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: This is going to be a very...very long story if people like this first chapter. Hopefully everyone likes it!
Regina continued to cry, not being able to stand how possible it all sounded.
The worst part being that her brother...her brother was Prince Charming.
There wasn't anyone worse for him to be.
That alone convinced her that it was true.
Only her life could be so ironic.
Slowly Regina pulled away from the strong embrace of Sarah, and the equally tight embrace of Snow.
David looked up from the ground. He had been lost in his own thoughts and his eyes had focused on nothing at all.
He then found them focused on Regina, who seemed so frail in that moment.
Nothing like the evil queen she had always seemed.
His sister.
He had a sister.
It was still sinking in.
Having lost a brother that he had never known it hardly seemed real that he wasn't alone anymore. That he did still have a family.
Right in front of him was a sister he had not known existed or even realized he wanted.
In that moment something in him made a vow. A promise.
That no matter how hard, no matter how much it pained him...not even how much she fought him...would it stop him from making sure that she lived.
No other sibling of his would die a horrible fate because of their parents.
That's what brothers were suppose to do, right?
They protect their sisters.
And as she looked over for the first time since the revelation...he saw it in her eyes as they locked onto his.
The acceptance.
The pain.
The almost hope in her eyes that it was possible. That after all the time alone there was someone else like her.
And as fast as he had seen it, the second her eyes landed on Mary Margaret, it was gone.
Mary Margaret had been leaning her head against David's shoulder and was also staring at the ground crying as she too took in what all had been said. With Regina moving she too looked up.
And it was stronger then her. The need to comfort and apologize for something that she had not caused but somehow felt guilty for.
"Regina I'm soo..."
"Don't bother." Regina cut off in her usual confident tone.
Mary Margaret of course wasn't prepared for the usual dosage of cold treatment. It shocked her into speechlessness.
"This changes nothing. And if you thought it did then you're sadly mistaken."
And as the cold smile came across Regina's tear stained face, David had a moment of clarity.
It was all a facade.
The woman staring back at him was nothing but a facade.
It almost made him smile as he found just how alike they were.
He had always been a Shepard pretending to be a prince, while Regina had been a fragile girl...playing the part of the Evil Queen.
You could see it in her eyes, in the slightl trembling of her chin.
Something in him knew in those few seconds just how close to crumbling completely she was.
It was her defense mechanism.
And in all honesty he couldn't blame her.
He couldn't imagine the life that she had had to lead.
So David did what he was so good at.
He stood slowly and faced her for the first time with new eyes.
"Yes...yes it does." David said slowly as he looked deep into her eyes. "And you know it."
Regina couldn't even speak to him, almost afraid that he could and would betray her in some way.
She couldn't take that chance, that risk that he would hurt her.
It was the only thing that ever happened when she let someone in close.
Somehow, someway they always ended up hurting her in the end. And she couldn't let that happen ever again.
Regina didn't say anything to him. All she did was look at him and try to see it.
Tried to see something...something of herself in him.
The way he looked, the way he talked, something that could have let her know that he was related to her.
But there was none.
David couldn't help but wonder if she was thinking the same things as him.
How, if they could have ever, figured something like this out by themselves?
Maybe.
All he knew now...was everything had changed.
"Regina..."
He never got to say anything but her name as a swirl of black fog appeared and she was gone.
"I'm sorry uncle David. If I'd have known...I wouldn't have...I would have handled the situation better." Sarah said softly.
David smirked at the title.
Uncle.
He was an uncle.
"Wow. Never thought I'd hear anyone call me that title." David said with a little chuckle.
Sarah smirked herself. "Yeah well...I usually only use it when it's just the family. It's pretty hard to explain to people how your my uncle and you married my sister."
Mary Margaret grimaced as her mind hadn't thought about that family connection.
"David and I had already talked about how Rumpelstiltskin being Henry's grandfather might mellow everyone out. This...this just makes things really complicated." Mary Margaret stated with a sigh and a shake of her head.
Sarah smiled at that point as she too had made a connection earlier that she thought odd.
