Title: True Love Is Magic

Discliamer: NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE MINE! Done for fun people! No money is being made here :(

Author's Note: This is going to be a very...very long story if people like this first chapter. Hopefully everyone likes it!

There was a flash of light and suddenly two women fell to the ground gasping and coughing for air.

It didn't take long for one of them to exclaim, "We're alive!"

Slowly both began to regain their breaths and slowly stood up. Both then noticing for the first time where they were.

Or to be more precise, the fact that they didn't know where they were.

Letting out a huge breath, finally one of them spoke to the other.

"You always get me into trouble Sarah! Now we're lost!"

Sarah, couldn't see anything, but nonetheless responded in her usual way.

"That's not true and you know it. Every time you lie you get this hitch in your voice and make this face. Everyone always knows when your lying!"

"I am NOT lying! I might be exaggerating but that's not lying!"

Sarah turned to the annoyed voice.

"Snow be quiet and help me find a place out of here."

Snow finally stopped ranting and realized that Sarah was right.

"I think we're in a mine shaft." Sarah said to Snow.

"We weren't anywhere near the mines." Snow reminded Sarah.

"I don't think you were keeping track of where we were near with those beasts chasing after us." Sarah reasoned with Snow.

"I think I see light up ahead. Do you see it?" Snow asked Sarah.

Slowly the two found their way to a small barricade of rocks with a beam of light shining through. Neither of them spoke as they both began the task of removing the rocks. It didn't take too long as they slowly found themselves back in what they assumed was their forest near their home.

"We need to get back before mom finds out where exactly we were. That is if she didn't already send out the guards." Snow said as she lead them away from the tunnel.

"Please. Knowing our mother...the second she heard the huge explosion you threw at those things, she knew it was us and sent out the army."
Sarah responded as she kept up with her sister.

Snow stopped and spun.

"What was I suppose to do!? It's not like I had time to tell anyone anything! My little sister sneaks out of the castle in the middle of the night going god knows where! I follow you just to find out where you're going at that hour and figure out what you were planning on doing which was the worst idea you've ever had!" Snow was almost yelling the last part at Sarah.

Sarah realizing that Snow was freaking out, immediately knew she had to diffuse the situation.

Sarah used her 'special' pout that always seemed to get to her big sister.

"It's not my fault you love me soo much."

Snow couldn't help the exhausted amused sighing laugh that she gave her sister, the smirk that Sarah had been trying to get out of Snow.

Snow shook her head and raised her eyebrows in her oh so familiar way.

"It's not going to work. We're not little girls anymore." Snow's smirk became a smile.

In return Sarah's pout turned into a huge smile.

"Of course it's gonna work! Snow White can't stay angry at anyone for more than a few minutes!" Sarah said as she moved her eyebrows up in down.

Snow sucked in a breath with a blushing smile, and smacked Sarah on the arm.

"Stop listening in on my private conversations!"

Sarah just laughed out loud, as she moved away from the the striking zone her sisters arms created.

"I can't help it when you're husband can't keep his hands off you when you fight. You're screeching can be heard in the whole castle!" Sarah informed her sister.

Snow White blushed a deep shade of pink before rushing after her escaping sister.

They weren't paying attention to their surroundings as they ran through the forest chasing after each other, laughing and just glad to be alive. It wasn't until Sarah suddenly stopped in front of Snow that they collided into one another causing both to fall to the ground.

Both stared at the black and white gravel that was but a few inches from their faces.

"Snow..." Sarah said as they slowly picked themselves up.

Snow slowly moved her foot to tap on the surface.

Both smiling when nothing happened.

Snow moved and stood on the surface and couldn't help but laugh.

"It's a road."

"It's the strangest road I've ever seen." Sarah commented.

Snow turned and stared from one side of the road to the other and then looked up at the sky.

"We need to head east to hopefully get home. From the sun's position I'd say it's down this way."

Sarah shrugged her shoulders.

"Maybe mother is trying a new infrastructure for the townspeople."

Snow nodded her head in approval of the idea.

Making their way down the road, neither of the two could imagine what they were going to encounter, and the adventure that was about to begin.

Regina was walking to her home, trying to reason with herself that what she was doing was the right thing to win Henry back. In the end it was all about him.

