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Chapter 6 - The President's daughter

Rosalie had followed her mother to her office the next day, to help her pack. But she had fallen asleep on the sofa. She had had a few nightmares last night, so she hadn't got much sleep.

Regina didn't want to wake her daughter up, because she knew she hadn't slept well last night. Regina hadn't have a lot of sleep either because she had woken up by Rosalie's screams, so she had got up en walked through the hall to her room. So had been comforting her as much as she could but the girl still couldn't sleep. So Regina had stayed in Rosalie's bed all night, making the girl feel she was safe.

So she let her baby sleep for now.

Her phone starts to ring, and Regina jumps at the sound of it. She walks over to her office table and lifts up the phone, she can see it's Henry who's calling her. She smiles wide and answer.

"Henry! I'm just packing up the office, I've been asked to leave. No of course it can wait, I'll love to have lunch with you. Granny's, ten minutes." She hangs up, smiles at the phone then she takes her bag and walks out of the office, leaving Rosalie to her sleep.

Right after Regina has left the office Henry walks in through a secret door in the wall. And starts to search for something. He finds it in his mothers desk. It's a keychain, with a lot of keys on. It's Regina's skeleton keys, that can open all locks. Henry takes it and begins to walk out of the office when Rosalie wakes up.

"Hey! What are you doing here and were is mom?"

"I.. I was just looking for her, I thought she'd be her." Henry says and then leaves.

Rosalie take up her phone from her jeans pocket and calls her mom.

"Mom. Where are you? At Granny's? You're going to have lunch with Henry? Yes, I'll be there." She hangs up. Why would the kid call her for lunch and then show up here looking for her? Rosalie thought.

Rosalie walks in at Granny's and spots her mother by one of the window tables.

"Mom, I think Henry is setting you up. He was at your office after you'd left."

"That's what I though." Regina answer sadly. "Let's go."

They get back to the office and Regina start to look through her things.

"You think he stole something?"

"I don't think. I know" She says after looking through her desk and finds her skeleton keys missing. She takes up her phone and calls David.

"David, it's Regina. Henry called me for lunch then he stood me up. So I went and checked my office and my keys are missing. I think he has gone to my vault. I would go after him myself, but I don't think he would go with me. Can you check on him? Thank you David." She hangs up.

"What was that about?" Rosalie asks.

"Henry took my skeleton keys, they can open all looks. I took them with me from our world."

"Okay. So what now?"

"We should go home, I can do this another time." Regina answer waving a hand around the office.

They walk out of the office and into Regina's mercedes and drives back to the house.

Regina sits at the dining room table looking into thin air. Rosalie's in the kitchen making pancakes and when she's done she walks in to sit with her mother and puts the pancakes on the table. They eat in silence.

"So you wanna tell me what happened in Washington? I know it had to be something bad or else you wouldn't have had those nightmares you had last night." Regina says when she had finished her food.

"Right." Rosalie says looking down. "You're not going to like it."

They where now witting in the couch in the living room after they had cleaned the table after themselves.

"As I told you, I came to this world as a baby, I ended up in an orphan home and then I got adopted by Simon and Renée Reegal. As i still had my neckless, they let me keep my name."

"When I was 12 my father got elected to be President."

"Wait, you're the President's daughter?" Regina interrupt.

"Yes, why?" Regina gets up and walks into her study to find her laptop. Rosalie follows her.

"What are you doing?" Regina starts her laptop and then gets on the internet. When she finds what she've been looking for she turns the laptop around so Rosalie can see.

"So that is you?" Regina asks.

It's a picture of Rosalie and her parents in front of the White House, a year after her father had been elected. "Yes. That's me."

"You look so happy." Regina says whit a low voice.

"I know." Rosalie looks at the picture. "But I wasn't. I was broken."

"Why?" Regina looks up at her daughter with tears in her eyes, she'd tried to hide.

"Because I met a guy. I thought he was everything I ever wanted, but I couldn't be more wrong." Rosalie takes a deep breath and sits down on the small couch beside her mother.

"He acted like he was all perfect, and I had told him that I wanted to take things slow. That I wasn't ready to do anything. But one night when I was at his place he got himself really drunk. And he… He.." Rosalie had a real hard time saying the word. "He raped me." She finally said it, the words she had never told anyone. Not even her friends, not even her parents. No one knew. But now her mother knew.

Regina broke. "Baby.." She takes Rosalie's hand and moved herself towards her, and puts her arms around her. "Baby, I'm sorry. I wish I could have been there to protect you."

"I know." Rosalie lets out a deep breath, hugging her mother even harder.

"Have you talked to anyone about this?"

"No. I couldn't. Not my friends, not even my parents. Because I knew, if it got out, it would have ruined my parents. They didn't need this right after the election."

Regina kissed her daughter on her head. "Well, I'm here now. And I want you to tell me everything. I'm your mother and I'm here for you. I love you."

"Thank you. I love you to."

"So that's why you're having those nightmares?" Regina asks after a few minutes.

"Yes. It's like I reliving that night." Rosalie says quietly. "And after that night. I was never the same. I stayed out late, got really drunk and partied almost every night. I stopped behave like my parents wanted me to, I didn't behave like a daughter of the president should. I become very rebellious."

"But when I turned 15, I cleaned myself up. I started to get involved in my fathers politics and after a few weeks I was exactly like a daughter of the President should be. I was almost too perfect, but I wasn't happy."

"There was always something missing. I didn't know then what it was, but know, know I know." Rosalie says looking up into her mothers loving eyes.

"I've always felt like something big was missing in my life, even before the curse. And now I know." Rosalie puts a kiss on her mothers cheek and then she hugs her tightly.

"Promise me, you'll always be here."

"I promise." Regina tights her grip around her little baby. Smiling with her tears running down her cheeks. "I'll never leave you."