Sweet Child O'Mine – Regina and Jack's daughter prefers the Charming's (Cora is alive w/ her heart and Rumple is Regina's father)

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Hazel's green eyes frantically searched for the Charmings or her grandparents. They're all in a booth (Neal probably wanted to join Henry and Rumple had to sit with them, Cora and Snow are somewhat friends), "GUYS!" she stops right in front of the table, "She's gone!" Hazel continues, they all look at her quizzically, "Regina, the Evil Queen," my mum, but she's not going to say that, "I think she's up to something bad, can you show us what she's doing?" she looks at her grandfather, he looks worried, a quick glance to Cora and she had the same concerned look. To be honest she was worried about Regina too, she was, after all, her mother, but she wasn't ready to give the woman her love, so she stayed with the Charmings and every time she rejected her mother she saw the most pained expression.

"Since I share her blood it will be easy," Rumple flicked his wrist and turned an entire wall into a mirror (there was barely anyone in the diner), with another flick of his wrist, the image in the mirror started to ripple.

"Freeze," they heard and started watching intently.

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Regina took a deep breath in, "Freeze," she breathed out, Jack and herself were hiding under the enormous stair case when guards walked passed, immediately they both froze and waited till they were gone, before they started moving again, "I told you that one day it will work," Regina said with a smug grin.

"Yeah okay, keep walking," Jack gave her a little shove, they only got a few feet away from the stairs when an army, quite literally, ran into them.

Regina looked at their glaring faces; "Oops!" she broke the silence. Regina huffed a laugh, "Jack, those," she swallowed and pointed at the 3 dozen swords pointing in their direction, "Those look really sharp," she said, stepping a bit closer to him.

Jack stepped closer to her, "Well they don't know who they're dealing with," Jack gave her a pointed look, "Your majesty, the Evil Queen," he looks around some of the guards look nervous now, "You can definitely defeat them with your very powerful magic," still some didn't look that scared, he opened his mouth to continue but Regina cut in.

"You're right, but wait till my father hears about this," she lifts up her nose at them, trying to show them who was in charge, "Daddy will have a field day killing you all," she says smugly.

"Oh yeah, one hair misplaced on this precious head and mummy will be ripping out hearts left and right," Jack added.

One of the knights looked at them, "You think we will fear some mummy and daddy, what will they do, tell us to sit in the naughty corner," he mocks, some of his band chuckle.

Regina frowns, "You better not let daddy hear you talk like that," she pouts, "I mean it's nice that someone appreciates the Dark One as a good parental figure," she nods as if she really agrees with that.

Jack folds his arms and looks like he's ready to have a big discussion on this, "Now he'll be a doddle, I'd be worried about mummy if I were you, she is the Queen of Hearts after all," he says nodding a bit.

Regina hummed in agreement, "As I said one hair off her pretty head, and you'll be dealing with the Dark One and the Queen of Hearts," Jack starts walking around like he owns the place.

Regina walked with him, "Yeah mother has the title of hearts for a reason, and now daddy will kill, torture and manipulate to get his child back," she steps in front of the guards that are blocking the way to the dungeon, "I suggest you get out my way," she make scooting hand gestures, "Unless I have to call my parents," she smirks at them, "Or my husband, Jack Frost," she looks around, "You know him right, the Pumpkin King," they were all cowering in fear, "I'll remind you, he once ripped someone apart with his bare hands, and daddy skinned someone alive only to heal them and do it again later, now mother, she once ripped someone's heart out and snapped it in half crushing one part and then the other…" She shrugged, "For extra pain," she looked at them expectantly, "So will you move so the my knight and I can go pass or do I need to call them?" they quickly scattered apart, Regina smirked, "That's more like it," she walked down the corridor but stopped before continuing, "I expect to leave without any complications, because you'll be in trouble," she sang the last part and disappeared.

Jack followed after her, "Well," she huffed a laugh.

"Maybe it is good to have monsters as parents… good-ish," Regina shrugged.

They reached the dungeon and found the cell they were looking for, she picked the lock and Jack walked in, taking the child that was passed out on the floor into his arms and walked over to Regina.

She cupped his face and ran her hand through his hair (it has gotten longer), she grabbed his arms, she looked at Jack, "He's probably starving and dehydrated," she kissed Sebastian's forehead and then started walking out with Jack hot on her heel.

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The image blurred out, Henry's jaw tightened, "Who was that kid?" he asked as nonchalantly as he could but it came out sharp.

