Hi guys! It's been an embarrassingly long time since I updated this, but we'll be coming close to the end of this story. I gained my muse back. So here's an update, hope you enjoy and let me know what you think.

Regina managed to make a replica of the memory potion she had given Henry, she'd been in her vault for ages, trying to make sure that she had the correct balance of ingredients. After around eight hours the potion was finally glowing the blue colour that it was supposed to. With a relived sigh, she poured the liquid into a vile and moved towards the exit. She could hear laughing outside and furrowed her eyebrows before pushing the door open to reveal Roland and Henry playing in the library.

"Well, if it isn't my two favourite boys," she grinned, catching Roland's attention as he came hurtling towards her, wrapping his tiny arms around her legs. "Hello sweetheart."

"You've been in there forever; Henry and I have been waiting for you! And daddy too."

"I'm sorry darling, I've just been very busy," she sighed, glancing up at Henry who was watching them.

"Did you manage to make the potion for Ma? She's freaking out and really needs her memories back."

"I think I got it right, Emma just needs to take the potion. Although I have a feeling that your mother won't be wanting to take this willingly. She probably still thinks that we are all crazy and this is just some elaborate plot."

"Okay, so how do we get her to drink it then?" Henry asked curiously as they headed out of the library and down the corridor. Regina knew exactly where she was leading them and the two boys followed along after her.

"I think I have a plan for that," Regina quipped, making her way towards the kitchens which were located on the ground floor.

"Are we going to steal cookies from Granny?" Roland giggled, "Henry, daddy and I sometimes sneak into the kitchen to take cookies! I'd never had cookies before, but Granny brought them with her from Storybook."

"Storybrooke," Henry chuckled.

"You and your daddy are very naughty and cheeky," Regina tutted, "I'll be having words with him about that," she was partly joking, but on the other hand it wasn't setting a very good example to Roland for him to be encouraging stealing. Even if they were just pinching cookies, she didn't want Roland thinking that it was okay to just take whatever he wanted to. "Okay Henry, what is your mother's favourite drink?" Regina asked as she peered into the cupboards, trying to find out where on earth Granny stored everything.

"Diet Coke," he shrugged.

Regina stopped looking and turned to glance at him, they certainly didn't have that in the castle cupboards, she could probably just about manage some kind of herbal tea, but Diet Coke was pushing it. "Please tell me that isn't all that you've been drinking for the past year," she sighed, she should have known that the woman would have been ruining all the effort she put into making sure that Henry led a healthy lifestyle and balanced sweet treats with nutritious snacks.

"Nope, don't worry mom, I drank Dr Pepper as well," he grinned in a way that told her that he was teasing her.

"Very funny. What is a drink that she likes that we could potentially have?" she questioned, taking several different types of tea out of the cupboard.

"Coffee? Or hot chocolate."

"That we do have," Regina grinned as she took some of the cocoa she saved for special occasions out of the draw and beginning to make the drink as her boys went off in search of cookies or other treats. Once the drink was ready she took the vile out of her pocket and shook her head, "here goes nothing." She emptied the contents of the tiny glass bottle into the drink and mixed it gently with the spoon. "Henry, save one of those for Emma, it might entice her to drink this," she instructed.

He brought one over and placed it on a plate, "here you go mom," he smiled.

"Thank you, now I need you to take this to your mother, I think she's more likely to accept it from you."

"I agree," Henry nodded.

They were about to leave the kitchens when a loud noise sounded from above, she felt Roland wrap his arms around her legs and bury his face against her, "what was that?" he whispered, Regina was asking herself the exact same question. She had no clue what that noise was and that was extremely worrying.

"I don't know my darling," she replied, keeping her voice low and moving away from the steps, heading towards the secret passage into her Vault. She opened the door and ushered her boys inside, "now, I want the two of you to stay in here okay, follow the path until you reach my vault, you'll be safe there."

"Mom, you're coming with us, right?"

