Hey Guys! This is a new fanfic that i just started writting and i am exploring along the way. I really hope you'll like it. I will try to update every week. it's before Regina got to cast the curse or even become the evil queen. I am just exploring how Things could have turned out if she ran away the night Daniel was killed.
"Let's go!" Daniel yelled as he took her hand and lead her out of the stables, out to their new life. A do over, no a start. Regina tried to keep up and luckily Daniel had already made sure to have two horses ready for them.
They jumped on the horses and started riding as fast as they could. Regina tried to remember everything Daniel had taught her, but was finding it hard to concentrate. This was really happening she was finally going to be happy. Going to live the life she wanted, not the one her mother wanted for her. Finally something was going to go right, but she would miss her dad so much. She just prayed she'd see him again one day.
"Regina come back right now!" She heard her mother's voice clearly and before she knew it her mother was in front of them making both Daniel and Regina's horses stop quickly almost throwing both of them off.
"Mother please," Regina pleaded hoping her mother would just let her go, but knowing deep inside that that would never happen. She was looking around for an easy escape seeing a track in the woods that give them the upper hand. Her mother would have a hard time keeping up even in that forest.
"Regina sweet heart, why are you running?" Her mother asked putting on a sweet voice, but Regina saw right through her. She was just playing nice, she wouldn't hesitate one moment killing them both if she knew. She only cared about status and money, the two things Regina hated the most.
"Mother, please. I just want to be happy, I don't wanna marry the king. He's way too old to me. Snow's a sweet girl, but she almost my age. I am not ready to be a mother or a wife. I just want to be free, to live life, explore, see the world, learn…" She said quietly praying that there would be one inch in her mother that was kind. Cora took a deep breath that sounded more like a sigh then taking in air. She nodded slightly.
"I see," She said and stepped closer to them. And for a moment Regina believed that her mother actually had a heart. That she could see Regina was unhappy here, that it didn't feel like home and she needed to find that place where ever it was. But she didn't care where it was, as long as she had Daniel.
"So i can leave?" She asked in disbelief and almost fell of her horse when her mother nodded. She understood. Understood how Regina felt, that had to be the first time her mother had ever understood anything Regina felt or been even a bit motherly towards her.
"Daniel can I just have a quick word with you first? Seeing that you are going to take care of my sweet daughter?" Cora asked with a smile. And Daniel returned her smile hopping down from the horse. Signaling to Regina that it was okay.
"You know my daughter is a very beautiful woman and very sweet and innocent, but she also a very naive girl," She said and Regina smiled, her mother had never said anything nice about her. And it felt good to finally have her approval of something. And to finally feel loved. "Don't worry miss Mills, I will take very good care of your daughter. She will get everything she deserves and so much more. I will make sure of it," He said to her with a big smile. And Regina's smile only grew, how was it possible to find as good a man as him? She was sure she was the luckiest woman in the hole world.
"Oh you don't have to tell me that, I am sure that she will get what she deserves. What i have always wanted for her," Cora said and looked at Regina with a smile. And for a moment Regina looked into her eyes, being the naive and sweet girl Cora had just talked about, believing everything her mother was saying. Not because she in any way trusted her mother or her magic, but because she had longed to have moher all her life. She had longed to have mother who cared for her and who loved her no matter what choice she made. And she had cried and cried at night praying that her mother would chance or that she have been born in to another family, a loving family. Of course Regina loved her father very much, he had alway been there, but at the end of the day he was a coward and he was never brave enough to stand up against Cora. And that was what Regina needed, but right now her mother looked for genuine and sincere.
"I am glad to hear it and i would love nothing more than to have you and mr Mills approvel of one day taking your daughters hand in marriage," He said looking back at Regina with a smile, when he noticed she glanced at her engagement ring with a smile.
