AN: Ok for anyone who happened to have read and followed my other story Regina's Happy Ending, I will be continuing that story. The next chapter will probably be up this weekend sometime. I am playing around with a few ideas and seeing what fits. I just have to get this idea out of my head before I go crazy. I have been toying with this for some time and I just needed to get it on paper. I do not think I have read anything like this before so I hope people enjoy the idea as much as I do.

Ok so I am going to fill in a little back-story for the next few chapters. The girls are Regina's adopted daughters. When they became teenagers, they left town unaware they would never be able to return. Regina was corresponded with the girls the whole time they were gone. Cora is the oldest at 27, and Apple is 24. Henry never actually met Cora, buts knows her from pictures Regina has hidden of her. Apple left when Henry was 5, and he remembers her. Cora and Apple grew up together and they are polar opposites, and yes, they will act like sisters. This might turn into Swan Queen at some point but it will be very slow burn.

It had been over 3 months since Cora had heard from her Mother. Usually Regina called her every Sunday, but now she missed 12 consecutive times. Last she heard, Emma Swan had broken her curse and fallen into a portal, and her little brother had been staying with David, Snow White's Prince Charming. Her Mother had been acting strangely since the curse ended, but not strange enough to stop calling.

Cora's mind had been going wild with possible theories. She had prayed for the best but expected the worst. She attempted to call her mother and got no response. All she knew of the real Snow White was that she is a cold-hearted woman who had crushed her Mother's true love's heart. Then managed to make an entire land think she was evil. She could never image her mother doing the things the Snow had accused her of and now she could only image what terrible things the Savior was doing to her mother.

Cora had enough waiting, she had hoped that with the curse breaking she would finally be able to go home, but she needed back up, and as much as it pained her she pulled out her phone and called her little sister. "I need your help." Was all it took and Apple was on her bike and heading all the way across the country to Story Brooke to help.

Cora had spent weeks planning her attack. Regina's magical money had allowed her child to go to the best law school, and once she was out she easily got a job at a prestigious law firm. After a few years of freeing bad guys, Cora decided to become a Prosecutor. She hated seeing their smug faces as they got off, but loved putting away the ones she knew where guilty.

Regina had faxed all of Henry's adoption papers to Cora a year after she got out of Law School. Not only was she Regina's daughter but Cora was also in complete control of all Regina's money that was very much a part of the real world. Regina was afraid Gold might try to find a loophole. Cora had gone over everything with a fine tooth come and found nothing that would make the paper null and void. Even when Regina had called her the night Emma had shown up on her doorstep with Henry. Cora had assured her mother that no matter what Emma Swan said or did she had no legal rights to the boy.

Cora knew once she left she could never come home again and she missed her old life. When she was a child, she had wished to escape the small town. She would say, "My dreams are so much bigger than then Story Brook." She loved and adored Regina. Everything she did, she had done to please her mother. She got straight A's all through school. Leaving her mother was the hardest thing she had ever done. It had actually been her little sister who pushed her to leave. At 17 and 14, they both knew no one aged but them and Apple convinced her that if they stayed they would grow old and their mother would have to watch them die. They both made a pact to leave when they turned 18. After Cora left, she knew Apple would not be far behind her. She planned to find a replacement so her Mother would not be lonely.

Cora found Henry and contacted Gold, she had no idea that Emma was the Savior and the Henry was the child that would bring the Savior to end the curse. Fate has a funny way of slapping you in the face.

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Regina stood at the border watching her youngest daughter cross. "Please, I can't lose you too."

"Momma, I have to grow up. Nothing ever changes here. It's like Neverland and I am the only one who changes."

"Cora left and never came back, you can never come back if you leave and I can't lose you too."

"You have Henry now."

"I will never see you again, you're my baby."

"Mamma I love you too, but it is time I go." With that, Apple crossed the border, never allowed to return. Regina vowed that day she would hide her past from her son at any cost. She had no idea how to hide no one except him aging, but she knew she couldn't lose another child. It was hard enough seeing her girl leave never to return.