Here it is: The last chapter. Thank you so much for readingm it has been so much fun writting this story and I have enjoyed every single one of your reviews, so don't forget to leave a last one ;-) Thank you Guys for following it and I am sorry for the kind of rushed ending.
I don't think 4B will end like this and I sure don't hope so, I never want the show to end.
But I do hope we at least get some kind of happiness for Outlaw queen and some Roland/Regina or Roland/henry or even Henry/Robin moments would do good too.
Anyway thank you as always and please let me know what ya think! :D
A lot of things ran through Regina's head when she found out that her daughter was missing. Who did it? Was she ever gonna find her? What if something had happened? She needed to find her. She was going to die if she had lost her baby girl, why was Robin just standing there? Why was she just standing there? But the last thought that went into Regina's head was vengeance. She knew that it was a wrong thought and she would be talking ethics with Robin and Henry for the rest of her life, maybe even Snow and Emma too, but Reign was her baby girl and she had lost her, right now she didn't care who the hell had taken her, she would kill the person guilty and if they had touched as much as a hair on her head she would make them wish she had killed them.
"Where is your husband?!" Regina yelled running into Gold's shop, she was meet by a pair of worried eyes.
"Regina calm down. What is going on?" Belle asked calmly, but Regina was angry, she knew Rumpel had something to do with this, she knew he was working with the queens of darkness and she needed to find him and get her daughter.
"You snake of a husband kidnapped my daughter, so if you don't tell me where here is, I would not wish to be you right now!" She threatened her blood boiling.
"Regina I am sorry, but I have no idea. I haven't seen him since I made him cross the timeline." She said and only a second after Regina ran out of there. She was trying to think of all the places they could be. She had no clue, they had always showed up on her doorstep. If she just had something of theirs so she could locate them. Maybe Cinderella or Aurora had something? It was a long shot, but it was better then nothing and Regina would not give up. So she ran into granny's, everyone started at her in shock when she walked in. Her brow raised, what had she missed?
"Snow!? Just the person I was looking for," She yelled when she noticed Snow, Charming and baby Neal in one of the corners. She almost ran over there, but before she could get near them Charming jumped in front of Snow.
"Don't touch her," He said to Regina's surprise.
"I get that we have a history, but I thought we were over that a long time ago," she groaned.
"Regina?" Snow asked in disbelief walking past David.
"Who else? What is wrong with you guys?" She asked annoyed.
"It's just what you are wearing made you look like the evil queen again and with the queens of darkness here…" She trailed off when Regina looked down. They were right she was in one of her evil queen dresses. What the hell? Was this a joke? She hadn't put this on? And her hair… It was long.
"I don't understand," Regina whispered to herself until it hit her. The drink… She was having a drink yesterday when the queens of darkness showed up and when they left it had tasted weird, but she hadn't paid any mind to it. Of course it was distraction. She had heard of this curse, it was used often with villains who turned good, as soon as they had thoughts like villains or acted like villians they'd look like their true color. But why? What are they getting out of it?
"My daughter she has been kidnapped, I need to find the queens of darkness, I was hoping Cinderella or Aurora would have something of Maleficent's and Ursula's" Regina said and watched as Snow's face dropped.
"You didn't talk to Emma," She said quietly.
"They have been missing since yesterday, when Cinderella went missing we called Eric and Aurora is missing too, that is why we thought maybe you had come for Snow White," Charming said and Regina's heart dropped, now she needed to look everywhere and she might be too late. She looked down and noticed her dress changing to the one she was wearing when she left the house, god she hated this curse already.
"Regina? Do you still have the curse?" Snow asked suddenly.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"Well the curse came from Maleficent right, who got it from Rumpel, so it will bring you to one of them… Right?" Snow said and Regina couldn't help it but smile a little. She hated admitting it, but Snow had just given her a little bit of hope.
"Thank you," Regina said and used her magic to get the roll with the curse on to appear, and with it her clothes changed back to the evil queens clothing.
"Regina don't do something Henry wouldn't do," Snow said as Regina made the object fly. Regina ignored what Snow said before running after the flying curse. She couldn't wait to hold her daughter in her arms agian. And she couldn't wait to chuck the life out of the person who dared take her baby girl.
