Ever since Emma Swan brought back Marian from the dead and Robin had become angry that she was the one who killed his wife, Regina Mills had stayed away from town.
One, because she was too busy crying.
You tried to kill her? Robin had screamed. He didn't want her excuses. He had called her a murderer. A monster.
God, she should have know she couldn't be happy.
Two, because of what happened next.
When Robin called her a monster... Regina couldn't take it.
She had a magic outburst. Totally an accident. She didn't meant to cause an earthquake. But she did. So, now everyone in town was extremely angry at her for cracking several streets up, damaging the plumbing and causing random power failures all over town. Never mind the fact that she fixed it later. She hadn't had a magic outburst in years. Years! And now she looses control. She was still causing things to shatter and fall when she arrived home. And once again, right after she saved the Charming's baby and stopped the town from being destroyed by Pan, she was hated.
She was the Evil Queen, a monster that was to never be loved.
Henry tried to get her to come out. But she didn't want to see him, in case she would lose control again and hurt him.
But Regina couldn't take being cooped up anymore. She felt like a freak being kept in a cage, and, she wanted to see her son.
Storybrooke is still your town! she told herself, You're still the mayor! You're still in control! Who cares what those idiots think, You need to see Henry!
So, that was how Regina Mills came to be at Granny's at nine in the morning.
She walked into the diner, and everyone gasped.
The idiotic merry men were guarding Robin, Marian and Roland, giving her distrustful glares as she walked in. Snow clutched Neal tighter to her chest, David in front of his wife and son. Emma was in front of Henry, Captain Guy-liner watching Emma nervously.
She rolled her eyes, but she kept her cool and walked towards her seat at the counter, not noticing the strangers next to her.
"Regina-" Swan started, but Regina wasn't in the mood.
"Miss Swan, I did not come here to be patronized by you and the residence of this town, I came to get something to eat and talk to my son." she snapped.
Emma gulped, and realized she was blocking Regina from seeing the strangers.
God, it was too early in the morning to be dealing with this. She had her plate covered already with the people that kept vanishing, now Prince William and Kate, and now she had to deal with a pissed-off mayor.
"Yeah, but-" But once again, Regina interrupted.
"I came for Henry." she said, smiling at her son, the diner's eyes till on her distrustfully.
"Oh..." Emma said, then clutched her son's shoulder's tighter, "I don't... I don't know if that's a good idea." Emma said carefully, and Regina's smile vanished like that.
"Why not?"
"Well... I mean... You did lose control of your magic and I'm not sure if you're safe... And, I mean, I did just get back from you-know-where, and I still-"
"Yes, Miss Swan, it must be so very hard having to deal with your loving family, caring son, dozens of friends and happy boyfriend, I would feel so much sympathy for you if I only knew what that was like!" Regina hissed quietly, trying to keep the entire diner from overhearing.
The diner was too busy trying to listen on the quiet conversation to notice when the Doctor pulled out his screwdriver and scanned Miss Mills.
"Regina, I told you, I didn't mean to-"
"You know what, no. I came for Henry, and since you obviously won't let me take him, I have no more reason to be here! Regina hissed angrily, then turned angrily and stormed out of the diner.
She slammed the door behind her, and the lights of the diner flickered, causing everyone to jump.
The Doctor looked up, then at Rose, then at the woman who was storming across the street.
Rose clutched the Doctor's arm as he threw a twenty on the counter for their food, then stood up.
"Come on." he said, hurrying out of the diner.
The two closed the door behind them and hurried onto the streets of Storybrooke.
"What, where are we going?" she asked.
"Following her!" The Doctor said, pointing at the mayor who was a good thirty yards ahead of them.
"What? Why?" Rose asked, puzzled.
"Because, I scanned her, and you wanna know what came back?" The Doctor didn't wait for Rose to answer.
"Energy! Pure, raw energy! I don't know how or why, but Miss Regina Mills is giving off enough energy to power at least forty nuclear power plants! Forty!" the Doctor laughed.
Rose looked up at the woman, then back at the Doctor.
"How? She should be dead!" Rose said.
"I don't know!" The Doctor laughed, "But there's no way she's human!"
Rose and the Doctor smiled at each other, then hurried to catch up with the mayor. They followed her as she walked up the street, turned, turned again, and finally, started towards the woods.
"She's going to the woods." the Doctor whispered.
They were hiding on the sidewalk, several yards away from the mayor, and they waited until she was deeper in the woods to race out and dive into the woods. They stayed in the trees, and they walked for what felt like forever, until the mayor stopped at a bench.
"What's she doing?" The Doctor asked, tilting his head as the mayor bent down, pulled her knees to her chest and put her face in.
"She's... Crying?" Rose asked, surprised.
Sure enough, the Doctor heard a quiet sniffling, and when the woman looked up, her face was streaked with tears. The Doctor suddenly felt like he was intruding on the woman, not just following. She didn't seem harmless, curled up on a bench and crying. He leaned back some, and underneath his feet, he heard pine needles crunch.
Rose and the Doctor stiffened, praying the noise hadn't been heard. But their praying went to deaf ears as the mayor looked up and found them.
Angry didn't even begin to describe Regina's face.
The woman stood up and put her hands on her hips.
