Katherine and Henry enter the house to find Regina standing with her arms crossed.
"Where have you two been?" Regina with her arms folded rather annoyed staring at her children. "You're a half hour late."
Graham walks out of the kitchen and looks at Katherine and Henry. "Hi."
"Thank you Sheriff for coming over, my children are back now." Regina says dismissing Graham with a wave of the hand.
Graham nods and leaves avoiding eye contact with Katherine and Regina. As soon as Graham shuts the front door Regina starts.
"I almost had Graham and others going out looking for you."
"Afraid we ran away again?" Katherine rather upset that Graham was in their house again.
"Excuse me?" Regina unfolds her arms and takes a step towards her.
Henry jumps in between the two of them.
"Mom, we were having dinner at Granny's, they were a busy so it took a little longer for our food to come. Sorry." He quickly explains.
Regina steps back looking at her children. "Very well." Regina looks down at Henry and smiles. "Upstairs, homework, sleep wear and then bed." Regina waits for Henry to close his bedroom door. "Katherine." She says calmly. "I want a phone call next time you and your brother are running late."
Katherine looks at her. "Sorry, time just got away from us." Regina looks at her daughter and shakes her head understanding. Katherine twists her hands not use to this mild reaction. "Are you okay?" She asks sensing something is wrong with her mother.
"I am fine." Regina says folding her arms and looking at her daughter, trying to hide the pain.
For whatever reason it is, Katherine knows when her mother is lying and hiding something. Katherine can't explain it, she was adopted, but there is this link, this connection that she knows and feels when Regina is upset.
'Go upstairs and do your homework. I'll be up later to check it." Regina commands.
Katherine goes upstairs pausing at the top looking down at Regina with a worried look.
Later on that evening at Mayor's Mansion
Regina is getting herself ready for bed. She looks out the window to see Graham and Emma talking to each other. A hurtful look crosses her face. She leaves her room to check on Henry.
Henry is fast asleep in bed, his clothes laid out nicely and backpack ready for tomorrow. Regina goes over, bends down and lovingly kisses Henry on the forehead.
She quietly leaves his room to check on Katherine. She comes to Katherine's room. Unlike Henry's Katherine's room is not organized, is not neat and tighty. Katherine's room has clothes on the floor, cd's left out of their cases, books open to certain pages on the floor, on the desk and Katherine fast asleep sideways, fully clothed on the bed. Regina smiled at the peaceful sight of her daughter sleeping. She loved her children so much, but that scared the hell out of her as well. Katherine reminded Regina a little of herself. Always testing limits, always asking questions and wanting to understand why things were.
Regina smiled at the memory of when Katherine was 6 years old and she had been called to the elementary school for something her daughter did. Regina arrived at the school to see Mary Margaret and Katherine sitting outside the Principals office. Katherine innocently swinging her legs talking to Mary Margaret. Katherine stopped swinging her legs the minute Regina walked in. She looked at her mother with big blue innocent eyes. Mary Margaret and Regina entered the Principals office. The principal explained that during recess, Katherine snuck into the building, went to the biology lap and set the frogs scheduled for dissection free, all of them. Katherine had kicked the Principal in the shine when he caught one of the frogs. Yelling that they wanted to be free and shouldn't have to die. In hearing this, Regina put on her serious face, but really couldn't be mad at her daughter. That was the first time Katherine had to be suspended. Regina frowned because it was not the last time her daughter had to be suspended.
Regina walks over and taps Katherine on the leg. "Katherine." She whispers trying to wake her daughter. She taps her on the shoulder. Katherine moans and looks up at Regina. "Sweetie, you're in your clothes." Regina takes the book Katherine had been working on and lays it on top of another stack of opened books.
Katherine sits up looking around like she has no clue where she is. Takes her moment to readjust before she looks up and sees Regina pulling out her sleepwear. Katherine rubs her face sleepily. Regina lays the sleepwear on the bed next to her daughter. "Good
night." She says as she leaves the room.
The next day.
Set after Graham and Emma kiss and Emma and Regina have a confrontation.
Regina enters the mansion in such a rejected angry fashion thinking she is alone. Little does she know that her daughter is watching from another room.
"Why is it that when I find happiness it is taken away from me?" Regina asks looking into a mirror at her self. "It suppose to be my happy ever after, it is not supposed to work this way." Regina looks longing in the mirror. "Emma Swan you will not succeed."
Regina collects herself and leaves the house making her final decision.
That is all it takes for Katherine's blood to boil. Hearing the name of the woman who is causing her mother so much pain, so much heartache. This woman comes into their life, trying to take her brother and destroying her mother's happiness. Seeing her once perfectly held together mother, fall into a rejected state of mind, Katherine balls her fists and quietly removes herself from the house using the backdoor.
As Katherine walks down Storybrooke. She stops and stands in front of the police station. Emma and Graham are inside unaware that she is watching. She sees the 2 kissing and practically making out in the Sheriff's office. But Graham all of a sudden pulls back and looks extremely sick up at Emma. Katherine can't hear what is being said, but knows immediately something is wrong from the looks on their faces. Graham falls over and Emma cries out.
Somehow she knows Regina has something to do with this. A gut feeling she has. Katherine smiles turns and leaves the scene without saying a word.
TBC
