A/N: As always, just wanted to thank Hime no Kuwai Shumi for her patience with dealing with me as I brainstorm and for reading stuff I throw at her.

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Chapter 5

The blonde had been pacing her room for hours, she had intended to get some sleep in since she knew Regina had returned to the mansion but still the slumber she desperately needed remained elusive, consumed by the worry of how to fix things.

Her fingernails had officially been worn to the nub as she had chewed fingernail after fingernail trying to think of ideas of how to make it up to Regina.

After a moments thought, she huffed and typed up a quick text to her kid asking him several different questions regarding is brunette mother, stuff she hadn't gotten the chance to ask her yet and sighed softly, throwing herself none to gently down on her bed in hopes of shocking some sort of semblance of an idea together.

"Hey kid, what's your mom's favourite flower? Favourite colour... I'm guessing black. Favourite movie? Sorry to interrupt your time. Love you. E x."

She had always signed her texts with E out of habit, even after fake memories were implanted, like it was a touch memory almost, so she never bothered to correct it with her son and he didn't seem to care.

She didn't have to wait long before she got a response.

"Flower is a lily, I believe. I'd say black too, I'll find out for sure. Movie is that one with dude from that dancing movie... and she likes that too but it's the other one."

"That's so clear... do you mean Dirty Dancing?"

"Yeah, that movie, the dude from that and it's the movie with the funny chick from Sister Act."

"Ghost?"

"Yeah, that one!"

"Thanks, kid, I owe you! E x."

It appeared like their torrent of text messages had come to an end and as she stared at the ceiling, tapping pale fingers against the top of her stomach, she exhaled with a loud noise trying to think of how she was going to instrument all her thoughts together without Regina immediately coming to the conclusion that she had feelings for her.

A loud beep interrupted her thought process and she rolled over, grasping the phone in her hand, unlocked her screen and clicked on the new message from her son.

"Just make mom happy again, then you won't owe me."

She smiled sadly at the message, staring at his response for several minutes, somewhat shocked at his candidness, though he was definitively her son in this aspect, with his old memories also worrying about his brunette mother.

Her fingers clicked away quickly at the touch screen typing out her response and she quickly pressed send before laying her head down on her pillow for a brief moment.

"I will try my hardest even if it kills me, kid, you have my word. E x."

She sat up then, pulling herself off the bed and pulled her clothes back on over her underwear harshly, while a plan suddenly started formulating itself in her head.

Of course Regina's favourite movie was about a dead husband trying to contact his living wife and protect her from beyond the grave because his love was the strongest feeling that still remained. In all aspects, it was a story about true love and of course it was Regina's favourite... it made total sense.

Now, however, was how to incorporate it into her plan to show Regina she was beyond sorry and that she was still loved, probably more than the blonde would even admit to herself right now, but the main aspect of her plan involved getting Regina to forgive her, she would deal with whatever feelings she had for her at a later time when she herself had wrapped her head around them.