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CHAPTER 23 – NEW FACES
The next day, Regina was determined to go talk with Archie. She was still a mess of feelings and didn't want him to stay with her just because of their babies. For Regina, it was still almost impossible to believe that someone can be as good and pure as Archie and the most important, that could love her.
She didn't know if it was a mess of pregnancy hormones or if it was because Archie would be the father of her daughters, but she developed feelings for the man that she hasn't felt since Daniel. Does she love him? No, Daniel was her one true love and he was dead. She kept repeating to herself, but she couldn't fool her own heart.
As soon as she, Emma and David left the stables at the end of the morning, Regina made her way to Archie's office. They needed to talk, they needed to make things clear between them, but how to do that if she didn't even know how she felt?
Regina and Perdita were almost turning the corner of Archie's office when Regina heard voices and footsteps approaching the door. She didn't know why, but she hid and was just watching.
"Shhh, Perdita. Don't make any noise!" She whispered to the dog that was already wagging its tail.
She watched as Archie opened the door and a woman came out of the office. Who is this woman? Regina wondered still not being able to see the woman's face.
"So, Claire, I'll see you tomorrow? Same time?" She heard Archie ask.
"Yes, I think so. You have helped me so much, Archie."
Archie? Who does this woman think she is and why isn't she calling Archie Dr. Hopper? Regina began to wonder. She never had a good relationship with Miss Bennet, she hasn't had a good relationship with anyone else, but she had a particularly troubled one with this woman.
"Thank you so much!" Claire said and kissed Archie on his cheek.
Archie was speechless and didn't know what to do, but as always, he was very polite to push her away or say something that could hurt his patients.
Regina, on the other hand, was wide-eyed with rage. She wanted to run in and grasp the woman's neck and get her away from Archie. She was trying to control herself. The woman is just thanking him, that's it, isn't it? She clenched her fists and tried to calm down. She turned and started to walk away, but was stopped by a strong bark and Archie screaming for Pongo. The dog was running toward her, she could hear. Now she had to pretend she had just arrived and hadn't seen anything.
Once Pongo saw Regina, he stood up on his hind legs, lifting the front legs towards Regina's belly, she was fast enough to place her hands in front, grabbing the dog's paws and patting his head. She rolled her eyes "Hi Pongo." The dog was wagging his tail and Perdita was beside it, the dog was barking happily.
"Regina?" Archie spoke surprised when he turned the corner and saw Regina and Perdita there, now he understood why the dog ran out of the apartment.
"Hi." she smiled.
Claire ran right behind Archie and made no effort to hide her disgusted face when she saw Regina.
"Madam Mayor." She greeted cordially.
Regina didn't fail to notice the woman's face and returned in the same currency, grimacing in disgust how only the Mayor would know to do.
"Miss Bennet." she said dryly.
Archie, realizing the tension in the air, interrupted.
"So I'll see you tomorrow, Claire." he smiled at her and ran his hand on Regina's back, pulling her toward the door of the office.
"See you tomorrow, Dr. Hopper" she smiled at the man, gave one last look at Regina and turned to leave.
Pongo and Perdita ran into the office while Archie walked with Regina, who still had a frown on her face.
"What was that?" Archie said, looking at the woman.
"What?" Regina frowned, pretending not to know about what the psychologist was talking about.
"You seem upset and what is it between you and Miss Bennet? The two of you seemed very unhappy to see each other." He said.
Now it's Miss Bennet? Just now you were calling 'Claire'. Regina thought with disgust.
"Hmm..." she whispered, then turned to Archie and replied "I don't like her."
"And why not?" He raised an eyebrow, getting extremely curious.
"How long has she been coming here?"
"I don't know..." he replied thoughtfully "...a few months, why?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to know" she replied quickly.
"So, I didn't know you were coming, I... we need... I think we should talk" he said, avoiding looking into her eyes.
