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Chapter 1- Rapunzel,Rapunzel let down your...huh?

The view back here is horrible, I think to myself as we try to walk our way back to Hook's ship, to go back to Storybrooke. The only good thing is seeing Henry. I smile to myself. I am so relieved to have him back. But we have been walking forever in the Forest and he hasn't spoken to me since we first got him back from Tamara and Greg. He gave me a hug and said that he loved me but after that the whole walk back he has been talking to Emma.I am exhasted from the long walk back. I have nothing to take my mind of Henry and Emma. But at least Charming Rumple,and Hook arent here with us, we split up when we went to search for Henry. If Charming were here with Snow I dont think I couldn't control myself. When we split up to return Henry home,that was bad enough, All the ' will find you'I will always find you' was sickening. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Snow smiling I follow my gaze to where she's looking, Henry and Emma happily leading the way. Miss Swans arm around Henrys' shoulder and Henry's bright blue eyes lit up with love and happiness. He's never looked at me like that, ever.I'm too busy looking at both of them,that I'm not looking where I am walking and I stummble on a tree root on the ground. I let out a small sriek and step forward to keep my balance. When I regain my balance, I straighten my jacket hoping no one saw. But then I hear a let out of small chuckle from beside me. I quickly turn my head and look at Snow and frown. I see her quickly cover her mouth with her one of her hands the other hand holding a bow and arrow. "Is something funny?!" I say angrily. I see Emma and Henry stop in their tracks and turn around and look at both of us. "No. Of course not Regina. I just..ah.. sneezed" she replies faintly. I turn my head back to where Henry and Emma are standing in front of us and back to Snow and I point a finger at her and am about to say something to her angrily, when and Emma says "Is there something wrong you two. Because I think for Henry's saftey we need to get him back home before Greg and Tamara come after us. So before you get into one of your stupid little quarrels, lets get back to the ship where Henry will be safe."I frown at Emma and then at Snow, and then put my hand down and place it in my jacket pocket. "Yes let's get Henry to safety" I smile and walk over to him and hug him for a few seconds when he pushes me away. "Henry" I say looking at him sadly thinking he doesn't love me any more and that he doesn't care about me. I see him focusing on something. "Look" Henry says excitedly and points up at somethng in the sky. We all follow his finger and look at what he's pointing at. "What is that?" Emma says. I turn and look at her and narrow my eyes. " What does it look like?" I reply and smile,Emma looks away from it and looks at me and frowns. " Is that what I think it is?" says Snow. " A tower" says Henry very excitedly. I look up at the tall tower with vines of ivy growing around the tower. We all stare up at the beautiful tower in the middle of the forest.

Henry slowly turns around back to face me " Mom, do you know if Rapunzel's in Storybrooke?" "Rapunzel? No" I shake my head." No I don't think she is...You don't think this is her tower do you?" I say, Emma turns to me " No, it's the Gingerbread mans house" She says sarcastically. " Do you think she could be up there?" ask Henry" I mean she isn't in Storybrooke, so Rapunzel must be up there" I look down at Henry" Henry just because we don't know shes in Storybrooke doesn't mean she will be up there" I say. "Regina's right Henry. Her curse, it wiped up everyone from all lands, except for that one area that was protected when Emma and I went back to the Enchanted Forest that one time. There's no way that living in that tower could have stopped Rapunzel from being effected by the curse." explains Snow"She's probably in Storybrooke. We can look for her once we get back there. After we get you to safety" say Emma. Emma takes Henry's hand and we start walking again trying to get back to the ship. Suddenly I see Henry's hand slip out of Emmas, he runs down a short hill towards the tower. Snow and Emma both look at each other and then at Henry running. " Henry!" We all shout in unison. Emma and Snow then both rush after him. Leaving me just standing in the middle of no where alone watching. I watch Henry run, get closer to the tower and Snow and Emma following behind. I flick my wrist and I disappear in a cloud of smoke and reappear behind a puffing Snow and Emma as they reach Henry, who is standing a meter away from the tall tower covered in ivy and roses.

