Helllooooo everyone! I hope you're all having a fantastic week :) I know I am so far...rode my horse, saw Golden Globe pictures, and finished chapter 25! YES! Finally! I can't believe how long it actually took me to finish this one. Like, I kept getting stuck and had no motivation lol. But thanks to your reviews, I finally got some more motivation as to what I'm going to write! THANKS! :)

This chapter has a lot of different feelings in it, sometimes you'll think "Aw, how mushy", other times you'll think "Dang, she's baaaaad"! But whatever you feel, please let me know in your reviews :) That's how I keep this story going, otherwise I don't know if you like what I'm writing...

I hope y'all like a little Greek mythology, because there's going to be some in the next few chapters :)

To my reviewers:

Maria: Ah! Sorry! :P I knew it was a stupid question lol. It didn't sink in correctly ;P We'll just have to see how and if they are actually connected ;) I'm so excited though lol

Th3evi1panda: Yay! I know, Bella reminds me of the kind of girl that will knock someone out, just by her words...you know? Like, she's mean but at the same time she's just a sweet girl :) I would love to make this into a real book, actually, but I would technically still be stealing the Kitsis/Horowitz storyline, because of Cora ripping Daniel's heart out and a few other little things :( And then I could be in a lot of trouble lol.

Thank you for leaving your reviews, and I hope you LOVE this chapter! :)

Happy reading!

G.

We walked out of the restaurant and up to their table, "Ready to go?" I asked.

Bella and Seth were sitting there, and finally neither of them looked mad. I don't know what happened or what went on, but I'm glad that they're both still in one piece since they both have very powerful magic.

"Yep." Bella replied.

We drove to our house.

"When is Henry coming back, Mom?" Bella asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, "Emma said that she'd bring him back when he wanted to come back home, so whenever that is."

I was starting to worry about Henry, as well as I was worrying about Bella, neither of them wanted to be around, and I was beginning to wonder if it's something I've done.

"Sweetheart," Daniel called out from the kitchen, "Come here please."

I knew this must've been something important, otherwise he would've come in there instead of making me get off the couch.

I walked into the kitchen and saw Daniel, just leaned over the counter. "What's wrong, Daniel?"

"Nothing, but I just thought about something."

"What would that be?" I asked, laying my hand on his back.

"We never did discuss how we're going to talk to Seth about magic, did we?"

"Oh, no we didn't."

"I think we should just come straight out and ask him. I mean, he has to know that it's a big deal." Daniel looked up, taking his face out of his hands.

I bit my lip and thought about this before I answered. When I first learned I was a powerful, magical person, I was older than him. I wouldn't have wanted someone asking me out of the blue if my magic was dark or not, and I probably would've lied about it.

"I don't know, Daniel, I was in his shoes once..."

"Regina, we have to. We can't keep having him stay here if we don't learn this soon."

"Okay, you're right. Let's go ask him."

Daniel turned around and walked out of the kitchen, and I reluctantly followed. I knew this wasn't going to turn out well, but I also knew it wouldn't turn out well if we didn't ask him. Either way, we were going to be hurt.

"Seth," Daniel kind of startled the boy, who was sitting on the couch, "We need to talk."

"A-am I in trouble?" Seth started nervously stuttering.

"Oh no sweetie, we just need to ask you something." I assured him.

"Oh," You could see him relax his shoulders, "Go ahead then."

"Well, we know that you have magic..." I said.

"Yeah? And...?" Seth replied.

"We want to know if you..."

"If I what?"

"If you use it for good...properly..." I said, trying to be as nice as possible.

"Oh, yeah. Mom taught me how to use my magic, no worries." Seth replied.

"So you don't have dark magic?" Daniel asked.

"Well, I have dark magic, but I don't practice it. Just like you." He looked at me.

How did he know I had dark magic? I had never told him that.

I looked at him suspiciously, "Um...Seth, how did you-"

"Mom told me about 'the evil queen'. Funny thing is she never told me that it was 'aunt evil queen'."

"But how do you know I don't use dark magic?"

"I just kind of guessed, I knew Bella doesn't use it, and I know you're pregnant and all..."

Again with the bluntness, this was getting annoying.

I rolled my eyes and ignored the comment, "Okay. If I know of you using dark magic, you will not be allowed to stay here, I hope you know."

"Yes, I got it." He replied.

"We can't have you using that horrible, evil stuff while we have kids around. Especially with a new baby on the way." Daniel added.

"Yes sir, I've got it." Seth nodded at him, reassuring us that he wouldn't use it.

