Last part of the night ... Hope you enjoy it.!

Chapter twelve

Zelena told Ella what to do, just as her mother had done many times before as she lifted a hand over the dreamcatcher.

"Are you sure you're ready for this?" Zelena asked her. The two had spent many an hour together as Ella was Zelena's main minder, she would take her to appointments and to antenatal classes in preparation for the birth of Robin's baby. They talked about their experiences of magic, of Regina and of course the woman that Zelana had never met Cora.

"I am ready."

"There is no answer. It's just ringing and ringing not even going to voicemail." Robin told Regina after they had rushed the boys upstairs, trying to get them out of the way so that they could focus on their sister.

"Keep trying, I am going to call the others and see if they have seen her." Regina told him as she walked towards the phone that was on the sideboard. She dialled and talked as calmly as she could to Snow.

" What if Emma has taken her Regina?" Regina dropped the phone in shock as she heard Snow's voice calling out for her.

"No she wouldn't, she couldn't Ella would be able to stop her now she has control of her magic." Robin picked the phone up hanging up on Snow.

" She isn't answering my calls, you try I am going to get dressed. Then we need to all go and find her." Regina sighed because he was right Emma could have taken her that could have been her master her plan. Regina pulled her cell phone from her bag as she dialled Ella's number, which automatically went to voicemail.

Ella pulled herself together as she walked through the double doors, back into the daylight back into the reality, that she had just seen exactly what had happened. She though that the person who brought her here was different, she thought she could be trusted, she thought she loved her. She felt her cell phone ring in her back pocket, she pulled it out. Thousands of missed calls from Robin and Regina, she turned the phone off and ran towards the place she thought was her home. She was getting out of here, leaving it all behind because the only person she had to save was herself.

Regina pulled off the driveway heading towards the normal route that Ella would take, she had only been with her a few times, because her daughter liked the freedom of the early morning, whereas Regina really didn't, which she assumed was the Daniel in Ella coming out. She knew the route she would take, straight through town towards the troll bridge across it straight into the forest. It would be this point that they would have to get out and walk up to the highest point in town, which was normally Ella's break point, where she summoned a bottle of water, had a stretch and then would carry on. Regina accelerated through the traffic lights, towards where she hopped her daughter was.

Ella however, was walking the final steps towards her Mother's house. She could feel the pain in her chest as she approached the house. She was about to have the final showdown with her, the moment that she should have done in the very beginning. Kill her.

Regina ran the hill as fast as she could; noticing nothing different about the path… Until her cell phone buzzed.

"Mom, she's here and she is packing."

Henry stood in Ella's doorway, stalling her just as his mother had asked.

"What are you doing Ella?" Henry asked as Ella threw another dress in her case.

"I am going home, because nothing she ever told me was ever true. She never loved me, she was just using me.. Using me to save your mom." Ella had no tears left as she grabbed the rest of her belongings, zipping the case and throwing it to the floor. Henry walked forwards and tried to grab the case from the floor, but Ella stopped him with a flick of her arm throwing him against the wall. The anger taking over her body as she whispered her apologies as she headed down the stairs.

Regina heard the bang as she appeared at the porch in a cloud of purple smoke; she turned the handle to be faced with Ella, suitcase in hand and handbag in the other.

"What have you just done?" Regina yelled at her as Henry followed down the stairs with blood dripping from his face.

"Something to get me out of here. Using him to stall me… Not going to work just get out of my way." Ella yelled at Regina, as Snow appeared from behind Regina and took Henry's hand moving him away from the fray.

"No, you have no right to hurt him. I don't know what Emma said to you to piss you off. But you don't take it out on your brother…" Ella lifted her arm again causing her mother to fly through the doorway.

"For the first time I see things really clearly, I see you for exactly who you are. I saw everything… we went back to where you thrive and you're proved yourself to me." Regina lifted her head as she used her own magic to stick Ella's feet to the floor and creating restraints for her daughter's wrists, restraints that would not hold this angry girl for long.

"I really don't understand what you are saying, because last night we were fine, so what could possibly have happened since the last time I saw you." Regina questioned as she pulled herself to standing and approached Ella. Approaching the little lost girl she could see in Ella's eyes.