" Hello!" Henry cups his mouth and shouts up at the small window at the top of the tower. Emma grabs Henrys arm. " Henry lets go. We need to get back to the ship. And get home to Storybrooke" Emma says firmly still puffing from running, but Henry ignores her and shouts again up to the tower window. " Hello?!" " Henry nobodys going to answer you" Snow adds while trying to catch her breath. I look up at the tower window. Nothing, nobody is there. " You're right. She won't answer me like this" Henry smiles slightly at Snow. "What?" Snow replies with a confused look on her face. Henry takes a few steps away from the tower so he can see the the tower window better. We all turn and watch him wondering what he is doing. Henry then cups his mouth with his hands and shouts up at the window.

" Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair!" Henry's eyes widen. We all follow his gaze up to the window where a few magical glittering sparks fly out of the window. " See! She's up there!" Henry exclaims excitedly. " Henry a few magical sparks does not prove she's up there. Henry come along now we have to get you back" I say to him placing my hand on his shoulder. Henry shrugs my hand off. "No. I know she's up there!" he replies. Snow steps forward " Well Henry, even if she's still up there how do you think we will get to her?" Henry slowly turns his gaze from Snow to me, Emma and Snow then look at me. "Regina? How's Regina going to get us up there?" Emma says stepping forwards. "Magic" replies Henry "Magic? I know that I used magic to save Storybrooke but I'm trying not to use a lot of magic now Henry. For you I didn't think you liked me using magic" I say to him. Henry folds his arms" Mom you used magic just a few minutes ago" " What? When?" I say trying to cover up " I know that you did. When I ran to the tower. You three were behind me a few seconds after me. But only Emma and Snow were puffing and looked like they ran. You on the other hand looked calm and relaxed. I'm not stupid mom" Emma and Snow look at me and then at each other only then realising that I used magic to be behind them that fast not having noticed before that I did. Snow and Emma turn to me and Emma frowns and says angrily"Regina! You said you aren't using magic. You know you shouldn't because it will attract attention and we can't risk it for Henry's safety! Remember that's why we can't use magic to get back to the ship and why we have to walk" Then I say back to her" Using magic to skip 50 metres is not going to risk Tamara and Greg finding us, anyway that doesn't matter now"

I say looking back at Henry as he says"And besides, if she really is up there then she could help Rapunzel's good. She shouldn't have to be locked in that tower any longer. And you won't have to use that much magic... "explains Henry looking at me. " Okay." I say and I look up at the tower window . "How are we going to do this?We can't climb it with all that ivy and roses prickles" I say not taking my eyes off the window on the top of the tower. "Well in some stories there's another way to get in to the tower than climbing Rapunzels hair" Emma states, as she begins to walk around the base of the tower looking at the walls of the tower. Snow and I look at each other confused. Henry then looks up at us "Emma's is another way in" He says and begins to walk around the tower base in the oppisite direction. Snow then follows Emma around and I quickly walk after Henry and he scans the wall which is covered in ivy and roses. Suddenly Emma and Henry stop facing eachother when they meet and Snow and I stop behind them and we all slowly turn to face the tower wall."There" smiles Emma and points at the tower wall. I step in to have a closer look and notice that the bricks aren't put together properly " A secret door" Henry says happily. "Why would there been a secret door" I say frowning " Well there always a way to get away from evil" says Snow and I turn my head slowly and see she's looking at me and she quickly looks away when she sees me looking. "Well mom can you do it?" Henry begs me. "We have to be quick though. No stalling okay Henry." I say looking down at Henry "Yes. Okay. Just please come on"

A few minutes later we all walk up the winding tower stairs. Henry excitedly running up ahead. I can hear the clincking of his shoes on the stairs. I hear Emma call out from behind me "Henry. Be careful, don't trip" I look down and see her and Snow slowly walking up behind me and then suddenly I hear the clinking on the stairs stop. " Henry?" I call out. No one answers. I look down at the silent Snow and Emma and then I quickly run up the stairs hearing Emma and Snow quickly follow me. I near the top of the stairs and sigh with relief when I see Henry standing there looking up at the place where a trap door should be. But it's just covered with more bricks. " Ah. Wasn't a tall tower and one set of bricks enough?" Henry sighs.

