A/N: Hey... so, I know, I know, my other unfinished stories. I have a bad case of writer's block, like the worse case I've had ever (it's so weird like it's only with certain stories) but anyway enough with my drama, this idea has been in my head for a long time and has been consuming all of my creative space. So I thought maybe if I get this one out, it'll clear up some space in my weird brain and I can get out of this... funk. It's worth a shot.

This one is mostly written and the rest is planned out. It's not very long.

This is an AU:

Rumpelstiltskin is Regina's biological father. He took her from Cora then banished the woman to another realm. Regina is seventeen and Rumple has been raising her her entire life. The Dark One adores her. I took inspiration from Rumple and his relationship with Baelfire and channeled that into him having a little girl and so here we are.

Basically The Queens of Darkness kidnap the Dark One's daughter in order to use her for ransom to get the Dark Curse back from him after he betrayed them for it. The Queens of Darkness intend to get the curse back with the intention of getting their happy endings but fate has something else in store for Maleficent that could change everything. Dragon Queen.

I own nothing. All mistakes are mine. Enjoy.

Love is Weakness, I Thought You Knew That

Chapter 1

"How about a new dress?" The Dark One asked and with a flair of his hands, a beautiful red dress appeared in his hands. He gave the young brunette before him a smile and the girl crossed her arms with a frown.

With a heavy sigh and roll of her eyes, she stepped closer to him. "No." She said in a pouty tone. "You promised that when I turned seventeen you'd teach me magic. I'm almost eighteen now. I'm done waiting."

Rumpelstiltskin sighed dramatically and with a wave of his hand, the dress disappeared in a cloud of dark purple smoke, most likely sent to the girl's wardrobe. "Don't you want to be a regular girl? No magic? All magic comes with a price."

"Why on earth would I want that?" The girl asked completely exasperated. "Who wants to be normal? And I don't care. I'll pay it."

"You'd be surprised." He muttered to himself. The brunette continued to pout and he could feel his resolve fading. She could always do this. Turn the Dark One to putty in her hands. "Regina." He sighed.

"Father..." She said sweetly and batted her long eyelashes. That was it, every once of resistance he had had crumbled away at the sight of his little girl's quivering lip. "Please?"

She didn't really have to do that. She already had him wrapped around her finger. His little girl. From the moment he took her from her mother as payment for a deal and banished the woman to another realm, the little brunette had his heart. Well what was left of it. She held his heart in her little hands and he hoped she'd never let go. It's been so long since he's loved anyone so deeply. Not since... well, Bae.

Regina's older brother. She had helped to fill some of the emptiness of losing him but he still couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to raise both of them. His children. They're the only ones he had any loyalty to. The only ones that could actually trust him.

He couldn't harm them. No matter how much of a brat his daughter was. He could barely even say no to her. He would give her all the realms if he could. Honestly, if she asked him, he'd find a way to.

That's why despite his better judgement, he agreed to teach her to channel and control her magic. He knew from when she was about five years old and she would throw tantrums leaving the castle in shambles, almost destroying the structure all together, that she had powerful magic inside of her. He didn't exactly want her to tap into it because he could feel the darkness inside of it and he didn't want his little girl turning out like himself or her mother.

All he had to offer her was darkness and he wanted something different for her, something better.

"Fine." He grumbled.

"Thank you, Daddy." Regina said throwing herself into his arms and he basked in the warmth and softness of his youngest child in his arms. He held her back. His fears falling away as he held his little girl. Maybe he could always keep her like this.

His sweet little girl. He still wondered how she turned out this way despite being raised by the Dark One. Her heart was still pure. Untainted by darkness. His sweet, sweet girl. He planned to keep her just like that.

"Yes, yes," He said after a moment and took hold of her shoulders, pulling her away. Holding her at arm's length, he looked into her still baby face. Her dark eyes sparkled the way that could melt his frozen heart so easily. He quickly shook it off. He would not show this girl anymore weakness. He refused to show this girl the hold she had on his dark soul, threatening to turn it light again. He refused. "Go on, it's time for bed. It's late."

