I think that this chapter is a little OOC, but I'm not sure.
They got off the ship and found the streets of Storybrooke empty.
"What the hell? Where is everyone?" Regina imagined that someone would at least keep an eye on the docks or actually be on the streets.
"I have no idea, let's check at The Granny's. If nothing at least we know that Ruby and Granny will be there." Emma suggested. They all nodded and went little further down the street and then turned left. They found that the little dinner was crowded, every child, man and woman of Storybrooke were there, it's like they were discussing something very important.
"May I?" Regina asked with an excited grin, she wanted to scare the hell out of them for like a second.
"Please?" Regina used her puppy dog face for the first time in her life, she picked it up from Henry and Emma.
"Fine. But just this once, and only cause you look adorable."
"Say that again and I'll have your head on a silver plate, I'm not adorable, that's an insult." They all chuckled at her, now she looked even more adorable.
"Go on, before we change our minds." Henry rushed her. Regina disappeared in the cloud of purple smoke and reappeared in the middle of the dinner.
"You are not having another voting for the mayor, are you? I haven't been gone for that long, dear." And she got the desired effect, they all screamed when they saw her.
"Surprise!" The others went in and ruined Regina's fun, Regina mumbled under her breath a "not fair." she sounded like a five year old child.
Belle ran to Rumple and they kissed the moment they got hands on each other. When they let go, they went to Neal and pulled him in a hug. Others were hugged and congratulated by the town's people, their friends from Enchanted Forest. Regina stood and watched as the people greeted each other and felt like she didn't fit, they were right after all, no matter how she tried to change and how much she did change all these people would always see her like an Evil Queen. She went to the doors when she was stopped by Granny and suddenly the whole dinner focused on the two of them.
"They told me what you did at that island, and I want you to know that I am so proud of you, I know you probably hated us all, but for those ten years that I spend with you while you took care of that little boy over there, when I was with you while you told him stories about a girl that got everything taken from her, for those ten years I cared for you like you were my daughter, when the curse broke I finally realised that those stories were about you, your life, and my heart broke when I remembered how you really are, I believed that you could change, and I wanted it with all my heart, and here we are three years* later, and you did it, you changed, you saved all the people you hate, hopefully hated, and they never thanked you, so here I am, thanking you in the names of us all. To Regina, the woman that keeps surprising us." Granny was in tears, Regina was in tears, the whole dinner was in tears. Rumplestilstkin held Belle close and felt guilty for everything that ever happened to Regina. The whole dinner raised their glasses and said "To Regina!" Regina hugged Granny, whispered "I never hated you." and with a corner of her eye she watched as the quilt flashed on her father's face and was gone in the mere moments, he whipped the tears that he didn't notice before.
Regina quickly pulled from Granny's hands and said "No, stop, you shouldn't be doing this, I am not who you think I am, I have no chance at being good, I was dark before I was even born." There it was her biggest secret, why she wouldn't, no, couldn't talk to Rumple about the whole daughter/father thing, why she didn't asked all the questions that were always at her mind, she wanted to scream at him, to yell at him, but she didn't, she let the purple smoke round her and she was gone. The moment she disappeared Rumple, Neal and Henry wanted to follow her but were stopped by Granny.
"Whoever you are to her, you need to leave her alone." She aimed those words at Rumple and Neal. "You too, Henry. She needs some time alone, she probably left to her vault, she'll be fine."
Regina reappeared in her vault, she pushed the fake coffin and went downstairs, she knew that vault better then she knew everything, she knew every turn, every path, every stone, she spend the most of her time here. She found what she was looking for, big doors were before her and on them name "Henry Mills" was engraved, letters were golden and beautiful. She went in, his body was there in big royal coffin, she spoke to her father, she believed that he was always watching her.
"Hey, daddy. You don't have to worry about Rumple, you are - were the best father ever, you raised me, you thought me everything I know, and you loved me and I love you." The tears were streaming down her face but she went on, she moved to another door, now the name "Cora Mills" was engraved in the same golden letters. She pulled the door open and was faced with a coffin and two red roses that lied on it. She remembered the roses, one was hers and one was Rumple's, the roses looked fresh, like they have just been brought from the garden.
"I guess you knew who I was, all that time, and you never found a way to tell me, I could have coped with it, you know? I am much stronger then the world thinks I am. You could have told me." She turned and was ready to walk out of the room, when she remembered how much time has past since she told her mother that. " I love you, mother." She left the room and went in the last one, the most important one, the closest one to her heart, engraved golden letters made the name "Daniel" the letters were beautiful, stunning. She went in and was in the room were once was Daniel's body, now it's just a big, cold stone with Daniel's name and the date he died. There she broke down, she fell on the floor and held her hands around her legs and her head was on her knees, she just set there and cried, there was nothing she could tell Daniel that he already didn't know, he knew her better then she knew herself. She finally fell asleep, exhaustion taking over her body.
