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"We're running out of time, Regina. You have to get to the doctor soon." Robin reminds me.
I huffed, crossing my left arm over my stomach and sitting my right elbow on top, resting my head in my palm. "Great, just great." I mumble. I look up at Rumple, "Thank you for your help, Rumple. I can always count on you." I say reluctantly, not really wanting to say it but knowing he deserved it.
He simply nodded as he leaned against his cane, "Hurry and contact her, Regina, you can't live with your magic like this."
I nodded and Robin and I walked out of the door. We were running late, therefore he was speeding to get there on time. Hopefully on time. "Robin," I say, looking at the speedometer – sixty miles per hour in a forty-five, "Slow down. It's not the end of the world if I don't get there on time."
He looks at the speedometer and immediately lightens his hold on the gas pedal, "Oops. I'm just nervous."
I lean my head against the window, looking up and out at everything passing us by. "I am too." I murmur, quiet enough that I don't even know if Robin heard me. I sigh softly as we turn into the hospital. I dreaded these appointments. I dreaded Whale. I dreaded everything that was going to be happening today. But it all had to be done.
Robin gets out of the car and comes to my side, opening my door silently. I step out and smile softly, he knew I hated this. We walked in together and waited, then went to a room and waited for Whale.
"I don't know about this, Regina…the way he said this, that it could hurt you and possibly her?" Robin says, squeezing my hand.
I bit at the inside of my mouth, "But Robin, I can't go around like this. My magic is completely out of my control. I don't know why and what if someone else is controlling it? I'm scared either way." I blurted out, retorting after I said it. I look down at my lap, embarrassed of what I just said. Sometimes I get so comfortable around Robin that I forget I'm not supposed to fear things, things are supposed to fear me. But I was scared. No matter how much I told myself not to be, I couldn't get rid of the fact that I was. I was terrified in both scenarios.
He grabs my chin with his free hand and slowly, gently tilts my face to his. I look up in his sparkling, blue eyes. "Just know, Regina, that I will always be there for you. I will fight for you next time instead of you fighting for yourself. Anyone who wants to get to you has to go through me first, my love. Okay?" He says softly.
I nod, tears welling up in my eyes. Oh, how I hated these hormones. "Okay." I say, tilting my head down to try to hide my tears.
He leans over and kisses me softly on the forehead, "I love you." He whispers.
I look up, tears now flowing down my face. "I love you too." I whisper back.
Whale knocks on the door. I tell him to come-in and the door flies open, "Hello, Regina. How are you feeling today?"
"Like you-know-what, Whale. Can we just skip the talking and get this over with?" I ask, sniffling and trying to straighten myself up.
He looks at me confusedly, then at Robin. Robin just bites his lip. What was this about? I didn't know. I didn't care. I just wanted out of here and to go home to contact my mother. I get up and sit on the table in the other corner across from Robin was sitting. I sigh as I try to catch my breath. I was going to have to get used to these extra pounds. Whale begins to listen to my heart, safe and sound. I already knew that. He starts gently pushing on the sides of my stomach. I didn't know what he was doing or why, but I did wish he would hurry up.
After a few more things, he checked on the baby with the monitor again. She was moving around - I could already feel her before I saw her on the screen. I smile at her adorable, not quite human-like face. She was getting so developed. It was amazing to see how much she's grown in the past few weeks. I brushed my lip with my tongue, remembering that I could be putting her life in danger once more very soon.
"Regina, I really don't know about letting you off of bed rest so soon. She's moving and seems to be on track with her growth and all, but you seem to be tired. Are you?" Whale says, writing a few things on his paper.
I stare at Robin for a moment, wanting to lie so badly and say I wasn't tired. I don't think I was physically tired, just nervous for what was to come. I shrugged, "I think I'm okay."
He looks at me sternly, questioning me silently. "Regina…tell me the truth."
Robin gives me a glare. I glare back then look at Whale, "I'm fine."
He bites his tongue between his lips and looks at Robin, "Has she been okay?" He asks him.
