A/N: Ok so I've decided to make this chapter a flash back because I am having a bit of writers block and I'm unsure of what should happen next so I figured writing what happened before may be easier :)
Chapter 7
*Flashback to about 2 and a half weeks ago*
Zelena, The wicked witch was defeated, and Emma and Hook Had returned. This meant a celebration and Granny's. The party had been going for a while, Just about all the food was gone, Snow and Charming had announced their baby's name and the last guest were just now arriving. Roland was ready to party, so when they got close to Granny's he ran ahead of his father and Regina. He got to the door and was waiting for Robin to open it, when he realized He and Regina were back where he left them, Sharing a kiss.
"Ewwww kisses are nasty" Roland thought to himself as he watched them
A few seconds later, they joined him at the door and walked in. Robin sat at one of the first booths near the door and Roland followed. Regina was also just about to sit down too but before she could Emma walked over to talk to her.
"Regina, there's something you should know" Emma said wearily, unsure if the woman she had brought back would be able to warm up to Regina considering she was about to have her killed. "I brought someone back from the past" she then got a little more nervous because of the face Regina made in response. "This woman and she still thinks of you as..."
"Evil" Regina replied, wishing her past would just go away so she could finally start over
"I'll bring her over, I already told her it's ok, but it's a little delicate..I fell like if she met you she'll see " Emma said back
"I understand" Regina replied, now getting a bit nervous and upset
"Regina I would like you to meet.."
"Marion?" Robin Hood shockingly said as he saw his wife that he thought had died walking over "Marion"
"Robin" Marion replied, just as shocked as him
"NO NO NO! THIS CANNOT BE" Regina thought to herself
"I thought you were dead" Robin said as he walked over to Marion "I thought I'd never see you again"
"And I you!" Marion replied
"Momma?" Roland asked as he saw Marion
"Roland, Oh my baby!" Marion exclaimed "Roland!"
Regina was now furious. If it wasn't for the fact that she had changed and was no longer really that evil, she would have thrown a fireball at Emma's head right then and there, but she knew Henry would not approve and doubted that Robin Hood would either.
"You, You did this?" Regina asked Emma. She was almost in tears and super mad because another charming had once again ruined her love life
"I just wanted to save her life" Emma replied, now feeling pretty horrible and a bit terrified that Regina may turn back to her old self at any moment
"You're just like your mother..never thinking of consequences!" Regina demanded, now furious
"I didn't know" Emma answered back very apologetically
"Of course you didn't" Regina said as she glared at Emma "Well you better just hope to hell you didn't bring anything else back" she then turned around and stormed out of Granny's. Once outside, she used her magic and poofed herself back to her house."Stupid Charmings, always ruining my life...why can't they just leave me alone" she asked herself as she sat down in the first chair she saw because she was now feeling light-headed.
Back at Granny's The room was filled with mixed emotions of confusion, sadness, excitement and so much more. Emma and just about every one else, other than Henry and Robin were shocked that Regina hadn't tried to kill Emma right then. Marion was super confused about what had just occurred, but didn't really care because she had been reunited with her family. Rumplestiltskin was pretty sad Regina left instead of putting up a fight for her man because what would have been better than dinner and a show? Robin Hood was really unsure of what to do. He knew he had true love with Regina, but he also knew he use to love, or at least think he was in love with Marion. Roland was super excited his Momma was back, but also sort of confused about why his fathers new friend was so upset. Snow knew exactly how Emma was feeling and felt horrible for her and Regina. Hook also felt bad for Emma but thought she did have it coming. The rest of the room was just confused.
"Well...Shall we continue this party?" Grumpy asked after a few minutes of silence
"I see no reason not to mate' " Hook replied
A few seconds later everyone else began talking among themselves and finished off the rest of the food. Robin and Marion caught up and she explained what happened to her and why she had been gone. He was not at all surprised that Regina was the one behind her disappearance and although he felt a bit mad at her for doing so, he knew that she had changed.
"Belle, I'll be right back" Rumplestiltskin said as he got up from his seat. He knew Regina was going to end up needing his help to figure out some way to get pay back on Emma, so he decided he would go ahead and see what she needed.
"You really should lock your door, dearie." Rumplestiltskin said as he walked through Regina's front door.
"WHAT? What do you need?" Regina yelled, not wanting to be bothered.
