The Interview
Once Upon A Time
Emma Swan ~ Swan Queen ~ Regina Mills
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Regina helped Emma stand and hugged her tightly.
"Who is Cora, Regina?" Emma whispered
Regina was quiet for a few minutes before she pulled out of the hug and looked at Emma with tears in her eyes. "My Mother." Regina whispered with a look of terror on her face.
Chapter 14
Emma's eyes grew wide in shock. "Your mother? I thought she was long dead?" Emma asked in confusion.
"So did I, Dear. I'm just as shocked about this as you." Regina replied while she angrily wiped her tears.
"So she's a vampire?" Emma asked
"It appears so. We have to leave." Regina said while she looked down at the burning body of Maleficent.
Emma nods her head. "Do you think she is in Paris?"
"I don't know, but we are not sticking around to find out." Regina declared.
Emma watched Regina rush around their home, frantically packing a few belongings.
"Regina, please calm down. We can't go anywhere tonight. The sun will be up in a few hours. We will be safe tonight."
"Henry!" Regina shouted up to the boy who was in his room.
Once Henry joined them, Regina calmed down enough to explain to him what had happened and that they were leaving Paris the next night and he needed to pack his belongings before resting.
Henry nodded his head. "OK." He said before he quickly made his way to his room to pack.
"Emma, don't just stand there, help." Regina bite out.
Emma sighed. "Fine, but when we are packed, we need to talk." Emma declared before she went upstairs to pack their bedroom.
Once They were packed, they sent Henry to rest. Promising him that everything was OK and they would be safe during the day.
Emma followed Regina into their room and sat on the edge of their bed. "OK. Talk." Emma ordered.
"There is nothing to talk about. My mother is a vampire. We need to leave before she finds us. End of story." Regina said
"Come on, Regina. We have been together 100 years, I know nothing of your past. Its time to talk to me. I need to know what the hell is going on." Emma demanded.
Regina sighed and sat next to the blonde. "My mother was.. is a horrible woman. She never showed me love when I was a child and she would often beat me when she thought I was bad. She said it was for my own good. She had plans for me, I needed to be perfect."
Emma frowned and took Regina's hand in her own.
"When I was 19, Mother got me a job has a nanny for a very wealthy man, Leopard. His wife died a year after she gave birth to their daughter. He needed help raising her, and I was good with children so my mother set up the job. I was happy with the job at first, I moved into their home and looked after Mary. She was a beautiful child. I loved her from the moment we met."
"After several weeks of living with the Blanchard's, I met their stable boy, Daniel. We slowly fell in love and would often sneak around to see each other. A few years passed and my mother told me that Leopard was looking for a new wife, she said I would be a perfect wife for him and a perfect mother for Mary. I didn't want to marry him so after I told Daniel, we decided to run away together."
"The night before we planned to run away, Leopard informed me that Daniel had run off. I was heartbroken. Leopard proposed to me and my mother accepted on my behalf. A few months later, I was married to him. I was married to him for 11 years before I found out that Daniel didn't run away. When Mary was 16 she asked me if I loved Daniel. I was shocked by the question until she informed me that she saw us kissing one day in the stables when she was a child. I asked her if she told anyone, She did, she told my mother."
"I asked my mother what happened to Daniel, and she casually told me that she had him killed. I was beyond angry. I believed for 11 years that Daniel left me when really he was killed. Because of her I was forced to marry and share a bed with a man I didn't love."
"Regina, I'm so sorry." Emma whispered with tears in her eyes.
"I left that night, when Leopard was asleep I ran away." Regina wiped her own tears.
"A few weeks after I fled, I was turned by a vampire. He turned me and left me to fend for myself. After 12 years, I returned to visit Mary when she was an adult and she told me my parents were dead, I then changed her as punishment for Daniels death." Regina explained.
"My mother is looking for me, I know it."
"We will go where ever you want. If she does find us then we will deal with her, together." Emma whispered while she pulled Regina into a hug and kissed her forehead.
"OK" Regina whispered back.
"I know it will be hard for you, but please try and get some rest." Emma explained.
"OK." Regina agreed as she crawled into bed. Emma curled her body around her in a protective position and kissed the back of her neck.
"I love you." Emma whispered.
"I love you too, Emma." Regina whispered.
Killian looked at Emma wide eyed in shock after she told him about Regina's past and the accident with Maleficent.
"That is.. I have no words." Killian said still in shock.
Emma chuckled softly. "Quite unbelievable, huh. I only wish that was true."
