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Cataleya kept her word and began reading the book that Henry was so fond of. She had been hearing about it ever since she arrived to Storybrooke. It started off once upon a time... It took her until Saturday morning at 3:15am to finish the book, she felt guilty about sneaking and reading the book behind her mother's back, but Henry insisted that she kept the book hidden and not let their mother see it.

Cataleya admitted to herself she now understood why Henry was so crazy about this book. Yes, her mother did look exactly like evil Queen. Henry's teacher Miss Blanchard did look like Snow White, and she noticed Characters resembling people she had meet while she was in Storybrooke. Ruby, Granny, Sheriff Graham, the list was endless, but that didn't matter right now, what mattered was her sleepover. The twins and Grace was coming over to her house at dinner time, and her mom promised they would go shopping, so Cataleya pushed the book under her bed and fell asleep.

"Cataleya...Cataleya...Wake up sweetie" Cataleya heard her mother's voice trying to wake her.

Cataleya turned over on her side and looked at her mother. "Mom, it's Saturday" She whined looking at the clock that read 8:30am

"I know, but if you want to go grocery shopping for the sleepover I think it would be best if we start getting a move on right away. You will learn that it is best to be prepared for everything" Regina responded rubbing Cataleya's shoulder. "Come on, get up"

Cataleya dragged out of bed. She was excited about the sleepover, but she was tired as well. Her sleeping patterns for the last couple of days had not been the best. Maybe she got 5 hours asleep if she was lucky. "I'm up Mom" Cataleya sat on the edge of the bed rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"Good girl. Wash up and come downstairs, I will fix breakfast" Regina kissed Cataleya on the head before she exited the room and closed the door behind her.

Henry was not happy that he had to follow Regina and Cataleya around today. His mother promised that they were only going grocery shopping. That had been an hour ago, and now they were in a clothing store.

"Mommy" Cataleya whined. "I don't want to wear that" Cataleya and Henry frowned at the pajamas that Regina held up. It was a one piece apple printed jumper with a hoodie.

"Why dear. I think you would look so cute in this"

"Mom, I'm too old to wear that, my friends will laugh at me"

"Fine. You two sit here, I'll go ask the woman at the desk if she has any suggestions"

When Regina was gone Henry turned to Cataleya.

"So?" He asked excitedly.

"What?"

"Did you finish the book?"

Cataleya nodded. 'here we go' she thought to herself. "Yeah, I finished it this morning"

"And?" Henry urged on. "Now you know the truth. About Mom. She's evil, she's the evil queen"

Cataleya bit her lip. "Henry. I don't think that Mom is evil. Mom does look like the evil queen, I'll give you that. But My mom is not evil, she's nice, and she's my mom, so even if she was the evil queen in the story, I would still be on her side"

"So you're evil too?" Henry crossed his arms over his chest and glared at Cataleya

Cataleya tried not to laugh at how ridiculous Henry looked pouting. "Henry, that is a book of fairy tales. You can't let a book tell you how to feel about someone. Before you found that book, did you think mom was evil?"

Henry continued to glare at Cataleya. "When the curse is broken, even Emma will see that you're evil too"

"Henry, you promised you would be nice to me if I read the book. I did read it. It's not fair that you're upset with me because I don't think that mom is some evil queen from a book. Emma read the book right? Do she think the book is real?"

Henry continued to glare at Cataleya. Of course Emma did not believe in the book, but the hero never believes at first. "Why don't you ask her?" Henry responded smartly.

Cataleya looked down in her lap at her hands. "I'm not allowed to talk to Emma anymore. The last time Mom saw me talking to her, she yelled at me"

Henry's eyes softened. He couldn't help but feel bad about accusing Cataleya of being evil when she looked so sad. Maybe she just wanted a mother so bad, even Regina seemed like a good choice. "Cataleya..." Henry started but was interrupted by his mother

"How about this dear?" Regina asked walking over to Cataleya with a pair of red pajamas in her hand.

"That's better Mom" Cataleya stood up and took the pajamas from Regina. "I'll go try this on"

Henry was the only boy at the sleepover so Regina allowed him to spend the night with Dr. Hopper. Regina was grateful. She never knew throwing a sleepover for little girls would have been so stressful. She had to buy 100 pillows and now they were all over her floor in the living room in front of the big screen. The girls would be arriving soon, and the food and snacks were all ready. She sat down on a bar stool at the breakfast bar, she would finally have a moment for herself.

