Chapter 4
When Snow arrived at Regina's office, she saw the door was open and Regina was sitting at her desk looking over papers. Snow walked through the doorway and stopped once she was in the room. After a few seconds had passed and Regina didn't seem to have noticed her, Snow finally spoke.
"Hello, Regina." Regina froze when she heard Snow's voice but didn't look up right away.
"You," Regina said after looking up, almost glaring at Snow. By the way she was looking at her, Snow could tell Regina was angry about something. She had a feeling that it had something to do with her returned memories and with Sara. "What do you want?"
"I wanted to see how you are since last week. We were right, weren't we? About the memory spell?" Snow asked while walking into the room until she was in front of Regina's desk.
"That's none of your business, is it?" Regina questioned, though her reply confirmed what Snow already knew, the potion worked.
"Maybe it's not but…Regina, you asked for our help, which we were very willing to give to you."
"I doubt that."
"You might not believe we genuinely wanted to help you but we were and still are," Snow said. "I know how hard it is to make sense of things when you get memories back. Regina, who's Sara?"
Regina expression softened at the mention of Sara and her eyes flickered away from Snow's. After a week of trying her hardest not to think about Sara and keeping her feelings about what she now remembered at bay as much as she could was becoming increasingly more difficult.
"Sara is my daughter," Regina said and saw Snow's facial expression quickly turn to one of shock.
"…Your daughter. You have a daughter, Regina?"
"Yes. It seems I do," Regina said and Snow didn't miss the few tears that went down Regina's face.
"So someone cast a memory spell to make you forget your daughter," Snow said, sitting down in a chair by Regina's desk. Regina again glared at Snow, feeling anger rush through her at the mention of what had happened to her.
"What happened?"
"I don't know. The last thing I remember is the night she was born, the next morning she was gone, along with my memories."
"When?" Was all Snow could say, still trying to comprehend what she was just told.
"Before I married your father."
"But I saw you in the months before the wedding. You weren't…" Snow trailed off, feeling confused.
"My mother used a shape-shifting spell to hide the pregnancy so no one would know."
"Then that would mean Sara's father…" Snow said, realizing what this meant. "Daniel. Daniel is Sara's father."
"Yes, Daniel is her father," Regina said, staying calm despite the pain this was bringing up for her.
"Regina, I am so sorry," Snow apologized, now understanding why when the memory spell was lifted Regina had said it was her fault.
"I'm sorry, too, but they're both gone now and that's not going to change."
Though Snow knew she was not truly to blame for Daniel's death, she couldn't help but feel partly responsible for what happened, after all she was the one who told Cora Regina's secret. Snow's thoughts drift to something that would be horrible if it was true; since Cora had killed Daniel, what if she had been the one who took Regina's daughter away and used the memory spell to erase Regina's memories of Sara. Snow knew better then to share this with Regina right now, knowing it would not go over well. Snow glanced up at Regina, who didn't look that angry anymore she looked more pained than angry.
"Regina, I…"
"Please leave," Regina said. Having Snow there while her mind was thinking about what happened to both Daniel and Sara was not helping. After Regina said for her to leave, Snow didn't say anything more and quietly left the room.
Emma and David were busy talking about town matters when Snow walked into the police station.
"Snow." David noticed his wife had come into the station, looking pretty stunned.
"Mom?" Emma asked after turning around in the chair she was sitting in and after seeing the look on her mother's face, she started to worry about what went on when Snow talked to Regina.
"Snow, what happened? Did Regina do something to you?" David asked, concerned.
"No, she didn't," Snow reassure her family and leaned her back against a desk while David stood next to her with his hand on her forearm.
"What did happen?" Emma asked after standing up.
"Well, we were right that the potion worked and lifted a memory spell off Regina."
"Yeah, we all gathered that, Mom," Emma said, briefly glancing toward David. "So did Regina tell you who Sara is?"
"Sara is Regina's daughter." David and Emma's mouths opened slightly looking as stunned as Snow had.
"Her daughter. Regina has a daughter?" Emma asked in disbelief.
"Apparently she does," Snow said to her daughter. "The memories that were erased were of Sara. Regina told me the memories of her daughter were gone the morning after Sara was born—along with Sara."
"Wait, how could someone not know that they had a baby the night before? I mean, I know for you guys it was the curse but wouldn't Regina have noticed she just had just a baby?" Emma questioned.
"It has to be the memory spell. With the memories gone, Regina wouldn't even suspect she had a baby. I guess, Emma, it would be like what the curse did to us," Snow said glancing David's way.
"Makes sense, I guess."
"When was this?" David asked.
