Hey guys... Here is chapter 16. I loved writing this chapter and I'm so so sorry for the delay, hope you can forgive me!

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CHAPTER 16 – ONCE THE EVIL QUEEN, ALWAYS THE EVIL QUEEN

A week later, Regina had just finished dinner at Granny's. It was after 10 pm, but Regina spent the last hour talking to the Grandma. After a while, Ruby and Granny went on to develop a fondness and respect for Regina. The two women knew Regina was different, she was getting better and now they could almost say that they liked Regina. Sometimes, when someone said something about the pregnant woman, they were the first to defend her.

Regina was already getting tired and left. When she closed the door and turned distractedly, she bumped into a man. Her smile disappeared immediately giving way to a frown.

"So it's true. The Queen is pregnant." The man said.

"Sidney! What do you want?" The woman asked angrily.

"Calm down, your Majesty. I don't want anything from you!" He said closing his eyes.

"Okay, so excuse me!" Regina said and turned, but he took a step to the side, getting back in front her. Regina wasn't enjoying it.

"Get out of my way, Sidney!" Regina said a little angrier.

"It's true that it's two girls?" He asked raising his hand and touching Regina's belly.

"Don't ever touch me again!" Regina shouted at him as she hit his hand away from her.

"Is it true?" He asked again.

"It is, now get out of my way!" Regina said and pushed him slightly past the man.

"You'll be a bad mother, just as your mother was!" He said to her, she stopped in her path and turned.

"Sidney, I don't want to hurt you!" Regina snapped and starting to tremble with rage.

"Of course not, your Majesty. You will expect to do this with these kids, isn't it?" He said looking at her angrily.

Immediately, Regina's mind was flooded with images of her nightmares. She was always hurting her children, even though she loved them.

"Shut up, Sidney, I would never hurt my children and you know that" she said in a choked voice with sadness.

Ruby saw Sidney arguing with Regina and ran out of the restaurant, followed by Granny.

"You're a monster, Regina. You're the Evil Queen, however much you try to change, you will always be the Evil Queen and she doesn't love. Don't fool yourself, Regina. These girls will grow and they will know the horrible mother they have and they will not love you, they will hate you as Henry does, he's just excited because he will have two sisters, but that's all. He is still afraid of you!" He yelled.

Regina couldn't control herself. She was crying. Every word Sidney spoke was actually everything she was more afraid. Fear of not being loved by her daughters, being a bad mother, becoming the Evil Queen again, like in her nightmares.

Ruby and Granny were watching, astonished. Everyone knew that Regina had been the Evil Queen, but now she is trying so hard to be different and she is getting it. He had no right to disturb her or talk that kind of thing.

Regina approached him and grabbed his neck. A purple smoke surrounded them and Sidney was running out of air. Regina's eyes were full of tears, but they were as dark as they were when she was the Evil Queen.

"Regina, Stop!" Ruby shouted at the woman, but Regina didn't move.

"Regina, don't let him do that to you, you're better than that, please!" Granny said approaching the maximum that she could of Regina, but the woman didn't move.

Slowly, Ruby ran a hand on Regina's back and the other held Regina's hand who was choking Sidney, then she whispered "Regina, please stop! You can do this for Henry, you can do this for them" Ruby said running her hand gently on her belly.

It took a few seconds for Regina to finally make some movement. She closed her eyes tightly and opened them with a confused look. She let Sidney go, who fell to the floor, trying to breathe. Suddenly she felt a little dizzy and leaned on Ruby.

"Regina, are you okay?" Ruby asked holding the woman a little stronger.

"I... I'm fine" Regina said with difficulty.

"Come, sit here" Granny went to Regina and guided her to a chair.

"No, I'm fine, I just ... I just want to go home... I" Regina said moving away from the two women. Regina was confused and desperate to hide herself. She had lost control of herself.

"Regina, but you aren't fine!" Granny said.

"I'll go home with you, Regina!" Ruby offered.

"No!" Regina almost cried. "I'm fine, I already said I'm fine" Regina said turning and walking toward the street.

"I said! You will always be the Evil Queen!" Sidney shouted still lying on the ground.

"Shut up, Sidney!" Ruby shouted at him, looking worried at Regina who simply stopped, looked sad at Sidney and walked away.

"You're not allowed to come here, Sidney!" Granny said staring angry.

"You cannot take her side, she will never change" he yelled.

"I already told you to shut up!" Ruby shouted a little louder.

"She is already changing, you idiot! She is much better than you will ever be!" Granny yelled.

"Now go away, because if you come back here or if I know you are still disturbing Regina, I can't and I won't blame myself if the wolf visits you any of these nights" Ruby said and entered the restaurant with Granny, closing the door behind them.

Granny ended things in the restaurant and went home about an hour later. Ruby got to finish cleaning the restaurant and get some things for the next morning. It was late, at this time the city was already deserted and now heavy rain falls on Storybrooke.

Ruby got into her red car and drove toward Granny's bed and breakfast. The rain was getting very strong and the night was getting cold. She was passing through the street when she saw someone sitting on one of the benches in the dark square. She couldn't identify who it was from where she was, because the rain was very strong and was a little dark. She lowered the headlights of the car, drove closer and squinted to identify the figure sitting in the rain. It was Regina.

Ruby grabbed an umbrella that was inside the car and ran to the bench where the woman was sitting idly, crying.