"I have to go find out what that was, but I need to make sure that you're safe before I do. Henry, look after Roland," Regina instructed before leaving them and closing the secret door. She was confident that they would be safe as long as they stayed inside her vault, nothing would happen to them there, no one could open any of the entry ways from the outside except her. She'd bound it with a different type of magic after finding that Zelena had been able to unlock her vault when it was sealed with blood magic.

Carefully she inched her way up the stairs, listening out for any tell-tale signs which might let her know what was going on. She heard a scream and all her caution was thrown to the wind as she raced up the stairs, pushing the door open to find Snow and Charming stood in the grand entrance hall, holding only a baby blanket. "Where's your son?" Regina asked as she rushed over to them.

"She took him Regina," Snow replied, tears rolling down her cheeks as she sobbed.

"How? How is that possible? You were at the Summer Palace, I made sure that she couldn't find you, I made you untraceable whilst you were there. It doesn't make sense," she looked at the devastated parents and watched as they glanced at each other and she realised exactly what had happened, "you blundering fools!" Regina screeched, "why on earth would you try and leave that place when I told you it was the only place I could keep you away from Zelena?! The only place that I could possibly keep your son safe? What is wrong with you people that you can't listen to me and do what I say for one cotton picking minute!"

"Regina stop it!" Robin scolded, pulling her back from them.

"They were stupid. You were both stupid!" she growled.

"Regina, they just had their son taken from them, show some compassion!"

"There isn't time for compassion, we need to find my sister and we need to find her now! Your little boy is in serious danger and we have no clue what that insane woman is actually wanting to do with him. She obviously has some use for him, she wouldn't just take him to make you two miserable, its me she has the problem with, not you. If she was wanting to screw with my emotions she would have taken one of my own children. Your baby must have been of some significance."

"Regina, we need to find him, please. I can't lose another child before I've even gotten the chance to be a proper mother."

"Speaking of children, we need to go and bring back the memories of your other one. We're going to need her for this. She is vital and as far as I have seen before her magic is strong."

Snow's crying stopped as she looked up at Regina in shock, almost as though she thought she might have heard her wrong, "Emma is here?" she gasped, her jaw dropping as she stared in a trance.

"Yes, Robin and I went to retrieve Emma and Henry from New York on the same day I sent the two of you into the Summer Palace," Regina confessed as she took a deep breath. She needed to do something, she couldn't just leave their child with Zelena, it was much too dangerous, she was going to have to go after her sister, even if she had to do it alone.

"She took my sword, I couldn't stop her. What are we going to do about our son?" Charming asked.

She glanced at him for the first time since she had come up the stairs and discovered them, he was still as annoying as always, maybe he could try coming up with a solid plan for once instead of relying on her brilliant mind. "Don't worry, we'll get him back, I know we will. I need to go to my vault and get something. You should go see Emma," Regina instructed. The couple simply nodded at her before walking off towards the main staircase. "Robin, go with them and I'll meet you all there."

"Okay," he nodded, squeezing her hand reassuringly, "do you have a plan?" he whispered.

"I do," Regina confirmed.

"Is it a safe one?"

"I'm not sure that anything we do is safe," she murmured, "take them to their daughter and please stop them from doing anything stupid."

"Don't even think about leaving this castle without me."

"I won't don't worry." On that note, she scurried off to her vault where she knew that her boys were hiding, she pushed the stone in the library and descended down through tunnels into the area below. "Roland, Henry?"

"We're here mom," Henry called out, standing up from where they were seated on one of her comfy chairs, "what was going on?"

"It was your grandparents," she stated, "Henry, I need you to take Roland and go to Emma's room, Robin should be there already. You need to make sure that your mother drinks that," she pointed to the hot chocolate and picked it up, using her magic to reheat it.

"Where are you going?" Roland asked, looking up at her with an extremely worried expression on his face.

"Don't worry about me sweet boy," she hummed, leaning down and pressing a kiss to his cheek, "I'll be just fine. You need to stay with Henry and go to daddy, okay."