"Nothing, just wanted to drop by and see how my dear friend was doing. You know, since Emma ruined your Tru wuv just like her mother did once before." He replied
"Why can't I Have a happy ending?! You Got one! The Charming's Got one! Robin has one! Dammit Rumplestiltskin the whole town Gets a Happy ending except for me! Why can't I ever be the one to be happy?" Regina yelled as she paced back and forth
"Well you could always kill Marion." Rumplestiltskin replied as he began giggling
"And Ruin all the hard work I have put into no longer being know as the 'Evil Queen'?" Regina replied
" Well then I guess there isn't anything else to do." Rumplestiltskin replied
"Wait, instead of harming Marion, why don't i just get my Revenge on Emma?"
"How do you plan on doing that?" Rumplestiltskin asked
"I'll just curse her...with a couple different curses." Regina replied and then vanished in a cloud of purple smoke
"I suppose she doesn't need my help." Rumplestiltskin said to himself and was just about to leave when he heard a knock at the door
"Regina? Look, I know you think this means things are over between us, but it doesn't. Our love is True, the love I thought I had with Marion wasn't. Please, just open the door so I can prove to you that you're the one I truly want to be with. I will just tell Marion that I have moved on and she will understand...Please." Robin Hood Pleaded from behind the door
"Sorry dear, but your tru wuv has left." Rumplestiltskin yelled through the door then also vanished in a cloud of smoke. He arrived back at Granny's and sat back down with Belle. Then after about 10 minutes of thinking about it, he decided he wouldn't tell Regina about what Robin said, cause then nothing fun would happen.
*Two days later*
"I did it! I did it! I got my Revenge!" Regina yelled as she walked into Golds shop.
"Really dearie? How'd you manage to do that?" Rumplestiltskin asked from behind the counter where he was cleaning some metals of some type.
"Very simple really, I just used an invisibility spell I had lying around and went to Granny's where Emma and Henry were eating lunch and snuck a couple different potions into her drink.
"And you stayed around to make sure it worked?" Rumplestiltskin replied now looking up from the metals and staring blankly at Regina. He knew Emma's magic was stronger than any curse so it most likely deflected it and he also knew Regina probably left in excitement instead of checking to see if it worked.
"Well no, but why wouldn't it have worked?" Regina asked glaring at him "Do you know something? Did you warn her I was coming?"
"No, I would never do such a thing. What would be the fun in that?" Rumplestiltskin replied "However, her magic is more powerful than pretty much all curses so I'm betting it didn't work."
"Hell! Nothing ever works, I give up. I'm done trying to get revenge, I'm just done." Regina said storming out of the shop, and she meant it. She decided to just forget it all happened and move on, forget about Robin, forget she was in love and forget that Emma ruined it for her, because she was only trying to be a good person and help a poor girl Regina was about to kill.
Rumplestiltskin realized she was serious after a couple of minutes and then decided maybe he should tell her about what Robin Hood said, so he dashed out of the shop to follow her. He wasn't sure where she went but doubted she used her magic to vanish so he just followed the sidewalk hoping she had gone that way. He was correct too, a few minutes after he left the shop he wondered upon Regina sitting on a bench with Emma. He could barely hear what they were saying but knew Regina was apologizing and admitting to what she had tried to do and he figured that Emma excepted her apology because afterwards they shared a hug.
"Regina, I have something to tell you." Rumplestiltskin finally said after watching them for a few minutes.
"What is it?" Regina replied, now not feeling so bad because she knew that even after all they'd been through and done to each other and each others family, Emma was her friend.
"Robin Hood. He came to your house the night Marion came back...He said something about how you're his true love and Marion isn't and that if you let him he will prove it and tell Marion." Rumplestiltskin replied "I'm sorry I kept it from you dear, I was just being a selfish Imp and wanted to see a fight go down. Once I heard you say you give up in the shop and when saw your face when I told you it wouldn't work, I knew I shouldn't have kept it from you. I truly am Sorry dearie. But hey now ya can go get your man right?"
Regina jumped up from the bench, got real close to Rumplestiltskin and pointed a finger at his throat. "I understand why you kept it from me Rumple, just don't ever do it again or I'll shove an apple down your throat, Ok? Dearie?" she was halfway joking but at the same time she was quite serious.
