Regina was looking at Hook and Alice, she knew exactly what they were feeling. She remember how she felt losing Henry, it was overwhelming and filled her heart with pain and darkness, in that moment her heart was empty and no one and nothing could fill it until joy and happiness filled it again. She smiled seeing how happy they both were, but suddenly the only thing Regina paid attention to was Hook's body, thrown in the air. Regina jumped to him right away, she bent close to his body, looking at the green substance filling his heart. As a former Evil Queen, she knew almost every curse that can infect a heart, she was the best at it, but that poison was new for her. She put her hand on the fluorescent place on Hook's body, but she took it back right away seeing the huge pain on his face.

"Go after her, I'll look after Hook." she screamed to Henry.

An excruciating pain filled his heart and he almost couldn't breath. His eyes were wide open, his lungs were begging for air and his body was filled by a spasm of pain. She placed her hand at Hook's site trying to comfort him, but even though Alice was already gone, he still felt the pain. She gave him a small smile and later she finally spoke.

"It won't be comfortable, but I need to teleport you somewhere, where I could look at this." she said, pointing to his heart.

"Let's go with this then." he said with grimace of pain on his face.

"Hold on."

After a moment the violet fog covered them both, placing them in the tent. She helped him lay on the ground and looked at him with concern on her face. She couldn't stop staring at his heart, the fluorescent green liquid filled it and Regina couldn't do anything, not even to minimize his ache.

"I don't know this spell."

"I thought you knew all of the?" he smirked.

"It's not funny Hook, if I don't figure out what it is… I don't want you to die" she swallowed hard.

"Careful there, people could think you care about me" he sneered.

"It can kill you and for now I have no idea how to stop this." she said with a cracked voice.

"You will figure it out. I know you can." he said softly, trying to cheer her up.

Hook had been looking at Regina walking back and forth for some time, she tried to remember all the curses she knew and she brought all the spell books she had to do this. He looked at her once again, her muscle were tensed, her face showed how focused she was and for the first time Hook wondered why she is doing all of this. He lifted his body a bit so the he could see her from the stack of the book on the floor. Those big books of spells with funny drawings and big letter meant nothing to him, but for her, they were everything she knew and trusted.

"Why are you doing this?" he asked.

"Well, I thought it was obvious, but I see the curse impacted not only on your heart, but on your brain too." she said sarcastically.

"I'm just curious about why you're helping me. People might really think you care and that doesn't fit to your look."

"What look?" she asked, lifting her head from the book.

"Yhm…. The Queen's look…" he said quickly.

"Evil. You wanted to say that."

"No." he said, looking straight into her eyes.

They both felt the heavy air between them, Hook knew exactly how she hated being called Evil Queen. How all the bad things she did weighted over the rest of her life. He knew that and for one second he just wanted to stand up and hold her or just apologize for what he said only seconds before, but before he could do that he heard Regina, screaming something.

"YES!" she screamed loudly. "I think you might live a few years more before you'll end your poor pirate's life." she smiled.

Regina was browsing the old, dusty books from some time, the talk about the Evil Queen and the way she felt about the words he said disappeared when she found the right spell. He looked at her stealthily, her dark hair were now freed, her body was still tensed, but for some reason she looked more relaxed, he took a look on her eyes, focused on the fancy written letters in one of her spell books. Hook looked at her when she bit her lower lip focusing on finding the cure. He smiled, when she started talking to herself and after a moment to him.

"It says that sharing the poison with someone…" she frowned, "if you share the poison with someone, kissing the other person, the poison will split at half and your life won't be in such danger." she ended, lifting her head from the book.

"Where do I find someone so stupid to do this?" he asked, trying to lift his body.

"Well, I'm not stupid, but I can try…" she took a few steps to help him.

"No!" he yelled, trying to hide his pain, "I won't let you do this!"

"You won't let me because of the way we need to do this or just because you are too proud to be saved by Evil Queen?" she asked.

"I just won't let you." he said, looking aside.

"Poison can't hurt the Evil Queen." she said softly.

"You're not evil anymore… Regina." he said, looking into her dark eyes.

"I'll take only a bit of it, just to save your heart."

"I don't want you to do this." he whispered again.

"You don't want to kiss me, right? That's the main problem here. You need to kiss me so we share that poison you know, but you are too proud to do it and you will let yourself die."

"No! I would love to kiss you… I mean, I don't want to… I think it would be awesome to kiss you and I would be honored to share…" he said awkwardly, looking straight into her eyes.

Regina bent over him, trying not to cause him any more pain, she looked at him only for second and after that her cold lips met his hot ones. He had some fever, she noticed it only seconds before, the fluorescent green substance was making her way from his heart by throat to his lips and later to Regina. She parted his lips, so her tongue could enter them. Regina opened her eyes to make sure her plan was working, she looked at the fluorescent trail which still went up straight to her. Regina leaned on her hands, trying to find the best position, but suddenly one of the hands slipped and her whole body stumbled on Hook's. She thought he'd push her away, but instead, he pulled her closer to his hot body, hugged her tightly and hold her in his arms. She looked at his heart, the place that only minutes before was poisoned now was clear, she knew that more poison could kill her, but the kiss was so pure and overwhelming that she couldn't stop kissing him, she didn't want to stop. At once her body became lighter, she closed her eyes when she felt the warmth filling her body. Her hand lifted to Hook's face, she touched it and after a moment their lips teared apart. The last thing she saw were Hook's ocean blue eyes looking at her with pain.

"NO! NO!" he screamed, looking at Regina's limped body.

She was laying on the ground where only minutes ago she was kissing him, trying to save his life. He jumped on his feet, putting her gently on the ground. Hook ran to the book where Regina found the spell, he run through the words he didn't understand, but his sigh stopped at one word Regina didn't read to him. Love. The kiss which could save him was the kiss of true love. Hook looked at Regina again, it was impossible, she wasn't in love with him even though she tried to do this for him. She gave up her life to save his. The pirate ran to her again, taking her now cold body into his arms, he glanced at her face and after a moment a gasp escaped his mouth.

"If you did it without loving me… it needs to work now, because love, I love you like crazy." he whispered to her ear.

After that he pulled her hair from her face, caressing her cheek. He softly touched her lips with his, trying to save her life just the way she saved his. Hook opened his eyes, looking at Regina's heart, there wasn't any poison in it, any green substance threatening her life. At once, Regina's eyes opened widely, her lips still connected to his, he pulled it off as soon as he saw her eyes. She breathed heavily, catching every air blast she can.

"Regina!" he screamed, "you're okay. Breath."

"What-" she took a deep breath."What happened?"

"What happened?" he said, hugged her tightly, "you almost died, trying to save me. What were you thinking?!"

"I…I saved you. Even if I would die…I saved you." she looked into his ocean blue orbits.

"Regina." he caressed her cheek, "never, ever do this again."

"I-" she stared, "wait…that spell…it was the true love kiss! It won't work unless.." Regina looked at Hook.

"Unless it's real love." he ended. "why didn't you tell me it's that kind of spell?"

"I wanted to try and you wouldn't have let me if I told you that it's the love spell. I knew it may not work because I was the one who fell in love with you." Regina said, looking aside.

"Well, that's two of us love."