I hold up my hand and magically break the wall of bricks. Though I can feel that it's not just a wall of normal bricks. It's as it's protectived by magic. It takes some energy out of me but I'm fine. I move the bricks away to see something. A clear blue sparkly box... I can see something or someone in it.I push myself up through the hole in the floor and then help Henry up, who then helps Emma and Snow up, while I walk over slowly to the vertical blue shiny box. There is decently a girl inside it "Is that Rapunzel? She doesn't look like Rapunzel"

Henry says pointing to the girls short brunette hair in side the magic force field. Snow walks around the box studying her Henry following behind her" Someone's cut her hair" replies Emma, who picks up meters of long silky brunette hair lying aroung the tower floor. All our eyes widen bewilded by all the brunete hair lying around on the floor. I then look back at the poor girl in side this magical trap. I notice the look on her face, like she was trying to stop something but got frozen by magic before she could do anything. She is wearing a beautiful flowing, floral pale pink dress. "What are we going to do now?" Henry says worried seeing Rapunzel was unable to help us out right now. "I don't know Henry" says Emma who places the lengths of brunette hair back on the ground and walks over to Henry and places one hand on his shoulder still holding a sword in her other hand incase of some emergency. Snow lifts her arm up to touch the magic force field. " Wait!" Shouts Emma before Snow can touch it. Snow looks at Emma" What?" She says to Emma confused." What if its dangerous?" states Emma.

Snow tilts her head with a 'are you serious' look on her face. She slowly reaches out and toughs the magic and it ripples a little but she grabs her hand back and holds her hand and looks at it and back at the magic and then at me wanting an explanation about this magic. I look at Snow and then at the girl in the magic force field. " Okay so she's been frozen by magic" I start to explain to everyone when Emma rudely interrupts " Yes I think we can all see that Regina. Please we have to hurry up. Whatever just happened it involves magic which will back it easier for them to find us" I slowly turn my head and frown at her " Yes well I was about to explain it before you rudely interrupted me. So she's been I trapped in some frozen magic spell. It must have been cast on her too... Ah. Protect her from something maybe"

I explain when Snow points at me and adds " Maybe your curse. I mean it makes sense. That's why she could be here. Someone trapped her with some powerful spell and she didn't get effected my the curse" Snow smiles as she announces her idea " Maybe. So obviously my curse was pretty powerful though and obviously it's weakened the spell so when you touch it. Well it ripples and lets of a few sparks of magic" I finish my explanation. " We'll how do we get her out of there. We can't leave her here like this" Henry's says not taking his eyes off the pretty brunette. " I don't know honey. If we wanted to get her out we would need to touch it, but they could help Greg and Tamara track us, and I don't want you to get hurt" I say crouching down to Henry's height."But mom we can't leave her here. She doesn't deserve to be here. She's Rapunzel" Henry says looking in my eyes " Henry who ever did this to her did it for a reason" I say softly and Henry's replies " Please mom get her out. For me" I sigh and stand back up and slowly reach out to touch the magical field and I say to my son " I'm sorry Henry but I don't know how to..." I say holding my hand out to touch the magic when I feel something tingling on my hand I turn my head to see the magic wall start to crack and the walls slowly fall down ,my eyes widen as I pull my hand away.

I look at my hand confused and hear Snow run behind the me I turn my head to see Snow go and catch the beautiful young girl as she is about to fall to the ground and Emma goes and assists her. Henry then looks at me and smiles " You did it mom" and runs over the the young girl lying on the ground with Emma and Snow holding her. " I did?" I say to myself as I watch Snow and Emma feel the forehead of the young girl short haired girl, Rapunzel. All these questions then fill my head. How did that magic break? All I did was touch it. And who was this girl? Rapunzel I know...but there's something about her. She looks like someone I knew. But who?