"Okay. We're going to trust you on this, Seth. You understand?" I asked.

"Yes, I do." He replied.

I smiled and nodded at Daniel, "Is it time for dinner yet?" I asked.

"Honey, it's only 3:30." He replied.

"Oh. Well then..."

"I'll go get you a snack." He kissed me on the lips and got up from the couch to go back to the kitchen, he was such a good husband.

"Seth," Bella said as she was walking downstairs.

"Yeah?" He replied from the couch.

"I need to ask you about something."

"Gee, what's with all the questions today? First your parents, now you..."

Bella stopped walking toward him, she blinked in astonishment from his harsh words. She turned to go back upstairs, but Seth stopped her.

"Bella, I didn't mean it like that. I was just wondering what was up." Seth said.

"Whatever, if I didn't want to ask you a question I'd be upstairs by now."

"What's your question?" He asked, sitting back down.

"You know how earlier today, when I drank my coffee it made you melt?" Bella asked, sitting in the chair across from him.

"Yeah? What about it?"

"I want to know why."

"I already said why, it's because I melt whenever there's heat. That's why I stay in Alaska." Seth replied.

"No, I know, but it wasn't near you, it was inside of me."

"I guess you're just powerful enough to do that."

Bella looked down at the ground, she didn't know what to think of this. How could she be powerful enough to make him melt?

"I need to go talk to my mom." She jumped up and ran upstairs into our bedroom.

"Mom, I need to ask you something." She hurriedly said.

I was currently getting a foot massage from my wonderful husband, have I mentioned how great he is?

I was so relaxed that it took me a second to speak, "I uh...yeah, sweetie, what do you need?" I asked.

"Seth melts." She replied.

"He melts?"

"Yeah, like whenever he gets just a little hot, he starts to melt. It happened today at Granny's."

I grunted and rolled my eyes, "Bella, it was snowing outside." I went back to concentrating on my relaxing massage, establishing that she was just making something up.

"No, but mom, this is important!" She said.

"I'm listening." I said with my eyes closed, head rested against the pillow.

"When I drank my coffee, that's when he started melting. He told me to go sit at another table, and he started to feel fine again." She was rushing through her sentence, it was hard for me to understand.

I looked back at her, "Honey, you're a very powerful girl. Remember? You brought a life back." I rubbed my belly, Pippa was thanking her again.

"Yeah I know, but that doesn't make sense, I'm not actually USING magic, so why would it do that?"

"I guess you're just powerful enough that you put off a lot of magic, even when you don't try. I really don't know, you'd need to talk to Rumplestilt-" I stopped myself and scooted up toward the head of my bed. "Rumplestiltskin!"

"What about him?" Bella asked confused.

"Oh nothing, can you go to your room a second? Your father and I need to talk."

Bella smirked, "Yeah, I'll go to my room." She started to walk out.

"No listening!" I shouted.

"Okay, fine." Bella yelled from the hall.

"I have a bone to pick with him!" I told Daniel, who was still working on my feet.

"Why?" He asked, not fully paying attention.

"For knocking up my mother, that's why!" I snapped back at him and started getting off the bed.

"Oh yeah...ew."

We let Bella and Seth stay at the house, I was pretty sure neither of them were going to use dark magic on each other, and even if they did I would have a fun time when I got home.

We went to Mr. Gold's shop, and every little bit closer that I got, I got more nervous. How was I going to ask him this? Awkward!

We arrived and walked in, jingling the bells on the door.

"Hello dearies," Mr. Gold came out of the back and smiled slyly, "What brings you here today?"

"I need to talk to you about something, Gold." I said, walking up to him.

"Well obviously, I figured that's why you came here, but about what." He replied.

I rolled my eyes, "I'm just going to come out and say it, not beat around the bush or anything...do you have any children?"

This comment caught him by surprise, "Yes, of course I have children. You've met Bae before." He replied and walked behind his counter.

"Yes I have, but I haven't met your other children." I said, putting my hands and leaning up against the same counter.

"Other children?" He laughed, just like an old Rumplestiltskin laugh, "And what makes you think I have 'other' children?"

"This." I poofed the diary that we were reading from earlier and showed it to him.

"Cora's diary?" He asked, a little surprised.

"Yeah, it explains that you got her pregnant and left."

He looked down at the counter and rubbed his neck nervously, "Look, I-"

"You could've at least let me know I had a sister." I interrupted.

"Oh like you did with Henry? He had a big sister all this time and you didn't tell him." He replied defensively.

I felt tears start coming to my eyes, Daniel came up behind me and rubbed my back.

