Regina's POV:

I was woken by my alarm blaring. I jumped out of bed and headed to the bathroom to have a shower.

After my shower I changed into skinny jeans and a black hoodie that covers all of the scars on my arms. I have self harmed since I was 13. It started when my daddy died and my mother married Leo. Leo abused me and still does.

I hear crying coming from the baby monitor and knew my little prince was awake.

I headed to his room to see him hanging over the side of his crib giggling to himself in pure glee knowing he has done something bad.

"Henry Daniel Mills, I have told you not to do that." I manage to say as I chuckle at his mischievous ways. He is 1 and a half years old. I had him when I was 16, I was raped...by Leo. Of course my mother thinks I whored around and I deserved to have the 'humiliation of a teen pregnancy' honestly I'm not ashamed of Henry, he is the only light I have in my darkened world.

I changed henry into dungarees and a blue shirt and headed down the stairs to fix some breakfast.

As I was finishing up washing the dishes I heard the door open and close. Please dont be Leo, please I thought when I heard Zelena, my older half sister yell, " im here to babysit the little Green bean!"

I let out a sigh of relief and let Henry out off his chair to go play with his aunt in the family room.

I run upstairs to grab my phone, my backpack and my keys. I looked at the time and I had 40 minutes until school started.

I say goodbye to my little prince and Zelena then leave.

Emma's POV:

I ran into English a few seconds after the bell rang. "Miss Swan why am I not surprised. You're late...again! One hour of detention with me after school. Take a seat" Mr Booth Said without even glancing my way.

"Why thank you Mr Booth I WAS going to stand but since you so KINDLY insist I sit, I shall" I say back with sarcasm dripping from my voice like venom.

"DON'T PUSH IT SWAN!" He yelled at me. I was about to answer back when the principal walked in with a brunette girl trailing behind him. I sat as he said, "Class this is Regina Mills, as you can probably tell she is a new student here at Storybrooke High and I expect that she will be treated with the standards we here at this school enforce. Carry on Mr Booth." With that he left leaving the girl stood next to Mr Booth staring blankly at the floor.

"It's nice to have you here Miss Mills it's been a while since I last saw you. You can take a seat next to Emma over there." He pointed to me and told me to raise my hand.

The girl, Regina, came and sat next to me. "Hey" she whispered timidly to me as she looked at her hands under the desk.

"Hi. Im Emma Swan." I said back to her. When I noticed she had her phone out hidden behind her bag. I saw a picture of her and a little boy and said, "your little brothers cute."

She looked confused for a second and then said, "I dont have a brother"

"then who is that?" I pointed at the picture with an eyebrow raised.

"that would be Henry, m..."

"Girls, please stop talking otherwise I will seperate you." Mr Booth said calmly but sternly.

The bell rang and before I could ask Regina about this Henry kid she was gone.

Regina's POV:

Oh my god, oh my god I almost told Emma I had a son what the hell is wrong with me, dont get me wrong Henry is the only thing I love about my life but he's also been the source of my bullying. I was walking to math when I bumped into a girl with blonde hair and fell on my ass. I scrambled to my feet, "watch where you're going you ugly freak!" the words fell out of her mouth like poison she couldn't hold back.

"I'm so, so sorry I wasn't looking where I was going." I tried to smooth thing over with the pissed blonde and her gang.

"yeah, well now you need to be taught a lesson about who's boss." who's boss. Those two words alone were enough for my to cower against the lockers in fear, but not of them I was scared of Leo. He has said those two words to me many times over the year as he beat me and used me for his own sick pleasure.

"I think its about time I shown you who's boss, dont you?" He spat with his face so close to mine I could feel his sickly hot breath on my face. He grabbed my hair in a fist and pulled my up as I screamed from the pain. That earned me a punch to the gut. I didnt dare cry as he punched and kicked me. I didnt dare move when he left the room. He came back with a knife and sneered, "this will remind you of who you are and how low and pathetic you are." I didn't even let my breath hitch with the agony the blade was causing in my stomach, my arms, my thighs, my back. He left but not without asking those words, "who's boss?".

The words, slut, piece of shit, whore, bitch and many others were carved into my body reminding me not only of him, but who I am.

I didnt realise they were even hitting me until I heard Emma shouting, "get off her, now before I kick your ass!"

The blonde who started it all looked shocked then stuttered out, "Emma w...we didnt kn...know that she was your friend honestly...I can explain"

I giggled at what Emma said next, " maybe I dont need an explanation, maybe I just need to punch you in the face!"

They scampered off as she helped me up. "thank you Emma"

"anytime, Gina. So abo..."

I cut her off, "Gina?"

"yeah, it's cute" she said with a lobsided grin that reminded me of Henry. "sooo, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted...about Henry, he's your..." She drifted off so I could finish the sentence.

"ermmm, Henry errhh, Henry is my errhh, my errhh..."

"Gina...Henry is your errhh what?"

"I can't tell you"

"did you kidnap him?"

"what?! No dont be ridiculous! I would never Miss Swan!"

"relax I was joking"

"oh, aha"

"sooo, Miss Swan is it now?"

I sauntered off with a smirk as I heard her moan "Gina! I asked you a question!"

"until next time, Miss Swan" for the first time in forever I smiled genuinely away from Henry.

Through this fic, for some reason, I can't use italics sorry if you get confused at any point.

aster😆