Indeed, Regina had come to talk, but she lost the will, she didn't like that woman and now she was going to have sessions with Archie? 'Archie' she mimicked the annoying voice of the woman in her head. 'Dr. Hopper, Dr. Hopper' she repeated in vain in her head, as if she were teaching the woman how to talk to him. She was lost in thought.
"Regina?" Archie called for the third time.
"Hm... What?" she replied, waking her from her trance.
"Did you hear me?"
"I heard, but I have to do some things at City Hall, we'll talk later, okay?" She said, calling Perdita and directing herself towards the door. Archie didn't understand anything.
"If you didn't come to stay, didn't come to talk, why did you come here then?" He asked confused.
"I thought I had left my phone here" she lied.
"But you forgot it at home yesterday, remember?"
"That's true! Thank you, Archie. See you later" she said quickly and left. Damn! What am I doing? 'I thought I had left my phone here' you had no other excuse, Regina? And why are you upset? You came to talk to Archie and now you are running? She was asking a lot of questions, mentally condemning herself.
She left the building and she felt as if she had nowhere to go, she didn't have anything important to do at City Hall, not now, maybe later. She walked toward her car and snorted at the thought of how the car looked small now. She would have to buy another car for when the girls arrive, it might be time to start looking for a bigger car, a minivan, for example. She made a mental note. After entering the car, she noticed a man walking down the sidewalk. She didn't know him, but he didn't seem strange to her.
"Regina, do you want to pick Henry up at school with me?" Emma said, approaching the car and pulling Regina out of her thoughts.
"Yes, I do" she answered quickly and turned her eyes to the man on the other side of the sidewalk. "Who is he?" Regina said frowning.
"Him?" she asked pointing the finger at the man.
"Don't point, Miss Swan" Regina rebuked.
"You know the accident that happened at the entrance of the city and the unknown guy?" Emma asked and Regina nodded. "It's him, his name is Greg."
"Why is he still here?"
"I don't know, Regina"
The two women picked up Henry from school, lunched and then Regina went to City Hall. That man didn't leave her head, she knew, she knew him from somewhere, she had seen him before, but where?
Opening one of her drawers to get a paper, she noticed a forgotten object inside. A keychain. Then, she remembered where it came from. Owen.She had never forgotten the boy, she had loved him, even just for a moment. She made a mistake, another of her mistakes that have no way back. She pulled that little boy away from his father. Then, as if a light had been turned on inside her mind, her eyes widened in realization. That man, that Greg, it was Owen.What was he doing here?
Regina stood up, took her keys, her purse and coat and ran toward the door, being followed by Perdita.
"Madam Mayor, we have a meeting in-" The secretary started talking when she saw Regina and her dog getting out hurriedly towards the exit of City Hall.
"Cancel it" she said and walked away without looking back.
Regina wasn't only the Mayor of Storybrooke, she was also the woman who had "eyes and ears" throughout the city. It wasn't difficult for her to find out where the "mystery man" was staying. Granny's hotel was the only one that existed in the city.
She took advantage of an unguarded moment from the secretary of the hotel to climb the stairs. She knew the room number where the man was staying and made her way to it. When she reached the front door, she realized that it was unlocked. 'Lucky me' she thought. No need to use magic. Although lately, this wasn't a concern because the magic that flowed in her veins seemed to have simply disappeared. The magic that once scared all the people and it was so powerful that it could do incredible things, now was just a spark and only a feeling for Regina. It has disappeared almost completely.
Entering the room, she closed the door behind her and began to seek the things of the man, searching for something that would reveal what he was doing back in town. She couldn't find anything different. Does he remember her? Does he remember what she had done?
She spent several minutes looking at the man's things and startled when the door opened and the man entered using his cell phone. Quickly she composed herself and resumed her impeccable Mayor's posture. The man looked confused at first, but didn't seem surprised at all. He just put his keys on the table and stared at her, waiting for any answer.
"Do you know? I was wondering from where I knew you because your face wasn't unfamiliar to me. Then, I remembered" she said, removing the keychain from her pocket and showing it to him "and I knew immediately who you are. I never would forget your eyes. Owen." She said calmly with a smile.