Regina pouted again. "But it's barely dark out." She whined. "Do I have to?" She poked out her bottom lip and batted her lashes again. "Father?"

Rumple started to give in. He didn't remember Bae being this manipulative. Maybe it was a girl thing. His little princess was definitely a spoiled brat and he had no one to blame but himself.

"No, no, no, Dearie." He said, trying to put his foot down. He turned his daughter. "Bed time. Your lessons start first thing tomorrow."

Regina let him push her towards the door of the dining room where they had just had dinner. "Tomorrow?" She asked excitedly. "So soon?"

"We made a deal, Dearie." He said simply. "I will never break a deal with my child." Ever again. He thought.

Regina had no knowledge of her brother except that when he was a young boy, the two of them were separated and Rumple was trying to find him to reunite their family. That's all she needed to know.

Regina turned around and looked at him. "Okay." She hugged him again. "Good night."

Rumple only gave himself a few moments to enjoy it before prying her off of him. "Yes." He turned her around again. "Now off you go. I have things to do. I have to go see a man about a powerful wand."

Regina shook her head and started crossing the large room towards the door. "Fine." She huffed. She stopped in the doorway and looked over her shoulder at him, fixing him with a stern look. "No killing."

"But..." He almost whined. His daughter turned around and crossed her arms, raising a serious brow at him. She tapped her foot and at least he had the decency to look apologetic.

Only for her.

"No killing." Regina said firmly. "You can threaten, maim or seriously injure." She shrugged a shoulder delicately. "Can't take away all of your fun."

Rumple smirked at his daughter getting him. Just when he thought he couldn't be any prouder of her. "That's why you're my favorite daughter."

Regina chuckled with a playful eye roll. "I'm your only daughter."

"Indeed because you are all I need, My dearest heart." He quipped, earning a smirk from his daughter.

"Very good, Father." Regina chuckled. Her smile was so beautiful. It lit up the entire dimly lit room. "But still no murder."

He sighed and threw his arms out dramatically. "Fine, but you'll have no one to blame but yourself when I'm cranky tomorrow because I didn't get to take all of my frustrations out on some poor defenseless soul."

Regina shook her head with a fond smile at the man who raised her. "Promise. We'll make another deal."

Rumple grinned. "Okay, I'm listening..." he drawled, motioning for the girl to continue.

"You will not kill anyone tonight and I will stay your little girl forever." Regina said with a bright smile.

Rumple nodded, pretending to think it over. "Very well..." He couldn't resist that one. His little girl staying his little girl forever. "Although you will be my little girl forever regardless. You were created from the Dark One's magic. Therefore you are immortal. You will not age much more."

Rumple was unsure about that at first until he saw his daughter fall down and scrape her knee, it healed instantly. She was six years old at the time. This prompted him to look into their future. That's when he saw her not aging. Hundreds of years passing and she still looked no older than eighteen or nineteen. She didn't change appearance fortunately for both of them. She kept her beauty. That's all he checked out. He wanted the rest of their lives to play out without him knowing what was going to happen. He was going to have his little girl forever and that's all he needed to know.

Regina rolled her eyes. "I know. I'm stuck with you forever."

He grinned at Regina's teasing tone. "Indeed you are. Now off to bed. We have a deal."

Regina nodded. "Fine. Good night, Daddy." She blew him a kiss. "I love you."

He tried to fight off the warmth he felt throughout his chest at those words. It had been so long since he's loved and been loved. He had forgotten how nice it felt. He just remained silent and the light of his life simply turned around and headed off to bed. She no longer waited to have the words returned to her because he couldn't say them. Well not out loud. But she knew. She knew that she meant everything to him and he'd die for her. Actions spoke louder than words with him and his daughter heard him loud and clear.

He chuckled at his silly child then with a shake of his head and a dramatic flair of his hands, he disappeared from the dining room in a cloud of purple smoke.

