A/N: Hey everyone thanks for picking this up. This was inspired by a few true life events of the past year for my friends and family. Just inspired by true events not everything in this story really happened. This story is about car accidents, surgeries possibly gone wrong, brain injuries and therapy. Not everyone makes it but sometimes the lucky ones are those of us that witness the tragedies as an inspiration to start living life (aka I am moving to LA for the first time in two weeks). I hope this story gives you the feels, the hope and the inspiration to go out and live. Please enjoy the tale of the accident.

THE ACCIDENT

It had been a simple turn in Storybrooke, just taken a bit too fast when a dog walked into the road. No epic tale out of the ordinary. The road had construction on the left hand side, but this seemed to be unaccounted for as the driver swerved and hit a bit of building debris, popping the car up on its side, where it hit and was bumped higher by the concrete guard rail – flipping, increasing speed as it hurtled into a line of trees, hitting quite a few until it finally came to an abrupt stop.

Regina felt the adrenaline kick in the moment she saw the dog, the relief as she swerved, the panic as her car jumped and turned and the dread at the first impact, hitting her head and knocking her out for the rest of the event.

David was on patrol when he noticed a stray dog running around, barking like mad. He parked the patrol car as he wandered after the dog a bit up the road –that's when he saw it. The queen's car, between two trees.

It was pretty crushed in. He radioed in that there had been an accident and he needed medical attention right away. He approached and was flooded with relief when he could get the driver's door open. But he wasn't ready for what he saw next.

There was blood everywhere, he didn't know where most of it was even originating from. He took in the outfit – clean pressed suit, well at least it was. Dark brown hair, and though she had a cut running down her face the rest seemed unchanged. This was Regina, his family's Regina. The queen that they had fought with, they had trusted and finally they had become a family with. He held his hands to Regina's bloody abdomen.

"Hang in there Regina! We're going to get you through this!"

Regina began to wake, shaking heavily, her eyes fighting to focus on Charming's face. Blood running down from her nose and her mouth, her finger tips brushing it away. She gasped in pain and started to cry heavily, looking down at herself, her body starting to convulse. She looked at Charming with terror. Was she going to get to say goodbye to Henry? What about Snow and Emma?

Charming saw the fear in her eyes and tried to sound way more sure then he felt.

"Regina – they'll be here…you'll make it…"

She twitched as her world blacked out.