~If only I could have killed her~
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Disclaimer: I don´t claim any rights to the characters in this story. I don´t own them (except for Sebastian and Nicholas) All rights belong to ABC Studios and the creators of Once upon a Time (Kitsis /Horowitz Production) .
Author's Note: Cora is back! I know I killed her in Chapter 2 but since she became a regular in Season 2 I decided to bring her back. I hope that my way of bringing her back makes sense to you, please let me know if not. This is my version of Season 2 episode 12. Oh yes and in my version Regina never got involved into stopping Cora from entering Storybrooke, nobody let her into the loop that's what makes it even more interesting.
Thanks to : Everyone who will read this story, even if you don't leave a comment. I'm grateful for every visitor! Thank you Littlepeaches, Anna, Mar, Kelly, DoomedGirl, SwanQueen 4055, Rosa Cooper Stan and kissfromarose2 for being interested in my previous Chapters.
Dedicated: Like all of my stories this story is dedicated to my dearest darling Aloysious. Thank you for your never ending support darling!
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"They think that I killed Archie and now they're searching for me, we have to leave Sebastian." his sister nervously walked into the living room. Her eyes showed that she had been crying and her hands were shaking.
"What!? Regina are you O.K? You look horrible." Sebastian jumped up from the couch to support his sister, she looked like she was going to faint any minute. He caught her fall just in time. He let her softly sink on the carpet where she began crying again.
"It's like I said: Archie... he is dead, somebody killed him but it wasn't me! Sebastian you have to believe me, I could never harm him. But they... they believe I could be responsible for something so horrible and now they want to imprison me again! And Henry... I didn't even get a chance to tell him the truth, show him that I'm innocent! Now I've lost him completely!" her tears were hot but she was shivering like a leaf. Sebastian took her into his arms and rocked her.
"Who knows if he will believe them," he told her comfortingly.
"Because he always believes them. Maybe he had faith in me once but this intrigue will destroy every little hope left in him. We have to leave this place! I don't want to be treated like a murderer. I know a place where we can hide until we find out the truth. Something is going on and I will learn what it is." Her brother could see the exhaustion in her eyes and he knew that she was innocent.
He didn't want her to be locked away either so he agreed to her plans and shortly afterwards followed her into their hiding place. A secret place behind a mirror, deep down underneath a family crypt.
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Only a few hours... for Sebastian it felt like they had been down there for just a few hours when he could suddenly hear someone calling for Regina.
"MOM? Mom? Hello?" the voice sounded like the little boy... Henry. Could it be that he was right and the little boy was searching for Regina to tell her that he believed in her innocence? No matter what it was he had to tell his sister.
"Gina, did you hear that?" Regina stared into the mirror that separated them from the world outside.
"It's Henry, look..." she whispered, hope showing at her face when she revealed the other side.
A little boy came into sight and Regina let out a sigh of relief.
"Mom? Hello?" Henry yelled into the empty and cold room he was walking through.
"I told you he would come looking for you," her brother whispered and laid his hands on her shoulder, Regina smiled but hesitated.
"Isn't it strange that he suddenly is searching for me?" she asked her brother who furrowed his brow.
"Maybe we should let him in so that he can explain himself. I bet that he has a good reason for coming," Sebastian answered and Regina opened the secret door to greet Henry and welcome him with open arms.
When the little boy noticed her, he ran to her and flung his arms around her waist.
"You know I'm so glad that you're here," Regina whispered while they both shared a warm hug, but then she released it to look Henry in the eye and tell him the truth.
"I've missed you so much when... I have to let you know I had nothing to do with Archie's death." It was hard for her to hold back the tears but Henry listened to each word.
"I know, I always knew," the boy said without hesitation. Sebastian smiled behind Regina, being glad that his sister didn't have to deal with another downfall again. Regina continued to defend herself not even noticing that something was suspicious about her son.
"I was framed, I don´t know how. It´s seems like everything…" , but then it hit her and she looked at Henry in surprise.
"You knew? How did you know?" something in Regina was confused. Something else in her got suspicious and she took a step back from Henry. She looked at her brother seeking help but he only shrugged his shoulders. Regina turned around again and looked into Henry's face that was filled with confidence.
"Simple," he said and then he disappeared behind a wall of black smoke. When the smoke was gone it revealed something horrible. Their mother!
"Because I did it," she said and looked at Regina with even more confidence.
The heart of the young woman felt like it was being ripped out her chest, a dizzy feeling rushed through her body and her mouth hung open in fear. Behind her she could hear her brother gasp in shock. She knew how he must feel, she felt the same... maybe a little less than him regarding the fact that Cora had ripped out his heart.
"MOTHER! You! I thought I killed you! And how can you be here? After all these years? How did you get here?" Fear. There was so much fear in her when her mother came closer.
"Determination. I had to see you!" her mother said but that didn't answer Regina's question.
"She asked you something, MOTHER!" Sebastian had found his voice again, indeed it was shaking but he got his mother's attention.
"Sebastian, nice to see you too. So you found his heart?" Cora snickered lightly, making Regina remember why she had killed her mother in the first place. She was filled with coldness and didn't know when to stop.
