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!

She was in Henry's room once more. Staring at his things, his toys, his bed.

Looking at all of the things that reminded her of her son she tried to focus on thoughts of him, and not of how she felt as if someone had just cracked open her very soul.

For the first time in so long she didn't know what to do...let alone think.

What hurt the most though, what stung her in a way that no one would have thought, was the man that she had called father.

Daddy.

Tears refused to hide as she thought of him.

She had loved him so much.

To enact this curse she had willingly sacrificed him.

And now...now she knew why he had never defended her. Why he had never gone against her mother.

Looking back now it made sense.

Regina looked out Henry's window. Watching the tree outside move in the wind, she thought back to all those years ago.

Heart aching, she tried not to let more tears fall at the thought that he might not have loved her.

But as her hand came down to steady herself on Henry's drawer her hand encountered the game that she had just given Henry not too long ago.

Sniffling and trying to stop her crying she lifted the game to look at.

Henry had kept it.

Many people would have thought nothing of it. They would have thought 'of course he kept it.' But Regina knew her son better than that.

She knew her son better.

Regina knew in that second...her father had loved her.

He might not have been her biological father...but he had loved her.

Because in the end he had raised her.

She had belonged to him.

Up until the end he had been what she had loved most.

He had loved her...and she had killed him.

Regina's face crumbled as she held the game and slowly sank onto Henry's bed.

All she could do was cry now.

Regina didn't know how long she was there for before the bed shifted and arms were around her once more.

Regina only cried harder when Sarah whispered that she loved her against her head.

Tears fell from both women's eyes.

It wasn't much longer before Snow found them like this.

Snow made her way around to the other side of the bed and looked at her mother's face.

Regina had a hard time looking back at Snow. It was still too hard for her to separate the two women in her mind. But slowly Snow arranged herself next to her mother, facing her.

Eventually all three were in Henry's tiny bed.

Snow looked towards her feet.

"Why do you hate me?"

The question was whispered, but the power it held behind it caused Regina to look at the face of the woman that she had blamed for her unhappiness for years.

The answer to her question was so easy, no thought went into answering it.

"Daniel died because of you."

Snow's head whipped up suddenly with a startled look.

Regina didn't understand why those words would shock her. Unless of course Daniel had not died...was...was Daniel still alive in the other realm?

But Regina's sudden hope was squashed when Snow looked over to Sarah who had positioned herself over their mother at the admission from her mother.

"Who's Daniel?" Sarah asked with a furrowed brow.

Snow's eyes immediately went back to her mother's. The startled almost panic look on Snow's face making Regina's heart tighten miserably.

Sarah didn't know.

Her daughter didn't know who her real father was.

Regina gathered herself enough to answer Sarah.

"Maybe in your lands I didn't know him, but...it was someone I cared very much for." Swallowing the lump in her throat she was proud for not lying to her daughter.

But Sarah heard the way her mother's voice hitched. Sarah knew her mother and sister all too well.

"Did you...did you love him?" Sarah asked slowly. It wasn't that Sarah didn't know that her mother had never loved her father, it was that she hadn't known that she HAD loved someone else.

"Yes." Regina said in a whisper.

Snow's face seemed to crumble as she looked at the way her mother's pain was etched on her face as she said the word. Pain that she had caused.

"You...you said...you said that you forgave me..." Snow managed to gasp out.

Out of everything that Regina expected Snow to say...that was not it.

Her Snow...had never asked for forgiveness. If anything her attempt at saying she was sorry was pathetic.

Snow saw the confusion on her mother's face. Immediately Snow knew something between her mother and the woman before her was different.

Snow looked up at a very confused looking Sarah.

"Sarah...can I talk with mom alone for a while?"

Sarah was baffled then.

Never in her entire life had Snow asked her to step outside while she talked with their mother. Not even when Snow had told their mother that she was in love with David. And that had been a HUGE ordeal.

Whatever was going on...it had to blow that event out of the water.

"Please?" Snow asked her sister. Knowing all too well that her request was throwing Sarah for a loop.

"Sure." Sarah said as she untangled herself from her mother's embrace.

Regina felt the loss almost immediately, shocking her on how fast she had grown accustomed to having her daughter's arms around her.

