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As we were climbing into bed Daniel asked, "Did you enjoy your party tonight, my love?"

"I did, very much. Especially the food!"

He gave me a silly look, "What?! When you have to eat for two, you're constantly starving. And this baby seems to be an early eater! She's only 12 weeks old." I said, rubbing my belly, "Calm down in there, everyone's going to think your mother is a pig." Daniel said. We both laughed. This baby has brought us so much joy.

"We need to start thinking of a name." Daniel said, while stroking my belly.

"Yes we do," I cuddled up closer to him, "And we still need to tell Henry that he can choose the middle name."

"He'll be ecstatic about that too."

I went to sleep that night thinking about my encounter with the new assistant today, Ann. She looked so familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on who she looked like.

"Are we really going to go through this again? Why can't you just tell me who you are? I'm tired of all of these games you're playing!" I called out to the long haired figure.

This time, she turned around much sooner, "Mom?" She called back to me.

What did this woman just call me? Did she just say…mom?

All of a sudden, she slapped herself, "Stop trying to take over, Bella. You're in my body for a reason, a reason I've explained to you countless amount of times."

She turned back to me, "Oh hello Regina, did you decide to come visit again? You're daughter has been waiting…" She grew an evil smile on her face, "Oh? Did I forget to tell you? Your daughter never went away, she is me. I put her where no one would ever know her, where she would never be found. Pretty sharp of me, wasn't it?" She asked.

"Mother, why? Why would you do this? She doesn't deserve to be in an evil body such as yours! Let her out imme-" I couldn't speak anymore, my mother had started draining all of my air again.

"Oh hush, Regina. You were always such a crybaby. And speaking of babies," She drew me closer with the flick of her finger, and put her hand on my stomach, "Looks like you've got another little one on the way."

Suddenly I woke up. I looked around to see Henry and Daniel watching me like a hawk.

"Are you okay mom? Is Cora haunting your dreams? Who's Bella? Why couldn't you-" Henry was going a mile a minute.

"Henry, calm down. I'm fine, it was just a dream. Now go back to bed, please."

After he left the room, I told Daniel what had just happened in my dream. He didn't even know what to say, and truthfully, neither did I.

"Why did she put our daughter inside of her?" Daniel asked.

"Shh, don't wake Henry! I don't know why she did it, unless she thought it was punishing me that way." I then proceeded to tell him about Ann, and how much she looked familiar to me. There was some kind of relation to Ann and these dreams, I just hadn't figured it out yet.

"Chloe," I said, walking into my office, "is Ann here yet? I need to speak with her again."

"Yes, Madam Mayor. She's down the hall."

I walked down the hall to where she was standing, "Hello, Ann. I need to have a word with you again."

She looked worried, "Am I in trouble?"

"Oh, no sweetheart. I just need to ask you a few things."

I took her into my office and closed the door behind us. You could tell she was still worried, though all I really wanted to do was ask her some family questions.

"Please, sit." I pointed to the other chair, "I need to ask you about a few background things, Ms. Ann."

"Like what, Madam Mayor?"

"Oh, just like who your family is, where-"

"Oh Madam Mayor, I don't know who my family is. I grew up in the orphanage." She replied sadly.

Could my thoughts really be true? Was this…? No. It couldn't be.

"I'm sorry to hear that. What happened to your parents?"

"I'm not completely sure. I don't remember much of anything before I turned twenty, and that just recently happened. They said I had concussion that made me forget."

"What did you get a concussion from?" I pushed on.

"I'm not really sure. That's all they told me, and I didn't ask extra questions." She still sounded worried.

"Have you ever tried finding your birth mother?" I asked.

"Yes, they said they had absolutely no records of her."

The wheels in my head were turning, could this really be my daughter? I had to go talk to Daniel about it before I said anything else to her. I didn't want to scare her off.

"Thank you for your time, Ms. Ann." I smiled.

"I'm not in trouble, am I?" She ask sheepishly.

"Oh no, you have nothing to worry about."

"Daniel, I'm telling you, she's our daughter." I had just got through telling him my thoughts.

"Are you sure, Regina? You can't just pick a random young lady and tell her she's your daughter!" He replied.

"I don't know, she's got all the right statistics. She doesn't know her birth mother, doesn't know how she got here, and she doesn't remember anything…before my mother died!"

"So once Cora died, her body was released into Storybrook?" Daniel asked.

"That's what I think."

Our day went on normally, we all three ate dinner, and I had gotten asked about fifty times if I needed anything by Henry and Daniel.

"Are you sure you don't want anything before I go to bed, mom?" Henry asked, once again.

"Henry, I'm sure. If you keep asking me for 6 more months, I'm going to need ear plugs!" I smiled and hugged him, "But thank you for your concern, sweetheart. Go on and go to bed, okay?"

"Okay." He ran upstairs.

"I'll be in to tell you goodnight in a minute." I called up.

I looked over at Daniel, who was still looking upstairs at where Henry had just gone, "What's wrong, Daniel?"

He snapped out of his little daze, "Oh nothing. Just…thinking." He said with a little worry in his voice.

"About what, my love?" I asked.

