Hopefully this is up to par with Blast to the Past. This story will deals more with WHY Emma and Regina was sent to the past.
Finally breaking away from the kiss Emma felt someone on her side and looked behind her to find her mother unconscious. Both Regina and Emma couldn't help but laugh. Leave it to Snow White, unknowingly or not, to have her be the center of attention even when her daughter had just found her true love.
"What do we do about her?" Regina asked. Even if she loved her enemy's daughter Regina just couldn't let go of decades worth of anger overnight. Ironically, she could find her true love overnight it seems.
"I'll leave her a note to call me and we'll talk. All she wants is me to be happy and if she can't deal with you being the source then whatever; she's going to have to live with it." Sighing Emma got up from bed with Regina standing up with her.
"You know it feels like I've been sleeping for a hundred years to only find out that nothing changed, " Emma chuckled, "well other than you of course. But I can't help but feel something is wrong."
Regina creased her eyebrows confused. What could Emma possibly think was wrong? "What do you mean 'wrong'?" Oh please don't say you don't want to be together. I couldn't handle it if you left me twice...or thrice?
"I just mean that were missing something out of the puzzle. Like were missing a vital clue to whole grand scheme of things. Think about it, neither of us know why were sent back and we've both been manipulated by Gold, " Emma released a sigh and hugged Regina like a life line, "for once I want to life MY life without being a part of someone's plan. Especially Gold's."
Regina pushed Emma by the waist so she could look into the her eyes. "I know. I know. If we find out it was Rumpel then..."
"No. No magic you promised Henry and I know your temper."
"This is Rumpelstiltskin we're talking about, how do you propose to deal with him without magic?" Regina was dumbstruck. Clearly Emma had know idea how powerful Gold could be. Especially when he wanted something.
Emma hadn't thought that part through. How was she supposed to 'handle' Rumpelstiltskin of all people. "Well..." Emma had to think for a moment, "in the Enchanted Forest Cora couldn't take out my heart and she was shocked as hell. So maybe I'm more powerful than anyone realized being the 'product' of true love and everything."
Regina was exasperated, "You can't be serious. You against the Dark One." Noticing her anger was getting the best of her Regina took a few deep breaths and lowered her voice. How the hell was Snow sleeping through all of this? Cupping Emma's cheeks and putting the their foreheads together Regina tried to put some sense through her girlfriend's thick skull.
"Emma! For one, you don't know how to use magic and two you really think Henry would like it if YOU use magic on top of everything he has already been through?"
Emma felt defeated. Regina had a point and she still didn't understand her powers anymore now then she did a few months ago in the Enchanted Forest. "Your right, as always. " Emma tried to mumble because that was all Regina needed for her ego. "But then what are we going to do?"
Regina couldn't help but kiss away Emma's fears. "We'll deal with it when the time comes." Regina kissed her again, only this time there was more passion as appose the the tenderness of before. "Besides, we don't even know if it was Gold who did it."
Hearing a moan Emma and Regina looked down at the bed and noticed that Snow was starting to wake up.
"Oh! Emma you're up." Snow didn't realize that Regina was standing next to Emma as she continued to speak. "You wouldn't believe it. I had this dream where Regina was you're true love."
Emma sat down on the bed and took her mother's hand. "Mary Margaret...Snow...Mom." Emma laughed nervously, "it...well you see the thing is. It's kinda true."
It was then that Snow looked up and saw Regina. Instead of the normal scowl that she received it was a blank stare. Looking back at her daughter Snow asked nervously, "What do you mean 'kinda true'?"
"Well, in the sense that Regina IS my true love. For some weird reason you gave birth to a daughter who also happens to be Daniel."
"You're not making any sense. Are you saying that you have Daniel's memories or something?"
"No, well yes some of them." Still not sure about how the whole reincarnated process worked Emma shook her head confused.
Seeing her new lover's distress Regina cut in. "It appears that karma is cruel my dear. You killed Daniel by telling my mother, who in turn ripped out his heart, so fate intervened and had him re-born into your daughter." Regina couldn't help but smile seeing Snow White's face turn white. Who knew that Snow White could get any paler?
