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After hours of waiting Whale came into Johanna´s room where they were all waiting to hear if Regina was ok. Johanna was really nervous and squeezed both Snow and Henry´s hands tightly. She felt so terrible for what happened. She never wanted this, but she almost dyed and her last wish was that her daughter would know the truth.

,,And? Is my mom ok now?" Henry asked the blonde doctor nervously. He wanted her to be fine so badly. After everything that had happened he still loved her deep down. He couldn´t lose her.

Whale looked at them all then he looked at the clipboard in his hands and sighed.

,,We could stabilize her but she is still very weak. She was freezing when you brought her here and she is still cold but we could rise up her temperature to an almost normal degree. So she should be fine in a few days." Victor answered honestly. All of them sighed relieved and Henry even smiled a little. He was so glad that she would be fine. The young boy didn´t know what he had done if she wasn´t going to be fine again.

,,Can we see her now?" asked Snow for Johanna´s sake. The older woman was squeezing her hand so tightly that her knuckles went white. Whale nodded and Johanna stood up ready to face her little girl. ,,But she is still very weak so please be careful." the doctor reminded her before she left the room followed by Henry. They both were nervous to see her.

As they entered the room the maid said down on a stool next to the bed and grabbed one of her daughter´s small hands. Back in the Enchanted Forest she often watched Regina sleeping without the girl´s knowledge. But on nights when Leopold requested her presence in his bedchamber she wasn´t allowed to enter and watch her daughter sleeping.

Her daughter looked nothing herself now. She looked so pale and small in the big white hospital bed and was slightly shivering from the cold. She always had been small. When she was born Johanna feared she wouldn´t survive because she was so small. However she herself had been always small too so it must have been the genes. Still for a woman feared by so many she was not really strong-looking as a result of her height.

Henry sat across from her on the other stool. Neither of them said a word until they Regina awoke.

,,Mama?" was the first thing they heard from the brunette. Johanna´s heart swelled with pride at hearing the endearment she wanted to hear for so long.

,,I´m here, sweetheart. I´m here. And I won´t ever leave you again." the old servant replied with tears in her eyes and kissed the younger woman´s head.

Unbeknownst to them they weren´t alone. Cora was watching them furious. She couldn´t let this happen. She needed her daughter to help her become the new Dark One!

But maybe this was a good thing after all. After becoming the Dark One she could kill the servant and everyone else she wanted to die.

And she would get her daughter back and turn her into something dark. Something evil. She would win in the end she was sure of that. She just had to be patient.

Enchanted Forest, Several Years Ago:

It had been a few days since she got the baby and she wouldn´t stop crying. It drove her insane! Her husband Henry tried to calm her. Saying that it was normal for babies to cry. She doubted though that babies cried that much. When Regina was in Henry´s arms she never cried that much, only when she held her. Cora seriously thought about giving her back to her real mother but the new princess needed the girl for her plan to work. She needed her to get her revenge on Princess Eva, who was now a Queen.

A few years later…

Regina was now six years old and was already very beautiful with big brown eyes that could melt even the hardest of hearts and long thick brown curls that flowed down her back . She was loved by everyone in the small castle but not her mother. Even at such a tender age she could feel that her mother was not loving her. Everytime she tried to get her mother´s attention the older woman would turn her down without a second thought. She had one goal to achieve that would make her mother proud. She had to become Queen. However the small girl didn´t want that at all. Rather than being locked in the castle she wanted to go to the village and play with the other children. But her mother would never allow that. Regina was to stay inside at all times. Only with Cora´s permission she was allowed to go to the castle garden or to the stables.

The stable was her favourite place. She loved horses so it was no surprise that her father gifted her with one on her birthday. It was a small brown mare and they immediately bounded. Regina named him Rocinate. He also gifted her with a sabling of an apple tree. Like Rocinate the apple tree grew like she did. They were both her only friends.

Another thing her mother didn´t like about her was her long hair. The witch wanted to cut it every time she was brushing it for her daughter. But she was always stopped by her husband who was otherwise a coward. However when it came to his daughter´s hair he would always stand up to his strong- headed wife. He just couldn´t take it to see his little girl unhappy and he knew a haircut would likely make her unhappy.

Regina however loved it when her mother was brushing her hair. In small moments like that she felt like she was loved even though she could tell that her mother was not enjoying it at all.

The older woman always wore a tight- lipped smile that never reached her eyes while stroking the young girl´s hair.

Also there were the punishments her mother forced upon her when she was misbehaving. Magic was her greatest fear because of her mother. Cora always squeezed her small body with magic until she gave in.

At night she would always cry herself to sleep and wish a fairy would take her away from this terrible place. But this fairy never came. She was all alone in the world without a real friend and without love.