A/N: This is my newest story and is based after the Winter Finale. I plan on writing my own version of what is going to happen in the second half of the season. Enjoy the first chapter!
The brunette could do nothing but stare at the yellow car as it zoomed away from Storybrooke. She knew that she had finally been the mother that she had always hoped that Henry deserved. She had wanted to be that person, so badly for the boy she loved more than anything in this world, but she had to lose him to make things right. She knew it was right, for leaving him behind would do nothing but harm him more than holding onto him for an extra minute.
She thought of her mother in the last moments of her life. How she had grasped for her arms and she could witness the tears in Cora's eyes. Seeing that she had truly loved her. This must have been what it felt, though she had felt it many times before, that being a mother meant not having everything. It meant giving their child the best chance they could have. Feeling her tears well up further and further into her eyes, she looked ahead to see her vision get blurry from her own tears, as well as become engulfed in the bright purple smoke that soaked them up.
Snapping her eyes shut, she felt a memory elapse over her as the curse seemed to close her into a dark dream.
The castle of King George was ripping apart around her. A smile was falling upon her face. It was nothing but happiness and glee that spread all over her. She knew that she had finally won. She had spent so long, endless months wondering why she wasn't winning, why she hadn't gotten the Curse right, and now, she had a way to finally get everything she wanted. She was going to win. She was finally going to get her happiness, while destroying Snow White's.
Watching at the ebony haired woman lay on the ground, clasping her dead prince, she watched as the woman looked around her in horror, staring at her with desperate eyes.
"Where are we going?" Snow asked, her eyes moving from her gaze.
"Some place horrible." She said, looking above her, staring at the world crumbling around her.
She let out a laugh that could keep her happy for ages, the green smoke engulfing her into nothingness. Just as she felt before this dream, her eyes fell closed as if in sleep, and the moment they did…
Regina Mills opened her eyes. The road she had been staring at was gone, the streets she had once known had disappeared, and turning to look around her, the trees she had thought she would leave behind were around her. She saw the kingdom that once was her own, now appearing again, but in new terms. Regina turned her head, watching a long wave of brown locks flowing after her.
Regina's hair had grown back to its original length, looking down, she saw her old dresses had been put back on her body. It was as if life had stayed the same as it was before, but of course it was not. Snow, who had Charming on her arm, as well as everyone else who had been in the town around them as well, was the first to speak.
"We're back," Snow said in a low voice.
Regina looked ahead, and could see that two people, whom Regina recognized immediately as her old friend Maleficent's enemy, Aurora, and her devoted Prince Phillip was around her. Regina didn't know what to do. Did she run? What was to happen now? They had been through so much, and yet, there was nothing to stop them from thinking Regina would turn back to who she was before. Magic was here, and she could use her magic to her own will. Rebuild the kingdom she held before, but she had no desire to kill Snow White. They had been angry for so long, and while she never got to have her happy ending, neither did the rest of them. Their lives torn apart by worlds, and they would continue to have this life ripped away from them.
"Snow, how did you return?" Aurora asked, Phillip standing to her flank.
"It's a long story Aurora. The matter of the fact is," Snow replied, swallowing the lump in her throat. "is that we are here and we aren't ever leaving again."
"But, what about Emma, and your Henry?" Aurora asked, her doe-wide eyes looming over Snow White.
"They, they were left behind." Snow said, feeling a tear begin to roll down her cheek.
Charming wrapped an arm around Snow's waist, keeping her in place as he watched her begin to feel a weakening in her feet.
Regina couldn't handle this, she wouldn't stand to see this sadness. Her heart was broken into pieces, her already blackened heart felt as if it was breaking in her chest.
"Look," Regina said, speaking finally, and all eyes began to turn on her. Aurora gasped, and the rest took a step back, as if preparing for her to send them all flying. "I know you all haven't even thought of where to go next, but I tell you this, I will not stand here and hear how you plan on running this land. I will take my place as I once had before, in solitude. I will return to my castle, and I shall finish my exile that you had performed on me. Leave me alone, and I shall leave you all alone. Simple as that. I need my time to grieve." She explained, saying the last word as if she was spitting at them all.
With that, purple smoke engulfed the Evil Queen and she disappeared from the scene of do gooders, letting her find her castle, long awaiting her return.
