Chapter 7:
The next day after breakfast the 3 of them go out in search of the Witch, and they come across a door in the forest. When they see it, Snow walks straight through the door, and Charming follow her. Regina follows Charming saying "clever, random door with a cheap cloaking spell" but when she walks up to it, she doesn't go through the door. While inside Snow and David find Glinda, and she tells them that only light magic can defeat the wicked witch. "Our daughter, she's the savior, the product of true love. She can do it" Snow says. Glinda tells them that they need to get to her in order to defeat the witch. They leave the portal and tell Regina what they just learned.
"The only way to get to them is another dark curse" Regina says. "I can't do another one, the only person I love is Henry and I he isn't here"
"Use my heart" says Charming.
"No! I won't do it! There has to be another way" Snow says, on the verge of tears.
"There is no other way and you know it."
"But I don't want our baby to grow up without their father. It needs you, I need you"
"It will know me, through you. I know you, and you will be a great mother."
After Charming convinced her they all walked back to the Castle to recreate this dark cure using Charming's heart. Regina put all the ingredients into a caldron in the courtyard where Zelina had her shield up. When the time came for Regina to take David's heart snow started to protest again.
"I can't do this, no, I can't" she said
"Look at me Snow, Look at me. I know you can do this, I know you can" he says trying to comfort his wife.
"I can't live without you; I don't know what life is without you. I can't crush your heart"
"You have to. I know this is not the ending we had envisioned but I know you can do this. You are strong and you know I will always be with you"
"How? How am I supposed to raise this baby on my own, I need you. It can't grow up not knowing you"
"But it will know me, through you. We are of one heart, so anything you do will come from me as well. Our baby will be loved by the both of us, whether I am with you or not"
"I have loved you since the day we meet" she says fighting back tears.
With her face in his hands he says "I will love you until my last"
With that they shared their last kiss, and snow turned and crushed his heart into the caldron. When Charming collapsed, snow ran to his side and wept over his body.
Regina turns to snow "he won't die in vain, I promise Snow"
Just then Zelina flew in, and dropped something into the caldron.
"You don't mind if I spice up your little curse do you sis? How about a little memory spell?"
"Zelina, what are you doing here." Regina said.
"You didn't think you could cast another dark curse without me knowing about it, did you?"
"What have you done Zelina?"
With that Zelina flew away, while laughing manically at the events that just occurred. She had just ruined her sister's spell and now in this new land no one would know who she is!
Snow tried to revive her Prince by using true love's kiss but it didn't work. So she came up with a plan.
"Rip out my heart!"
"What?" Regina quickly replies
"Do it Regina! Please! Rip out my heart"
"No! If I rip out your heart, you will die. I won't do that."
"No, David said that we share a heart. I need you to rip out my heart and split it, so charming can live."
"But you don't know if that will work."
"I don't care, I have to try" Snow said, with a hopeful voice.
Regina see's the hope that is reflected in Snow's face. In another time Regina would have loved the reveled in the pain she saw in the woman's face, the woman who was her former enemy. Yes, Regina felt that Snow was an acquired taste, one that she has yet to be completely used to, but now she watch her suffer so. She also has been where Snow is when she held her Daniel in her arms after her Cora ripped his heart out. She knows what it feels like to hold the man you love in your arms after just watching his heart being crushed, knowing you will never see him again. Regina wouldn't wish this kind of pain on anyone, not even her former step-daughter who for a long time she blamed for the death of her true love. So, Regina obliged to Snow's pleading. She ripped out Snow's heart and broke it in 2, she then placed both halves into the couples' bodies right before the curse could take them to this other land. She didn't know what was going to happen with this new curse, but all she knew was she now had a new sense of hope. In her time in the forest she had actually made friends that she could stand, sometimes they got a little pushy but what can you do, it is better than nothing. She is no longer that girl who was practically held in her husband's castle with no friends and not a soul to talk to besides Rumpelstiltskin. She was becoming a changed woman, yes this change was slow and gradual, but it was still happening and she was almost looking forward to seeing what might happen next. Maybe, just maybe, she'll see her son again!