If you're still taking prompts. Not sure if this has been suggested, but Daniel comes back in the real world and see's Regina and remembers everything.

The curse brought Regina her happy ending. It couldn't bring back her Daniel but it allowed her to start fresh and bring Snow White to the same level of unhappiness as her. Which is all that mattered. And for 28 years, it worked. But when Emma came, the curse started to fall apart. Regina felt herself once again losing and then to add insult to injury, Daniel had come back.

It had been just another, curse-breaking-slowly day in Storybrooke. Regina walked down the windy streets on her way to pick up Henry from school. Once again, he was resistant, not wanting to go with her but, knowing he had no other choice, followed along.

"Henry, we don't have time for this. Hurry up," her voice was exasperated. When he failed to catch up, Regina stopped and spun around, ready to grab his arm and drag him if need be. But his eyes were fixated on something across the street.

"Who's the new guy?" He asked, suspicious considering no one new ever showed up in town. Regina frowned at his words.

"What are you talking about? No one new ever comes to Storybrooke." She conveniently forgot to mention Emma's random appearance though her lip curled at that thought. But her eyes travelled over to where Henry was staring and froze. Henry just barely managed to stop before crashing into his mom. Surprised at her sudden change, Henry looked up, his brows furrowed.

He had never seen Regina look like that before. Her face was pale and there was a hopeful disbelief clear in her eyes.

"Mom?"

Regina didn't hear him. Instead she took a few tentative steps forward but then stopped herself. This had happened before. He was merely a figment of the fantasy she held close to her heart. She shook her head to clear it and went to turn away. Henry however had a different idea.

"Henry, get back here!" Regina demanded as her son ran forward to the stranger. Of course Henry ignored her.

"Hi! I'm Henry. What brought you to Storybrooke?" To have the innocence and subtleness of a child.

The man looked down at Henry and smiled. "Hello, Henry. I'm Joshua. Honestly, I have no clue." He ran a hand across the back of his head sheepishly. "I don't really remember anything. Suddenly I was just here…"

Regina watched the interaction from across the street. If Henry was speaking with him, then it could be real. This could be her Daniel come back from the dead.

She took a few slow steps, still not wanting to believe what her eyes told her. "Daniel…" She breathed out when she got close enough. Forgetting the memories were gone for everyone else, Regina reached up to caress his cheek. "You're alive."

His eyes watched her warily but he was courteous enough to not embarrass her in public. Henry looked back and forth between them, wondering what had come over his mom.

"It really is you," Regina finally allowed her hopes to grow fully and happiness flooded her face. And then he stared, a frown creasing his brows as if he were trying hard to remember something.

"Do I…Do I know you?"

Unable to refrain after so long, Regina threw her arms around him and kissed him as if to make up for all their lost time. Tears flowed freely down her face.

Daniel was frozen with shock at first but slowly, his arms went around her and he returned the kiss as the memories of past came back to him.

But all too soon he broke the kiss and pulled back to look at her incredulously. "Regina," his voice was soft and almost pained. "What did you do?"

Regina took a second to register what he said. She was too enraptured in the bliss the man before her brought. But his words finally broke through. She tried to smile. It didn't fool either of them. "I did this for you."

Daniel's head shook and he took a step back. "This," he motioned around him. "This is not something my Regina would have done. This is what my Regina loathed and refused to ever become."

Again, Regina turned to disbelief. He was back after so long and he was reprimanding her? She took a step to close the distance between them again but he held an arm out to stop her. "You're not my Regina."