**New story! Should i continue? Lots of Charming family later, this chapter is mostly regina. Enjoy!***
Welcome to Storybrooke
Chapter 1
Day One
Regina opened her eyes. She looked around the room, she was not in her castle. Her nightwear was different, her bed was different. She sat up and sat at the edge of the bed. She ran her hands through her now shorter hair. She gasped. She walked over to the window and looked upon the small town. She smiled in relief. "I did it." This town was hers for the taking. But she didn't have to take it, it was already hers. She backed away from the window Smiling wider. "I won." She walked into her closet looking at the different outfits. She liked it. She pulled out a slim black dressed and watched herself in the mirror. It suited her, possibly moreso than her clothing back in the enchanted forest.
She headed out to the town to check things out. Was it too good to be true? She felt good. It felt right, she was on cloud nine. Rumpelstilskin... no Mr. Gold in this new town... walked by with his cane minding his own business. And up on a ladder fixing a sign was Geppetto, who would go by Marco, "That should hold, yup."
"I can not believe you put me on the early shift." Red now Ruby complained to her grandmother.
"It's not my fault you stayed out all night."
Regina grinned, she always got a thrill watching other people argue. She anticipated who she would see next.
"Good morning Madame Mayor." A man with a dalmation watched by."
"Good morning Cri-" She paused, he wasn't a cricket anymore. "Dr. Hopper."
"Beautiful day isn't it?"
"Yes." She felt her smile grow wider and wider and wider. "Yes it is."
Now it was time to test this for certain. Her archnemesis Snow White. Did she truly win? She would find out by paying a visit to Ms. Blanchard.
She walked into the classroom just as the students were leaving and Mary Margaret was at the front of the classroom. "Ms. Mills." She looked surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"Refresh my memory. How long have you been a teacher here?"
She looked up at the ceiling, without really looking at it as she pondered Regina's question. "Um... I'm not sure, as long as I can remember."
Regina smiled. This is good, she's all confused. That's definitely a bonus. "Come with me." She took her to the hospital in Storybrooke and led him to an isolated room where a man was lying in a coma.
"Why are we in the hospital?"
"Tell me... do you know this man?"
Mary Margaret stared through the glass at the man and tilted her head. "No. Why who is he?"
"He's a John Doe. A coma patient. Noone's claimed him."
"Maybe some day he'll wake up. Maybe someone who loves him will find him."
"That would be nice for him... but I wouldn't count on it." Regina was loving this new life. Especially watching Mary Margaret pine over this man who wouldn't wake up.
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Day 2
Regina woke up, and beside her was the huntsman... er... Sheriff Graham sleeping silently. She crawled out of bed to look out the window, like she did the previous morning. The town was still sitting there. The giant clock hadn't moved at all. She grinned. This was the life.
She headed back over to the hospital. Sure enough Mary Margaret was visiting John Doe, dropping off flowers for him. Longing for him. Regina thought her face was going to collapse from all her smiling, she had never smiled so much in her life and this was only the second day.
Walking through town once more, Marco was still on the ladder fixing his sign, and Mr. Gold walked passed the ladder. "Maybe this time you won't fall."
Regina looked over confused but shook it off. Must be a bad sign he has up there.
"This is the last time, I'm working the early shift." Ruby snarled at Granny, Granny simply put her hands up and went inside.
Regina kept walking. It was Dr. Hopper with Pongo again. "Good morning Madame Mayor. Beautiful day isn't it?"
Regina just smiled at him not watching where she was going and bumped into someone. It was Mary Margaret.
"Oh Madame Mayor, I'm so sorry." She hugged her books close to her chest in great fear of the mayor.
"You should be! Watch where you're going next time."
Mary Margaret nodded and kept walking. Regina turned around watching her. Then smiled. She didn't even fight back.
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Day 3
Regina woke up. Graham was asleep beside her again...
She went to the hospital... Mary Margaret still pining over John Doe... She was starting to lose interest...
Walking through town... No smile on her face anymore... Marco once again on the ladder fixing his sign... maybe it's a bad sign afterall she thought. Gold walking passed him.
She walked by Granny's and saw Granny and her granddaughter. She was starting to feel... bored.
"Beautiful day."
Regina rolled her eyes at Dr. Hopper and Pongo. "Save it." She bumped into Mary Margaret again.
"Oh Ms Mills I am so sorry." The panick ran through her fair complexion.
"I ran into you. Why are you apologizing?"
"No I should have been looking where I was going."
"You're not even going to fight back?"
"Fight back? Why would I do that?"
She decided to pay a visit to Mr. Gold. She walked into his shop "I'm not happy. This town... this isn't the deal we made."
"I'm sorry I don't know what you're talking about."
"You don't, do you? I was supposed to be happy here. Everyone in this town does exactly what I want them to."
"And that's bad because?"
"Well they do it because they have to, not because they want to. It's not real."
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Day 30
Regina woke up... Graham still beside her...
Regina walked through town, saw Marco, Mr. Gold, Ruby, Granny, Dr. Hopper and Pongo like always...
Then she bumped into Mary Margaret who apologized like always...
Same old thing, day after day after day. Regina was just plain bored. The curse was supposed to be on the other people not her. She turned around, decided to go to Granny's for some coffee. She sat across from Mary Margaret. Why not? Spice things up again, she didn't even sit in her favourite seat. Mary Margaret was reading the paper. Tears in her eyes then she noticed Regina, unsure why she was sitting with her but she was too focused on the paper.
"Why are you crying?"
"This is so sad." She handed Regina the paper. She read the headline. DEADBEAT PARENTS...
There was a picture of a little boy and a baby. She just scanned the article not reading it in great detail. Basically that a seven year old boy found a baby girl on the edge of a highway.
"How old is this paper?"
"I found it in the pile of old newspapers at the front of Granny's. Something... just jumped out to me." She pulled back the corner of the newspaper. "Says it was a month ago."
"A month ago." Regina looking at the picture, she recognized the boy it was in fact Pinocchio. And she looked at the blanket wrapped around the baby with the name Emma written on it. "Can I take this?"
Mary Margaret hesitated. She looked at the picture of the baby one more time but shook off the feeling inside her. "Okay."
Regina took the newspaper article and went to Mr. Gold's shop and showed him. "This is Pinocchio and the child."
"Pinnochio like that cartoon? I don't know what you're talking about."
"Look, I know you remember! Stop playing dumb."
"Oh I am not dumb, dearie."
"Doesn't matter, I am sick of this town. I am going into Maine. I have some children to find. Change of plans, this curse is ending sooner than later."
Mr. Gold smirked watching Regina storm out.