While Regina tried to keep her concentration on the curse her phone kept ringing, she tried to ignore it, but the person calling her wouldn't give up. So she picked it up still following the the curse.
"What?!" She snapped at the person on the other side of the phone.
"Regina! I have found Reign," Robin said out of breath. Regina stopped dead in her tracks the curse doing the same thing.
"How?" She asked in disbelief not knowing if she should be relieved or worried, how did he manage to find Reign before her? He didn't have magic.
"I went to Emma and she made a locating spell on some of Reign's cloth and we found and she is safe," Robin said. Why hadn't she thought of that? She should have, it should have been the first thought flying through her head.
"Why didn't I think off that…" Regina sighed.
"Because you were too busy plotting your revenge, face it you haven't changed a bit... Old friend," She turned around to the sound of Maleficent's voice.
"You… You did this…" Regina said feeling the anger become her whole being.
"Don't worry nothing happened to her, I just drove her to the nursery the school has… I just needed to find a way to make you realize," She smirked as Ursula and Cruella appeared behind her and she could spot Rumpel in the background of them.
"Make me realize what?" She asked still angry, but slightly interested what their next move was.
"Regina what is going on?" She heard Robin's voice, she had forgotten everything about the phone, she hung up not telling him anything, she knew he would make her leave. But that wasn't Regina's plan at all, no she would listen to what they were saying and then she would kill every single one of them.
"That you are and will always be a villain, and as you sure have heard before villains don't get happy endings because the hero's always win.." Ursula said.
"I am perfectly happy where I am," Regina pointed out but only to be laughed at.
"We all know that it never lasts for you…" Maleficent smirked. "You always end up losing," She added.
"Because of this," Ursula said and with a snap of her fingers she was holding the storybook in her hands. So Rumpel had told them about the book. Great…
"And do enlighten me, how are you planning to change that?" Regina asked almost amused.
"There is prophecy if the strongest villains joins powers these powers will collide and they will be strong enough to do anything including changing the storybook," Rumpel said coming out of the shadow. Regina closed her eyes for a second, there was a voice inside of her telling her this was so wrong. Robin's voice… But then there were also the voice that told her this might actually work. It would make sense, the more magic, the more power.
"And you want me to do what?" Regina asked the little voice inside of her screaming at her while she could feel her hair grow longer and her thoughts darker.
"Join us, take over the world, take you happiness." Ursula said with an evil smirk.
"And after you cursed me, you want me to believe that you aren't tricking me," She pointed out.
"We only did it to prove our point, the outfit and thoughts changes when you do it. It only shows the truth, only show's that you haven't changed, that you will not get your happy ending if you don't take it," Cruella said. Regina sighed, it wasn't as if there was much to think about. She knew sitting around looking for clues wouldn't help, she had done it for too long. And doing this taking her happy ending wasn't really evil. She wasn't hurting anyone in the process, only making herself and her family happy. Stopping all the worries, right?
"I'll do it if you promise to never touch my family," Regina said and watched as they looked happily at each other, obviously she was the missing piece in their puzzle. But at the same time she wasn't sure whether to trust them or not.
"Deal," Cruella said and with a flick of her hands there was a big fire and they were all standing around it. It seemed awfully common.
"All we have to do is point our magic at this and…." She was cut of by a loud sound.
"Stop! Don't do this," She turned her head at the sound of Henry's voice. He was running as fast as he could Emma and Robin right behind him. Regina's heart skipped a beat and she swallowed the lump in her throat, that was a bumb in her plan.
"Mom don't do this," Henry said and stopped, magic shield Regina noticed, to keep any uninvited people out.
"Regina you know this is the right thing to do, Henry doesn't understand the curse, that's all." Ursula tried.
"Mom look at me, we will find your happy ending I promise," He said and Regina's face dropped. She knew she was hurting, but she had to do this. When she turned to look at the others there magic was already running into the fire.
"Come on Regina," Rumpel said and Regina took a deep breath before focusing on the achievement she wanted.
"I'm sorry Henry," she said before letting her magic float out of her hands and the second it collided with the others they were thrown back with a big blow.
The second Regina hit the ground Robin ran to her to make sure she was alright. He helped her up. She looked at the others who looked confused and then she looked at the fire that was slowly burning out.
"I should have worked," Rumpel cursed as the others stood up. Regina smirked.
