This is a future fic. Zelena has a moment with her teenaged daughter. Fluff. OC.

Thud

Slowly Zelena rolled over allowing her eyes to adjust to the green luminescent light of the alarm clock. 1:40. She loved Aggie dearly but it always seemed that the only time that cat had any energy was when she was trying to sleep.

Thud

Thud

That was definitely not the cat. Softly Zelena got out of bed and crept down the hallway, her hands up ready to pounce on this foolishly loud intruder. Tip toeing down the stairs she determined the sound was coming from the study. Quickly she conjured a fireball and turned into the room her magic welling up then instantly dying down once she saw who her intruder was, a red haired girl franticly looking through her spell books.

"Evelyn what are you doing up at this hour. I thought you were staying with your father this weekend?"

"I just can't do it anymore" The girl said between sobs "and it's not like he doesn't get to see me every weekend."

Zelena wrapped her arms around her daughter. "Can't do what anymore?" But no answer came. The girl's sobs continued slowly drenching the corner of her mother's top. As the crying slowed Zelena looked down and wiped the remaining tears away from her daughters face and looked into her daughters emerald green eyes. "Now sounds like a good time for some tea. I'll put the kettle on."

Silently she waited as her mother prepared two mugs of tea. Carrying the two mugs over Zelena handed one to her daughter and kept the other for herself.

"Now, would you like to talk about what just happened?"

"Not really."

If there was thing she wished her daughter hadn't inherited from her it was her stubbornness. When Evie made up her mind attempting to change it proved to be quite the task.

"Darling keeping all of your feelings inside like isn't going to do you any good. Now let's try this again."

"It's nothing really" she lied.

"Evie people don't desolate their mothers study's at 1 o'clock in the morning because of nothing. Did something happen at school?'

"No."

"Did you get into an argument with your father or Regina?"

"No"

"With Rolland?"

"Nope"

"Did something happen between you and Neal?"

Evie's glassy eyes and tortured expression let Zelena know she had finally reached the source of her daughters distress.

"He broke up with me last week" she finally let out.

Zelena shifted closer to Evie on the couch wrapping her free arm around her shoulders. "Why didn't you tell me before?" she questioned.

"I don't want make a big deal out of this I can handle it by myself" she groaned in anguish.

"Well I'm sure that you can but you don't have to do everything by yourself you know. Your first boyfriend is a big deal you don't have to hide that pain from me."

"I'm just tired of all the pain" she relented. "Each day I think it's going to get better but it doesn't. Every time I almost feel happy an invisible hand reaches out and squeezes my heart and I relive the pain all over again. No matter where I go or what I do I can't escape it." And again her eyes filled with tears as she buried her face in her palms.

"So this is why you were going through my spell books you wanted to rip your heart out to stop the pain?"

A barely audible "uuuhumm" came from the crying face behind the girls hands.

"Evie not feeling any love at all is not better than feeling the pain of a broken heart. The world is a very scary place when it is void of any love, I know I've been there before. If you rip out your heart you could miss out on other opportunities to find love."

"But what can I do now?" she questioned.

Internally Zelena chuckled patience was never Evie's strong suit. "Nothing, this is something only time can take care of. But I do know something that you can do right now that might help."

With that Evie's eyes lit up. "What can I do?"

"Get a good night's sleep" she responded.

Evie rolled her eyes she had hoped her mother would suggest something a little less practical.

"Now let's get you to bed." Zelena took her daughters hand and led her up the creaking old staircase. Just before reaching her bedroom door Evie stopped to face her mother.

"Mom do you think tonight I could sleep with you tonight I don't really want to be alone right now."

"Of course my little munchkin"

"Moooom I'm 16 I'm not a little munchkin anymore!"

Zelena pulled her in tightly and laid a kiss on her forehead "No matter how old you get you'll always be my little munchkin."