Sorry it took so long, I couldn't wirte for a long period. This time I have a new thing: I'll sometimes have Regina's pov in this kind of writing. Hope you'll enjoy it!
Everyone was still dancing and having a good time, that was why the castle was totally desert.
"Regina, where are we going?" I asked while walking down the dark corridor. "Could you just be patient and wait and see?" said her in her usual Mayor tone. " 'kay" I mumbled rolling my eyes. I couldn't really imagine where we were heading, I didn't have time for a tour of the castle where I was born, in these two days I'd been busy to make sure regina did the right choice, to go around the kingdom understanding where people belonged and the connections between their lives in Storybrooke and here. Our shadows were casted by the weak light of fire torches here and there, they danced on the walls, confusing with the darkness. "You must be tired, aren't you?" she asked me. "A little bit. You know, these days I've had a lot on my hands. I still have to understand how life works here" "Oh believe me, it's not really difficult to swich to if you're not an idiot like most of those peasants in that room, and I have to admitt you've never been such a person. So don't worry, you'll get used to it". She was so hard to stand sometimes, even if yes, I had to admit myself sometimes they could get problematic.
"Uhm uhm, ok. And, what about different people like you and me?" she stopped at my question. She slowly turned to face me. "Sorry?" "Yes, like me and you, at least like we will be when you'll teach me how to use magic". Her face went worried for a moment, then she put her mask on again and with that cold look she said to me "Ms Swan, you should consider the idea of us like two extremely different beings. Yes, there will be magic into you, but this won't make us more alike than we are right now in this dark corridor. Was I clear enough?". Those words gave me chills. I didn't honestly know why, but I doubted that it was just the look in her eyes. Only then I noticed we were just inches apart and that bodies almost touched. I held her gaze and didn't say a single word. Why was she keeping this distance between us when we both knew it was useless, when we both knew she didn't want to? I was the only person in this kingdom who tried to save her, who understood her, and even if she wouldn't admit that in a thousand centuries I was the only one she trusted. In that moment she turned back and started walking again, so did I.
"Similar, that's the point. She still doesn't see how things are, how we are really similar, maybe more than I'd like to. We are the queen and the lion heart. But till she can't see that I'm fine, till she can't sense how we complete each other I'm out of trouble" I thought looking in those green eyes, staying as cold as I could, saying those words with all the convintion I could pretend to have. She was stoned, indeed she was. I took another second, then turned myself and walked again.
I was really thinking that we got lost when she suddenly stopped and took a key out of her sleeve. She put it inside the wall and turned it till I saw the corridor split in two in a certaint point. She opened the door and got in. "Do you need an invitation or will you just follow me?" she asked, so I went in. She closed the door behind my back and I turned to face her.
"Where are we, Regina?" "I thought it was obvious, we're in a bedroom". I looked around but it was darker than outside, so I couldn't see anything. "Oh yes, it would be if I was able to see a thing!" I said a little ironically. She let out a thin breath and snapped her fingers, then ten candles lighted up, revealing a one sided bed, a really big desk and a huge wardrobe. Three windows were in front of me, covered with heavy blue curtains. "Did you stay here for those two days?" I asked her "Yes, I didn't go anywhere else. Your parents didn't trust me as much as you did, so they called the blue fairy to cast a spell on this room: I can do all the magic I want, but I can't escape from here. So yes, I didn't go anywhere, not that I would if I had the chance, still" she said bitterly. "Well, yes, you'll have to give them time with the trust thing, you know..." "Yes" she cutted off. Alright, she obviously didn't want to talk about that.
"So, why are we here?" "Because it was getting cold outside and I don't want to stay inside where I can be seen by everybody. I'm not ready yet. And I thought you'd want to be warmer too..." "Yes. Thank you" "And by the way, we could try something tonight" she said in a very low voice. I looked at her rising an eyebrow. "What do you mean with that?" I asked lowering my voice as well. She looked in my eyes for a second with a look I couldn't understand, then she snapped her fingers again. Suddenly she was in a white silk sleeping gown. "Magic, of course. Do you want to sleep with your dress still on Emma?" she said smirking a little. "Obviously not, but my stuff is in my bedroom" "which you won't find without any help tonight, it's too far from here and corridors are black in the darkness" "Are you saing you want me to stay for the night?" "Yes, something like that" "Cool. Listen, I can't. You've only got a single bed and I'm not gonna sleep on the floor, it's too cold. Not mentioning that I haven't got my stuff with me. It can't be done" "Oh please, do you underestimate me this way?" Regina said rolling here eyes and moving her wrist with a circular rotation toward the bed wich turned in a double bed. "Now, Emma, what about bringing your stuff here?" "It'd be my pleasure. But you'd do all of this just t not sleep alone tonight?" "Well, I'm not doing anything more. You will pick your pijama exactly on you" "Really? How am I supposed to?" "With magic, dear" "Oh please Regina, I can't do that! Looks like an upper level!" "May you just listen me once? I'll tell you how, this is one of the easier things, I wouldn't ask you something you are not capable of. Look, do you want to learn how to use magic? So you should do exactly what I tell you to". I took a deep breath, still not understanding why she couldn't just led me to my chamber. "Fine. Tell me how" "Well, first of all imagine the thing you want to wear. Can you picture it clearly in your mind, every detail of it? Maybe closing your eyes would help" I did as she said, picturing my light blue sleeping gown , short sleeves, v neckline, knees long. "Next step?" "You need to change yourself mentally. Feel the process. First, you have to be nacked, feel the air on your skin, then you have to feel the fabric on you, every part of it cleaving your body. It will take a bit since is the first time, so please, be patient". I listened carefully and concentrated. At one point I felt cold, and that was when I knew I was nacked. I tried to concentrate on my gown, but coldness was taking my concentration away. "I can't! It's too cold!" focus on your pijama, you can wear it, the more you concentrate, the less you'll be cold". I focused on the fabric, I focused on the warmth that would've give me. And then at one point I felt something on my skin. I opened my eyes and I found myself in gown. "I did it! God, I did it!" I said with a smile, feeling like a boss. "Yes Miss Swan, you did it. And I have to tell you one thing. It's not exactly one of the easier thing as your first act of magic, so, you're really good!"
I suspected that, but I didn't say a thing. I was exausted, It had been really hard. "Can I just take some sleep right now? I'm really tired" "Of course. Good night Ms Swan". I layed under the covers and in a blink of an eye I was in my dreams.
