Luxe had heard everything about his father's discussion with Regina. She wanted to help them.
A few days later, the evil queen warned Regina to meet her at the town hall, she was going to give her a little surprise. She wanted to use the scissors of destiny to finally kill her nice double. Regina and Luxe saw hope. Killing her was not the easy way out. She remembered August telling her that he accepted a little of her darkness. When she can, she will use the queen's heart and put a little darkness into hers and a little light into her. They will be perfectly identical.
Meanwhile, August was at Granny's, sipping coffee and thinking.
« You don't want some rum, you look like you need it », a young blonde woman told him
August looked at her, he wasn't sure who she was.
« Can't you see who I am? »
« You seem to know who I am », he laughed
« Yes you are Pinocchio, well August, the blue fairy who is my master has told me a lot about you »
He widened her eyelids
« I'm a bit like your aunt »
« Well you got a head start on me », he said going back to his thoughts
« Tinker Bell », she sneered playfully
He gave her a big smile, then sank back into his thoughts
« Look, I haven't come to talk to you about the blue fairy or anything but I have come to talk to you about the one that's haunting your minds right now. Regina. »
« Do you know Regina? I mean personally? »
« She didn't tell you about me, well that's understandable », she said disappointed. « I met her in the Enchanted Forest shortly before she became the Evil Queen. I wanted her to forget her revenge and finally deserve happiness. The fairy dust had shown her her soul mate and it was Robin, but she was too scared and she ran away and because of that I lost my wings. »
She bit her lip
« People no longer believed in me. You know she had a chance with Robin as Regina but it ended badly but I thought about it and asked for the fairy dust again and saw that it was actually the Evil Queen who would have Robin, maybe the Robin they met in this other world and Regina would have I don't know you »
« I don't really believe in soul mates, Tinker Bell, we are in real life, here, we are no longer in the Enchanted Forest »
« As a writer I wouldn't have believed that of you, but I think I gave you an idea so that the evil queen also has a chance of redemption »
August closed his eyes for a moment, struggling to digest that the Evil Queen too could be happy knowing all that Regina had tried to do to be but this Evil Queen was just a concept, she still was in Regina and he hoped so. He texted Luxe for Regina to think of the idea of Wish Robin for the Evil Queen.
When she saw the text, Regina smirked at her stepdaughter. She now understood why the Robin she had seen was still young. They saw the evil queen and Luxe hid. She filmed the entire fight scene live between them, then when Regina poured out the hearts with half darkness and half light. She sent all this to her father, so that he would see everything she did and believe in it. Then she joind Regina and her double.
« I gave you some of my love, love from Henry, August, Robin and the people I care most about and in return, I'm taking back some of your darkness. Our darkness. You are a part of me, without you I'm not who I've become today. I wouldn't have Henry and all my life here. Lately I've finally learned to love and trust myself, so you can too. Tinker Bell was wrong, Robin is not my happy ending, and it's not that August or Henry was finally getting to be the person I wanted to be for years and be here with the people I wanted to be. love with all my heart and accept me too. »
With the Apprentice's wand, she took the Evil Queen close to the other Robin in the Wish World. Luxe took her in her arms. She was now convinced that she and her father would be reunited again.
As she walked out of town hall, Regina was amazed to see August with his best smile. Luxe wanted to give them some privacy.
« I saw what you did » he cried
« What I hope is that it won't end badly between you and me, I believe that since what I did, I have more esteem for you than I have for myself » , she lamented.
He laughed and walked over to put his fingers in hers
« You have to know one thing, I know that you want to protect me because you have lost two men that you loved but let it be clear, I'm not Robin and I'm not Daniel and you're not you're not Annie, or Emma, we don't react the same with these people, we have to adapt. So now I'm with you no matter what you say. You may not have that impression but when you changed before I was myself again, you were a role model for me afterwards, it was you who helped me to become the man I've always dreamed of being since I exist. So if there is one thing that I learned from you, it's that our future isn't defined by our past. »
« I think both men and women are too weak to live on their own. We may not have chosen the best way to act by doing what we did but I wonder if the real escape is not to try to let go of what it feels and to consider its true emotions like common waste to be eliminated. August, despite your confidence, I'm sure you're a more fragile person than I might think and so am I. I think I know you enough now to be convinced of one thing, you underestimate yourself too much and despite everything, I trust you. You know when I was the Evil Queen, my life just ended, the only story I heard was the one I kept telling myself, that I was the Evil Queen. Until finally, I forgot the most important things. My life was never just one story. It was many stories. To some, a vilain. I hurt people in ways, I can never make up for. To others, I'm a hero. They've seen my strength, my ability to do the hard things, even when I thought I couldn't. I want to start a new story. One where the Evil Queen doesn't get a part. I choose to believe in love and in family and especially in you. Because I am convinced that the end of my story will be much happier than my last story. »
« It will be »
He came closer to her until he heard her heart
« It's the promise of my life, I'll take care of it personally, he laughed and I finally answer you, I love you too, Regina. You missed me so much »
He kissed her passionately. She put her hand around his neck and stroked his hair. She felt happier than ever because they had finally accepted each other, and they were finally ready to build a happy future.