Chapter 59

Regina sat on the mattress and thought about everything that was going on in her life. The strange thing was in thinking and seeing what was before, she was glad that there were no mirrors in the magical room. She needed to see things for herself. She didn't need an aide; she needed her own eyes and thoughts.

She lay back down, now fully dressed, and waited for someone to come for her. She knew that they would as soon as Emma left the room. They would have no choice. They would need her for something, some question, some answer, just some thing, but she would be needed. She would stop thinking and she would go. It was what she did now. She was a hero. She helped.

There was a knock on the door. She looked at it for a moment before she got up and went to it. She knew that if it had been Emma or Blue, or even Red, they would have just come in. She opened the door slowly and put her mayoral mask on as she did. She was taken aback to see Charming on the other side of the door.

"Can we talk?" he asked her.

She smiled and took a step back. She made a gesture with her hand for him to come in the room. She wasn't sure what he wanted, but she didn't want to leave the room yet if she didn't have to. She was relishing in the comfort that the room was giving her.

"Come in," she told him.

She waved her hands and a small table and chairs appeared. He cocked an eyebrow at her and it reminded her so much of Emma that she almost laughed at him. He nodded and took a seat, noticing the look on Regina's face. She sat down on the other chair and waited for him to talk.

"Emma told us about the hand fasting."

"I am sure that she did."

"Blue has even talked to us about it," he told her.

"And, that is why you are darkening my door?" she asked him.

"No, not really. Snow and I aren't going to stand in the way. We want to support you both."

"So…?"

"I know that this ceremony is going to be small and very intimate. I know that you will have an actual marriage ceremony later and I am sure that with Snow helping in the planning that it will be large and very…royal in stature. But, that isn't why I am here," he explained.

"Then, why are you here?" she asked him.

"Snow asked me to come talk to you."

"About?"

"She wants to talk to you, but she doesn't want to leave Neal. I am sure you know how that feels. We understand why you are in this room. Blue explained it to us, but Regina, we need you now. We need to know that you are onboard with all of this."

"You mean that want to be sure that I am not going to break and go all Evil Queen again."

"Well, there is that, too, but no. She worries about you, Regina. You may not be her stepmother any more, but she still feels a connection to you. She loves you and she cares what happens to you as much as she does for Emma."

"I don't know what to say."

"Say that you will go speak with her about this. She wants to know what your thoughts are about Emma's need to have this ceremony. Trust us. We know that you love her. We know that you wouldn't agree to marry her if you didn't want to."

"That's true. I love her. I want to marry her," Regina stated.

"Well, I guess that is a good thing. It would be a bad thing if you didn't. I am sure that I don't have to give you the speech about hurting my daughter. I am sure that Snow has already given you that one. I wouldn't dare step in her way, because we both know that whatever Snow wants she gets. She loves you both. Can I tell her that you are coming to talk to her?" he asked.

"Yes, David, tell her that I will be there soon."

"Thank you. I am sure that you don't know what this means to her, but thank you. I'll let her know that you will be there soon," Regina answered.

David smiled at her. She returned it as she watched him leave. Once he was out the door, she waved her hands and the room was bare again. She paced the room for a few seconds, wondering what Snow really wanted with her. Finally the suspense was too much for Regina and she exited the room. She headed down the corridor to the rooms that held her daughter, and Snow and Neal. She sighed and then knocked on the door. She heard a faint answer and entered. She smiled at the pixie haired brunette.

"Regina," Snow said in a greeting as she sat down in the other chair in the room.

She smiled at Snow. She looked over at Neal. He looked peaceful as he was resting in the bed. She knew that the pain that he might have been suffering had been taken away by the fairies. He didn't look sick, but they all knew that his heart wouldn't survive long. Coraline had given them the warnings. They both knew the risks.

"He reminds me of Henry when he was that age," Regina told her breaking the silence.

"He does?"

"They are related. It would make sense that they would look similar. But, I can see where Emma and Henry get some of their mannerisms. I guess there are some things that even I can't deny are very charming," Regina answered with a little bit of sass.

Snow smiled and held back a giggle. She reached over and took Regina's hand. Regina wasn't as surprised as she could be by the action. Snow had always been a very emotionally charged person. She squeezed Snow's hand back.

"She's gonna heal him, right?" Snow asked, still staring at her son.

