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Regina and Tessa walked down the walkway. Henry was watching a man as he drove off on his motorcycle. Tessa had never seen him before. She had a feeling that wasn't a good thing.

"Henry, who was that?" Regina asked. Henry shrugged and didn't answer. Tessa turned to Regina.

"I'm going to go." She said, gripping the strap of her shoulder bag. Regina nodded to her and took Henry's shoulders to steer him down the sidewalk.

"Okay. Don't stay out too long; it looks like a storm is coming in." Tessa nodded and hurried off.

Tessa placed the flowers by Graham's headstone. A drizzle of rain was already coming down, signaling the oncoming storm. She pulled up her hood on her sweatshirt and turned to go back home. Something caught her eye and she turned back towards the tomb a couple yards away. She looked around and then hurried over to it. There was something oddly alluring about it that made her want to get inside. She pushed the door open, going in and escaping the rain. She shut the door behind her and looked around. There were some urns on stone shelves on the walls, but the main vocal point of the tomb was a sarcophagus. She walked over to it and brushed aside some of the dust to read the name on the top.

"Henry Mills. Beloved Father." She read aloud. Thunder shook everything and she grabbed onto the sides of the sarcophagus to keep her balance.

"Okay… Home it is." She told herself. As she pushed herself up, the sarcophagus moved slightly. She frowned and then pushed on it again. It slid easily out of the way to reveal a staircase leading down.

"And this is how horror movies start." She whispered. She grabbed her phone from her pocket and turned it on for a light before descending the staircase. She walked into a room below where the walls were covered in drawers. There was artificial light below, so she turned off her phone again, tucking it back into her pocket. She walked to the nearest drawer and pulled it open. Then she screamed. A glowing heart was inside. She slammed the drawer shut again. Mom…Was the only thing that Tessa could think. She hurried back up the stairs. She shoved the sarcophagus back into place and sat down on the floor, leaning against the wall. She remembered what the doctor who had preformed the autopsy had said. A heart attack. Of course she had suspected that Regina had had something to do with it. But now she knew. With shaking hands, she pushed herself back up to her feet. She opened the door and saw it was raining even harder now, paired with gale force winds and lightning. She slammed it shut again and went back to sit on the floor. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and checked it. No signal. Lovely, she thought sarcastically.

Minutes ticked by as she waited for the storm to end. Occasionally thunder interrupted the otherwise long silence. Finally, she heard the rain slow as it hit the roof of the tomb. She stood up and went to look out the door. It was barely drizzling now. She slipped out, shutting the door tightly behind her. Then she sprinted for home.

Regina and Henry were waiting inside the house. Henry was sitting at one end the kitchen table, going over homework, while Regina sat at the other, going over paperwork. Both of them looked up when she walked into the house. She ignored them and hurried upstairs. Once she was safely in her bedroom, she stripped off her damp clothes and got into dry ones. Then she sat down on her bed and started throwing a tennis ball across the room for Sebastian and Romania to continually run and fetch for her. After a couple minutes, Regina came into the bedroom, nearly getting run over by the dogs. She quickly went to sit on the bed next to Tessa to avoid them.

"Did you get caught in the rain during the storm? It was a nasty one, wasn't it?" She asked. Tessa threw the ball again.

"Actually, I waited it out… In granddad's tomb." Tessa hoped to get some kind of reaction out of Regina, but her expression didn't change.

"Oh, good. I don't want you getting sick." Regina tried to stay causal and, to Tessa, who knew Regina the best, it showed. Regina stood up and went to walk out of the bedroom again. Tessa stood up and escorted her into the hallway while she herself stood in the doorway.

"Oh, mom?" Regina turned back around.

"Yes?" Her voice seemed a little strained. Tessa knew that she was getting worn down. It made her want to smile, but she kept her expression as blank as possible.

"I saw what's under the tomb. I know you killed Graham. You have a good day now." With that said, Tessa shut her bedroom door. She turned and leaned against it, a smirking making its way onto her face.

{Enchanted Forest – Past}

"You think you can fool me with the heart of a stag?!" Contessa slowly crept downstairs at her mother's yell. She reached her mother's vault just in time to see her rip the heart out of the huntsman. He stumbled back, shocked but not dead. Contessa ran into the room and over to the huntsman.

"Mother, what have you done?!" She yelled, letting the huntsman lean on her. Regina held up the glowing heart.

"I'm making sure he never feels again!" She growled. She opened a drawer and put the heart inside, closing it again and brushing off her hands, smirking all the while. Contessa could only stare at her.

"And now I know that it's no wonder why everyone in the land calls you the Evil Queen… because you truly are the evilest of them all."

Tessa woke up in a cold sweat, breathing hard from the memory that had come so unexpectedly. She had to look around her bedroom to remind herself where she was. Once she did, she leaned back against the pillows and stared at the ceiling for a moment before rolling over and crying herself back to sleep.