Robin smiles slightly then looks back at me, "She's been doing fine, Dr. Whale. Really. She's worried, for one."
"About what?" Whale asks, folding his arms over his clipboard.
Robin shakes his head and takes a deep breath. "Her magic. It's gone a bit whacky." He pauses for a second and looks back at me, "But I know that everything will be fine. She just needs to take a deep breath and let go."
I smile at his comment. We had just been talking last night about the first time in Storybrooke that we had connected. Literally…connected. Mary-Margaret had told me to just let go. Stop holding back because I feel so deeply with all of my heart. I was laughing when we remembered I didn't have a heart at the time, that Zelena was keeping it. "Letting go is a lot easier said than done, dear." I say, giving him an un-amused look.
He smiles and chuckles, "Well, you can do it. You're strong."
Whale smiles at this conversation going back at forth, looking at us each time one of us spoke. My face got red when Robin started talking about me. I smiled softly at him, admiring his nice words.
"Anyway…I guess you can stay off of bed rest. But you'll have to visit me more often, Regina, to make sure baby is okay. Otherwise, we're going to have problems. Okay?"
I nod and smile innocently, "Okay."
He pats my knee. Oh, how I hated when he did that. "Good. Now, go 'be strong'." He says with air quotations, being sarcastic.
I roll my eyes. Robin got up and helped me off of the table, then we walked out of the room. As we walked down the hallway to the front desk, he held my hand tightly. I could tell he was silently reassuring me that it would be okay. I looked down at our feet, they were in sync. I smile and tilted my head over a little. I was pulled out of my little day dream when I heard Robin shouting my name, "Regina watch out!" He yells.
I quickly look up and jump to the side, just in time to miss a wall. I guess I really was day dreaming. I chuckled embarrassingly as I looked at Robin. He shook his head slightly, then we continued walking.
Once we went outside and got to the car, we sat there for a moment. "This is where the nerves kick in." Robin says, staring out the windshield at the parking lot.
I nod, brushing my lips with my tongue. "It is." I say. I blink a few times then look down at my lap. I see Robin's hand laying on the console. I scoot mine slowly over to his, entwining my fingers with his fingers. I take a deep breath in, still looking down. "I'm scared, Robin." I whisper.
He looks over at me, surprised to hear me admit it I'm sure. He squeezes my hand softly, "I know."
I look up at him, surprised he knew. I shouldn't have been, but I was always surprised over the little things he knew. "You do?"
He nods and grins slightly, "I do. Who wouldn't be?"
"The evil queen…" I murmur with a halfway smile. I take a deep breath and look back out over the parking lot, tears were wanting to leave from my eyes. I bit at my cheek, trying to hold them back. One strayed down my face, though, and I quickly wiped it with my other hand.
"Hey, it's okay, my love. Cry…" He says, almost as an order.
I look back at him with a soft face. The tears exploded. I squeezed his hand tightly, "What if I am putting her in danger again, Robin? I would never forgive myself. If she gets hurt or…or anything." I say nervously, avoiding thinking about her possibly dying. "Rumple said it was dangerous. If he thinks it is…it is."
He puts his hand between the seat and rubs my back, "She'll be okay, Regina. You'll be okay. We just have to trust that you can do this. And I know you can. Rumple also said that it could mess with your spirits. You don't know that it well."
I roll my eyes and press my lips together, shaking my head as a smirk wipes across my face, "How can you be so agonizingly optimistic? You're starting to sound like a charming."
"Well, I am pretty charming…" He teases.
I look over at him, now smiling. I playfully slap his arm, "You are." I agree in a quiet tone.
"What was that?" He asks.
"You know what I said." I reply.
He smiles and takes his hand off of me, leaving one on my hand. He starts the car and backs it out, we start to drive back home. I call Emma, as I needed her to help us with this. Her magic training was going well, well enough that I think I can trust her with this.
