Chapter 3

Light and Dark

Since the encounter with the Blue fairy Regina had not gone to her training with Rumpelstilskin in a month. She need to get back to her training as she had made a deal with Rumpel and all deals with him came at a price. Getting out of his deals is like trying to get out of a bear trap. The only way out is to gnaw your own leg off.

The light streamed into Regina's window, with a cool gentle breeze blew into her room. Nothing could get her down waking up to sound of tweeting birds not even the rejection of Leopold even in some way it still hurt inside her. Dressing in her sunniest outfit consisting of a yellow blouse, a brown jacket that the sleeves reached just above the elbows and an embroded royal blue riding dress.

After breakfast she rode out with one of her favourite houses to Rumpels house. Looking around the scenery was magic, her heart and even her voice sing and humming a happy tune riding towards Rumpels place. Patting her tummy and thinking, "Its wonderful to carry such a miracle child."

Reaching Rumpels home still sing and humming away, dismounting her horse and making her way to his workshop. Her strides had purpose but also had a lightness to them walking into Rumpels workshop. With a sunshine smile, "Morning Rumpelstitskin. What a glorious day it is today and how are you?"

This cheery attitude that oozed from Regina wrong-footed Rumpel a bit, "Well my dearie. It seems that you are having sparkling day as well" dismissing that this might be one of Regina's better days.

Licking his lips, "Now dearie lets start our lesson" with a shrill giggle at the end.

Regina listened intently and did what was asked of her. Rumpel still felling unsettled by Regina's sweet smile on her face.

For the next five days Regina's sunny personality wore on Rumpels nerves. Thinking to himself, "All my hard work gone. I have molded her to have despair and hatred, she should fell loneliness and have no hope." Pacing up and down his workshop as if trying to make a furrow into the workshop floor, eventually making his way to his spinning wheel feel appalled on how Regina had changed.

Thinking to himself, "All my hard work is all but gone. At this rate I will have to find another person to fillful the curse", scoffing at the idea.

"The world should be laughing and mocking her and yet it is quiet the opposite. Something has to change. Mmmm, it is not the king or that goodie to shoes Snow White."

Pondering some more, "There is something strange. Regina never throws up unexpectedly or other wise. I wonder if she is pregnant. Mmmm, but rumours coming out of the castle say she can not bare children."

All Rumpelstilskin's hard work was starting to unravel and Regina had beed the key to his plan to travel to a realm without magic. Scheming to himself, "I will need to change Regina's cheeriness back to the old", smiling and giggling at the thought.

It had been a couple of day's scenes the last lesson with Rumpel. Regina still feeling very cheerful started to enter the workshop. Ambushing Regina as she just step into his workshop and blowing sleeping dust into her face. With an instant she collapsed onto floor in a large crumple. Grinning with those hideous teeth, "Well nighty, night my little student" and with that her eyes became heavier as she fell into a deep sleep.

Carry her to a bed he plopped her down. Running his hand over her stomach he felt the baby inside, "Well, my my my the rumours out of the castle seemed to be untrue, she is defiantly carrying a child."

Still gliding his hand over her stomach and feeling the baby inside. With a queer look on his face, "Well that is different, this child has been created by parents of True love. Imagine that" as a shrill giggle came out.

Regina had often spoken to Rumpel of her dismay and disappointment that the King and herself could not produce a child. Thinking again, "This child is unraveling all my plans" and with that thought he ripped out her heart and immediately study it. The heart had started to go black as he envisages it would. These were still parts of her heart that shone in a dark red and in the center a small pulsing bright light.

His face contorted, "It must be the child that is eroding the darkness from her heart." He needed Regina to fulfill his plan. With a small giggle and a couple of words he waved his hand over Regina. Magically she had been duplicated except for the child, which remained in one of the Regina's.

Still holding her heart in his hand he merrily walked over to a table filled with gadgets and small bottles of potions. Sitting down and pulling out the dagger that has his name written on it. With one quick swish he dissected Regina's heart in two.

It is said that a magically heart contains all the memories of that person. Trying not to crush the two halves of her heart Rumpel started to manipulate each heart and there memories in order to get his plan back on track. One heart contains the blackness and a spattering of red while the other had dark red with a single drop of black. This half also included the pulsing white light in the center.

Placing the heart that has black with a smattering of red in it the Regina without the child inside her instantly her clothes changed. Her clothes changed into a dark black dress, the dress resembled more of the clothes that would be worn going to a funeral then every day ware. The other Regina still had her bright and vibrant clothes that she worn that morning.

Rumpel smiled in pleasure, "Well, well, well, my work is done" and with that two different types of Regina now exist, one a Dark Regina and the other a Light Regina.

Needing to work fast as the sleeping dust will be starting to ware out Rumpel making sure that the Light Regina with child remained hidden. Blowing more of the sleeping dust into her face, making sure that she would sleep at his house for the rest of the night.

Waking up the Dark Regina finding herself laying on a bed in Rumpelstilskins home. Feeling disorientated and uncertain on how she got here. Looking around she notice that Rumpel standing at the side of the bed having a very odd grin on his face that gave her the impression that not all was right. Sitting up her mind trying to understand how she got here in the first place. Many questions filled her mind, "Rumpelstilskin, what happened, how did I get here and why is the sun so low?"

With a bit of a smirk on his face he answered her questions, "It seems that you over did it with your training and fainted. I brought you here where you slept for most of the day" he had lied.

Seeing the setting sun she need to get back to the castle although the answers give to her by her teacher sounded very dubious. She mounted her horse, with a quick heel and a click of her tongue her horse sprinted towards the castle. Her thoughts turned to Snow's betrayal and Leopold's humiliation of her. She loathed both of them more than anything. By the time she reached the castle she had already forgotten that she should be pregnant.

Light Regina slept all night. Waking up startled and noticing that she seemed to be kidnapped in some way. Focusing on the man standing beside the bed, a shiver went down her spin as she notice that this person next to her is known as the Dark One. She could only think of one thing RUN.

Jumping off the bed as fast as she could and shaking from head to toe from fear she ran out of Rumples home. Looking for horse to mount and ride as fast as the wind away from this place but in all her searching she found non. Feeling disappointed on not finding a horse and still feeling fearful she made a dash down the road and away from Rumple as fast as her legs could carry her.

In the distance stood a castle. Thinking to herself, "Maybe this castle will bring me safety that I need." Focusing on the castle a fear gripped her. That fear felt like that there is an evil lurking inside that castle and it would be unsafe to go there. All she knew is that to protect her unborn child and move away from these place that have fear and evil written all over them.

Rumple looking at the Light Regina sprinting down the road an devilish smile came over him, "My plan is now back on track and the is now gone."

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