A/N: Okay now I haven't forgotten about my other stories, but this idea came to me a couple weeks ago after watching a film called 'Only You'
with Robert Downey Jr and Marisa Tomei, so I just had to write it down. I hope you guys like it. This fic plot will not be the same as the film, probably a fraction of it and that's all.
*I DO NOT OWN 'ONLY YOU' OR 'ONCE UPON A TIME' sadly they belong to other people*
Thank you to the lovely Mint18 for beta reading this for me.
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At fifteen years of age, Regina Mills who had jet black hair and dark brown eyes, (that were the color of whiskey) along with her best friend were walking through the carnival that came to their little town of StoryBrooke once a year. The carnival would always pass through and stay for one night before heading on to the next town. The kids loved it, and not to mention so did the teenagers. It was held in the town square, (the same place every year.) There would also be parents there so that they could keep an eye on the children that would always explore every thing.
"I want to go to the fortune teller's" Regina's best friend's said as they were walking through the carnival with their arms linked together.
"Really Tink?" Regina was skeptic "I don't know how you believe in that crap." Rose who was one of Regina's best friends, a little pixie of a woman with blonde curly hair that was always held up in a ponytail, got her nickname Tinkerbell because she was very small for her age.
"I heard she's supposed to be really good and that she can point you to your soulmate" Tink was trying to convince her friend.
"Yeah... If you believe in all that" Regina rolled her eyes at her blonde haired friend.
"I think you're afraid" Her friend simply said.
"What?" Regina was confused, "Why would I be afraid?"
"Maybe you're afraid that she'll tell you who your destined to be with, and that scares you" Tink raised a brow at her.
"Whatever, it's a load of rubbish" Regina was quick to say as she and her friend stopped at the fortune's teller's tent labelled, 'Mystic Mal'.
"Okay fine" Tink said as she stopped and turned around to face her friend then said "If you don't believe in this stuff, then what's stopping you from coming in to see what she has to say. And then we can always make fun of her later."
"What's stopping me is that i'm not going to waste my money on a fraud" Regina was adamant.
"You won't, I will be" Was all her little blonde haired friend said as she grabbed her friend's hand and led her into the mystic's tent.
They entered the tent and found it empty. They both stood at the entrance and looked around the whole tent, turning their bodies in the process and couldn't see anyone else there.
"Hello." A voice said.
Regina and Tink both turned around in surprise as they had only just looked in that direction and didn't see anyone, and now... And now there was a woman with blonde hair standing at a table that was in the middle of the room.
'Where did she come from?' Regina asked herself.
"What can I do for you this fine day?" The Mystic asked in a soft voice as she settled down in her chair in front of a crystal ball.
"Well I was just trying to convince my friend here," Tink pushed Regina a few steps forward, "that true love exists."
"Ah, true love," Mal repeated in a whisper.
"I've heard that you're really good at what you do," Tink said simply to the woman.
"Regina," the mystic said as she pointed at the seat in front of her. "Come sit."
"You told her my name" Regina turned to her friend.
"I swear I didn't," Tink said in a shocked tone as she was wondering how this mystic knew her friend's name.
"Yeah right" Regina rolled her eyes as she passed her friend and set down in the chair that the mystic had pointed to.
"I can tell that your friend is right and that you are not a believer," Mal simply said in that same whisper as Regina set down in front of her.
"Yeah well, I don't need someone telling me how to find a man. I think I can do that without any help," Regina just said again with another roll of her eyes.
"I am not helping you find just any man Regina, I am simply going to lead you to your soulmate."
"I cannot believe you told her my name," Regina gave a death stare to her friend.
"I swear I didn't." Tink repeated again.
"Can we get started?" Regina was annoyed as she sat back in her chair and folded her arms over one another.
She just really wanted to get this SCAM over and done with.
"Of course." Was all the mystic said as she looked over at Regina's blonde friend.