"Who the hell are you?" she snapped in a way that demanded an answer. Now.
The Doctor cleared his throat and stepped forward with Rose.
"John Smith and Rose Tyler, we're with the Maine... Department of environmental protection and studies." he said, pulling out the psychic paper and holding it up for the mayor.
She arched an eye at it, then at the Doctor and Rose, then said, "That's a blank piece of paper."
The Doctor jumped, then looked at the paper that was supposed to be a badge.
"Who are you really?" she said, narrowing her eyes at them.
The Doctor stepped forward, and decided to drop the act.
"I'm the Doctor." he said, smiling, "And whatever it is you want with this world, whatever you and the others have planned, you're not going to get it. We'll stop you. You're not gonna hurt anyone!" he said coldly.
Regina shook her head. "You're insane!"
"You give off enough energy to power forty nuclear power plants, miss mayor!" The Doctor snapped, something that obviously surprised the mayor. She looked down at her hands and gulped.
"You're dangerous." he continued, and he instantly regretted it as she looked up with insane hurt in her eyes.
"No I'm not!" she choked, her voice catching.
"What are you planning?" the Doctor continued, "What do you want with the people of this town!"
"I'm not the one taking them!" She screamed, and the Doctor jumped back.
"Taking them?" he asked, confused, "Taking who?"
Regina ignored his question, she just gave him an angry look, then pointed at the ground the two were standing in.
Suddenly, the Doctor and Rose couldn't move. They tried, jerking, but they couldn't move their feet.
"Alright," the Doctor said to his companion, "Not gonna lie, wasn't expecting that."
"How did you do that?" Rose yelped.
Regina didn't answer.
"How did you get into town?" she demanded.
"We were traveling, we crashed!" the Doctor yelped, growing panicked at his inability to move, "We're not doing anything bad, we're just trying to help!" he said.
"I don't need your help!" she snapped angrily. Regina opened her mouth to say something, but she froze when a sudden roar filled the forest.
"Doctor!" Rose screamed, pointing behind Regina.
The creature was huge, a mix behind a lion, an eagle, a horse and a bear.
Regina jumped, then yelped at something behind the Doctor and Rose.
Another one of the creatures came up behind the Doctor, then another one to their sides. The three creatures hissed at them, striking the three as cat-like, and then the Doctor noticed their huge, blood-covered claws.
"Doctor." Rose whimpered, clutching her friend's arm.
"We're surrounded." the Doctor said, Regina in front of them.
"Don't panic, we'll be fine! I'll protect you." the Doctor said to Rose and the mayor.
Regina laughed, and held up her hand.
With no warning, her hand caught fire. The Doctor and Rose screamed, and they would have jumped back if they could.
Regina threw her fiery hand at the creature in front of her, and the creature howled in pain as the fire leapt from Regina's hand and caught the creature on fire. The creature screamed, then turned and ran off into the woods. The others took this as a sign of war and threw themselves at the mayor. The Doctor watched in sick fascination as Regina turned to the one that jumped her first, and yelled as a lightning strike hit the creature. The creature suddenly flew back in a bust of sparks, a huge lightning strike burn on it's chest. The third lion-bear-eagle beast howled in outrage and ran at the Doctor and Rose in a blind fit of rage. The Doctor and Rose screamed, and both put their hands up, waiting for the pain. But the pain didn't come. They both looked up to find the creature mere feet from their faces, it's claws outstretched and fangs bared. It's eyes were terrified, and small choking noises were coming from it's mouth.
Regina's arm was outstretched, her hand cupped, pointed at the creature's throat.
She's choking it! The Doctor realized. He didn't know how, but somehow she was.
"STOP!" The Doctor yelled to her, but Regina ignored him. "YOU'RE GOING TO KILL IT!"
The Doctor groaned as the creature's eyes rolled in the back of it's head, and then he realized he could lift his feet.
The time lord wasted no time. He took off running for the Mayor, and slammed into her, causing her to yell as she smashed into the forest ground. The creature dropped to the ground, gasping for breath, then stood up and took off into the forest, passing the dead one that had been struck by lightening.
Regina yelled angrily, as she laid on the ground, the Doctor on top of her. "GET OFF ME!" she snapped, throwing him off her.
"Why did you do that!" she yelled angrily as the two stood.
"You were going to kill it!" he screamed, stomping up to her.
"It was gonna kill you!" Regina yelled back.
"It's not right to kill a creature just because it doesn't know better!" Rose snapped, coming behind the Doctor.
Regina threw her head back and laughed, "You're preaching to a lost cause, blondie!" she hissed.
"I'm not going to stand by as you kill an innocent creature! Those beings don't belong here, and neither do you! Whatever it is you're doing to this town, whatever you have planned for this planet, I won't let you hurt these humans! I'm the Doctor, I've stopped beings like you before, and I'll do it again!" he yelled.
Regina was taken aback. He spoke of earth and the people here like he wasn't one... Like he was from another world, another place... Like her.
"What are you?" she whispered, staring at him.
"I'm the Doctor." he said, smiling wickedly.
Regina just stared at him, her eyes filled with confusion and fear.
The last thing the Doctor and Rose remembered was Regina waving her hand in front of them and blue smoke filling their vision...
