The continuation of a musical chapter...with another musical chapter.

Enjoy.

R

Music - Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift

Watcher and Regina appeared in The Vault. In a room with an empty coffin situated in the middle of it.

With Regina's help, Cora's body settled into the coffin.

(Music Start)

Regina pulled Watcher up off the floor, holding her close by the waist and wiping away her own tears. Watcher chose a song from the Harb and allowed it's sound to fill the silent space.

They stood there for what felt like hours before Watcher asked Regina a question.

"Do you think we should say something? Or place some flowers or something?"

With a wave of her hand, Regina conjured two roses, each with a different coloured ribbon tied to it. Both moved forward and gently placed the roses on their mother's body.
Stepping back, Regina pulled her sister as close as possible, for fear that, if she let her go or even looked away, she would disappear all over again and she would once again be left with no-one she could call family.
Watcher stood silent, no tears fell. Her face was unmoving and stoic as her big sister sobbed into her hair.

'Mental note: Wash hair later'

"Well, well. It looks like it happened anyway. So much for trying to stop it"

The two Mills girls turned to the sound of the voice.

"Who the hell are you?!" Regina hissed.

Watcher held her sister back.

"Have some respect Greggson. This is a family funeral, there were no invitations sent. Especially to you"

Greggson appeared from the shadows.

"Trying to be menacing are we Greggy?" Watcher teased.

Greggson raised one of his dark brows, his hazel eyes flashing "And what would you know about funerals? You caused so many in your time, but you've never attended one. You wouldn't cry even if you wanted to. And to that, what would you know about family?! You've been thrown in and around so many care homes –"

"Well she has family now!" Regina shouted at him.

Watcher indicated for her to be quiet, but kept her eyes on this new threat.

"I've never had someone to cry for. But I do now and when that finally hits me...you don't wanna be on the bad side of the break down Greggson. If it hadn't been for you misleading me, I would have got there in time to save her-"

"You know there was no way to save her" he laughed.

"-I would've tried. I would've found a way and things would've been different!"

"You know the story has to stay on track. If it was written, it was going to happen. There was no changing that!"

"I would've tried!" she shouted.

They stared each other down for a moment. He scoffed and turned away.

"You broke the rules Watcher"

"You act as if I don't know" she stated.

"Then you know what needs to be done"

She moved forward to him placing a knife against the back of his neck.

"You know I'd take more pleasure watching you go about in a chair for the rest of your life"

They both breathed in and out for a few seconds before she gave him a valid answer.

"Fine. But not today. Today, show a little respect, and leave" she hissed in his ear.

He growled lowly "I do love it when you get feisty"

He walked away from her and back into the shadows "Until tomorrow dear sweetheart" Watcher felt his presence wane and her Nanos retreated.

She felt Regina place a hand on her shoulder and rolled into her sister's embrace.

"Who was that?"

The question was quiet and filled with nervous tension.

"No-one you need to worry about. He's not taking me anywhere. I'm not going anywhere"

Regina rolled her eyes "I didn't ask that"

"You didn't have to. You're as open as a book to me"

Regina cocked a brow "Really?"

"Your lip twitches when you lie" Watcher stated, matching her sisters expression.

(End Music)

Watcher stayed with her sister that night, she didn't feel she had a place with Mary-Margaret, David or Emma now. No doubt the two fairytale parents would tell their daughter what had happened in the back of Gold's shop.

Herself and Regina had a wonderful dinner of tomato free pasta followed by a magnificent apple pie and butterscotch ice-cream. They both sat in silence whilst eating, but the conversation picked up after dinner.

"I've just realised" started Regina

"You should be so much more older than you are now. Since you weren't involved in the curse and weren't under mothers protection spell. How is that possible?"

"It's quite simple really. Time moves so slow in the Watcher Dimension and every story moves at a different time. But, just like you, we don't have any time travel. Like I said, Time moves so slow. Like, really, really, really...slow"

Regina looked intrigued "How slow?"

"Well here, probably..."

Watcher observed the clock on the wall, calculating the time dimensions.

"Five minutes to Eight months...give or take a few weeks. So five minutes there would be to about eight months here in Storybrooke. It'd be different in the Enchanted Forrest though" she said casually.

Regina looked at her wide eyed and brows raised, her face saying what she was to dumbfounded to say, Watcher nodded at her.

"Seriously. By the way, why don't I look like you or mum? Do I look like dad?"

Regina shook herself from her shock "Uh, well you don't look like daddy, he had brown eyes and hair like mother and I. But, mother did show me a picture of her mother, our grandmother, and you look alot like her. Darker hair, but you have the same eyes"

She smiled, remembering that conversation she'd had with Cora at the beginning of the week.

"If I find that picture, I'll show you" her smile widened.

It was Regina's turn to look at the clock.

"It's getting late. You can sleep in the guest room. It'll probably, very quickly, turn into your room"

Watcher smirked "If that's alright with you. I plan on staying after all"

Her smirk quickly faltered.

"Just don't throw me out when you go into work tomorrow" she stated, hurrying up the stairs.

Regina stared after her blankly "What does that mean?"

"Is it the same room I was in before?"

"What d'you mean?! Sis!"

"It was an accident! Don't hurt me!" Watcher called down the hall.

