Underworld Secrets

12

I sat at my desk in my office going over paperwork for the damage of a drunk driver. Its been four years sense Thalia left. James is now eight. He remembers nothing of his real mother. No one has told him about her either. I wish I could talk to her one more time.
I haven't even dared to say her name. I'm afraid that if I do I won't be able to stop crying.
"Mom?" I looked up to see Henry standing there with James in front of him.
"Yes?" I set my pen down and came around to the front of my desk.
"There is someone new in town." By the look on his face it is some one I know.
"Who?" James ran to me and hugged my waist.
"I don't know she doesn't talk to any one. Emma said to come get you." I nodded and pulled the boy at my hips away by the shoulders and looked at him.
"Stay with Henry James. I'll be right back." He nodded and let me pass. I put a blood lock on the room and ran to the diner where I knew they were.

Just as I predicted they were standing around a table talking. When the bell above the door indicated that I had arrived they stopped talking and looked at me.
"What's going on? Who's here?" I asked coming closer. They parted from the table to reveal a woman with dark hair in a black dress. She looked like a teenager though she was drinking a glass of white wine. She set her cup down and smirked at me as though she had just accomplished sinking a ship.
"Hello Regina." I tilted my head to the side not believing who it was.
"You. Why are you here?" I asked backing up a bite before I remembered I was a queen and stopped.
"Came for a visit. Now tell me. How is my son?" She asked quietly though every one heard her.
"No you don't get to show up after four years and ask how he is doing." I growled. She looked totally ashamed.
"You don't understand. It killed me to loose him again." I held my hand up to stop her.
"Then why did you leave him?" I asked with venom in my words.
"Because if I didn't give him to me I would have had a weakness. You now more than anyone that love is weakness Regina. You make an enemy they try to find your weakness. mine was him. You don't have to worry. I'm not here to take him. I just came to check to see if he was alright. I don't have to meet him if you don't want me to." I was taken back for words. Here was my daughter that left her child with me for the [st four years, wanting to know if he had become a great young man.
"He's fine. doesn't remember you though. everybody makes sure not to talk about you." She smiled weakly. For the first time sense I've met her, she actually looks like she cares for someone other than herself.
"That's great. Thank you for being the mother I couldn't be."

AND THATS THE END!!!