Regina slipped into her grand chambers and walked across her sitting room and into her bedroom. She decided to give the Dark One a break and actually go to sleep. No late night reading tonight. She was going to wash then go straight to bed. She already got her way, which she wasn't surprised about because she always does. She often scoffed when she thinks about the great and terrible Dark One, that strikes fear into the hearts of so many was her Daddy. The man that could barely say no to her.

Rumpelstiltskin was all that she knew. This world was all that she knew. Which was not necessarily a bad thing. She was told the truth at a young age. She was a part of a deal. Cora, her mother made a deal with the Dark One. Her first born child for magic lessons. For power. It was just a bonus that Regina turned out to be his biologically. Regina always felt like she got the better end of the deal with him.

He loved her and protected her. He was never cruel and wicked. Her mother on the other hand, traded her away for power before she was even born. That woman did not deserve her love nor did Regina want hers. Her father was enough.

She loved him dearly and she was content in her life. She had everything her heart desired. She never wanted a mother after learning what she had done and never asked for her again. Instead giving all her love and affection to her father who deserved it and so needed it.

He was everything to her and she was everything to him. She didn't need anyone else.

She smiled to herself at the idea of her father having to refrain from murdering all night because he made a deal with her. He was so silly at times.

She shook her head and started to wash her face in the bowl at her table but a sudden horses' whinny caused her to pause. She looked towards her large bedroom window. Rocinante? She thought to herself. He sounded close. As if he was... "No." She breathed and ran over to her window and wrenched the thick dark red drapes open. She heard it again. She looked out into the open pastures that surrounded their castle.

She couldn't see much of anything as night had settled over the forest and it was pitch black out but she squinted when she heard the sound again. She continued to look towards the direction the sound had come from and that's when she saw it. The dark shadowy figure of her horse, galloping around the pasture. Regina's hand flew to her mouth and her stomach dropped. She couldn't let him run free all night. He could get hurt or worse...

She had to catch him and put him back in the stables. Maybe while she's there she can figure out how he got out in the first place. She ran for the door and through the drafty dark hallway into her father's study. She rummaged through his things for a while, making a mess that she'll clean up later and found a lantern. She closed her eyes and tried to channel her unpredictable magic. Her magic that she promised her father she wouldn't use without him being present because it was dangerous. This was an emergency. Besides he didn't have to know. With a sigh she heard a small puff and her eyes opened. She smiled and her beautiful eyes glowed with the light of a flame. She shrieked happily at her magic finally doing what she wanted and did a little happy dance before remembering why she was there.

"Rocinante." She whispered to herself. She then darted out of the room and to the stairs. The place was always so cold and dark. Some would even call it creepy but this was her home and she loved it. She never wanted to live anywhere else.

She flew down the stairs of the grand staircase and though the bottom floor with one thought on her mind, Rocinante. She couldn't let him get hurt. She'd never forgive herself. He was her best friend. Well he was her only friend because she didn't meet many people. That didn't exactly bother her because she grew up in isolation. She was used to it and didn't exactly think about there being more for her out there.

She rushed out of the door and stepped out into field. She held up her lantern and looked around the field as her eyes adjusted to the night surrounding her. Her lungs were burning from exertion and the freezing night air invading them. But she couldn't think about that at the moment. She had a horse to rescue.

"Rocinante!" She called out into the field. She of course got no response so she ran out further to where she had seen him last. He couldn't have gotten that far. She looked around but of course she couldn't see a damn thing even with the lantern. Her heart was pounding. Was every place this dark or was this place only like that because of the Dark One? She often wondered about that. Not that she minded her father's darkness. It's all she knew.

She cupped her hands around her mouth."Roci!" She called desperately.

That must have done the trick because there was a soft neigh from behind her. She turned around quickly and sighed in relief. She could just make out a dark figure of her horse a few feet away. She shook her head and headed over to him. Her father would have a fit if he found out about this but he didn't have to find out. All she had to do was grab the horse, put him back and get back to bed. No harm done. She didn't have to...