Working with her mother was a fine line between insanity and strategy. In the end as long as she had Henry back she would be ok with anything.

"Alright it was so Sarah's fault! All I know is..."

"Traitor you said you wouldn't give me up..."

"I said we'd be lucky if she didn't already know..."

"WHY can't you ever LIE! Not ONCE! I swear..."

Regina didn't know where Snow had come from or the stranger that she was currently fighting with. It took Regina a few seconds to realize that Snow's hair was long once more, and she was in clothes that definitely reminded her of how they would dress in their home lands. The other woman, though a complete stranger to Regina, held a familiarity that she couldn't quite place. Black hair, brown eyes, and porcelain white skin were offset by her full red lips.

"What is it Mary Margaret? I don't have time for this, whatever this is."

"Who's Mary Margaret?" Sarah asked with a furrowed brow, Snow also furrowing her brow at the question.

No sooner had words left Sarah's mouth when the question was answered in the most shocking of ways.

"REGINA! Do you have any idea what you've done! I..." Mary Margaret stopped in her tracks along with the others as they spotted the two women standing on the side walk next to Regina. Standing next to her that is. Standing next to a woman that looked identical to her.

"Um...Snow...can the Enchanted Forest make you see things?" Sarah asked with a gulp as she huddled closer to her sister.

It was then that Regina's back straightened as her eyes took on a steely look.

"Snow?!" David asked the image in front of them.

Snow's eyes widened and she was about to go to him when Sarah grabbed her hand with a "NO!"

The second their hands touched it was as though a torch had been lit. Their hands glowed almost as brightly as the sun.

"Snow it's not him! Don't listen to him." Sarah reasoned with her sister.

"Where did you come from?" The question was asked with such a coldness to it that both Snow and Sarah turned to stare at eyes that had always held such warmth for them, that had showed an over abundance of love, stare back at them as if her eyes were ice itself.

"Did Emma breaking the curse cause this?" Mary Margaret asked as she stared at her counterpart.

"Emma's here?! Where's my daughter?!" Snow's usual glowing face becoming a warrior mask.

"Snow! Don't listen. You know Baelfire and Emma took Henry..." Sarah never got to finish as Regina was instantly moving towards them at the mention of Henry. Of course she didn't get far, as the glowing of the two's hands shined so bright one second, and the next Regina was laying on the ground several feet away in her front yard.

"MOM!" Snow yelled before tearing her hand away from Sarah, both instinctively rushing to their mother's side.

"Are you ok?" Sarah asked, But no sooner had the words left her mouth that Regina used her magic to propel both Snow and Sarah back.

Regina managed to stand up, but David quickly stood between the two girls and the evil queen.

"ENOUGH!" David yelled as he saw Regina ready a fireball to throw at the two strange girls.

Sarah recovered first and looked up at her mother's face. It hurt beyond words to see the coldness there.

"Mom what's going on?" Snow asked as she too looked up and found the only mother she had ever known ready to throw a fire ball at them.

That was when Regina realized what this other Snow White was calling her. Brown eyes that seemed black as night slowly dulled back into golden pools. Yet it wasn't Regina that would question the words coming out of the woman's mouth.

"What did you call her?" Mary Margaret asked with a furrowed and shocked face.

Regina herself was trying to figure out exactly what was going on. Regina stood their in her usual confident upright stance staring at the two women who we're looking at her as if she had betrayed them. The most ironic of ironic because of Snow's relationship with Regina, yet this other version of Snow White was staring at her as if she had suddenly become the evil queen for the first time in Snow's life.

Sarah began to look around the area then, realizing just how strange their surroundings really were.

"We're not in our lands anymore...are we?" Sarah asked, no sooner had she asked that a car drove by causing both of the girls to squeal, and quickly Sarah hid behind her sister once more.

"No, um...we're actually in another land. Technically we were cursed to this land." David explained as his mind tried to catch up to what exactly the two women meant for the rest of them.

"Snow," Sarah waited for her sister to turn and look at her, "mom's going to kill us."

Snow couldn't help but feel her mother's eyes staring daggers at her. It was unsettling. The idea that her mother...wasn't her mother here, wherever here was, disturbed Snow in a way few things every did.