"MOMMY!" She heard Cataleya call from upstairs.

"Coming" She jumped back up and headed to her daughter's room. She opened the door.

"Mom, I can't find my pink shoes, have you seen them?" Regina smiled. It was nice to feel needed again. She was happy Cataleya was so comfortable with her, and felt at home.

"Have you-" Regina started but the doorbell rung.

"I'll get it" Cataleya ran out of the room and down stairs excitedly.

Regina shook her head. "No running in the house!" She called out, as she got down on her knees, already she could see a pink shoe under the bed. She rolled her eyes. Looking under the bed she noticed something that caused her to gasp. It was a large book. She pulled it out and read the words...'once upon a time'

So, this is the book. This is the book that has turned her only son against her. She wondered if Cataleya read the book or not. She wondered if Cataleya read some of the things that she had done. Regina flipped through the pages, reading some of them that had a picture of her on it. It seemed to outline every evil thing she had done. Nearing the end, Regina noticed that some of the pages were missing. What was on those last pages she wondered? What if Cataleya knew she once was the evil queen. She would hate her too, and she did not think she could live through that.

Cataleya opened the door. "Hi Chloe, Hi Clara" She waved at the twins. She looked past them and all three girls waved goodbye to the twins father who dropped them off. They turned to look at Cataleya.

"Has grace arrived yet?" Chloe asked.

"Not yet, but she texted me, she should be here soon. Are you guys hungry? My mom is done cooking I think" Cataleya closed the door behind the twins. "OH!" Cataleya said excitedly. "Let me show you the living room" Cataleya turned around and the twins followed her into the house.

"WOW!" They both gasped. The looked into the room that was covered in pillows. It looked like a mountain. The room was dimly lit by tiny lights different colors swirling around. It looked like a disco club. There four large bean bag chairs behind the pillows one for each of the girls.

"This is cool!" Clara commented looking into the room. The door bell rung again.

"Thanks" Cataleya responded. "Oh, that must be Grace now" She raced back to the door and opened it, but it wasn't who she was expecting. "Um hi" Cataleya greeted the sheriff.

Graham starred at the girl for a few seconds, before he shook his head. "Um, is your Mom home?"

"yeah" She answered. "MOM! Sheriff Grahams at the door" Two seconds later Regina was storming down the stairs. "Mom, Chloe and Clara is here"

"Okay sweetie, Go play with your friends, show them where everything is" Regina calmly instructed while glaring at Graham, she pushed Cataleya gently in the direction of the living room.

She pushed Graham out the door and stood on the porch to talk to him.

"What are you doing here?!" Regina demanded angrily. She did not have time for this right now.

"Regina, I-" He started but stopped as a horn blew from behind him. He turned and looked as a dark green car came up in front of a manor parking behind his. A little girl with a bag over her shoulder got out of the car, and waved goodbye before running up the side walk.

"Hi Miss Regina. My mom said to thank-you and that she will call you later, she has to get to work" Grace said excitedly, as she ran into the mayor with a quick hug.

Regina returned the hug awkwardly, with a fake smile. Looking at that book made her remember what she did to that little girl and her father. "That's nice dear. Why don't you go in and see Cataleya, she's waiting for you"

"Okay" Grace smiled before heading inside.

"Grace!" Cataleya ran and hugged her friend as soon as she entered the door. She had been waiting for her to come inside every since she heard the car horn outside.

"Hey Cataleya" She returned the hug. She followed Cataleya into the living room. "Wow!, this looks like one of the sleepovers from the movies, this is awesome. Hi guys"

"Hey Grace" Both Chloe and Clara said together.

"Wait, I have something to show you" Cataleya went over on on the side of one of the bean bag chairs and pulled up a red glittery gift bag. Inside she pulled out 4 red pajamas sets. "My mom got everyone of us one, so that we could all match" She handed one to each of the girls.

"Wow. These are so cute! I think we should put them on Now!" Clara said excitedly taking one of the pajamas into her hand.

Chloe laughed. "Me too, let's do it!"

"Okay" Cataleya agreed. She smiled. The sleep over was going well so far.

"What are you doing here?" Regina glared and asked again once she was sure Grace was inside the home.