"Sebastian, he was their first born, but… he died," Cora said uncertainly.

"He didn't die he got kidnapped," Rumple smiled proudly.

"Why do you look like the cat that got the cream?" Neil asked his father.

"My daughter just manipulated an army, if it weren't for my leg I would dance with pride," He answered still grinning like an idiot.

"What do we do now?" Snow asked, choosing to ignore him.

"We wait," Rumple sighed, "If they want to talk to us they will. I'm sure they would want to talk to you about your brother," he said to Hazel.

"I don't want to talk to them," she said quickly, "You said you're my family… and I don't need them," in that moment everyone could see Regina in her.

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They ate their early dinner and were about to leave the diner when Jack walked through the door and strolled over to Hazel, "Can we talk please?" he asked softly his green eyes flicking between her green eyes, she gave one curt nod and he continued, "Henry, you can join the conversation if you want," he said to the boy, Henry walked over, "So, Regina and I were wondering if you two would like to come over tomorrow," he rubbed his hands together nervously, "We want you to meet someone," he smiled at them.

Henry was about to answer, but Hazel beat him to it, "When will you two understand that we want nothing to do with you. I don't want you I have a family already," she gestured to the Charmings, Gold, Neil and Cora, "We just want you to leave us alone."

Jack's eyes flashed with hurt and heart break but as soon as it came, it disappeared and his eyes where empty, he bowed his head at them, "I understand, we won't bother you two anymore," he turned around and left.

Henry snapped his gaze to Hazel, "You had no right to decline him," he snapped, "I wanted to spend some time with my mum and my dad," he looked at her with a Regina glare, "Just because you want to ignore them doesn't mean that I do too!" he went to leave.

"Henry I'm sorry," Hazel sighed, "I- I" she couldn't tell them.

"You're scared," Rumple stated. He looked at her; she wouldn't meet his eye, "Watch this."

With a flick of his wrist the mirror rippled and then an image appeared.

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They were all in the palace kitchen, Jack was drawing simple pictures, Dragons, horses, castles anything really whilst Sebastian coloured them in; Regina was baking with Hazel, she looked about 3.

Regina was measuring things for Hazel to put in the bowl and mix; she kissed her cheek when her baby did anything.

When they finished making their treat and it was in the oven, Hazel plopped off the stool and sat at the table with her father and brother and started colouring, Regina grabbed the mixing bowl and spoon and started eating the leftover batter.

Jack noticed almost immediately, "Kitty!" He sang, "You know you love me!" He grinned, "And you want to give me some of that," he flashed the grin that never failed to make her knees go weak.

She looked at him and then set the bowl down, she got 2 more spoons and picked up Hazel, sitting down with her daughter on her lap, she gave a spoon to Hazel and the other to Sebastian, "Enjoy," she smirked at Jack as she proceeded to eat the mix with the kids.

Jack took in a deep breath, "You are a vile woman," he said with begging eyes.

Regina sighed and gave him her spoon, "I love you!" He sang.

Regina hugged Hazel close to her chest, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."

Jack pouted, "Here," he started feeding her, missing her mouth and soon the whole room was filled with laughter at Regina's chocolate covered face.

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When the memory faded Hazel looked at her grandfather, "Can you show me another one?" she asked quietly.

Gold smiled and waved his hand the ripples started and then an image was formed.

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Regina opened her eyes, she looked around the room trying to figure out what woke her up, when she didn't see or hear anything she lay back down ready to get back to sleep.

"MUMMY!" she heard, thinking it was a dream she ignored it, "MMMAAAAMMMMAAAA!" she heard a wail; she darted out of bed and into her daughters room.

Her daughter was sitting on the bed, tears streaming down her face, the second her mother was close enough she jumped into her arms, Regina sat on her bed.

After a few minutes her daughter was calm, she kissed her on the forehead, "Wanna tell me what's wrong?" she asked softly.

"Had a bad dweam," she said in a frightened tone.

Regina gasped, "Well, what was it about?" she asked intrigued with her daughter amazing imagination.

"I was falling and falling and falling and you couldn't catch me," Hazel sniffled, "Cause you wasn't there," she hugged her mother tighter, "You be there always, right?"

"As long as my heart beats, I will always love you and I will always catch you," she wiped Hazel's eyes with the pad of her thumbs.

Her baby girl smiled, "Can you stay here tonight?" she asked; still a little scared.

