AN/ Here is the second chapter. This one is going to focus on Regina and how she is taking the failure of her curse, and what that had cost her.
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She's lost in the darkness,
Fading away,
I'm still around here,
Screaming her name.
She's haunting my dream world,
Trying to survive,
My heart is frozen,
I'm losing my mind.
Help me I'm buried alive.
~Lost (Within Temptation)
Chapter One: Lost
"It failed! Again!" Regina stormed near Rumplestiltskin's cage.
He rolled his eyes, "Did you kill another horse? Dear, dear, I said precious."
Regina went to the cage and grabbed a hold of the bars, leaning in with snarling teeth.
His stench was overwhelming and made her nostrils squeeze shut to quench it.
"I didn't kill another horse, you imp," she sighed. "I killed my father."
Rumplestiltskin shook his head, "Tisk, tisk tisk. Deary, deary, deary. Your love was not strong enough, not even for your own father."
Her fist slammed against the wall, "He was the only person in this world I loved! And I killed him for nothing!"
"Well then, who do you love the most, your Majesty?" Rumple spoke like a child teasing his sibling.
"The one I love the most is dead, I told you that." Regina stared at the ground. "There is no longer anyone I love…"
"Well, then, I guess the curse will never work." Rumple moved away from the bars to sit on a rock, now looking solemn. "You failed me."
Regina stared at his depressed features, confused as to why the news troubled him so much.
"If the only one you truly love is already dead, then you can never cast the curse." Rumple sneered. "I should have chosen her."
"Her?"
The doors to the crypt opened, and the shoes of the guards vibrated the floor like an earthquake.
"Run, run your Majesty," Rumplestiltskin sang, "Run, run as fast as you can, if you don't want to end up a dead…man."
Regina backed away from him, as he sat there, unbelieving of the circumstances. What does he want from there? She wonders. "Halt!" Someone yelled from behind her, holding a sword to her back.
"You can't get away this time, we've got you surrounded."
The blue fairy flew in and trapped Regina against the wall by her wrists. Her arms flailed as she struggled to break free from the magic. "You will never hurt anyone ever again."
"Fly away moth. Before you regret ever restraining me!" Regina spat. The blue fairy looked at Regina with pity and anger all rolled into one.
"What do you gain from all of this, Regina?" She asked.
Her smile grew bigger than the fairy, "Wouldn't you like to know."
"Take her away," the fairy whispered. The guards came and cuffed her, releasing the blue fairy's magic.
"You just made a huge mistake," Regina taunted. Her hand twirled, causing the guards to be thrown against the walls, and she unlocked the handcuffs.
They started to get up again, grabbing their swords. Regina created vines from the rocks and tied them to the stones. Rumplestiltskin paid no attention to the commotion.
The blue fairy came back in, hearing the struggle, but as soon as Regina saw her, she vanished quickly.
(Scene Change)
The trees were nothing spectacular where she ended up. The air held a moist smell and weight to it, and it was all unfamiliar. Nothing like the woods that she trekked through on her rides between palaces, or on her adventures to find Snow-White, those were more dry and light.
She landed on her knees, staining her black dress with the mud.
Dread washed over Regina. She kept a good face down in Rumplestiltskin's tunnel, but she knew the truth.
She was out of options.
She can't hurt Snow and Charming, not after what Rumplestiltskin did to protect them.
She can't chase them around, or threaten them if she doesn't want to end up executed (for real this time).
She can't cast the curse to make them miserable.
She can't do anything.
The weight of all the failures in Regina's life came washing down, keeping her on her knees in the forest, unable to stand up.
There's nothing left for her but to survive always looking over her shoulders. Unable to carry on doing anything. This curse was a make it or break it deal.
If only she loved her father more, but Regina's love for Daniel was so powerful, that it even took some of the love for her father away, making it impossible for her to use him for the curse.
Her one chance. Gone.
And what was left for her in her life, besides fleeing and hiding, praying that Snow-White's men don't find her and get rid of her. And if they do, she has nothing in her life that she accomplished, and nothing to live for but herself.
True love was not in her cards, either. Maybe it was all those years ago when Tinkerbell saved her and led her to that tavern. Her last shot, and she ran away from it.
Now all that's left is nothing.
The weight grew heavier on her head as the feelings circled her even more so than before.
She was nothing.
She was lost.
AN/ So there is Chapter One for you all. Nice quick chapter, getting the set up on Regina and what is to become of her.
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