"Exactly," Mr. Gold said, "Now you understand." He started to walk off.

"No, I don't. I understand why I never told Henry because he was a child, Gold."

"And so were you. You've done a lot of growing up lately." He said.

I opened my mouth in astonishment, who did he really think he was?

"I want to rip your heart out so bad, and just play with it like you've done to me all of these years." I said angrily, tears running down my face.

"We both know that wouldn't do any good, now would it?" He started walking to the back, but stopped and turned around, "Oh, and I think you need to get those hormones under control, you're starting to sound a little like a soap opera." He turned back and was walking off.

I was so mad, I could feel my bones just trembling. Pippa was moving all around, and nothing felt still in my body. Out of anger, I reached my hand out and grabbed him with magic.

He laughed, "What do you think you're doing?"

I ignored him and pulled him closer. Now, he was struggling. He couldn't get out of my hold, even with him using magic.

"How..." He said, while still struggling.

"You should know, Gold. My mother was the same way." I said sternly.

"But she was never this powerful."

"She believed love is weakness, I don't."

He was finally close enough to me to where if I wanted to, I really could rip his heart out.

"Now, care to tell me what happened?" I asked.

He tilted his head back and rolled his eyes around, looking from corner to corner of the room, "No." He tried poofing himself out of the room, but it didn't work.

He looked up at me and squinted his eyes, "Why are you so powerful?"

"Love isn't weakness, and right now, I'm as loved as I've ever been."

"That's not the reason dear," he wiggled his fingers excitedly, "You have a magical bun in the oven, don't you?" He widened his eyes and dropped them down to my belly.

"I don't know about that, but love is what's making me stronger." Tears were steadily flowing down my cheeks now, "Look at the people here right now, how much love they have for me. I never knew that the evil queen could be loved so much." I let go of my hold on Mr. Gold.

"Well I'm glad for you, dearie." He tried poofing himself away again, but I stopped him, "What do you want from me, Regina?"

"I want you to tell me what happened."

"When?"

"Stop playing stupid, Gold. We both know what I want, so tell me." I said annoyed.

"Every detail?" He asked.

"Every detail." I replied.

"Well, we started out on the couch, then we went to my bed-"

"Not THOSE details, Gold!" I shuddered at the thought of him and my mother again. This was too gross.

"You said you wanted the details."

"I meant of why you left her, when Mystral was born and where she was sent after she was born!"

"Mystral?" He asked confused.

"You're daughter, Gold."

"I had never heard her name."

"So if you've never heard her name, you know nothing about her?" I asked.

"No, I never knew her name therefore I couldn't use magic to find her. Now, I can."

"Do it now." I demanded.

"Yes, your majesty." He fake bowed.

He walked back to his counter again, "Your mother changed a lot. After she ripped her heart out, she wasn't the same. But little did I know that she didn't have her heart when...you know...I got her pregnant." Mr. Gold looked down at the glass counter, "She had told me she was pregnant, and I had planned to be with her and stay with her. But then, she went insane. I left her, and she never looked for me."

"So that's why she called you a coward..." I mumbled.

"She what?" He asked.

"Nothing-"

"She called me a coward?" He was getting mad.

"Yes, she did. And I can completely understand why now."

"That...that witch, where is she?" He grabbed his cane and started walking toward the door.

"She's dead." I said.

He turned around and looked back at me and Daniel, "She died?" He looked so surprised.

"You knew this you little imp," I was walking closer to him now, getting madder with every step, "This was your way out wasn't it? You are a coward!"

He reached out for the doorknob, but I erased it before he could grab it. No doorknob, no way out.

"You fool." I said to him, practically holding him by the collar of his shirt.

"Watch it dearie, weren't you just in the hospital lately?" He asked, knowing exactly what he was doing, "And if I do recall, you had to use magic to bring your new little one back to life."

I let him go and stepped back. He was right, even though he was making me feel guilty and trying to get out of explaining, I couldn't deny it.

"Okay, then sit down and explain it to me." I said, calming down a little.

We sat down and he told me everything that happened. She was born on December 21st, the first day of winter. Cora poofed her off to another realm, one that he did not know of.

"So that's it. That's all you know?" I asked.

"Yes, that is truly all I know." He said. He was telling the truth this time, I could tell.

"Thank you for your time, Gold." Daniel and I got up from our chairs and walked out, after I put the knob back.

About a week had passed since my confrontation with Gold, I had been resting a lot to make up for all of the energy I used.

"Do you need anything, Regina?" Daniel asked, he was about to climb into bed.