"Re re-born you mean that Emma is essentially Daniel. That Daniel's and Emma's soul are the same. That...that can't be true." Snow flew off the bed and started pacing being so dumbfounded.
"Yes mom it is. Lets just say it was an epiphany or whatever."
Snow went back to sit on the bed. "An epiphany. There is no way this is an ordinary epiphany. What exactly happened last night?"
Sighing Emma knew that she would have to tell her mother. "Somehow Regina and I found ourselves in Fairytale Land. Don't ask me how, but we did. We were extremely confused and Regina was being her normal bossy pissed off self."
"Now wait a minute." Regina was still standing by the bed and scowled at Emma.
Emma just smiled innocently and patted Regina's leg. "I love you!" Looking back at her mother Emma said seriously, "and you were there."
All Regina could do was role her eyes and sat down next to Emma on the bed.
"Anyway, Regina went to her house to try and find answers while I stayed put. I fell asleep and woke-up with a very angry Cora in my face. She thought I was Daniel and it wasn't confirmed until I ran into past Regina and she kissed me." Snow cringed just picturing her daughter and enemy kissing.
"Don't worry this Regina was confused and hated it too." Regina and Emma intertwined their hands as Regina put her two cents into what she was feeling at the time.
"When I saw past me and Emma together I was about to send her flying."
Of course she would. Snow thought, "Why didn't you?"
"I don't know why Emma said it, but past me wanted to know what Daniel/Emma first noticed about...well me. And what Emma said was exactly what Daniel had said to me. I was confused and wanted to know why Emma was mimicking Daniel. I wanted to know...no. I NEEDED to know if Emma was changing my memories. So I came up with an idea. If Emma proposed to me instead of past me proposing it would prove that Emma wasn't Daniel."
Snow noticed the pause and saw the distress on her daughters face. "That didn't happen did it?"
Emma sighed, "No mom it didn't. I was about to propose when past you came galloping on your horse screaming for help. When I turned around Regina was already on her horse saving you." Emma mumbled "Damn Cora!" under her breath not thinking anyone heard her. She was wrong.
Regina looked up teary eyed, "What?"
"What." Emma looked around confused.
"Why did you say 'damn Cora'?"
"Uh...well...um,"
"Emma!?"
Emma looked into Regina's eyes and saw the desperation in knowing the truth and couldn't do anything but tell her.
"That night after you came up with the plan I was in the stables and I heard Cora talking to a man about spooking a horse. And seeing as it was the night before you saved Snow, I'm guessing it was about Snow's horse and her overall plot to have you be queen."
Regina was stunned into silence. She knew her mother wanted her to be queen, but never did she think that she would go so far for power. Who was she kidding, Cora, her mother ripped out Daniel's heart for power.
Snow, on the other hand, had never been used in her entire life and was out raged about Cora's actions.
"I can't believe Cora would do something like that to me. She was the one that made my horse go nuts."
Emma looked at her mother and couldn't believe how insensitive she was. Regina has been used time and time again and all her mother could think about was her. Un-fucking-believable.
"Mom can I see you down stair? NOW!" Emma didn't give her the option to respond as she took her mothers arm and pulled her down stairs.
"I can't believe you. I just can't..."
"What?" Snow looked at her daughter innocently because she really had no idea why her daughter was so mad.
"Regina just found out that for the millionth time her mother used her to gain power and all you're thinking about is you. Regina has been used time and time again by HER MOTHER who was supposed to love her. Since the day she was born Regina had been used so CORA could gain power. Do you even know that Regina didn't actually say yes to your father's wedding proposal? Cora said yes and then Regina was SO distraught about the proposal that she ran to ME and proposed. We planned on leaving that night but that was when..."
Emma was severely yelling at her mother, but Regina cut in the last second to continue in an eerie calm voice.
"Cora ripped out his heart." Regina walked down the stairs and put her hand around Emma's waist looking for the comfort she knew would be there.
Snow was now the one that was stunned into silence. She didn't even notice Emma and Regina leave until she heard the door close.
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