can see the him looking inside the house with a disgusted face.
"What is that smell?" He asks looking at Regina and back to Henry. Regina can feel her cheek turning bright red at his statement. Nothing inside the house is smelling, no she made sure that everything stayed clean to keep Henry protected. It's her, she's the thing that's smelling.
Mary who sees Regina look away in embarrassment gives David a shove. "It's okay Regina, we understand."
"Why don't we take Henry for a couple of hours or maybe for today, we have missed our grandson and it would give you the opportunity to have some time to yourself and have a nice and relaxing bath." Mary stretches her arms out to take Henry from Regina. Instead of giving Henry to them Regina grows angry and clutches Henry to her chest.
"He's my son and I need him with me. Don't you dare try to take him away from me!" She shouts.
"We are not taking him away from you Regina. I think you just need some time to get yourself together and….." David is cut short when Regina slams the door in their faces. How dare they try and take Henry from her. She holds Henry close and kisses his brown hair.
"I will never let you go baby boy. I will always protect you." Her son needs her and not his grandparents. But she also needs her son. She needs her son, to breath, to wake up in the morning, to eat, to sleep, he's a little part of Daniella and she can't let him go as well.
"Let's go and have a bath, okay!" She will get better but she needs Henry for that
It's been a while since a started a new story. Do I continue?