As she got closer, her brows shot up. She took in the dark figure. It was not only the night making the horse appear dark. She held up her lantern. Had it changed colors or were her tired eyes deceiving her because instead of her brown and white steed, there stood an all black one, much larger than her own horse and that's saying something because Rocinante was a big healthy boy. She held the light up to the majestic creature's face. It looked her square in the eyes. It's deep blue eyes stealing her breath away. They were so beautiful. Almost other worldly.

"Are you lost?" She asked instinctively. She stepped closer and stretched out a hesitant hand as if not to startle it. "Are you hurt?"

The animal just looked at her. It's eyes seeing into her soul. She was hypnotized by them for a moment but the spell was broken quickly. A startled yelp escaped her when the horse suddenly reared up and neighed. She stepped back, giving it space. But her mouth fell open and she froze when the beast was suddenly engulfed in a plume of thick black smoke. She watched on unable to move, partially in curiosity and partially in fear.

She understood what people meant by "Scared to death" now. She could not get her breathing under control and her heart was racing so fast that she feared it may explode. She tried to move back but an invisible force, unreal or just in her head was holding her in place.

She kept the lantern up even as the smoke cleared. What it revealed confused her even more. There stood a tall woman. What happened to the horse? Was she the horse? Regina looked the woman over with a furrowed brow and an adorable confused frown. The woman who appeared to be older than Regina was dressed in a long black dress that swept the ground, it was cut low and revealed a lot more cleavage than Regina thought was necessary but what truly caught the young girl's eye was the headdress that the woman was wearing. It was black, covering all of her hair and it had long sharp horns at the top.

The longer Regina stood in the woman's presence and she looked at her, the more uneasy she began to feel. What was she?

Sensing Regina's confusion and curiosity, the tall witch chuckled. "Good evening, Dear." She drawled in an amused tone as she stepped closer to Regina. Regina wanted to step back. She knew she should have but she was still being held there by whatever it was. "Would your name happen to be Regina by any chance?"

Regina simply raised her brows and her mouth still hung open.

"What happened, Sweetheart, cat got your tongue?" The woman asked stepping closer and that's when Regina saw it. A long staff with an animal that Regina couldn't make out in the darkness at the top. The woman sighed when she still got no response. "I was told I'd find Regina here."

Regina audibly gulped. Why on earth is she looking for her? It was time to go back inside but her curiosity got the better of her. "Why?"

She saw something flash across the woman's glowing blue eyes. It looked almost like excitement. "I have business with her."

Okay this situation was getting out of hand. Her father was going to hit the ceiling. Leaving the castle at night and talking to odd strangers. She was definitely in for a stern talking to. "What type of business?"

The woman smirked and gave Regina a very slow once over. "Hello Regina, My name is Maleficent."

Regina tried to search her brain for any memories of the name but came up short. Maybe she could ask her father without telling him that she had met her and-

"Regina, I need you to come with me. I'm asking kindly because you are so beautiful which I had not expected. I honestly expected the child of the Dark One to be a scaly beast like him but you are absolutely stunning. As a result I do not want to hurt you."

Regina stepped back that time. She had just been threatened... and complimented? She was officially spooked. She started to run away, back to the safety of her home but the woman raised a hand stopping her with an invisible force, binding her arms to her sides and sticking her feet to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Regina cried. "Let me go."

"Regina, I can not do that, My dear." Maleficent raised her hand and closed it into a fist, pulling the young girl closer to her with magic. "I need..." She looked over Regina's body and sighed longingly. "Your help..."

"I never said I was-" Regina began but Maleficent silenced her with a click of her tongue.

The witch raised a finger and moved it from side to side in a 'nah uh' movement. "Now you and I are going to be spending a lot of time together. Let's not start our relationship with lies."

"What are you going to do with me?" Regina whispered, her voice shaking with fear. She just wished her father would show up and save her. She was never going to go against his wishes ever again.

A salacious smile spread across Maleficent's face. "Oh, My Dear, what am I not going to do with you?"

Regina gasped and quickly started squirming and wiggling to get free but Maleficent's magic held her tight. "Please just let me go. I don't know what or who you think I am but there's nothing special about me."

"I beg to differ, child." Mal sighed, leaning in a little too close for comfort. "You are quite special."