Regina wanted to scream. She didn't know what Snow wanted her to say. Coraline was in another room fighting the darkness of the Dark One and protecting a heart that she was going to give to the ailing boy. Yes, she was going to fucking save him, because that is what the damn Charming offspring do. They save people. They have been doing it since their father David saved Snow from the sleeping curse.

"Yes, Snow, she is."

"I know that this is hard for you," Snow started.

Regina resisted the urge to smack the woman. Did she really just come in here to let Snow vent about how terrible her life was? To hear how much pain she was suffering through? Because Regina wasn't sure that she would be able to handle it.

"Regina?" Snow asked when she realized that she wasn't listening.

"Yes, Snow?" she replied.

"I said that I know that this is hard for you. I know that every time you look at Neal that you are going to see Coraline's heart. I can't imagine what that is going to be like."

"Neither can I," Regina said honestly.

"But, even with that, you will still have your daughter, Regina. You will still get to keep your child. That has to be some sort of blessing in disguise, right? I mean, you're losing her as an adult to raise her as child. You are getting a second chance because your daughter is giving it to you. She came back to save us all, but mostly to make sure that you and Emma survived to raise her. That has to count for something," Snow explained.

And, it did, Regina thought to herself. She absentmindedly rubbed her stomach again. She noticed that she did that more now that the time was coming for her to let Coraline go. She felt like she needed to feel the closeness that she got from being with her daughter. She knew that Remy was growing inside her and that she was the same person as Coraline, but she also knew that they would grow up to be two different people.

"It does in its own way," Regina answered.

"You're still losing her, though," Snow replied.

"I am."

"I get that, though."

"I know you do."

"Do you? But, as fate would have it, you are losing her in the opposite of how I lost Emma. You aren't gaining an adult child twenty-eight years later. You get to watch her grow into that woman that came back to save us, Regina. You should be thankful for that much," Snow added.

"Oh, I am, Snow. I am. I am very thankful that I even have a daughter, that I have found my True Love, finally, and that I have a possibility of having my happily ever after. I do however find it strikingly ironic that it is all with your daughter," Regina told her.

It was Snow's turn to be quiet. She knew that it was a blow that she would use over and over again. Emma had chosen Regina in the end. Snow would just have to deal with it and she was, in own little "Snow warped" way. She smiled at her stepmother.

"She really does love you," Snow added like Regina still didn't believe her.

"I know she does."

"And, you must if you agreed to marry her."

"I do, Snow. I love her with my all. I should have seen it coming though. I should have known that she would be the one that finally conquered my heart and taught me how to love," Regina started. "But, I didn't want to see it. Do you know why? Because I was comfortable."

Snow turned at looked at her. Like Emma, Snow could tell when Regina was lying and that was because Regina hardly ever lied to her. Her hazel eyes searched those of Regina's for some sort of falsehood but she couldn't find any.

"Comfortable?"

"In my own pain and misery."

"But you had Henry…" Snow started.

"I did. I do. I still will. He was the catalyst, Snow. He is the one that taught me how to love. It was a hard, long and very painful lesson. But, he did in twelve years what no one else could."

"And, what was that?"

"He loved me for me," Regina replied.

"You gave him unconditional love from the time you got him, Regina. You are his mother. Of course he loves you. He may have forgotten along the way what you've done for him, but in the end Henry will always be your son and he will always love you. No matter how mad he gets with either your or Emma, he always worries and cares for you. That is a child's prerogative."

"Are you still angry with me?" Regina asked her with a cocked eyebrow.

"No, I am not."

"Well, I don't know what to say to that."

Snow laughed. It wasn't often that someone could make Regina speechless. Regina smiled.

"Well, I know that isn't what you want to talk about Snow. What is it that you need? Why did you send your husband for me?" Regina asked.

"I wanted to talk to you about the hand fasting," Snow told her.

"What about it?"

"Are you planning to do the blood rite with it?"

"I don't know honestly. Would it bother you if we did? To be honest, I haven't talked to Emma about it since we agreed to do it. I know that no matter what I will need a second to stand with me. As for the ceremony, I believe that she was leaving the details up to Blue," Regina told her.

"You don't care?" Snow asked slightly bewildered by Regina's answer.

"Oh, I care. But, I love Emma. I would do anything for her and she knows that now. She is the one that feels the need to have a ceremony, Snow. I will give her that. If she wants to do the blood rite, then I will. I am not afraid of her or our love."