Of course Sarah's comment of how their mother was going to kill them for getting into the current situation they were in alleviated the pain of such a discovery. The thought that what was currently happening to them was something they were just going to have to get through. That they would get back to their mother, it made Snow realize that they both had to stick together and face this strange place that they found themselves in.

As the older sibling it was her responsibility to protect her sister. Plus if they did get back and her mother found out that Sarah had been harmed because of her...well...she doubted all of her husbands pleadings wouldn't stop her mother from making Snow do all the tedious horrible work of running the kingdom. Which she hated to do. Being a princess she knew it was expected of her to rule her people, but like her mother she just wanted to be free to live her life.

Her mother had made a huge sacrifice to let her have such freedom. It made Snow love her all the more. Even though the woman wearing her face should have made her feel some sort of fear, her mother's face had always made her feel safe. For so many different reasons, reasons that her sister would never know about, she felt safer with her mother than with anyone else.

"Snow!" Sarah elbowed her sister to gain her attention. It was as if she had zoned out from what was happening around them...which Sarah knew from experience could lead to danger.

Snow startled back to her surroundings and looked at her other self.

Mary Margaret couldn't help but feel really odd about her identical. So many questions ran through her head.

"We're sorry about the circumstances," Snow began as she nodded at Mary Margaret, "but until my sister and I can find our way back to our land we are unfamiliar with...yours. We were running for our lives through the forest." Snow stopped her diplomatic speech to huff out a laugh and smile.

"She always seems to find a way of getting us into trouble." Snow shared her and Sarah's inside joke. David and Mary Margaret gave little laughs and their own smiles back as the tension eased between all of them, but the woman she knew to be her mother only continued to stare at them in anger.

Snow shared a brief look with Regina and looked back at her sister.

"I don't want to impose on anyone, but we are quite tired and..."

"Oh for god sakes Snow, can someone please point us to the nearest bed!?" Sarah stopping her sister. "You don't have to be so formal! After all she's you," Sarah pointed to Mary Margaret who seemed to jerk at the finger being pointed at her, "and I guarantee if she's anything like you she just wants you to spit it out."

Mary Margaret let a little smirk out as her doppelganger got this very familiar look on her face.

Annoyance.

"I'm so telling mom this is your fault." Snow said in annoyance of her sister.

Sarah of course rolled her eyes and looked over at the woman that she knew to be her mother.

"Mom. Don't listen to her! You know how much of a liar Snow is!" Sarah said with an evil smile on her face.

Both Snow and Mary Margaret gasped, but Snow quickly grabbed her sister's hair and yanked.

"OWWW! MOM!" Sarah yelled and then proceeded to tackle her sister to the ground.

"YOU JUST SAID I CAN'T LIE TO SAVE MY LIFE!" Snow yelled as she and her sister tumbled in Regina's front yard.

David and Mary Margaret didn't know what to say or do, but both were shocked when Regina separated the two by magic.

"Are you two insane?!" Regina asked with a furrowed brow as her hands radiated with the magic keeping the two siblings apart.

"Mom you know how much she drives me insane!" Snow yelled as she squirmed in the magic holding her up in the air, suspended in space.

"I'm not your mother." Regina said with emotionless black eyes.

But before the words could sting either Snow or Mary Margaret, Sarah spoke out as by now everyone knew she couldn't keep her mouth shut.

"Yes you are. It doesn't matter what world or dimension you come from. You will always be our mother." Sarah said as she stared straight into the evil queens eyes.

Regina had not been ready for the emotion that surged through her at the intense look the young woman sent her. Regina looked into the brown eyes of the strong willed defiant woman and suddenly realized who's eyes they reminded her of.

Slowly Regina lowered both Snow and Sarah back down to the earth. Regina's mouth was slightly open as the shock hit her of what it all meant.

"Mom...are you ok?" Snow asked as she walked up to Regina without fear or hesitation.

David was about to stop the woman from approaching Regina, but Mary Margaret grabbed his arm to keep him by her side. More afraid of what Regina would do to David, then allowing him to jump in her path.

But Snow brushed back Regina's hair and gazed worriedly at her mother. Regina was frozen staring at Sarah. Raw emotions filled her at the notion, the very idea of who this girl was...then Snow was brushing back her hair and Regina was almost stunned at the worry in her eyes.