Regina smiled at her, "Anything for my little princess," they snuggled under the convers.

"I love you mummy," Hazel whispered.

"I love you, too, with everything I have," Regina kissed her daughters forehead, "Goodnight baby."

"G'night mama."

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Hazel had tears in her eyes, "I'm not going to talk to them," she said, everyone sighed.

"You're just like her," Cora muttered. Everyone heard.

"What do you mean?" Hazel lifted her eyebrow, much like her mother would.

"Simply by doing that," Emma said, Hazel turned to her, "That the classic 'I'm going to prove you wrong even if I have to kill you and leave your body in a ditch' look she gives when someone says or does something she disapproves of," she finished.

Snow looked at her daughter, "That's what you call it?" her daughter nodded, "I call it the 'fight me, bitch' look," she said.

"I call it the 'what did you just say?' Look," Ruby added.

"I call it the 'mum is going to give me a lecture' look," Henry also added.

Cora glared at them all, "Yes, but what I wanted to say was, she was always so stubborn and refused to co-operate when she knew she was wrong," Cora gave Hazel a pointed look, "It's okay to go see her, she's your mother, we have all seen the heart break in her eyes when you refuse her," she finished with a soft smile.

Hazel sighed and looked at Snow, "Can we please go home?" she asked quietly.

Snow agreed and soon they were off to the loft, after a few minutes of walking they spotted someone sitting on a bench, "Isn't that Regina?" Emma asked.

Snow nodded, "Maybe I should go talk to her," she thought out loud.

Hazel looked at her mother, "I'll go, you keep going, I'll catch up," they looked ready to fight but instead nodded and were on their way.

Hazel walked over to her mother, she was looking up at the sky; it was getting darker, it wasn't that late just about to turn 6:30, but it was winter. She sat next to her mother and watched her face contort into pain. She closed her eyes and gave herself a few minutes to make the tears disappear; she then stood up and started walking away.

Hazel rushed after her, "Where are you going?" she asked, sounding almost like the 3 year old that Regina remembers her being before she was taken away.

"I'm leaving you alone, just like you told your fath- Jack," Regina swallowed thickly, "Just like you told Jack today," her eyes were shining with unshed tears.

Hazel looked hopelessly at her mother, "Ca- can we sit at the bench for a bit?" she asked innocently.

Regina sighed, this girl is going to keep hurting and pushing her away, but she couldn't refuse her daughter, "Sure," she sat on the bench.

After a few silent minutes, "Did you have an argument with D-Jack? Is that why you're here now?" Hazel asked, somewhat awkwardly.

Regina looked at her daughter, "No, we don't really argue," she said, "I'm here because I want to think, be alone for a bit."

Hazel looked at her mother, she was just like her, "I do the same thing when I'm sad, too," she said, "I'm sorry."

"It's alright," her mother smiled sadly at her, she liked her real smile; her eyes glow then.

"No it's not, you guys are my family," it sounded better than calling the Charmings her family.

"No we're not," Hazel looked startled at her mother's admission, "You said it yourself, the Charmings are your family," she turned to look fully at her daughter, "We will leave you alone, we want you to be happy," she let out a breath, "We might not like that it's with the idiots, but we want you to be happy. Know that you are always welcome with us, you may not consider yourself as such but you are my daughter and I love you with everything I have, always," she stood up again and started walking away.

Hazel was shocked; she couldn't remember the three years with her birth parents. However, the sincerity in the Evil Queens eyes nearly knocked her off her feet (it's a good thing she was sitting down already), she had seen her be a real bitch to everyone and kill someone but never seen her with pure love and softness. She was almost like a cat, the cutest, sweetest most loving creature in the world, but the second you piss her off she will come at you.

When Hazel got her bearings back she realised that Regina was long gone. Walking to the loft she thought about what her mother had said to her, and came to a decision.

The first thing she said to everyone when she stepped into the room was, "I want you to invite my parents for dinner tomorrow."

Everyone stopped talking, "As in… at Grannies?" Snow asked.

"No," Hazel started fumbling with her jacket zip, "As in… we make it and let them eat here… with all of us."

The whole group, the one that was in the diner, was there in Snow Whites living room, "So… um I'll call her up, invite them," Snow declared, grabbing the phone.

"Put it on loud speaker," Hazel added just as Snow dialled.

"Mills Murderers co. how may I help you?" They all heard the thickly accented deep voice. Jack.

And then a woman scolding him. Regina, "You can't answer the phone like that," she said. "Give me that!"