We arrived at the house, and Emma was already waiting in the driveway. We all went inside and upstairs to a room I hardly ever used. We sat down at a table and I explained what would happen to Emma, she nodded through the whole explanation. "My daughter's life is in your hands, Emma. Please…please be careful and just do what I tell you to." I beg pleadingly, so hoping this will work without flaws.
She nods, "I will. I'll do all I can to keep her alive." She says.
I nodded as a silent thank you. "Just remember, all you have to do is revive me if I look like something is going wrong, okay? I've taught you how to do that, now it's time to show me how good you are at it." I say. It tasted bitter to say that – to encourage her like that. But I knew she was powerful enough, and I knew she had a good teacher.
"Got it." She says.
I take a deep breath and squeeze Robin's hand tightly. I take out the bright purple crystal that Rumple gave me from his shop and lay it on the table. It fell on it's side. I closed my eyes and focused in on my mother's face. I had to think of her. Think of where I was wanting to go. Though this was especially hard because of my odd magic. I focused back to the twentieth week of my life, still inside of Cora's womb. I needed to watch her. I needed to see her.
I suddenly blacked out. I just hoped that I had done it right.
"Cora, my dear. Please, come sit with us at dinner." Henry says. He looked young and prince-like, just as Regina had remembered in her childhood.
Cora shook her head, sitting on the edge of the bed. "I don't want to eat." She says coldly.
"Dear…you need to. Our child needs you to."
She shakes her head again, "No!" She shouts, "I'm not going to. I have business to tend to."
"With that imp again?" Henry asks.
"He is not an imp, Henry. He is the man who is helping me with my magic. But it's out of control, right now. It's because of the baby. I can feel it. I was just fine until it came along, I know it's the problem." She says.
Henry looks at her with sympathy, "I'll be in the dining hall if you need anything, dear." He says, reluctantly leaving the room.
After a few minutes, Cora gets off of the bed and grabs her cloak. She wraps it around her and clearly is annoyed that it won't completely tie. She growls and moves on, walking out of the castle and outside. She looks around at the forest a few hundred feet from her. She begins to walk toward it, slowly and sluggishly as if she didn't really want to go. She holds her stomach and looks down as she walks, "Dear one…you really have brought me plenty of trouble." She says softly. Her expression hardens, "That's why I must do this. Whether it hurts you or not. I can't be weak." She says selfishly.
She continues walking into the forest and through a few miles. She finally reaches one of the tallest trees in the forest. She looks up at it all the way to the top, stepping back from it's huge trunk. She looks back down at the ground and smiles, as if she found what she was looking for. A hole in the ground right by the tree, going under the tree and into it's roots. She walks toward it and knocks on the bottom of the tree. She waits for a few moments, then becomes impatient and knocks again. "Come out!" She demands.
Slowly, a light starts to glow from the hole. It gets brighter and brighter, then a fairy wearing bright blue emerges. "Cora…" She gasps.
"Yes. It is me." Cora says dryly, "I need you to help me."
"And why would I help you?"
"Because it involves your future. Rumplestiltskin has told me about what he has seen. My child will do something for you, something important."
The fairy crosses her arms and gives the witch a pouty look, "And why should I believe you? Why should I believe the imp?"
Cora rolls her eyes and huffs. "Just do it, fairy!" She demands.
The fairy flinches slightly from Cora's loud voice. "That's no way to woo someone, Cora." She gives her a glare, "Give me one reason why I should do anything for you."
"I just did."
"Not good enough." The fairy argues.
Cora rolls her eyes once more and turns around toward another tree, "I'm going to turn this tree blue. At least that's my intentions." She says, focusing on the tree.
The blue fairy watches intently from her hole. Cora extends her hand and closes her eyes, then snaps her fingers. The tree changed…but not by color. The fairy bites her lip as she sees the tree is now a hut. "How did you do this?" The fairy says, not fully believing her intentions were truthful.
"I told you, it's not right." Cora growls.
The blue fairy bit at the inside of her cheek, "Fine. I'll help you. But just know, it can hurt your child."