Regina suddenly felt completely helpless. Her magic didn't work properly so she couldn't fight back. She couldn't run away. She was completely at this woman's mercy. "Please... let me go." She pleaded.

"No." Maleficent said stepping closer.

Regina furrowed her brows. She had no options except one. She could scream and pray that her father sensed her fear like he used to when she was a young girl. She opened her mouth to do just that. Maleficent sighed with a roll of her eyes and waved a hand over Regina's face.

Suddenly everything went black and Regina felt herself fall to the ground.

Maleficent looked down at the young girl that lay on the ground unconscious. She hated to do this. The girl seemed so kind and innocent. She wandered out into a dark field at night despite the dangers that could have awaited her, to save her horse and when she discovered that it was not him at all but instead a wild horse, she still tried to help it. It was obvious that this girl had a good heart and she didn't deserve this but business is business.

Her father crossed Maleficent. No one crosses Maleficent and lives but since she could not exactly kill him, she had to make him suffer by taking his precious little girl. That ought to hit the Dark One where it hurts. This girl seemed to be the only thing he cared for. Ever since Maleficent has been watching them she's seen the sorcerer doing nothing but doting on the girl. It'll hurt him to lose her.

She smirked at her catch. The perfect revenge and ransom.

Speaking of perfect, Maleficent leaned down and brushed the girl's hair away from her face. She was a vision. How Rumpelstiltskin created something so beautiful was beyond her but Regina definitely was gorgeous.

This could be fun.

With a dark chuckle, Maleficent raised her staff and hit it on the ground. They were both engulfed in that black smoke and they vanished from the field.

They arrived at Maleficent's Forbidden Fortress in the throne room. The young girl still lie asleep on the marble floor. Maleficent hummed as she looked down at her slumbering prize.

"It's about bloody time." Maleficent's head snapped up at the sound of that voice. She sighed at the sight of the woman with the black and white hair that matched her fur coat exactly.

"Abduction is not easy, Cruella." Mal huffed. "It's delicate."

"Of course it was with all of your theatrics." Cruella said waving her hands around dramatically. "Lure her out and grab her. It's not hard. She's weighs what, ninety-something pounds? She's a mouse."

Maleficent sighed which she finds herself doing a lot in the presence of this irritating woman. "It's not like kidnapping puppies, Dear. People don't just willingly climb into a sack because there's a steak inside."

There was a cackle from behind Cruella and out stepped Ursula from the shadows. Now Maleficent liked her much better than Cruella, although her tentacles made her feel uneasy. "Oh, Maleficent. That was a good one and very true."

Cruella rolled her eyes and stepped aside so that Ursula could get a look at the girl. One of those damned tentacles slithered out from under the sea witch's dress and over to where Regina was laying. Just as Maleficent had done earlier, except with her hands, Ursula brushed some hair from the young girls face. "Sleeping spell?" She asked looking up at Maleficent. Mal nodded. "Very nice." She looked at the girl a moment longer. "She's cute. I'm shocked."

"Imagine my surprise." Maleficent sighed. Cruella scoffed as she lowered herself to the floor to get a closer look at the young woman.

She ran her finger across her soft baby-like olive skin. "She's so young and beautiful. Look at that skin, so smooth, so delicate. There's not a single blemish in sight. Such pretty flesh."

"Yes, she's a very pretty girl, Cruella." Maleficent snapped, her voice echoing in the wide open room. She glared daggers at her friend. "Now stop thinking of ways to skin her." She had no idea why she was being so defensive or why she wanted to protect this girl but she did. Maybe it was because she was so innocent in more ways than that one.

So pure. Maleficent thought as she stared down at the girl. She almost hated that this girl got caught up in this but sins of the father.

"What are we going to do with her?" Ursula asked, snapping both women out of their less than innocent thoughts about the young woman now at their mercy.

Maleficent sighed and looked back down at Regina. "We tie her up and gag her. We don't need her escaping or screaming too loudly. Honestly, shrieks of terror give me a headache. I'm sure she has a powerful set of lungs on her."

