This is something I scrapped and will not use. But I thought I would go ahead and share just in case anyone wanted to read it.

Regina/Gold are both completely out of character in this. This was the original draft (completely different than the one I went with) for Dancing In The Dark.

She could feel magic surging from her fingertips as she pushed through the door of the pawnshop, nearly knocking the thing off of it's hinges. Her body is literally buzzing as she strides up to the counter and places heated palms on the surface. "We need to talk, Gold."

"About?" He clasped his hands in front of him, eyes watching as she swallowed hard before answering vaguely.

"I think you know. Or are you too preoccupied to sense it?" In truth she hadn't sensed anything let alone felt this buzz until it had been long enough for the tissues that form the heart to start beating. The entire notion that she could get pregnant had never occurred, even when she had been too busy to notice being this late on her monthly cycle, due to what she had done to herself back in The Enchanted Forest. That potion had been supposed to prevent this from happening, to stop her from ever conceiving a child. If she weren't so excited about actually trying to see this thing through, she would be seething at the man before her. Yet a smile that she hadn't been able to wipe off of her face for the past two weeks had begun to form on her lips again as she saw a light flicker behind his eyes.

"You-"

"Feel that?" She moved around his counter and gripped onto his right hand before placing his palm against the swell of her stomach. "Feel the magic? Tell me you sense it, tell me it's not just inside of me."

"I can sense it."

"And?" Her voice shook, betraying the original tone she had upon first arriving, all of her protective facades fading into the background as his thumb stroked along the fabric of her shirt that felt a little too snug.

"Our magic. It's our magic I can sense and it's-"

"Strong. Powerful."

Gold felt as if everything that had been tearing him down the past few months had finally began to float off of his shoulders only to be replaced by the few words he had uttered to his ex in a moment of anger. "There's going to be a mark on it's head before-"

"I'd like to see someone try. We're the two most powerful practitioners of magic, Rumple. There's no way anyone would even attempt to lay a hand on me or what's growing inside of me. Hell at the height my magic has been I'd probably burn them alive just from one touch."

"You are absolutely buzzing."

"I know. It's been driving me up a wall the past two weeks."

"Why now? Why not when it was conceived?"

"Well, from what I saw when I used a bit of magic to take a peek…It's actually formed a bit, more than it would have been - you know - in the early stages. My hormones have also begun to literally drive up the walls. I've had so many mood swings."

"Of course you have." This time he was smiling, eyes on her stomach while both hands reached out and pressed with palms against the bump. "It's only normal. Regina this is brilliant." He had thought having a child would be completely out of the stars for him considering Belle had all but pushed him away from the one growing in her womb, but this, this little miracle had all but thrown itself at him. Conceived with the one person who had never ceased to make him more than proud, more than enamored. "I-I want to see it."

She reached forward then, as if she had been expecting it and in truth she had. Already having prepared to link the images she saw that now were being pulled up from her memories before she placed her thumbs along his temples, sharing the sight with him using a simple incantation. In truth she had expected something a little different, him possibly not ready or saying something along the lines of how she were going to raise it on her own, which could very well still come tumbling from those lips - but what she was seeing now, feeling, couldn't have been better.

"Beautiful." The words tumbled from his lips before he pulled her close to him, mouth claiming hers in a gentle dance, their lips moving slowly against one another. It felt as if the buzzing in her body doubled or multiplied the second they were tangled in an embrace. They stayed there for a few minutes, kissing, holding, caressing one another. Her hands soon moved to his short hair, fingers dancing through his tresses slowly before they both leaned out of the kiss. Their eyes sought the others, smiles pulling at the corners of their mouths before he spoke again "When can I feel it kick?"

"Around the twenty fifth week at least."

"Why?"

"This is my first pregnancy. At least that's what the information said online when I googled."

"And how far along are you now?"

"A little over three months, so about nine weeks."

He couldn't have held in the excited squeak, seemingly to belong more to his imp half than the human persona, that released from his lips if he had wanted to. "You must be hungry. Craving anything?"

"So this is you when you're excited. I'd hate to see you when it finally gets here."

"I'll kill everyone." He half joked, a sly grin forming on his lips. "Have you thought of names?"

"I haven't even known for long."

"You are three months pregnant."

"And the last two months have been hell. Don't patronize me." She playfully swatted at his chest before pulling out of his embrace, only to be tugged back in. "Clingy too. I should have tried getting knocked up sooner."

"If I had known you could-"

She scoffed, a giggle threatening to bubble up from her chest as she shot back playfully "So I'm only useful to you when I can carry a baby around for nine months."

"Mmhmm." He leaned in again, placing a kiss to her forehead before whispering against her skin "You are not raising this child alone."

"I sort of caught on to that the second you turned into 'Proud Daddy of the year'." She pressed her lips to his chin in a chaste kiss, then mumbled "I think you said something about food earlier. I could kill for a slice of apple pie. Or two slices." As his hold on her loosened, she began making her way towards the door with Gold following close behind.

"Have you been eating well? You should be eating for two, you know. And what about vitamins? You're not practicing any magic that could hurt you or the baby? We need to tell everyone so they don't send you on these goose chases they all like to go on. You shouldn't be doing anything strenuous. I think I should come live with you for the rest of your trimesters. Anything you need, just tell me. I don't care if it is five in the morning and I am asleep. I do not want you going off on your own to get anything." The words were pouring from his lips without any space for her to answer as they made their way out of the shop, her cackle could probably be heard down the street as she tried to do her best to make a mental note to slowly answer him over her slices of pie with whipped cream and maybe some melted caramel on top.