"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

― Oscar Wilde

Regina sat at her usual booth at Granny's, staring down at her fourth shot of alcohol. It burned as it raced down her throat and she sighed, placing the glass back on the table. She was fully aware of people watching her, expecting her to go Evil Queen any second. No matter how many times she saved these idiots they would never look past who she used to be, to the woman she was now. She was trying to change, but it was difficult. There had been plenty of relapses but absolutely no recognition for it whatsoever. No matter how much good she did, it would never be enough. The alcohol just wouldn't numb the pain effectively.

"Regina?" She turned her head at the sound of the kind, soft voice that she was growing to like. Ingrid came into view and sat down in front of her. "What's wrong?" Since the Snow Queen's reformation it hadn't been easy for her either. Even so, Regina could see that Ingrid's heart was completely kind, not pure, but not evil either. Despite everything she'd done, Ingrid was a good person with a gentle soul that had only hardened due to fear and loss, two things both queens were well acquainted with.

"The usual." Regina sighed.

"Henry again? What happened?"

"For the first time in months, he agreed to have dinner with me. And then...he stood me up...to go driving with Emma or something."

"Well, that was cruel."

"Why do I try?" Regina asked. "I'll never be happy."

"You won't if you keep talking like that. And drinking, isn't helping. Numbing the pain won't make it go away."

"And yet, I can see that Henry will never love me again, now that he has Emma and the Uncharmings, he doesn't need me."

"Of course he does, he's your son, and you're his mother." said Ingrid.

"Yeah well, he doesn't act like it."

Ingrid motioned to Ruby and she brought some more shots. "Well then, let's drink."

"Thought drinking wasn't helping." Regina raised an eyebrow.

Ingrid copied the motion. "Maybe not, but I'm certainly not going to let you do it alone." She raised a glass. Regina smiled and raised hers.

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Emma looked confusingly at the pair of women sitting in their jail cells, laughing their heads off like they were crazy.

"Ingrid, please stop laughing." Regina said, trying to keep a straight face before she too started laughing again. She put her hand down to hold her stomach. "Ingrid please."

Ingrid only laughed harder, struggling for breath. Her laugh only caused Regina to laugh even harder.

Emma waited in confusion for the two to finish. "What's so funny?"

Both of them took a deep breath and Regina wiped her eye. "We're wasted." Ingrid said, with a serious face, that quickly cracked and both of them started laughing again. Regina magically stole Ingrid's voice and gradually stopped laughing. Ingrid continued.

"Yes Miss Sw-" Regina didn't even finish before Ingrid stole her voice and started silent laughing again. Regina mouthed the words bitch and something else Emma couldn't quite catch. The brunette spoke more, what could only be curse words, before Ingrid grinned and did the same thing. Regina sighed and gave the blonde her voice back. Ingrid returned hers. "You are so infuriating."

Ingrid smirked proudly.

"Look you two, both of you, in case you haven't noticed, are in jail." Emma said.

Regina disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke and reappeared at Emma's desk. "Ingrid, jailbreak!" She burst out laughing again and magically opened the cells.

"That was completely unnecessary, Gina." Ingrid laughed, teleporting to sit on the desk in front of Regina. She suddenly started slapping the brunette's shoulder. "I got the best idea ever. Let's go to the Rabbit Hole and pick up some guys. Then you can make another Henry."

Regina was silent for a moment, seemingly thinking over the offer. Then grinned.

"Regina, you can't possibly be considering this?" Emma asked. "Both of you should just go home. You're not going to the Rabbit Hole."

"Aw." Regina pouted prettily. "You said not to do it, now we have to do it."

"We should totally r-ride a sled there. We'll be the coolest people there. Literally...'cause I'm the Snow Queen."

"No snow." Regina said with a giggle.

"What did I just say, bitch? I am the Snow Queen." Ingrid laughed and nearly fell off the desk.

"Let's fucking do it then." Regina agreed.

"No, you don't, Regi-" twin clouds of smoke announced the departure of the two queens and Emma went to call her mother to help her catch them.

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Regina snickered as she and Ingrid walked into her mansion. "She went to the Rabbit Hole."

