So this chapter is quite a bit longer. I hope you like it. Please review. It helps motivate me to know that people are reading the story. And if there is anything that you don't like let me know what that is so that I can change that.

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Regina felt a hand stroking her hair and opened her eyes to see her mother looking down at her.

"Mother?" Regina asked her voice was hoarse as she tried to sit up.

"Lay down Regina you need to rest." Regina lay down and the events before her black out rushed back to her; all the blood and the pain.

"The baby?" Regina asked, knowing what the answer would be.

"It's gone." Cora said. "We almost lost you too, would have probably if it weren't for me."

"What did you do, did you use magic?" Regina asked with a sense of betrayal.

"I had to darling you were dying. The baby was already gone but you kept bleeding. You were white as a sheet. The midwives had all but given up."

"I ask you to do one thing."

"I saved your life do you really want to complain about that. I probably could have saved your son's life too but they wouldn't let me in until it was too late for that."

"It was a boy?" Regina asked, tears falling from her face.

"Yes, it was a boy." Cora answered.

"You would have used magic on the baby, even though it is the one thing that I ask you not to do?" Regina asked, trying to understand her mother and the events unfolding all at the same time.

"Regina sometimes you just don't know what is best, but I do." Cora answered.

"I think you should let me rest now." Regina said.

"Danielle would like to see you." Cora answered.

"Send her in."

Danielle walked in slowly, scared that she would cause damage.

"Come up here darling." Regina said.

Danielle climbed up onto the bed and snuggled in next to her mother.

"Dad said that my little brother died, that I'm not going to be a big sister."

"Yes darling, I'm so sorry." Regina said, hugging her daughter close to her.

"He said that I have to be gentle with you because you're sick."

"I'm alright darling I'm just a little tired is all. I will probably have to stay in bed for a few days."

"I'm glad you are ok, can I sleep here with you?"

"I would love that" Regina answered as she bent down and kissed Danielle on the forehead.

"Danielle, do you remember when you said you liked playing adventure time because you didn't have to be a princess." Danielle nodded. "Well when I am better, how would you like to play a really long game of adventure time?"

"I would like that very much."

"Good" Regina answered, "it can be our secret game, you must not tell anyone about it ok." Danielle nodded. "Good night darling."

"Good night mommy"

Outside the door Cora walked off, with her own plan to make.

The next morning one of Regina's hand maids gathered her dishes after she had finished eating breakfast. The doctors said that it was best that she didn't move from her bed for at least a week.

"Is there anything else your majesty?" The young woman asked.

"Yes, I would like to speak to my father, could you send him in."

"Yes your majesty" The young woman said again as she bowed and left the room.

Regina rolled her eyes, she hated all of this bowing and curtsying and 'your majesty', and it seems as if it had only gotten worse since last night.

Henry knocked at the door before walking in.

"Hello Regina darling, how are you feeling?" He asked.

"I need you to tell me what happened. I remember ringing the bell and then you came in, but I don't really remember anything after that."

The look on her father's face turned solemn. "I couldn't sleep so I decided to go for a walk around the halls when I heard the sound of the alert bell coming from your room. I came in and found you laying on the floor, you had this look on your face like you were in absolute agony. I tried to ask you what was wrong but you passed out. I didn't know what was happening to you, a couple minutes later some guards arrived with the midwives. They carried you back to your bed and then the midwives ordered everyone out. I was waiting out in the hallway. It seemed like everyone was, your mother, Danielle, Leopold and Snow. After an hour your mother forced her way into the room. The midwives came out and told us that the baby was gone and it seemed as if you were too. But then your mother did something. The color started to return to your face, I was so relieved, I don't know what I would have done if I would I have lost you."

"I'm leaving father" was all Regina said.

"What?"

"Mother used magic, it doesn't matter how much I ask her not to she insists that she knows what is right for me and Danielle and my…" Regina didn't know how to refer to the baby she had lost. Her son? The child that would have been? But it didn't matter. "If I would have died father, who would have stopped mother from using magic on Danielle?"

