Here's a chapter for you all. How are we enjoying the new season of Once? I am really enjoying it! Dark Swan is awesome!
Once Cora and Regina had left the hospital Cora had marched Regina to the car and had practically pushed her in. Regina didn't say a word and just sat in the car, her seat belt on and fiddling with her fingers. She had not expected to hear she was pregnant. She couldn't understand how she could be. She never really went out, only if it was with family and Cora felt she had to go out. She didn't speak to anyone else, didn't see anyone else. It didn't make sense.
Cora got into the car and slammed the door behind her making Regina jump a little. As they drove through Storybrooke they sat in silence. Regina kept glancing over to Cora and she could see the anger on her face. She wanted to say something, hopefully have her mother calm down but as she looked at her mother she could see that speaking to her right now was not the best thing to do.
When they pulled up outside the house Regina was quick to get out of the car. She quickly walked into the house and was about to head upstairs to her room, her sanctuary when she heard her mother's voice behind her, calling her name. She closed her eyes and turned on her heel on the stairs. "Yes mother?" Regina said walking down the couple of stairs she had walked up.
"Where do you think you are going?" Cora asked in a tone that Regina could sense that her mother was not finished with her just quite yet.
"To my room mother." Regina replied quietly. She prayed her mother would just let her go. All she wanted was to just sit in her room, alone, to think over everything.
"I don't think so Regina." Cora said as she stepped forward and grabbed Regina's arm. She pulled Regina through to her study, her grip on Regina tightening with each step.
"Ow, mother you are hurting me." Regina whined a little and tried to pull away from her mother's grip but failed with every attempt.
Cora pulled a seat out and she pushed Regina down onto it. Letting go of her arm she walked over to her desk and opened a drawer. Regina watched her mother from the corner of her eye carefully. She had no idea what her mother was planning but she knew she was not going to like it. She never did when her mother was angry. Cora pulled out a pair of sharp scissors and Regina gasped. Cora began to walk towards her and Regina went to move. But Cora was too quick for her and pushed her back down onto the chair.
"Mother what are you going to do?" Regina asked, fearful of the answer.
"You deserve this Regina." Cora said gathering Regina's hair, her hair that reached to the middle of her back and pulling it together in her hands. "This is all your fault."
"Mother please. I didn't do anything. I don't understand this either. I am just as shocked. Mother please don't." Regina cried a little. She knew now what her mother was going to do to her.
Cora pulled on Regina's hair roughly and picked up the scissors. She brought the scissors up she began to cut through Regina's hair and Regina began to cry. She couldn't believe her mother was doing this to her. She winced a little as Cora grabbed more of her hair and cut at some more. "You deserve this Regina." Cora kept saying as Regina just cried and cried. "Stop your crying girl!" Cora shouted making Regina jump a little.
Cora's shouting attracted the attention of Zelena and Mary-Margaret as they walked into the house and they hurried over to Cora's study and gasped as they saw what was happening. There was Regina sat in a chair with Cora behind her, scissors in her hand and cutting her hair.
"Mother what are you doing?" Zelena asked a little in shock to see what was happening.
"She deserves this. It has nothing to do with you two. Now go!" Cora replied harshly.
"Mother you need to stop now." Mary-Margaret said stepping into the room and walking over to Cora and Regina. She reached forward and grabbed the scissors from Cora before she could cut anymore of Regina's hair. Mary-Margaret looked down at Regina to see her face tearstained and her hair cut very unevenly. She then looked back up at Cora and she could feel anger rising up in her. "Mother how could you do this?" Mary-Margaret shouted and motioned to Regina who just looked down at the floor and continued to cry.
"She deserved it." Cora repeated. It was like that was all she could say. That was all that was running in her mind. She was not in the wrong, Regina was in the wrong and she deserved what had just happened.
"How could Regina deserve this mother? What has she done that is so wrong?" Zelena snapped as she stepped towards Regina and placed a hand on her shoulder. "There is nothing she could have done that would deserve you doing that to her!"
"Oh really? How about her getting herself pregnant?" Cora fumed. "How did you do it Regina? How did you manage to sneak around with someone when you barely go outside of this house!"
"I-I didn't…" Regina said in-between tears. She couldn't understand how it had happened. How could she convince anyone that she had not been with anyone if she was pregnant. It made no sense. "I haven't been with anyone…
Zelena and Mary-Margaret couldn't believe what they had just heard. Their little sister was pregnant. Their little sister who wasn't allowed to leave the house. "Regina…if you are pregnant then there must have been someone…" Zelena said as she crouched down a little to look at Regina.
