Regina's Rose

Storybrooke

Rose wakes up to another boring day in Storybrooke causing her to miss the days when she was oblivious to the boredom. Regina took her out the curse the year she adopted Henry so she remembers everything and ages. Rose is 28 which had her mother on edge for the first few months since the saviour is supposed to be 28. As Rose makes her way to the restroom she looks in the mirror.

She washes her Carmel color skin and decides to pull her long brown curls into a pony tail. She puts on a white t-shirt and a pair of pastel pink overalls preparing for the day.

Finally, she puts on her pink charm bracelet that doubles as a magic cuff. Rose and her mom soon realized after she awoke from the curse that though she couldn't do magic, her expressive powers do work in a world without magic. And they do need to be hidden. She then grabs her large pink crossbody bag and checks that all her spray paint cans are inside and then she's off to work.

"Apartment door Quartz." Rose hears someone call behind her and she turns and locks it.

"Thanks Mary-Margret." She calls back. She didn't see a point in being mean to Snow since she couldn't even remember her life and sometimes felt bad for her. Plus the teacher that had replaced her former life as Regina's enemy was quite nice.

Rose walked to work at the street art gallery she owned. She walked into the colorful alleyway and stopped at her newest commission spot, Mary-Margret's. Rose had realized how much money she earned from this gallery and decided to help other people with the money. So many people can't pay Mr. Gold's rent so she gets 10 dollars for a slot and then the person "paints" it themselves and earns commission from the slot box. Truthfully Rose painted every spot to help others with their rent but her mother couldn't know or else she'd shut down the gallery and make Rose move back in as her secretary.

Making people's lives easier in the curse was a huge no in her mother's book but Rose didn't believe that they should suffer anymore. By the end of the day Rose had 10,000 dollars and Mary-Margret's slot was finished. Mary would get her first payment from the gallery tomorrow. It was five and Rose was closing when her Mother called. Henry was missing.

Rose watched as her mom paced nervously in the living room, it has been hours since Henry was gone and it was the 20th time Graham hand checked Henry's room hoping something would appear. She'd been counting and when he came back down she finally snapped.

"Nothings going to appear sheriff so quit going up there and start coming up with a plan!" At that moment she looked out the window and saw the yellow bug pull up to the house. She ran out the house and bent down to Henry's height. "God you scared me Dani Jr ." Rose chuckled as she called Henry by the nickname she had for him. Rose's curse name was Danielle and Henry's middle name was Daniel so they both called each other Dani. But everyone else in town called her Quartz, it was her artist name.

"You're the Mayor." an unfamiliar voice called.

"No, I'm his sister my mom's the mayor." she said without looking up at the source of the voice. At that moment Regina walked out the house.

"Henry I was worried sick, where have you been."

"I found my real mom!" He yelled as he ran past her into the house.

"You're his birth mother."

"Hi" she said clearly nervous.

Rose stood up and finally put a face to the voice. She instantly fell in love with the blonde in front of her. Her blonde curls layed on her shoulders and her emerald green eyes made Rose melt.

Rose's POV
I didn't know why but I had suddenly gotten a surge of confidence despite the nerves. " Mother don't be mean, how would you like the best glass of apple cider you ever tasted." I said with a smile.