"So where did you move to next?" Killian asked
We travelled to Italy and moved around the country, we didn't really settle in one place. Italy was beautiful, by far my favourite country I have seen." Emma explained.
"I have been to Italy also, it is quiet beautiful." Killian asked.
"We stayed in Italy for just over 5 years. The thought of Cora finding us was always in the back of our minds but we decided long ago that we will deal with her when the time came. We then decided to let Henry decide where we were to travel from there. He chose England."
"I know England very well, being from Ireland myself, I spent a lot of time there before I moved to America. I imagine London was very different back in the late 1800's."
"I haven't been to England in along time, but from what I have seen on TV, yes it was a very different city back then. I loved it though. We met a few vampires there, who, like us stayed to themselves. I asked often if any of them had heard of a vampire called Cora, none did so we were at ease for a while."
"How long did you stay in England?" Killian asked
"Until the 1920's. We decided to move back to America. Regina always felt safe there. Even though I explained she only felt safe because she thought her mother was dead. But She said 'If my mother is in France then America is far enough away for her to relax."
"So you moved back to America?"
"Yes. We returned to Boston." Emma replied.
Emma sat quietly staring out the window. Watching the gentle sway of the tree branches.
"Is everything OK, Dear?" Regina asked while she walked behind her wrapping her arms around Emma's waist and resting her chin on the blondes shoulder.
"Yes. I was just thinking of going to visit my parents graves." Emma explained while leaning back into Regina's embrace.
"OK, Dear. Do you need company?" Regina asked
Emma shook her head. "No, I would like to go alone." Emma replied while she turned her body facing the brunette and kisses her lips softly.
"OK." Regina said smiling.
"I will only be a few hours." Emma said hugging Regina before she left.
Emma arrived at the cemetery after 40 minutes and walked slowly through the headstones. There wasn't a cloud in the nights sky and the full moon provided light that cast long shadows throughout the graveyard.
Emma paused when she reached her parents graves. Her eyebrows creased in confusion when she noticed a bunch of roses sitting on the ground between the headstones. Emma quickly glanced around before she moved towards the flowers.
Knelling down, Emma noticed a tag hanging off the stems of the roses. Picking the flowers up, Emma gasped seeing one single word handwritten on the tag.
Emma.
Emma dropped the flowers and stood quickly looking around frantically only to discover she was alone. Emma picked the flowers back up and quickly made her way back home on full alert the entire time to make sure no one was following her.
"Regina!" Emma yelled once she returned home in a frantic state.
Regina rushed down the stairs to join Emma in the foyer. "What's wrong, Emma?" Regina asked looking Emma over before she spotted the flowers.
"I found these between my parents graves." Emma stated before she passed the flowers to Regina.
Regina frowned taking the flowers but gasped when she read the note. "My mother did this. I know it. She is playing games with us, Emma."
"But how? How does she know about me?" Emma questioned.
"I don't know. Perhaps Maleficent was watching us longer than we realised and was communicating with my mother the entire time." Regina explained while she started to panic.
"Fuck." Emma whispered. "So she knows about me and possibly Henry and where we are. Why doesn't see just come for us? Why play games?" Emma asked
"I don't know. My mother is a cruel woman." Regina said sighing before she went to the front door and tossed the flowers outside.
"What do you think we should do?" Emma asked with wide eyes.
"If there was just me, I would wait here and wait for her to show up but I can't risk you and Henry. We have to run again." Regina explained
Emma sighed. "I know you are worried about us, Regina. But we can't keep running forever."
"My mother always found a way to take away everything I held dear, from Daniel to my freedom. I can't lose you both."
"I'm not going anywhere, neither is Henry. I promise."
"You can't promise that, Emma." Regina whispered
Emma stepped closer to Regina and wrapped her arms around the other woman's waist, pulling her in for a hug and whispered in her ear. "Yes I can."
Regina sighed closing her eyes enjoying the embrace. "We will head west." Regina said softly.
"OK." Emma sighed knowing this was one argument she would not win.
"So where did you end up after you left Boston?" Killian asked.
"We travelled west for a few nights and spent a week in Kentucky before we decided to travel south to Louisiana. We found ourselves in New Orleans." Emma explained.
"That isn't stereotypical at all.. vampires in New Orleans." Killian said chuckling.
"Yes, well. We didn't realise how much of a vampire hot spot New Orleans was until we got there. Once we figured it out, it was too late to flee."
"How come?" Killian asked turning serious again.
"Regina's mother was waiting there for us."
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