A/N: Okay! Chapter 10! I've reached a milestone! Couldn't have done it without you guys! This is kind of a fluffy, explanation chapter and a bit of a fill in before next chapter. This is set between The Miller's Daughter and Welcome to Storybrooke. It has some Regina and Mr. Gold action and It would be better but I got distracted thinking about future chapters and then about future stories and then about Season 3 and so forth! I have a VERY active imagination! So yeah here's the next chapter! Hope you enjoy! Thanks for all the reviews, subscriptions and favourites! They are very much appreciated!
Disclaimer: You seriously think I own OUAT? Well as cool as that would be I don't! I only own Amelia!
Regina transported herself and Cora to her mausoleum, placing her mother in the empty coffin. She didn't know what to tell Amelia when she got back. The two had just started to repair their relationship; all of them had been repairing their relationships. But now Cora was dead, and it was Mary Margaret's fault. Regina wiped her eyes; she needed to get back to Amelia before it got too late. She looked down at her mother one last time before returning to the house.
"Amelia?" Regina reappeared in the family room, thinking Amelia would be reading or watching the TV. It wasn't the case however and Regina walked out of the room, calling out to Amelia again. Regina was about to call out again when she gasped, running over to Amelia who was sprawled on the floor. "No, no, no! Amelia!" Regina ran over, picking Amelia up as she lifted her out of the glass and blood and onto the kitchen bench. She waved her hand over Amelia trying to heal her. However, it didn't work, Regina froze in terror. Why wasn't it working! It was supposed to work! Regina picked Amelia up again before transporting them to the hospital.
Regina stood pacing the waiting room, waiting for any news. She didn't understand why her magic didn't work! It had worked on Amelia before and as far as she could tell nothing had changed. Another question she had to ask was what had happened in the first place. She could see how Amelia could have dropped the glass but she didn't understand how she could have fallen in it. Regina just couldn't understand, and the fact that she could feel tears running down her cheeks was making it worse. Everything had gone wrong today, Cora was dead and Amelia was hurt or worse. She just didn't want to be left alone again.
It was just over two hours later that Regina was sitting by Amelia's bedside, holding her hand. She had gone home for a brief moment to change her clothes, but only once she had known that Amelia was okay. She was looking over the sleeping girl, a few shards of glass had been a little problematic and the rest had gone in rather deep. A few of the injuries were on Amelia's arms but Regina could only wonder how much further the damage extended underneath the hospital clothes. However, Regina was snapped out of her thoughts by Amelia's cries. She quickly stood up, watching Amelia closely. Amelia was frowning and shifting in her sleep, her hand involuntarily tightening around Regina's. Regina looked outside the room briefly before climbing onto the bed next to Amelia.
It was early in the morning when Regina's sleep was interrupted by the door opening. She looked up and couldn't help but gasp as she saw Mr. Gold standing in the doorway. "What are you doing here, Gold?" Regina quickly got up off the bed, brushing herself off.
Mr. Gold smiled and looked down at Amelia's still sleeping form, "I would think that it's obvious why I'm here, Madame Mayor."
Regina looked at Amelia before looking back at him, "Don't you dare even touch her."
"Tell me, dear. Has she woken up yet, from her little…accident?"
"She had to have surgery, some of the glass went deeper than they realised. I thought she woke up before, but she hasn't, not yet." Regina watched Mr. Gold closely, glaring at him as he took a step closer to Amelia.
"Why didn't you heal her yourself?" Mr. Gold looked at Regina.
"It…didn't work."
Mr. Gold smirked before waving his hand over Amelia, causing a cloud of magic to appear over the girl, "This would be the reason why."
Regina stepped forward, looking at the cloud curiously, "What am I looking at Gold?"
Mr. Gold pointed to a small part of the cloud, "See that? That is my magic?"
"You made the whole cloud out of your magic, of course it is!"
"This cloud represents the magic keeping your little sister alive. All the rest of the magic is Cora's, except now her magic is dying. My magic is still working however. I presume you can put two and two together."
"Fix it then!" Regina waved her hand through the cloud, dissipating it.
"Easier said than done, dearie. What do you have to offer for my services?"
"I'm not offering you anything! If you truly loved my mother you'll save her because it's what she would have wanted!"
"I guess it was part of your mother's deal," Mr. Gold touched a hand to Amelia's forehead, causing the girl to shiver in her sleep, "I'll be back later."
Regina watched him leave before she sat down, taking Amelia's hand in her own.
Regina had lost track of the time when Mr. Gold returned. Nurses had come and gone, even Dr. Whale had been in to see Amelia. Regina had just sat there, watching and waiting. But now that Mr. Gold was back she got up and stood back, watching as he took a potion out of his jacket. "What will that do to her?" Regina eyed the potion warily, before looking at Mr. Gold.
"It will replace all of Cora's magic, it won't heal the girl wounds, though."
"What does it replace it with?"
"I have no quarrels with the girl, dearie. It's not harmful I can assure you. "
"Then hurry up and do it!" Regina grasped Amelia's hand again, watching as Mr. Gold poured the potion into the girl's mouth.
"May I ask what you have planned for Mary Margaret?"
Regina's head snapped up to look at Mr. Gold, "She'll pay for what she did."
"You won't get Henry back that way. It's your revenge or Henry, Regina. You can't have both."
"I will get both, I can assure you. Mary Margaret will die."
"Even your mother realised she couldn't have both. Choose wisely dearie." Mr. Gold walked out, leaving Regina and Amelia alone.
It was a few moments later that Amelia coughed and spluttered, sitting up quickly as she looked around. "Regina! Wh-." Amelia stopped as she realised the pain she was in and also that Regina was sitting next to her.
"Hey! It's okay! I'm here, you're safe!" Regina shifted and gently pulled Amelia into a hug.
"It hurts." Amelia tried to snuggle in closer only to feel pain radiating from her stomach.
"I know, but you're okay now." Regina lifted Amelia slightly, moving her over on the bed before she sat down on the bed next to her. Amelia simply sat there watching before Regina took the hint and wrapped an arm around the girl, letting Amelia's head rest in the crook of her neck. Amelia smiled slightly before she looked at some of the dressings on her arm and then down at the bottom of her shirt. Amelia was hesitantly reaching to lift up the edge of her shirt before Regina spoke up.
"Amelia, how did you fall onto the glass?"
Amelia dropped her arm and shrugged slightly before pointing to her chest, "It hurt here, a lot."
"Is that it?" Regina looked at Amelia with concern.
"It stopped and then it came back. I dropped the glass and…I felt icky and I fell over."
Regina put the pieces together in her head, before kissing Amelia's forehead, "I need to tell you something."
Regina couldn't bring herself to meet Amelia's eyes. The girl was trembling in her arms as tears ran down her cheeks.
"I want mummy back." Amelia clutched onto Regina tightly before burying her face in Regina's chest.
Regina couldn't stop the flood of tears coming from herself as she held Amelia closer, "So do I."
Regina stopped crying long before Amelia, though the sobs that wracked the girl's body almost brought Regina to tears again. It took a while before Amelia finally calmed down enough to sleep, leaving Regina awake, angry, upset and relieved all at the same time. She took the chance to examine Amelia's abdomen, she hadn't dared to look before because she thought they were too horrific. It seemed most of the damage was superficial, a few looked rather deep and required a few more stitches than the others, but most of all Regina was just relieved that nothing was too serious. However, Mary Margaret was still the root of all their problems. It just gave Regina more reasons to kill her.
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