Mary Margaret and David couldn't help but hold their breaths. Both of them expecting Regina to switch back into the evil villain both of them knew her to be. Mary Margaret felt something in the pit of her stomach when Regina reached up and held Snow's hand.

"I'm alright." Regina said as she slowly lowered Snow's hand from her face.

Snow though did not let go of her hand.

"I know we may be different from what you're use to us being...but...Sarah's right. No matter what you will always be our mom. And we'll always love you." Snow said.

Regina looked at the face that she had detested for so many years, the hate that she had harbored towards her, the blame she had placed upon her...it seemed to submerge after the last five words out of Snow's mouth.

Mary Margaret couldn't help but feel as though Regina had once again stabbed her with a dagger as she gave Snow a smile that Mary Margaret had not seen since she was a child.

"Now that I've managed to get through to your head," Sarah said with a yawn, "I really need a nap. Or food."

"Both would be better." Snow said as she used her free hand to cover the huge yawn that made it's way out of her system.

"What were you two running from?" David asked curiously.

"No clue what they were. They were some sort of animal. We didn't really stick around to find out." Sarah explained with an impish shrug.

David gave his own little smile at the very non nonchalant gesture. He didn't know the girl but a few minutes and he already liked her.

Regina still held onto Snow's hand, fighting with the inner voice that she had listened to for so long, telling her to let go of Snow's hand. That Snow was the reason Daniel died. That all she had to do was reach into her chest and squeeze...

"Not to sound like the snotty baby sister..." Sarah interupted Regina's inner conflict.

"Too late." Snow quipped and squeezed Regina's hand. It caused a small little amused smile to surface on Regina's face.

Sarah glared daggers at her sister.

"Food sounds like a fabulous idea." Sarah said as she continued to give her sister the stink eye.

"There's...there's a place not too far from here." Mary Margaret said in a very strained voice. Her eyes switching between the three woman, her eyes continually checking to see if Regina still held Snow's hand.

Each time she saw the same sight of them holding hands a twisting in her chest tightened even more.

Shaking her head slightly to rid herself of the thoughts and weird sensation in the center of her chest, Mary Margaret turned and began to make her way to Granny's without checking to see if the others were following her.

David realizing that something was off with his wife quickly joined her, and set up a pace to walk beside her.

Mary Margaret's arms were wrapped tightly around herself. David didn't say anything, but he knew this defensive posture from all those many years ago.

"Are you ok?" David asked as he turned briefly to see if the others were following, which they were.

Mary Margaret tried to swallow down the sudden tears that were clogging her throat.

But she couldn't even begin to explain to her husband what she was feeling, so she just shrugged her shoulders.

David wrapped his arm around her as he walked with her, giving her comfort that he knew she somehow needed.

It wasn't until they were all at Granny's that people started to stare at the obvious double vision they were all witnessing. And the little fact that Snow was still holding the evil queen's hand.

Red and Granny stared open mouthed as the group settled themselves into a booth. Both Sarah and Snow flanking Regina.

The two sisters were busy looking at all of the different things of modern day living that they did not have in their lands to notice any of this though.

Regina was trying her best to keep her inner voice from making her doubt the intentions of the woman that was still currently holding her hand. Regina found herself grounded though as both woman were now holding both of her hands.

It was as if they knew subconsciously that if they didn't hold her down she would have been sprinting out the door.

Every now and then Mary Margaret's eyes would catch Regina's, and she would see the disbelief and accusation in them. Almost as if she was waiting for the evil queen to reappear.

Regina couldn't explain it, much less voice what was going through her mind...but the one thing that had caught her attention on what Sarah and Snow had said before made her voice the question that had been buzzing through her mind with all the others.

"You said something about Henry earlier..." Regina began.

Snow laughed and smiled widely, "Emma and Bae were taking Henry to the countryside to visit family."

Regina recognized the name...suddenly her head spun as the information sunk in.

"Bae...as in Baelfire...Rumple's son." Regina clarified, making both Mary Margaret and David realize why Regina suddenly looked so pale.

Sarah laughed. "Wow that's something different here. No one calls him Rumple anymore."

Regina, Mary Margaret, and David exchanged a look for the first time ever. All understanding the implication and complication of what these two seemed to know.

