Hey! Here is another chapter for you. I have the last chapter in progress so will get that up for you all as soon as I can, hopefully before the end of the weekend. Watching the new episode again last night and the Evilcharming scene I just kept reminding me of this story haha! Anyway I shall let you read.


A little later on Regina was awoken by a soft knock on her bedroom door. She groaned a little and stretched pulling herself out of her sleepy state. She sat up, rubbing her eyes. "Come in." She called. The door opened revealing her mother who gave her a soft smile as she entered the room.

"Hey sweetie, I'm sorry did I wake you?" Mary-Margaret asked as she looked at a still sleepy looking Regina.

"Yes but it's okay. I should probably be getting up now anyway." Regina said sitting up a little more in the bed.

"I just came up to see if you were up for visitors? Robin is downstairs and he is desperate to see you." Mary-Margaret said.

Regina smiled at that and nodded her head. "I think I could handle a visit from Robin." Regina replied. "Is dad allowing him up to my room or am I to come downstairs?" Regina asked knowing her father was never keen on her having a boy upstairs in her bedroom. Had been rule number one when she started dating Robin.

Mary-Margaret laughed a little. "You know your father but he says this one time only, because of everything that has happened and you need your rest he will allow Robin to come upstairs but the door has to stay open." Regina smirked at that. "I'll send him up."

Mary-Margaret turned on her heel and walked out of the bed room. Regina pushed herself out of the bed and quickly walked over to dressing table and looked in the mirror. She groaned at her appearance knowing she didn't have enough time to sort herself. She ran her fingers through her messy hair. She would have to do for now. She stood up and walked back over to her bed and sat down on it just as Robin entered the room. She looked over and gave him a small smile.

"Regina…" He said and rushed over to her. He sat down on the bed beside her and wrapped his arms around her, hugging her tightly. "I'm so glad your okay."

"Yea I'm okay…Better now all that drama is over with now." Regina said cuddling into Robin. "I…I was so scared Robin…"

"At least it's all over now." Robin said pulling away and cupping Regina's cheek in his hand.

"Yes…but I have a decision to make. I need to decide whether to keep all the memories that have come back to me or to get rid of them." Regina said with a sigh.

"Do you have an idea what you want to do?" Robin asked.

Regina shook her head and reach over linking her hand with Robins, their fingers entwining. "Not really. Some of the memories are horrible. Things that I cannot believe once happened to me but then there are a certain few that…aren't as bad and I don't know…seem to bring a lightness to me…but they are confusing too."

"How so?" Robin asked.

"They make me see some people in different ways. Like my parents…in this other life I hated them and Gold took advantage of that hidden feeling inside me. In this other life I made it like my mission to kill my mother…I made their lives a misery for so long…Emma, I was the reason she grew up without parents essentially. I cast a curse to send everyone here, I was an Evil Queen Robin. I now understand why people looked at me the way they did when I got my magic." Regina explained. "It makes more sense yet I feel more confused. I mean I look at Henry and I now feel like this motherly bond to him because in this other life he was my son, but then it feels weird because for so long he has seemed older than me…Does any of that make sense?"

"That is a lot going on in your mind. I'm surprised you haven't totally lost it yet…" Robin said making Regina laugh a little.

"Yea well…I'm starting to organise it in my mind. Kind of." Regina shrugged.

"Well you'll figure it out Regina. You always do." Robin said leaning over and giving Regina a kiss.


Regina held the black beating heart in her hand as she entered into Gold's pawn shop. She had no idea what was happening but her body seemed to know what it was doing so she went with it letting it guide her through the shop and into the back room. She was Gold lying on a bed and a woman standing before him, dagger high in the air ready to kill as soon as she could.

She frowned as she looked at the woman recognising her from other dreams she had had. The woman she called mother. Her legs carried her towards the woman, heart in hand as she reached her she moved her hand up and moved quickly roughly pushing the heart back into the woman's body.

The woman gasped, the dagger falling from her hand and clattering to the ground beside them She stumbled backwards and as she stopped she looked up at Regina and she smiled. It was a smile Regina had never seen on the woman before. A smile of adoration and love. Regina found herself smiling back and found herself feeling extremely happy that this woman, her mother, was looking at her the way she was. It was all she had ever wanted, she could feel all this and it hurt her and made her happy all at the same time as she knew it wasn't going to end well but she took the little time she had to take it all in.

"Mother…" Regina said with a smile on her face. Her mother started to walk towards her and she stood in front of Regina placing a hand on her cheek and for the first time Regina didn't feel the need to flinch away from her mother's contact.

