Chapter 3:
The next morning Regina woke up with a fright. She had a dream of her son, Henry, driving away from her across the town line in a beat up old yellow Volkswagen Beatle. Her heart stopped when her son turned around because he had no reason to be looking back at her, a stranger now. In order to keep herself together, she kept telling herself that this was best. He would be better off, safer, in New York City with his birth mother who would be able to protect him. He would have no memories of Peter Pan and the horrible events that took place in Neverland, and then again in Storybrooke. She knew she had done the right thing, but there was still a huge whole left in her heart because she knew she would never see her son again.
When she awoke she felt a strange combination of familiarity and yet she felt out of place. She realized immediately where she was, she was lying in her bed in her Castle in the Enchanted Forest. Oh how she hated this place. This castle only held bad memories of who she was as The Evil Queen. Yes, she had the same title in Storybrooke, but after the curse was lifted some people started to see the woman behind the name, and she had even made nice with her enemy, Snow White. Her life was finally good again, her son had not thought of her as Evil anymore, and her and Emma were almost getting along and sharing Henry. But here in the Enchanted Forest, she had no idea how people would treat her, and if she would revert back to her role as the Evil Queen.
Regina got up and started her day. She went to her wardrobe and scoffed at her clothes, she now had to go back to wearing her long velvet black dresses, because she no longer could wear her clothes she wore as Regina Mills, Mayor of Storybrooke. She looked in the mirror and the first thing she noticed was the long black hair she had now, oh how she missed her short hair which was much easier to maintain, and much lighter. After she was dressed and had her hair and make-up done, she went to the main hall of her castle. Unfortunately when she walked into the main hall, she was the whole room was filled with people. They were all gathered around tables eating breakfast, so she went a grabbed a plate and sat at an empty table she found. All Regina wanted was to be alone, and she had a couple glorious minuets to herself before she came and sat down next to her.
When Snow White had arrived at the main hall, she saw Charming was sitting with the men and talking about who knows what, so she decided to look elsewhere for a seat and lever her husband to eat with his friends. That is when she saw Regina sitting be herself at a table on the other side of the room. She sat down next to her and simply said "Good Morning Regina." She could tell by the look on her face that Regina was in pain without her son here with her, and Snow felt a similar longing for her daughter. Regina just looked at her and said "Good Morning Snow." Throughout their breakfast they left their conversation with that, and neither one dug deeper, they just sat there and ate in comfortable silence.