"Are you...are you trying to tell me that Emma had an affair with Rumpelstiltskin's son?" Mary Margaret asked almost out of breath, already knowing the answer but was in no way going to let Regina know that.

Sarah laughed while Snow gave a glare towards Mary Margaret.

"It...It was NOT an AFFAIR!" Snow defended her daughter, which only caused Sarah to double over laughing onto her mother's side, which also caused Regina to hide her lips in her mouth to also keep from laughing.

Snow looked at her mother and quickly whined, "Mooomm!"

Regina started to shake a little with laughter but managed to get out a, "Sorry dear."

The phrase caused Mary Margaret to wince, but Snow's head leaned back in exasperation.

"Emma has always been as stubborn and hard headed as you mother! If it's anyone's fault that she caused a scandal it's yours!" Snow accused.

Again Mary Margaret, David and Regina seemed to agree on something as they all exclaimed at the same time, "Her(My) fault!"

Sarah slowly stopped laughing but still had a huge smile on her face.

"Emma has always been attached to you practically since birth! Everyone in the kingdom knows that to mess with Emma is to guarantee a visit from you!" Sarah said with the bobbing up and down of her eyebrows.

It caused a real live Regina laugh.

"I swear if it wasn't for the fact that I had the labor pains, I would swear she was your daughter." Snow said as she looked up at the ceiling, as if she was remembering the event of Emma's birth.

Mary Margaret though, was quiet as she did compare her daughter to Regina. Shockingly what Snow was saying was true. Emma did share many traits with Regina.

"It could just be it's in the family blood." Sarah said with a chuckle.

Before the confusing comment could be soaked in by the group, Granny approached the table.

"I thought we had seen it all." Granny said as she looked at Sarah, Regina, and Snow in the shared booth.

Granny gestured with a tilt of her head to Snow, "This the Queen's doing?"

Both Snow and Sarah's smile fell at the familiar woman, never having heard her reference their mother in such a way.

"Thing's really are different here." Sarah murmured.

Snow straightened up in her seat and was about ready to question Granny on why she was talking that way about her mother when Red walked up to the table flanking her grandmother.

"I think an explanation is in order." Red said to the group.

Sarah smiled at Red, and Red returned the smile.

"Ah Red...always one to get to the meat of the situation." Sarah laughed at her own joke, though Red's mouth dropped in indignation.

Snow, and Mary Margaret covered their mouths to stop the laugh from coming out.

"Oh...werewolf jokes. Very clever." Granny said in her usual no nonsense straight faced way.

Sarah just smiled at Granny, "No one's as clever as you Adolpha."

At the name people in the entire cafe turned to look at Sarah.

Sarah looked around at the faces looking at her, "I'm gonna guess people just call her Granny."

Everyone then turned back to what they were doing and Granny continued on with her inquiries.

"So wherever your from, you obvious know me." Granny stated with a little upturn in her lips.

Sarah and Snow nodded their heads with ridiculously wide smiles on their faces.

"And I'm gonna guess you know me well enough to make jokes like that..." Ruby said as she placed a hand on her hip.

"Red...let's just say I have been around when you've been...in heat!" With the words Sarah gave a devilish smile that rivaled her mother's.

"SARAH!" Both Regina and Snow exclaimed as Ruby turned a deep shade of red from embarrassment.

Ruby almost jumped across the table to get to the hysterically laughing Sarah, but Sarah quickly dived under the table.

"I TOLD YOU SHE ALWAYS GETS ME INTO TROUBLE!" Snow yelled as she pulled Ruby away from the table.

"COME ON RED IT WAS JUST A JOKE!" Sarah yelled from underneath the table.

Regina had been slowly coming to terms with the fact that she indeed had a daughter...two daughters...but one that was most definitely biologically hers. Sarah held a tom boy quality to her as she herself had. Joking and laughing around with a carefree fashion. Snow played the part of older sibling well. 'Protecting' her sister from Ruby and standing in front of her earlier showing that she was willing to protect her against anything.

But it was the oddest thing to try to accept.

That somehow, someway in this other version of their land...Snow had become her daughter. It seemed like most of her life Regina had kept a hatred for Snow, and suddenly she found that another version of herself had somehow let that hatred go. And the somehow was sitting underneath a table waiting to hear from her sister that the coast was clear.