"Sorry," Tink laughed as she placed ten dollar's on the mystic's table.
Regina rolled her eyes again for what, like the tenth time or something after walking through the flap of that tent. Of course it was all about the money, it is always about the money.
"Okay, we shall begin," Mal spoke a little louder this time breaking Regina from all the skepticism that was going through her head. Regina watched as Mal sat upright in her chair. Closing her eyes, she placed both her hands on the crystal ball that sat on the table in front of her.
Then everything went so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Sitting in this tent, she could hear nothing coming from the outside. It was like magic.
Regina started to get a little creeped out as Mal continued to sit there not saying anything as first, a couple minutes passed by, then more. Was it 5, no it was 10 minutes, or was it an hour? It was as if time itself had stopped.
Regina gave another glare to her blonde friend, who just shrugged her shoulders, nonplussed. Regina then opened her mouth to say something only stopping when the mystic finally began to speak.
"I-I see... A tattoo" Her voice was soft at the start and got louder as she continued to speak.
"A tattoo?" Regina raised both brows at that then said, "I hate tattoos."
"Yes, a tattoo. I can't make... No wait, I think it's a feather" Mystic Mal's eye's then flew open and she stared directly into Regina's eye's and continued as if she was looking right into her soul "No, it's a lion tattoo."
"I... I hate, tattoos." Regina repeated in a stammer as she felt a shiver run down her spine.
"Well dear," Mal's voice was soft again. "The man you are destined to be with will have a Lion Tattoo on the inside of his right wrist."
"Is that all?" Regina huffed out in question not wanting to believe any of this. "So when's this meant to happen?" She asked in a skeptic tone.
"That i'm afraid... I cannot tell." Mystic Mal simply answered.
"If I pay for another reading will you be able to tell me then?" Regina questioned with a raised brow.
"I know you think i'm a fake Regina, but what I tell you is the truth. You will fall in love with a man that has a lion tattoo on his right wrist. When and where... I don't know, but it will happen."
"But you didn't answer my question," Regina was annoyed "If I pay for another reading, will you be able to tell me then?" She repeated her question.
"It doesn't work like that i'm afraid." Mal simply replied.
"Of course it doesn't," Regina said in a sarcastic tone while standing up then adding, "See ya," She then grabbed her friend by the hand to lead them out away from the mad woman.
"Until the next time" Mal said with a smile on her face knowing that she would see the dark haired teenager again. Whether Regina would be a teenager or an adult, she would see her again.
"I don't think so" Regina let out a dark skeptical laugh as she left the mystic's tent.
"Well that was a waist of ten quid," she said as they exited the tent. "Do you want to go find Emma and Mary Margaret?" She then asked her friend in a casual tone.
"You don't believe her." It wasn't a question.
"Of course not, come on Tink... A man with a lion tattoo," Regina was sick of having this conversation all the time with her friend.
Rose Bellingham was a believer in 'True Love'. She had always said that there was one perfect person out there for everyone. Regina, however, was different, she didn't believe in true love at all.
"It's out there Regina. Or should I say he's' out there." Tink said simply.
"Look let's just go find Emma and Mary Margaret." Regina didn't want to have this conversation again.
"Fine, but one day I'll be saying I told you so" Tink said with a small smile then began walking to go find their other friends. Regina just rolled her eyes at that then followed after her friend.
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A short time later Regina and Tink entered the small town diner knowing that their friends would be there. And sure enough as soon as they walked in they spotted Emma and Mary Margaret sitting at a booth in the back.
"Hey guys," Tink said in a cheerful voice as she sat down by Mary Margaret.
"Where did you guys disappear to?" Mary Margaret asked as Regina sat down beside their other friend Emma.
"This one here," Regina pointed a finger across the table towards Tink, "dragged me to some mystic's tent." She was still most definitely a skeptic.
"Mystic Mal!" Mary Margaret's face lit up.
"Not you too!" Regina rolled her eye' again at her other friend for what felt like the 50th time that day.
