A/N: I'm sorry for the wait! It's really a hard time to write between all the studying and other activities. I hope you like this chapter: it's a lot of talking again, but I want to promise you something! The next chapter will be very very very smutty!

WARNING: Abuse and rape are mentionned.

Regina's POV

"Are you alright?" she asked the blonde. She only was worried about her, and she was thankful he blonde did want to share what was on her mind and what was happening. These were bare facts, of course and the mayor saw in the emerald eyes that the blonde was thinking about something else. She wouldn't push it, she would hear it if it was the time for it, that was one thing she was sure of.

The blonde looked away first and after a few seconds, she looked back into Regina's eyes. They were filled with tears and she just shook her head to tell her she wasn't. The brunette took the blondes hands in hers and looked at the blonde.

"You know, you can tell me anything, right?" she told her, knowing the sheriff probably wouldn't tell her anything about what was going on, not yet at least.

"I know", she began, "but it's pretty difficult for me, because it's something you probably recognize very well…"

"Don't worry about me, I can handle it", the brunette tried.

The blonde looked away again and then looked at their hands in each other.

"Well, you know, I was a foster kid, right?" the brunette nodded, "I grew up in different families and I can assure you, none of these were like you gave and are giving to Henry: a home, somewhere you were loved."

These words broke the mayors heart, knowing the blonde never felt loved in her childhood, knowing that that were terrible things that could happen to a child.

"One time", the blonde continued, "I was placed in a family where the 'father', if you can call him that, was pretty abusive. Against me, against his wife, even against his own children. When he was drunk, just like Killian, he became ten time worse.. He just tried to rape me, but never could do the thing. It hounds me, knowing what could have happened if the police didn't came in, and when Killian said those things to me and acted like that, it just came back, everything came back", she whispered those last words.

The brunette pulled the blonde into a hug.

"Oh honey, I'm so sorry… Nobody deserves something like that, it isn't your fault, please, never forget that", she told the blonde.

"Neither did you", the blonde told Regina and that were words that touched the brunette and she let the blonde go.

"Since we are sitting here, I…", she started, "I want to tell you something about that time too… I already told you he was quite abusive and that he saw me as his sex toy. The first time I had to open myself up to him, I really hoped he would be careful like my mother had told me. I really wanted to love him the right way, but he didn't let me. If I wanted to kiss him, I only tried once by the way, he hit me. That's how I got this scar", she told the brunette while she pointed at the scar on her lip, "If I didn't obey him immediately, he would hurt my body and that went … very far."

The brunette had to pause, seeing things again and feeling the urge to scream.

"No, please, please, don't!" the young brunette screamed in fear. She knew the guards at the door where listening, but she also knew they wouldn't help her. They only walked in if the king told them to.

Her eyes didn't want to lose sight of the blade in his hand. While he came closer step by step, she pushed herself further and further against the wall like she wanted to become one with it. He took her wrist in his right hand and pulled her back to the bed where he dumped her.

"You will listen to me", he hissed through his teeth, "I will make you listen to me."

She felt a sharp pain on her belly and she pushed him away again and that was probably not the best reaction she could have. He slightly cut through the flesh of her thighs too, just enough to draw blood, not too deep. He did it again and again until his queen realized if she laid still, he wouldn't hurt her. She was too tired to move, she had too much pain to move. She just cried, didn't even make a sound, and could have his way with her.

"You saw the scars on my belly, some of those are from the nights I didn't obey him. He kept a knife in his bedroom, I don't know the real reason behind it, but he enjoyed seeing me in pain too", she said, not looking at the blonde anymore. She couldn't.

"Other nights, he was fine with just once, other nights, he enjoyed seeing me being fucked by others not just one other guy, but mostly two or three and sometimes, in very special occasion he would join them", she murmured. Those were things she never ever wanted to tell anybody, because those nights were horrible for her. She was disgusted by the idea of having sex with a guy, because of Leopold, and having sex with others while he was watching was not more satisfying for her. They had to have their way with her in the way Leopold wanted, so mostly it was very rough sex where she woke up with a lot of bruises and fingerprints on her body. She hated it.

She looked back at the blonde, wanting to see her reaction, but she seemed to overwhelmed by these stories. Regina hadn't given details for a reason, she knew these stories were probably very hard to process for somebody else, they were already hard to process for herself.

The blonde squeezed the hands of the brunette softly, "I'm glad you told me", she said, "And I hope you know you would never have to do or experience things like that."

"I know, thank you", she told her, "So I guess we are starting to open up against each other, hmm?" the brunette said while she slightly smiled at the blonde. It was something to be proud of, because this was a very big task to do and it was a big step in their relationship.

"Yes, I guess we are", the blonde smiled back, also happy with this result. Who had thought that an incident like this would lead to this conversation?

"And", the brunette continued, "I want you to come by this evening. We have the house to ourselves, Henry is staying with a friend and I feel like I want to take our physical relationship also to a next step."