It was odd how maternal instincts kicked in when they did. Regina had been a mother to Henry since his infancy. She had only ever been a real mother to Henry...her stepdaughter had never really been her's to raise. After her marriage to Leapold she had barely been in Snow's life. It was as if things were in such a way that would guarantee her hate for her step child.

But as Snow calmed Ruby down, she realized that another version of herself had gained something she never had.

Snow's unconditional love.

"Come on Red you know she's just trying to get you started." Snow tried to calm Ruby down even more.

"YEAH RED STOP ACTING LIKE SUCH A BIT.." Sarah was cut off by her mother grabbing her ear.

"OWWWOWWW!MOMLETGO!I'MSORRY!OOOOWWWW!" Sarah yelled as her mother lifted her from underneath the table and back onto the bench.

"Apologize to Ruby and don't ever let me hear you talk like that again!" Regina said in her most authoritative voice.

All those in the cafe recognized the Queen's voice and everyone watched in surprise as Sarah's ear was let go of.

Sarah rubbed her small ear and grimaced as she looked up at a smiling with satisfaction Snow.

"It's what you get for being a brat!" Snow commented as she slipped back onto the bench.

"I was just joking! Geez! Red knows I'm only messing with her. We've only been friends since forever!" Sarah explained as she continued to console her ear, and closed her eyes as she rubbed the sore appendage.

Snow didn't miss the looks the others shared.

A sudden worry and horror filled her as she realized that none of them knew or recognized who Sarah was.

Hoping that Sarah didn't realize that she did not yet know where her counterpart was in this land, Snow quickly looked to Granny.

"It wouldn't be possible to have some porridge and bread would it?" Snow asked.

Mary Margaret actually grimaced as she remembered that in their lands it was the average meal that one could find at an inn. Until that moment she hadn't realized just how luxurious it truly was to live in this dimension.

Granny huffed out a laugh as Red smirked.

"I'll tell yah what...I've got something that you might like a bit better than porridge...if you're up to trying it." Granny said as she gave a pointed stare towards Sarah.

Sarah gave a suspicious look to Granny then to her mother. When Regina gave a small smirk Sarah looked back to Granny and nodded.

"Ok then. One Pepperoni pizza coming up." Granny declared as she spun around a dragged a still ticked off Ruby behind her.

As soon as they were gone, Regina turned and spoke with a no nonsense voice.

"It may be alright for you to act that way in your lands, but here you will not act in such a childish way again. Your a grown lady and are expected to act that way."

Sarah's eyes showed how the words hurt her, as if those words were always being spoken to her.

"I'm sorry. I'll be good."

Regina's heart tightened at the words. It brought her back to all those years ago with the way her own mother had treated her. Without a second thought she raised her hand and brushed back the few stray strands that escaped Sarah's braided hair.

"I don't want people thinking poorly of you here."

Sarah gave a half smile and looked up briefly into her mother's face.

"If you know me at all you know that I don't care about what other people think of me. I just care what you think mom."

"We have to grow up some time Sarah. I'm a grandmother and when I'm around you I turn back into a twelve year old." Snow said as she let go of her mother's hand and wrapped it around the one that the two had again interlaced without really noticing.

Mary Margaret could help but wrap her arms around herself at the table, David of course noticed and placed his arm above and around her head, not touching her but still showing her in a small way that he was indeed there for her.

It was way too surreal. The whole thing just didn't seem possible. Regina was acting way too nice to Snow. It was only a matter of time before something happened to ruin it.

"Are you ok Mary?" Sarah asked with concern in her voice.

The shock that Sarah was even paying attention to her, let alone cared if she was ok making everyone take note of how quiet Mary Margaret was acting.

Regina's eyes locked with Mary Margaret's for one second before Sarah once more asked a question.

"So is it safe to say that you did have a daughter named Emma and you do have a grandson named Henry right?" Sarah said with one raised brow.

For the first time Mary Margaret smiled.

"Yes. Emma and Henry left town for a bit but hopefully will be back soon. Emma didn't want to leave him here because of Cora." Mary Margaret explained their absence.

Both Snow and Sarah's forehead's scrunched up.

"Why? Is Grandma in a fight with Emma?" Snow asked Mary Margaret.

