Regina paced around her room. She kept calling fireballs up in her hand only to make them disappear a moment later. She felt her anger reaching near uncontrollable levels but each time she was able to calm down.

Her mother had been right. She had lived an entire other life in Storybrooke. She had enacted a curse that took away people's happy endings, just like hers had been taken away. The only thing that was keeping her relatively calm was the thought of Henry. Her son. She pictured him as a baby in her arms and again as she saw him last.

Cora had not mentioned Henry and she didn't dare do so. The less her mother knew about him the better. She supposed when Zelena went back to the past she didn't tell their mother everything about Storybrooke.

After they had drank the potions at dinner both of them remembered their lives – and that now meant remembering both of them. She remembered growing up with Zelena as sisters and remembered not growing up with her. It was strange to have both sets of memories in her head.

She hadn't said anything to Zelena and their mother had let them both return to their rooms to rest after they had drank the potions. She needed someone to talk to so she walked over to Zelena's door and knocked on it.

Zelena opened the door and then walked inside. Regina followed as Zelena took a seat on the settee. "I sure messed that up, didn't I sis?"

Regina shrugged, "At least you tried to do something that probably wasn't right, but you wanted a family. I can't fault you for that. I rather enjoyed growing up with you as opposed to the other way."

"Yeah well you were always her favorite."

"Only because she didn't know you in the other timeline. If she had seen you throw me through the clocktower she would have been impressed, trust me."

She managed to get Zelena to smile and she took a seat beside her.

"What are we going to do now?" Zelena asked.

"I don't know. You are the big sister I was hoping you might have an idea."

Zelena shook her head. "As long as she has our hearts there isn't much that we can do."

"Then we have to find out where she is hiding them"

There was silence between them for several minutes.

"I'm sorry you had to lose Daniel in both timelines," Zelena said finally.

Regina looked away. She felt like she had relived Daniel's original death when her memories returned. She felt Zelena take her hand and she looked down at it. She smiled at her sister – no matter what she would never look at Zelena anything but her sister.

"We can't let her win," Regina said. "We can't be the Evil Queen and the Wicked Witch for her."

"I know, but how do we stop her?"

"I had hoped that the other kingdoms might have rallied by now and sent their armies, but I also know how they think. They are thinking they need to protect the other kingdoms first, not risk lives over just me. It's the logical decision."

"It doesn't mean it's the right one."

"In their minds it is. That means they are probably rallying around the next nearest kingdom waiting for what they believe is your army to come get them."

"And with our help she may very well be successful."

"My concern isn't really with this world. I can't let her get to Storybrooke. My son is there."

"She won't hurt Henry once she finds out he is your son."

"You don't know that. All she will see is some tool she can use to keep me in line or worse use as leverage against Emma and her parents."

"Which brings us back to the problem of what do we do?"

"There is one way to ensure Cora doesn't win. One way to end this."

"How?"

"My death. Our lives are still bound together. If you kill me it will stop her."

Zelena stood up. "I am not going to kill you. I have my memories back of wanting you destroyed and I still wouldn't kill you."

"You may not have a choice," Regina said standing. "I won't let her get near my son. You have to promise me you will take the necessary steps to keep him safe."

"I will not. There has to be another way."

"There may not be. I have lived more than my fair share of years – in this life and in the other. I would gladly give it up if it means Henry is safe. I would do the same for you."

"I can not do this,"

"You don't have to do it now. I just need you to at least consider that it may be the only way."

"And there may be another way. We just have to find it."

"Don't you see, she's destroying us all over again. Our mother, she destroyed us in this life, our original lives and now she is doing it again. No matter what she might say, we aren't enough for her. If we were she wouldn't treat us like she has all of our lives. She has to be stopped."

…

Regina returned to her room hopeful that Zelena would see that she may have to kill her in order to stop their mother. She sat on her bed thinking of Storybrooke and how she was willing to give up her life to save it, to save Henry and if she was being honest with herself – Emma.

