"She can't be that person anymore, the force to be reckoned with. Now she's just leftovers of the what she used to be, a broken version of herself, one that wakes up every night silently screaming for help but is too damn proud to ask for it." In a desperate attempt to regain some sense of safety, a traumatized and hurt Regina packs up her things and leaves her life behind. SQ AU.

Regina was expecting to find a thief in her garden at 6 am not a pint sized blonde with blue eyes. AU little Emma

Emma has been hiding something from her family, but when her mother discovers by accident, she is forced to tell them the truth. When Snow and David take it about as well as she thought they would, she is more than shocked when she is allowed to seek refuge from an unexpected source. [Emma x Regina pairing]

Regina Mills is known across the seas as the Queen of the Damned: the eternally cursed ruler of the pirates. To free herself of her curse, she must do something she finds to be impossible and find someone to love her. [Regina x Emma pairing] Pirate AU

Regina Mills doesn't know who she is anymore. She knows that she should be happy because she's achieved everything she set out to do since the day that she graduated high school, but she can't help but think that she's lost herself along the way, or maybe she simply left a part of herself behind in the small town that she grew up in.

When a business trip goes wrong due to a severe car collision, Regina Mills is taken to a hospital where she is in the hands of their best doctor, Emma Swan. Her slow recovery back to health & the weight of guilt from the crash keeps her missing her young son. But with Emma by her side along the way, there's no doubt that fate brought them together.