"She's really good. I visited her last year and she told me about my soulmate and a couple days later I met David." Mary Margaret beamed as she remembered meeting her now still boyfriend.
"Oh yeah... And how did you meet him?" Regina mocked as she had known how her friend met her 'True Love'.
"I was choking on an apple in the cafeteria and he saved me." Mary Margaret replied ignoring Regina's sarcastic tone.
"See what I mean, full of crap." Regina laughed.
"No Regina, she told me that my soulmate would save my life."
"Well at least she gave you more than me."
"Why what did she tell you?" Mary Margaret wanted to know.
"That she is going to fall in love with a man that has a lion tattoo." Tink answered in an optimistic voice.
"Wow." The short haired brunette replied in awe.
Regina opened her mouth to reply to her friend then closed it again as her other friend Emma decided to speak. "Yeah i'm kind of with Regina on this one, she told me that my soulmate would have one hand."
"What's wrong with that?" Both Tinkerbell and Mary Margaret said at the same time.
"I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, I'm just saying it's very unlikely." Emma became defensive.
"Look guys, just forget about it because it's never going to happen." Regina was adamant.
"Why?" Tink raised a brow at her friend.
"Because I hate tattoos, and I would never date anyone who had one." She simply told her friends with a glare telling them that she didn't want to talk about it anymore.
"So is Ruby pissed that she's missing the carnival?" Tink asked changing the subject and breaking the awkward silence that had fallen over the girls as she looked over at their other friend, who was a year younger than the others and currently working behind the counter.
Ruby stood directly behind the diner's counter with a frown adoring her face as her boss, who was also her granny, talked to her about how to be polite to the customers again.
"Yeah," Emma laughed at her friend's punishment.
"It was her own fault," Regina also laughed as she pictured her friend's face as she had been caught smoking in the girl's bathroom at school.
"Come on Regina... She was just trying it out, and besides she didn't even like it." Emma simply said.
"Yes and she stupidly got caught, if she had just talked to us instead of Zelena and her fucking minions, she would be out with us tonight instead of been stuck working in this fucking dump." Regina was annoyed.
"I'd be careful Regina or you'll be looking for a new job," Mary Margaret said with a chuckle, as Regina too worked a part time job at the diner, and slagging it off as her boss was standing about fifteen feet away, was not a good idea.
Mary Margaret was hoping that her friend wasn't heard. Because if she was, she would be out of a job and Mary Margaret knew how badly Regina needed this job.
Regina's father had died only two years ago when she was just thirteen. They hadn't really had much but they were able to survive, her father had had a steady job as a teacher in Storybrooke's elementary school. While her mother was a stay at home mom, but since her father died her mother Cora was forced to get a job so that they wouldn't lose the house. But she still wasn't bringing in enough as the only job she could get was in the ice-cream shop part time, so Regina was forced to get a part time job to help as best she could.
Cora tried so bad to hide all the notices from her daughter, but Regina was smart and she knew her mother was hiding something. Then one day she had to know why her mother was acting so strange, so she ended up doing some snooping and came across some bill's that her mother couldn't pay. So that was when Regina told, she didn't ask, she told her mother that she was going to get a part time job so she could help out with the bills.
Her mother finally had agreed once Regina had promised that she wouldn't let her grades slip. Cora just wanted the best for her daughter. She didn't want her struggling like she is now with her daughter at the age of fifteen having to work so she could help her mother pay the bills.
"I'm going to be stuck here forever." Regina said, disheartened.
"No you're not Regina, you're really smart. You're going to be mayor of this town someday, remember?" Tink tried reassuring her friend as she reminded her of the time when they were only five years of age, and Regina had told her friends that she would be mayor of this quaint little town someday in the future.
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Well what did you guy's think? Is it good enough to continue or not?
But I don't quiet know when update's will be posted as I still have other story's to do also. (Can't forget about them) ;)