Chapter 22: Blackbird

Holly's...let's say POV, shall we?

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly all your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise…"

I was sitting on the couch, just thinking about the day...everything I'm nervous or scared, I sing. And I was nervous...and very scared. You would be too if you died just a few hours ago...

"Blackbird flyyyyy...Blackb...huh?

I felt a tap on my shoulder...it was Regina. Her smile was so beautiful.

"Couldn't sleep?"

"No, I think I am too scared to sleep." I replied

"There's no need to be scared, you are safe now."

"I am not worried about that, I am worried about my heart, Maddie and something else."

Regina sat down next to me, her brown eyes meeting my blue... "Your heart is fine, you will live a long happy life and Maddie is going to be great she will always have you, what else are you worried about?"

"Some happy life I'll have all alone and I am worried about magic, I don't know what I am doing."

Regina tried to reassure me "Stop that you will find someone you are beautiful, strong and intelligent. You will find someone! Look at me I was an evil queen...THE Evil Queen...I destroyed people..." She stopped and took a deep breath. "...and I got still got my happy ending."

"Yea I guess." I didn't think she was handing me a line. Maybe she kept falling in love too and getting disappointed. Like now...

"Hey look at me." she grabbed my chin and forced her to look at me "You will."

I just looked at Regina and started crying, Hard. And after a few moments buried on her shoulder, I looked up to her again.

"You almost died today, I almost died today….." I began crying and ...and then I started kissing her. her cheeks...her neck her lips.

Her lips...

And then she pushed away. Like they all do, I guess...

"Holly I can't...I love Emma."

"I died today you saved me, you almost died. Please I need to feel something." And I did...I needed to feel something because I really didn't know how long this would last.

I leaned into her, but this time this time Regina didn't push her away I felt the energy between us.

Then Regina slowly kissed me with a passion of urgency needing to feel alive. She slowly trailed her kisses down my neck and I was moaning...loudly. It felt so right and so wrong. We began to move our bodies together in sync, slowly our clothes came off and our bodies were intertwined. She pulled back only for a moment to look into my eyes. Tears streaming down my face

For that one moment, for once, I felt special. I felt needed. We kissed gently and we kissed hard. Regina was working magic with me..that intimate magic only lovers share... and I felt that I could not hold it in anymore. And when that moment came, I screamed her name at the top of my lungs..

"REGINA! REGINNNNNNNA!"

"Holly!"

"HOLLY?"

Maybe I was crazy...I heard another voice...

"Holly...are you alright...?"

Was it...wa..wa...wa...waa...

And there was my beautiful Regina. Fully clothed. And so was Emma. And Snow. And Mallie. And Red...smirking.

It was all, no..please God, it couldn't have been...

"You were dreaming dear..."

Thanks Regina for verifying. God..

Yep, I was having a wet dream...and I, well, you know. And all the ladies ran in to see what was up. There were a few who didn't. This werewolf named Graham and that black guy Sidney. They were snoozing on the sofa. And Mallie wasn't there. I kinda figured out why. Well, at least Regina or Emma didn't run.

Well, after the giggling calmed down (mostly it came from the girl in the werewolf section) they pretty much filled me in what actually happened.

The Cliff's Notes on it was this Sidney was really a genie..as in out-of-the-bottle-three-wishes genie...no one is gonna believe any of this crap...and the purple smoke was really a spell he cast on the entire city, pretty much to clean it out of all the dragon out of the area and wiped any memories of what happened out of the heads of the people in Boston. 12 million people...that's a hell of a lot of goof gas..

Not to mention the fact that Mallie is really...God, this is so insane...a dragon who sent herself in to fight the OTHER dragons that were threatening Boston...and me fighting on the side of Snow White. Prince Charming, and Little Red Riding Hood...who's also the BIg Bad Wolf.

Well, then...I am now officially off drugs. (Not that I was ever on, of course...)

And if that did not sound like the rantings of an insane woman, the little conversations I found myself in definatly did. Snow went from talking about being a queen in her..."realm" she called it to being a grade school teacher back in Maine. The Graham guy was apologizing to me for attacking us...seems that Regina took out his heart ("she's a heart surgeon" "no, just reached in took it out" Yeah...happens every day. Wait, just happened to ME last night!) and kept him as her sex slave...a position (and I could think of a few) I would have loved, but judging from what I was examining, i could definitely understand...girl has taste.

Seems that Regina spent a lot of time either grabbing hearts or breaking them. Sidney said that he was still in love with her (wonder how that went), and that it sent him to the bottle. He said that he wanted to redeem himself, so he threw out all the liquor a week ago. And of course the goof gas thing...

It still didn't mean that I was not in love with the classy brunette...but it seems that she and her blonde girlfriend had a talk...and they decided to sit down with me and lay down the law...basically we like you, we might even love you as a friend...but they were getting married and that was that.

Same song. Different verse.

Look, I know. It's been just a few days. 72 hours. And I been through pretty much a live-action Michael Bay movie. I just keep falling for people and they don't return. I'm not ugly. Nice face. I've had compliments on the boobage and the trunk. I've even had a few rounds on the mattress. But I was just that weird girl with the heart condition. Yeah...who'd want that.