"But, after Daddy…"

"Your father was a good man to you. I am sure that he was a loving husband to Ava, but he never was to me. The institution of marriage isn't something I feared or fear, Snow. It was being in another loveless marriage because of politics. I didn't want that. I also wouldn't be marrying her if I didn't love her. Does that answer your question?" Regina inquired.

"It does, but it raises more," Snow answered truthfully.

"Then ask away. For now, I will willingly be at your mercy. You have until Emma comes looking for me. Do you think that you have enough time?" Regina asked sassily.

"I have no idea," Snow replied with mirth in her voice.

"So, first question?"

"You say that you love Emma, and as much as I don't want to admit it, I can see it. You adore her. You look at her like I look at Charming and she gives you the same look. You're more open with her than anyone else. It reminds me of the woman I knew when I was younger."

"Is there a question in there somewhere?"

"Does it bother you that you are so much older than her?"

Regina laughed. It was full bodied and something that surprised herself. She hadn't expected that sort of question from Snow, but then again, she should have known better. Snow was known for her off-the-wall theories and ideas.

"No, it doesn't. Should it? Because of the Curse, she is older than you. I am only a few years older than you. Age is just a number, Snow. You should know that. Why would it matter that I am older than Emma when it comes to our marriage? Your father was twice my age and then some when I married him, but that didn't both you," Regina quipped.

"I guess all that is true. I think I am just having a hard time with it because you are my stepmother. I will always see you as that. But, you're right. Age is just a number. This is my problem, not yours," Snow stated looking down at the floor sheepishly.

"Snow…"

She looked up at Regina. She could see the emotions in Regina's eyes swirling. There was so much that had been left unsaid between them for years. Heartbreak, hatred, worry and the never ending need to care for one another had driven them, but they had never cleared the air. It was like they had made a silent agreement to let it go and move on. It didn't matter than the pain of it all still ruled how they acted towards one another.

"Can you forgive me?" Snow whispered.

"Forgive you? Forgive you for what, Snow? What do you think that you have done?"

"It is my fault that you married my father. If I hadn't pushed so hard because you saved me…. If I hadn't been such a brat of a child…. There is so much that I regret, so much that I wish we had done differently. I think back on things and realize that I wish I'd had a sibling, some one that I could confide in and some one that would take care of me, teach me things that Daddy couldn't because he just didn't understand. Does that make sense? I don't know. I guess I just wanted a friend," Snow told her.

"I understand that. People don't understand how lonely the life of royalty can be. Don't look at me like that. I had Daniel for a while, yes, but he was the stable boy. He wasn't someone that I had on a regular basis. He wasn't someone that I could go to every time Mother got upset with me. But, people forget that I am a Princess in my own right. They believe that I am only royalty because I married your father. That is how I became queen. I would never rule my homeland. My father was the fifth son of King Felix. The likelihood of me ruling was secured when my uncles had sons. Mother didn't care. She was determined to make me a queen. She wanted power and wealth. I guess it took me years to understand why she pushed so hard. You were born into wealth, like your mother before you, like hers before her. Cora wasn't. She was a miller's daughter that fought to get out of poverty and landed a prince. Only problem is that she gave up her heart for power. She never loved my father. She loved Rumple, but she didn't think that his magic would give her what she wanted. She gave up love for a crown and named Regina because she foretold that I would be queen one day. Then, she made it happen, Snow. I do not want to be her, Snow. I never did. I want love. I want a family. I want to share my life with people that I love and care for. I don't want magic or power to cloud my judgement. It may have taken a thirty or so years, but I've finally grown up and out of my mother's shadow."

Snow smiled. She understood exactly what Regina was saying. She had always felt the shadow of her mother and father following her. It is the one thing that drove her harder than any other.

"I get that. I have been so busy trying to emulate my parents and how they ruled the kingdom that I didn't understand that I was destroying it. It took me a long time to see what I had done wrong. Am I sorry for all the grief that I caused? Yes. Would I have done it anyway? Yes, but I want to believe that I would have gone about it in a different way. I wish that I could change our past and make them both happy. But, that complicates so many things in wishing for that."

"Like?" Regina asked.