It had been a long day, he had started working maintenance at the hospital, and Pippa would not stop all day. Henry had places to go, so I was driving him everywhere. Seth and Bella were getting along finally, and they're now very annoying when together.

"Just you." I turned over on my side and looked at him.

It had been snowing all week, or at least it seemed like it. It was very cold, and without him next to me, I was cold too.

He took his slippers off and climbed into bed. I snuggled up real close to him, to try and steal some of his warmth.

"Woo!" Daniel exclaimed.

"What?" I asked, taking my head off of my pillow.

"You're hands are cold." He smiled.

I smirked back at him, "And yours are warm, very warm." I snuggled even closer to him, as close as I could possibly get. "I need a massage." I said.

"Is that so?" He asked.

I nodded, "Everything's killing me."

"Where do you want me to massage?"

I smiled at him facetiously, "Everywhere." I pulled the covers over our heads.

"But Pippa..."

"What about her?" I asked.

"She you know...is still in there and all..." He replied.

"She's fine." I assured him, and started to pull the covers back over.

He pulled them off again, "But that's like her being here when we...you know..."

"Well we'll emotionally traumatize our new baby at an early age then." I pulled them back over...again.

"But..."

"Daniel just...please. I've had such a long day and I just want to spend the rest of it...um, relaxing."

"I just don't know about it...I mean you're almost seven months pregnant, your belly isn't the smallest thing in the world. How are we really going to make that work?" He asked.

"Daniel, please, we'll make it work." I pulled the covers back over our heads, for the final time.

I must admit, it was awkward with the belly between us, and it was hard to move, but it worked.

We were laying down facing each other when I felt Pippa moving, I grabbed his hand and placed it on my belly.

"She's awake?"

"It's past midnight, she normally is." I grumbled.

"I'm sorry mommy and daddy traumatized you at such an early age." He rubbed his hand softly on my bump.

The next morning, Daniel didn't have to work. I woke up before he did and decided to make breakfast.

I got out of bed and put my robe on, I looked outside and everything was white; freshly fallen snow.

I walked downstairs to the kitchen, and to my surprise saw Seth making breakfast for us all.

"Good morning aunt Regina." He said while standing at the stove.

I was so surprised I couldn't hardly speak, "Good morning Seth." I walked over and hugged him, "You don't have to make breakfast for us."

He looked up at me, "Just consider it a thank you." He smiled, then went back to the pancakes he was cooking.

I turned around and saw Bella making my secret recipe peanut butter syrup, "You're in on this too?" I asked her.

"Of course I am, Mom, I can't eat pancakes without this stuff!" She giggled and went back to the syrup.

"Well it looks like you two have this all under control, I'm going to go sit in the living room." I said.

"Can you wake Henry up for us? I'm sure he wants to be in on it too, he can set the table." Bella asked.

"Of course." I replied.

I walked back upstairs to Henry's room, opened the door quietly, and walked to his bed.

"Henry," I whispered, "It's time to wake up. Seth and Bella need your help." I shook him gently.

He turned over and blinked his eyes a few times, "Okay. I'll be down in a sec."

I walked down the stairs and sat on the couch. I wanted to finish reading this article in a magazine, it was called "Evilly Parenting", Archie gave it to me. It was about magical babies and how to teach them to use it properly. So far, it was a bunch of junk.

I finished reading that, then I heard Daniel come down the stairs.

"Good morning beautiful." He said, he reached down and kissed me, "How was your night?"

"Mine was wonderful, with you by my side." I winked at him.

"Hmm, mine was too." He winked back.

"Breakfast is ready!" Henry came out from the dining room.

Daniel extended his hand and helped me off the couch. We walked to the dining room together to see food laid out everywhere, it looked like a feast!

"This looks delicious!" Daniel said.

"Thanks Daddy, I hope it is. Seth did most of the cooking you know..." She smirked.

"Hey! I hang out with our chef a lot..." He said in his defense.

"I was just joking, don't be so hotheaded." Bella said, pun intended.

"Hotheaded? Really, Bella?" He said.

Bella just squinted her eyes and grinned, knowing he wasn't really all that mad.

I sat down at my chair and dug in. It was all as delicious as it looked, I could've eaten all of it!

I had one last bite of pancake, I stabbed my fork into it and wiped the syrup with it. I put it up to my mouth, but it didn't quite make it. Instead, it fell off of the fork and landed on the top of my belly.

They all laughed at me, "Wow mom!" Bella said.

"I guess my cooking really is good, even Pippa wanted some." Seth added. More laughs.

"Ha-ha, I'm sure you all have dropped stuff before...I just have something to catch it!" I smiled and wiped the syrup off of my robe.