"I don't care. I need my magic back." Cora says - selfish once again.
The blue fairy explained what she was going to be finding. She told her where she had to go to find it and the only time she could harvest it was at night. Cora listened intently to this, knowing this was the only way to bring her power back.
She waited a few hours and night finally came upon them. The Blue Fairy took her to find the plant that grew on the sides of the trees. It was a sort of mushroom. The top side was almost a light blue, and the underside was most definitely purple. "This is what will bring your powers back to normal. Beware, remember my warning."
Cora ignores her warning and picks the mushroom from the tree. She brings it to her mouth and takes a bite from it, swallowing it whole.
She falls to the ground.
"Regina?! Regina…wake up Regina." Robin says, shaking his knocked out wife. "What's happening?!" He asks frantically, turning to Emma.
"I-I don't know!" She says, caving under pressure.
"Fix it, Emma. She said you could. Now do it!" Robin shouts.
"I can't! I don't know how!"
"She said you did! She taught you, Emma!"
Emma shakes her head back and forth nervously. She was too scared she would hurt her worse.
Cora's eyes flutter open to see the Blue Fairy in small form, standing on her bulge. She sits up and the fairy flies to her legs. "Are you okay?" She asks Cora.
Cora nods tiredly. "What happened?"
"You ate the mushroom. You weren't supposed to eat it." The Fairy says.
"Why didn't you tell me that?"
"You did it too hastily. I didn't have time to."
Cora huffs and begins to get up from the ground. "So what do I have to do?"
"All you have to do is rub it onto your stomach after you make a paste from it. You smash it and add a few drops of water from the well. It has to be from a certain well, because that water contains magical properties. It activates the mushroom and gives a control on your magic."
"Where do I find the well?" Cora asks.
The Fairy explains where to find it, "…But this is where my journey ends, Cora. I don't go into that part of the forest."
"Fine. I'll get there on my own." Cora says cockily. She walks off without thanking the Fairy. Blue shakes her head and flutters her wings off to find her hole again.
Cora walks for what felt like hours to the well. She dropped the bucket down into the water and pulls it back up with slight struggle. She dipped her hand into the raggedy bucket and took the mushroom from her cloak. She poured the water from her hand over the mushroom and it began to glow and shake. She dumped the rest of the water from the bucket back into the well, then placed the mushroom inside of it. She looked around for a stick and grabbed it, then began to smash the mushroom up inside of the bucket. She did that until it turned to a paste, just like the fairy said to do.
She looked around her, making sure no one was around before she lifted her dress up to apply the paste to her stomach. The blue fairy told her that the reason her magic was bothered was because her child's magic was developing as well. It was taking her own magic in the process, and making the remainder of her powers not so easy to control.
After Cora applied the paste, she let her dress fall back down over her legs and stomach. She took a deep breath as she felt the tingling in her veins. She had partially hoped it didn't hurt her child, but at the same time, she didn't care too much. She walked off and back to the castle. On her way, she tried her magic again. It was finally working properly. She turned three trees purple, she smiled cockily at her power coming back.
"Regina!" Robin yells. Her body was convulsing, her face was contorted. "Do something!" He yells at Emma.
Emma did exactly what Regina had told her to do, but it wasn't working. "It's not right! She told me wrong or something!"
The truth was, Regina had told Emma right and Emma was doing just as she told her, but the magic was so powerful that it had knocked Regina out. Her spirit was being tampered as it was alive and ready to wake up, but Regina's body was not. Her mind was still shut off, she wasn't waking up.
"What do I do?!" Emma yells frantically.
Robin stops panicking for a moment as his eyes widen. He looks up at Emma, the light turned on his head. Metaphorically speaking. "You don't need to do anything." He says, not explaining into further detail.
Emma gives him a look of confusion.
Robin leans down viciously into Regina, crashing his lips onto hers. He held her limp body tightly in his strong arms, kissing her with all of his strength.
