As it happens I also have the third chapter written up. Slightly shorter than the other two, but it was the best place for a cut. Enter: Lily.
P.S. My aren't you spoiled today! I might have the fourth chapter ready tomorrow, so stay tuned. Right now I am addicted to writing this.

As always I'd be happy to hear from you. Make sure you read chapter 2 first, as I will post these at the same time.
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It didn't take Regina and Emma long to locate Maleficent's daughter. After finally hearing the paining truth from her parents, Emma quickly pieced the puzzle together. She'd once met a Lily, even was friends with her, and she was certain this couldn't be chance. Emma's Lily had to be Mal's lost daughter.
As only Regina and Emma could cross the town line without endangering their return, Maleficent had begrudgingly agreed to stay in Storybrooke and watch Gold's activities while they were gone.
"They will find her," Regina's boy walked up to her and sat in the booth opposite her, ordering a hot chocolate with cinnamon from the wolf.
He looked at Maleficent and his calculating stare made her rather uncomfortable. What was the boy up to?
"You and my mom," the boy started and Maleficent sighed. "You were close weren't you?"
She chose to be truthful to Regina's son. At least as truthful as one should be to a boy who shouldn't know about his mother's sexual life..."
"We were... friends," the blonde said in lieu of a better word. "But things were complicated."
"Oh come on, I know your not telling me everything," the boy clearly saw through her. "You were a couple." He said it without batting an eye as if he didn't care his mother had been with another woman, an evil dragon at that.
"Couple is a strong word," she hesitantly said, taking a sip of her latte. She'd really come to like this beverage.
"I can't tell you more Henry, it's up to your mother how much she wants you to know."
"But," the boy complained when she got up, ready to leave the diner.
"Ask her," Maleficent repeated and left.

When she first laid eyes on her all grown up daughter, Maleficent couldn't help but stare. 'They look so much alike,' she idly thought when she saw the two beautiful women enter the car after another.
"Lilith," she whispered to the young woman that now stood in front of her, wondering if it would be too much to embrace her.
"Lily," Regina appeared next to the unsure woman. "Meet your mother, Maleficent."
The young woman looked at Regina who nodded at her, giving her a small shove that practically pushed the two into each others arms. Maleficent felt a tear trail down her cheek as she felt her daughter's arms return the awkward hug.
"Can we talk?" the blonde shyly asked her daughter to which she simply nodded. They had a lot of catching up to do.
"Regina," Lilith turned around and called out to the woman who was just about to cross the street, probably on the way home to see Henry.
Lily mentioned for her mother to wait before she ran to Regina, engulfing her in a fierce embrace. "Thank you for convincing me to come and meet her," Lily said to Regina before turning and walking back to her waiting mother.
Maleficent had watched the exchange between the two and felt her heart flutter with warmth. Those two were her family. She'd realized long ago, trapped under the clock tower in her dragon form, that she counted Regina as family too. The dark haired woman had visited her many times over the years, just silently keeping the beast company. She'd treated Regina so wrongly and still she'd cared about her enough to keep her from being lonely. She wasn't angry with Regina for trapping her - she could understand the anger she must've felt while casting the curse all too well.
Smiling at Lily who'd returned to her side, she laid an arm around her daughter's shoulder and led her into Granny's.

Regina felt her heart break at seeing Maleficent and Lily enter the diner. 30 years ago she'd wished for nothing more than a family. For Maleficent to feel the way she felt. Now she had a wonderful son and was on good terms with Snow but oh how much would she give to be a part of the little family now sitting in a booth in the diner.
Maleficent was her true love. She found it out when after the years she slowly forgot about Daniel, or at least thought back at her time with him without pain, but couldn't ban the dragon from her mind, missing her day and night.
She'd read and heard that unrequited true love was very seldom if not almost impossible but wasn't it fitting that it would happen to her?
She'd cursed an entire realm, killed hundreds of innocent people - she truly deserved as much suffering as the author saw fit. She wouldn't try to find him anymore because even if she did, he would never voluntarily write the Evil Queen a happily ever after. And forcing him was no longer an option. It wasn't who she was anymore.
"Lily, wait!"
She heard Maleficent call out for her daughter and saw the young woman running off. Unseen by the blonde, she hurried after her. Regina didn't know why, but something kept calling her to Lilith ever since she and Emma found her at that gas station.
"You know," she said sitting down next to Lily at Storybrooke's only bus station. "If you want to leave town, I'd suggest not taking the bus. They've never crossed the town line except when Henry went to find Emma."
"How did you find me?" Lily asked, looking into eyes that reminded her of someone else's.
"Luck. Instinct," Regina said. "Honestly, I don't know but I had a feeling after I lost you near the library."
"You followed me? Why?" she wanted to know, glaring at Regina.
"Oh dear," Regina chucked. "You don't really think your - I have to admit rather impressive - glare works on the Evil Queen? I am practically the founder."
Lily laughed at that. Somehow talking to Regina was easy.
"So," the older woman began. "May I ask why you ran away from the diner?" A hand found its way to Lily's back, spending silent comfort.
"I was angry," Lily admitted, looking at her hands that lay entwined in her lap. "And scared, I guess. I can't... I can't seem to control this rage inside of me and sometimes I think it will just swallow me up." She raised her head to look at Regina and saw understanding in the equally dark eyes.
"You're angry with Snow and Charming for what they did," Regina stated, gently rubbing the other woman's back as she would Henry's when he was upset. "I get it. I really do. Rage is a powerful thing and it can destroy so much if you give in to it. Let an expert in revenge give you a word of advice," she stopped, making sure that Lily was still following her words. "I let the darkness overpower me and in the end I was lucky. But for a long time it burned deep inside me and I almost lost my son because of my actions. You Lily, you are so much stronger than I ever was. You have a mother who loves you, a friend in Emma who understands how it feels to be alone and you have me..."
At her honest words, Lilith threw herself into Regina's arms, sobbing into her dark hair.
"I will guide you through the darkness, Lilith. I promise. You won't give in because we'll be on your side every step of the way. You're not alone in this. "
'Like I was,' Regina added in her mind, holding the woman tightly and stroking her back until the sobs turned into cleansing tears of hope.
When she found them like this, Maleficent knew she'd had to tell the two the truth sooner than later, no matter how much Regina would despise her, no matter how much the complete truth would hurt herself.
She owed it to the two. And she felt she also owed it to herself.