"What did you do?!" Regina advanced up the stairs after her sister as a door slammed closed, but nothing could keep the small smile from her face.

Regina returned to her mother's grave the following morning, alone. Allowing her sister the time she felt she needed to figure things out on her own.
She could sense Watcher was more put out about losing what little friends she had made during her time in Storybrooke than she was about losing her mother. After all, she never really knew Cora to call her mother.

So, with a few tears leaking through her lashes, Regina placed another rose atop her mother's casket, sniffling to herself. She didn't hear Gold approaching.

"Black always was your colour"

She looked up to him in alarm "I'm here to bury my mother. So if you've come to gloat..."

"I came to pay my respects" he told her, showing her the rose he brought with him and placing it so it crossed her own on the coffins lid.

"We had our differences, but Cora will always have a place in my heart"

She stared at him through her peripherals "You killed her to save your own life"

"Sadly, desperate times call for desperate measures"

"Like getting Mary-Margaret to trick me into killing my own mother? You may be able to hide behind your Dagger, but she can't" at her own words, she almost felt pity for poor Snow White...almost.

"She's going to die for what she did"

"Oh, come on" Rumplestiltskin breathed.

"We both know killing her will cost you the thing you want most" he stated obviously.

Regina looked away from him to Cora's final resting place.

He tried another tactic "Why don't you just give up this obsession with vengeance? You know it can never make you happy"

"Yes it will" Regina told him, her tone strong and bold, certainly not the tone of the sobbing woman he had seen minutes ago.

"You had a whole curse worth of vengeance and what did it get you? A gaping hole in your heart. One I doubt your little sister or Henry will be able to fill"

"Don't you dare bring them into this!" she affirmed low and dangerously.

"That was your curse"

"Which you cast. Still haven't learned your lesson, have you?" he insisted.

She turned to him cynically "What lesson?"

"The same one your mother learned a long time ago. You can't have everything. She wanted power, ripped out her own heart to get it" he motioned to his heat to make his point.

"You want vengeance? Henry's the price you'll pay. And maybe Watcher too. Time to cut your losses"

Regina looked at her feet, but started to shake her head.

"Never. I will have my son. I will have my vengeance. And I will not lose my sister again! I will find a way to have everything"

Rumplestiltskin turned to leave "Oh. Before I forget"

There was a puff of brown-green smoke next to Regina as he summoned Watcher's Violin. Of course she didn't know what it was.

"Would you mind giving that to your sister. I don't want it hanging round my shop" he then left completely, the rhythmic step of him and cane fading through the underground tunnels of The Vault.

P.O.V. Change

Meanwhile, in Mary-Margaret's Loft. Emma, David and her son sat having breakfast, wondering what to do about a very depressed Mary-Margaret, who was curled up under the covers of her bed.

"Anything?" Emma asked David as he passed her with a bowl in his hand, one that was meant for Mary-Margaret.

"She won't eat a bite"

"What's wrong with her?" Henry asked as he looked at his young grandmother.

"Nothing. She's just a little sick" Emma told him in attempt to ease his worry.

David and her glanced at each other trying to convince themselves of just that as Henry looked between them unconvinced.

"You guys are lying to me, aren't you?"

"No one's lying" said Emma gently.

"You are. Just like you did about my dad" he leaned into Emma as he said this, and she was reminded of Regina somewhat, she placed a hand on his shoulder

"Henry, I..."

Henry flinched away from her and David looked up from where he'd busied himself with the dishes to his daughter yet again.

"He's right. No more lying" Emma told him.

"Emma..."

"He deserves to know"

David sighed in defeat, thinking to himself 'You can only shield them for so long'

"Here's the thing, Henry. Cora's death, Mary-Margaret was partially responsible for it. And that's why she's so upset"

"No. No, she couldn't"

There was a knock on the door and David moved to answer it as Emma continued.

"She was trying to protect us"

"But she's Snow White. She wouldn't hurt anybody"

"There's also something else you should know" Emma said.

Henry looked from his grandmother back to his mother, waiting for her to carry on.

"Watcher...is Regina's sister, and this bit of information has made Mary-Margaret even sadder than she already is. I wasn't sure how to tell you, but I guess now is better than later"

Henry stared at her incredulously as David screamed "Get out!"

"I think you're gonna wanna hear what I have to say. For her sake" Rumplestiltskin said, indicating in Mary-Margaret's general direction.

"What are you talking about?"

Emma and Henry were now on their feet, making their way to the door.

"Regina. She's planning to strike back against your mother"

Emma pulled Henry close and held him back when he tried to move forward.

"What is she gonna do to her?"

"Well she didn't say"

"What about Watcher?" Henry asked him.

Rumplestiltskin looked at him confused, then saddened.

"What about Watcher?" he repeated back.

"No" David interrupted.

"You don't get to come in here and just drop a bomb like that. You're gonna figure this out. And you're gonna help us" David's eyes were alight with the fires of determination.

"And why should I?" Gold shot at him, daring for an answer.

"Because, aside from us being family now, Mary-Margaret saved your life"

He observed Rumplestiltskin looking over to Mary-Margaret unhappily.

"Now you owe her a debt" David stated, also unhappy with the circumstances.

"And you always pay your debts, don't you? You're gonna help us stop Regina"