Near the castle of the Queen of the United Worlds.
— Soo,— Regina said. — Everyone to the castle.
Once in her room, Regina sat the pirate and Alex on the sofa. She was looking at the young girl and frowning slightly.
— One more time, — she said, and pointed at Jones. —Do you want me to rip out his heart?
Alex nodded.
— Why? — Regina asked another question.
— So that my mother doesn't do it,— Alex replied.
— Now I'm completely confused, — Regina said. — Are you saving a pirate or a heart?
— Both of them,— Alex told Regina about the conversation with her mother during the meal.— I'm afraid she'll do it one day. We still have a difficult relationship. And if she decides to do it in an attempt to regain my trust?
— Did you and she have a fight? — Regina asked.
— No, so far everything is fine... But who knows for how long, — Alex explained.
— That's clear, — Regina nodded, — but why pull it out? I can just cast a protective spell. I put this on Henry's heart...
— Is this when you all came back from Neverland? — Alex asked.
— Exactly, — Regina nodded. — Peter Pan wanted to steal it. But he still outsmarted us then, your grandfather was a cunning fox.
— Grandfather? — Alex frowned for a second, thinking. — Oh, yeah. So, will you apply protection?
— With ease, — Regina passed her hand over the pirate's heart and whispered a spell. — Only she can easily take it off if she wants to.
— I won't let that happen, — Alex said firmly. — Thanks.
Enchanted Forest. The Well of Desires.
Alex went out to a familiar concrete building, it was round and with a roof. A young woman was standing next to him, the young girl immediately recognized her.
— Hi, Ruby,— Alex said. — What are you doing here?
Ruby turned around and gave her a sad smile.
— Making a wish, — she replied. — And you?
— And I'm walking in the forest. I see you're standing, — Alex leaned her fifth point on the edge of the well. — What kind of wish? Maybe I can help.
— I want to make peace with my wife, — Ruby wiped away a tear and it fell into the well, but Ruby didn't notice it, — and don't quarrel anymore. Are you already doing magic?
— Well, that's a big word. I tried to make a fireball recently, but I made a plastic ball, — Alex waved her hand in annoyance. — Tell me what you're fighting about. Maybe you can do without magic?
— I'm afraid not. We want children, but there is one small problem, — Ruby sighed.
— Oh, — Alex nodded, — so, let's conjure her a male organ and that's it.
Ruby giggled at first and then laughed.
— Alex, that's very nice of you, — Ruby said, — but we have a different problem. I'm a werewolf, a wolf. And in order to have offspring, I need a wolf for this, too, and I haven't seen my pack for a very long time. But that's half the trouble. Even if I meet a wolf from my pack, she will regard it as treason. That's why we're fighting.
— Wow, how difficult everything is with you. But you can turn her into a wolf! For a while, for a couple of hours or a day, — Alex replied and, looking at her friend, added, — when I learn magic. Or you can ask Regina.
— I was not thinking of that. — Ruby looked at Alex with interest. — Tell me about your magic training. Are you already creating fireballs? For something or just practice?
— I was saving Hook — Alex nodded. — At the port.
— Don't tell me you're in love with him, — Ruby gasped. — Your father would have died a second time if he'd heard that.
— I didn't fall in love with him, — Alex protested. — Although he's cute, self-confident a little...
— Yeah? And what happened there, at the port? — Ruby said and took her friend's arm. — Come on, will you walk me to the hotel and tell me everything.
The Castle of the Queen of the United Worlds.
After Alex left, a knight came in to Regina. This guy was her helping and served as a kind of secretary - he reported all the news and dealt with her errands.
— Your Majesty, to you... — the guy began, but did not finish, as Regina, who was standing straight, suddenly grabbed a chair to keep from falling. — What's with you?!
The guy rushed to her and stood next to her, ready to caught her up, but Regina stood up straight again.
— I am okay, I'm just dizzy, — Regina said. — What did you report?
— The letter has arrived for you. There is no return address, and I do not know who it is from, — the knight reported.
— Let me figure it out, — Regina stretched out her hand for the envelope, but again staggered.
The guy was next to her this time and caught her so she wouldn't fall.
— Your Majesty! — He said. — You should lie down. Maybe I call a doctor?
— No,— Regina replied. — Although... I'll lie down, and you bring Snow White to me. Do you know where she lives?
— Of course, — the guy smiled.