"I came to give you another chance Regina" Graham said sternly, and with confidence he had plenty of.

Regina laughed humorlessly, as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Excuse me?"

"I want to be able to see my daughter Regina, We both know Cataleya is mines, She may be the spitting image of you, but I know, we both know, that she is my daughter" Graham responded.

"She is not yours Graham, and I want you to stay away from My Daughter. She is mines, not yours"

"I will take you to court Regina. Emma says you have no right to keep my child away from me. When I get a DNA test, you will be ordered to share custody. All I want right now, is to maybe take her out for icecream, I just want to get to know her, and be there for her" He explained calmly, thinking about how much he wanted to be a father.

Regina was tensed, angry, and annoyed. She had not heard much after Graham had the nerve to bring up that blonde woman's name around her. "Don't you dare threaten me. Miss Swan will stay away from my Son. And you. Regina stoked closer to the larger man poking him roughly in the chest with her finger. "You will stay away from My daughter. This is the last time I am going to warn you Sheriff Graham. Get my Child out of your head, you have no idea what I am capable of. NO ONE, is going to take my daughter away from me. She means the world to me. She's the only thing that brings me happiness anymore, and I will destroy you if you try to take that away from me. Now, get off my property, or you're fired"

"Your making a big mistake Regina" Graham yelled while backing off Regina's property. He thought about what Regina just said, about Cataleya being her world. Funny thing is Regina is wrong. She has Cataleya and Henry, which she completely seemed to forget about at that moment. But the funny thing is, he understands. Cataleya means the world to him as well. It seems like since the first day she arrived to Storybrooke, things had been changing. It seemed as if he was asleep, reliving the same day, over and over again, Until Cataleya came to town. At first he thought it was Emma, but when he connected the dots, and realized that Cataleya was his, she was all he could think about. And he was going to get his daughter back or die trying.

Regina shut the door behind her. She closed her eyes and counted to three. A technique Dr. Hopper Showed her. She was livid. Better count to twenty. She heard giggles from the little girls she looked up and saw four kids running down her stairs, the last little girl she recognized as Cataleya. She raised an eyebrow.

"Sorry Mom" Cataleya called out slowing down and walking the rest of the way down the stairs, but as soon as she got out of eyesight Regina heard her pick up speed again. She shook her head and headed for the kitchen. This was her first time hosting a sleepover, and her daughters first time having her very own sleepover. She was not going to let that stupid book, Stupid Emma Swan or that Stupid Graham get in either one of their way.

The sleepover was a success, the girls ate, they had a pillow fight, Watched a movie (A scary Movie) ate popcorn, ate candy, ate icecream, played board games while eating candy, and watched another movie ( A comedy) and now they were all asleep on the mountain of pillows in front of a movie which only served as background noise now.

Regina tipped into the living room with four small blankets covering each one of them up with a blanket. She stopped by Cataleya and gave her a small kiss on the forehead and froze when she started to stir awake.

"Mom?" She whispered, looking sleepily at Regina.

"Shhh...go back to sleep sweetie" Regina tucked a piece stray hair behind her ear.

"Okay, I love you so much Mommy" Cataleya whispered as she fell back to sleep. Regina starred at her daughter for a long time. She kept having this feeling that if she turned away for a minute her baby girl was going to disappear, and she could not let that happen. Finally she quietly whispered back.

"I love you too Cataleya. I promise I'm never going to let anyone take you away from me"

The next morning Regina opened the blinds in the living room. The light from outside wakening all the girls. It was 8:17am, and Regina would have let them sleep but she told their parents she was going to have them home by 10am and Regina believed in keeping her word.

"Come on girls, wake up, I know your hungry, I fixed pancakes!" She said excitedly. All girls stretched and stood up, by the time they reached the breakfast bar they were fully awake and happily eating their pancakes. "So, did you girls have a nice sleepover?"

"Yes! Yes we did" Grace answered between bites. "This was the best sleepover, in the history of sleepovers and the best pancake, in the history of pancakes"

"And don't forget, this is the best pajamas in the history of pajamas" Chloe laughed, earning a laugh from everyone in the room.

"Yeah, can we keep them?" Clara asked Regina.

"Of course" Regina smiled, at how happy Cataleya looked.

