Hey guys, so sorry that I didn´t update in so long but I had some problems in school and with my health so I didn´t feel like writing. However now that I´m on summer vacation I will try to update more often. So this chapter will be a little time jump to Regina as toddler. I hope you all enjoy and please be so kind and leave a few reviews.

Three years later…

Regina was now three years old and a very active little toddler. Her mother was always at work so it was mostly her oldest sister Mary and her Daddy who took care of her. The little girl was currently sitting in her room with Mary and a few of her toys that acted as members of a little tea party. The brunette loved tea parties but she liked them a lot more when Cora was there. Her job as mayor didn´t leave a lot of time for her kids and that was taking a toll on her. She really loved her girls and missing out on everything because of her damn job frustrated her.

"Mary? When Mama gots home?"the toddler asked her sister sadly as she played with her Rapunzel doll. She absolutely loved the movie Tangled and watched it almost everyday ever since she got the DVD for her birthday. Cora and everyone else was getting annoyed with it but they all played along since it made the little girl happy. Rapunzel had always been her favourite fairytale and every night her mother had to tell her the story over and over again. She wouldn´t hear it from everyone else because she insisted only her Mama could tell the story right and did the voices best. So even after a long day at the office the Mayor would sit with her youngest daughter and tell her the story until she finally fell asleep.

"I don´t know, Gina but it´s only 2pm. She won´t be home until much later."the teen explained and ruffled her sister´s long dark hair amused. It had been a long way until she and Cora had gotten along with each other but now she saw the older woman as her Mom and wouldn´t change it for the world. There had been fights and shouting and a lot of crying but in the end they became a family. She really loved her little sisters and would always spent time with them after school.

Regina huffed, not happy with the answer because she wanted her Mama now. Soon it would be time for her nap and Mary sensed it wouldn´t be easy to get her to sleep when Cora wasn´t there to tell her the story. Her father was busy in the kitchen cooking lunch for the three of them and didn´t know what was going on upstairs. Regina was his little girl and he loved her to the moon and back. The girl had him wrapped around her little finger which Cora wasn´t happy about since she always tried to be firm with her daughter when she was misbehaving but Leopold almost always gave in as soon as he looked into her big brown eyes.

"I wants her now!" the toddler shouted, throwing her doll on the ground and stomping her little feet. Mary could see tears in her eyes and sighed. It was always like this. Regina would miss Cora and throw a fit until the mayor came home and cuddled her. The toddler was just so terribly stubborn all the time.

"Well, she isn´t coming just because you throw a fit,Gina. Now pick your doll up and put it away!"the nine year old ordered sternly and pointed a finger at the doll. She really hated being like this to her sister but she knew she had to stand her ground with the small girl.

"No!" Regina shrieked and cried even harder.

Leopold heard the shouting from upstairs and walked into his daughter´s room to see his girls fighting. He slowly picked the crying toddler up and carried her to her big princess bed where he sat her down and wiped the tears away. " Now, now, there is no need for tears, baby girl. I know you miss your Mama but she has some important work to do and can´t be here just now. She will be here just in time for your bedtime story but only if you stop crying and be a good little girl." he told her and cuddled her close to his chest. Almost immediately the sobbing subsided and she started to wipe at her eyes. Clearly she was getting tired from all the crying and forgot that she missed her Mama for just a moment.

"Okay, Daddy. I´s be a goody girl and take my nap nows." she nodded and laid down in her bed as Leopold wrapped the soft blanket around her small body. Just a moment later the little girl was fast asleep even without her story and Mary quietly began to clean up the mess of their little tea party. She shook her head amused when she picked up the doll and laid it next to her sister who held her teddy tightly to her chest as if nothing had happened. The teen ran a hand through her short hair before kissing the toddler´s forehead and leaving the room.

Leopold and Mary ate their lunch and happily chatted about Regina´s obsession with the fairy tale Rapunzel. When Mary was a toddler she had a little obsession of her own with Snow White. She had made her parents watch it over and over again until the tape was broken and they had to buy her a new one. Zelena though, never really had been obsessed with any sort of fairy tale. She just loved the Wizard of OZ and especially the Wicked Witch of the West while Regina was terrified whenever they watched that movie.

When Cora returned home that day with Zelena in tow Regina was still sleeping peacefully so instead of waking her Cora tried to let her sleep but obviously the toddler was a light sleeper. As her mother kissed her head softly she instantly woke up and smiled sleepy at her. "Mama! Tell me a story? Pwetty pwease?" she asked in her little lisps and smiled widely.

The mayor sighed but she couldn´t resist the puppy dog eyes she was getting. " Fine. Once upon a time, there was a lonely queen whose husband had died and now she was carrying her first child. The queen was very beautiful but also vein and easily jealous so when there had been a prophecy that her daughter shall be the fairest of them all she got really angry. She ordered for a high tower to be build deep in the forest so that she could lock the girl away after she was born. On Christmas Eve she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl with a head full of golden curls and locked her away with her nursemaid. The girl´s name was Rapunzel…" she started her tale and Regina listened to her mother´s beautiful and soft voice until she fell asleep again.