"How did you get here?" Regina boldly asked and her mother stopped in her tracks.
"No Hello, Mother? No how are you feeling? O.K if it's your wish I will answer your question. I got here with the help of an old friend. His name is Captain Hook, or Killian Jones whatever you prefer. He wants to take revenge on our dear old friend Rumpelstiltskin so he helped me to get here. But now I have to ask you: Didn't Emma and Snow tell you that they met me in our old world?" the words that left her lips seemed hollow to her.
"And why should I trust you?" Regina asked coldly.
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You know that I'm not lying this time. If there is one person besides me that you hate with all your heart it's Snow White. Did that change my dear? I don't think so... didn't they hunt you because they thought you killed that cricket? Why would they inform you that I´m still alive?" her mother had a point, oh damn she really had a good point. But was that a reason for trusting her?
Regina looked to Sebastian, he looked horrible! He was white like a sheet of paper, he was trembling and one of his hands was covering his chest.
"Wait, how can it be that you're still alive when Regina killed you?" he asked dryly, he must be in terrible fear like her.
"Oh honey, that is easy. When I got the letter from "Snow White", I could smell Regina's scent, identify her handwriting. Everything about this letter was suspicious. I soon found out that it wasn't from the little girl. But unfortunately I didn't know what you were requesting from me my darling. Killing me was one of my fears. You can't forgive me for killing the Stable Boy, can you? So I enchanted one of my maids... I made her look like me, act like me and with a little more magic I was able to see through her eyes, speak through her mouth – like she was my puppet and I was controlling her like puppet artist. It was my words that left her lips, my emotions that controlled her. But you didn´t rip out my heart, you didn´t brake through my body, you didn't crush my heart. You killed her – not me. After you thought that I was dead, I had to go to a place where nobody would find me. A friend of mine helped me with this... and when I found out that you were creating that curse... well, I couldn't allow magic to delete my memories so I saved some land behind a barrier. Time stood still for 28 years like here, enough time to plan things." Evil, she was pure EVIL!
"You monster! You did all this… for what? This moment? To talk to me again?" Regina was speechless, she hadn't changed whatever she tried to tell her. She hadn't changed.
"I needed to tell you that I know why you killed me... or why you tried to kill me... and that's it all right." Were those tears in their mother´s eyes? What an evil witch she was! Sebastian felt a cold shiver run down his spine and every word of Cora's disgusted him.
"I think it's not all right!" he yelled at her.
"I love you... you both. I just... I acted the wrong way. I should have never forced you to marry the King. And my poor boy, I should have never killed you and your love. I'm so sorry," Cora whimpered, it was like a stick through their hearts.
Did she really try to blame it all on them now?
"When I looked through my looking glass and saw you after you had killed your father... it all changed. A mother should never cause so much trouble and do something like I did to her children." Regina looked at her mother forcefully.
"You framed me for the cricket," Regina spat.
"But only to make you see what these people really think of you!" Cora looked irritated.
"Gina, don't believe her! She is talking nonsense, she doesn't even know what she is saying. Look at her eyes!" her brother yelled and walked between Regina and Cora to shield his sister.
"I know what you're doing and it's not going to work," he whispered into his mother's ear.
"You've made an airtight case anyone would believe it," Regina responded to her mother after some time.
"I didn't want you to reject me, not again." Regina could see it now. Her mother was up to something, her eyes told Sebastian that he should step away and Regina came closer to Cora now.
"You wanted me broken! I thought that I was done with this many years ago but it seems that it needs more than one try to get rid of you!" Regina yelled all her anger from the past came back to her. Her voice had never been so frightening, only once. With all her might and despite all her disgust she broke through the chest of her mother again.
She wanted to rip out her heart but she found – nothing! How was that possible? Didn't her magic work? But she had been able to break through the chest. A horrible assumption crawled into her head and with wide eyes she pulled out her hand.
"That can't be!" was the only thing her brother could say, his mouth wide open.
"How?" Regina asked her eyes located on her mother.
"Didn't you once say yourself that I don't deserve a heart beating in my chest? Well, I got rid of that needless little thing a very long time ago. And now that you don't want to see me any longer I guess I should go back to my hiding place," her mother grinned, delighted. Leaving Regina with horrible pain in her chest. Cora was about to disappear when Sebastian grabbed her.
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Oh no, you´re not going anywhere, not again!" she had never seen him so angry before.
"My love, do you really wish to die again? And this time completely?" Their mother whispered.
"You wouldn't dare to do that," Sebastian whispered back, his eyes sparkling, frightened.
"You will change your minds, I will wait till then. Goodbye my angels." and with one little wink she turned into black smoke again then she was gone.
"She will return won't she? It's not going to be easy Gina." Both still trembled in shock.
"I suppose so. And with these words, Regina collapsed on the floor.
The End …for now ^^
A.N: Cliff Hanger I know ! And I have to confess that in the next chapter this little story won't be continued. I will need some more time for this. But the next Chapter will reveal the truth about Cora's wickedness and the reason for her missing heart so you can look forward to it. I hope you had fun. Reviews are always welcome. Thanks for reading.