"Alright." Rumplestiltskin replied back, he knew she was serious but could sense the humor in it
"So, let's go find your man" Emma said as she hopped off the bench grabbing Regina's arm turning her around so she would walk with her. Then she realized she had no clue where to go. "Gold, do you by chance know where he is hiding?"
"Yes, last I saw, they were still camping in the woods, but they could have moved to the cabins by now." Rumplestiltskin replied pointing toward the woods and then turned around and began walking back to his shop.
"Well, let's get going." Regina said and Grabbed Emma's arm ushering her to go in front once they got close to the woods
"Why am I in front? Scared there's going to be a ghost or something?" Emma asked jokingly
"No, but if there's a spider web, you'll run into it first." Regina replied
"How thoughtful" Emma replied "... so...you were serious about the no longer using your magic for bad thing?"
"Have you ever known me to not be serious?" Regina answered back
"No, not that I can think of. But that will be good for you, Henry will be happy and I'm really glad for you, it's good to see a friend be able to change" Emma replied after a moment of thinking if Regina had ever not been serious
"Thanks, I don't have many friends Emma, and the fact that after all we have been through you even consider me a friend is very...heart warming." Regina replied
"Well ,even though you were bad and did bad things, I could relate to how you felt out-of-place because no one wanted to be around you. Because I was an orphan and for my whole life had felt that same way. Also, once I got to know you, I could tell there was good in you and you were definitely not just some evil queen." Emma replied and right afterwards ran into a spider web
"See, that's why you're in front" Regina joked "
"Yeah, well next time you are" Emma joked back
They walked for a few more minutes before Emma began talking again.
"So, I've thought about it and I sort of need some one to help me control my Magic better and I figured if you could help me do that, then maybe I could help you use yours for only good?" Emma questioned
"That's actually not a bad idea, We can start next week" Regina replied, this day was turning out a lot better now that she had made up with Emma.
"...so, how far into the woods would they be camping, or where are the cabins. Which ever is closer, I say we check first." Emma asked
"Well, there's the cabins, over that hill." Regina said pointing ahead " So it looks like we are going there first. "
Regina and Emma found Robin and all his merry men at the cabins. Robin was super excited she finally showed up, he had already told Marion she wasn't his true love but that Regina was and Marion was surprisingly understanding considering the circumstances she had just been in with Regina just days before. So, when Regina and Emma walked up the hill, he dashed over to them and picked Regina up spinning her around. After a few seconds he sat her back down and kissed her, then they talked about what had happened. Emma felt a bit awkward standing there as they made up so she walked over and talked to a few of the other guys. Most of them tried hitting on Emma, but all of them stopped when Regina and Robin walked over and Regina announced that Emma was already in a relationship with Hook. Then they all sat and talked for an hour or two , Marion and Roland even joined them after a while.
*The next week*
Emma and Regina had practiced for three days and now Emma was finally getting the hang of it and Regina was too. She actually found being good was a bit easier than bad, and the color of her magic was beginning to change. She had done so many good deeds, it was going from purple to pink. Hers was not quite as pure good as Emma's was, which was white but she was getting close. With a few more months of practicing, her powers would finally become that good she wished for when she first wanted to learn magic but Rumplestiltskin had changed her mind.
"I'm glad we stared practicing together" Regina said as they sat down at the table to take a break and drink some tea "I can really tell the difference between using magic for good and bad, the good well it makes me feel good."
"Me too." Emma said as she grabbed the pitcher of tea to put it back in the fridge. But since she was talking she grabbed it too fast spilling some on her leg. "Aw Hell" she accidentally said aloud and at that moment due to her anger she unknowingly used a bit of dark magic that had lingered in her system her whole life pushing it into the pitcher of tea which she sat back into the fridge
*later that day*
"Charming, you want some tea? I poured it but now I'm not so sure I want it and it's the last of it so before I dump it out, you better say something." Snow yelled from the kitchen
"Yeah, I suppose I'll take it." Charming replied as he walked into the kitchen and picked up the glass of tea.
A/N: Well, now that i have re-written this chapter, I think accidentally deleting and having to re-write it was actually a good thing. I had so any more ideas pop into my head that made it even better :) Hope you guys liked the flashback, I may start adding those every few chapter to add a bit more detail into the lives of the Characters :)
