Snow walked slowly down the corridors in the ship thinking about what to say to Regina. She remembered back to when she was a child and Regina had tried to comfort her when she was sad. She had remembered her saying that she would always be there when she needed her. Now snow wanted to be there for Regina. As she approached Regina's cabin she could hear crying. She stood there for sometime not knowing how she would be received or even what to say. Snow mustered up the courage to enter the cabin. She knocked softly on the door. When there was no response she knocked again. Again no response, this worried snow so she entered the cabin.

She found Regina lying there on the bed with her back to the door. She didn't even look around to see who had entered the room. Then she heard a voice "Regina are you okay?" when snow got no response she went over to the bed and sat beside her stepmother. She could see Regina's shoulders trembling from her silent sobs. Snow tried again "Regina?"

"What? What could snow whit possibly want with the evil queen?" Regina replied with an acidy tone to her voice something that she hadn't intended.

"I wanted to see if you were alright" Snow said in one of her caring voices.

"Am I alright? No! But why would you care? I'm the evil queen! I destroyed your happiness! Remember? I'm the reason that you didn't get to see you precious Emma grow up! The reason that you have been cursed for the past 28 years!" Regina was showing more emotion than she intended. In that moment snow didn't see her as the evil queen, just a broken woman that she had always cared about.

"Regina." Taking a deep breath snow continued, "I do care! I've always cared about you I told you so many years ago when I saved you. When you were disguised as a peasant, when you came to kill me. I told you I had always been on your side you just couldn't see it. Regina, yes you destroyed my happiness, but I got my happy ending back nearly. Regina we will always have a special bond, something I don't have with David. You saved my life all those years ago. I want you to be happy Regina more than anything! It's my fault you lost your happy ending."

Regina was confused by snows words. "Stop. You really want me to be happy? Why? Even after everything I've done to you, to charming, to everyone? I've always remembered that day, I had intended to kill you that day and trust me I wouldn't have regretted it then, when you told me you'd been on my side my feelings changed. You said that you would have let me back in we could have been a family again but you saw what I had done and it was all gone…" Regina was starting to become more emotional but she couldn't understand why?

"Yes, Regina really!" Snow gave her the most genuine smile Regina had received from snow in years. " Regina?"

"What? I don't want to hear you excuses for what happened all those years ago! Save it for someone who cares!" Regina thought she knew what was coming and didn't want to hear it.

"I know that you blame me for what happened to Daniel but at least let me explain. Please?" Snow got no response from Regina so she continued. "Your mother, she knew exactly what to say to get me to talk. She said she'd spoke to my father about my mother. She knew that I loved her so and knew that I wouldn't want you to lose your mother as I had lost mine."

Regina sat and listened she wanted to listen now she didn't know why but she did.

"She wanted to know why you'd pulled away. I tried… I really did not to tell her about Daniel, but she kept coming back to my mother. Regina I told her about Daniel because she said she wanted you to be happy. I thought she would let you marry him because that would make you happy but I was wrong!" snow shed silent tears, and her words began to choke with trying to control her tear. " Regina, I thought I was helping you I truly did. I truly am sorry for everything! Please believe me." Snow couldn't handle it anymore she didn't even try to control her tears. She sat their in uncontrollable sobs, wanting so much for Regina's forgiveness. She wanted to let her back in but she thought it was too late for that.

Regina sat there for a minute or two letting everything snow had said soak in. she was hit with fresh waves of emotion. She of all people knew what her mother was like. How manipulative she was and the way she could make you feel. Regina began to realise that she had been wrong about everything. Snow was just a little girl who thought that she was doing good. She thought she was helping her, how wrong she was but it wasn't necessarily her fault she just played an innocent part in the story. Regina realised that she had helped to make herself the evil queen, not just rumple and her mother. She blamed an innocent little girl for something that wasn't her fault it had just taken all these years to realise that.

Regina hesitantly moved closer to snow and put an arm around her shoulder. "Hey now, don't cry, it's alright." She gave her a small reassuring smile that only made snow cry harder. She was confused did this mean Regina finally understood and forgave her? It was Regina's turn to give a speech.

"Snow" she took a deep breath. "I'm sorry… sorry for everything. If only I had listened to you all those years ago then maybe we wouldn't be where we are! I blamed you for something that I now see wasn't you fault. You made an innocent mistake." Regina was finding it hard to control her emotions; she had to take a minute to calm herself. Snow sat there in complete confusion. Was Regina really apologising? Was she really going to forgive her?

"You thought that you were helping me with my true love… my happy ending. My mother was so manipulative and she used your mother to get what she wanted from you. I don't expect you to forgive me for everything that I had done but I want you to know that I truly am sorry! I meant what I said all those years ago though. I wanted to let you back in, for us to be a family I know that's all gone now but can we at least be civilised?" Regina was now more emotional that she was upon discovering about Rumple. She was trying to be strong, he was trying to hold all the tears in, and it would depend on snows reply whether she would be able to keep it up.

Snow had somewhat calmed herself and her tears had ceased. "Regina do you really mean it? I don't want us to be civilised!"

Regina was hurt by snows words and so cut her of "I do! That's fine it's your choice!" Snow could hear the hurt in Regina's voice "what I mean is I want us to be more that civilised! You're my stepmother and for some reason I have always loved you. I want us to try to be a family… again… if that's what you really want. I would like that more than anything!" Regina then let it all go she began to cry. She didn't care! Her and snow embraced and they both cried, although it was happy tears. Regina was happy she was getting her snow back but there was still one issue that needed to be discussed. Cora.

"There is one thing I have to ask." Regina had always loved her mother even after what she had put her through.

"What is it?" Snow asked quite worried now.

"Why did you trick me? Why did you give me my mothers cursed heart to put back inside of her? She loved me with it you were right but you killed her! Why?" Regina could see that things were taking a turn for the worse she could see the regret in snows eyes and the pain that she knew she had caused.

"It was the easy way out. She killed my mother to make you the queen. Gold made me think that Henry would somehow hate me for not saving him. Regina I'm sorry. I know that this somewhat contradicts what I was doing when I told Cora about Daniel, but she killed my mother that's all I could see and think about. I didn't think about what it would do to you to loose everyone that you loved and that loved you! As soon as I gave you her heart I regretted it I was trying to stop you but it was… it was too late…"

A fresh wave of tears washed over both snow and Regina. She finally had answers, now she could proceed to try to make a relationship with snow. Regina gave snow one more reassuring smile before embracing her like she used to when snow was young. Regina felt like a huge weight had been removed from her. She had forgiven snow, realising that it was really her mothers fault for Daniel's death. Dealing with the fact that she had helped to make herself the evil queen but there was still one issue to deal with Rumple being her father…