A/N: Hey, readers. This chapter's a little sad and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, so please tell me what you think! And just give me the word and I'll update the next chapter ASAP. Hope you enjoy! Xoxo
The walk back to the diner was quiet. Jasmine kept trying to find ways to talk to Aladdin, but she didn't know what to say. They arrived at their destination and retrieved Olivia's diaper bag. Then they continued their walk towards the stables. The only problem was...they had no idea how to get there. They knew which way to go up until they reached the point where they had to turn back around the first time.
"Ugh! I knew this was a bad idea. I should've asked someone for directions."
"We still can." Aladdin suggested.
"Look around us. There is no one in sight...They're all back at Granny's."
"We can turn around and go back?"
She let out an annoyed sigh. "By the time we go back, get directions, and then finally make it to the stables, Regina and company are gonna be gone when we get there."
"Why don't we call someone?"
"Do you have a phone?" She asked sarcastically.
"Well, no." He paused. "Do you?"
"No, idiot. I don't have a phone. Don't you think I would've used it by now if-"
"What? If what?"
She didn't answer him, but she began to walk passed him and he turned to see that she had gone to a payphone nearby. The perks of Regina sending them to America in the '80's. Not that they knew that, though.
"Why isn't it working?" Aladdin asked after Jasmine dialed a number a few times and nothing happened.
"Like I know."
"Well, didn't your mother teach you anything since you've been here?"
She paused and looked at the phone, ignoring him. She gently touched the slot where you insert quarters.
"Hello? Are you even listening to-"
"Sshhh...I think you have to pay." She said thoughtfully.
"Well, that's great! I hope you have money, because I know that I don't!"
"Sh!" She closed her eyes after he finally shut up.
"Jasmine, are you-"
"Sh!" Finally, a gust of purple wind escaped her chest and turned red. She smiled and opened her eyes.
"What did you-"
"Check your pockets." She grinned.
"No. You check your pockets. I'm not-"
Her grin vanished and she rolled her eyes before shoving her hands into his pockets.
"What are-" He immediately seized talking when he saw a couple of quarters that she'd pulled out. "Why didn't you just send them to your own pockets?"
"My powers don't work unless they benefit someone else. I can't use them for personal gain." She answered while adding the quarters to the machine and dialing the only phone number she could memorize.
"Well, that's kinda-"
"Sh!" The phone was ringing and he realized that she seemed to enjoy shushing him.
"Alright." She said after hanging up. "I know where we're going now."
"You're sure?" He asked.
She looked at him with one eyebrow raised, just like her mother when she's annoyed or angry. After standing there and staring at him for a while, she began to walk, mumbling something to herself under her breath.
"What?" He asked, catching up to her.
"I said, I can't believe Regina thinks that we have a thing."
"Huh?" He wondered, shell-shocked.
"Yeah. Apparently everyone in the Charming family and my mother seem to think that you and I are in love with eachother...Or something like that."
"That's-"
"Ridiculous, I know."
They didn't talk for the rest of the way. When they finally reached the stables, Regina was waiting for them outside of the front of the barn. When she turned to see them, she smiled.
"Good thing you remembered my phone number." She joked as they walked by her. She stopped for a moment, realizing they were both a little tense and then she continued to follow after them. "Jasmine...Can I talk to you for a second, please."
"Maybe later." She answered.
"No. Now!" Regina stopped following them and then Jasmine turned around to walk back to her as Aladdin joined Henry and the Charmings at his horse.
"What is it?" The teen asked gently.
"Out here." Regina led her back outside of the barn. Once they were out of sight, she turned around with her arms crossed.
"What?" Jasmine wondered, a little nervously.
"First...I need to speak with you about Victor-"
"What about him?"
"I know about the kiss."
"He told you?" She asked, embarrassed and even more nervous than before.
"Yes, he did."
"Well, what is it you wanna talk about?" She tried her best not to show the fear building up inside of her.
"I just wanted to hear your side of the story."
Jasmine paused, unaware of how to start. "Well...It was the day after Olivia's birthday-" Regina already seemed hurt and her daughter had a hard time continuing. "-you two were in the hospital and I was holding Olivia. Then I asked you what her middle name was, causing him to leave, which was my fault...When he left, I followed him to try and convince him not to feel hurt by David's memories coming back...which was also my fault." She shook her head as she was very upset. "I screw up everything...Anyway, when I followed him into the alley, he was angry and hurt and I realized he had been drinking...then he kissed me. I don't even know why, but he did. Later that night, he came to my room to talk about it and we kissed again, but-"
"Wait! You kissed twice?!"
Jasmine stopped, forgetting that she had gone too far.
She continued very slowly and cautiously. "Yes, but he told me that he was deeply in love with you. And that was it."
"Was it?"
"Yes...I realized, when he left, that he was a like father to me and then I was ashamed. Then-" She stopped, very abruptly.
"Then what, Jasmine?" Regina was shocked by the extremely frightened look on her face.
"Then that's when he took me." She whispered.
"Who? Victor?"
"No..." She had trouble saying his name. "But, anyway...When I saw Victor in the hospital after awaking from my coma..."
"Yeah?"
"It reminded of that night...and that Victor was the last good person I saw before I was taken." She put her head down in shame and sadness. "And I was blaming him for leaving me and not rescuing me."
Regina lifted her chin up to look her in the eye, realizing that she had teared up just a little. Jasmine saw the tears that ran down her mother's cheeks.
"It wasn't his fault. It was mine." Jasmine said after a long pause.
"No." Regina shook her head. "No." She lightly sobbed, her hand still under Jasmine's chin. "It was mine. It was mine. I'm sorry."
"No...No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Regina."
There was a pause.
