All Regina could do was stare at her daughter as the heart monitor beeped with each beat of Isabella's heart. She hated the thought of Cora taking her daughter's heart like she took Daniel's. Regina shook the thought out of her mind as she looked at her daughter's sleeping face realizing how much she looked like Daniel and herself. She smiled at the thought of Daniel meeting there child and how they could all be a family.

Isabella opened her eyes seeing Regina holding her hand tightly staring at the heart monitor beside her. She could see the terror in her mother's eyes like she was expecting it to stop suddenly.

"Mom?" Regina immediately turned her attention to her daughter who had confusion written all over her face.

"Hey sweetie how are you feeling?" Regina asked remembering their past conversation.

"Fine" she said looking away feeling the shame overwhelm her instantly remembering what she had told her mother. She knows it wasn't her fault but whenever she thought about it she felt so dirty inside.

"Sweetie look at me." Regina said grabbing her chin. Tears filled Regina's eyes as she stared at her daughter. She could see the pain and terror in her child's eyes and it killed her.

"What's wrong?" Isabella asked seeing tears falling down her mother's face.

"I just hate that you were hurt when I could have saved you." Isabella gasped at her mother's confession.

"No momma you couldn't have done anything you didn't know." Regina gripped her daughter's hand tightly.

"I should have known before he took you. I know my mother I should have known she would be behind all of this." Regina looked away from her daughter's concerned glance.

"No she had it planned for so long there was no way you could have stopped it." Regina gave her daughter a confused look.

"I am destined to kill her. She knew this a long time before I was born. She knew your first born would kill her and she knew you would never have a child with the king so she made a deal with Rumple. She trained me in a way that she would know aol my strategies so if I fight against her I will always lose. That was always her plan so even if you knew she would have me you couldn't stop it because it was my destiny." Regina looked at her daughter in shock of her knowledge and how calmly she could explain the situation.

"She is going to come after you whenever she gets here!" Regina said once again tightening her grip on her daughter's hand.

"she can't hurt me mom. Thats what she didn't expect. She can't take my heart because I am the product of true love. When I fight her I won't lose." Regina grabbed Isabella's shoulders tightly.

"No! You are not going to fight against her!" Isabella saw the panic in her mother's eyes and knew she should have used her words differently.

"Mom I will win it is my destiny!" Regina grabbed her daughter's face.

"Sweetie she is stronger than you think she will kill you if she gets the chance and I will not let her take you from me again!" Tears were falling from Regina's eyes now thinking of her mother killing someone else she truly loves.

"Mom..." Regina held up her hand.

"No Isabella no more fighting with me on this I will not let you fight against my mother if anyone does fight with her it will be me and not you."

*break*

Isabella stared out the window of her hospital room. told her she could leave any time she wanted but Regina thought other wise. She refused to let Isabella out of the hospital until she had a clean bill of health.

Isabella hated being locked in the hospital for so long, but she loved how much her mother worried. Being told by Cora endlessly that her mother didn't love her always made Isabella wonder if it was true.

"Dr. Whale said you will be good and new by tomorrow so hopefully.." Regina started as she walked into the room pausing when she saw Isabella staring out the window with tears in her eyes.

"Sweetie whats wrong?" Isabella wiped her tears and put on a fake smile.

"Nothing mom just happy memories!" She said trying her hardest to make it look like she was crying due to happiness not complete and utter sadness. Regina knows the look in Isabella's eyes she knew that look all to well Daniel would use it on her whenever he was lying and now their daughter is doing the same.

"Sweetie I know something is wrong" Isabella sighed as the smile left her face instantly replaced with a look of complete sadness.

"Just.. I don't understand why you care so much about me." Regina rushed over to her daughter and grabbed her hands.

"Oh darling why would you say that?" Regina saw the pain fill her daughters face as their hands meet.

"Cora... She said you would never like me thats why you gave me to her to teach me a lesson. I never could believe her until... That day with the guard. I knew I would never be loved after that and there was no reason to even fight with Cora she was right. Now you are so nice and loving and I can't understand how you can love someone a damaged as I am." Regina pulled Isabella close so she could sob on her shoulder.

"Sweetie listen my mother lied to you for so long nothing you do will ever make me not love you alright!" Isabella nodded as Regina rocked her back and forth until her sobs died down.

"Where is John?"She asked not wanting to stay on the subject to long. Regina was about to answer when a loud explosion came from outside. Regina pulled Isabella to the ground as the windows shattered. Then she heard a laugh she knew very well... Cora's