I had to get out of there. Get some air. I forgot that Mallie was not in the room with everyone else. Probably out to get dragon Spanx or something.

Took a couple of minutes to get to the roof. 20 stories, you know. City lights...two in the morning. At least it's quiet save for the traffic horns and the occasional cricket and the humming...

Humming...who's humming?

Blackbird singing in the dead of night...

Take these broken wings and learn to fly...

A woman singing...beautiful voice...but who else is up at 2 in the morning...?

All your life...

You were only waiting...

I walked up to her. She had beautiful blonde hair that shone in the moonlight. And from the back, she had a nice figure. I think she knew I was there. She turned around.

Mallie.

"Well. Thought I was alone..." The woman was tall. Luxurious lips. Cleavage I could fall in to and never want to come out of.

Careful Hollz. This is how it starts...

"Well, Holly...wanna come over and sit down...keep and old dragon company" She smiled. It was kinda dark, but it was a smile that you can see from the space shuttle. She motioned to one of the walls surrounding the roof and we sat.

I never felt as awkward as I did. Then she spoke to me.

"This whole things coming at you fast huh?"

"Too fast. I feel like I'm on LSD."

Mallie gave me an understanding look. "I understand...when I finally figured out who, where, and what I am, it took awhile for me to figure your world out."

"Well..," I asked, "what about your world. Where you came from."

The older blonde looked up and sighed. I think she was becoming emotional. Then she started to answer me.

"Well first, my real name is Maleficent."

That word sunk in. I remember the word and the meaning. To do harm or evil. Then the lights came on. "Sleeping Beauty."

Maleficent paused. Her eyes looked moist. She laughed, but it was a sad laugh. "Word gets around..."

My eyes and ears paid full attention. I knew the movie, but by now, I realized that there were back stories that didn't make the screen. And I wanted to hear hers. She did not dissapoint.

"You know Aurora." I nodded. "I read the books and I did see the movie. A few things they left out. You see her parents...Stefan and Leah...we were...close. Very close..."

"As in...lovers...close?

That sad laugh again. "You ARE perceptive. Well, I was always an outsider...with everyone. Even my fellow fairies. But Stef and Leah understood me. I loved them. And they loved me. Or at least I thought. Their daughter was born. Everyone in our realm was invited. Everyone..."

"..except you?"

No laugh now. Just a sad nod. Then the tears. "My heart was shattered, Holly. It was replaced by hate...blind hate." She paused again to regroup, then she continued. "Aurora was really an innocent bystander in all of this. I wanted to destroy Leah by the destroying the one thing she loved. Maybe I should thank Merryweather for making sure my little pinprick stunt didn't kill her."

"In the movies, you fell to your death..."

"I fell but I didn't die. Maybe I should have. The only person who ever really understood me was Regina."

One more crack in brand new heart. "Were you really that lonely?"

"Still am. You see I was killed, but by Emma. I was trapped in the library when...well when everyone came over. Emma was magnificent.." (she smiled) "She was her father's child to the end..."

"But you're still alive."

"Well there was a curse...curse was broken...magic spread all over the place...I was revived. I got a second chance. Regina made me a judge after she was reinstated a mayor. And everyone thought of me as a protector...a friend. I was...well...redeemed."

There's that word again...redeemed. Redemption. Seems like it was a recurring theme.

By the way...when I found you, you were singing my favorite song. 'Blackbird.'"

"Yeah...I sing it when I'm troubles or when I'm...lonely." Mallie said that last word quietly. Wistfully. Then she started to sing..

Blackbird singing in the dead of night...

And I joined in...

Take these broken wings and learn to fly...

All your life...

You were only...waiting...

We stopped. We looked at each other for the longest time. It was as if I was seeing right through her. I felt tears falling on my face and I could see the tears on hers.

Then our faces moved closer together...until our lips touched. And our kiss deepened. And we held each other closer. And we kissed desperately, as if stopping would end the world.

We never really finished the song...

3am. Boston Regina's POV

I didn't think I was that harsh with the girl. Em and I just wanted to just let her know that right now my heart was Em's and her's was mine. We didn't want to break her heart...but maybe we did.

We went to Holly's suite...no know on the door. I don't know what led me to the roof...maybe a fear that Holly...no I didn't want to go there. I got to the roof, It was a chilly night. Clear. Quiet. I started back to the door when I heard snoring. Low, gentle snoring.

I peeked around the door housing and I found them. Cuddled together. Maleficent and Holly. They were cute. And probably freezing.

One can conjure up a nice thick blanket in seconds. I made it Red, for the heart. I went over and quietly placed the blanket on my old best friend and my new best friend.

And I wondered if Emma and I looked like that on our first night.

Then I walked back to the door with one look back before I left them.

Her heart's going to be just fine.

TBC

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"Blackbird" written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Maybe you've heard of them...

A/N: Don't worry...I have not forgotten Storybrooke. Things are happening there and in the next few chapters.

Also, if you note the harbour is filling up with all sorts of ships. There is of course SwanQueen, and Snowing. Actually RedSnowing. There was much lobbying for HollyQueen, but I knew that the readers would have me for lunch. But, since Mallie needed someone...well how about... Holleficent!

Hey, I'm trying.

See ya at 23!