"Regina said Sara was born before she married my father. I never knew because Cora would use her shape-shifting spell on Regina to hide the pregnancy when my father and I would visit."
"Who is Sara's father?" Emma asked.
"Daniel."
"Regina's fiancé?" Emma questioned and Snow nodded. "So who do you think used the memory spell to erase Regina's memories?"
"I have an idea, but I'm not too sure how Regina would take to it."
"Cora." David answered.
"Yes. I think she was the one who took Sara from Regina and cast the memory spell."
"That's…wow…" David said. Emma nodded in agreement.
"I know Cora is a horrible person, obviously, but would she really do that to her daughter?" Emma asked.
"I think she would. She ripped out Daniel's heart because she wanted Regina to be Queen; she wasn't about to let anything get in the way of that."
"You don't think she might have…?" David asked.
"What, killed her granddaughter?" Emma questioned.
"I know it's horrible to think about but…"
"Let's hope Sara's alive for Regina's sake," Snow said.
"Do you think Regina thinks Cora's involved with this?" Emma asked.
"I don't think she's given it much thought since Cora after all is her mother and we saw what happened with Regina when Cora showed up here in Storybrooke," Snow said and her mind went back to thinking about Sara. "I do wonder what happened to Sara, though."
"What happened to Sara?" They all looked behind Snow to see Henry had just wandered in.
"Henry." Emma went over to her son.
"Did you guys figure out who Sara is?" Henry asked again, wondering if they had figured it out or if his mom told them.
"Emma, we should tell him. He should know," Snow said. Emma nodded and turned to Henry.
"Did you talk to Regina, Mom?" Henry asked.
"Mary Margaret did. Henry, it turns out Sara is Regina's daughter."
"My mom has a daughter?" Henry questioned. "That's what the memories were that were erased?"
"Yes, Henry, they were."
"Is my mom okay?" Henry asked, remembering his mom's face when she left the apartment a week ago.
"I don't think she's doing so well right now, Henry," Snow informed him.
"Where is Sara?"
"We don't know Henry," Emma answered.
"We should look for her, though, right? For my mom?"
"I don't know, Henry. What happened with Sara was a long time ago and we don't know how Regina would feel about us looking for her."
"But she's family, so is Sara. We should find her."
"Henry's right. We should talk to Regina about finding Sara. We can't just turn away from this, not now," Snow said and Emma turned to her mom. "After what happened with Cora and Daniel, maybe I can make up for it by finding Sara. It would be wrong to give Regina false hope. But, Emma, you found us after twenty-eight years. It's possible."
"So we'll go talk to my mom about finding her?" Henry asked hopefully.
"Yes, Henry. We will," David said.
A little while later, Snow was once again on the stoop of Regina's house. She went to the office first to find Regina not there and figured she probably went home. Snow took a breath before ringing the doorbell.
After a few minutes, Regina answered the door.
"What are you doing here?" Regina was not terribly pleased seeing Snow again. She was hoping it would be Henry at the door.
"I'm so sorry that you lost your daughter and Daniel, Regina. I am sorry I killed your mother, there were other paths I could have chosen and I chose the easy one."
"As I said earlier, you can't change what happened," Regina said.
"Maybe not but I think I know how to start making it better," Snow said. Regina furrowed her eyebrows. "We can help you find your daughter."
"What?" The question of where Sara was had crossed Regina's mind multiple times during the past week. She did want to find her daughter but she couldn't let herself hope it would be possible with so little to go on.
"We can help you find her. You could have the chance of meeting her. Regina, we've come this far, we can't stop now. I know it seems impossible but Emma found us. It's possible we can find Sara," Snow insisted. "I know you want to find your daughter."
As much as Regina hated to admit it, Snow had a point; Emma had found her parents after a long time. So it could be possible to find Sara. She could also tell Snow really did want to help her find her daughter. Though she was a little angry with them for opening her to the pain caused by the memories she knew deep down they didn't know what happened to her like she didn't. When she asked for their help because Henry wanted it, they had come through in helping her. Maybe they could help her find her daughter too.
"What if we can't find her?" Regina questioned, voicing her fear.
"We can try, Regina. If we can't at least we'll know we tried to find her," Snow said, Regina heard the gate open and saw Henry, Emma and David coming up the path.
"Henry," Regina said, happy to see her son.
"I'm sorry about you losing your daughter, Mom," Henry said softly as he hugged her. Then after they broke the hug, Henry asked, "So, are we going to do it? Find Sara?"
"We'll try," Snow said.
"How do we start?" Henry asked the question that was on everyone else's mind.
"Well, we do know someone who seems to always know about things like this and has been known to make deals involving babies," David commented.
"Gold," Regina said.
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