Title: True Love Is Magic
Discliamer: NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE MINE! Done for fun people! No money is being made here :(
Author's Note: Continuing on with this long story. Let's see where things end up!
Regina's dark eyes suddenly lightened as Sarah's words penetrated her brain, slowly she pulled away from Sarah.
For David...David just looked like someone had slapped him across the face.
"You mean... you mean Regina never calls her mother by her first name." David tried to keep breathing. All of a sudden he felt like no air was getting to his lungs. He felt like the world had flipped upside down.
Sarah shook her head, "No...I mean I've never heard YOU call your mom by her first name. You and uncle James are barely ever formal with her...even though she pleads with the both of you most of the time."
Both Regina and David looked stricken. Nothing could have prepared them for this moment.
Nothing.
Mary Margret's mouth opened and closed several times as she too processed the information.
Regina's eyes began to tear...and she shook her head as she slowly backed away from Sarah.
It took a second for Sarah and Snow to watch the others reactions to realize something was way off.
"You...you didn't know she was your mom?" Sarah asked in an almost whisper to David.
The implication of it all slammed into Regina.
She kept shaking her head, not answering Sarah but denying what she was saying.
"No. You're...you're wrong. Maybe where you come from things are that different." David tried to find an excuse, a reason that what Sarah was saying was wrong.
Sarah shook her head. "No...I mean...you existing at all means...wait...you...you two didn't know you were siblings?" Sarah asked the last part slowly and with a very shocked expression.
"It's not possible." Those were the first words Regina managed to get out. "I don't have siblings."
Snow realizing that another melt down was about to occur moved to flank Sarah, unconsciously supporting her sister.
"Of course you do. That's why your name's Regina...you were to be queen." Snow stated confusing Regina and making her head spin even more.
"Mom...you...you know you're King George's daughter right? Grandma...she told you didn't she? That...that David and James are your brothers... your family! That's why Grandma had to make the deals that she did." Sarah said slowly, knowing that the words were causing her mother pain and not being able to do anything about it.
David wasn't understanding how it was possible for him to be related to Regina. King George wasn't his actual father. What Snow and Sarah were suggesting was not possible.
"But King George isn't my real father." David just stared into Snow's eyes. Eyes that slowly watered as understanding came to them.
"Oh David...you didn't know..." the words leaving Snow's mouth as tears escaped her eyes.
Regina was still backing away,her body folding in on itself as her insides started becoming like stone the more she heard.
Sarah kept watching her mother, seeing how she was trying to retreat from what was being said. Sarah had known from meeting her here in this land that something was wrong. Never would she have expected this though.
"Mom...you...you knew right?" Sarah barely managed to say the words as she saw her mother's eyes look up at her with such pain.
"Mom..."
But Regina wasn't listening to Sarah, she was barely able to breathe.
Regina had only looked this way once before. The devastation written on her face made Sarah and Snow realize that not only did she not know...
But they had just ripped away everything that she had ever known...everything that she had held true.
It was just too much for her.
Suddenly her back became rigid, her posture straightening like that day so many years ago when she had realized that Snow White had betrayed her.
When her eyes met Sarah's the hatred radiating from them froze Sarah to the spot.
"Did you really think this would work?" Regina asked with a sneer.
Sarah stood rooted to the spot as Regina came forward and grabbed her roughly.
"DID YOU THINK I'D BELIEVE ALL OF THESE LIES?! THAT YOU COULD TRICK ME?!" Regina yelled into Sarah's face.
"She's telling the truth! Why would we lie about this?!" Snow tried to control herself by not ripping Sarah away from her mother. Knowing that it would only make things worse.
"SNOW TELL HER! You know she can't lie mom...she stinks at it! TELL HER SNOW!" Sarah was panicking as Regina's nails dug into Sarah's upper arms.
Regina's hate filled eyes spun to lock on Snow's.
Snow knew then what she was about to do would break her mother even more than she was already broken. She remembered the first time her grandmother had told the story to the fragile woman before her.
Snow closed her eyes and let out a huge sigh as tears escaped her closed lids.
Opening them she readied herself to do what she knew she had to.
She was about to remake her mother's world.
"She did it to save you."
The words filled the silent street.
"She...she was in love with him...King George. Loved him more than you can think..." a tiny giggle escaped her, " I think she still loves him now."
Both David and Regina's hearts were thumping so fast at the words.
Snow turned her eyes to David with a small smile.
"They were married."