He helped her to get to bed, and already lying in bed, Regina opened the envelope, it was from Zelena. She was in her repertoire and reproached her sister for being the last to find out about the revived Robin. Regina, with a slight grimace, put down the letter. After a while, an alarmed Snow White came, leaving the guy outside the door.
— Regina, what's with you? — Snow White asked. — Your knight didn't tell me anything.
— Nonsense, just a slight indisposition, — Regina waved her hand. — Can you fill in for me? Not for long.
— Me? — Snow White was surprised. — Regina! It's one thing to look after Storybrooke, but it's another to look after all the kingdoms!
— For God's sake, Snow White, — Regina grimaced slightly, — let's without pathetic. You make it sound like I'm dying. It's only for a couple of days, I'm sure.
The World of Desires. The Evil Queen's Castle.
Alex entered her room and flopped wearily onto the bed. She didn't know what to do now. She remembered how she slapped an uppercut to that drunk and what a thrill she experienced at the same time. The young girl missed the coach, training, boxing, and at the same time she liked it here: learning magic was not easy, but exciting. Boxing is not an easy sport, but she has achieved quite great heights in it. Alex was tormented by contradictions: on the one hand, she wanted to return to the ring, her career was just beginning, she had been going to it for so long, and on the other — magic, new friends and mom. The most unusual mom in the world. The young girl sighed heavily, wondering what to do. And she was also afraid to leave the pirate alone. Regina may have cast a spell, but her mother is also no stranger to magic.
"The pirate is a jerk, of course",- Alex thought.- "That's no reason to kill him."
As if overhearing what she was thinking, the Evil Queen entered the room.
— Alex, honey, — she said, — I want to talk to you about the pirate.
— Oh, — Alex rolled her eyes, — don't we have anything else to talk about?
— I don't like you hanging out with him, — Gina said. — He's an alcoholic. And he has a daughter, she's a little older than you. Find yourself another guy.
— He's not my boyfriend! — Alex was indignant. — What makes you think that?
— Well, I don't know, you're lying here, sighing, — Gina shrugged. — I decided it was because of him.
— I miss the "pear", — Alex replied and sighed again.
— Pears? — The Evil Queen was surprised. — I like apples, pears not very much.
— Other "pear" - punching bag, — Alex smiled, and then suddenly sat up on the bed. — Wait, how could you hear me sigh? Are the walls so thin here?
— No, I just peeked through it. — Gina pointed to a large mirror and, seeing a frown, hastened to justify herself. — What? I was worried.
— Through the mirror... — Alex muttered and added a little louder. — Is this magic?
— Yes, — the Evil Queen smiled slightly, noticing the interest in her daughter's eyes. — Teach?
— Of course! — Alex exclaimed. — Like you even need to ask.
The Castle of the Queen of the United Worlds.
The door opened and Robin ran into the room. He went straight to the bed and sat down next to Regina, taking her hand, barely noticing that she was not alone in the room.
— What's with you? — He asked anxiously. — I heard it out of the corner of my ear, in a cafe, and immediately to you. Have you called Dr. Whale yet?
— I'm fine,— Regina assured him,— I just need to lie down.
— Okay. — Robin moved closer and kissed her.
Regina, responding to the kiss, put her hand on the back of his head and began to involve him in a more passionate one. Snow White coughed casually. The lovers stopped what they were doing, and Robin looked at Mary Margaret.
— Hello! I didn't notice you,— he said. — How are you?
— Everything is fine, — Snow White smiled. — You, too, I see. I remember when Emma and I came back, David and I were also captured by a wave of love.
— Well, I was reborn from the fountain of love in general. As they say, Zeus himself told me.
— Cupid, then,— Snow White joked.
— Wait, from the fountain of love? — Regina was surprised. — You didn't tell me.
— Yes, we hardly talk to you, — Robin took Regina's hand and kissed her fingers.
— We were like teenagers too,— Snow White said. — We almost didn't get out of bed for about a week. Oh, I think I get it... Regina, aren't you nauseous?
— I'm almost always nauseous of your chatter,— Regina said sarcastically. — Now the migraine will begin.
— So you can.. pregnant? — Snow White suggested.
— Are you pregnant? Robin asked happily.
— No!— Regina said rather rudely, for some reason this thought frightened her. — And now leave me alone both, I want to rest.
— Okay,— Robin leaned over and kissed Regina on the lips. — Speaking of Zeus! When I got to him, he uttered a strange phrase that I still did not understand: "The power of true love, multiplied by sacrifice on the day of its heyday, in the presence of Dignus miraculo, drowned in life—giving waters - are able to create miracles that even deities are not capable of."
