Prologue
One Week After the Diner Scene
He has her now. She thought sadly and wiped away a heartbroken tear that had managed to slip down her cheek. He chose her! Of course he chose her, she's his wife. I'm nothing more than an evil queen, and who could ever love an evil queen? She half asked, half reminded herself. With a shaky breath she held back the waterworks that wanted to burst forth from her eyes. She wanted nothing more than to continue to sob and curl up in her bedroom with the lights off and the curtains closed like she had been doing for the past week. She wanted to cry herself into oblivion like she had every night since the events in the diner, since the night that she lost her second chance. But more than anything she wanted the pain to stop, she didn't want to feel this anymore.
By the morning after it had all happened she had already taken her own heart out. She had hoped that it would relieve her of the pain, but it didn't. The pain was still there and so were all the feelings, all the emotions, all because of him. She had trusted him, she had trusted him more than anyone else, she had literally and figuratively given him her heart. He had made her feel safe and loved; he had given her so much hope for a future with him and Roland. He had held her and opened up to her, and she had opened up to him. She told him about Daniel, her first love, and how she lost him. He had listened and told her about having to mourn the loss of his wife, and how he found the strength to carry on because of Roland. She had let him in, she let him see her for who she truly was and he had made her feel safe and loved. But now, now he only made her feel pain and heartache as she thinks of the future they will never have.
He chose her. She repeats to herself. And he didn't choose me. She closed her eyes for a heartbeat and let the thoughts echo in her mind. She then opened her eyes again, and looked ahead of her, her whiskey colored orbs focused on the road. I hope he's happy. She thought and swallowed back a sob. She truly did hope he would be happy, she loved him, she loved him with all her heart. That was why she had to let him go, because his heart belonged to another, because his heart didn't belong to her.
All she had left were the memories of him. His laugh, his smile, his arms around her and his lips pressed lovingly to her own. A little over a week ago those memories would have brought a radiant smile to her face, but now they only brought suffering and anguish, now they brought uncontrollable tears. She couldn't go on hiding in her house, she couldn't risk facing him on the streets in town, she couldn't let herself watch him moving on without her. Those were all things her heart couldn't bear to do, she couldn't put herself through such torture.
She kept on watching the road ahead of her, her hands tight on the steering wheel of her car. In her review mirror she could see the town in the distance just barely through the line of forest. She just couldn't bear it anymore. That town held too many painful memories, each day there only battered her already broken heart even more. In that town she had lost everything that mattered to her, she had lost her son to his birth mother, she had lost Daniel all over again, she had lost her mother, and now she had lost Robin her second chance. This town had taken too much from her, she needed to leave, to get away. And above all, she needed to forget, she needed to forget everything, the good and the bad because it all hurt too much.
Ahead of her she saw the sign that read, Leaving Storybrooke. She did not hesitate as she continued to drive towards it, she had nothing left here, she had no one left at least not in this life. Goodbye Henry, goodbye Roland. She thought sadly. Goodbye Robin. Another tear raced down her cheek. I love you. The thought echoed in her mind and she wished she could say it to him just one more time. Licking her dark painted lips she rolled over the town line with her last thought, Goodbye Regina Mills.
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