Finding You Always

Over the Rainbow

Finding You Always

Chapter 83: Over the Rainbow

"We got here as soon as we could," David said, as he gently ushered his wife through the door of the pawn shop.

"What's going on?" Snow asked.

"She got my heart...she threatened Roland," Regina replied.

"Oh Regina..." Snow soothed, as she put a hand on her step-mother's arm.

"I was able to get some information from Rumple," she continued.

"What did he say?" Belle asked desperately. Regina looked her in the eyes.

"He wanted to help us...I could tell. But she must have forbade him from telling us anything about her motives or my mother's past," Regina replied. Belle's shoulders sunk.

"However, he managed to point me to something that could help us," she added.

"That's papa...he always finds a loophole," Neal mentioned fondly.

"He said he bottled the particular memory from my mother that we need. He said you'd know where he kept them," Regina said. Her eyes widened.

"Of course...back here," she said, motioning with her hand, as the followed her into the backroom.

"Excuse the mess. All of the Collector's magic relics and items ended up in the shop when the curse came," she said, as she waded through the clutter. She reached a cabinet and looked through the bottles. When she found the one marked Cora, she selected it and handed to the dark haired woman.

"Dust?" David asked in confusion.

"Memory dust...it can be collected from a person and then when sprinkled on an enchanted looking glass, it will reveal the memory," Belle explained.

"Yes...this is a much better alternative to the magical seance that I had planned to speak to my mother," Regina said, as she tossed the dust onto the mirror. It rippled and revealed a young woman with a handsome man.

"That's my mother...but I don't recognize the man," Regina mentioned, as they watched a young Cora, smitten with this man, follow him back to his room in the tavern. The mirror rippled and the images showed Cora arguing with the man, obviously some time later.

"I'm with child...and it's yours!" Cora claimed.

"So you say...but will people really believe a barmaid over me?" he sniped back.

"But Jonathan, you're a prince! I'll tell the entire Kingdom if you refuse to support us!" she cried.

"Go ahead...then everyone will know the bar wench simply spawned a brat with the gardener...out of wedlock, might I add," Jonathan replied. She gasped.

"But you told me..." she started to say.

"What you needed to hear," he finished for her, as he walked off.

The mirror rippled again and Cora's sat by a fire with a man that made Snow gasp.

"That's my father..." she cried, as they saw Leopold and Cora grow close and accept his proposal. But when the mirror rippled again, they watched Jonathan demand that she pay him off in the prince's gold to keep him quiet about the baby. And then saw get caught by Leopold and Princess Eva.

"Leopold...she's been lying to you. She's stealing gold and is already with child!" Eva claimed.

Cora...is this true?" Leopold asked sadly.