"Mom, where are you going?" Henry repeated the younger boy's question, his eyes narrowed as he stared at her.

"It doesn't matter, all that matter is that the two of you are okay, now go, before that hot chocolate gets cold again, we need it to be warm enough for Emma to actually want to drink it." She ushered her boys upstairs and made sure that they were gone before heading back down and taking a deep breath, she could do this, she just had to concentrate and remain focused. In a plume of purple smoke, she disappeared, going against her promise to Robin and heading to Zelena's castle.

When she arrived, she glanced around the empty halls, she knew it was risky being here, but hopefully she could make some kind of bargain with Zelena, give her something else in return for Snow's baby. There wasn't a sign of anyone and that put her on edge, she had been almost certain that there would have been guards roaming the corridors, but the distinct lack of security was causing her concern. Silently she made her way down through winding halls, but still there was no one to be seen, not a soul in sight. Could Zelena have taken him elsewhere? If she wasn't here, then where the hell was she?

Regina was just about to try somewhere else when she heard a baby crying, her eyes widened as she picked up the pace, racing to the other end of the corridor and stopping at the room where the noise was emanating from. The door was propped open and through it she could see a baby lying in a crib. It was too easy, it had to be some kind of trap, she wasn't stupid and neither was her sister. There was no chance that Zelena would just allow someone to break in a take the child after working so hard to get him in the first place.

Regina shook her head, if she went in there she would most likely be playing directly into Zelena's hands, but she didn't seem to have any other option. It was either go in there and retrieve Snow's son, her god son, in the process making sure that she could at least know what was going on and if he was safe. Or she could leave and have no idea what the wicked woman might be doing to the innocent babe. Her heart wouldn't let her leave.

Closing her eyes, she pushed the door open and moved over to console the wailing child. She scooped him up out of his crib and rocked him gently, humming a soft lullaby to him in hopes that maybe he might stop crying. "Its okay darling boy, everything is going to be okay," she whispered, leaning down to press a kiss against his forehead. The action stopped his sobs and his eyes opened to look at her as his tiny little hand wrapped around her hair. "I've got you, its all going to be okay."

"Is it?" Zelena's voice met her ears, just as she had been expecting it to. She had known this was a trap and of course she had been right. Regina turned to look at her sister, taking in the smug smile plastered onto her face. "So glad you came to join the party, dear sister," she cackled, pushing Rumple into the middle of the room, making him fall on the floor, the black cuff on his wrist being the first thing Regina noticed.

"I don't know what you're playing at, but you need to let Snow's child go, you don't need him."

"Oh, but you're so wrong. I do need him," she quipped, waving David's sword in the air in an almost theatrical way.

"You're delusional," Regina spat, holding the baby closer, "he's a small child, what could you possibly need him for?"

"The same thing I need you for, and him, and this," she glanced at the sword in her hand, before looking back up and meeting Regina's eyes. "I'm going to get everything I ever wanted and your soft spot for children managed to get you into this mess."

"Why would you want to harm him?!" the brunette yelled, "as far as I'm aware Snow and Charming have done nothing to wrong you."

"Ah, no, I don't believe they have, you on the other hand, dearest sister. You wronged me and I will get my revenge."

"Wronged you? I don't even know you," Regina huffed, stroking her fingers through what little hair the baby in her arms had. She tried to manifest herself away from the castle using her magic, but something was blocking it, stopping her from using her powers and forcing her to stay where she was. She came to the realisation that Zelena had managed to freeze her to the spot in order to make sure that she wasn't able to leave.

"That may be, but you still took my life, you stole everything from me! I should have had what you did."

"Zelena, you know that I had no say in what happened. I wasn't even born when our mother did what she did! I didn't even know about your green ass!"

"None of that matters anymore. I'm getting exactly what I need now," she cackled.

"I don't know what you're plan is, but please don't harm an innocent child. Zelena, please."

"I need him Regina, just like I need you. You're all the answer to my happy ending. The answer to going back in time and changing it all."