"Regina…My baby."

Regina, although caught up in her mother's love saw Gold move out of the corner of her eye. She saw him pick up the dagger and move behind her mother. She knew what was going to happen and she so desperately wanted to stop it from happening but she couldn't move and she couldn't shout out to her mother. She gasped as she felt she was being ripped away from herself and all of a sudden it was as if she was an outsider looking in on what was going on. She saw herself and her mother looking at each other happily. She saw Gold behind her mother, dagger raised just like her mother had been like with him moments ago.

She watched as Gold plunged the dagger into her mother's back and she cried out but it was useless no one could hear her.

"Mother what's going on?" She heard herself ask. Her mother fell forward into her arms and she watched as she fell to her knees with her mother in her arms. It was then that she saw Gold slipping the wishing stone into her mother's hand. He really had planned everything. "Mother…" She heard herself cry.

"This would have been enough…" Her mother said stumbling over her words as she tried to find her breath. "You would have been enough." Regina found herself crying as she watched the scene between herself and her mother. It was killing her watching this and knowing she couldn't do anything about it. "I wish…I could have given you…the life you deserve." her mother stuttered out. "I wish…you could have a second chance…to be you…"

Those were the last words she heard her mother say and she watched as her mother's eyes fluttered closed. "Mother…Don't leave me please…" She heard herself cry and as she watched it all she fund she cried even more witnessing the memory than she did in the memory.

She watched everyone go past her, she watched the magical lights surrounding her and she saw herself turn into a toddler. After that it seemed like everything went ten times faster. The new life she had lived flashing before her eyes and stopping before it all turned bad.

Regina sat bolt upright in the bed with a gasp. That dream had just confirmed it all to her. She knew exactly what she was going to do about her new found memories.


Regina awoke refreshed and feeling new the next morning. Everything in her mind seemed so much clearer and she knew what she wanted to do with everything now. She pushed herself out of bed and made her way out of her bedroom and downstairs. She made her way towards the noise which was in the kitchen and she smiled as she saw her mother cooking breakfast and Josh and her father sat at the table talking about this and that. For the first time in so long she felt happy.

She walked further into the kitchen and over to the table. "Good morning." She said in a sing song voice and she placed a kiss on top of her father's head and ruffled Josh's hair as she walked round the table and sat opposite them. Mary-Margaret turned round and smiled over at Regina.

"Good morning Regina." Mary-Margaret smiled. "Did you sleep well?"

"Better than I have in while actually." Regina replied.

"Good." Mary-Margaret said.

"Well you certainly seem happier." David commented as he looked at his daughter. It was nice to see her more like her old self.

"I am." Regina smiled. "For the first time in a long while I have gotten up without a headache and I had a dream last night that I think has really helped clear my head out a bit."

"Oh? What was the dream?" Mary-Margaret asked as she brought the breakfast over to the table.

"It was a dream about my mo…about Cora…" Regina said. She didn't know why she felt the need to correct herself to say Cora instead of mother. "About the moment she died and her last wish she made for me. She wished for me to have a second chance and to have a life she felt I deserved but never got and although she treated me horribly at times really deep down Cora did love me. I was her daughter and she was my mother. The only thing stopping her loving me throughout my life is the fact she had ripped her heart out but there must have still been something deep down in her." Regina said. "Seeing that memory…well it made me think. She could have wished for anything when she was dying but she wished for me to have a better life and I don't think I should forget that."

"So your saying you don't want to get rid of the old memories?" David asked.

Regina nodded her head. "I think I should keep them. They are a part of me, the good and the bad, all of it and I don't think I should forget about any of it. Especially the wish Cora made for me because if it wasn't for her then I wouldn't have the family that I have today and I wouldn't have turned into the person I am today. She gave me my second chance for a better life and I have had one. I need to remember her for that."

"Well Regina we support you in your decision." Mary-Margaret said placing her hand over Regina's.

"Thank you and well I wanted to say sorry for kinda ruining your lives before…you know…" Regina said and David and Mary-Margaret laughed a little.

"It's alright Regina. We're over all that now." David said.

Regina smiled. "Good. I wish I could say everything can go back to normal but I don't think it will be that easy." Regina said.

"No it won't but we can try and get as close to it." Mary-Margaret smiled.

"So are you back to your annoying self?" Josh asked and David nudged him.

Regina laughed and pulled off a grape and chucked it at him. "You bet ya." Regina said with a smirk. It felt so good to feel like herself again. She may still have magic and she may still have two lots of lives whirling about in her head but she felt she could now control it all. She had control and she knew life was back on track.