"You wouldn't have found your soul mate. Who knows who Emma would have grown up to be? She might have been just as spoiled as I was. We wouldn't have Henry, because Emma would have never met Neal or Baelfire. Things would be drastically different and I am not sure that I would like it. We've come a long way, you and I," Snow replied.

"We have."

"I will be proud to call you my daughter," Snow told her.

Regina's eyes misted. She hadn't expected that. Snow was actually welcoming her into the family. They had really come a long way. There was still so much left unsaid between them, but now, she knew that they could really get passed it.

"I would be honored," Regina stated.

Snow looked at her. Hazel meeting Regina's rich mahogany eyes as understanding passed between them. Regina reached out to her first and waited for Snow to give her, her hand. Snow looked down at the offered hand and took it. There was something to be said about the physical connection between them, it was surprising and it was very karmic. It was something that they could both understand and appreciate.

"Do you miss the Forest?" Snow asked her.

"Some days, I do. Others, not so much. This world has given us so many things while it denied us others. But, I would have to say that I found myself here. I am more comfortable here dealing with being mayor and taking care of Henry than I would be being a queen again."

"Do you believe that somehow we will end up back there like Coraline says?"

"I have no doubt, but why and when, I don't know. I don't think that she knows. She told me that she was born there and not here. So if the timeline holds true even though we will have contained the Darkness, we have a few months," Regina told her.

"You aren't worried about it?" Snow asked.

"I am terrified. We don't know what the Forest is like anymore. I know that you and Emma were there in the parts that had been affected by my Curse, but what about the parts of the kingdoms that you didn't see? What about the neighboring kingdoms? We saw what my sister did in her tenure in the Enchanted Forest. We didn't venture outside our kingdoms because there was no need. Now what are supposed to do? We've made lives for ourselves here. We've made families. We've learned to prosper together."

"You don't think that we will re-assimilate?"

"No, that's what I am afraid of," Regina replied.

"Why?"

"Who am I, Snow?"

"Regina, daughter of Prince Henry, son of King Felix of Rivera, Princess of Rivera."

"While that much is true, I was never treated as a Princess of Rivera. I was the daughter of the fifth son. I was never going to amount to anything in the realm and Felix knew it. He gave Mother some power and she ran with it all the way to your father."

"I know."

"She poisoned your mother."

"I know."

"She caused your horse to bolt so I would save you."

"I know."

"You were almost her daughter and not Ava's," Regina told her.

"Wait, what?"

"Your father and my mother had a past. It wasn't something that I am sure they would have shared with us. It was too traumatic for my mother. They were to be wed until he found out about Zelena. Then he cast her aside, but she still got him. It was just with me. I didn't know about it all then. Hell, I didn't know about after everything that happened between your father and me. I didn't know until Zelena showed up. But, then again, you know that."

"I do."

Regina looked over at the dark haired boy and then again at his mother. She felt for Snow. She didn't know how to comfort her. She was losing her daughter. Snow was trying to save her son. They were both fighting for their family.

"Snow?"

"Yes?"

"You know that I don't blame you for any of this," Regina told her.

"I … why not?"

"This isn't your fault. You didn't cause this. This is from another time, another life, and I know that it partially my fault. If we had done things differently when we were younger…"

"We don't know that, Regina. We know that I was worried about Neal and that I went to the Dark One's lair to find a cure. I am the reason that your daughter is now the Dark One. I have made my own granddaughter our enemy. How can I not blame myself?"

"Snow…"

"No, Regina, no. This is my fault. I love my family and I know that I will do anything to protect it. You would do the same. But, I went to the one thing that I knew could also destroy us in order to save my son. I created the Blackness. I created the woman who your daughter became. I created the Black Queen. I created the landscape that Coraline grew up in, without you and Emma, with no family and without proper magical training. She is my responsibility. I created her and I will do anything to make sure that Remy…" Snow told her as she reached over to Regina's still barely there showing pregnant belly, "Doesn't become her."

"I do, too," Regina stated grabbing Snow's hand and holding it against her.

Snow got quiet. She didn't know what else to say. There was so much that she could say, but then again she wouldn't know where to start. She was advocating for her own granddaughter's destruction in order to save her son because of a technicality. It was an epically huge and a vivaciously small technicality, but it was something that they couldn't ignore.

"We need to do something for Coraline," Snow suddenly stated.

"Like what?"

"I don't know. She came here to save us and she is going to die to do it. There has to be something that we can do for her before that happens," Snow told her.