"I think we should have another sleepover, how about our house next week?" Clara added. Chloe nodded eagerly in agreement.

"Yeah, I mean, it could be our tradition. Every weekend we have a sleepover at one of our houses"

Regina turned back to the kitchen counter and frowned. She was happy that Cataleya was making friends, she was also happy that she had a successful sleepover, but she wasn't ready to let her little girl go again. It was hard for her to let her go last week. She was excited that Cataleya choose their home. She turned around back to the girls with a plastic smile on.

"Mom, can I go?" Cataleya asked Regina.

Damn it. Regina thought. She knew that was next. "Sure Sweetie" She said with that same plastic smile, even thought her heart was breaking on the inside. She tried to remind herself it was only for one evening, and the next day Cataleya would be home before lunch time. She wouldn't even miss her...that much. She wondered why she hadn't been missing Henry since he was away. She had thought about him constantly, but the desire to have him home, like she would have if it was Cataleya was missing. Maybe it was because she missed the first 11 years of her daughters life. Yeah, that had to be it.

Regina had dropped the twins ans Grace off at their homes after the showered and changed clothes. She refused to send children home smelly after being in her charge. It was 9:44am and she smiled at herself for having the children back at home on time. She sat in the car with Cataleya, usually she did not allow her to ride in the front but because there were four children in her car, the back was crowded.

"Mom, my friends think you are the coolest" Cataleya commented as she hummed along to a song on the radio.

Regina smiled. "Do they now?"

"Yeah, but I think their crazy. You're a mom, you can't be cool" Cataleya teased with a giggle.

Regina placed her hand over her chest pretending like that comment had heart her feelings. "How rude. I have you know, I'm very cool! Always have been" Regina smiled, but her smile faded. 'always have been' She thought about herself in the evil queen days.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Cataleya asked once she saw how her moms mood changed.

Regina was thinking about the book she found over Cataleya's bed. Maybe Cataleya hadn't read it, Maybe that's why she had not been treating her like Henry does. Surely if Cataleya knew what Regina was she wouldn't love her anymore. Regina couldn't take it anymore, she had to ask.

"So sweetie..." Regina started. Cataleya looked at her confused knowing something was up.

"What's up mom?"

"Remember last night, when you was asking me about your shoes, you know the pink converses, the one with the white laces?"

"Yeah, I'm familiar with those" Cataleya teased.

"I found them, under your bed" Regina commented looking at Cataleya who looked confused.

"Okay, thanks. I saw them in my closet this morning" Cataleya responded, not really seeing where her mother was going with this conversation.

"I also saw the book"

'Oh' Cataleya thought. So this is what this is about. "Yeah, the fairytales. Yeah, Henry let me hold it" Cataleya shrugged.

"Oh, have you...have you read it?" Regina asked afraid of what the response was going to be.

"Yeah" Cataleya casually responded.

"All of it?"

"Yeah, Now Mom, I know what you're thinking"

'you do?' Regina thought. "Really?"

"Yeah, you're thinking when did I have time to read that book, and well, I know that you are going to be mad because you always say that I should get a least 8 hours of sleep, and I know I shouldn't have stayed up late to read that book especially on a school night and I'm sorry"

Regina was confused. Her daughter was worried that she was going to be upset that she stayed up all night. No Regina was the one who was worried about her daughters reaction to learning the truth about her mom. But of course if it had been any other book, Regina would have scolded her for staying up past her bedtime.

"That's right young lady. Your bed time is in place for a reason, and I expect you to be asleep during it in the future" Regina responded not really thinking about what she was saying.

"I know, I'm sorry Mom, I won't do it again" Cataleya responded sadly looking in her lap.

"It's okay sweetie. So...What did you think about the story?" Regina asked turning on her turn signal.

"It was...different, than the stories I had heard growing up"

Not the answer Regina was looking for. Not the answer she was looking for at all. She had to push this conversation in the right direction.

"What did you think about the evil queen?"

Cataleya was her mother's child, and she watched her mother carefully when she asked that question. She watched as she clenched and un-clenched her hands on the steering wheel. She watched as she straightened her back even straighter, and what she noticed the most was how during that question her mother swallowed loudly. Well it wasn't loud, but at that moment it seemed like it.

"Are you asking me if I like the Character, or If I think that you are the evil Queen?"

"Both, I suppose"

To be continued...

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