I Remember

Are You Kidding Me?

Regina

"HELL NO!" I exclaimed bouncing my crying newborn, the Charming's and Robin stood in front of me with a hopeful look. "I am not casting another curse and I am not letting anyone else! You know what the price is!" I said to Snow, she just pursed her lips and Robin walked towards me with an odd look on his face. "You mean when you killed your father?" He said coldly, Snow looked shocked and alarmed, quickly glancing at me then her husband. "What?" I said sharply, whipping my head around towards Robin. He just shrugged and urged me to continue. "Who told you that!" I spat, my eyes darting to Snow, she was the only person who knew. "Well maybe your friends aren't so loyal as you think? I don't think you should enact the curse Regina, then you'd have to kill me, and I'm your everything." He persuaded, I stepped back, he sounded completely different than the Robin who I spoke to last night. "You are my soulmate Robin, but you are not my everything. My children are my everything, and I will not sacrifice them for a curse. I'd rather be stuck here together than in Storybrooke without one of us. Now I don't know who told you about my father but it is totally unfair for you to blame me for it!" I screamed, stalking out of my chambers crying along with my infant.

The Dark One

One Day Ago

The man was gone. It didn't work, Emma had inherited the darkness but it wasn't enough to save me. I was now the Dark One, Rumple was gone and I was left. Her darkness was mediocre, her love still turned her heart from the darkness, she couldn't help me achieve greatness with love tainting her heart. I needed more power. I could feel the strength in my fingertips, it was pulling me towards it, I wanted to drink it in, my eyes sharpening as it grew stronger.

I figured following the pull by foot would be best, it led me to Regina's mansion, she was not nearly as powerful as I was, but yet it still pulled, great power was in that house, and I knew it wasn't that outlaw trash and his son. I put a transparency spell on the front of the house and I saw the Queen resting on her bed with her hands on her enlarged stomach, a golden aura shone around her, making her literally glow. It was the child. This child would bring me to my full potential and make me the most powerful sorcerer of all.

I stood over the brew that boiled deep in the forest, I was enacting the curse, I needed to get to Emma to train and prepare her for our plan to take Regina's child and kill it. I tossed my dagger in, making my sacrifice, I shed a tear watching the metal disappear into nothing. But I would get my power back in the Enchanted Forest. I would finally win.

I hated shifting into the dreadful body of the Queen's wretched sister, but I had to act the part of a concerned family member, encouraging Regina as she labored. With every scream she made it took everything in me not to shrill in delight. It was too easy, I had her in my arms half of the time, I could've just reached over and ripped the child's heart out while it was still inside of her, the pathetic thing, but I had to refrain, an act like that would be sloppy without an exit plan. "Okay Regina one more." I repeated in that horrid accent, pinching myself so I would shed a tear over this awful sight.

I watch Snow bring Regina's hands down and pull the child from her and saw the relief in her face, it almost made me feel a tad bit guilty for what I was about to do. But I felt a weaker pull towards this child, not nearly as strong as the one I still felt towards Regina. I scoffed and wrapped the child up, trying not to roll my eyes as I handed Regina the squirming little larvae. The three idiots crooned over the baby, I was lost in thought trying to sort out the possibilities on why this child didn't work and why I felt so much power towards Regina.

"Ow! Mm! Ahh!" Regina moaned, handing the baby over to her thief, it all clicked, twins. This baby would be it. This second long labor made me scream internally, but Regina's screams of agony made it all worth while, I forgot how much I loved reveling in other people's pain. She looked horrible, which was also quite amusing.

I saw the baby emerge and I wasted little time pulling it from her, she slumped back then looked over at her child, her love pouring out of her eyes for it. Robin cut the cord and placed their baby on Regina. I had to sit on my hands to avoid killing the child on the spot before taking it's magic. "Can I just see her for a second? I have to check uh- something..." I mumbled, Regina looked up and reluctantly handed her over, stupid girl, love is weakness, and I just took her baby right from her arms. The baby made my arms tingle, the magic rushing through my veins, my eyes changed color when it was complete, the baby whimpered in my arms, weak from its lack of magic. "Elizabeth Maria Locksley." Regina said proudly, the longer I held this child the more angry I grew, remembering back to the time when I held Regina in my arms after her birth, she should have been mine! But her wretched mother insisted that I left, that her malevolent prince would be a better father. "That's a beautiful name, but it's a shame." Then I did it.

I watched in delight as Regina sobbed and Robin pinned me to the wall. I froze him and then reached into his chest, pulling his beating heart from his chest.

Snow White

I didn't tell Robin about Regina's father for this reason, how dare he throw me under the bus like that! I stomped off to go find my friend and get away from whatever was going on with her boyfriend.

I knew exactly where she was, she hid here when I lived with her and she thought it was clever but I always knew where to look.

I opened the door that was disguised as the wall to the right, revealing my stepmother and Penelope, she had frustrated tears running down her face and she was trying to soothe her baby, and she also looked like she was in a great deal of pain. "What do you want!" She yelled at me, more hard sobs releasing from her lips. "I didn't tell him. I swear on my father's grave that I wouldn't tell Robin, I know that was something you hated so I knew I should not be the one telling him. I'm not going to betray you again Regina." I said sitting in front of her, she looked up and her expression started to soften and her baby started to calm down with her. "You didn't tell him?" She croaked, her face still twisted in pain. "I swear. I didn't tell him." I promised, she just nodded and then attempted to soothe her baby, but it wasn't working. "Come on Penelope please stop crying for mommy!" She pleaded, kissing her baby's scrunched face, suddenly the baby shuddered and continued to wail, my stepmother just leaned her head back and brought Penelope against her chest.

"Let me help." I said gently positioning her on her chest next to Regina's heart, the heart that provided life for her and her little sister, the minute her face hit the spot where she felt the constant rhythm, her crying stopped and she fell asleep. "How did you do that?!" Regina said in awe, the hurt in her face hinting, the terror showing, the same look she had when she couldn't soothe a crying Henry. "It wasn't me, she felt your heart, she knows you." I said helping her up. She groaned and gripped the wall tightly, pain eminent in her face. "Let's get you in bed." I said walking her out of the room, she shook her head in exasperation and gripped my hand harder. "I'm not going to bed, I'm fine." She said sternly, I rolled my eyes and pulled her out and down the hallway. "You gave birth yesterday and didn't recover at all, you need to go and stay in bed, you don't want to hemorrhage, because then we will be in a lot of trouble." I said sternly, she nodded and then wobbled back to her chambers

Regina

Robin and Charming were gone and Henry was still sleeping in my bed, I walked up to him and brushed his hair back, waking Emma from her bedside vigil. "I got it Emma." I said sitting in the chair next to him, she didn't move but she did scoot over for me to sit. "I found us a way back home. You will all go back and I will catch up with you all a couple days later." She said slowly, registering her words as she spoke them, a bittersweet look crossing her face. I just nodded and took my son's hand with my free one.

"Regina, I love Henry with every ounce of my being, and I know that he is safe with you, when I took the darkness I knew you'd take care of him and love him, even if something did happen to me." She cracked, I just looked at her and placed my daughter between my legs, then took Emma's hand. "Of course, he's always safe with me, and I feel the same way with you." I said in confusion, her kind words shocking me, she took a deep and uneasy breath standing up. "Well I will get Hook to carry Henry, we are going home tonight.