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A wave of tears rushed to me, I tried to smile. I thrust myself forward, wrapping him in my arms. I snuggled my head into the crook of his neck, "Robin…" I whispered, "I love you…"
I felt his hand stroke my back lovingly. He pushed me away and stared into my eyes, his own were sparkling with a few stray tears, "I love you too, Regina." He said before kissing me again.
Snow smiled at the both of us, then got up and stepped back, leaving us alone.
He pulled away from me and let out a small, relieved chuckle. "I thought you were never going to come back to me." He said.
A tear left my eye, I quickly wiped it from my cheek feeling too vulnerable in such a public place. I laughed, "What even happened? I don't remember anything after I was in my office."
"You mean you don't remember your…fake memories?"
I shook my head, "Only a few things here and there, like Snow just telling me…all of that. What was I like?"
"You called yourself the evil queen again, for starters." He chuckled and rolled his eyes, "And on top of that, you thought that I…" He paused.
"That you what?" I asked curiously.
"That I 'forcefully' got you pregnant, if you know what I mean." He said, awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck.
I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around his neck, "Well, I'm sorry for worrying you."
"It wasn't your fault, my love. You didn't know." He said forgivingly.
I suddenly pulled away from him, widening my eyes.
"What is it, dear?"
"I didn't know!"
"Yes?" He asked, confused.
"She gave me those fake memories, Robin. She's still on the loose, isn't she?" I said frantically, realizing she has a whole town to terrorize.
He gasped, "Yes. We need to find her before she does this to anyone else."
We both quickly got up and left all of our things behind, "Snow, please, can you take this to your house?"
She nodded, "Hurry! Go find her."
I silently thanked her, then we ran off. Well, waddled. Robin gently dragged me along, but I couldn't run very fast.
"Where was she?" I asked.
"She was hiding out at the cannery."
"Who is she? Did you ever find out?" I asked again, running out of breath.
"Not really, she calls herself Vanessa."
I stopped, now out of breath. I hunched over and rested my hands on my thighs, breathing heavy. "Vanessa?" I asked in between short breaths.
He turned around and nodded, "Yeah, do you know her?"
I shook my head, "No. What was she able to do?"
"You mean like, her magic?"
I nodded.
"I don't know. So far we just found that she's able to knock people out." He paused, "We also found a shell necklace with her name engraved into it, if that's of any importance."
I thought long and hard. I couldn't think of anyone by the name of Vanessa that has the powers, let alone a shell. "I don't know, but we need to go find her. Can we get the car?" I asked, still panting.
"We really don't have time." He said softly, knowing I was tired.
I reluctantly nodded, knowing he was right. I took his extended hand and we ran together again, toward the cannery.
When we finally arrived, we saw Emma and David already there, searching the grounds.
"Have you found anything?" I asked.
Emma shook her head, "Not yet, we just got here like five minutes before you." She said, still looking at the ground. Suddenly, she pops her head up and intently stares at me, "Wait, Regina?!"
I nodded and broke a small smile.
"Oh my gosh, how did you do that?!" She asked Robin.
Robin raised his eyebrows, "Long story, for another time." He said.
Emma nodded, "All we know about this woman is her name and that she lost a necklace."
"She also has two servants, one named Sam and one named Jet." David said.
"Wait, what? Why didn't I know this before?" Emma asked him.
"Know what? Her servants' names?"
She nodded, "Yeah, that's Flotsam and Jetsam, they're from the Little Mermaid."
"The Little Mermaid?" I asked, confused.
"Yeah, the Disney movie. They're Ursula's sidekicks." She said, trying to convince herself, even, what she was actually saying.
"In our world, Ursula wasn't some cartoon. She was a goddess of the sea." I said in a low tone.
"That would make sense, though. In the story, she was always trying to 'steal the sea' from King Triton, but he was always more powerful than her."
"Ursula…" I said, suddenly remembering something.
"What is it, Regina?" David asked.
"I think I may have had something to do with this." I said guiltily.
"Shocking." David mumbled.
