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Since the group had gotten to the castle there had not been anymore incidents following that of what they call 'The Mirror' which is incredibly unimaginative and frustrating because they also hadn't seen the Queen since The Mirror incident. She's been unseen and unheard from in days, Maleficent had assured people that she wasn't plotting something against anyone and that she simply didn't want to be around peasant, but she worries that her friend is avoiding her loved ones, Daniel and Natalia.

Mal was unsure whether Regina was being cowardly or just depressing, she knows that her friend had spent her entire life dedicated to the Stable Boy and their bastard child and yet she had barely looked at either since they had been returned to her. Mal snagged a glance at the topic on her mind. That blonde, Rose, that woman must be the reason why Regina wasn't showing her face, Regina overthinks, all the time, she must have seen the blonde and came to the conclusion that she was replaced. Mal chuckled to herself, Regina hates blondes.

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Natalia sat beside her father, deject from what was happening around her, she did not wish to be around Rose, she was nice and friendly but she was acting as if she had a right to be her mother, she didn't. Nat never had a mother, her mother had thought that she was dead, or happy with other people... her mother was avoiding her. Nat sighed silently, her bright eyes flicked to the side where she sees Rose kissing her father's cheek, for some reason the action makes her angry, this woman was acting as if she belonged to the family her and her father had built together, this blonde acts as if she belongs with them, she does not, the person that belongs with them is currently... god knows where.

Natalia just wanted her mother.

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There was dead silence in the room, no light was breaking through the thick black blinds that covered the window and the balcony, Regina's breaths were deep; she was sleeping. Left side of the bed, on her belly, her arms tucked under the pillow and hugging it in a way that made it puff more, one leg was bent, her foot and knee poking out from the enormous covers, they practically swallowed her whole, she was tiny compared to the grand bed.

Footsteps penetrated the silence, they were soft but they seemed to be the loudest thing in the silence of the chamber, Regina shifted in bed, turning to lay on her back. The light tapping getting closer, rustling of a coat added to the silence.

"I can hear you, ya know," the words were muttered in a sleepy haze, Regina's eyes opened softly, "C'mere."

The intruder stood at the foot of her bed, "You are going to help me," he demanded.

Regina sat up on her elbows, her eyes widened in surprise at the mess of a man standing before her, her mouth dropped as she sat up properly.

"You have no idea what I've been through these past two weeks," Jefferson grumbled.

Regina didn't say a word, instead she lifted the covers on the right side and made an inviting motion, Jefferson looked at her with wide tired eyes, big black circles around them, and dropped shoulders; there was no questioning it, he needed to sleep for a solid month.

The hatter slid out of his coat, took off his shoes, shirt and slipped into the bed beside the Queen, Regina raised a brow, the action making Jefferson appear in comfortable sleepwear, "I made some fresh clothes appear in the bathroom so you have something to wear after you shower," she said softly, she lay down on her side to face him and asked, "Tell me what happened."