"She's so stupid." Ingrid giggled, walking into the kitchen and fixing them two glasses of cider. They sat down to finish drinking and laughing their guts out for absolutely no reason.

"Can I ask you something?" Regina asked softly, looking down at her empty glass.

"What?" Ingrid said.

"Do you really believe that I can change, be the person that everyone wants me to be?"

"Why do you want to be what everyone wants you to be?"

"I don't, but I want to be worthy of Henry."

"Bitch." Ingrid sighed, coming to sit beside the brunette. It took a minute in her inebriated state, but she made the journey in one piece. "I'm gonna make this quick, because I am about to throw up and/or pass out, but this has been going on for what, three years now? Henry is the one who isn't worthy of you. This town isn't worthy of you. All of your life, you have been what somebody else wanted you to be. Cora wanted you to be queen. Rumpelstl- Rumpool- Rumskin- the dark guy, wanted you to be a monster, and Snow, the little brat wanted you to be a mom. Now is the time for you to decide who you want to be, and be it."

"Thank you, Ingrid." Regina smiled.

"Can you believe I said all of that while being hammered?" Ingrid grinned. "And now, I'm going to the bathroom so I don't ruin your pretty white carpet with vomit. Kay?"

"Kay."

Ingrid stood up and staggered to the bathroom. A few moments later, Regina raced outside and emptied her guts into the bushes. She walked slowly back into the house, feeling drained and weak...when something slammed into her forehead and exploded, showering her in ice and something squishy and wet. "What the fuck, Ingrid?!" She roared, getting back up. "Was that a frozen apple?"

Ingrid answered by throwing another one. She ducked and it slammed into a picture frame and broke it.

Regina scowled. "Give me some ammo." Ingrid grinned and rolled a basket of apple across the floor. The most unconventional and craziest game was invented on that night. Most of the mansion was destroyed and covered in ice and apple bits, but the former queens couldn't seem to care. The game ended when Regina suddenly collapsed with her back to the wall and covered her face, afraid to let the tears show. Ingrid said nothing, didn't judge, didn't criticize, just came to Regina and wrapped her in her arms.

"It's okay not to be okay, Regina."

Regina sniffed. "It hurts, knowing he'll never love me. Knowing no one will ever love me."

"I'm here, I love you. Hey, we're both dethroned queens with magic living in a town that hates our guts. And we're both super hot, bitch."

Regina laughed. "You say bitch a lot when you're drunk as hell."

"Really?"

"Yes." Regina smiled and hugged Ingrid back. "Thank you, Ingrid."

"No problem, Regina."

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Emma and Snow walked up to the mansion and knocked on the door. There wasn't an answer. "Can't believe they gave us the slip last night." The blonde muttered.

"Well, even drunk they seem to have some-" Snow's words were cut off as something cold and hard hit her in the temple.

"Mom?!" Emma turned to her mother and received the same treatment. "What the hell?"

"We should go swimming today." Ingrid said, loading the frozen apples into the ball machine. The two queens were sitting in the shade of one of Regina's trees, watching mother and daughter pound on the door of the mansion.

"We should. We don't have to work, so let's do it." Regina agreed, firing the apples at the princess and the savior, who had no idea what was hitting them and who was doing it. It was rather amusing to see them flail around like morons.

Ingrid chuckled. "So glad we have magic. That hangover this morning hurt like crazy."

"Believe me, I know." Regina smiled. "Plus the gigantic bruise on my forehead from your apple game. I am never drinking with you again."

Ingrid laughed. "Come on. I know the perfect place for us to swim, and it's going to be a surprise. So cover your eyes." The blonde bounced giddily and cut off the ball machine. Emma and Snow collapsed to the ground, trying to rub the apple bits off of them, still trying to find their assailants. Regina sighed and covered her eyes. Ingrid covered her hands over Regina's and poofed them away.

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."

― Charles Dickens,

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A/N: I haven't decided whether this will be a Ingrid/Regina friendship fic, or a Ingrid/Regina romance fic. Let me what you think. Also, when I wrote this, Ingrid and Regina were sort of blended with their actresses, Elizabeth and Lana. So they might act a little OOC from time to time, maybe. And each chapter will have one or two quotes to show the theme of it or whatever. Anyways Read and review please!