Thank you for all the feedback to the first chapter!

I've been asked to continue this story several times so that's what I did and I hope you enjoy it!

As always I'm sorry for all grammar and spelling mistakes. Feel free to tell me what you think.

The few hours until their dinner together felt like years to Maleficent. She heeded Regina's advice and visited Cruella and Ursula to thank them and tell them about the surprising turn of events. It felt good to know that she actually wasn't alone and had true friends that cared for her and were willing to fight for her happy ending. After saying goodbye to the two women she went back to Rumpel's cabin where she took a shower and changed into comfortable but still elegant clothes. Then she realized she still had one hour to go before she could poof herself over to Regina. This hour felt like an eternity but finally she vanished in a cloud of purple smoke and reappeared right in front of the front door of Regina's white mansion. Of course Maleficent could have poofed herself inside the house easily but she didn't want to look intrusive so instead she used the doorbell like every other normal person.

Regina opened the door and smiled at her. "Mal, it's nice that you are here. You are just on time, come on in. Lily is waiting for us in the living room."

Suddenly nervous Mal hesitated to enter the house but Regina's encouraging smile had her step over the threshold in no time. She followed Regina into the living room where her daughter was sitting on the couch holding a drink in her hand.

"Hello Lily." Maleficent greeted the young woman without stepping any closer to her. She respected Lily's wish to start small. Regina handed her a drink as well and Regina and Maleficent sat down at the couch opposite of Lily.

"Hello…Maleficent." Lily said hesitating shortly because she did not know how to address her mother properly. This was even harder than she had thought.

"You know if you are uncomfortable with my name you could just call me Mal that's all right. My friends all call me that." Maleficent suggested. She could understand that her name sounded strange to someone who had not grown up in the enchanted forest.

"Okay" Lily agreed and took another sip of her drink. "So are you going to tell me what kept you from raising me?"

Mal looked at her daughter surprised. She did not expect her to be so straight forward. Maleficent cleared her throat. "Well, I will tell you that I promise but it is a very, very long and complicated story and there are a few things you should know to understand what was going on and it might be easier if we start off you telling me your story and then I promise I'll tell you mine."

Lily looked taken aback for a moment before looking at Regina who nodded. "Mal is right, Lily. It is very complicated and you might not believe this story at first so how about for the beginning you tell us how you grew up and about your life in general." Lily agreed and right in that moment the alarm at the oven went off. So only a couple of minutes later the three of them were sitting at the dining room table enjoying Regina's delicious lasagna.

"I grew up in New York" Lily started quietly. "When I was very little I was adopted by a woman who was in the beginning not very good with children but she tried really hard. We did not have much money, non to be precise."

"She raised you all alone?" Mal asked sadly.

"Ah, no. At the beginning there was another woman but I cannot recall her properly. The two have been together for several years but in the end they broke up. I think us living in poverty caused them to break up because my adoptive mother is, I don't know how to say this, not one for living for the small things, you know. She enjoys luxury and she hates feeling ordinary-"

"Was her name by any chance Cruella?" Regina suddenly asked.

"Regina, what are you implying?" Mal asked surprised.

"Yes, do you know her?" Lily asked surprised as well.

"Yes, we both do. And the other woman who has been living with you when you were smaller probably was Ursula." Regina said. "The two of them are friends. They've helped to find you."

"They are here?" Lily asked excited. "Can I meet them? You know I have not seen them in quite a while."

"Wait, wait, Cruella and Ursula raised you?" Mal asked shocked. "They did not tell me that!"

"Well, yes is that a problem? They raised me together until I was seven or something and then mama and I left and she married a man called Jonathan. He was nice too but…I don't know. He and mama did not fit together very well. I think it was all for the money. Luckily I was still allowed to see mom after they broke up" Lily told them and Regina and Mal listened closely.

"Mama? Mom?" Mal asked with a shaking voice and tears shining in her eyes. "That's how you call them?"

Lily looked uncomfortable. "Well, yes. You know, she never lied to me about the fact that she was not my biological mother but she raised me and cared for me so someday I called her mama. And I called Ursula mom but I never called Jonathan papa. Maybe I was too big for that already or maybe because although he was nice to me he never felt like family. A friend at most."

"I see" Mal said blinking to get rid of the tears in her eyes.

"Maybe that was the reason they didn't tell you. Maybe they thought you would be envious and mad at them." Regina said.

"Maybe I would have been but I guess I should rather be thankful that they looked after my little girl when I couldn't." Mal said the shaking in her voice now replaced with real gratitude for Cruella and Ursula.

"I am very grateful too. They raised me well and loved me although I have not been an easy teenager. I often ran away never thinking about how they must have been worried sick about me. I stole stuff from shops more than once and I often skipped school. My first boyfriend was a drug addict who only wanted me for my parents' money. But no matter how many stupid things I did mom and mama never gave up on me and in the end I was even able to go to college and to university." Lily explained with a small smile on her face. "That's all. I fulfilled my end of the deal now it's your turn. Tell me your story. Why were you not able to raise me?"

Regina and Maleficent looked at each other before Mal inhaled deeply and started talking. This was going to be a long night.

"Well, this is as I said a long story.