Ok, so now there is a big time jump. Basically we are now in the middle of season 2, Regina cast the curse, everything else happened as the laid out.

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Starts at episode 2x12

Regina awoke from her dream with a start, with an eerie feeling that she had been witnessing something personal. As if it was not a fictional dream, but someone else's life that she had been taping into. She had been haunted by the dreams for years, ever since the King's death. At first she thought it was guilt, although she didn't know why she would feel that way. She would dream of a girl, doing nothing important. In some of the dreams she was happy, playing outside in the fields. In some she was upset. In the Enchanted Forest Regina had watched the girl grow, at least once a year she would have a dream about a birthday. The girl seemed to be poor, her family didn't have much, but there was always excitement around the birthdays. After arriving in Storybrooke she had the dreams much less frequently, and never any birthday dreams. But just before Regina woke up she saw the dream girl again, this time sitting in front of a cake that were adorned with candles that read 13. Regina thought perhaps the girl was not so much of a girl anymore. She tried to shake the thought, she was not a real person, just a figment of her imagination. Once after arriving in Storybrooke Regina had gone to Archie hoping he could shed some light on the matter. But all he wanted to do was talk about Regina's childhood, suggesting that maybe they were dreams of the life that she wished she had had. But Regina hated thinking about what could have been, it was too painful, so instead she tried to forget the dream girl.

Normally after a dream like this she would bake or go for a walk, anything to take her mind off of it. But now she was trapped, in hiding, in a room in her mausoleum. Archie was dead and the town blamed her, after everything that she had done trying to change for her son she was rejected once again. Regina paced for a while, trying to clear her mind, think of how to move forward now when she heard a familiar voice.

"'Mom, hello, mom, are you in there."

Regina made her way over to the mirror that hung on the secret door. Henry was standing right outside. How was that possible, he knew about the mausoleum, but not about this room, not that she would come here. But that didn't matter, even if it was a trick, a trap to punish her for her supposed crime, she needed to see her son.

Henry turned to walk away, but before he could get too far Regina opened the door. Henry turned around and seeing the opening walked back and through the door. He looked at Regina for a moment before Regina hugged him.

Henry felt real, and nothing bad was happening yet. She had really come to see her. Perhaps there was still hope for them.

"Henry I'm so glad you're here" She pushed him back slightly so that she could talk to him, look him in the eye, make sure that he understood her side of the story.

"I missed you so much, but I have to let you know I had nothing to do with Archie."

"I knew I always knew" Henry said, sounding not quite like himself.

"I was framed, I don't know how it just seemed like everything" Regina continued before the impact of Henry's words hit her. "You knew? How did you know?" Regina asked.

"Simple" Henry responded before his form was engulfed in a cloud of smoke and replaced by her mother, Cora. "Because I did it." Cora finished.

"Mother" Regina said, confused and frightened. It had all been a trick.

"You" Regina continued stepping back, "I thought we stopped you. How did you get through?"

"Determination, I had to see you, I needed to tell you, I know why you sent me through the looking glass, and I know why you tried to have me killed. And it's it's alright." Cora finished.

"I think it's not alright"

"I love you, I just…I've always shown it in all the wrong ways." Cora said, as close to pleading as Regina had ever seen her mother. Regina looked at her confused by the sudden sentiment.

"And I never should have made you marry the King, or push you to have a son when you already had Danielle, I'm so sorry."

Regina looked down, trying to shake off the memory of all the painful years, before looking up confused.

"Danielle? You mean Daniel, you took him from me mother before I married."

"And I'm sorry for that as well" Cora said, "But I meant your daughter, you had already done so well and I forced you to have a son. I know that is why you pushed me through the looking glass before the funeral." Cora replied.

"Mother, haven't you manipulated me enough, why must you now lie to me, I never had a daughter. I was pregnant with a boy and the miscarriage almost killed me, that is why I never had any other children. But then I adopted Henry, and I have a family. I don't need you and I certainly don't need your lies and manipulations."

"You don't remember your daughter?" Cora asked

"Because I never had one, honestly mother, haven't you done enough."

"I can help you find her" Cora said.

"What?"

"She died, or rather you thought she died. But she didn't I just gave her to a family."

"You gave her to a family?" Regina asked, still not believing her mother's story but interested to hear her mother's logic.

"You were going to leave, Danielle was a distraction, it thought it would be best if you thought she was out of the picture. So I gave her to a lovely family and faked her death."

"She was never in the picture mother, I never had a daughter, why are you telling me this. Are you trying to distract me from what you really did. You framed me mother, for the cricket."

"Temporary" Cora replied. "So you could see what these people really think of you."

"You made an airtight case, anyone would believe it" Regina countered.

"I didn't want you to reject me." Cora replied.

"And you thought telling me you faked my daughter's death would do that. You wanted me broken."

"I didn't plan on you not remembering her, and I just wanted to receptive, Regina please I am trying to be more honest."

Regina let out a laugh, "you are the most manipulative, no I won't even argue, come with me, we are going to town."

"It's the middle of the night."

"I don't care, we'll wake them up, Emma and Henry and the two idiots, and you can tell them how you lied, you owe me that."

"And then you'll let us start over?" Cora asked, "we can find Danielle, she will just be turning 13."

Regina shook her head. For a moment the thought of her dream girl and the birthday cake entered her mind. She pushed it out before it could take hold. "I don't see that happening mother, but I am, I was trying so hard to be worthy of Henry, and I deserve the same thing from you."

"You're right" Cora replied, "for you sweet heart, anything."