Author Note: Hi, hope you enjoy this fic. In the future yes there will be DRAMAAAAAA. We have wrote allot (A fairly good amount) on this but i'm only posting this first chapter to see how people respond to it. So if you like it leave a review and tell us if you want more :)
He had just left, he was gone. How could he leave? She was his everything...Wasn't she? Now she was stuck, well not stuck with but a five year old isn't exactly easy to deal with, and no husband, granted yes he could come back, but really would he? She doubted it, they had a huge fight (which was quite common lately) and she told him to leave. She didn't expect him to actually leave! but now he's gone, and there five year old is asleep in the next room. She went to the kitchen, poured herself a glass of wine and sat down. Was she waiting for him to come home? She didn't know. What she did know, was that she didn't want to think the fact that she wasn't even 26 and she would have a failed marriage under her belt. Honestly, she didn't know what she would do if he walked back through those she forgive him and throw her arms around his neck? Or. Would she throw his ass out?
After a while, and no sign of him coming home, she went to sleep. She dreampt of when they first met, well the second time. They grew up together. Only during her 3rd year of Collage did they get back in touch. The next morning, she woke up when Henry started knocking on her door.
"Mommy! Daddy! Wake up!" He yelled while pounding his little fists against the door.
Regina felt like she was stabbed with a thousands of knives all at once, if there was one thing worse than her husband leaving is telling her 5 year old that dad's not coming home. Regina opened the door while in her PJs, she picked up Henry and they both sat down on the bed.
"Henry... There is something I have to tell you something." Regina said fiddling with the ends of her shirt. "Graham left... He's not coming back, munchkin."
"But why? Was it because of me?"
"No, Henry, it wasn't because of you, you are perfect and daddy still loves you... but I don't know if you'll see him as much." Regina explained as good as she could and it wasn't very good because she didn't have an idea what was gonna happen now, they'd get a divorce that much was sure. Henry moved closer to her and hugged her, he clung onto her and tears started to fall down his face.
"Shhh. It'll be okay, munchkin, we'll be okay." She tried to comfort him while moving her hand up and down his back. "We'll be okay." She repeated again more to convince herself than Henry.
Regina was lost, the next few weeks a blur as she adjusted to life as a single Mom. In all honestly she was depressed, Graham didn't answer her calls, her texts, he didn't even acknowledge his own son when they saw him at the grocery store. Regina was doing her best thankful for Henry finally being in school and his lovely teacher who didn't mind watching Henry when Regina had to work late. It had been 6 weeks since Graham left and he had missed so much in so little time. Henry can ride a bike now, tie his shoes, and he just lost his first tooth. His toothless grin at supper time is the final straw. She knows she can't forgive him for the time he has missed out on.. for the way he has treated their son. She tucks Henry in and types in Google "divorce attorneys in Maine" she drops her tea as she reads the first name on the screen.
She couldn't believe her eyes. Her ex-best friend, one of the BEST divorce lawyers in the state? Wow. Would it be weird to call? She decided that no, it wasn't weird, not unless they made it weird. So she picked up her phone and dialed her friends number, she was on hold for about 14 minutes, which pissed her off a little. Maybe it was the fact that they use to be friends and she was on hold she didn't know. But finally she answered "Hello, I'll patch you through" the secretary stated. And she did so, "Hello, Emma Swan speaking" Regina wanted to laugh, the partier, the drink All night, sleep all day, have meaningless sex with men(and sometimes women) was says this! But she didn't laugh, she just said "Hello, Em." She heard the woman scoff. Scoff?! Who the hell was she to scoff at her?! "Yes, Regina?" She sounded annoyed. "I'm getting a divorce and I read your the best." She heard papers shuffling and what sounded like her talking to someone? She was being very rude. "Of course you are. Now I'm not cheap" Regina bit back a laugh, that one was too easy, oh and there's another one. She bit her tongue. "Yes, I'm aware."
"But with your... heritage, it's nothing you can't afford." Emma answered.
"Anyway let's talk about my divorce now. We signed the prenup and the one and only thing I need you do to is to make sure my son stays with me." Regina said, well, more like ordered her.
"You have a kid?" Emma sounded shocked... Almost skeptical.
"Yes, I have a son, he's 5... I'll send you all the documents you need, I expect you'll have the papers ready soon?"
"If it all goes to plan, you'll be freshly divorced by the end of the week."
"Then, I better leave you to it." Regina said, hanging up.
Emma stared at the phone, that phone call surprised her, to say the least. Regina actually settled down, had a husband and a child. Emma started to wonder about Cora or as Emma and Regina used to call her "The Queen of Hearts". Emma was willing to bet all of her money that Regina let Cora no where near her son. You see, Cora was an abusive, manipulative bitch and Regina couldn't wait to legally become an adult and go as far as way from her mother as she possibly could.
