Season 2 Rewatch Drabbles

by jdmusiclover

A series of 100-500 word drabbles to accompany my rewatch of season 2 of Once Upon a Time as an attempt to finally jump start the muse again. There will be a drabble-either a deleted scene, a "fix it" fic or a character musing for each episode of the season. Focus will be on Emma, Henry, the Charmings and Killian-with an emphasis on the very beginnings of Captain Swan.

15. 2x15 The Queen Is Dead

Snow looked down at Johanna's crumpled body, lying dead on the pavement and for a moment she couldn't breathe. The pain, the horror was so overwhelming she was sure it would consume her.

And then she broke. Wracking sobs convulsing her body. If it hadn't been for her husband's strong arms and gentle comfort holding her up, she would have fallen to the ground right there.

All her life, she'd tried to be a hero, someone who always chose to do the right thing, even when it was difficult, but what had choosing the good ever done for her? She'd lost everything, everything at Regina and Cora's hands-her parents, her daughter, her husband, her nursemaid, even her very identity for 28 years.

As Snow clung to Charming, soaking his shirt with her grief, she thought back to that moment so many years ago when she'd had the chance to save her mother. She'd loved her so much, and the thought of losing her had been an ache so strong she felt it to the very depths of her being, and then Blue had thrown her a lifeline; a chance to save her life.

The temptation had been nearly more than she could bear, and for a few moments, she'd contemplated going through with it. After all, her mother had been a wonderful queen, a wonderful mother, and a wonderful human being. The world had been a better and brighter place with her in it. Would it really be so bad to trade the life of a villain for hers?

But she'd known exactly how her mother would have answered that question. No. She wouldn't have wanted her life saved at the expense of blackening her daughter's heart.

There'd been some comfort, even amid the crushing grief, in knowing that she'd done the right thing, knowing that she'd made her mother proud.

But now, all these years later, Snow couldn't help but wonder what use goodness and heroism were. Evil always triumphed, because evil was willing to do whatever it took to achieve its objectives. Cora and Regina stood taller and stronger than ever, while everyone she loved was being destroyed.

No more.

She'd be damned before she let Cora take one more person she loved. It didn't matter what she had to do or how much she had to blacken her heart. Her reign of terror was at an end.

It was time she track down and kill a witch.