Regina and Snow White exchanged glances - this phrase explained a lot, if not everything.
The World of Desires.
Killian Jones returned to in his little house collapsed on the sagging couch. He bought this house recently and was quite happy with it, it was small and resembled a stateroom. The guy put his good arm under his head. Alex had been constantly on his mind lately. It was strange that he hardly thought about Emma. Jones thought back to the moment when the girl deftly hit the drunk in the jaw.
"She's a good fighter," Jones thought. "I wonder if she can fight with swords? Although, why would she do that? She has magic. And a mother who will tear up anyone! She saved me from her mother. Me or the heart?"
Jones gently passed his hand over his left breast.
"It doesn't matter — I need to thank her somehow. I wish I could take the ship back from Blackbeard. I'd like to take her sailing! She probably hasn't been on a real ship even once! And if also under the stars... Or get something unusual for her, some kind of a curiosity that does not exist in their world. I wonder where Mr. Smee is now? Or maybe I should take her to Agrabah, take her for a ride on a magic carpet?"
Jones liked Alex more and more, but he convinced himself that he just wanted to thank the young girl. He was lying on the bed and sorting out ideas, what would surprise Alex with such an unusual thing, and could not think of. He sat down and decided to look around: his gaze lingered on a painting hanging on the wall. A ship cutting through the waves.
— I'll draw her,— Jones said aloud, — but where's my easel?
He looked up, remembering if there was an attic here and if he could have put it there in a drunken stupor. There was a ring on the ceiling, as if there was a door.
"There is an attic, great," Jones put a chair, inserted a hook into the ring and pulled slightly. A whole pile of junk fell out of there, but there was no easel in it.
"I have to go to my daughter again! So he's there. Wonderful!" He didn't bother with cleaning, he just stuffed everything back in.
Killian returned with an easel an hour later and put it near the window, three hours later the portrait was ready. He took a couple of steps away and admired portrait.
"Not bad. She should like it," Killian thought and lay down, satisfied, on the bed. Tomorrow he would invite her to his house and show her the portrait. The pirate smiled at his thoughts and happily fell asleep.
The Castle of the Queen of the United Worlds.
Regina, after the guests left, lay and thought about Snow White's words. She even instinctively stroked her stomach.
"What if I really...? Henry said something about children, and Robin is really very hot lately...", — Regina grinned. — "He's always been hot, but after coming back, he's especially... passionate. Or maybe I just missed him."
She automatically ran her hand over her stomach again.
— You're doing it early. If you're pregnant, the baby is like a tadpole there yet.
Regina frowned and stared at the visitor.
— Snow — she said, — didn't you leave?
— Left and came. Listen, I'm worried, — Snow White sat down on her bed.
— Will I be a good mother if I am pregnant? — Regina smirked.
— Regina, you are a wonderful mother, but you don't know all the "charms" of pregnancy, — Snow White took her friend's hand. — Tell me about your feelings, and I will be able to determine if this is one of the symptoms of pregnancy.
— Are you also a doctor now? — Regina asked, arching an eyebrow. — Had sex with a doctor once and became one?
— God, Regina,— Snow White rubbed her forehead tiredly. — First of all, did you, along with Robin, get your sarcasm back? Secondly, when was it? And thirdly, I gave birth, twice. I know everything that happens to the body when a person grows in you. In all its manifestations.
— Speaking of Robin, where did he go?— Regina asked.
— He was going back to the cafe to talk to the children,— Snow White replied. — You wanted to be alone.
— Exactly! — Regina said. — Alone, but since that's no longer possible, I will be chose him instead of you.
— Oh. Okay, — Snow White stood up, her face was like stone. — I'll go find him and bring him back.
— Snow, wait! — Regina grabbed her friend's fingers. — I'm sorry, I really went too far. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I don't know what came over me. Maybe me really need to go to Dr. Whale?
— He won't tell you anything, — said Snow White, sitting back down. — Even if you got pregnant, the term is still small. Well, how long has Robin been here? Two days? Three?
— Snow, I'm asking you, let's talk about something else.
— Okay. Tell me about Alex, do you communicate? — Snow White smiled, but when she noticed the puzzled look, she was a little embarrassed. — Henry told me about her. And Ruby is still here, they also talked.
— Yes, she is very sociable, — Regina chuckled and added, — somewhat resembles Emma. I think even she and Hook are having an affair, although they both haven't realized it yet. Poor Mr. Gold. It's a good thing he doesn't see it, he'd be furious.