She hoped Emma made it back ok and she had no idea what was happening here.

With her memories back she wondered about Emma's motivations. They had clearly been at odds back in Storybrooke and when the first got here but that had changed. Regina understood why it changed for her – she had literally become a different person as she remembered being the Regina from this time. But Emma knew her from before and she wondered now why Emma had slept with her.

Had Emma really developed feelings for her, or had she merely developed feelings for the Regina of this timeline? A part of her hated that she was questioning it, but the other part knew she had to question it.

Why would the savior Emma Swan sleep with the Evil Queen?

…

Emma crouched in the high grass with Aaron and her father. They had ridden near Regina's castle and then tied the horses up and continued on foot. They were in a marsh like area to the east of the castle.

"I still don't like this idea," Charming said.

"Nor do I," Aaron added.

"I know, I know," Emma said tired of hearing it. "But we have to do something to help Regina and this is it for now at least. Look, all I am going to do is see if the tunnel is in tact and enter castle through it."

"And then come straight back here so we can then formulate a plan to bring back to the other rulers," Charming said. "It's a scouting mission; that is all."

"Yes and part of that is finding out where Regina is being held. I will be careful and no one will even know I was there."

"You will do the queen no good if you get yourself caught," Aaron warned her one last time.

"I won't get caught."

They made their way over to where Aaron's father had described the tunnel entrance being, and yet it still took them a while to find the door which had been buried and just below the surface and which had grown over with vegetation. Charming and Aaron got it open and she jumped down into the tunnel. Aaron passed her down a torch which she lit and giving them one last look she took off.

The tunnel was about three miles to get to the castle and she jogged most of the way. She was going to be cautious she told herself, but if she found a way to get Regina out with her she was sure as hell going to take it. The air in the tunnel was stale and she thought it could use a Frebreze spray down.

The tunnel would lead to the lower levels of the castle and hopefully close to Regina. She imagined she was being held in one of the cells below. She still wondered why Regina hadn't used the tunnel on her own. The only explanation she could come up with was that she was physically unable to get to it, perhaps she was locked up or bound somehow. If that was indeed down in the lower levels it upped Emma's chances of finding her and getting her out.

She finally came to the door and she waited and listened. It came out in an old store room that Aaron said no one ever went in, but still she waited to see if she could hear anything. Once she was sure there was nothing she could hear on the other side she doused the torch and left it there for the return trip. She opened the latch on the door and pushed. It didn't move.

Aaron had prepared her for his possibility and she felt along the door, cursing herself for not keeping the torch lit for a better look. He had told her that often these kinds of doors had secondary latches, usually a deadbolt of some sort. She found two of them, both at the top and pulled them. It made enough noise that she was sure if someone was in that room they would have heard that.

She pushed against the door and it creaked open by a couple of inches and she slipped out of it. The room was indeed empty and she quickly went to the other door and listened. This was where things would get tricky. According to the castle plans she had studied with Aaron this led to a hallway with storage rooms up and down it. If she left the room and went right she would reach another corridor and it was this corridor that would take her to the area where the cells were located and hopefully Regina was located. If she was there, there would mostly likely also be guards.

She pulled out her sword and made ready for anything.

She entered the passageway and quietly went to toward the other hall. Luckily there were torches interspersed throughout which gave her the light she needed. She followed Aaron's directions, not encountering anyone which made her even more nervous.

As she neared the door that would lead to the cells she became even more cautious. Something about this didn't seem right. Where were the guards?

She reached the door and again stood outside and listened. She didn't hear anything. She knew the smart thing was to turn around and go back; go back to her father and Aaron and then return and tell the others there was a way to get storm the castle. But the idea that Regina might be on the other side of that door stopped her. She couldn't be this close just to walk away.

Gripping her sword tight, she opened the door ready for whoever came out first. But no one came. She risked a look inside and then walked inside. The place was empty.

Where was Regina?