Chapter 2

Regina went over to get another drink; this was a lot for her to swallow. Of course she had said yes to Elsa's invitation of a coming out party for her daughter. As a royal, it was the polite thing to do; even if the other woman had hurt her when she left her life many years prior. She couldn't be with her because she didn't love her like she thought she did. Regina knew it to be a lie. Still when she hadn't managed to convince her to do otherwise she had let her go and tried to move on.

It had never once occurred to the brunette that the younger woman was pregnant and scared of how Regina would have handled the news. Badly, knowing herself back then, she would assumed she had cheated on her rather than a magical pregnancy. Of course, being where they were it was not unheard of, but considering their daughter's age and them being in Storybrooke at the time, Elsa must have conceived her…

Was Elsa married now? No, Regina figured there was no ring on her finger and the invite had come from Elsa, in fact Regina had seen her deliver it herself. Of course, Elsa didn't know that. She looked over at the snow queen. She was nearing her forties now, she was quite sure. Her features was older, but other than that she looked the same as when they first met. Blue dress and all. She was talking to a king of some sort. It wouldn't be long until the young girl was to be presented. Regina left the room quickly, discreetly making her way up the stairs.

She found the door to Elsa's old room, recognizing it at once. She saw a similar door a few doors down. Her daughter's room, she didn't doubt.. She knocked. From the other side she heard,

"I am so not coming down mom, just leave me the hell alone!"

That was her daughter alright. She smiled as she entered saying, "I think we need to talk, but if you don't want your mother to find us we need to go right now. Is there any place you feel safe around?"

"The stables," she answered.

'Figures,' Regina thought. "Take my hands," she told her.

Once the young girl did, a sky of purple smoke surrounded them. it, When it cleared again, she saw they were in the stables. She looked at Regina with wide eyes."You're magical?" she asked in awe.

"Yes, me and the woman I came with, it is a long story, your name is Nora right?" she said. She thought the invitation said something about the coming out party for Freya and Nora.

"Yes it is, she is your consort?" she asked, confused.

"No, we share a son, I adopted him when he was young and she found me, we fought later we settled our differences. Now we are good friends," Regina admitted.

"Oh," she said, Nora studied her. Her dark hair was put up, dark like hers. Nora had the same eyes, only their color was the same as Elsa's. She had to be older than her mother, her hair was graying and her eyes had crow's feet wrinkles on the side. They seemed old and wise, she had a scar on her upper lip, and a few hardly visible scars on each side. Her hands showed signs of ageing as well.. Still the young girl found her most beautiful.

"Your mother is not married?" Regina wondered curiously.

"No, she never was. I think she loved my father once or whomever she made me with. I think her heart broke badly when she ended it. She at least says she ended it. She raised me with help from aunt Anna and uncle Kristoff," she explained.

"I see and she is a good mother, did she hurt you earlier?" she asked, nodding towards her arm.

"No it is fine, it could have been much worse. That sounded wrong she has never hit me or anything," she corrected quickly.

"She just have rules you need to follow," Regina concluded. The young girl nodded quietly.

"I know what that is like, so you run away with your horse?" she wondered. For a short moment her mind went back to when she was young, and tried to run away from her own mother.

"Oh no, I would never run away. I love it here, even mom, but I take him for a ride or I play with my reindeer," she said and smiled.

"So no complaints?" Regina wondered with a heavy sigh. She clearly wasn't needed in raising her at all. Elsa had managed fine on her own.

"Only one," Nora told her. "I always wanted to know my father, I mean I look a lot like mom, but I also look like whomever he is and maybe he could explain why I have powers my mom doesn't have," she said, looking down feeling a bit stupid. Actually, she didn't even know why she was confiding in this stranger.

"I think...I think that you don't have a father," said Regina with another heavy sigh, taking one of Nora's hands in her own.

"What?" Nora was confused. Clearly she needed to have that to be born.

"I was with your mother for some time before you was born, I would say around the time you might have been conceived. Our love...you don't come by love that strong very often. That and our magic combined I would say that resulted in you," she explained.

Nora stood up fast, looking at her in disbelief, surely she had to be joking. There was no way that could happen. She couldn't be….

Regina calmly produced a small flame in her hand, making it go bigger, before making it disappear."Seem familiar?" she asked. The girl mentioned having powers Elsa didn't have after all.

"I...have your hair," she whispered, realizing what she said was all true, it had to be. She went over and hugged her hard, tears streaming down her eyes and she was crying softly into her shoulder. She had found her father, or in truth, her mother after all these years. Regina let her cry, stroking her backside gently. Her heart grew with the new-found love she felt for the young girl. She had not felt something like that in the longest time, outside of Henry.

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