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!

David sat at the dining room table. Just like he had not but a few days ago when he learned that Rumple was Henry's other grandfather. Now he sat there trying to make sense of it all.

"How's it possible that King George is my real father?"

The question of course was rhetorical, but Snow shook her head as she stared at the table top - not really paying attention to her husband.

But David was trying to figure things out.

"The idea that that man's blood flows through my veins..." David huffed out a breath, "well I'd now willingly drain myself of it."

Snow said nothing to this as she herself was lost in thought.

"Snow...Regina might be my sister...what...what does that make me?" David asked slowly as a look of worry fell over his face.

This jogged Snow out of her thoughts. Worry had flowed from the question, which kind of confused Snow.

"What do you mean...what does it make you?" Snow asked with a furrowed brow.

David waved his hand over the table. "It means...we've both tried to kill each other. Hell we've been mortal enemies since we've known each other. What does it make me that I've tried to kill my own sister?" David asked with a worried look on his face.

Snow understood what he needed then. He needed to be reassured that he had done nothing wrong. That he had protected his family from the person that was threatening them, even if that was his own sister.

"Hey! Neither of you could have known...about...any of this..." Snow began as she shook her own head at the thought of her husband being related to the woman that had tried nothing but to destroy her life. "If anyone is at fault here it's..." and that's when Snow shut her mouth as she realized who exactly she was about to blame.

David winced. "My mother."

Snow reached over and grabbed David's hand. "Hey, the woman that I met and raised you was your mother. She loved you and cared for you..."

"And sold my brother to the very man that would have killed the both of us to save his kingdom." The grim truth made Snow wince.

"Please don't get me wrong...I loved my mother! I would have done anything for her...but..." David shook his head as his eyes bounced aimlessly around the room, "but I...WE'VE been lied to about everything our entire lives! Why not just tell us...why not tell us the truth!"

Snow held David's hand as his ranting seemed to increase.

"I've spent my entire life being someone else. And so has she. All this time...all this time I've been judging her. I've told her she's deserved everything she's gotten." David shook his head as he reflected back to those few moments he had spent with his sister.

He had even stopped her from being with the only man she had ever loved. And he would have killed him. If Regina hadn't of.

David knew if it had been reversed...he wouldn't have been able to kill Snow. As wrong as it was he knew he wouldn't have been able to.

But she had.

Because he had made her choose.

In the end Daniel wasn't the monster...in the end...he was.

"You admitted to me once that you ruined her life...huh" David huffed out a disgusted laugh, "I guess I did too." David's small grimace showed just how much the idea hurt him.

That he was also to blame for the way Regina was.

"Regina made her choices David. She chose to study black magic, she chose to be the way she is." Snow tried to make David see that he wasn't to blame for the choices that Regina had made.

"She chose evil David." Snow whispered the words, not even sure herself if she believed that.

But suddenly Regina's voice came into his head, and a tear leaked out of his eye.

"But evil isn't born Snow...it's made."

Sarah didn't know why she had the urge to grab the book from Henry's room, but as she had been getting up she had felt the book under her arm.

Taking the distraction of her sister and mother's heart to heart, she sneakily hid the book behind her back as she had gone out. Luckily Snow hadn't been watching her too closely.

Which was odd to begin with. Her sister always seemed to know what she was up to.

As Sarah sat down at the dining table she looked at the title of the book.

Once Upon A Time.

Smiling she opened the book and began to read.

Not knowing how much time was passing, Sarah managed to read the whole book.

As she closed the book Sarah felt numb.

Hands passing over the book, Sarah didn't know what to think.

Sarah swallowed and tried to keep herself from crying.

This book...however it came to be...told stories of her family. About the people of this land.

If the book was any indication of how different the lives of her family had been compared to what happened in her land...well...Sarah wanted to barge back into the room and hold her mother until the world stopped turning.

The book held many stories. There were many things that she had not known. Many things had been kept secret from her.

Sarah was becoming aware of just how different things were. How people's lives were so messed up here.

Taking a deep breath Sarah stood up and placed the book behind a sofa cushion, knowing now that she shouldn't be seen with it.

Now the problem was that she knew form earlier that whoever this Daniel was...her mother had loved him.

And if that were true, then what had happened to him to cause the shift in her mother here. Obviously whatever had happened to her mother back home had happened here if her sister knew exactly what their mother was talking about.

Sarah tried not to cry again as she remembered her mother in the book.

It hurt Sarah's heart to know that her beautiful mother was seen so horribly. It seemed like no one knew the real her. No one knew who the real Regina was.

She had to find a way to fix things. To change them. To bring back that twinkle that was in her mother's eye that was missing here.

Maybe they had done something good already here.

Showing both David and her mother who they really were...maybe that would start to change things for the better now.

Maybe.

Truth being there were too many maybe's here.

Clenching in her chest made Sarah realize that she cared too much to watch her mother suffer like this.

It was as though the world had been against her.

But Sarah was determined now. Leaving now was not an option, not until she could help her.

Because if she didn't...who would?

***************************Fairy Tale Land Alternate Dimension************************************

Emma and Regina rushed to meet the other in the middle of the room.

Emma squeezed her grandmother tightly as she closed her eyes, knowing that what she had heard was true.

"It's true isn't it. They're really missing." Emma said with a clogged throat.

Regina had already teared up and just nodded against Emma's shoulder, not able to speak as she held Emma in her arms.

"Have they found anything? Anything at all?" Emma asked as she pulled away to look at her grandmother's face.

Regina wiped away Emma's tears as she tried to control her own.