"Rumpel you should have seen it coming." She said and Rumpel looked angrily at her.
"I don't understand?" Emma said. Regina turned around to look at her and at the same time she noticed her clothing had changed to her own again.
"Simpel… There were one thing they had failed to think about apart from the fact that Malificent and I are friendsm" Regina said and looked back at them for a moment smiling back at Malificent. "I have light magic now and light magic colliding with their magic destroyed there curse." She said and they looked amazed at her. "I just needed to keep the act up after Mal told me about theit plan, we decided to put an act of hate up," Regina said. "Which is why I made sure Robin would find Reign and not I, I had put a spell on Reign along time ago making sure no one with dark magic could harm her and Malificent made sure she was the one to take Reign. I knew there there was a curse in the drink, I just had to keep thinking evil thoughts to trick them," Regina smirked. "I'm sorry Robin, I couldn't risk destroying the plan telling you," She said looking everywhere, but at him.
"Well played," Rumpel said. "But it is not over yet, as long as the storybook is here you will not get your happy ending," Rumpel smirked before disappearing in a cloud of smoke followed by Ursula.
"I'm so proud of you mom," Henry said throwing his arms around his mother. "I love you," Henry added.
"I love you too baby," Regina said kissing the top of his head. so much. "But I guess we are back to square one on this," Regina said and made the storybook appear in her hands.
"Actually," Henry said taking the book. "I think I might have found out what to do with that," He added and they all listened closely.
"I think we have been looking for the wrong clues, we have been looking for clues inside the storybook," Henry said.
"Yes because we want to find the arthur?" Regina said.
"No the clue is not in storybook mom, it is the storybook," She was still confused, but when she looked at Robin he seemed to have catched up on what he meant.
"I still don't understand, isn't it the same thing, the outside of the storybook and the inside of the storybook?" Regina asked.
"No mom you don't understand. It is the storybook itself, when I touched the storybook I started believing again, I didn't have to read what was inside it," Henry pointed.
"So it's the storybook itself, but I still don't see how it helps us?" She said.
"Because if the storybook would disappear then there would be nothing but you to control your happy ending," Robin said. Regina's eyes widened, they might be right.
"It might work," Regina said feeling the hope float through her again.
"Well let's try," Henry said taking the storybook from his mom walking over to the fire. Regina froze for a second, what would happen if it didn't work? What if she destroyed everyone's happy endings in the process? What if they were wrong, they'd never be able to find the arthur. then "Mom?" He asked. Regina woke from her trance turning around to look at her son.
"No…" She simply said. She couldn't do it, it wasn't the right thing to do, what if Henry needed to believe again, what if someone else did? And what if it just completely destroyed everyone? She didn't just have Henry to think of anymore, she had Robin and she had Roland and Reign. She wouldn't admit it, but she cared about Snow and Emma too. She couldn't risk their lives. She hadn't come this long to go right back in the same trap.
"What?" Henry asked confused.
"I can't go through with it. There is a possibility it will destroy everyone else's happiness including yours, I can't do that." she admitted. "My happiness is not worth the loss of yours," The storybook started glowing white and everyone started taken aback at it, until Henry opened it his mouth dropping.
"What just happend?" Emma asked walking over to Henry.
"The storybook, it changed," Henry said. Regina wasn't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing until he looked up with a smile.
"Let me see," Regina said raising a brow before Henry handled it to her. He was right the book had changed. She looked at it with wide eyes. She flipped through the pages and looked as pictures of her and Robin's story had been added until the last picture of where they were now. on the other side there was a text: "And so the queen and Robin Hood went home to their family." It was the only thing she read before she flipped to the next pages. They were blank until the final page of the book: "And that's the story of how they all lived happily ever after," She looked up at the others a tear escaping her eye. This was it, she had done it. They had done it. Found the happy ending.
"We did it," Regina exclaimed as Robin walked up to pull her into a hug. "We finished the story, we got our happy ending," She couldn't believe it was over. They had been through so much everyone in this town had. They had fought for their happy endings and that was how they had got it, how she had done it.
"Let's go home," Robin said with a big smile. "Let's go enjoy our happy ending," He added kissing her cheek. Regina giggled and finally felt what she hadn't felt in years, maybe not ever. Freedom and happiness.
And so they lived happily ever after.