Hey guys! Sorry I haven´t updated in ages but I had problems with ideas for this chapter however thanks to EvilQueenRegina I can finally start writing again! So please enjoy! While reading you should listen to Art Of Suicide by Emilie Autumn.

They were both sleeping peacefully when Cora came into the small room and saw her daughter´s head in his lap and his hand holding hers. Fuming the witch stumped her feet and went over to Regina and kicked her hard in the legs. Startled the younger brunette softly groaned in pain.

,,Wake up!" Cora screamed waking both her daughter and the cricket. Regina looked horrified between Archie and her mother and scrambled into a corner. She was scared to say the least. Every time Cora woke her up like that something bad always followed. As a little girl it always brought her nightmares but now she was terrified. The woman in front of her was not her mother anymore. This woman was unreadable for the young woman.

,,Oh Regina, I thought I had raised you better than that. Love is weakness! If you want to be of any use to me you should let go of this childish dreams and fantasies you still seem to hold dear. Daniel is dead! No one will ever love you. You are just like me, my love, you are evil. " she began but Regina shook her head. She couldn´t let her mother get to her. She needed to be strong.

The old witch just laughed and stroked her daughter´s shorn locks. When she was little it used to comfort her when her mother would brush her fingers through the thick strands she then possessed however she knew better by now and immediately tensed.

,,Do you really think your boy loves you? He has the savior now and doesn´t need you anymore. And your mother doesn´t love you either. How could she after everything you´ve done? You were too evil for too long and now no one wants you anymore. But I can help you, my dear. Together we can get Rumple´s dagger and then all your problems will vanish. You just have to comply." The sweet words felt like poison in Regina´s mind but she saw truth in them after all.

Archie noticed the change in Regina and wanted to make a move. He couldn´t let the love of his life fall apart. He needed to help her. Slowly he stood up and went over to the beautiful woman.

,,Regina, don´t listen to her! She is lying. She only wants to hurt you. She only uses you to get what she wants. She-" he was cut off by Cora´s magic. She lifted him in the air and chocked him like she did so many years ago with Regina.

,,Enough!" she shouted angrily.

,,Mother, stop! Please! Her daughter begged of her and got between her and the young man. Suddenly it all made sense to Cora. Regina was in love with the cricket and he was in love with her daughter. Then suddenly she snapped.

She grabbed the younger brunette by the wrist and dragged her into another room very similar to the one where Archie was in but smaller. The mad woman threw her adopted daughter down so that she landed on her knees and left.

A few moments later she came back with something behind her back. She pulled a chair from the small table in the room in front of her and pointed to it. ,,Sit down!" the witch ordered sharply but Regina made no move. She was curled up into a tiny ball on the floor and didn´t dare to move or speak in fear of what the older woman would do to her. The young brunette had a few ideas already in her head. The last time Cora did that she lost all her beautiful hair. However that couldn´t be because her hair was already short. `What could she possibly have planned for me now?´, Regina thought horrified.

Cora had enough and pulled her daughter up before dragging her to the stool and sitting her down. All Regina wanted to do in this moment was run. But there was no way her mother would ever let her escape. Suddenly she heard roaring of clippers behind her and immediately panicked. The witch just cackled evilly and ran the offending device over her daughter´s already short locks. Hair fell around her shoulders and onto the ground and she began to cry. She always dreaded that moment.

Her mother noticed her pain with a smug grin on her ever aging face. After a while the roaring stopped and Regina was now completely bald. Cora held up a mirror so that she could see herself and she immediately started to cry harder and sobbed into her small hands. ,,Will you help me now?" the old witch asked tired of her daughter´s weakness. However the younger brunette still shook her head stubbornly. This only angered Cora further and she threw the still beautiful woman onto the hard ground. Her knees clashed against the wood but she didn´t let her pain show. She had always been stubborn as was Cora so it was unclear who would win this fight.

The older brunette undressed her daughter so that she was only wearing her bra and her underwear and a skirt. Her upper body was almost naked. Then suddenly she felt the hard slap of a whiplash against her bare back. ,,You will comply!" Cora shouted while continuing to slap her. Regina knew that there was no turning back now. Her mother would break her no matter what it would cost. She wished not for the first time in her life that she could have had another family. Johanna loved her she knew but she still had been raised in another household. A dark household, where she never really felt loved. She knew her father had loved her but he was too weak to stand up against Cora.

Blood was dripping down her back and she screamed. She screamed so loud that she was certain the whole town had heard it by now. She didn´t want to but the pain was just so unbearable when suddenly everything stopped.

I know cliffhanger but one of you lovely readers wanted it so here you go. Hope you like it and pretty please review? As always thanks for reading! And also tw for child abuse!