Regina's lower lip trembled as she realized Snow wasn't lying. Because despite everything, Sarah had been telling the truth.
Snow couldn't lie to save her life. And listening to her now...it felt like a knife to her heart.
Snow closed her eyes and let tears fall as her head dropped and her voice became rough from the tears clogging her throat.
"They tried for years to have a child. And as the years passed it seemed that her worst fear had come true. She couldn't have any."
Snow wiped away tears and opened her eyes to look at her mother.
"So she did the only thing she could think of...the only thing she knew how to... she made a deal."
Both David and Regina felt their stomach's plummet.
"But magic always comes with a price. Always."
Snow's eyes continued to stare into her mother's when she whispered the next words.
"She was pregnant with a little girl. Her miracle. The one thing she wanted more than anything in the world and she was the happiest woman in all the lands."
Then Snow shook her head blinking back tears, "But your father...he was horrified." Snow's voice deepened on the last word.
Regina's hands loosened on Sarah's arms as she swallowed down the emotions those words produced.
But Snow didn't stop, she knew she couldn't by now.
"He wanted a son. A boy to be heir to his kingdom. But she tried to reason with him, tried to convince him that a woman could still rule a kingdom. She..." Snow shook her head, "she loved him so much...so much that she didn't realize how horrible he was."
"So she went to Rumpelstiltskin again. Another deal was made...but...but it was too late." Sarah whispered...realizing just how horrible the words were.
"She didn't realize just how far the King was willing to go to secure his Kingdom." Snow added.
"He tried to have you killed." Sarah whispered.
Regina turned shocked eyes to Sarah.
"When she found out...she ran. She didn't...she didn't realize she was pregnant with..." Snow turned her head to look at David.
"Twins." David said as he realized why her mother had not gone back.
Snow's eyes came back to her mother's.
"Grandmother knew the King would have killed one of them. Our lands know of what happens when two siblings have a right to the thrown...and then there was you." Snow was almost gasping with how little air she was getting in.
Regina was openly crying. The pain in her chest so tight she couldn't move.
"Knowing...knowing if he ever found out he had two sons..." Snow left the threat of what the King might do in the air, all of them knew exactly what the king would have done.
"I don't understand..." David said with tears traveling down his eyes. "I had a mother...she raised me..."
"Your aunt. Your mother took you to the only people she knew would love you like she would." Snow said with a small smile.
"But James...James..." David tried to stop crying, but he couldn't. The very idea of all this being true making him rethink everything. Making him realize that his world was nothing as he thought it to be.
"Rumpelstiltskin...felt betrayed by Grandmother. You see...he...he had fallen in love with her. And when she had chosen George over him...he made sure he could hurt her in the worst way possible." Snow said as she watched Mary Margaret finally move over to David to console him.
"He knew your aunt and uncle were about to lose their land. It was either lose both of you...or lose one. They took the deal...they...they didn't know the very thing that Cora was trying to prevent was the very thing Rumpelstiltskin would arrange." Sarah said as she watched her mother lower her head, feeling the trembles in her mother's body take over.
"I'm soo sorry mom. I'm so sorry." Sarah said as she removed her mother's hands from on her and wrapped them around her mother as they both sank to the ground as Regina final started sobbing.
Snow was there in an instant wrapping both her mother and her sister in a fierce embrace.
"I knew...I knew she always hated me." Regina gasped out the words between sobs.
"No. No she doesn't mom. If anything she loves you too much." Snow said against her mother's hair.
"She wanted to protect you from him. Wanted to show him that you could rule a kingdom. That you could be queen...and that's when...that's when she lost herself." Sarah said. Slowly she pulled back from her mother.
Brushing back her mother's hair she looked up into the wounded eyes that had always looked at her with so much love. In that moment Sarah wished that some spark of who her mother was could be seen in those eyes.
"I love you mom." Sarah whispered as she kissed her mother's cheek and wrapped her arms around her as tightly as she could.
Snow whispered the same words to Regina, also entwining herself around her mother, whispering words of love and sorrow.
David and Mary Margaret allowed their own tears to fall.
In that moment they both realized just how alone Regina had been.
How much she had needed someone to cling to, to hold her and say the things that both Sarah and Snow were saying to her.
Mary Margaret remembered in that moment, watching a broken Regina, about how a few short months ago she had been willing to brave a storm to help save one broken dove. How she had been determined to help save the dove from a lifetime of pain.
Because in the end...as she stared at the three entwined women she realized that what she had said was true.
No one deserves to be alone.
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