Regina shook her head. "I haven't been with anybody. I promise I haven't. I don't understand how this has happened. It doesn't make sense but Dr Whale has shown me my baby and I really am pregnant but I haven't been with anyone. How could I?" Regina said through her tears.
Cora scoffed and crossed her arms over her chest. "How else would you get pregnant then Regina? Explain this to me. There needs to be a man involved in some way Regina."
"I don't know how this has happened!" Regina shouted frustration getting the better of her and her anger at her mother showing through. She was sick of how her mother treated her. She was sick of it all. She couldn't stand it anymore. She couldn't sit back and let her mother do this to her. Not now. it wasn't just her she had to think about any more.
"Don't you dare shout at me Regina!" Cora fumed back at her.
"Why? Why can't I shout at you? You shout at me all the time. You show me anger all the time. Why can I not show you how I really feel for a change?" Regina snapped back and Zelena and Mary-Margaret stood back for a moment letting Regina go for it. Letting Regina fight back for a change. They had told her often enough that she should. "I am sick of how you treat me mother. I am sick of being stuck inside this damn house for no reason! There is no need for me to be stuck in here. There is no need for you to not let me go out of this house! And now it is not just me I need to think about. Yes I am pregnant and no I have no idea what has happened but I will not let you keep me in this damn house any longer!"
"How dare you talk to me like this?!" Cora said. She was shocked that her youngest daughter was speaking to her like this. Regina never had the nerve to speak to her like this.
"What have I got to lose now mother? You have already just cut my hair. You know how to really hurt me don't you? And you have just done it. Why do you feel you need to treat me the way you do? For years I have never understood why I am so different to Zelena and Mary but really I'm not you just treat me that way and I am done with it mother." Regina said.
"Oh Regina you have so much more you can lose…do you really think I will let you away with speaking to me the way you just have? You don't think having your sisters around will save you?"
"No I don't mother. Go on then. Hit me." Regina goaded. "Hit me like you always do to try and shut me up but it won't work this time. I'm not scared of you any more mother." Regina had no idea where this new found confidence had come from but she was going with it. She needed to keep going.
Zelena and Mary watched and Zelena saw their mothers hand move to hit Regina but she was quicker and she grabbed Cora's wrist. "Don't you dare." Zelena said quietly to Cora. "I told you before if I saw you hit her I wouldn't be happy." Zelena said and gently pushed Cora back a little. "Regina go and pack a bag. You're going to come and stay with me."
"The hell she is. She will not leave this house." Cora shouted.
"You really think I am going to leave her with you after what I have just seen mother? I should have gotten Regina out of here years ago!" Zelena shouted back. Zelena then glanced round to Regina who was still stood there. "Regina go." Regina nodded and she quickly ran out of the room Mary-Margaret going to help her. Zelena then turned back round to Cora. "You're going to lose everyone mother. You need to change the way you act before no one wants to be around you." Zelena said before she too turned on her heel and left the room to go and help Regina.
Once Regina had packed her bag Mary-Margaret carried it downstairs with her. They all walked down the stairs and Regina was expecting Cora to be there to try and stop her from leaving again but Cora was nowhere to be seen. Zelena placed a hand on Regina's lower back and she guided Regina out of the house quickly before anything could stop her from leaving. Mary-Margaret put Regina's bag into Zelena's car and said her goodbyes to them before getting into her car.
Regina and Zelena got into Zelena's car and start the journey towards Zelena's apartment. Zelena glanced over to Regina during the drive. "So…anything you want to tell me?" Zelena asked.
"If you are referring to the baby once again I will say I have no idea what the hell has happened. I have not been with anyone!" Regina said
"Okay, okay I believe you." Zelena said. "Pretty weird though. Generally there has to be a man involved in some way to get a baby…"
Regina nodded her head. "Yes…"
"Hey plus side to all this is the fact you finally stood up to mother. I couldn't believe it when you decided to let her have it. Mother was shocked too. It's about time." Zelena said.
"Yes…" Regina sighed. "But my hair is still ruined."
"We can fix that Regina. I will take you to my hairdressers. She can tidy it all up for you. Don't you worry. The main thing is you are free from mothers clutches." Zelena said.
"You really think mother will just let me leave? It won't take her long before she comes to take me back home and I back to where I started."
"She may come to take you back home but you don't have to go back with her Regina. You need to stand your ground. Don't let her take you. You have your baby to think of now. Don't let your baby get trapped like you did. I will help you okay?" Zelena said.
Regina nodded her head. Maybe things were going to get better.