Again the weirdness of it all hit Regina.

Snow had not once referred to Cora as her grandmother. Mary Margaret didn't know how to even respond to the question when David saved her from having to.

"You can say that. But also because I don't think Henry would have been able to stand not going on an adventure with Emma."

Again both Snow and Sarah looked confused.

"I'm sorry...is...how old is Henry?" Sarah tried to find the right question for how confused she was.

Regina smiled.

"He's eleven." She answered immediately to the question.

Both Snow and Sarah turned with shock towards Regina.

"ELEVEN!" Both of them exclaimed.

"Oh ho ho..." Sarah started laughing, "that explains a lot," shaking her head at the idea, " But how's that possible?!" Sarah asked as she looked at everyone at the table.

Snow was just in shock.

"Why? How old is Henry where you two are from?" David asked curiously.

"He's almost a year and half." Snow said slowly as her mind tried to wrap around the fact that she had a preteen grandson.

"Wait. If Henry is eleven years old...how old is Emma?!" Sarah asked staring at Mary Margret's very young face. Trying to figure out how it was possible for her sister to still look so young if her niece had a son that was ten years old.

"Emma's twenty eight years old." Mary Margaret said as her eyes once more locked with Regina's.

The stare down between the two, finally caught the attention of both Sarah and Snow.

The undercurrent of hate was more then obvious at that point.

It made Snow extremely uncomfortable to see her mother staring, at who was essentially her, like that.

"I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it has something to do with the...curse?" Sarah tried to ask delicately.

David nodded. Ruby had finally brought them all waters and realizing where their conversation was headed quickly retreated to the kitchen.

"Who made the curse?" Snow asked.

"I did." Regina said in her cold dark voice, still staring at Mary Margaret with hate filled eyes.

Snow looked at her mother suddenly as she tried to understand what would cause her mother to do such a thing.

"I have a feeling the why is very personal." Sarah said almost in a whisper as she saw the pain beneath her mother's hard exterior. Sarah didn't know why but she squeezed her mother's hand. Something inside her telling her that whatever the reason, her mother needed comfort.

Shockingly it wasn't Regina who responded to the non question.

"It is." Mary Margret stated.

To say it was tense when Ruby brought out the pizza was putting things WAY too mildly.

Sarah and Snow smelled the heavenly aroma and both of their stomach's let out a loud grumble. Neither of them reached for the food though. Regina understood why immediately. Her daughters, it was strange to think those words, had grown up as royalty.

Regina didn't think twice as she gave the first slice to Snow and the second to Sarah before taking her own.

But apparently having grown up as royals didn't stop how they devoured the new treat.

"Who ever invented this is a genius!" Snow exclaimed as she finished off her slice with a little wicked smile and twinkle in her eye.

"Do you know how many people would come to the kingdom if we made this! Our festivals would be ten times as big." Sarah's eyes were furrowed as she thought her idea through.

Regina lifted an eyebrow at her daughter's idea. Not thinking much of it she distributed another two slices to the girls. Impressed that Sarah was indeed thinking of how something as simple as pizza could improve the kingdom.

"If we want to show good favor with King Midas we could have our cooks prepare this at his castle for a banquet. I'm sure he'd be more inclined to the alliance." Snow thought out loud.

Regina's head swiveled towards Snow. "What alliance?"

Both Snow and Sara let out huge sighs at the same time.

"It's a REally long story." Snow barely managed to say as a yawn tore through her.

Sarah of course nodded and let out a massive yawn.

Regina didn't realize that the duo was leaning in towards her until both girls had their heads on her shoulders.

Regina instantly tensed when both girls started to put weight towards her body. David had a small smirk on his face as he realized how uncomfortable Regina was. He didn't realize just how uncomfortable his own wife was.

Instead of the reaction Mary Margaret expected from her step mother, she was baffled to see Regina actually reach up and caress Snow's cheek and brush aside some of her hair.

"Snow...Snow you need to wake up." Regina tried to wake her without letting the inner voice convince her to yank the girl away from her. The constant need to shove down the voice was not easy in any which way. Regina's dark eyes lightened and her red lipstick painted lips pursed as Snow just seemed to fall asleep even more at Regina's caress, snuggling that much more into her mother's side.

