Another musical chapter. Enjoy.
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Music:
State Of Grace (Instrumental) - Taylor Swift
P.O.V. Change
The stinging sensation had passed and Watcher had gotten her breath back, now she was up and running again.
'Maybe I took a wrong turn? This seems longer than it did in the visuals'
She stopped again looking around her, her eyes reflecting the panic she was feeling.
She ran back down the way she came for a bit.
'I'm lost'
She turned back around; Johanna Conscience was standing in the middle of the road.
"Did you do this? Did you lead me to get lost?"
Johanna just looked at her saying nothing.
"Are you really my conscience? Or are you an aggravated spirit that's haunting me to make me feel guilty?"
Johanna shook her head "I'm not angry and I'm not trying to make you feel guilty. As I said before, I am you. I am your conscience. And if I know, then you most definitely know what happens...and that you must let it happen. She may be your mother, but there is nothing you can do child"
(Music Start)
"You think there's nothing I can do, huh? Well, just watch me!" she ran in the opposite direction.
"If I know, then you definitely know that the future isn't set in stone, rules are made to be broken! A story can be changed!"
"Where are you going?!"
"To the place where it all ends!"
"And where's that?"
Johanna's voice had changed, but without slowing down Watcher called over her shoulder "I don't have time for you! Come and find me when it's all over Greggson!"
She heard cursing behind her. Obviously Greggson had thought she hadn't realised it was him. But she wasn't stupid.
She made her way back along the path as speedily as she could and when she hit the Storybrooke limits, she made a beeline for Gold's Shop, but she made her way along the backside's of the shops, as to enter from the back rather than the front. That was where everything was going down, that was where her mother died.
She scrambled up and over a fence and then again as she flew through someone's backyard, she also thought she saw a kennel with Pongo written across the front.
She could see the end of the line of buildings approaching.
She almost skidded past the door, but managed to stop in time and successfully avoid slipping on the damp ground.
(Music End)
P.O.V. Change
(Minutes Before)
There was a squishing sound as Regina place her mother's heart back in her body, Cora reeling backwards with a gurgling gasp and dropping the Dagger, letting it fall to the floor where Rumplestiltskin would pick it up moments later.
Still gasping and clutching at her chest, Cora stared at her daughter wide eyed, who stared at her concerned and almost tearful.
Upon seeing Regina's face she exhaled and smiled a genuine smile, one that had not graced her features in decades, feeling foreign and at the same time homely.
Regina stared at her mother with lit eyes, her tense shoulders relaxing as she laughed happily 'Mother' her heart soaring with relief and joy.
Cora laughed happily at the sight of her daughter, before gasping in pain, her face contorted in anguish.
Regina quickly realised something was wrong.
Cora lifted the long collar of her coat, revealing a bloody, poison yellow wound over her heart that had certainly not been there before.
That Rumplestiltskin had been wearing on his skin moments ago. He now took to his feet as Cora fell to the ground.
Regina caught her half way.
"Mother? Oh!"
If Regina had looked at the Dagger, she would've seen Rumplestiltskin's name reappear, bold as anything, on the Dagger's blade.
"Mother?" she said through breaking tears
"What's wrong?"
She could only cradle her mother as the previous light in her eyes began to fade.
Cora breathed labouredly.
"This would've been enough" she told her daughter weakly.
Tears fell from two sets of eyes "You...you would've been enough"
Her eyes closed and her head fell back.
"Mother?" Regina called softly.
Her voice broke as she turned to the now standing Rumplestiltskin.
"What's going on?"
She turned back to her dead mother, sobbing loudly "Mother! Don't leave me, please"
She shook Cora's lifeless body desperately and crying heavily.
"What am I gonna do?" she whispered to the room.
"Your mother did you no favours"
"Shut up! You stole her life! You cast some spell" Regina stated accusingly.
"I did nothing" he told her calmly.
Regina stared at her mother's face as something came to mind.
"Regina! Stop!" Mary-Margaret and David ran in, coming to an abrupt halt when their eyes took in the scene.
Regina looked up to Mary-Margaret, A dangerous look in her eyes "You did this"
Mary-Margaret stared on in shock, tears threatening to fall.
There was a deafening bang as the door behind Gold flew open, a new set of grey-blue eyes falling on the scene.
A small whimper of 'Momma?' reached the ears of those in the room and every face turned to Watcher standing in the doorway.
Watcher threw herself into the room and to the other side of her mother's body, cradling her face.
No tears fell from her as she looked to Regina, who only smoothed her baby sister's hair down.
They shared a silent moment, then Watcher pressed her forehead to her mother's.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I couldn't save you and I'm so sorry"
Regina ran her fingers through Watchers hair again before pulling her close and kissing her temple.
In a cloud of purple smoke the two vanished along with the body of their mother.
The three left in the room stared at the spot where Regina and Watcher had once been.
Mary-Margaret then spoke an observation "Did she just say 'momma'?"