"Rumpelstiltskin!" An odd man with golden skin appeared in front of the Queen.
He bowed. "My Queen?" Regina smiled a little, but it didn't last long. "What can I do for you, dearie?" The imp asked.
"I need a potion! Emma remembers the night she was born. She remembers Snow White!" The Queen explained with disgust.
The imp nodded. "Well, dearie, as you know, all magic comes with a price!"
Regina sighed. "Fine! Name it!" She said desperately.
"I know you're keeping Belle somewhere! I want her back!" The imp said.
Regina agreed, but on one condition: "Belle is Emma's teacher and I want it to stay that way!"
The imp nodded. "As you wish."
"Now give me my potion!" The Queen demanded angrily.
Rumpelstiltskin conjured all the needed ingredients and told her how to make the potion. "Now you have to keep your end of the deal, dearie!"
Regina rolled her eyes and a purple cloud made Belle appear in the room. "Belle, dear, I'll see you tomorrow for Emma's classes." The other Brunette nodded, before she and the imp left.
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"Emma, darling, is there anything else you remember from your dream last night?" Regina wanted to make sure she eliminated everything the girl remembered about her birthparents.
"Mommy," The young girl said. "I don't like Snow White! She wanted to take me away from you!"
This made Regina smile. "Nobody is going to take you away from me, my love! I promise!" Emma nodded and hugged her tightly.
At that moment Regina was happy. She decided to let Emma keep her memories for now. As long as the young girl hated Snow White, it would make her revenge even sweeter.
"Mommy? Can we go for a walk to the lake?" Emma looked up at the Brunette woman. Her eyes were filled with hope.
"I have an even better idea! How about we take the horses out?" Emma's eyes shone brightly. The child loved spending time with her mother.
A few weeks later
Belle knocked on the Queen's door.
The Queen sighed irritated at the interruption. She walked to the door.
A confused look crossed her face as she saw Emma's teacher before her.
"Shouldn't you be teaching my daughter?" The Queen asked harshly.
"I'm sorry to bother you, my Queen, but Emma didn't come to her classes today!" The Queen's eyes widened dramatically.
"What do you mean, she didn't come to class today I walked her to the study myself!" Worry filled Regina's eyes.
"I was a bit late today, because of a tree that fell on the road and when I got to the study Emma wasn't there!" Regina's eyes filled with fury.
"Why didn't you come here faster, I brought her to the study over an hour ago!" The Queen yelled.
"I'm sorry! I thought maybe Emma went to the stables or to the playroom, but I can't find her anywhere!" Belle's face was red with embarrassment.
"If anything happened to my baby girl, I'm gonna kill you! How could you be so careless? Emma is just a child!" Regina screamed.
Regina turned to her mirror and dismissed Belle. Once the door was closed once more Regina spoke. "Mirror! Show me where my daughter is!"
An image appeared of the frightened young Blonde crying and screaming for her Mother. Regina's heart broke. Just before she was going to transport herself to her daughter's location someone else appeared in the mirror.
"Mother!" Regina snarled.
The woman in the mirror walked towards the child and grabbed her by the arm forcefully.
"Stop crying, child! It's very Princess like! Your mother would be very angry with you if she saw you right know!"
This was too much for Regina; she made the image disappear and transported herself to Emma.
"Let go of my daughter!" Regina snarled furiously.
Her mother laughed. "Hello Regina! Were you ever going to introduce me to my grandchild?" Cora asked as she shoved Emma to the ground.
Emma fell on her knees so hard that they were bleeding. "My daughter doesn't love you, Emma! You aren't even her real daughter!"
Emma stood up angrily. "That's not true! Mommy does love me!" Regina smiled proudly at her daughter and nodded that she was right.
Cora watched the two, before slapping the child's cheek. "Don't be such a fool, dear! You are Snow White's daughter! Snow is Regina's enemy so she could never love you!"
Tears filled the child's eyes as she looked at her mother in realization.
"Is it true, Mommy? Is that why I had that nightmare?"
Tears flowed down both their faces. Regina just stood there. She couldn't lie to her daughter, but she also knew that if she told her the truth the child would hate her forever.
While both mother and child were busy starring at each other, neither realized that Cora was standing once more next to Emma.
Before Regina could even react her mother and her daughter were gone, leaving only a cloud of almost black smoke that soon vanished as well.
Was her daughter ever gonna forgive her? Will she ever see her little angel again?
The only thing Regina knew right now, was that she was never going to stop trying to get her daughter back.