"Regina is it really so serious, it was just a game or a healing spell?"

"That is how it started with me Daddy, don't you remember. I need to protect Danielle from that. For all I know the King still wants a son, Mother probably still wants me to have one. She will insist that her magic can protect me. But I don't think I would survive another pregnancy. Danielle told me she doesn't like being a princess. So I decided to leave with her, and I would like you to come with us."

"You just want me to leave?"

"We can start a new life as a family, without magic, we can be happy."

"We will be poor, people would be looking for us."

"So we will run until they can't find us, and we will be happy. Danielle will have her mother. So will you come with me?"

"I don't know if I can." Henry answered.

"You can't stop me you know that, I would just like it if you came."

"If twenty eight years of being your father have taught me one thing they have taught me that. And I don't think I could live without being your father."

"So you will come with me then" Regina said, her face lighting up.

"I will start making the necessary arrangements."

"Oh thank you Daddy, I love you."

"And I you, but you need to rest. Regain your strength."

Regina nodded and her father kissed her forehead before heading out to make the necessary arrangements, whatever those were.

Cora got off her horse and walked through a purple fog coming out dressed as a servant of the very castle she had left not hours before and came upon a small house with a family huddled around outside. A shallow grave had been dug and a small box sat beside it.

"Hello" she said. "I am so sorry for your loss."

The family turned around, shocked that they had a visitor from the castle, even if it were only a servant.

"What are you doing here?" They asked.

"My niece lives just a couple miles from here and she told me of your loss. I am very sorry. I have come because I wanted to offer you something. It is tragic when a life is lost at such a young age. I would like to take your child…I can bring them back to the castle, give them a proper funeral."

"But why would you do that for us?"

"We should always help neighbors don't you think?" Cora asked.

"Well yes I suppose, but there isn't anything that you want from us?"

"Well actually. I have too recently suffered a loss, perhaps that is why I am here. My brother's daughter recently died in child birth, she was like a daughter to me. She left behind a young daughter with no one left in the world but me. But my long hours at the castle mean that I can't truly care for her. But if I young family such as yourself were to take her in, I can provide money I don't ask for anything for free of course."

"Yes, yes. We must help out neighbors." The family answered.

"Fantastic" Cora said, dabbing her eyes. I will bring her by tomorrow after I finish burying your child. I will see you soon."

And with that Cora left, her plan nearly complete. She would not be losing her daughter, but she would not let anything happen to her granddaughter either. She would grow up happy, not a princess like she said she wanted to be. This child in the box could easily be transformed with a simple spell to look like her granddaughter. And if Regina thought that her daughter was dead and gone she would have no reason to leave. Cora would keep her family together, and her daughter would be Queen. Nothing could get in the way.

"Mommy" Danielle said as she ran into Regina's room. "Grandma says I can go horseback riding, can I go?"

"Well darling, I don't think I am quite strong enough to get up yet, perhaps I can go with you tomorrow" Regina answered.

"But grandma can go with me."

"Grandma isn't really the best at horseback riding darling."

"Snow is coming too, and the horse man Fredrick will be there to help me, please mommy you promised me that I could go riding soon."

"Ok darling, just listen to what Snow and Fredrick say."

"I will mommy I promise." Danielle said, anxious to leave before her mother could change her mind.

"I love you Danielle" Regina said as Danielle left the room.

"I love you too Mommy, I will see you at dinner time."

Regina was just dozing off when her father came into her room, his face white as a sheet.

"What is it father, have you made all the necessary arrangements, I think we can leave in a couple of days."

"I don't think we will be doing that." Henry said.

"Why is that?" Regina asked, sensing that something was wrong.

"Danielle has been in a horrible accident."

So this was a happy chapter :) Sorry. Once again review to let me know what you think.