"Come here, Spot!" I called out.

I could hear the jingling of his tags coming toward us, he was by my side in no time.

"Here you go boy." I handed him the bite of pancake, and he gulped it down quick.

After breakfast was over, we all got dressed and sat in the living room, watching TV. It was a lazy, lazy Saturday.

The last weekend before Christmas...luckily I had all of my shopping done before this, because otherwise these poor kids wouldn't have gotten anything. I was too tired.

"So Henry, how much is Santa gonna bring you this year?" Seth asked.

Henry raised his brow and thought for a second, "Hopefully a lot!" He grinned from ear to ear. This kid was excited about Christmas!

"Really?" Seth asked, "Have you really been that good?"

"I think I've been good," Henry looked over at me, "Right, Mom?"

"You've been great, Henry. Such a good helper, too." I replied.

He was full of giddiness, "Yeah! Did you tell Santa that, too?" He asked.

"I don't have to tell him that! He sees you all the time." I said.

"Oh yeah, you're right." He went back to watching the TV.

"Isn't this you guys' first Christmas?" Bella asked me and Daniel.

"Yes, it's our first Christmas as a married couple!" Daniel replied.

"Awww…how sweet." Bella said.

Henry was scrolling through the TV channels, and went past the
movie "Snow Dogs".

"Hey wait!" Seth said, "Go back. I love that movie!"

Henry did as he was asked and went back to the movie, it had just started.

"Me and my broth-" Seth suddenly stopped talking.

"Your brother?" I asked, "You have a brother?"

Seth rubbed his shoulder nervously, this was a touchy subject you could tell. "Yeah, older than me."

"What's his name?" Bella asked.

"Cal-" Seth stopped again, "just Cal."

Henry shook his head back and forth slightly, "Wait a second, Cal and Seth? Your real name is what?" Henry asked.

"Zethes." Seth reluctantly replied.

"Calaïs and Zethes!" Henry exclaimed. We were all still confused as to what he was talking about, everyone but Seth.

Seth nervously looked around the room, he didn't reply to what Henry just blurted out.

"Calaïs and Zethes, I learned about them in a summer class thing that I took. You're boreads! Sons of Boreas!" Henry blurted out again.

Seth looked at Henry as if he had just shot an arrow through his heart. Suddenly, he got an angered look on his face and started to shake a little, and then began to sprout wings from his back and feet.

"I'm sorry." He poofed out of the house without us being able to stop him first.

We ran outside and looked everywhere.

Bella shouted, "Look! Up there!" She pointed to the sky.

Yep, she was right. He was flying in the sky. Even for an evil queen, this was a little too much to take in at once. My nephew was the son of Boreas, grandson of the dark one, and could fly? Oh, and let's not forget he's the ice prince.

My sister and Boreas? The mythological creature? She had so much explaining to do, if and when we ever met.

Okay, so I have some questions for you guys...

1. Seth's magic...good or bad?

2. Rumplestiltskin and Cora...did you like this storyline?

3. Did you like the Evil Queen version of Regina coming out when she was with Gold?

4. Lol massages lead to everything...this isn't even a question but whatever :P

5. (This is a question) How sweet was that? Breakfast for all!

6. HOLY CRAP MYSTRAL AND BOREAS?! What do you guys think about THAT!?

7. Have you ever studied greek mythology? IF not...here's a short lesson...

"Boreas is the greek god of the north wind, he had two sons- Zethes and Calais. In the myths, it says he was associated with horses (which i didn't purposely do, but I still thought it was pretty awesome!) This is taken from Wikipedia:

Boreas was also said to have kidnapped Oreithyia, an Athenian princess, from the river Ilissus. Boreas had taken a fancy to Oreithyia, and had initially pleaded for her favours, hoping to persuade her. When this failed, he reverted to his usual temper and abducted her as she danced on the banks of the Ilissus. Boreas wrapped Oreithyia up in a cloud, raped her, and with her, Boreas fathered two sons—the Boreads, Zethes and Calais—and two daughters— Khione, goddess of snow, and Cleopatra.

Soooo there's your little Greek mythology lesson...:) I actually studied greek myths a while back, I loved reading about them! But I have one more question...Mystral- Who is a very powerful ice princess (Daughter of Rumplestiltskin!) had children with Boreas (Greek god of the North Wind), just how powerful are Seth and Cal?

Guess you'll have to wait and find out ;)

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and PLEASEEEEEE leave a review! Otherwise I don't know if you like this story or not!

Thanks,

G.

:)