The man smiled and looked at the woman in front of him. She was still the same, it was as if no time had passed for her, the only difference is that she was pregnant. He remembered how he liked the woman when he was a kid and wanted to stay in town, but soon those memories were gone and anger overtook him. This woman had kept him apart from his father.
"Regina Mills" he said with a smirk.
"What are you doing here?" She asked, moving closer to him, squinting menacingly. She could be pregnant, but she could still be as threatening as before.
"You know what I'm doing here, Regina. It took me a long time to get back, but I came for my father" The man replied.
"Your father?" She asked, frowning in confusion "he went away soon after you left" she replied.
"No, he didn't!" The man replied quickly.
"I released him as soon as you left, if he hasn't sought yo-" Regina began to speak, but was cut by the man who invaded her personal space and started screaming.
"HE HASN'T SOUGHT ME BECAUSE YOU HELD HIM HERE!" Perdita was frightened by the screams and then stood up and started growling dangerously at the man, gaining his attention.
"I told you, he's gone" Regina replied angrily with the proximity and the man's screams. Who does he think he is to yell like that?
"He never left, we both know it and people don't just disappear" he said.
"I already told you what I know, I will be coming here tomorrow to make sure that you have left town" she looked as menacingly as she could.
"I have said, I will not leave town until I find my father"
"I'm sorry, but I think you'll have to, because he's not here" she said and passed him, pulling the dog, still irritated, by the collar and headed to the door, then she turned to him again and said "contrary to what you think, people can 'just' disappear" then she went away, leaving behind her an angry man.
This woman is threatening me? She doesn't know what I'm capable of. With or without magic, I'll find my daddy and if I don't, she will pay dearly for it. He thought extremely angrily at the audacity of the woman.
Calming her nerves, Regina made her way back to her car.Dammit. What does he want here?Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of her phone ringing. Archie. Regina rolled her eyes, she had just come out of a fight and wasn't in the mood to get into another. Yes, another fight, because she was still angry with the woman who had kissed Archie's cheek today and more irritated that he had done nothing to stop the woman. Idiot. Foolish. Idiot.
Regina texted Archie saying that she was fine and decided to go home. She was done for today. She decided to go to the market to buy ice cream. 'A big tub of ice cream' she thought. She had already picked her favorite flavor and was absentmindedly running her eyes over the various brands of pickles when someone bumped into her.
Her first thought was to apologize and take the blame, but soon as she saw who the other person was, a huge frown came over her face.
"You don't pay attention to where you walk, madam mayor?" the other person asked irritably.
"You are the one who bumped into me, I was stopped here choosing my product. It's you that should have to be careful and look where you're going, Miss Bennet" Regina exclaimed furiously.
Glancing quickly to Regina's shopping cart, then to the shelf that held her attention and the woman smirked quietly.
"Madame Mayor, be careful not to turn into a whale. Have you ever stopped to think about the beautiful Queen rolling through town?"
Upon hearing this, Regina wanted to wring the woman's neck for the second time that day. Regina was grateful for not having magic in that moment, because if she had, she would have transformed her into some kind of a repugnant and disgusting insect. She took a deep breath, she was better than that -she was trying to be, at least- and smiled.
"Well, I'm pregnant and because of that I eat a lot more, but I don't think I have to explain it to you, look at yourself." She said almost spitting the words at Claire's face. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have much more interesting things to do." Regina answered and when the woman started to open her mouth to respond, Regina had already passed her, leaving the woman alone.
After that, she finally managed to get home and rest. It was all she wanted to do for the rest of the day. Rest.
By night, she was awakened by one Archie's message.
"I don't know what happened this morning, you seemed upset. We need to talk about what happened yesterday... about us. Good Night, Regina. Good night, daddy's girls. I love you. Archie."
Regina read the message and rolled her eyes at first, but then her heart softened when she read the final part of the message.
I love you. Who was he referring to? Regina? Only his girls? The three of them? Regina slept with a smile on her face and a dog, very badly accustomed to being on her bedside.
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