Once Upon A Time ~ Book 1

Chapter 124 - Sweet Poison

Regina stood in her kitchen, chopping the poisonous blood red apple into small pieces with her knife and throwing them into a glass bowl. She then mixed them in a pot with some other ingredients. She mixed egg and flower, creating a doe. She wrapped the apple mixture in the freshly made doe and placed it on a tray in the oven.

Emma walked slowly to the front door of 108, Regina's house, thinking hard, knowing what had to be done. Her yellow Bug parked outside as it had so many times before. She hesitated, staring ahead sadly then rung the doorbell.

Regina rowled down the sleave of her white shirt as the doorbell rang. Her head jolted up. She pulled of her pale blue flower patterned apron and fixed her hair as she walked to the front door. She opened the door to Emma and looked at her in surprise.
"We need to talk." said Emma.
"Yes, I imagine we do." she said surprised. "I was just about to call you."
Emma nodded.
Regina held the door open and stepped out of the way. "Come right in."
Emma stepped inside and Regina closed the door suspiciously.
Emma walked accross the hall.
"Do what your so skilled at and make yourself at home." said Regina.
Emma looked around, peering into the three rooms around the hall, then she looked back at Regina.
"I believe you came to see me." said Regina.
"Right. Look, this isn't easy." she breathed heavily. "I think that this....... Whatever between us needs to end."
"At last, something we can agree on."
"I wanna make a deal with you about Henry."
She smiled. "I'm not making any deals with you......."
"I'm leaving town." she said, her voice shaking.
Regina's face dropped in surprise. "What?"
"This, what were doing is a problem..... And I am gonna go. But I have conditions. I still get to see Henry...... I get to visit and spend time. Whatever."
"And you get to see him, you're still in his life?"
Emma shook her head a little, her eyes glistening with tears. "Look, in any deal both parties are a little unhappy.... But let's be honest, we both know the world where I'm not in his life no longer exists. And there's no one who can do anything about that." Regina raised her head and was about to say something when the oven timer beeped in the kitchen. "You're right." she smiled.
Emma tryed to pull on a little smile.
"Would you mind following me for a moment?" Regina seed, pointing in the direction of the kitchen.
Emma nodded and followed her.
Regina bent down before the oven and pulled out the tray with the apple turnover. "So what are you proposing?" she placed the tray down on the counter.
"I don't know. Just figure it out as we go."
She sighed. "But he's my son."
Emma stared at her and hesitated, thinking. "......Yeah."
She smiled.
Emma turned and began to walk to the door.
"Oh, Miss. Swan?"
She stopped and turned, walking back.
Regina walked to one of the presses in the kitchen and took a plastic container from it.
"Maybe a little something for the road?" she asked, pointing to her freshly made turnover.
"Thanks."
"If we're going to be in each other's lives, it's time we start being cordial." She lifted the apple turnover from the tray and placed it in the plastic container. "My famous turnovers." she closed the lid. "Old recipe, but delicious." she smiled, holding it out to her.
Emma stared down at the container doubtfully then back up at Regina. She took it after a moment. "Thank you." she pulled on a smile.
"I do hope you like apples."
Emma turned and walked from the kitchen with a fake smile and Regina watched her go beaming, knowing that it was the last time she would ever see her blood hair and red leather jacket again.

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Red ran through the vacant stables, sniffing the air. "Snow was her. I can smell it." she said to Granny who followed her ferociously.
"Snow! Snow!" called Granny.
"She's over here!" shouted Grumpy's voice from the green fields.
Granny and Red looked at one another fearfully then ran out towards the fields.
They ran towards the dwarfs that gathered around her motionless body on the hill by Daniel's grave.
"I found her lying here like this. Is she......." said Grumpy, getting to his feet.
"Granny, give me your dagger." said Red, fear voice as she knelt down on the ground by Snow.
Granny handed her her dagger and red took it in her gloved hands.
The dwarfs all gathered nearer around her as Red knelt closer.
"Maybe she's just sleeping." said Sleepy.
Red held the dagger beneatgher nose. "She has no breath............ She's gone." she said, her voice shaking as she began to cry.
The dwarfs all pulled their hard from their heads and held them to their chests.
"She sacrificed herself, for true love." said Red.
"She sacrificed herself for all of us." said Grumpy, his voice hoarse.