Hello there. I was really busy with school and all, so I updated really late. But here it is. The italics are memories from the past.

Disclaimer: I don't own OUaT. If I did, the show would be all about Swan Queen.

Aila's POV

When mom pulled the car up the lane I recognized this house immediately. In the garden of this house I came back. We walked up the stairs into the house. I looked around me and noticed that it wasn't very homey. Everything was neat and not really personal. The only things that were personal were some photos that I noticed as we walked in another room. I walked to the framed photos and saw one with mom standing with her arms wrapped around a boy, looking familiar with the boy called Henry. Did he live here? I remembered that he called mom also his mom. Mom came standing behind me and I turned around to see her smiling sadly at the picture.

'Mom?'

'Yes dear?' Mom said looking away from the picture and smiling at me.

'Is he also your son?'

'It's all very complicated, but he's my adopted son. Do you understand what that means?'

I shook my head.

'It means that when someone isn't capable for taking care of her son or daughter, someone else raises their kid. And be the parent instead.'

'So why is he with Emma and Snow and that man?' I asked confused. If he was her son, he should be here, right?

'It's a long story, dear and I think that you first should settle in. Maybe a trip through home and letting you see how everything here works. Then, you can also see your room and afterwards that we can sit down and talk.'

'Yeah, ok.' I said and she gestured to me to follow her to my room.

Regina´s POV

I showed her one of the guest rooms and turned it into a room what was perfect for her with magic. The walls were colored light blue with pink flowers painted all over the wall. A big white bed was in the room with softly colored pink bed sheets. Aila immediately dove into the bed and began jumping on the mattress.

'This is awesome mom, the beds are really improved since the last time I was here.'

I winced at the mention of that. How was I going to explain what worse things I did? How was I going to explain that I cursed this whole town and that we weren't in the Enchanted Forest. Which made me realize something. How did she get here? They told me that she died. I saw her dead. I took her in my arms, dead.

I was lying on my bed, waiting. Soon Johanna would bring by Aila and then I could see my precious daughter again, for the first time in a week. I traveled with the king and Snow to another land for negotiating. I could have brought her with us, but that would have looked suspicious. They thought Aila was an orphan and that Johanna took care of her. And bringing her with me would have seemed weird. Why would you bring a kid along with you? The king and Snow couldn't know that Aila, really was my daughter and not Johanna's. They would send her away, the Queen having a child that was not from the King, that would be disastrous. He just wanted that all my attention was set on Snow. Snow, that child, who had taken my one true love away from me. If she knew of Aila, she immediately would tell everybody and then they would take Aila from me. And I cannot lose Aila. If I lose her, I would be lost. She was the one who kept me from completely losing myself in anger and revenge.

A knock on my door. 'My Queen.' A servant said, but it wasn't Johanna.

'I asked for Johanna,' I said annoyed.

'Johanna isn't available at the moment.'

'Why not?' I asked, beginning to worry.

'She is in her chamber. The orphan child, Aila is found dead. She…'

I hadn't heard the rest of what he said. Dead. It couldn't be. I pushed him aside and rushed out my room. I ran to the part of the castle where the servants stayed, to the room of Johanna and Aila. I stood before the door that led to their chamber. It's just a joke, Regina. He was messing with you. Just push that door open and you would see Aila. She would run to you and hug you and you would take her in your arms. I pushed the door open and what I saw was the most horrible thing that I had ever seen. There she was lying in the arms of Johanna on the floor, which was covered with blood. Her long wavy brown hair in a braid draped across her shoulder. Her beautiful blue eyes that was a heritage of Daniel closed. Her skin pale. There was still blood pouring out of a wound in her chest, beside Aila's body lied a dagger. I just stood there, I couldn't move, still not believing that this was real. Johanna's sob, took me out of my trance. I walked to Aila and let myself fall to the floor. I cradled her in my arms and my first sob broke free. My tears beginning to stream down my face and falling on Aila's face. I placed my hand over her heart, but I couldn't feel a beat.

'Aila,' I sobbed over and over. I didn't notice that guards entered the room and were walking towards me. I only noticed them when they ripped me away from Aila. I kicked and screamed, but it didn't help. They didn't let me go. I had a magical outburst and everyone was blown away from me. I ran to Aila again. Someone had hit me with something on my head, because before I could get to Aila, I saw blackness and fell to the floor.

I woke up in my own room. I was confused. Shouldn't Aila be here. And then everything came back to me. Aila was dead. She died, no she was murdered, remembering the dagger. And then a question hit me. Who? Who murdered her? She hadn't done anything, she wouldn't hurt a fly. She just couldn't be dead. I had to go to her. Maybe I could save her. Maybe it wasn't too late. I tried to convince myself that she still lived, trying to forget that I hadn't felt a heartbeat. I rushed to my door to open it, but it was closed. Why would they do that? I tried to open it with magic, but it felt like something there stopped my magic.