"That is one of the reasons that Emma wants to have the ceremony with her," Regina said.

"I know, but we need to do more. She needs to know how much she is loved. There has to be something… She can't just give up her heart and die, Regina. She can't do that. There has to be something that she can do with the power of the Dark One to save herself. There has to be."

"She is afraid of what she will do once she becomes the Dark One completely," Regina added.

"Why?"

"Because she is the daughter of True Love and the Evil Queen. She is a blend of both light and dark magic and she hasn't been trained on how to use them correctly. She is walking time bomb of magic, throw in the absolute power of darkness and with her upbringing and her need for familial love and all HELL is going to break loose in Storybrooke. She doesn't want that. None of us do. She has been fighting the Darkness longer than we've known about. She kept a lot of her history close to her heart and I understand that. Emma understands that. That is why we are both scared for Coraline. She can consciously decide not to do the evil that the Darkness asks of her. But until she has proven to herself that she won't react with violence or magic, she won't put this family in jeopardy. She will seclude herself, die even, before she lets that happen. Giving Neal her heart is a legacy that she can be proud of and she will know that she has completed the mission that she came her to do," Regina explained hoping that Snow would understand how deeply Emma, Regina, and Coraline had thought out the situation.

Snow took her hand back. She sat back in the chair and looked at her son. She knew that Regina, Emma, and Coraline had spent many nights at the library with Belle. Hell, they all had. She knew that Regina wasn't going to let Coraline go without a fight. She'd heard the conversations between mother and daughter on what they would do if Coraline couldn't go back to the future. She would stay Coraline and Remy would be Remy. It would hurt Regina in the long run but she was willing to keep her adult daughter and pretend that she was Belle's little sister so that Remy never had to know about the heartache that Coraline had suffered. It was a blissful wish that fate decided wasn't good enough.

"Are we being punished?" Snow asked.

"For what?"

"Being in this land? For what we did? Are we being punished because we have found our happy ending when so many others haven't?" Snow questioned.

"This world believes in Karma, Snow. We don't. Things always happen for a reason. We've tried to fight the fate of us being family and in the end, it always happens. Do I think that we are being punished? No, we aren't. Things happen that we can explain, Snow. I am not going to sit here and believe that we are being punished. I am just going to love my family and give them every ounce of love that I can. I don't want them to ever wonder if I love them," Regina stated.

"They won't. We won't let them. I won't allow it," Snow added.

"Snow, besides all of this, was there something else that you needed to ask me or talk to me about? I am not trying to be rude, but we've had this conversation before. Nothing new has occurred between us. We've tried to be friendlier to each other. We've forgiven each other. We are going to be family. We need to focus on that and taking care of the town."

"I agree with you. We need to give them a unified front. We need to present ourselves in such a way that the town feels comfortable with and will ensure their support. We need to be together and act like we care about them. We need to do this especially if we end up back in the Enchanted Forest. Coraline stated that we were both equal queens there," Snow said.

"I am sure that we will come to some resolution if it comes to that, Snow. But, right now, I don't want to think about that. I want to deal with the issues that we are facing now. Those being your son and my daughter. Marrying Emma is a close second for me."

"Close second?" Snow asked, turning to face her.

"Yes, to me marrying Emma is a done deal. I don't need to dwell on it. I love her. We are going to get married. It is the next logical step in our relationship. We are having a daughter. So, we might have done things a little out of order, but I love her and I'm not willing to give her up. So, marrying Emma to me is a given and not something that I have to think about much."

"I am not asking you to," Snow stated quickly.

"I know that, Snow. But the future is the future. We can worry about it in a while. Just not today. We've got time to make whatever preparations might be needed, but you've also got to understand that we are working with information that is now old and obsolete. We don't know what changes we've made already and how it affects us. I think that we can plan for things, but we honestly don't know what is coming," Regina explained.

"That doesn't worry you?"

"It frightens me, yes, but I can't dwell on it or I'll be more worried about what is going to happen than what is happening."

"I get that."

"Then, let's deal with the problems that we know we have now and solve them."

"Okay," Snow replied.

Regina stood up. She walked over to Neal's side and looked down at him. She reached out and brushed the dark brown hair out of his face. Her face faltered somewhat. She couldn't help but think about Henry when she saw him lying there. Her mind raced back to the day the Curse broke and Henry was in the hospital under the Sleeping Curse.