"We also don't need her trying to conjure Daddy until we're ready." Ursula pointed out.

"He can't get in." Cruella sighed. "Mal's protection spell keeps him out."

"But we don't want him knowing that we have her just yet." Maleficent said with a tilt of her head. Her eyes flicked up to her comrades. "The not knowing would kill him. I say we hold onto the girl for a little while. Just long enough for him to see what life is like without her. Enough to break him."

"He cannot be broken." Ursula argued.

"Anyone could be broken, darling." Cruella countered.

Maleficent hummed in agreement with Cruella and nodded stiffly. "And everyone has a weakness. We happened to have found his without even needing that silly dagger."

Cruella and Ursula smirked as they nodded. "I say we destroy the child now. That way we'll crush him."

"Destroy our leverage, Cruella?" Ursula asked in a disbelieving tone. "Our only bargaining chip?"

Cruella waved that off. "He doesn't have to know that she's dead until we get what we want. Once he hands the spell over and agrees that we cannot be harmed by him, we'll drop her body off at his castle." She grinned evily. "Probably with less skin than she started out with."

"Okay..." Maleficent sighed. "Rumpelstiltskin would want proof that she's alive. As in he'll want to see her. Do you think he'll just trust us?"

"Would you trust us?" Ursula added.

Cruella rolled her eyes. "Fine." She huffed and crossed her arms.

"Anyway," Maleficent sighed. "Let's get her tied up and..." she waved a hand. A small cage appeared beside the slumbering girl. "In there." She waved her hand again and a dark purple cushion appeared at the bottom of it. The girl was going to be there for a while so she might as well be comfortable. "Oh and there's this." Maleficent opened her palm, a black leather cuff appeared there in a small puff of smoke. "Just in case."

She bent down and held the girl's arm up and snapped it onto her dainty wrist. She let the girl's arm fall back down to her side and she looked up at Cruella and Ursula. "We don't need her using her magic."

The other two nodded. "Let's tie the girl up." Ursula said.

"Let's hog tie her. Her father is a filthy pig so that makes his daughter half." Cruella said coldly.

Maleficent rolled her eyes. She had no idea why she hung around them. Sure they bonded over Rumpelstiltskin betraying them. But Maleficent had no use for them really. She'd be better off doing this on her own. She just had a bad feeling that Cruella was going to screw it up. Almost definitely.

"Just don't hurt her." Maleficent sighed. "There's no point in breaking her arm or leg. She's not our enemy."

Cruella scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Very well, you are absolutely no fun any more, Mal."

Maleficent rolled her eyes and turned to Ursula. "Watch her." She pointed to the woman with black and white hair that was staring at the rope in her hands with almost childish glee. "Make sure she doesn't hurt the child."

Ursula nodded. "Alright."

Maleficent returned the nod then turned on her heel and headed back to her throne. Her dark dress sweeping across the floor as she stalked across the large throne room. She walked up the steps and perched herself upon the throne where she could oversee the two women binding the girl up.

She almost felt guilty that this girl had to suffer for what her father had done but that's the way it is. Her father had to pay so in turn, so did she.

This was a game and Regina was the pawn. As of now Maleficent had all of Rumpelstiltskin's pieces. She was already winning but one thing Maleficent had learned in her many centuries of life was to never underestimate your opponent. Especially, Rumpelstiltskin. He always had an ace up his sleeve. She had to stay aware. If she played smartly, she could just win.

A satisfied sigh escaped her and she smirked to herself.

Let the games begin.

I have an odd obsession with Maleficent kidnapping Regina. This idea was like one of like six with the same theme of "Maleficent kidnapping Regina." lol. Idk...

I've wanted to do a Queens of Darkness story for sooooo long. Omg.

Also the show basically blew holes in my theory of Rumple being Regina's/the Evil Queen's real father. So I have this. lol.

But like I said, this is kind of short. Hopefully it'll help me get back into the swing of writing my other stories but yeah...

Okay, but thank you for reading. Like is this worth the read? Should I post the other parts? Let me know.