A Chance To Mend

Forgotten Dance

Epilogue
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Waking up to a place where Regina did not remember him was waking up alone yet completely enclosed. Even though he was surrounded by people everyday with questions about the missing year and what happened he felt separated from the world. Not only that but not being able to talk about what that awful witch did to Regina or really being able to talk to Regina at all was killing him.

Every day was all a blur of events. It was chaotic. People ran around town trying to find safety, well whatever safety was. He'd warned them about the wicked witch and that they needed Emma to defeat her, but there was a problem. No one knew how to get Emma back.

However one day, a knock came to the loft door of David and Snow's apartment. Once David opened the door, his mouth dropped in astonishment. The one person everyone was trying so desperately to find had wandered onto his doorstep. His daughter. And with one word from her he knew she remembered; dad.

After Emma had come into the loft she was greeted with a warm hug from her mom and dad. David explained to her that a year had past since they had parted ways last time they were in Storybrooke. Emma still couldn't understand why David had his memories while everyone else was left in the dark but David seemed to shake off the question saying he didn't know himself.

Snow had immediately said they should have a ball, well this worlds kind of ball to celebrate the return of the savior. Both Emma and David were not to keen on the idea but Snow made sure to convince them saying it would prove to the witch they couldn't keep them down. Also that a ball might just be the thing that draws this witch out of her hiding. That last part was what convinced the father and daughter and in two weeks the ball would take place.

Regina had woken up alone the first day back. Something about herself felt a little off, different. She couldn't explain it but she felt it in her heart. Not to mention the fact she hadn't woken up in the enchanted forest like she had the past... How ever long it was. Come to think of it she couldn't remember anything that had happened after she sent Henry and Emma over the line. Did they ever go back to the enchanted forest?

When she tried to sit up from her bed she immediately felt a pain in her stomach. Unbuttoning her night shirt she saw a strange mark on her stomach. Ignoring the pain she quickly got out of bed to turn on the lights and look in the mirror.

"The hell..." She muttered looking at the burn like scar.

Regina had stayed quite and didn't talk to much of anyone in the town she had learned that a year of their memory had been wiped out from the enchanted forest where apparently her wicked sister Zelena terrorized them but other than that not much happened... Except some few small strange encounters that she couldn't explain between someone. After about a month of this going on she had simply decided there was no point in getting out of the house. No one had made any progress in getting their memories back or finding Emma.

She had not gotten up for a week after she had given up. That was until a knock came to her door. She sauntered down her stairs and to the door, opening it without looking through the peep hole.

Regina fell a half step backwards when she saw it was the blonde headed savior walking into her house.

"Ms- Ms. Swan?" She had stuttered.

For the rest of the afternoon Emma explained to the former queen all that had happened. Emma told her they still didn't know how all of this happened but she only knew to come back because Hook had gotten a message with a bottle that had an elixir in it to help her remember.

Telling Regina that there wasn't enough left and that Henry didn't remember her was the hardest part. And Regina's face turned at the redundancy of having a ball at such a time. Emma had said she should go to the occasion that would take place in two weeks but Regina laughed through her bitter tears of her son not remembering her.