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The next time Regina saw her sister was the following day when suddenly someone pounded against her door. Quickly Regina made her way over to her front door and opened it forcefully.

"Let me in, come on!" Zelena said and pushed past Regina. The brunette raised a perfect eyebrow and closed the door.

"Hello to you too. What happened?" Regina asked and followed her sister to her study where Zelena had already helped herself to a drink. She offered one to Regina too but she declined.

"Will you tell me now what's wrong?" Regina asked and frowned. Zelena sat down on the couch and leaned her head back. She sighed. Then she pulled a little vial out of her bag and placed it in front of her on the coffee table. Inside the vial there was a green liquid.

"What is that?" Regina asked and took a closer look at the vial.

"Well, you asked me to break the curse. And that's what I'm going to do." Zelena said and took the vial out of Regina's hand and pulled the cork out. Immediately an offensive smell spread in the room. Regina wrinkled her nose and opened the window. Luckily it was quite warm outside.

"So, how does this work?" Regina asked curiously.

"I have to drink this." Zelena explained. Regina looked at her sister in disgust.

"Yucky…anyway what then?"

"Then the curse will break and everybody will remember what I did to them." Zelena whispered and put her face in her hands looking truly worried. Regina sat down next to her newly discovered sister. She was unsure what to do. She didn't know this woman and therefore couldn't know what she was allowed to do and what would result in Zelena trying to strangle her.

Tentatively she put a hand on the other woman's lower back and leaned towards her.

"Don't worry. I know exactly how you feel. I don't know what you did but it can't be worse than what I've done. And I'm also still alive. Of course it wasn't easy and I had a pretty hard time. But, Zelena, you are not alone. I'll be there for you, okay? You simply have to trust me. Breaking the curse is the right thing to do."

"There's something else. It's about him, Rumpelstiltskin." Zelena cleared her throat. "I…locked him up."

"What?! I thought he was dead!" Regina said loudly. Zelena flinched.

"I know. You've told me back in the Enchanted Forest. I could get him back but I locked him up. I also wanted to exert revenge on him." The red-haired woman sighed.

"Did you do something to him?" Regina asked quietly. Zelena shook her head.

"I locked him up in a cellar. But I didn't hurt him. You know, I wanted to hurt him so bad! It was not fair! Why did he treat me like that! He's my mentor after all, he should respect me! He was like a father figure for me! I couldn't hurt him. The only thing I did was to threaten him."

Regina was silent for a couple of minutes then she turned to her sister, took the vial out of her hand and pulled her up from the couch. Regina pulled her sister out of her study and out of the house.

"Where are we going?" Zelena asked and frowned.

"We are going to pick up Bell, Rumpelstiltskin's true love and then we will reunite them." Regina explained and pulled the door to the passenger seat open. Zelena sat down. Regina moved over to the driver's side and started the engine. Zelena cleared her throat once more looking really uncomfortable.

"What's wrong?" Regina asked as she noticed the way her sister was fidgeting with her hands.

"I don't feel very comfortable in this tiny can."

"Don't worry, we are going to be fine" Regina answered and smiled quietly.

"Regina can I ask you a question? Why are we going to reunite Belle and Rumplestiltskin?" Zelena asked curiously.

"For one thing if Belle und Rumplestiltskin are reunited he might not feel the need to kill you on the spot and secondly Belle has a positive influence on him and won't let him harm you. That's going to increase our safety immensely." Regina explained and they came to a halt in front of Belle's apartment.

Together they exited the car and made their way over to Belle's front door. She lifted her fist and knocked against the door. Zelena was still fidgeting next to her.

"Stop it, Zelena!" Regina hissed and earned a light shove from her sister. In that moment the door opened and revealed Belle. She looked at the two women in front of her suspiciously.

"Hello, what do you want?"

"Belle, that now might sound strange but Rumple is alive and well."

Belle raised an eyebrow. "And I am supposed to believe that? If he would be here he would have come her already."

"I can understand your doubts but let me tell you that I am sure that he'd have first come to you if he could but unfortunately he is locked up and therefore not able to come here. But we want to free him and we want you to be there." Regina explained trying to sooth the doubts of the other brunette woman across from her.

"Why?"

"Well, Rumplestiltskin is suffering from some…mood swings and we believe that you can calm him." Zelena answered looking at Regina asking silently if the answer was appropriate. Regina nodded quickly.

"Mood swings? Who did imprison him?" Belle asked still not trusting what the two women in front of her were saying.

Zelena cleared her throat and quickly tried to change the topic.

"Maybe we should go. The earlier we can…free him the better."

Belle looked really uncomfortable. On the one hand her mind was telling her that she should not go with a witch that had imprisoned her for over twenty-eight years and a completely foreign woman who was obviously a friend of Regina's or something but on the other hand she was missing Rumple terribly. She wanted her true love back more than anything and also for Neal she wished to get his father back. She took a deep breath and without evaluating the matter further she decided to give it a try. She had to.

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