"Can you shut the door on the way out?" Snow asked her sister, causing Sarah to almost look insulted.

Sarah, though, nodded her head at the request.

Moving away from the pair that were now sitting up, Sarah left them to talk and closed the door behind her.

Regina sat up, and watched as Snow seemed to pull herself together.

"I have the feeling...that your Snow didn't find out about Daniel the way I did." Snow said slowly as she looked up at her mother.

"How did you find out?" Regina asked as her heart tightened of the memories long ago.

Snow gave a watery smile and tried to say the words without crying, "You told me."

Regina winced and looked away from Snow.

"I...I thought...I thought I was doing the right thing. I thought telling your mother would free you from having to run." Snow was barely saying the words out loud, fearing that Sarah would over hear them.

The words though caused anger to rise up in Regina like all the many times before. The feeling of betrayal coupled with the huge loss of her one true love making Regina's eyes blaze.

"You promised!" The accusation in Regina's voice making Snow cry even more.

"I did. And I just wanted you happy." Snow closed her eyes and tilted her head just slightly. "I wanted the only person that I had ever loved as much as my mother...to be happy."

Regina was caught off guard by Snow's words.

Snow opened her eyes and straightened her neck as she looked at her mother.

"I was...I was soo happy when I learned that you were to be my mother. I thought...I thought I was the luckiest girl in the whole kingdom."

Regina said nothing as her startled eyes couldn't turn away from the look on Snow's face.

"And then I saw you with him...and...and I knew it was over."

Regina gulped down the anger Snow's words brought. The want to smack Snow for being selfish. The want to know why she would betray her. But Snow's next words hurt more than Regina thought they ever could.

Snow smiled as tears leaked down her face.

"You told me you loved him. You told me he made you happy. And all I could think..." Snow closed her eyes again and tilted her head to the side and back again, "is that all I wanted was for you to be happy."

Regina said nothing as Snow lifted her hand and cupped her mother's cheek.

"Because I loved you...I was willing to lose you as my mother...as long as I knew I was making you happy."

Snow was just about to pull her hand away when Regina reached up and held it to her face. Closing her eyes she allowed herself to understand. Understand and accept what this Snow knew as truth. What she had felt and wanted all those years ago. But in the end she was a different Snow.

The Snow White she had known had not said or indicated she felt anything like that to her. Ever.

Maybe...maybe if she had...things would have been different.

Snow's fingers spread out on her mother's face.

"Sarah..." Snow's voice dropped an octave as she whispered the important words, "Sarah doesn't know...you...things happened...we had to keep things from her. To protect her. You...we...we've always told her that she was my father's daughter."

"To protect her." Regina repeated the words as she took Snow's hand in her own and held it in her lap.

Snow nodded slowly as she swallowed down the clog in her throat.

"You...you found out things."

The way she said the words...in that abrupt way she did when she was nervous about the subject matter...it made Regina realize that whatever the things were...it must have been...well...something horrible.

Up until that moment Snow had bore her soul to her, and suddenly she had clammed up.

Snow lowered her head, staring at the blanket beneath them, trying to forget the memory of all those years ago.

Trying to forget that time in her life, before her mother had come rescued her.

Regina saw the way Snow had drifted into her own little world.

Something in her startled at the fact that she recognized what she was doing. Because she often had to do so herself.

This time it was the queen who reached out and lifted Snow's head.

"What things?"

Snow looked so child like in that one moment.

Like the years had not passed, like she was not a mother but still just a child.

"Things...that if you don't know about...I wish to God didn't happen to your Snow."

The words didn't settle right with Regina, but she never got a chance to ask about them as Snow dove into Regina's waist.

Resting her head against her mother's bosom and sniffling, Snow held on tight to her once more.

"I hope she forgave me. I hope she doesn't hate me like you do."

And in that moment Regina knew that the other her did nothing but love Snow.

Because in that moment all she wanted to do...was deny that she hated her.

It was an instinct that she forced down.

Couldn't allow it to spring forth. Even if at the very core of herself...she wanted to.

So she did the only thing she could do.

She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around her. And slowly, very slowly, Regina was hugging her back with all the emotion a mother shows a daughter.

It was thrilling.

It was painful.

It was the first time in so long that Regina the woman came out, and the dark magic receded.

"I hope so too."

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