"Regina? Regina, what are you doing in the rain? Let's get out of here!" Ruby said running near her, but the woman didn't move.

"Regina?" Ruby kept calling the woman, who was crying. Ruby realized that the woman was totally drenched and shivering from the cold, but she seemed not to have noticed Ruby's presence.

"Regina, what happened? Aren't you feeling fine? Why are you crying?" Ruby asked approaching the woman and touching her shoulder.

Regina jumped briefly when Ruby touched her, only then she realized the other woman's presence.

"Ruby, what are you doing here?" Regina said sniffling a bit.

"I asked you, Regina. Let's get out of this rain, it's freezing out here!" Ruby says holding the umbrella over Regina, but the brunette went back to looking forward, as if nothing had happened.

"Regina!" Ruby shouted to bring her attention back.

"You think I would hurt Henry?" Regina simply asked with a much softer tone as a lump formed in her throat.

Only then Ruby understood what it was.

"No! Never!" Ruby replied quickly. "How long have you been here, Regina?" Ruby said still holding the umbrella over them.

"You think I would hurt my daughters?" Regina ignored the woman's question.

"Regina..." Ruby gave up on holding the umbrella over Regina, putting it on the floor. "You would never hurt your children, I'm sure of it!"

Regina looked at her, looking for a sign of lying in her eyes, but she couldn't find it. She turned to look ahead and Ruby could see that the tears are streaming down again on Regina's face and her lips were trembling. That woman was a different woman and Ruby realized that.

"You shouldn't care about what Sidney says." Ruby began "He just wants to find a culprit for the shit that is his life." Ruby said with a soft smile.

"He knows me, Ruby!" Regina said crying even more.

"Well, maybe! But the woman you are now is very different from the woman you were."

"I'm the Evil Queen. I can't change that!" She said tearfully.

"I think you've changed it" Ruby smiled.

A moment of silence settled between them, a silence that was not unpleasant.

"Why are you helping me?" Regina asked, turning her head to look at the woman who was now sitting beside her.

Ruby thought a moment and replied "Because, for many people, you created a terrible curse and it will be hard to forgive, but for 28 years I haven't turned wolf and didn't kill anyone. You saved me, even thinking you were doing a bad thing, you saved me from who I was."

Regina looked at her and began to cry again. Damn hormones.

"I don't know how to rise them. I never had a mother who loved me. I will not know how to be a good mother for them." Regina cried.

"Of course you will know. You were the best mother that Henry could have."

"Henry is a boy and my relationship with my father was totally different from my relationship with my mother. I will not know how to take care of them..."

"It is silly, Regina, you care about them and that's all you need for now."

"Henry hates me!" Regina whispered staring at the floor. "Sidney's right, he's just glad that he will have two sisters, but he also hates me and they will hate me. I cannot stand it again, Ruby."

Ruby felt the need to comfort the woman, saying that nothing would happen that way.

"That's not true, Regina. Henry loves you!" Ruby said, taking the woman's hand and giving it a slight squeeze until she looked at her. "And these girls will love you just the same, no matter who you were, what matters now is who you are becoming."

Regina was shivering from the cold and her clothes were soaked. She was looking at Ruby and could feel affection and concern emanating from her eyes.

"I'm afraid." Regina said so low that Ruby had to strain to hear.

"Afraid of what?"

"Of going back to being the Evil Queen, I don't want to be her anymore. I'm so tired" Regina said crying. "I'm afraid of hurting my children. Today, with Sidney, I couldn't control myself, I felt I needed to kill him."

"You were only protecting your girls." Ruby said, smiling. "And I think if you want, you will never be the Evil Queen anymore. You've changed! I'm not even afraid of you..." She said, trying to joke.

"No?"

"No!"

The two were sitting quietly in the rain for a few more minutes. Ruby saw when Regina made a brief grin and rubbed her belly gently.

"Are they kicking?" Ruby said with a curious smile.

"Yes, I think Lillian's awake!" She said smiling.

"Lillian?" Ruby said. She still didn't know they already had names. "Can I feel?" Ruby asked a little afraid.

Regina thought a moment and replied with a nod "I guess so" she said, taking the other woman's hand and placing it where she felt the movements "The movements are still very soft, but they are very strong at night" Regina said smiling.

"I see, she's really moving in there" Ruby said with a huge smile when she felt the movements in her hand. They were indeed soft, but she could still feel them.

"Regina, I think that we should get out of this rain, I'm dying of cold and you're shivering. How long have you been here?" Ruby asked seriously staring at Regina's eyes.

"I don't know, I think since before the rain started" said Regina thinking.

"Well, that means a long time. This is not good for you and much less for these little ones. Come on, I'll take you, you didn't come by car, huh?" Ruby said, noting that the mayor's car wasn't nearby.

"No." Regina nodded her head and took Ruby's hand to help her up.

"Where's Perdita?"

"She's with Henry. He insisted to stay with her today."

Ruby took Regina home and made sure to leave only after the woman changed her wet clothes and prepared for sleep, she couldn't risk the woman catching a cold or something like that.

So? In the next, I promisse you that Regina and Archie are going to have a beautiful moment. I have something prepared to Regina and Snow. I feel like Snow isn't too present in my story and I want to correct it!

Thank you for reading until here!

See you in the next and I'll try to not delay too much!

Bárbara