"All we know is that they were near King George's camp site. We haven't found anything just yet...but we will." Regina assured Emma nodding her head.

Emma nodded along with her, her wide blue eyes so similar to her mother's showing just how scared she was.

Emma held her grandmother's hands tightly as she was hit with just how grave the situation was.

"Your father and your uncle are about to see if they can find any clues as to where they could be."

Emma turned and barely stopped herself from jumping into her father's arms.

"I'm scared Daddy."

David though calmed his daughter by whispering words of reassurance. Knowing that the more time passed the worse their chances of actually finding the two safely.

"We have to go princess. You stay here and make sure grandma and my mother don't climb the walls." David said while kissing his daughters forehead.

"Stay here...no David...I'm coming with you." Regina said startling both David and James.

"Regina...that's not a good idea." David said as he pulled away from Emma.

"I'm not sitting here...waiting to know if my daughters have been rescued or not when I can be right there to see them home." Regina said with all the confidence that only a queen is capable of.

But David nor James thought the idea was a good one.

"Regina, please just stay here with Emma and..." David was more then ready to convince his sister to stay when Emma stopped him.

"No she's right! We can't just sit here waiting to know if they're ok! They might need us and we would be hours away before we could reach them." Emma spoke with forwardness, knowing that her father's thoughts were on keeping his family safe.

Baelfire had kept quiet until this point. Holding Henry in his arms he approached Emma.

"Emma I think your father is right. We can't risk..."

"Yes we can! Bae it's my mother and aunt we're talking about! I can't sit here and do nothing. If grandma is going then so am I!" Emma said with finality as she took Henry from Baelfire as he reached out for her.

But Henry immediately turned and reached out for Regina. Without thought Regina took him into her arms, moving Henry with her to her mother's side.

"I'm sorry mother. I can't sit here a moment longer. If my girls need me I need to be there for them. I don't care about my safety. I care about theirs!" Regina said as Henry comfortably settled onto Regina's hip.

Cora let out a heavy sigh. Henry laughed at her and Cora reached out and caressed young Henry's face.

"I'm not about to let all of you go without me. And this one always likes to stay close to you. Which means..." Cora left the statement hanging with a small smile.

David and James' frames seemed to sink in as they realized EXACTLY what that meant.

"Hhhhhhaaa..." James breathed out lengthily, "It means I'll gather the guards to accompany us." James released his breath once more and moved towards the doors.

"I don't like this Gina." David said causing Regina to turn and face her brother.

"David please! Snow may be your wife...but she was my daughter first." Regina said trying to plead with her brother.

James had paused at the door, hoping that David would be able to convince their stubborn headed sister, but the way David's shoulder's slumped at Regina's words...he knew that it was a lost battle.

David nodded slightly and turned to join his brother.

Emma walked over to Regina and laid her head against Regina's empty shoulder.

Regina instantly lifted her hand and held Emma's head beside her own.

"It's ok sweetheart." Regina kissed the side of Emma's forehead. "We'll find them...and then we'll deal with whoever tried to hurt them." Regina's voice taking on the steel like smoothness it so often did.

Emma recognized the voice. It was reserved for when people threatened their family. When those who did not know her loyalties said the wrong thing about her brothers.

"Grandma...I know mom won't let anything happen to Sarah. You know she'll protect her." Emma was trying to comfort her grandmother as her hand reached over and caressed her own sons brown haired head.

"I know that sweetheart. I'm worried about both of them. I don't want to think about what could have happened to them...I...I couldn't stand it if something..." Regina's voice was trembling with emotion. The thought of her daughters dead causing a grief stronger than she had had when Daniel had died.

And there had been no greater pain in her life than that moment.

But this...this would make her more than crazy.

This would stop her own heart from beating.

"We'll find them Regina. I know we will. I can feel it." Cora told her daughter.

Regina nodded her head as tears escaped them, little Henry's hands reaching up and touching her face at the unfamiliar sight of his great grandmother crying.

Bae said nothing as he watched the three woman comfort each other.

Something told him that wherever Sarah and Snow had gone...it would not be so easy to reach them.

********************Back To The Mainworld************************

Regina had pulled herself together.

At least that's what she told herself.

Truth was that at the moment Snow was sleeping against her chest as they both semi sat up in the bed.

Regina's hand was once again skimming through Snow's hair.

It was so foreign to her...to actually feel a good emotion towards this woman. Her face showing just how confused she was as the emotions went from one extreme to the other.

Playing with the long black hair that lay against Snow's shoulder the memories of all those years ago came back to haunt her.

She remembered the moment she realized that she was changing. The moment where she had imagined choking little Snow to death.

How had things become so dark so fast.

Regina tilted her head and looked down at Snow's face.

Slowly a distorted small smile came to Regina's face.

Snow was completely lax against her. No sign of mistrust or fear whatsoever.

It made Regina's heart ache to see her like this.

Years had passed since she had even held Henry like this. And in one day she had held her enemy like she was a little girl once more.

She had been trying so hard to be worthy of Henry. To show him that she did love him. Above everything in her that told her love was weakness...she loved Henry with everything in her.

Because he had been hers.

His first words. His first steps.

Every single first...she had been there.

When had he started to see her as evil? What had caused her own son to revolt against her? To find his birth mother and make her feel as though she had been nothing but cold to him his entire life.

She didn't know the answers to those questions, though they plagued her mind all the time now.

Yet this Snow White in her arms, this woman that she wanted to choke with her bare hands, she thought of her as her mother.

If this Snow knew about the things that she and Cora had done, and she still looked at her as her mother, why couldn't Henry see her as his?

"Well now isn't this a sight?"

It was Cora.

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