Finding Love

Chapter 2

REGINA

It's been years since my mother and Evidence were banished to Wonderland. And my father just had to bring up the painful subject about Mother. She does not control me! Why can't he see I won't be happy until Snow White is dead?!

I'm currently staring daggers at the one candle on my birthday cake about to make a wish when I get annoyed by the jester.

"Make a wish. Make a wish!" He says grinning like a moron with the bells on his clothes jingling and giving me a migrain. This is the worst birthday ever.

"Woo!" I blow out the candle.

"What did you wish?" The grinning idiot asked me.

"That you were an amusing jester. And it didn't come true." I say than snapped his neck with my magic, instantly killing him.

Everyone gasps and backs away nervously as i pick up a present and toss it behind me carelessly. "Let's wind this up. I've had enough revelry." I grumble irritably. Was Snow whites heart on a plate too much to ask for?!

"Oh, don't go yet." I stiffen at the sound of my mothers voice. I looke up to see her smiling and walking through the crowd of people towards me.

"Mother! How did you get out of Wonderland? Where's Daddy and Evidence? Did you do something?" I press. I know mother never loved her or my father and I haven't heard from him sinse this morning.

"Oh, I lost track of him hours ago when I had him wrap this. Happy birthday darling." She smiles like a loving mother. I know better than that. Evidence must still be in wonderland. I'll have to find a way to save her one of these days. After all she was the one that pushed mother into Wonderland when I was too weak.

"I don't want anything from you." I say in disgust.

"Oh, you'll want this. I did what no one else could do, Regina. I brought you your revenge. Snow White's beating heart." She says as she opens the box to reveal a heart.

"Really?" I ask in curiosity leaning towards the heart in almost excitement.

"Crush it and she dies at last. You don't believe me? Let me show you. Bring the magic mirror." She orders my black nights as I give her a skeptical look. This is too good to be true. It has to be. "Show us Snow White." She tells my mirror.

I giggle grabbing the heart in my hands and stare into the mirror watching Snow and her band of seven sweaty little child beasts laugh at my incompetence for not killing her yet another day. I begin to crush the heart and as i do Snow stands up gasping and tearing at her chest in worry.

"Snow?" Her fiance asks in alarm seeing her trying to catch her breath.

My smile begins to grow and I smirk as I squeeze the heart harder in my fist. I feel so powerful and releaved knowing I'll finally be free of Snow White.

But as I continue to slowly crush the heart I see the damn cricket conscience jump out of her shirt looking dazed and drunk. Than Snow and the dwarves laugh. I frown and crush the heart into dust but Snow is still alive! I hear a thump and one of my gaurds now lies on the floor dead.

"Someone switched the hearts." My mother says shocked.

"Who?!" I glare at her my fists clenched and my thirst for blood unquenched.