"Regina! I am on the phone! Do. You. Mind?" He said with an exaggerated sigh.

"Asshole," Regina muttered, they all looked at each other with amused eyes.

Someone on the other line cleared their throat, "Urm, hello who is this?" he sounded unsure.

"You're fucking with me right now?" Regina said.

Jack clicked his tongue, "Later," he said suggestively.

"Umm, it's Snow… and I can hear you," Snow said awkwardly.

"We didn't do it!" he repliedimmediately, "Wait… what didn't we do?" he asked.

"You did nothing," she sighed, "We wanted to invite you to dinner tomorrow!"

"Regina, they're inviting us to dinner for tomorrow," Jack hollered.

There was a pause, "I don't think I'm dead, tell them to try over my dead body," they could practically feel the sarcasm all the way over to where they all stood, gathered around the phone.

"It's per Hazel's request."

A beat, "It's for Hazel," Jack muttered.

"Tell them we'll bring the pie and whiskey," Regina stated, "And it's going to be apple so they can bite me cause it's fucking fantastic," she added.

"We'll bring the dessert," Jack told them.

"And the whiskey, yeah we know."

"That's not for you."

After organising the details they hung up, everyone went to their homes and after a few hours the day was over.

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The next day, Snow was just about finished the chicken and pasta that she was making for dinner, when the doorbell rang, "Can someone get that please!" Snow called to no one in particular.

It was Cora and Gold with Neil.

"We thought we should come early," Cora said.

"Oh well, that's nice of you," David smiled.

"Do you need any help?" she asked.

"Nope, all we need now is for the pasta to finish and the rest of our guests to arrive," Snow said coming of the kitchen with a bottle of juice and set it down on the table.

Hazel came running down, "ARE THEY HERE?!" she shouted, excitement and nerves pumping in her veins.

"No it's just us kid," Neil said.

"Oh," she looked down.

"Don't worry, Regina is never late," Rumple told her, "She will be here bang on time, dearie."

He was right, at precisely half pass 5 there was a knock on the door and then the doorbell went off.

Hazel looked at Emma who went to get the door.

"Ms. Swan, I do hope you like apples," Regina said in a soothing voice and a fake smile.

Emma visibly shuddered, "That was uncalled for," she said, trembling a little.

"True," Regina shrugged, "But boy was it fun to watch," her smile got more genuine.

"Now that you have stopped terrorising my mum, would you like to come in?" Henry asked with a frown.

Regina's smile fell and hurt flashed in her eyes, it was gone as quick as it came and a fake smile was, once again, plastered on her face. She stepped into the loft and gave Emma the pie, Jack followed.

Behind Jack was a little figure that went to Regina when she took her coat off, she helped him out of his and hung it up, she smiled reassuringly at him.

"This is Sebastian," Jack said. The boy looked almost exactly like Jack; he had his chin, lips and jaw. However he had Regina's nose and golden, caramel eyes. Sebastian smiled shyly.

"Well let's get to the table," Snow said when the silence was getting awkward.

Henry was close to glaring at Sebastian, jealousy pouring out of him.

Hazel was gazing at him with curious eyes, he was kina cute, and he looked to be younger than her but older than Henry.

Once everyone was seated and the food was on the table they started eating.

After a few minutes Jack turned to Regina, "Kitty, pass me the salad, please," he said.

She gave him the salad, Hazel looked at them thoughtfully, "Why do you call her that? 'Kitty' I mean," she inquired.

"Ahh," Jacks eyes shined, "Because, whenever I ask her what she wants to be in the future, she always said: a kitty," he smiled.

Henry looked at his mother, "Why?" he asked, he was interested in her past.

"Because cats are free," Regina said, not looking anyone in the eyes. They went back to silently eating

"Why did you lose me?" Hazel broke the silence.

Regina's head snapped to Gold, "You didn't tell her?!" she snapped, a fire was building in her eyes.

Hazel frowned, "Tell me what?" she was confused.

"Of course you didn't," her mother mumbled, "He," she looked at Rumpelstiltskin, "Took you away from us, so that I would cast the dark cure so he could be with his precious son," she spat out the last two words, "And so that I could kill Jack," her lip curled up into a snarl.

Hazel looked at her grandfather, betrayal in her eyes; she stood up and went upstairs. Regina moved to follow her, but then she remembered that Hazel doesn't want her, so she sat back down, feeling useless.

