The Other Side of the Mirror
Ouat fics in which everyone faces the Snow Queen's mirror
Part 1- Regina
"Leave it to me."
"Regina-"
"No, Swan, I am going, do not make any mistakes."
Emma swallowed as Killian wrapped his arm around her protectively. Belle had told them about her share of experience with the mirror. About the horror of looking at your own face and having the deepest fears you kept hidden in your heart slammed in your face.
"Be careful." Henry Said in a small, defeated voice. Regina smiled at him. "I will." She promised.
She started walking towards the woods and the Snow Queen's lair. As it turned out she didn't have to. She found the mirror leaned against the fence outside of Granny's.
"Easy enough," she thought and prepared to smash it with nothing more than a light gesture of her wrist. But then it talked.
"Do you really think you could do this?"
Regina smirked at the mirror version of herself. "Smash you into a million shreds of glass? Yes, I do, actually."
The mirror laughed. The sound was familiar and unfamiliar at the same time- It was her laugh, but it was colder. It was distant. "No, I mean to save Marian's life."
Regina froze. Deep down she still knew she should smash it, but her brain wasn't responding. The mirror grinned widely now, eyes shining with malice. "Oh, poor, poor you. Torn between your love and your conscience. What would you do? How would you tell him that every time you see him it drives you closer to choosing your selfish desires over his wife's life and his happy ending? Because we can face it now, when it's just the two of us, that he could never have a happy ending with you, simply because you will never have one yourself. Always the villain, even when you're not, right?"
Regina was on her knees now. Why is she on her knees? She is the Evil Queen. She kneels to no one. But she was. And tears gathered in her eyes.
"How could you ask him to shut you out of his life when you're clearly not letting him do so? How could you be so selfish? You haven't changed one bit."
The mirror was silent for a moment, before saying those final words:
"You are a villain, Regina. You always will be. And villains don't get happy endings."
A sob escaped her lip.
She crashed on the ground, holding herself while her silent cries rocked her body violently. Through the tears she could see the mirror disappearing.
She didn't notice the time.
She didn't notice anything, but the familiar word.
"Mom!"
She whispered her son's name as she felt his arms wrapping around her.
She didn't deserve him.
She was a villain.
And villains don't get happy endings.