Regina's PoV:
Two Years Ago:
The next morning after breakfast, I made sure I had an hour to myself before my first meeting of the day, I headed towards the library in hopes of finishing that book I had started last night, two of my guards followed closely behind me, as I walked along the corridor, drink in hand.
As I enter the library everything was exactly as I had left it last night, the only difference was that the fire I had last night to keep myself warm had burned out, leaving only smouldering ash, that meant I had to open the heavy curtains to let the day light in, placing my glass down on the table next to the book that I had placed face down last night, I walk over to the nearest curtain, waving one of my hands above my head using my magic to open the curtain, once I have opened all of the curtains in my library, with a simple wave of my hand I sit in my favourite red leather chair, picking up the book and continue to read it.
After about forty minutes , I believe I have finally found a solution to my problem, closing the book I stand up giving my back a little stretch, then taking the book with me, I made my way to my vault, where I keep all my most powerful magic and potion books, most importantly the book with the recipe for the infertility potion, plus all the ingredients that I had used.
I cross reference both books, letting out a heavy sigh as the realisation sank in, it was a kind of loophole, it turns out that the infertility potion is a poison, it's design to kill the womb of the woman who drinks it, I knew that before drinking it, what I didn't know was that if the woman who drinks the infertility potion and she had magic can get another woman pregnant using magic, there is just one catch, for the magic of the spell to work, myself and whoever I choose to get pregnant, we will need to be bound by marriage.
"Fuck!" I yell throwing both books across my vault, placing my hands on my hips, I inhale deeply, trying to compose myself remembering that I had a meeting in twenty minutes, "I never wanted to get married again," I said to an empty room, maybe there is another way of having a child, I tell myself as I pick up the books from the floor, reading them once again, desperately hoping I might of missed something, I didn't have time to finish reading them, as I was informed that the council was waiting for me, with a heavy sigh I locked both books away to keep them safe, I leave my vault.
I enter the small council room, that consists of a round table big enough to sit six, myself included, taking my seat, to my right sits Lady and Lord Ashwood from the neighbouring kingdom, on my left the captain of my guards and my advisors, plus the sheriff, who I have hired and is loyal to me, not that idiot Nottingham that my mother tried to get me to marry.
Emma PoV:
Present Day:
I bite my lower lip, at seeing her eyes light up with hope that I might finally be pregnant, I hated the idea of disappointing her again, fear of making her angry, slowly I reach for her hand, I don't know what possessed me, either bravery or stupidity, maybe both, either way I relaxed when she allowed me to take her hand and even more so when she intertwined our fingers together, we share a soft smile for a moment, only a moment.
"Your Majesty, my queen," I take pause to inhale deeply, "unfortunately not this time," no sooner than the words are out of my mouth, she ripped her hand out of mine, I watched as her face turns from soft to one of anger.
"Then why are you disturbing me? If it isn't to tell me that you are carrying my child?" she asked angrily.
"Because I had also been doing some research of my own, regarding the infertility potion you drunk, remember when you told me that that the only way for you to have a child was to marry me and use that magic potion you make me drink before we are intimate? I started-thinking that if it was indeed that simple, I would have gotten pregnant by now," I stop to take another deep inhale, plus I wanted her to think about what I had just told her.
"So? what has your research turned up?" Regina asked me, still with a hint of anger in her voice, even with anger in her voice, she doesn't seem to be too angry with me, plus she seems interested in my research, that is a very good sign.
"What if I was to tell you about a Legend of a lake? Lake Nostos? It's waters are said to have magical properties that can not only return to you something that was once lost, but to also have magical healing properties as well, my Queen if you drink the waters from the lake, it will undo the damage of the infertility potion, so we can finally be able to have a child together," I tell Regina with the sound of hope in my voice.
"What makes you so sure that I'm the reason we cannot have children? What if it's you who is the one who cannot bear children? What if you are barren?" Regina asks me, I have known her long enough now! To know when she is getting defensive, I take another deep inhale, my mother always told me I had a temper that I never knew how to control, that has changed over the last two years being married to Regina, I had quickly learnt to either control my temper or be killed.
"Then we will travel to the lake together and drink it's waters, to heal together," I said hoping Regina wouldn't take what I had just said the wrong way, seeing as if I was telling her what to do.
"There is no point, the lake dried up years ago after King David kill the creature that once guarded the lake," Regina informed me as she waves one of her hands in the air dismissively.
"What if I told you there was another lake," I said with a big smile on my face as Regina turn to look at me with her mouth half open, she was speechless for once, "unfortunately this lake also has a ghastly creature that drowns those to attempt to drink from her waters, apart from king David no one who's ever faced it has lived," I sadly informed her, however I had a feeling that Regina already knew that.
"I never realise there was another Lake, Emma this is great news, tell me where is this lake? Tell me everything you know," Regina says being very optimistic.
"Regina," I said using her name and once again taking her hand, I knew I was pushing my luck, I just wished she could see I have come to care for her, despite everything she has put me through, "We are in this together, we will have a child, no matter how long it takes," pushing my luck a little further I raised her hand to my lips so I could give the back of her hand a kiss.
Snow-White's PoV:
Two Years ago:
Letting out a sigh I entered the throne room with my husband David by my side, I see two men waiting at the bottom of the steps to our thrones, talking amongst themselves shying away from the palace guards, one older man and a younger man, I recognise the older man from my time I had spent at the village of Dune while on the run from my step-mother.
"Queen Snow White, it's so good to see you again," the older man says with a warm smile on his lips, I search my memory trying to remember the older man's name, Cody, I believe his name is Cody, am sure of it.
"And you as well," I said giving him my best smile, before looking at the younger man, who I didn't recognise, "and who is this?" I asked.
"This is my son, Kyle," Cody introduced us.
"I understand that you are having some kind of trouble with bandits?" I ask wanting to know the full story of the situation before offering any kind of assistance, though I had already decided we were going to help them, we just had to go through the whole song and dance of listening to them, then going off to have a private discussion to weather we are able to help them, these people had saved my life so of course I was going to give my help in return.
"Yes, these bandits are destroying our crops, killing our livestock, terrorising us, please can you help us?" He asks sounding desperate and very distressed.
"Of course, we are going to help," I said not giving David a chance to say anything, "You are both welcome to spend the night as it is getting late, then we can travel to your village first thing in the morning," I tell them.
"Would you give us a moment please?" David says taking a gentle hold of my arm, guiding me out of the throne room, "Snow, I feel for these people, I really do, however we need to be extremely careful, they village is on the edge of the enchanted forest, if your stepmother find out we are there, she might make a attempt on your life," David says, I knew why David was saying this, he doesn't think I can handle being so near to my evil stepmother's castle, thinks that am to fragile, he is wrong and I was going to prove it to him.
"David we are helping them, we will get the Village of Dune away from my evil stepmother," I tell him before making my way back into the Throne room.
To Be Continue:
There it is part two, I hope you enjoyed this part, I hope to bring you part 3 as soon as I am able. However I also ask you to be patient with me as I have other stories that I also need to update.
Please R xxx
