Chapter ten

"I have a sister?!" Regina shouted.

Cora held up her hands and replied, "Dear calm down, stress is not good for the baby."

Regina looked down at her growing bump and for a moment she softened slightly, before she remembered just exactly what had happened.

"You expect me to calm down after I get attacked by a flying monkey and then find out that the Wicked Witch who had been terrorising us for months is my sister?!" she asked incredulously, "did you think that I would never find out that I wasn't your first child?"

Cora sighed and fell into one of the benches that surrounded her daughter's apple tree before replying, "Honestly, I wasn't really in my right mind at the time. My only thought was that I wanted my child to be royalty, and she could never have gotten that."

"So you just threw her away?"

Cora was about to protest, but instead swallowed hard and nodded, "I suppose you could see it that way."

Regina looked at her mother for a second, and saw an expression that was rather new for her: regret.

"Do you wish that you hadn't given her away?" the former Evil Queen asked as she fell into the seat next to her mother.

"That is difficult to answer," Cora sighed, "I know if I hadn't, I would have lived a much different life, which couldn't have involved you."

Regina nodded in understanding, she often thought about regretting the curse on people that she now considered her friends and family, but she knew that if she hadn't, Henry wouldn't have existed, she would have been thirty years older than Emma and her feud with Snow and Charming probably never would have ended.

"I just keep thinking about the birthmark that she had on her wrist, it's the only thing that I truly know about her…"

Regina tilted her head, she couldn't help but think that it was strange to think of her mother as sentimental, but she still asked, "Birth mark?"

"It was less a birth mark, and more a cruel prediction of my future," Cora laughed bitterly, and then after Regina looked at her questioningly, she clarified, "it was a small heart shape."

Regina nodded and replied, "that is rather unsubtle."

Cora sighed and replied, "I suppose I just don't know what to think about the whole situation."

"Are emotions really that confusing to you, mother?" Regina smirked, which caused the older woman to roll her eyes with a playful grin upon her face.

"I suppose it will take longer to adjust and understand them," she allowed.

"Good luck with that," Regina laughed, "I think I may still be attempting the same."

"So do you have any idea when you are due?" Zelena asked with a kind smile.

Snow laughed and shook her head, "I honestly would not be able to tell you how long I have been pregnant for."

"Have you not gone for an ultrasound?"

"There has been a lot going on," Snow replied with a sigh, an ultrasound was something that she had been thinking about since she had woken up, but there just wasn't time. First she had to deal with finding out that she now had a new grandchild, then there was Regina and doing everything she could to help Emma with what was going on.

"Well I would roughly guess about eight months." Snow's eyes widened and the other woman laughed at just how visibly afraid she looked, "not a fan of child birth?"

Snow bit her lip, before a small smirk spread across her face, "I'm more of a fan of what comes after…" she sighed realising that she hadn't actually experienced that with her now adult child, and she longed to be able have the same expression that Emma had whenever she held Tamsin in her arms.

"Most people are," Zelena replied with a smile, "so what exactly do you want from me? Any particular questions?"

"Well, last time I gave birth there wasn't any technology or medications, so I really just wanted to know more about that."

Zelena nodded, and was about to make a reply before the door opened revealing a very familiar woman and she desperately tried not to clench.

"Cora?" Snow said, "I thought you were coming back later."

The former Queen of Hearts nodded and replied, "Tamsin was getting fussy, so I offered to bring her home for a nap, and Emma is helping Charming to wade through all of the sheriff department files for anything that could help."

Snow nodded and looked back down at the leaflets that Zelena had given her, in that moment she didn't see the 'midwife' shoot the other woman a venomous look.

Neither did Cora, apparently, as she made her way past the talking pair to go and set her granddaughter down for her promised nap.

"Strange, I had heard quite disturbing stories about the Queen of Hearts," Zelena said almost to herself.

Snow looked up with a furrowed brow and said, "Are you from Wonderland?"

"Oh no, dear, though it is quite the interesting place to learn more about, wouldn't you agree?"

"I guess so, I've never thought about it," the princess frowned. "Anyway, Cora is different now."

Zelena clenched her jaw, and Snow raised her eyebrow at her, "are you okay, Zelena?"

"I'm fine," she ground out, she couldn't help but think how unfair it was that Cora would change for Regina, and yet all she got from her mother was the blanket and basket that the woman had sent her to another realm in.

"Are you sure?"

Zelena nodded and brought her hand up to wipe some hair out of her face, not noticing at the same moment, the woman who she had fixated on for much of her life, coming down the stairs.

Cora's eyes were instantly drawn to the woman's wrist, and for a moment they widened at the familiar sight from all those decades ago.

The small heart shaped patch of skin that she had often thought about since she had her heart returned. For a moment she thought about saying something, until she realised that she knew her first born to be a villain, and simply turned to make her way back up the stairs before either of the other two could notice her.

Taking a deep breath, she stood in front of Tamsin's cot and took a moment to simply think about the red headed woman's appearance, before she finally brought out her phone and clicked on the saviour's name.

A/N Hope you guys enjoyed XD Reviews would be much appreciated