Hi everyone! Here is a chapter for you all. There will be two more after this one.
I just wanted to say again about some story ideas I have that I am hoping to start soon and to ask which one you would like to see. I still have my OQ college story that I did wan to start before but I hadn't quite got all the details sorted so there is still that one. Or I have an EvilCharming story, college based again with David Charming coming from a very rich family and wanting to rebel against them meeting the lovely Regina Mills who will be the one to help him. Or I also have had another idea recently from personal things and from watching a film. The idea is about Regina being diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer and what the struggle would be for not only herself but for others around her.
So just to see if anyone else wants to vote for whichever idea before I see which one has the most.
Regina and Zelena walked back into the station, after having dropped the twins off with Robin. Regina clutched the small spell book tightly in her hand as her eyes landed on their mother who was sitting on the bed once again. Cora looked over to her two daughters. "So you have returned, and with my heart." Cora said pushing herself up from the bed and walking over to the bars of the cell. Cora's eyes wandered down to Regina's hands and landed on the spell book. "I presume you have spoken to Rumplestiltskin."
"Yes we have." Zelena said. "He gave us what we needed. We are going to take your magic from you and return your heart. Just like we discussed."
Regina walked closer to the cell looking straight at Cora. She opened the spell book to the page she needed. "Your sure you want this?" Regina asked.
"Are you seriously asking that Regina? With her magic she is dangerous." Zelena said.
"Am I too much like you? Is that another reason why you did what you did to me?" Regina asked ignoring Zelena. "You went to a seer when you were pregnant with me. You felt something. Something powerful. You got scared. You wanted a glimpse into the future to see exactly how powerful the child you were carrying was. But what you saw scared you even more didn't it?" Regina said with tears building up in her eyes.
Zelena frowned at this. "Regina what are you talking about?"
"Tell me what I have said isn't true." Regina said firmly staring at Cora.
"Who told you about that? No one else knew." Cora replied.
"No one told me. I just knew…I don't know why." Regina said. "So it is true?"
"Yes it is. I did go to a seer when I was pregnant with you. There was something about you that I couldn't understand. I wanted to understand so I looked into the future." Cora started to explain. "I saw you…perhaps around the age you are now. Your heart was broken, you were broken and you took a path that would you thought would lead you to happiness but it wouldn't. You chose to practice dark magic. You were incredibly powerful and incredibly good at it. Everyone was terrified of you. They called you the Evil Queen."
"Sounds more like you." Zelena frowned in confusion.
"Exactly." Cora said with a slight nod. "At the time I didn't know that. I had my heart but I was starting to practice dark magic. Revenge was to sweet to forget. However with my heart.…"
"You could still feel love." Regina finished.
"Yes. After seeing what I did it haunted me. When you were born and I looked at you I could see the vision and it scared me. I loved you so much that I didn't want you to end up that way. I knew that the only way I could protect you and stop you from becoming more powerful than myself was to lock you away but I couldn't do that with my heart in so I removed my heart." Cora explained.
"But you didn't lock Regina up until she was five. Why did it take you so long?" Zelena asked.
"Although I removed my heart I needed to work up to the act itself. It took every bit of evil and hatred I had in me to lock Regina up and over the five years that is what I was building up." Cora said.
"Is there a chance I could still become that person?" Regina asked.
"Everyone has darkness in them Regina. I think it takes someone with great power to push that darkness down in them." Cora replied.
"So I could still be that person?"
"I have a feeling that that person will not come to life." Cora replied.
Regina nodded slight and then looked down at the spell book. "I bring you forth from the dark, and hold you to the light. Let not your past control your future. Take you power from your life and forever be free from the darkness and power within." Regina read letting her magic work within her. They both looked up to see light shining around their mother sucking out all the magic from her. Within seconds their mother fell to the ground. Zelena quickly opened the cell and grabbed the heart out of the box holding it towards Regina. Regina took it from Zelena and she plunged her hand into her mother's chest replacing the heart. She quickly took her hand out and they watched as their mother gasped for breath. "Do you promise?" Regina whispered, the tears in her eyes now running down her cheeks.
Cora's eyes looked towards Regina. A shine had appeared and a look of love washed over her face as she looked at her youngest daughter. Her hand moved up to Regina's cheek, her thumb wiping away a tear and Regina leaned into her mother's loving touch. "I promise you Regina. That person I once saw is not you and will never be you. You are light."
"I don't think I can handle this magic." Regina sniffed.
"You can do anything Regina. I know you can." Cora said. She then looked towards Zelena and smiled at her. A smile that Zelena had not seen in a very long time. A smile that showed so much love. "Zelena…"
"Hello mother." Zelena replied with a slight smile. That was the mother she remembered. The mother she had thought she lost.
Zelena and Regina took Cora back to the mansion where Leopold, Mary-Margaret, Robin, Emma and Henry and the twins were. Everyone watched Cora warily while Zelena and Regina explained what they had done. "She isn't dangerous any more. She has no more magic and has her heart back."
"Which makes the rest of the town dangerous towards her. They will all go after her now she is vulnerable." Mary-Margaret said. "Whatever mother has done she doesn't deserve whatever they might want to do to her."
"Doesn't she?" Leopold added.
"Daddy please." Regina sighed. "I understand you will be angry at mother…"
"What I don't understand is why you aren't angry at her?" Leopold said in frustration as he stood up from the sofa and began to pace around the room.
"I am…I was…I know why she did what she did now." Regina said. "I understand why she did what she did…even if perhaps she got out of control in what she was doing." Regina said. One of the twins started to cry and she walked over to the buggy. She lifted a crying Roland out of the buggy and cradled him in her arms. "Please daddy we need to help her."
Cora stepped forward and placed her hand on Regina's arm giving her a small smile before looking towards Leopold. "I know you probably hate me and I do not blame you for that. I also don't expect you to understand why I did what I did. I know you all see me as that Evil Queen that kept Regina locked away, that hurt her in some of the worst ways anyone could…I did do all that and believe me I regret it with everything in me but I want to redeem myself. I want to grab this second chance and show the love I should have shown."
"I believe you mother." Mary-Margaret said as she stood up and walked over to Cora, wrapping her arms around her.
"Thank you dear." Cora said with a slight smile. She pulled away and cupped Mary-Margaret's cheeks. "You all turned into beautiful women and I am very proud of you all." Cora then looked towards Henry. She slowly walked over to him and everyone watched her closely. "And you Henry have become a very handsome young man and an incredibly smart one at that. You figured out everything, even after everything I done to hide it."
Henry shrugged a little. "Auntie Regina helped to."
Regina smiled a little and Robin stood beside her, wrapping his arm around her waist. He wasn't sure about Cora but if Regina trusted her mother now then he would back her up. Cora laughed a little and gave a nod. "Your auntie was always smart. She could figure most things out." Cora said as she turned to look at Regina and Robin. She glanced to the baby in Regina's arms and then the other sleeping baby in the buggy beside her. "And your children will be exactly the same Regina. I hope you are prepared for that."
"I am." Regina replied. "How are we going to tell the town?" Regina asked.
"We just have to tell them the truth. What else can we say." Emma said. "The question should be who is going to tell them?"
"I think I should." Regina said with a slight sigh. "It was my idea to give mother a second chance I think I should be the one to take the backlash when there is one."
"Well you're not doing that alone." Zelena said.
"Your definitely not." Robin added kissing the side of Regina's head. Regina leaned into him a ghost of a smile on her face.
"No you won't. We will all be there with you." Leopold said and Regina smiled at him. She had everything she needed around her. She had her family and that really made her smile and for a minute forget about the conversation she was going to have with the town.