I already lost her.

Prologue : Condemn innocence

Rewrite a story is not something easy. It's already the case with a normal story, but when there is also magic, it's worst. And, strangely, it seemed that no one among them became aware of this.

Nor Regina, or Robin, or the Author himself. Of course, the only person who knew that things would end badly was Zelena. But maybe it was just because her life, her entire existence were at stake.

And although she knew that it would be useless to try to protest, she couldn't help herself doing this, with all the talent she owned. And all the irony she could have deploy, vainly of course, but she could have fun just one last time, and see her sister again react to her digs.

Instinctively, she pressed her hand against her belly still flat, and trembled. The simple thought that they could hurt her baby finally almost surpassed her own fear to die, to disappear.

The Wicked Witch always had difficulties to love herself, and be loved (except by her adoptive mother, and maybe also by Hades, if he didn't manipulate her.) But her live had always been more important than the others' lives. Except maybe Glinda' life, at some time.

Her child, her baby would not be anymore, would never exist; this being who was growing up in her and who never hurt someone, who didn't have the time to commit just one crime. It was innocent, and Regina pertinently knew it.

And despite it, her sister would destroy her absolutely without any remorse, without ulterior motive. And she was going to forget this "crime", as everyone here. And no one would fight against it.

But, after all, it was fair game, because if she had been at her place, she would not have hesitate one second (what if her sister had been pregnant ?). Especially that in this story, it was her who really wanted to reduce her to ashes.

Except that she was pregnant, it was the first reason why her half-sister spared her in the first place. She knew it, she played with it, and when she learned she was expecting a baby, it had been the only thing that had cross her mind.

She was going to become a mother, she would have for the first time someone who would really love her and unconditionally without doubting of her. (Strangely, she never saw the similarities with her sister's process, with Henry who finally reassessed her. They were closer than they though.)

"And what about my child Regina ? Robin's child."

For the first time since the beginning of the conversation, the witch was sincere. She wasn't thinking of herself, but of this new life which just wanted to come out. The other witch shrugged, indifferent.

"Is he okay with this, at least ? I can understand that despite my condition you want to kill me, sis', but you, Robin, how can you do this ?

- He accepted it, because you tried to destroy our happy ending. And if you disappear, sis', it will be just as if you never existed, so it will not be really a murder."

The not really, as Robin's dropped look (who is here after all, so he assumes it and for Zelena he just appears as a half-coward) shows that no, this is not something they do with a great joy in their heart.

But for her, it changes nothing.

§§§§

When everyone agreed on the fact that they did not agree, the Author took his quill and his inkwell, as an empty piece of paper.

"So tell me Regina, Isaac said, what do you want me to write ?

- I just want this to be as if she never existed. I think it will be enough."

With a vivacious gesture, the man wrote the following sentence : and the Wicked Witch then disappeared from the eyes of everyone, as if she never existed.

So, as she vanished both physically and in the mind of the one she knew, Zelena felt no pain. She was just disappearing, probably for an unknown place for everyone.

Everyone would forget her, it was as the spell worked.

Or at least it was what would come from the sentence the Author wrote. Another, maybe more scrupulous and also more attentive would have try to write it differently. Not only say that she would not be anymore, or simply that she would be expelled from the memories of everyone.

Maybe he shouldn't have say she would be forget, but rather annihilate her existence from the story itself, and pretend that Cora lost the baby. Or maybe that no one had find her, and that she died.

And then, the nameless child died, as she wasn't find.

Probably, it would have been easier, and a certain drawback could have been avoid...