"You happened…" Ella said as she burnt the restraints to a crisp, and freed her feet from the floor. She used her wrist again to sending Regina as far away from her as possible. Out towards the very edge of Regina's porch, causing Regina's head to crash with the floor and blood poured from the wound.

"Now get out of my way, you are the Evil Queen and I cannot believe I ever trusted you. Now take this and see what you forgot about. What happened in the Enchanted Forest when Merlin sent us there?" She chucked the dreamcatcher on top of her mother's unconscious body and disappeared in her own cloud of purple smoke.

As Regina, lay on the hospital bed several hours later, clinging on to the dreamcatcher. As the rest of the visitors and well-wishers had left, Regina finally let go and began to cry because she was struggling to understand what had happened, what had changed so drastically between her and her daughter. She lifted her arm and thought of Ella as the dreamcatcher played a memory she couldn't remember, of being back in her vault in the castle back in the enchanted forest.

"What even is this?" Ella's voice began …

"Don't touch it; you could end up with it." Regina's own reply and it was all coming back.

"How many hearts did you even collect?"

"I don't really know. They were not people I cared for; it was just on my quest to kill Snow White."

"Quest.. Is that what you call it? You pulled out of these hearts out just trying to find Snow."

"Yes that's what the Evil Queen, what I did because I wanted to kill her more than anything. Losing your father was the cause and I still want to revenge his death. "

"And you think My Father would have wanted her to kill and rip the heart of others. Do you not think he would want her to move on, find a new source of happiness? Get married to a man she actually loved, had a baby lived the life My Grandpa wanted her to have."

"I did what I thought I needed to do to survive. Your grandmother made sure that I could only marry Leopold, I never loved him. I can't have children of my own because I let myself give that right up, so that she couldn't take anything else from me."

"What? What do you mean that you have taken away that right? Don't tell me you…"

"I can't have children, But I don't have this crazy urge to make that happen, because I have Henry and Roland and they are all I will every need"

"You selfish Bitch… You heartless bitch."

"You knew this about me before you even met me. I don't care for you I just want you to save Henry's mother so I can get on with my life"

"You made you self-infertile, just so that Grandma couldn't take your child from you, but look at me she already did that. She turned me against you, for the reason that you are selfish and only think about number one."

" No not any more I have two beautiful boys and a soulmate. A soulmate that I want to spend the rest of my life with. Your just the person who is going to help me get rid of this problem."

"You had a chance that I never had. Because of you and your mother I never have that chance. Grandma told me that children where just a waste of my time. I can't have children. Then when I got pregnant with Elliott this year I was perfectly normal, right up until seven months and then I lost the baby, a baby girl, they then told me the next day that I would never conceive naturally not now not ever."

"You were stupid enough to trust her, she doesn't want anything to take her precious baby meal away from her. You have a child with a man who would never be King, what a stupid girl you are?"

"How dare you? I'm stupid because I trusted her, then you must be stupid for letting her fuck up your chance of having a baby"

" Well I must be an amazing Mother, because you want to kill me…" Ella sparked a Flame in her hand.

" Don't even try it… Little girl" She grabbed Ella's face and threw her across the room.

" Cora did what she did , because to her and you I am just a part of this big plan. I am the biggest revenge to you, for throwing her in the mirror and sending her away, because she had the one thing that could have changed your path. While for you I am the one that could change your life, rid your friend of the darkness and be The Dark One. The one thing that Grandma wanted she always wanted to be the ultimate power."

"I might as well face facts, I might as well kill you and let the darkness live in your dead body. Because you have nothing else to live for."

"Do it then…. Kill me… Kill the one person who can stop you. Stop you from living your amazing happy ending. "

Then the Evil Queen appeared in Regina's Eyes as she grabbed Ella's neck and strangled her and threw her against the wall leaving her unconscious on the floor. Until a figure appeared in white and magically healed her, till she was standing again and then they vanished.

Regina hated herself, she had done exactly what Emma had done to Henry she had broken her daughter's heart , then she looked at the figure one last time as they appeared in the dreamcatcher…

"Em-ma"

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