It changes nothing.

Drizella is a young broken woman.

No one will discuss it, not even Regina.

Especially not her.

The one who is not any more the queen hated by everyone could just recognize herself in this young woman who may not be more than twenty years.

Maybe a little more.

Maybe that she saw herself in her, too much, and that, just seeing her suffering, she didn't see her anger.

She didn't see the darkness in her, maybe because she preferred to believe that the young woman was not as her, as just used to be, that she was better than her.

That her heart would stay pure, and that she would be strong, despite the pain.

Oh, how wrong she was !

Drizella didn't fall, in the end, in fact, not during this day.

Simply, she already fell before Regina decided to help her, and what they lived together was just a trigger.

Darkness were already here, in her, coming from some years to support the attitude of a mother who was never able to love her, never showed her any affection.

Who just wanted to kill her.

It wasn't surprising that it destroyed her.

And it wasn't strange either that Regina tried to help her, to preserve her, to save her.

But she is not the Saviour of the story, and she just made things be worst than before.

Lady Tremaine and her created a monster, she realizes with horror.

Despite that, she knows that there will be a part of her which will always care for the young woman.

Even if she is her enemy now, and Regina can just think with irony that, in a way, Lady Tremaine and her have now an enemy in common.

It doesn't stop them from fighting each other.

Drizella runs, flees, and Regina almost wants to ask her to stay.

Tell her that what she did isn't that horrible, that she herself did worst, that it's not too late.

But she shuts up, because all of it is useless.

So she flees too.

What else can she do ?

§§§§

There is a part of Drizella who is thankful toward Regina.

(The other part of her hates her for what she made of her, what is still good in her hates her for showing her what power was, and how to use it.)

She saved her, allowed her to flee from her mother's influence, made her understand who she really was.

Without her, she would probably be dead, or at least, serving her mother.

Or married to a man she doesn't love, doesn't desire, and that she hates deeply.

And his only useful action had been to make her fall into darkness.

So yes, she just can thank Regina.

And she feels kind of a regret as she had to betray her, to let her without a thank you, and she wishes the other woman sees things as she did.

She dreams of another version of the story, where the one who saved her would be on her side, and not against her.

But it won't happen, never.