"So..." Sarah began with her little wicked grin, "our mother is Emma's grandmother making Henry her great grandson, but in this land our mother has raised Henry as her son. Which makes Henry your brother. I mean...our brother."
Both Snow and Mary Margaret looked at Sarah with shocked faces.
"What? Hadn't thought of that little family connection?" Sarah said as she turned with a smile and started heading for the diner.
"I'm definitely going to enjoy corrupting our baby brother now!" Sarah said as she sped away from the group with a laugh and lightness in her chest that wasn't there before.
Something in Sarah told her how Henry would be a very important ally to help their mother heal, and if Sarah was good at one thing, it was making ally's.
***************************Fairy Tale Land Alternate Dimension************************************
James and David both rushed into the grand hall, where his mother and sister sat impatiently.
"We found something! Nothing good I'm afraid, but we know they were running from King George's encampment." James said as he went to his mother's side.
Both Regina and Cora stood at that bit of information.
"What were they thinking?!" Regina exclaimed, whirling back to the window as tears already fell down her face.
"If he's done anything to them..." Cora said to James with a look in her eye that told James she would indeed forget herself and use the dark magic that she had tried so hard to leave behind.
James kissed his mother's cheek and lingered there. Finding comfort himself with her.
He had lived many years without knowing her. His father having lied to him nearly his whole life.
Only when by chance had he discovered his sister did he leave King George's side. To say that the falling out had caused a rivalry in the kingdoms was an understatement.
James had learned not just about his sister, but also his brother and mother. He had learned the secrets that his father had kept from him. Immediately he had sided with his mother.
Even though his father had been raising him to be a king, the second that James had found out that he had a family...a real family...he had denounced his father and his kingdom.
He had come to Regina's kingdom and had been living an incredible life since.
But his father wasn't willing to let him go that easily.
James had learned that his mother had kept Regina a secret from him. His father didn't even know that he was his real son. James had said nothing to King George about his discoveries. He knew to do so would have endangered the lives of his family and he hadn't been willing to do such a thing.
Not after having met them. Having them actually care about him and not his obligations to the kingdom.
He had found home. And it hadn't been with his father.
"James you don't think he would..." Regina asked with a scared look on her face.
James turned, looking at his sister with regret on his face.
"He'll do whatever it takes to make sure the kingdom survives. No matter the cost."
Regina looked heartbroken.
The idea that her father could be so cold making her sick.
David went to Regina and helped her sit down, kneeling down to hold her as a huge sob wracked through her body.
"It's ok Gina. They're ok, I can feel it. Come on. You know that if something happened with Sarah or Snow you'd feel it." David wiped Regina's tears away with one hand.
"I'll never forgive myself if he's hurt them. It's my fault all of this is happening." Regina cried out and lowered her head to hide her face from David.
"Hey!" James said as he moved from his mother to kneel beside David. Lifting up Regina's head with his fingertips he made his sister look at him.
"None of this is your fault. You didn't ask to be born, and you sure didn't make our father the way he is." James reasoned with his sister.
"James is right. This isn't your fault. If anything it's his fault for being arrogant." David assured his sister.
Regina looked at both of her brothers and leaned over and kissed both of their foreheads.
"I do love you both. Don't let him make you think otherwise." Regina whispered these words against David's brow.
Both men struggled to keep from crying.
It was very hard for them to accept her love, after what they had heard their mother do to her.
It had been extremely hard for the two brothers to realize they had not been able to protect her in her greatest hour of need.
Daniel's death had been years before they had met their sister, but it didn't stop how when she had confided in them what had happened, just how much they blamed themselves for not being their to protect her.
Even from their own mother.
Both David and James had taken a long time to forgive their mother for what she had done to Regina. They had become a very close knit family.
"He'll try and pin this on Midas. We know that your father will stop at nothing to stop the treaty from happening." Cora said as she looked out the window.
All three siblings looked over at their mother.
Turning her head she looked at her children with a small smile.
"As long as the three of you stick together he won't be able to."
The door's opening to the room caused all four to turn and see who it was.
The instant Regina saw who it was her heart constricted.
"Emma!"
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