Authors note: I've decided to continue this story! Enjoy ;)

Henry had to knock a couple of times before he heard the unmistakable sound of his mothers heels nearing the front door.

"Coming!" His mothers' muffled voice said from behind the white door.

The door was pulled open "Hen-" she stopped talking when she saw the man who was standing behind her son. Regina gasped.

"D-Daniel? Is that, is that you?" She asked, still shocked and unable to move.

Daniel was looking at her with an equally as shocked expression, she looked so different. Her hair was shorter, her voice was a little lower and her curves were even sexier. She looked so beautiful in her strange attire. "Regina? What happened to you?!"

Regina felt the tears fall down her face as she heard his voice, the voice that she had missed for the passed 40 years. She let out a sob and stepped back, not believing that he was really alive. "Is it really you?"

Daniel nodded and took a step forward which only resulted in Regina taking another step back.

Henry looked with a confused expression on his face as he saw his mother crying, she never cries.

Daniel quickly crossed the distance between them and took her in his strong arms. Regina tried to resist. "No it can't be you! This isn't true and when I'm going to wake up it'll only hurt more!"

"Regina, my love. It's true. I'm really here, please believe that. I don't know how but I'm here. What happened to you? You look older and your hair is short. Which is impossible because the last time I saw you was only a few days ago!"

"Daniel? This is really happening?" He nodded again. And Regina couldn't resist the urge to kiss him. She gently kissed his lips and when she felt him reciprocate just as gently she smiled through her tears. When they parted for air she started sobbing, she felt relieved that this was truly happening. She hugged him tight and he stroked her hair.

After a while the sobbing died down and Regina lifted her head from his chest.

"How did you come back? You were dead."

"Dead?" Daniel asked confused. "I was never dead, darling. All I remember is waking up in some sort of healers room and there was a man, he said his name was Dr. Whale. And then he left me alone so I got out of there and wounded up at the stables, where I met this young man. And he brought me to you."

Regina felt something click in her mind when she heard Daniel say Dr. Whales name. Of course it was that sleazy bastard, of course it was Frankenstein! She stepped out of Daniels embrace and took his hand. "Why don't you come in so we can talk some more?" She asked with a smile and then turned to Henry. "Would you like to come in too, Henry?"

Henry shook his head "no, it's alright mom you and Daniel need to talk in privacy. And I've got something planned with gramps anyway." He smiled at his mother.

Regina was grateful that Henry understood that she needed to talk to Daniel in private. There were going to be some things said that weren't meant for the ears of a ten-year-old. "Thank you darling. Would you like to have lunch tomorrow with me and Daniel?"

"That sounds great mom! See you tomorrow!" Was the last thing Henry said as he turned around and walked in the direction of the sheriffs' station.

"So he's really your son?" Daniel asked as he followed his true love to the living room.

"Yes he is, but I will start from the beginning." She looked at his beautiful blue eyes, she hadn't seen those eyes for more than 40 years. Regina felt the tears in her eyes once again. "What is the last thing you remember?"

"I remember that we talked about telling your parents about us, but that you said that that wouldn't be a good idea because of your mother."

Regina let out a breath, he didn't remember the worst day of their lives. The day that their love had been literally crushed to dust by her mothers' cruel hands.

"The day after that conversation, we had planned to go to firefly hill for a picnic." Regina started, "but I couldn't stay because my mother said that I needed to be home in time for tea. You were disappointed and you said that we really needed to tell my parents, but I refused again. Just when you wanted to say something else we were interrupted by the scream of a little girl. She was on a runaway horse and was terrified. I quickly jumped on my horse and saved her. It turned out that she was the King's daughter, Snow White."

Regina felt a shiver going down her spine at the memory of that day.

"The old King was looking for a new wife, and when he heard about me he was so grateful that he asked me to marry him. I wanted to refuse, because the only man I want to be with is you, Daniel." She looked in his eyes again.

"But my mother being my mother, she accepted the proposal for me. That night I went to you and asked you to marry me, you got me a ring from your saddle. We planned to run away before the wedding, and then we kissed but Snow White walked in on us and she was so confused that she ran away. I ran after her and explained to her that I couldn't marry her father because I loved you, I asked her to keep what she saw a secret, I asked her to not tell my mother but.."

Daniel saw the pain and sadness in her eyes and he knew what she was going to say next "she told your mother." He finished for her.

Regina nodded. "The next night we wanted to run away but Cora caught us and... She killed you, she killed you Daniel! And then she forced me to marry the King! I was so broken, so alone. 2 days before the marriage I tried to run away again but she stopped me, that's when I asked daddy how she became the person she was. He told me she had a book and that the book was from the man who had taught her magic. So I summoned him, and he offered me a way to get rid of her, he gave me a portal.

The day of the marriage I pushed her through it. But it was too late to run away again, so I married the King and started to learn magic from Rumplestilskin. The same man who taught my mother. I tried to bring you back from the dead but as it turned out magic can't bring back the dead. The marriage was horrible. I was a glorified nursemaid for the little princess, and nothing more than a whore for that bastard of a King!" Regina spat the last sentence and Daniel couldn't help but flinch at the sincere hatred coming from her voice.

She let out a sob. "I would never be as good as Eva! I would never be as beautiful as her! And Leopold didn't have any problem mentioning that to me, especially when he was raping me! He called it wifely duties! I had to be grateful for them! And Snow, I couldn't suppress my anger towards her, she was responsible for the death of my true love! And she got to have everything!"

He was so mad at the King for hurting his Regina! He wanted to kill the man himself, but he kept quiet and let her continue her story.

"As the years went by, my pain and anger grew. I killed the King, I hunted down Snow White. I did so many evil things that I became known as the Evil Queen. But then Rumplestilskin offered me a chance to escape that horrible world, he gave me a curse. But to enact it I had to sacrifice the thing that I loved most. You were already gone but there was one person left."

He looked at his true love and could already guess who she sacrificed. "Your father."

Regina let out a harsh sob. "I was so blinded by rage, I needed to get my happy ending. I killed him, I killed my own father! I'm a monster!" She was disgusted with herself.

"Regina no! You're not a monster! Your were in so much pain, darling! Of course, you didn't always make the right decisions! But my love you can try to change, and be yourself again! Not the cold facade of the Evil Queen!"

"Do you really think so?" She asked with a soft voice.

"Yes I think so." He looked at her with a sincere expression on his face. "But you haven't told me how you got your son yet."

"I casted the curse. But it wasn't what I imagined it to be. I was lonely and after 18 years I decided to adopt a child, that's how I got Henry. But I didn't know that he was the son of Emma Swan, the daughter of Snow White and the only one who could break my curse. I was happy for the first time in so long, he taught me how to love again. But that all changed when he got a book from his teacher, a cursed Snow White. He found out about the curse and that everyone was a fairytale character, only they didn't know that. He was angry at me for being the Evil Queen and he started resenting me for it. That's when he went to Boston and found his birth mother. She came to town and eventually broke the curse. So now everyone knows who they are and they all hate me, even my son."

"Oh Regina." Daniel said and pulled her crying form in his arms again.

"Do you hate me now?" Regina asked, reminding him of her younger self.

"No! Of course not! I'm going to help you to try and be better, alright? We're going to do this together."

"Together." She smiled at him.

Daniel loved that smile, he leaned forward and caught her lips for a passionate kiss.

"I've missed that so much." He said.

"Me too."

And kissed him again.

"So please let me know what you think!