What happened when...

The better choice.

... Regina decided to erase her sister from the story.

The better choice.

It was something bad.

She perfectly knew it.

Even if no one here said it, it was a murder. Regina realized it when the Author proposed her to make her sister disappear from the story. She didn't want it, at the beginning, because she changed, she didn't kill people now.

Yes, it was really something bad, terrible, horrible.

She knew the difference between good and evil, after all, she used to be the Evil Queen. Kill someone, she did this before. But things were different.

Because the person who was going to be erased was her sister. Half-sister, yes, but she did belong to her family. In a way, they were the same, who used to be ready to do everything in order to be loved by their mother.

Who was dead now.

And maybe that her sister was just a victim, as her.

Maybe that she was not really a monster.

Yes, maybe that she just needed help.

But how could she help someone who didn't want help? From her or someone else ?

What else could she do ?

Zelena was just what she was in the past, before she had Henry.

Lost. Desperate. Broken.

And full of hatred.

There was a time when Regina really wanted to believe in her sister, that she could find redemption, just as she did.

She made a terrible mistake. Because then, Zelena tried to take Robin from her, by playing the perfect wife. By killing Marian and taking her place.

By lying, by manipulating Robin. Without thinking of the others, just thinking of her.

(Without thinking of the poor little Roland, who would loose his mother for the second time.)

There were things that Regina would not forgive her or forget.

Never.

As she was facing her half-sister, she tried not to show her that it devastated her; in a way, she was destroying the only family she still had. She was going to kill the only person that had blood ties with her.

She did feel remorse, she just didn't want her sister to see it. She was really good at this game, not showing her emotions to someone.

Love is weakness.

She didn't love Zelena, didn't really consider her as a sister, although they were sisters. She could have seen her that way, one day. She could have loved her.

But.

But Zelena tried to take her happiness from her, attacked her and get pregnant. She had the chance to have something Regina could never have.

A baby. With the man Regina loved, and who loved her. It stopped her from killing her, this day, when she arrived in New York.

But now, things were different. It would not be a murder. The Author would just make her disappear, as if she never existed.

She didn't want it, but it was the only way for her to get her happy ending, with the man she loved.

Robin was not her happy ending, but he was a part of it. A part of the thing that the wicked witch always tried to destroy. Se didn't love it, what was going to happen.

But after all, wasn't she the one who had been attacked by Zelena in the first place ?

Wasn't she defending herself ?

Liar...

She was the one who was jealous now, because her sister would become a mother, and have Robin's child. She couldn't. So, she decided to accept the Author's proposal.

It was not just motivated by hatred. Not only.

It was for the safety of the town.

Really ? But she is locked, with no magic, and she is pregnant. She can do nothing against you.

She exists.

That's why you want her to die ?

Maybe she was just lying to herself. She was selfish, and trying to get her revenge, and she finally made her choice. She agreed the Author to do it as he wanted.

Which didn't mean she was happy with it.

But she couldn't do something else.

Yes, she told to herself, trying to convince herself, it's the better choice.