"About when this little girl is born, and if I'll be as good of a father as you are of a mother." He looked back over to me and put a small smile on his face.

"You're already 10x the father to Henry that I am a mother. You'll be a great father to her, too." I smiled and put my hand on my stomach.

He smiled back, "Do you think we should let Henry know that he can pick out a middle name for her tonight?"

I nodded, "Let's go tell him."

We walked upstairs, "Henry?" I pushed the door open, "Hey Henr-" I stopped. He wasn't there.

"Henry?" Daniel called out louder.

"Where are you Henry? This isn't funny." I said with a stern voice.

"Daniel, he's gone! He wouldn't do this!" I started tearing up.

Daniel wrapped his arms around me and hugged me tight, "We'll find him, Regina. Don't worry. He couldn't be too far!"

We went downstairs and put shoes on, grabbed our phones and ran out the door, searching for my prince.

"I need to call Emma, she might know something." I said as I was taking my phone out.

The phone rang a few times, "Hello?" Emma answered.

"Is Henry over there with you?" I asked.

"No, he was with you." She replied.

"I know he was, I sent him to bed and told him we'd be up in a few minutes, when we went upstairs he was gone."

"Where are you?" Emma answered.

"We're almost to the clock tower, we're on foot."

"I'll be there as soon as I can." She answered, then hung up the phone.

"Where could he have gone, Regina? Storybrook isn't that big of a place."

"I don't know, this just doesn't seem right. Henry has never even attempted running away, and he wasn't mad or anything tonight." I said choked up, "He's just gone over the edge lately. One moment he's the sweet boy I raised, and the next he's doing something like this."

"We'll find him, Regina, don't worry."

By now we were standing by the clock tower waiting for Emma.

"Where is she? Can't that yellow bug get here fast?" I complained, just then she pulled up.

"Sorry it took us so long."

Oh great. "Us." She had to bring the whole Charming family, isn't that delightful.

"We need to split up, but stay in groups. We can't have anyone else missing." Charming took charge.

"Charming and I will check by Granny's." Snow said.

"Okay, Regina, Daniel and I will go around the docks." Emma replied.

"Let's go."

We all searched like crazy, we went to his castle, they went to Granny's, we checked every place we could think of. Where could he of possibly gone?

"Miss Swan, how are you so calm about this?" I asked irritably.

"This isn't the first time I've lost him, and probably won't be the last." She turned and looked at me.

"You have to stay calm, otherwise you panic yourself out just looking for someone." She said.

"And you know so much about this how?" I asked dryly.

"Remember, I've spent my whole life looking for someone." She turned back around, that was the end of that conversation.

"We've looked everywhere, Charming. I don't even know where else to go." Snow said.

"Don't give up, we can't." He answered.

"But where else are we supposed to go?" She asked.

"We'll have to start looking in people's homes. That's the only place he could be." He answered.

"Dr. Hopper, he might know of someone who would've taken him." I said.

We walked to his apartment and knocked on the door. He answered, "What are you three doing out this late at night?"

"We're looking for Henry, he's gone." Emma replied.

"Oh no, how can I help?" He asked, then said, "Come in, please! Don't stand out here."

"No, we need to hurry and find our son." Daniel replied.

"Okay, well how can I be of assistance?" He asked again.

"Do you know of anyone, Dr. Hopper, that has said they're feeling empty, or lonely…or anything of the sorts to where they would come and steal a child?" I asked him.

"Well, a woman came in the other day who said she was lonely. I can't seem to remember her name…"

"Think harder." Emma snapped.

"Hold on, let me go check what her paper said."

He came back out with the paper in his hand, "Her name was Ella."

"Ella?" I looked at Emma confused, "I don't know an Ella?"

"She said she just came here not too long ago." He said.

"How could she? The town line is protected, no one can come through."

"Well, I had never seen her before either." He replied.

"What was her last name?" Daniel asked.

"Vill, Ella Vill." Archie answered.

"Ella Vill? Why does that sound so familiar?"

"That's because she's another storybook character!" Emma shouted, "Cruella De Ville! She's come across the line somehow and taken him."

"Where does she live, Archie?" I asked.

"She said she bought an old, beat up mansion. She said she was planning on fixi-"

"Archie, no details please. Just tell me where she is." I snapped at him.

"Sorry, it's down the road from the stables." He answered.

"Thanks for your help." Daniel said as we were leaving.

"Do you need me to come with you guys?" Archie called out.

Emma and I looked at each other and shrugged, "I guess the more the better." She answered.

When we got there, we split up again, me and Daniel, and Emma and Archie.

"Have you found anything yet, Daniel?" I asked him from across the room.

"Not yet, still looking."

Just then, I hit a board in the wall. When I did that, I heard a bunch of puppies whine.

"Daniel, did you hear that? There's puppies behind this wall." I called out to him.

He ran over to me, "Here, I'll make this hole bigger and go in first." He did just as he said.

"There's tons of puppies in here, Regina! At least one-hundred!" He said while still in the other room.

He realized he got no answer, "Regina?" He called out again.

"Regina?!" He climbed back through the hole.

She was gone.


DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNN! Where's Regina and Henry, y'all?! And Cruella?! What?! Yeah...you guys must hate me right about now :)

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