Summary: In the Enchanted Forest, Regina had a friend who knew her every move and thought and was unknowingly her soulmate who shared her innocence as a young girl, and thirst for vengeance as a queen. After the curse, she disappeared, now she is back to help Regina find her happiness.
Regina sighed as she looked up and saw Emma across the street, laughing and hugging her son. She shook her head to clear the anger welling up inside her. For 10 years she had cared for Henry, and in the span of 1 he'd turned on her. It was not all that unexpected though, no one Regina loved ever stayed for very long.
Her hand absently went to her necklace, a small trinket made of glass beads with a diamond pendant in the shape of a heart. It belonged to an old friend. How Gold had gotten his hand on it was beyond her, she'd had to pay a fortune to get it back. But it was worth it. It was her reminder of the greatest friend she'd ever had, the only one to stand with her through everything and still love her despite the terrible things she'd done.
She stopped at her destination, 's office and went inside and knocked on his door.
"Regina, welcome. Come to talk about Henry?" He asked as he stepped aside to allow her to enter.
"No, I don't want to talk about Henry. I wanted to talk about… somethi-someone else."
"Well, you know you can tell me anything." Archie said as he motioned for her to sit.
"Do you remember Elza, from the Enchanted Forest?" She asked.
"Yes, I do." He answered.
"She was the only true friend I'd ever had. Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking her, and I don't know why. I feel like she's here, in this world, I just don't know where and it's starting to drive me crazy." She sighed. "I guess I just want someone who will care about me. Pretty pathetic huh, coming from the Evil Queen?"
"Not at all, Regina. I know that you've been going through some tough times. But don't feel bad about the way you feel, everyone wants to be loved. Everyone wants a friend."
Regina's hand went to her necklace. "But what if you're unlovable?"
"No one is unlovable. Sure you may not find what you're seeking in this town, it's hard for people to let go of the past, but you will find it, Regina. I believe that, and you should too. Have you been using magic?"
"No. I haven't used magic in 2 weeks."
"That's good! That's wonderful, it shows Henry you're trying."
"Henry doesn't care about me, he just cares about Emma and the two idiots. He just doesn't want me to hurt anyone else." She sighed again. "Thank you, Archie, I should go." She quickly rose to her feet.
"Well, you know you're welcome anytime."
"Thank you." She said as she exited the building. Emma and Henry were still there. She averted her eyes, hand clasped to her necklace, and walked briskly away. Or tried to anyway. The sky exploded with a sound like thunder.
"Regina!" She heard someone call her name before fire erupted from the sky sending her flying backwards, straight through the windshield of her own car.
"What the hell was that?!" Emma demanded, glaring at Gold.
"I have no idea." He responded nonchalantly.
"A woman falls out of the freakin' sky and you have no idea how? I find that hard to believe."
"Shouldn't you be worrying about your son, or the mayor perhaps? The boy did just watch his legal mother getting blown through the windshield of her car, and the darling mayor had to experience that what I would imagine, painful occurrence."
"You sure you don't know anything about this?"
"Quite. I am as intrigued as you are, dearie."
Emma let out a frustrated sigh as she turned back to Henry, sitting next to an unconscious Regina. The former mayor had nearly been ripped to shreds. Bruises, marks, scratches, cuts, injuries were present all over her body. But the woman who'd actually fallen from the firestorm was virtually unscathed. No one in town seemed to know her, although Granny had said she looked familiar.
She was beyond beautiful and in surprisingly good shape for a woman who'd fallen out of the sky and caused a crater in the middle of main street. She wore a black jacket with a hood, dark jeans and long black boots. Her hair was past waist-length, black as night with a single streak of purple running through it. It was impossible to tell her age and her name was unknown.
"When do you think she'll wake up?" Emma asked Whale.
"I don't know. I'm not even sure why she's not awake now."
"She's not in a coma or anything?"
"She's...asleep."
"Let me know if she wakes up, Regina too. I'm gonna go check out the crater. Keep an eye on Henry for me."
"Sure."
It was two hours later when Emma returned. By then, it was dark out and the hospital was nearly empty. Henry was asleep, holding Regina's hand. The woman...was gone.
"What the hell?"
Elza pulled up the hood of her strange corset and hurried down the road, away from the cold, funny smelling building and the metal prods stuck into her arms. She sensed magic, powerful magic, dark magic, and knew it could only belong to one person. She made her way to a small building and quickly pushed open the door. It was filled with old artifacts and ancient dust covered relics and antiques.
"Rumplestiltskin."
looked up from where he'd been polishing some strange totem. "Elza, always a one to make an entrance. Quite the performance out on main street."
"Where am I?" She said, walking up to the counter.
"Storybrooke, the world you're friend created so she could have her happy ending. I don't really think it's working out for her."
"Friend? Regina?! Where is she?!"
"You walked right past her on your way out of the hospital. Your little explosion nearly killed her." Gold smirked. "She's been missing you, dearie."
Elza almost broke the door as she raced back the way she'd come. She burst into the hospital, waking Henry and startling Emma who whipped around with her gun at the ready. Elza waved her hand, yanking the weapon out of her grip. She shoved the blonde out of the way and walked to Regina. She didn't even recognize her best friend, she was so beaten up and disfigured.
"Regina, come back to me. Please." She held her hands over her friend and the magic begin to activate due to the powerful emotions raging within her. Purple fire poured from her fingertips, covering Regina in violet flames.
"What are you doing?!" Henry cried.
Elza smiled as she saw her magic doing its job. Her energy was waning, Regina was in such bad shape, but she wouldn't stop. She intensified the fire with everything she had, then Regina suddenly arched her back, eyes and mouth wide as her muscles contracted. Then she collapsed, panting, and Elza cut off the flow of fire.
"Regina?" Emma said.
"Elza…" The former mayor gasped. "You. Bitch."
"Regina!" Elza threw her arms around her newly healed friend and squeezed her hard before leaning backwards. "What the hell are we wearing?"
"Mom!" Henry said as he hugged his adoptive mother.
Elza frowned slightly at the sad smile on her friend's lips. Henry released his mother and looked up at her.
"Thank you."
"No problem kid. Saving Regina's ass, it's what I do."
"I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you." Regina's smile widened into a grin as she got off the bed. "You and your damned entrances."
Elza smirked. "So...where the hell are we?"
"A whole new world."
"Then someone should show me around." She turned to Emma and flicked her hand to raise the sheriff's gun off the floor and let it hover in front of her until she took it. "Sorry about that."
"Uh, yeah, it's cool?" said Emma. "Um, can someone explain some stuff?"
"My name is Elza. I was Regina's best friend in the Enchanted Forest. Might as well say we were sisters, I know her better than anyone. Better than myself even." She spun around. "Do you still love apples, and that funny looking cheesy bread stuff? I am starving! Healing you took more energy than it did me."
"I have something better." said Regina, putting on her shoes. "How about homemade lasagna and turnovers?"
"I have no idea what either one of those things are, but they sound delicious. Just make sure you make a lot of it." Elza grinned. Regina started towards the door. "Wait, we have to walk? Can't you just do the purple poof thing?"
"I can't use magic. And you blasted me through my car!"
"Why not? Wait, what's a car?"
Emma gave Henry a confused look as the pair walked out of the hospital, bickering and laughing.
A/N: I own nothing except my OCs. I may not continue this one either but review anyways.