"Maybe you should go Snow? Talk to her," David said.

By the end of this sentence Regina had tears in her eyes, her baby, her little princess, didn't want her, she wanted Snow White. The salad in front of her suddenly caught on fire; she took a deep breath and flicked her wrist to put it out mumbling an apology and pretending to be eating.

"Maybe you should go Regina, you are her mother," Snow said.

"If you haven't noticed, she hates me and is refuses to come anywhere near me," Regina said, still not meeting anyone's eyes.

Jack smiled at her and whispered in her ear, "Go, talk to her, poof down something and I'll send help," he kissed her cheek

She sighed and then went up the stairs to talk to her daughter.

Hazel was sitting on the bed, "Hey," Regina said softly, biting her lip nervously.

Hazel looked up, she noticed her mother was nervous, she smiled at her, "I also bite my lip when I'm nervous," she stated.

Regina tilted her head to the side and looked at her child, "You are a lot more like me than you realise," she said.

"So I've been told," Hazel moved on her bed and patted the space next to her, Regina smiled and sat down. Hazel took a deep breath in, "Sebastian?" she asked simply.

Regina smiled, "He's older than you," she then frowned, "Was older than you," she looked unsure, "Anyway. He was born a few months after I married the king."

Her eyes widened "He's Leopold's son," even though it was obvious he wasn't, she still asked.

Regina made a face, "God no! He is Jacks son," she sighed, "You were both surprises, we didn't really plan on having children," she smiled at Hazel and tucked some fallen hair behind her ear, "But we wouldn't have it any other way. People started calling me 'the Evil Queen' after Snow ran away, I only really became evil when I lost you both," Hazel looked lost, "David ordered Sebastian dead, one of the white knights threw him off a cliff, he managed to smoke himself away but he got kidnapped. And then one day I woke up and you weren't there, we found that Rumple took you but we didn't know where," she looked down, "I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry, too. For being so cold to you, you're my mum and I shouldn't have left you for the Charming's," she leaned in and hugged her mum, and for the first time in months she felt safer than ever, "Can I live with you?" she asked.

Regina was taken aback, "You want to move into the mansion?" she asked just to be sure.

"Well, yeah, the loft is really small," she excused, then sighed, "And I kina want my mummy and daddy," she added shyly.

Regina beamed at her, "You don't even have to ask. You can just appear and we wouldn't have asked you any questions," Regina stated.

Hazel smiled at her mum, "Can we go down stairs and finish dinner? I haven't eaten anything today and I'm really hungry," she said sheepishly.

Regina nodded and stood up, "Yeah, I haven't eaten anything today, either."

They went down stairs and everyone started eating again, when they got to dessert Hazel looked at her mum, "Mum?" Regina looked up and smiled, "Why am I called Hazel?" she queried. Regina gave her a puzzled look, "I mean, Henry is called Henry after you father, so why did you call me Hazel?" she elaborated.

Sebastian looked up, "And why am I called Sebastian?" he asked, everyone looked at the pair.

"Your name is Sebastian after my father," Jack said, he looked at Regina.

"Any your name is Hazel because… when I was pregnant with you I would eat anything with hazelnut in it," Regina said, then added, "And coincidentally, my waters broke when I was on a hazel tree."

Hazel looked confused, "Why were you under a hazel tree when you were nine months pregnant?"

Regina scratched the back of head, "That's not really important."

Snow looked perplexed, "Wait, did you just say on a hazel tree?"

Regina shrugged nonchalantly, "I made a bet," she said as if it were obvious.

Emma raised an eyebrow, "That what, you could climb a tree 9 months pregnant?"

"Precisely," she plopped some apple pie in her mouth.

They all laughed silently to themselves.

"Did you at least win?" Neil asked.

Regina looked at him as if he were an idiot, "I just said my waters broke when I was on the tree."

"Was I born on the tree?" Hazel was enjoying this conversation.

Regina huffed a laugh, "No," the she thought about it, "You were born under the tree, by the time Jack got me down I was pretty much pushing," she told her daughter.

Sebastian looked at his mother, "What about me, where was I born?" he hopped on his chair.

"My waters broke fifty feet above the sea, because someone though it would be great if I ride a dragon," she glared at Jack, "We were miles away from land and I almost pushed him off," she pointed to her husband, they all laughed.

The rest of the night was lovely and they all returned home, with Hazel.

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This shall be continued. If anyone has any one-shot suggestions then go ahead and tell me!