So this next chapter is shorter, I just wanted to write something to get the ball rolling again. Thank you for the reviews I have been getting I would love more even if you have already reviewed. It helps to know other people are reading the story, if something is bothering you about it let me know, if you don't like something let me know. And that is all I've got for now.


"Danielle come with me darling" Cora said as she lead Danielle by the hand out of a cloud of purple smoke, dressed in common clothes.

"Was that magic, are we playing dress up again?" Danielle asked.

"Yes it was magic" Cora answered.

"Are we playing another game, where are we, I was riding horses?"

"In a way we are playing a game, we are going to see some people who are going to take care of you for a while."

"But my mommy takes care of me" Danielle said.

Cora paused and got down on her knees looking Danielle in the face. "Danielle, do you remember how your mommy was sick because you weren't going to have a little brother." Danielle just nodded solemnly, "well Danielle your mommy died, I'm so sorry. But these people they can be your new mommy they will take care of you."

Danielle just laughed and shook her head, "my mommy isn't dead, I talked to her before we went horse riding, we are going to place a game later she said."

"No Danielle your mommy died" Cora repeated again as she waved her hand in front of Danielle's face. A purple shimmer appeared in her eyes for a moment and then faded away, being replaced by her tears."

"Mommy…" she cried.

"Yes I know darling, I miss her too, now let's go meet your new family.


"An accident what kind of accident?" Regina asked as she sat up in her bed, throwing the blankets off to the side.

"Well when she was riding the horse…it threw her." Henry simply said, his face grim.

"Well where is she, she is probably hurt and scared, she will want to see me I must be with her" Regina said frantically, standing up, ignoring the stiffness she felt in her limbs from lying in bed for a week.

"Regina you need to stop" her father said trying to calm her down.

"Don't tell me to stop, I need to see her, I need to help her, is she still outside?" Regina said again scooping her robe off a nearby chair wrapping it around her.

"Regina, Danielle died." Henry said finally.

Regina paused, and reached for the chair steading her balance. Her father moved forward taking her arms and leading her to the chair as tears started to fall from his face. "Cora said she was thrown by the horse, it just went wild. She hit her head, it happened instantly; there was nothing anyone could do."

Regina just stared blankly at the wall in front of her. Her daughter couldn't be dead; she would feel it wouldn't she. Feel her pain as she died, feel like a part of her was being ripped from her body. Perhaps that is what she was feeling now. But all she could feel was shock and emptiness. She was no longer a mother, she had gone from having a happy five year old and another on the way to nothing in a week. Seven days is all it took to take everything from her.

"Regina are you okay" her father asked.

"I would still like to see her" Regina said, "her body, I need to hold my baby one last time." Her eyes dry.

"Of course" Henry said, "come with me."

Regina walked into a stone room that she had never been in before and walked up to a table where she saw the body of her daughter. She looked so peaceful except for the thin jagged line of a cut near her temple. Regina figured it was probably from where she hit her head when she fell. Regina reached out her hand to stroke Danielle's cheek. It didn't feel like her, it was so…cold.

"NOOOO" Regina finally yelled, the blood curdling scream that only a mother can make before collapsing onto her knees hugging her stomach. "No" she repeated again, more quietly this time as tears began to fall.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see her mother, already dressed in black.

"Come my dear there are preparations we have to make."


So the next chapter will see a new character entering the story to mix things up, any idea as to who it is?