The Enchanted Forest

The little girl, at the age of nine, ran fast. She could feel someone behind her as she ran. Her blonde hair almost white whipping in the wind. Her ocean blue eye's scanning the area for any sign's of what was chasing her. The necklace her mother had given her laid on her chest. Beneath her chest, her heart was beating rapidly. She heard a stick snap underneath someone's feet from behind her and the blonde turned quickly. "Got ya!" Johanna exclaimed as she wrapped her arm's around Goldilocks and Goldilocks laughed.

"That was brilliant Johanna!" Goldilocks exclaimed as she continued to laugh, "Now, you hide and I will find you."

Johanna looked to the skies and saw dark cloud's piling in overhead as she shook her head. Johanna looked back towards Goldilocks. "We must go back to the cabin now." Johanna said as Goldilocks sighed lightly, "Rain is coming in." Goldilocks pouted lightly not wanting to go inside, so Johanna walked over to the girl and wrapped her arm around her shoulder, "I wouldn't want you to melt away because you are just so sweet!"

And there it was. A smile on Goldilocks' face as Johanna chuckled and led her in through the path. A smack of thunder rang through the dark skies and it began to rain just as the cabin had come in to sight. Goldilocks let out a light scream and laugh as she and Johanna picked up speed and ran inside the cabin. "Get out of those wet clothes child, and I will make us some tea." Johanna said as Goldilocks nodded and did as she was told.

The past nine year's with Johanna were great for Goldilocks. The older woman had always told her from the beginning that she was not the blonde's real mother and had given her the necklace when she began to understand that she could not ever see her real mother, or know who she was. She hadn't given Goldilocks' the letter yet, but the curious little girl was growing and growing fast. She was very smart for her age and Johanna knew that the letter would be taken out of the satchel at any given time now.

Once Goldilocks was back out, Johanna served her a warm cup of tea as they sat in their chair's around the fire place and drank in complete silence for a few moment's. Goldilocks then tapped her mug with her fingertip's and looked at Johanna, going in a different direction this time. "Did you know my father?" Goldilocks asked, knowing that he was dead but never asking anymore of him.

Johanna shook her head. "I didn't." She said, "Your mother has told me many stories of him though. He worked in the stable's and loved your mother so much. And I could tell she loved him. If thing's hadn't of went the way they did, the three of you would have been living such a happy life in the country, I know it."

Goldilocks smiled at that thought. She dreamed of her parent's every single night even though she had no idea who they were or what they looked liked. Her imagination took over for that. She had no idea what had happened to her father. She didn't know that he was killed by her Grandmother or that she was here because of Rumplestiltskin. Johanna just wanted her to have the best life that she could possibly give her. Although that would all come to an end soon. And neither one of them knew it.

Storybrooke

Regina laid peacefully in the bed with her eye's closed and her thought's turned off. It was all she could do to keep herself from going insane at this point. It wasn't until she heard someone come inside and walk towards the bar's that she sighed, thinking it was Gold again. "Look, imp." Regina said in a dark tone, "If I wanted to kill Belle, I would have!"

"I am sure you would." Chloe's voice sounded as Regina sat straight up. "You know, Mary Marg... Sorry, Snow White once told me that she was told only the guilty can sleep in jail."

Regina rolled her eye's as she got up and walked over to the bar's with a light stretch. "Well, we all know that I am guilty so what's the surprise?" Regina asked.

Chloe met the Evil Queen's gaze and sighed again. "So many year's I have wanted to say thing's to you and so many years I have been denied." Chloe said, "Ever since I was a child and got separated from Johanna I have been looking. Looking for the woman who wrote me this letter." Chloe took the letter out from her pocket as Regina looked towards it. She stared for a moment and Chloe could tell that she hit a soft spot, even if the brunette shrugged her shoulder's and looked back towards her, trying to act as though she was unaffected by it. "I am still looking for her." Chloe spoke in a barely audible voice as she leaned close to the bar's.

Regina's eyes met Chloe's gaze and all she could suddenly see was her as a baby. Looking back at her and taking her finger in her fist. She could almost feel her tiny little finger's latched on to her right now, as Regina balled her hand's in to fists. She shook her head as her crystal brown's went hard once again. "Keep looking." Regina said, her tone laced with regret as she spoke, even though she tried to cover it with darkness. "But you are not going to find her."

Chloe shook her head as she folded the letter up and put it back in her pocket. "You're wrong." Chloe said, "The woman I met on the roads in the Enchanted Forest is still in there somewhere! I will find her!"

Regina walked to the other part of the cell as Chloe spoke and when she had finished she sped back to the bars and hit them. "That woman is dead!" Regina exclaimed, "You awakened her for a moment when she saw you were still alive, but she is dead now! She has had 28 years to get use to the fact that you are alive and she slowly died again. She is not coming back this time!"

Chloe shook her head from side to side, slowly. "I refuse to believe that." She said slowly and quietly.

"Yeah, well. Believe what you want." Regina said.

Chloe went to open her mouth again to say something but was cut off by a load roar in the night. She looked towards the window, wondering what it could be. Regina backed up from the bars just as the skin on her palm began to burn. She looked at it and saw that she was marked. "Get out of here." Regina said to Chloe as Chloe turned towards her now, "Get out of here!" Regina exclaimed.

"You know what that was?" Chloe asked as Regina just kept her gaze on her, "What evil have you conjured?"

"This wasn't me." Regina said slowly as she held her hand and now Chloe caught a glimpse of it.

"Rumplestiltskin." Chloe said as she took in a deep breath, "I am not leaving your side. As much as you hate to admit it all, you are my mother. And family sticks together no matter what."

Regina groaned a bit and went to say something else but the wrath flew in to the jail's and knocked Chloe out of the way, and in to a wall knocking her out cold. "Chloe!" Regina screamed out, knowing the girl couldn't hear her. The wrath just stared at Regina before beginning to suck out her very soul.

The Enchanted Forest

It was the same night as when Johanna and Goldilocks were playing hide and go seek before getting soaked. The nine year old laid fast asleep in her bed and was woken by Johanna who rushed in to her side. She jumped as she looked at the older woman who gave her a satchel. "Go now." Johanna said in a whisper and Goldilocks gave her an odd look, "There is some food in there to help you through. Go to the cabin on the hillside and see a lady named Widow Lucas. She and her granddaughter will help you in any way that they can."

Goldilocks shook her head towards the older woman. "I don't want to go to this cabin on the hill. I want to stay with you, Johanna." Goldilocks said.

"I know you do." Johanna said, "But right now, you have no other choice."

"What is going on?" Goldilocks asked her.

"Goldilocks!" Johanna had said firmly and it startled her a bit, considering she had never used that tone with her before. "Go! No more arguing."

Johanna rose from the bed and left Goldilocks' bedroom. Goldilocks stood and put the satchel over her shoulder's and went to her bedroom door to peek out just as a loud knock had sounded on the front door. Johanna opened it up as a guard took out his sword and walked inside. "Where is she!?" The guard demanded as he looked around.

"Where is who?" Johanna asked, in a frightened tone.

Goldilocks wanted to go out there and take on this guard. Put him to shame for bullying an older woman, but she knew that the best thing she could do right now, was leave. If she stayed they would kill Johanna. Goldilocks knew they were looking for her, but she had no idea as to why. She ran across her bedroom and opened up the shutter's to her bedroom as she went outside and through the wood's, taking one last look behind her at the cabin she had grown in.