"I guess we'll see how this one ends." Emma muttered and went back to working.
He had had enough. He woke up one more and was just done, he never asked to be a dad. That was a surprise. She was a pretty, smart, vibrant girl in his class. But a few dates, a few parties and she was pregnant. He did the right thing, He married her but that wasn't his plan. He wanted to go away after school not work and support a family .
When the opportunity came for him to transfer to a new company, he took it. And on impulsion he checked the box that he was single. He didn't want his company setting him up in a home big enough to put ideas in his wife's head of more children. That's why he never moved them out of the small apartment he lived in when they met. He was selfish, he knew that. He wasn't ashamed.
So Why is he Angry?
Why is he mad that she filed for divorce?
She isn't asking for alimony, she is asking for full custody of the kid and a minimal amount of child support.
But he wads up the papers and Burns them. Over his dead body.
"Sign the damned papers, Graham!" Regina almost yelled at him. "You owe me this." She said as she put another copy of the divorce papers on his desk. Graham called Regina, told her he burned the papers and that he will never sign.
"How do I owe you? You got pregnant and I married you! I took care of you and our son."
"My son. Not our son. You lost the right to him the moment you walked out." Regina said, getting desperate. "If you don't sign them I'll get you to court, and I swear the God, I'll get Cora to destroy your pathetic worthless life to pieces." She threatened.
"Oh, calling mommy dearest for back up? Need I remind you wha-" Aaaand slap. She slapped him... hard.
"Don't you dare. Sign the damned papers and we'll both be on our merry ways."
"And what? Let you find another man for Henry to call dad? Never." Graham said, standing up, making sure she understood he wasn't joking around.
"I'll see you in court." Regina said, walking out of his office.
Regina left his office and was getting in the car when she dialed Cora's number and waited. Two rings was all it took. Two rings to hear her mother's voice after four years.
"Well, as I live in breathe. Isn't it my youngest daughter?" Cora said, taunting, baiting her, but Regina wasn't gonna fall for that, she had business to discuss.
"This isn't a family call, and I'm sure being proud of Zelena 24/7 helps to never think about me." Regina took a deep breath and said the four words she never thought she'd say. "I need your help."
That left Cora speechless, Regina was too proud for her own good so if she asked Cora for help it meant that something serious was happening.
"Regina, what's going on?" Cora asked and despite herself she started to worry and panic.
"I have to get out of my marriage... He won't sign the papers. I need you to do something... please." Regina said and she almost begged.
"I'll be on the first flight there." Cora said shortly.
"Thank you, mother." Maybe having Cora there won't be such a bad thing after all.
After she hung up, she got a call, it was Emma. "Well, shit." She said under her breath. She picked up the phone and Emma immediately started talking "Hello, now, Miss. Mills I have reviewed your file, the papers were sent and although he didn't sign them we can take him to court and fight him, we can get everything he owns an-" Regina cut Emma off "I have found another lawyer, your no longer of use to me." It was a cold response but after the way Emma was first talking to her she saw no wrong in the way she spoke. "Ah, of course you did" she, what sounded like, closed Regina's file and chuckled. "Goodbye, Regina." She was about to hang up when Regina had this though pop in her head. "How have you been, Emma?" She asked and Emma laughter grew. "You mean after you-" she stopped herself from continuing "I'm fine, how have you been. Besides the kid and the married." The way they spoke to each other was polite but cold. Like they had never met, or spoken before. Regina was the first one to break the coldness "Why don't we talk about it over lunch?" Emma was shocked. Regina never was one to back down, she was stubborn. But with the divorce maybe she didn't have any other friends and wanted them to go back? Emma was getting ahead of herself. But Regina was making an effort so, so would she. "Sure. Tomorrow?" She asked then added "are you bringing the kid?" Regina laughed "Tomorrow's fine, and he will probably be with me yes." Emma said okay and they had a little small talk and hung up.
Graham liked to put on that Cora Mills didn't scare him, but truth be told she was worse than any monster or fairy tale villain imaginable. Regina wouldn't call her.. would she? She was bluffing, Regina hated her mother.
Graham let it go and decided not to give a second thought. She was obviously bluffing. Graham called and made an appointment with an attorney. He planned to fight his divorce, not wanting to lose his chance at half of Regina's inheritance. There was one office known for their dirty tricks, known for playing dirty and they never lose.
Sydney Glass had built quite a reputation with his practice but his new partner that is who Graham wants, same training and less cost He calls and schedules an appointment with Robin Locksley.