'Let me out!' I screamed, while kicking at the door. After what felt like ten minutes long screaming and kicking, I heard footsteps. The door was pushed open harshly and I stumbled back. The King walked inside with four guards as well. One of the guards closed the door behind him and two guards waited at the door.

'Why is my door locked, I need to go outside,' I said.

'Why the hurry?' the King said.

'I can save Aila'

'No you can't save her anymore, she doesn't have a heartbeat. She's dead.'

'You're lying.' I whispered still trying to convince myself that she didn't die.

'You don't believe me? Then come with me.' He said and walked away. I walked after him and which each step I was taking, I became more and more scared of what was to come. With each step I was less convinced that she was alive and more convinced that…. no I could not think of that. We went to another room, where the sick stayed. He opened the door and there I saw Aila, lying on a bed. She looked paler. There was no more blood pouring out of her wound and she was wearing fresh clothes. She was isolated from the others with curtains around her bed. The tears came once again and I ran to her. I let myself fall on my knees beside her bed and stroked her hair. Sobs once again coming. I placed my hand on the wound and let my magic free. The wound healed, but nothing happened. I didn't feel a frantic beat against my hand from her heart. I didn't hear a gasp for air. Nothing. She lie still and lifeless.

'No! Aila, no! Don't leave me. I can't…. I can't live without you. I love you.' I screamed and yelled and cried. I didn't care who heard me, they all could know in what heartbreak I was. I didn't know for how long I sat there, now having my arms wrapped around her. After I don't know for how long, my sobs died down and I was staring ahead of me into nothing. Who could have done this? Killed my precious, beautiful girl? She wouldn't harm a fly. Everyone loved her, adored her. When she was in a room she always managed to set a smile on everyone's faces. The one who could have killed her with a reason was….. was Leopold. If he had discovered the truth, he never would have let her alive. With that realization an intense feeling came. A feeling of vengeance of the deepest hate. I turned and saw the king staring at me and Aila. 'You did this.' I whispered looking directly at him.

'Why would I?' he said, but I saw something in his eyes, a glint that told otherwise.

'You know from Aila and me and that's why you did this.' I said, speaking louder with each word.

'I didn't murder her, not personally at least.' After he said that I left Aila's side and lunged myself forward on him, but before I could really reach him, guards grabbed me by my arms.

'You murdered her… you monster. An innocent girl. She hadn't done anything. You bastard!'

'You know what it is, Regina?' he said, a smirk beginning to form on his lips. 'If you hadn't kept her with you, here in this castle, she would still be alive. You were just selfish and only cared for your own happiness, not thinking about hers. So you kept her here in this castle, she was practically trapped here. You kept her here, knowing the probability of that someone could find out about her and you. If you hadn't done that and gave her to someone else, she would have been free and the most important thing of all…. alive. You wouldn't see her, but she would be happy with another family. So instead of giving me the blame, take a look at yourself.' He ended his speech with a bigger smirk.

The meaning of his speech began to dawn on me. It was all my fault. He was right. If I just hadn't been that selfish, she still would have been alive. But back then I only cared that she was with me, not thinking of her future life, of the dangers here. She was dead, because of me. I didn't murder her, but I was the reason behind it. She was murdered, because of me. All, because of me. With all of this dawning on me I let my legs buckle down, the guards holding me up from falling on my knees. More tears were streaming down my face. 'No.. no…. NOOOOO!' I kept yelling and yelling while crying. It was becoming hard for me to keep breathing and I began to hyperventilate.

'Calm down, we need you alive. With dinner, you must be calmed down. We can't let Snow suspect anything, do we?' Leopold said.

I looked up at him. Snow… it was always about Snow. I may be the reason of the murder of Aila, but he murdered her. He murdered her, because she formed a threat for Snow. They both had taken everything away from me. Leopold my freedom and Snow my true love. And now Aila, my only thing, who kept me from completely losing myself, from taking revenge. And now that was gone, nothing was stopping me from killing them both.

'Take her to her chambers.' Leopold ordered the guards.

As the guards forced me to my feet and dragged me out of the room, I looked one last time at Aila. I would take my revenge, let them know what they did. I would honor your death, Aila. They weren't going to get away with this.

'Mom? Mom?!'

'What?' I asked not knowing that she was talking to me.

'You kinda zoned out there, mom.'

'Ow, yeah. Just thinking of something.' Aila looked at me, knowing that there was something wrong.

'Is everything alright, mom?'

'Yeah, don't worry about me. What was your question?'

'Ow yeah, umm. I'm kinda hungry.' And as Aila said that I heard a grumble from her stomach.

'Yes, of course dear. What do you want?'

'I really missed your apple pie, the one that you only make for me. Do you have some? Otherwise we could make it, do you still have the apple honey crisp tree?'

'Yes of course.' We walked to the tree, but as we came in the garden we didn't see a tree. Where the tree should stand, was nothing more but a circle of earth, where supposedly the trunk of the tree was.

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