I glared at him, "No, I mean a long time ago. I may have…acted as her. Once. And she may have…well, threatened me."
"So now what? What's she want from you?"
Robin put his hand to his head, "That's it, that's why she wants our baby and Roland, she needs them for the curse!"
"What curse?" I asked confusedly.
"She stole ingredients, Regina, don't you remember that?" Emma asked.
I nodded slowly, still not quite sure as to what was going on, "Yes? But…I'm her worst enemy?"
Emma pursed her lips, looking down at the ground. "That's not right, Ariel is supposed to be. At least in the movie."
I clenched my teeth, "Well, things are a lot different in the Enchanted Forest from the movies, it seems."
She nodded and crossed her arms, "Right. So you're her worst enemy?"
"I guess? But I never did anything that bad to her. I don't know how I could be her worst enemy?"
"Well, apparently you are." David said, "That means we need to stop her from trying to get you, Regina."
"You shouldn't be here, you need to go somewhere where it would be hard for her to find you." Emma said.
"Like where? She obviously knows where I live, I don't know where I could-"
I was interrupted by a maniacal laugh. I turned around toward the cannery door, seeing a shadowy woman's figure.
She walked toward me, it was like her heels clicked even though the ground wasn't hard. A devious smile erupted, "Hello, Regina." She said, now coming out of the shadows.
I felt my lip curl, "Vanessa…" I growled. I put my hand up, about to put her in a choke hold.
Instead, she threw her hand up and knocked me backwards onto the gravel. I looked up at her nervously, realizing she was just as powerful as I was.
"Yes, dear. Glad you remember me. Well, I mean, you remember all of us." She said, moving her eyes from Emma, to David, to Robin, then back to me. "Your…'true love'," She made a disgusted face, "He brought you back. 'Revived' you." She taunted.
Robin ran over to me, extending his hand. I got up slowly, brushing the dirt off of my dress. I kindly looked at him, thanking him silently. "What do you want from me?" I sneered.
She smiled again, "You know exactly what I want."
"Why? Why do you want my children?! You can't possibly have love for them." I yelled.
"The same reason you've killed so many, for power, Regina. This will make me the most powerful person in all the realms."
I shook my head in shame, "You don't know half of my story, Vanessa."
"Oh but I do. I also remember when you…'helped' a certain little mermaid."
"Mermaid?" I asked, confused.
"If I do recall, her name was Ariel."
My mouth dropped. "Who are you?" I asked confusedly.
She laughed, "You should know! You do know! This isn't the first time we've met!"
I shook my head, "I don't know you!"
David prodded his sword closer to her, "Who are you?"
She smiled and stuck her bottom lip out sarcastically, "And I'm going to tell the prince?" She paused and loosely walked, smiling at the ground, "Or…the shepherd?"
Emma stuck her gun up again, "Answer the question."
Vanessa thrust her hands in front of her, throwing David and Emma backwards. They landed on the ground, she picked them up, holding them in the air. "No." She replied.
I stepped forward and threw one hand up, throwing a ball of fire at her. She dodged it with her other hand, hurling it back toward me. I ducked forward and dodged it, just barely missing my face. I stood up straight, now absolutely furious. My fists clenched, my body trembled; not from fear, but from anger. I raised my hands, bringing the gravel up around us. I hurled them towards her, right towards her face.
"You really think that's going to stop me from anything?" She laughed, and put a shield around herself, making the rocks fall to the ground.
I suddenly felt defeated. How was I going to stop her? I couldn't even hurt her. Who was she? Why was she so much more powerful? I was already beginning to get tired, the baby was taking a lot of my energy lately, and I didn't know how much more I could do.
She pointed her finger her finger at me, raising my off the ground and up to where Emma and David were, gluing my arms to my sides. I wriggled around, trying to get out of her hold. It was no use, I had been in this situation before.
She brought me closer to her, until I was only inches away from her. She brought me down to her level, still holding me tightly. She put her other hand down, making Emma and David fall onto the ground with a thud, into a frozen position. She extended her hand out to my stomach, brushing it lightly and almost admiring it, "She'll be mine." She said quietly.