"What else did you wanna talk about?" Jasmine finally asked.
"I needed to apologize."
"For what?"
"Not looking for you."
Jasmine turned away and took a few steps toward the barn, her back to Regina. "What do you mean?"
"When you were born and taken from me...After you died, well after I was told you died, I had given up. I had no more strength left in me. Jasmine, you're the reason for everything I've done. All the pain, all the anger, all the hate...that was because I believed that I truly was not meant to be happy. After you died, it killed me...and there was no more Regina. After you died...that's when I truly turned to the dark side. I couldn't handle it and becoming the Evil Queen was the only thing that kept me going. I know that doesn't make sense, but that's how I coped. I wanted revenge. Revenge on everyone and everything because I had finally realized that losing you meant that I was truly never going to have a family. I worry everyday because of what might happen to you, or Olivia, or Henry. I worry for David, because I'm afraid that Olivia will grow up without a father. I just wanted happiness for once. I don't know what I did to deserve so much loss before I was declared evil, but I tried. Jasmine, all I'm trying to say is...the reason I didn't look for you was because I was too angry with your death to try. And there's something I haven't told you that you need to hear."
"What?" She couldn't believe what she was hearing and she had no idea what else she possibly needed to hear.
"Jasmine, I'm so happy your alive and I love you so very very much! I love you!"
Jasmine took a second to think and she finally let her wall down when she slightly looked over her shoulder at Regina, whose head was down and she watched a tear fall to the ground. Which broke her. She let out a sigh of relief and turned around, running to her mother and giving her the biggest hug she's ever given anyone.
After a few minutes of hugging and crying, they laughed gently and pulled away.
"What is it?" Regina asked, realizing Jasmine seemed to be thinking of something.
"I've just...I've never felt important before."
"You're very important." The former mayor grinned as Jasmine smiled at the ground. "How did the walk go?" She asked, referring to going back to Granny's to get the diaper bag. "Besides the getting lost part." She joked and they both chuckled. Jasmine didn't know how to answer. "Did you talk?"
"Not exactly."
"Why not?"
"I don't-I don't know how to-I just don't think-"
"Jasmine, I think it's time you finally let Aladdin in."
"I don't know if I can."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know. He's just-he irritates me sometimes!"
"Victor used to irritate me so much! And don't even get me started on David." Regina smiled. "Just talk to him...Find his interests. Or...this is a new place for him...Show him around a bit, teach him new things that I've taught you. You'll find that you might have more in common than you think."
"Really?"
"Yes." She gently nudged Jasmine in her arm as she led her back into the barn.
"And I think it's time you finally told David and Victor the truth."
"You think?" Regina's smile lightly faded, she wasn't sure.
"Yes. You should be happy. I know that this was supposed to be the land with no happy endings...but here, anything's possible. "
She stopped for a second and picked a beautiful feather up off the ground before handing it to her mother. Regina looked at it in her hand and smiled before she put her arm around Jasmine's shoulder and they entered the barn. Suddenly Regina remembered...Tomorrow, he wanted them to go to the docks. She decided to wait for the right moment to tell Jasmine...Don't ruin such a good day...she's finally smiling, she thought to herself.
"Hey, Mom!" Henry yelled excitedly, running to them. "What was your horse's name back in the Enchanted Forest?"
Regina laughed as she took her arm off of Jasmine's shoulder and Henry pulled her towards his steed.
"Rocinante." She laughed. Jasmine watched the group bond together with a large grin on her face as she stopped in her tracks.
"Cool!" Henry said, referring to his mother's horse's name. "Hey, Jasmine! Have you ever had a horse?" He asked while leaving the group after pulling Regina over to them. He ran right up to Jasmine to do the same to her and she laughed at how hyper this kid could get sometimes.
"No, I didn't. But I did have a tiger. Her name was-"
"Rajah!" Henry interrupted happily. "I remember!"
She laughed again before catching eye contact with Aladdin who had been smiling at her for a few moments now. He quickly looked away when she saw him.
"Hey, kid. Have you thought of a name for him yet?" David asked, gesturing towards the white stallion with caramel brown spots.
"No. That's why I asked mom what her horse's name was so I could come up with some ideas...but I don't know yet."
"Well, I'm sure you'll think of something." Mary Margaret smiled, while petting the horse.
Suddenly, Olivia began to cry...this time, a normal infant cry and they all turned to her in the carseat on the stool near the door.
"Uh oh! Jasmine! Are you okay?" Aladdin joked, putting his arm on her shoulder and she just looked at him.
He took his hand off immediately, waiting for her to reprimand him for touching her, but all she did was laugh. Then everyone joined in.
"Yes, I'm fine. I think she just needs a diaper change." He awkwardly laughed, surprised at her reaction.
"Good thing we went back to get the diaper bag then, huh?" He chuckled.
"You can tell what the problem is?" Emma asked.
"Kinda."
"How?"
"I don't know. It's just a guess really...I don't even know if I'm right."
Regina picked Olivia up and checked her diaper. "Well, you are."
"Really?" Jasmine asked, astounded.
"Yes." Regina began to set up a spot for her to change it.
"Wow." The teen girl smiled.
"Awesome. Mom, isn't that so cool?" Henry asked Regina, while brushing the mane of his unnamed steed.
She nodded while she finished changing Olivia's diaper and then smiled when she realized that Henry was looking on the bright side of things, as always. At the diner, she believed that if she told him about the connection between Jasmine and Olivia, that he would truly leave her for Emma. Just because she had two daughters now, it did not mean that she didn't want Henry anymore. She still loved him dearly.
A/N: Im sorry. I had to add a feather in there SOMEWHERE. Hahahaha i hope you liked it. Now go review. Teehee! Love ya! Mwah!