"Oh dear Daniel…" Cora said and taking one step closer to him , still a smile upon her face. And then looking over at Regina. And there it was the first time Regina had noticed since she had said she could go. The lie in her eyes. Her dark eyes, the smirk and the expression she always had on when she won. And before Regina could even get to say a word Cora had Daniels heart in her hand. And Regina's eyes widened. This can't be happening, I can't lose him, was all she could think. Feeling the same pain that Daniel were now that Cora was slowly and painfully squeezing his heart.
"No mother please!" Regina yelled trying to get her mother to stop, wanting to stop her, but knowing she didn't have the power to do so. Not even to move from her frozen and horrified state.
"Regina runaway!" Daniel yelled in a groan of pain while falling to his knees clutching at his chest where his heart was seconds before. Regina's tears were running freely. Wanting to wake up and this to all just be a dream.
"I can't leave you Daniel! I love you, please mother!" She yelled, a sob finishing her words. And Daniel looking even more weak and pale then before.
"You will be happy, it's my wish. Be happy, love, have a family." He barely said, but Regina heard it, and started to cry even harder. Her mother could as well have taken her heart and squeezed it, that was what this felt like anyways. Only she wouldn't be meet by death. She wouldn't be that lucky, she'd keep feeling the pain.
"We are supposed to be family," She whispered. Still watching the scene in front of her in horror wishing for it to be over, but at the same time wishing for it to never end cause then at least he wouldn't die.
"Please runaway! Now!" He yelled and finally the words got through to her and she took a deep breath, her tears still running down her cheeks.
"I love you," She whispered and turned the horse riding as quickly she could down the path she had picked out earlier trying to find an escape way. And she rode as fast as she could, so fast that she didn't even feel the wind hitting her face. And so fast that the trees where a blur. Though it could have been her watery eyes. And as much as she wanted to concentrate her mind where only one place. The horrible thing that had just happened. How her life had just been ruined. How her true love had been take away from her so cruelly. But the worst part of it was that she had believed her. She had believed her mother had finally changed, finally just cared about her, she had seen something good that wasn't there. And she had been naive, just like er mother said she was. And she was a fool. She should never have trusted her mother. She should never have run away with Daniel, she should have asked him to run away alone and saved his life. Now he was dead and she was dead inside, doomed to live a life that was unhappy. At least she had one thing now, one thing she had always wanted. The one thing Daniel had died for her to have. Freedom.
Regina rode for hours, not slowing down her pace and she had gotten so tired that she had almost fallen asleep. Her heart was aching, her back was hurting, she was hungry, tired, sad and she just wanted to give up. Maybe she was free, but she didn't feel that way, Daniel owed her heart and he was dead. her heart could as well have stopped beating.
After a an hour more Regina was woken by the sound of horses. She had fallen asleep and her horse had slowed down, walking her slowly through the woods, but no longer on the path she had seen, but in between bushes and trees, deep into the woods. And suddenly a loud noise came, making her horse jump and throw Regina of landing hard on her back that was already hurting. And she could feel the dizziness taking over, but she refused to just give up now. And she could hear someone approaching her and she had no idea if it was something dangerous, murderers, rapists, kidnappers or worse; her mother.
"Milady, are you hurt? I am so sorry, my men and i did not mean to scare your horse," His voice where warm and deep and he had an accent Regina had never heard before. And she could make out how handsome he wore before he even was at sight. And when he reached out for her, her thought were only confirmed.
"I'm okay, i just hit my back pretty badly," She said when the man helped her up. He smiled at her and nodded. And she noticed his beautiful blue eyes, and ít made her want to cry. Not from the pain in her back, but realizing she had actually lost Daniel.
"I am truly sorry. If there's anything i can do for you miss…" He stopped, and Regina figured he was trying to get her name.
"Regina. Call me Regina," She said with a smile. She was never going to call herself a Mills again. She despised that name.
"Okay Regina it is then." He said with a wink and reached out to shake hands with her. "I am Robin of Locksley, but I am mostly know as Robin Hood," He said and shaked her hand.