I wriggled, trying to kick her with my legs. She laughed, "That won't work." She said, without even looking up at me. She ran her fingers down my bump, Robin ran to me and tried to get me down, but she stopped him by freezing him as well.
We were all under her power, now. And she wasn't going to stop until she had what she wanted, until she held her in her own, evil arms.
"I'm going to take her away, and same with Roland. They'll both be mine."
"What do you want with them?!" I yelled.
"They'll be a wonderful contribution, mommy dearest. They're sacrifices."
My eyes widened and my mouth dropped, "How could you…"
"Easily, actually. Not the first time I've tried it, but apparently I was taking the wrong children."
"You're evil!" I shouted.
She narrowed her eyes, "And so are you, Evil Queen!" She snapped.
I heard the door open and looked behind her to see who it was, Sam and Jet. "Your majesty," They said.
They apparently caught her by surprise, she dropped me to the ground and turned around briskly to look at them. I swaddled my arms around my stomach protectively, hoping she was okay. I couldn't hardly get up, I had no strength left. I looked back at Robin, who was still frozen.
"What do you two idiots want?!" She snapped.
They started talking to her, I didn't pay attention to what they were saying. I was too busy searching the ground for something to hurt her with, all I could find was a used, plastic fork. I reached for it and held it in my hand tightly. I crawled onto my knees, climbing towards her. I drew my arm back, and with one quick thrust, stuck the fork into her leg.
She screamed out in pain, turning around to look at me. Her hair started changing it's color, it was getting shorter. I watched in amazement, now realizing this wasn't Vanessa's true form.
"What the hell are you doing?" She shouted.
I dug the fork deeper into her, her dress began to turn black. Her body started getting bigger and bigger, the dress seemed to swarm around her legs. The dress wasn't swarming around her legs, her legs were disappearing. She sat there helplessly, her skin now purple and her hair now white. Her legs, or what used to be her legs, were now tentacles, trying to wiggle around.
"Ursula." I whispered.
She laughed loudly, "Finally." She said.
I stuck the fork into her deeper, realizing this was making her weaker. Robin, Emma, and David's magic surrounding them was starting to disappear. Robin was moving, now he was moving towards me.
I was almost collapsed onto the rocks, my body was so tired. I fluttered my eyes, trying to make the black, fuzzy lines around them go away. I tried to focus on Robin, who was telling me something that I couldn't quite hear. I was fading, slowly but surely.
"What did you do to her?!" Robin yelled.
Ursula laughed, "I did nothing." She smiled deviously, "She's doing that herself."
Robin looked down at my limp body that he was now holding in his arms.
"You're a witch." Robin said.
"A sea witch, to be exact." She smiled.
Robin noticed the fork laying on the ground next to her. He quickly reached out for it, sticking it into her tentacle.
"Honey, that's not the real thing. It can't hurt me now."
"The real thing?" He asked, confused.
She raised her eyebrows, "Right, you don't 'dabble in magic'."
"What are you talking about?" Emma yelled from behind, now holding her gun.
Ursula ignored her and plunged herself forward towards my body. Robin leaned over it, protecting me and the baby. Suddenly, there was a gun shot.
Robin looked up just in time to see Ursula fading away, she wasn't dead.
"Robin! Is she okay?!" Emma asked frantically, running up to him.
He shook me, "I don't know. I think she's just passed out."
"We need to get her to the hospital." David said.
Robin wedged his arms between me and the ground, the scooped me up into them, carrying me to Emma's car.
They rushed to the hospital as quick as possible, immediately bringing her to the ER. Dr. Whale and his nurses rushed around her gurney, taking her into a room quickly.
Robin ran beside them as they took her back, a tear fell from his eye onto her, "I love you." He whispered.
OH MY GOSH! Another cliffhanger :) hahaha sorry y'all! What's happening to her? Oh and URSULA?! WHAT! Did anybody think it was her? :) and where did she go? Is she actually gone for good? UGH SUCH DRAMA!
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