Rumple paced around his shop, the sun was already in the sky, he worried where Regina could possibly be, he was at the mansion and no one was there, he went to her vault and didn't hear anything, he didn't wanted to get to deep in the vault, he wanted to respect her privacy, he heard as the door bell rung and quickly went to look who it was. He was kinda disappointed when Henry walked through it.
"Hello." Henry greeted him but it was obvious that he tried to hide the worry in his voice, Rumple answered with the same voice.
"Have you heard from mom? Do you know where she is?" Henry asked, he wanted to ask so many questions but he asked these first.
"No, I'm sorry, Henry."
"What happened in Neverland? What did you do to her?" Henry asked a little angrier, he worried about his mother and didn't want to see her hurt.
"I told her that she is..." hesitation was visible, maybe it would be better if she told him.
"She is, what? Tell me." Henry calmed down when he saw that Rumple hesitated, he noticed that he worried too.
"She is my daughter." Rumple whispered.
"What? No... How? Why? When? Where?" Henry rambled when he was nervous.
"Henry, it's true."
"That's why she thinks that she can't be good, because she is daughter of The Dark One and Cora. We have to find her, now."
"I agree."
Regina was back in her mansion with a bottle of vodka in her hand, she preferred the cider but she needed something stronger.
"Here he comes... again!" Regina yelled when she saw red smoke appearing in her living room, she was very drunk.
"Hello, Rumple." And then started giggling.
"What? Regina, you are drunk." Rumple couldn't help but comment, good thing he didn't let Henry come with him.
"And you are my father, it's not all fairytale now is it?" She fired back.
"Give me that!" He tried to snatch her bottle of vodka, but she fought for it very hard.
"No, not my drink! I need a drink! Go away, you're boring!"
"I'm sorry about this, but you are unbelievable and drunk."
"Sorry about what?" She asked and in that moment was knocked out with magic.
"That." He then removed all the drinks from her system and got her to bed with a wave of his hand. She didn't sleep much, she woke after fifteen minutes.
"You knocked me out!" Regina yelled at Rumplestilstkin.
"And you had too much to drink."
"I am stressed!" Regina reasoned her drinking.
"And I'm your father no matter what you say! I am here to take care of you and that's what I am going to do." He was very annoyed with her at this moment, couldn't she stop being stubborn for one minute, just one? He thought. He saw her get up, and he stopped her.
"Where do you think you are going?"
"I am going to have a shower and then, I'm going to go to Granny's, I missed her pancakes... Oh, and when I leave the shower, would you mind going to your home, you do have a girlfriend and a son, remember, dad?" The last word was dripping with sarcasm, he was not her father.
"Fine." And he disappeared in the could of red smoke, he didn't take her seriously, she was just angry with him, or at least he hoped she was.
She went in her bathroom and stood in front of the mirror. "No, no crying, pull yourself together woman!" She didn't want to cry anymore, she needed last night, but it's over, Henry was there and alive. She showered and dressed and then went to Granny's where she hoped she'd find Henry.
The bell on the door rung and all the people that were there looked at her. She didn't say anything, she held her head high and went to the last booth.
"Hey, Regina, what would you like?" Ruby asked with a notepad in her hands.
"Granny's apple pancakes, you do serve them, or don't serve them?" She wasn't here to get her breakfast since the curse broke.
"We don't, but I'm sure Granny can fix something, she cares for you after all."
"She does?" Regina whispered, after all she did, someone cared for her?
"Yes, she does, we all will if you give us more time."
"Right, okay, now my pancakes?"
"I'll be back."
Regina waited for her return when someone got in the dinner, she looked up and saw Rumple, Neal and Belle coming thruogh. He must hate her, she was so unfair to him, so she stood up and went to them.
"Can we talk?" Regina asked Rumple, he looked surprised but not wanting to be hurt again by her words, he answered her in a cold voice.
"Why? So you could make me feel more quilt than I already feel? So that you could push me back every time I try to talk to you? I was there, Regina! I watched you grow up, did you really think that I could leave a child with Cora, even if I didn't know you were mine, I was there, I sang you lullabies every night you had a nightmares."
"Yet, you didn't stop her. Can we just talk, please? It won't take long... Please?"
"Fine... Belle and Neal you order something I'll be back."
* - I counted the year when Emma came to Storybrooke...
And also I did what I did with Granny because I want(ed) to believe that Regina had help from her while she raised Henry.