Before she realized what she was doing, Snow was by her side. She held Regina's arm in her own. She felt the emotions coming off of Regina in waves. She understood them all. She felt them too.

"He's going to be fine," Regina told her, leaning a little more into the smaller woman.

"I know."

"You do?"

"Yes, I do."

"Why?"

"Because he has you and Emma in his family," Snow told her.

Blue was standing in the door way looking at them. She wasn't surprised at the sight of them together. She knew that Regina and Snow would be more powerful together. Regina had finally grown up and proven herself to the fairy. She would help Snow do the same. It didn't matter how old they were, they still had some growing to do to the queens that they needed to be for their kingdoms and people. She was just glad that they could do it together now. Emma had been the best thing to happen to them. She brought so many together. She really was the Saviour of the Enchanted Forest. She just didn't know how deep that title really ran for her.

"I am sorry to interrupt. I went to the room to find you, but you weren't there. I ran into to Charming. He told me that you might be in here," Blue told them.

Regina turned to face her. She smiled at Blue. She was glad that the fairy was now on her side. She was surprised by the turn of events, but she wasn't going to waste it while she had it.

"What did you need, Blue?" Regina asked her.

"I have a few questions that I need to ask you."

Regina turned to look at Snow. Blue smiled and nodded. Regina understood the gesture.

Regina leaned over to Snow and whispered, "I'm not leaving. I'll just be right over there. Give a few minutes to see what Blue needs and then we'll finish talking or whatever you need."

Snow smiled weakly at her stepmother. She squeezed Regina's hand when she took it. Regina squeezed her hand back, before she slowly walked over to Blue.

"You've become close," Blue stated and not in a questioning manner.

"We've come to terms, yes. She isn't that bad after all. Besides she gave me Emma."

"That she is."

"What is it you need, Blue?" Regina questioned.

"The ceremony that Emma has chosen calls for seconds to be present."

"And?" Regina inquired, cocking an eyebrow at Blue almost defiantly.

"You will need someone to stand with you."

"Fine, I'll ask Henry."

"Can't be him," Blue stated.

"Why not? He is my son. Why can't he have the job?"

"Because he is given Emma away since Charming is standing as her second," Blue answered.

The scowl that had crossed Regina's face faltered. Their son was given one mother to the other. She knew that it would mean a lot to both Emma and Henry with the symbolism of the action. She was surprised that he hadn't come to give her away to Emma, but it didn't really matter. She would be happy either way.

"Then, who is given me away?" Regina asked.

"Whomever you wish, but I assumed that it would Granny or Red," Blue answered.

"Ah, that makes sense."

"Who would you prefer?"

"Red," Regina said quickly.

"And, for your second?"

Regina turned and looked over at Snow. A small smile began to creep across her face. She turned back to Blue and told her, "It'll be Snow."

"I'll leave you to ask her then," Blue said before she left them alone.

Regina turned around and walked back over to Snow. She took her hand in her own and held it. She needed to corporal feeling of closeness. She needed something to hold on to so that she knew that she wasn't stuck in some horrible nightmare.

Snow gave her a pleading look. She wished that she could just cure Neal's deficiency but even with all the power that she had, she couldn't. She knew that if she could heal Neal's half-heart then she could find another way to save Coraline. In the end, that is was she wanted. She wanted to save Coraline. She wanted Emma, Henry and Coraline.

She ran her hand across her torso and held it, knowing that she was holding Remy instead. Remy grew up to be Coraline, but the Remy she was carrying wouldn't share the same fate. She knew that meant that she was actually saving Coraline in that manner, but she was still conflicted about the entire thing.

"What did she say?" Snow asked her.

"She told me that I need a second for the hand fasting."

"Oh, I'm sure that Henry will be honored," Snow told her.

"I am sure that he would if he wasn't giving Emma away."

"Then I am sure that Red or Granny would be happy to stand beside you," Snow replied.

"I am sure they would, but Granny wants to officiate the official wedding when we have it. And, Red being my only family will be the one to give me away. Katherine would be next choice, but she doesn't need to be here with all this drama. She is still dealing with Frederick and their sons, Joseph and Richard," Regina told her.

"Then who will you ask?" Snow questioned.

"I would be honored if you, Snow, would be my second as I marry your daughter."