Regina's eyes began to flutter open. Robin pulled away and Regina coughed as though she had just been let go from a chokehold. "What just happened?"
"Oh, my love…you're okay." Robin says, squeezing my hand tightly.
I look at him in confusion, then back up at Emma. "What went wrong?"
"You were knocked out. I think…" Emma says, still confused on everything.
I rub my lower back, as I felt sore. "Did your magic work?"
"No…I don't think that that was the problem. I think you were legit knocked out." Emma says, her eyes still wide and halfway crazed looking.
"Did you see what to do?" Robin asks eagerly.
I nod tiredly, "Yes. I know what I have to do."
I explain to the both of them what I had to do, then we said our goodbyes to Emma and we both parted ways. Robin and I drove to the forest, heading right for the well-known well. We get out at the edge of the forest, then trek quickly through the rest of it. I wasn't even halfway there yet, but I was growing tired. "Hold on, Robin." I say breathlessly. I walk sideways towards a large pine tree and lean over on it, panting hard. "My gosh…I'm so out of shape."
Robin's eyes widen as he looks beside me. "What are you looking at, Robin?" I ask, still focusing on him.
"Look beside you, Regina."
I do as he says and turn my head to the left, looking down my arm. The tree. It had turned to an apple tree, and not only that…but the trunk had neon pink polka dots plastered onto it. "What just…" I mumble, now stepping away from the tree.
Robin looks down at my feet. My gaze was still focused on the tree. It looked quite odd. "Regina, look down."
I slowly, almost reluctantly look down at my feet. I let out a shriek as I see vines tangling their way up my legs. "Oh my gosh!" I exclaim. I instinctively thrust my hand down, hoping to magically remove the vines. Out of nowhere, at least a dozen rabbits hop quickly toward me. I raise an eyebrow in confusion over what I'm seeing. An army of fluffy rabbits hopping viciously towards us. I wriggle around before I realize that they're eating the vines away. I nervously look up at Robin, "It's getting worse!" I shout nervously.
He runs towards me, "Here…I'll carry you. We have to get there quick."
"No!" I shout, "What if I turn you into something?"
"We'll take that risk."
Before I can oblige, his strong arms scoop me up. He begins to run through the forest. Just then I realized how strong he really was, carrying a pregnant woman who probably uses the excuse of "I'm pregnant so I'm eating a lot more" way too much.
"We're almost there." I state, seeing the hill that the well lies behind.
He continues running, then suddenly gets a great deal slower.
"What's wrong?" I ask nervously.
He looks around me and down at his feet, "Really? Fins?!" He says.
I look down at his legs. They were slowly morphing into one large fin. "Oh my…" My voice trails off.
He sits me down gently, "Go. Go fix yourself, Regina."
"But what if you fully change?" I ask frantically.
"Then you'll be able to fix me. Go!" He yells, hunching over and falling to the ground.
I reluctantly tear myself away from him and start to run towards the hill. I climb down it and grab the mushroom from my pocket. I reach the well and pull the bucket up out of it, full of water. I scoop my hand into it, just as my mother did. I pour it over the mushroom and dump the remaining water, then mash the mushroom up inside of the bucket. I quickly lift my shirt up and apply the paste, just as my mother did. I felt the tingling rush through me, I hoped that mean it was working.
I smile at my small, hopefully victorious moment then remember Robin who was currently turning into a merman. I breathlessly rush up the hill, it was much steeper than I remember it feeling the first time I traveled it. I finally reached Robin. He was laying on the ground and flapping his…fin, gasping for air.
I quickly snapped my fingers and closed my eyes, hoping it would work.
WHOA! Is he going to have to stay a merman forever!? :O
Okay...so what do you think about the flashback? It was a little lamer than I had originally envisioned...but I forgot what I was gonna write xD lol. Sooooo yeah. But I still like it okay-ish :P
Is her magic back?
Is baby okay?
Is Robin going to be a merman forver?!
Was Regina telling the truth when she told Dr. Whale she was fine?!
SO MANY QUESTIONS! :O
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