David was trying to keep himself from laughing. Regina now had two sleeping woman using her as a pillow.

It was comical.

Regina heard Snow mumble something, but because of her proximity easily deciphered what was said.

"You always did hate your tutors." Regina mumbled herself as she smirked at the few memories that actual brought smiles to her face.

The way that Regina's face beamed with mirth seemed to remind Mary Margaret of the way her step mother had looked before black magic had corrupted her.

Before either David or Mary Margaret could respond to the odd comment, Regina's black cloud of magic surrounded the trio and then they were gone.

"Huh." David said with a tilt of his head as he stared at the empty space without fear of the safety of Sarah or Snow. Which was odd and strange.

"What?" Mary Margaret asked as she herself tried to wrap her head around the fact that she wasn't scared of what Regina was up to.

David turned to look at his wife.

"Well...I've only ever seen her be gentle with Henry. It's kind of odd to see her act that way...well...you know..." David didn't actually have the guts to actually say his thought.

But Mary Margaret knew.

"You've never seen her act that way towards me." The words left her mouth as she turned her head to look into her husbands eyes, with a bittersweet smirk on her face.

David just gave a slight nod.

Swallowing down the lump in her throat, and fighting back the watering in her eyes, she turned to look back at her untouched slice of pizza.

"She did once."

Regina had transported them back to her home and onto the guest bedroom.

The instant she did both of the young woman wrapped themselves around their mother's body, their faces plastered to their mothers shoulder with slightly parted mouths.

Despite the initial inner voice that seemed to be pestering her about Snow White being so clingy, Regina's body relaxed as both girls slept soundly against her.

She hadn't had someone fall asleep against her since Henry was a child. Out of everything she missed that the most. How Henry would snuggle with her and want to be with her.

He had been her entire world. Revenge, heart ache, all of it had been on the back of her mind as her son had taken center stage.

But as the years passed and he grew more inquisitive, more intelligent, her little boy had caught on to the fact that he was indeed different.

As angry and terrified she was that he had figured out what had been going on all this time, at the same time she was very proud.

It was a contradiction to say the least, but it was true.

Sarah snuggled closer to her shocking Regina with the fact that she had been playing with both of the girl's hair while she had been staring up at the ceiling thinking.

Regina had become more than just comfortable around the two...they felt like they belonged TO her.

Maybe that's why she had been thinking of Henry.

Henry had, in her mind, been hers.

Memories of pain and suffering continued to assault and plague her. Daniel's face...eyes...haunted her every waking moment.

Then suddenly a girl walks literally into her life, with Daniel's eyes. Calling her mother and claiming that not only did she love her, but that Snow White loved her as well. Snow was as much hers as Sarah claimed them to be.

She didn't realize she was crying, but the trickle of tears had made it's way onto a sleeping Snow's head. It was enough to wake her.

Snow slowly lifted her head and saw her mother crying softly.

Snow's initial reaction was to find out who had made her cry and make them pay for it, but her instinct, her instinct was to reach up and wipe away the tears...and she did.

Regina was only startled slightly at the gesture.

"Why are you crying?" Snow whispered.

Regina said nothing, her throat to choked up to actually talk. All she could do was suck in a shuddering breath.

And before the sudden melt down, Snow was wrapping her arms around her and squeezing her tightly.

Sarah woke from the sudden movements and blinked away her sleep at seeing Snow comforting their mother.

"It's ok mom. It's ok." Snow whispered as she blinked back her own tears at hearing her mother sobbing.

Sarah had seen this before...not very often...but enough times to know that whatever pain their mother was going through, Snow was the only one that could comfort her.

***************************Fairy Tale Land Alternate Dimension************************************

Queen Regina paced back and forth, the worry on her face clear and visible.

Wringing her hands together, all of her thoughts were on her daughters, and how no one had been able to find them yet.

The explosion in the forest last night had woken all those in the castle.

Since then she had been up.

It hadn't taken long for David to inform her that Snow was missing, along with Sarah.

Knowing her daughters like she did...she feared the worst.

David came into the room swiftly.

Regina looked up with anxiety written all over her face.

"Anything?!" She asked with no patience.

"Nothing! If I know Snow, it wasn't her idea to leave the castle in the middle of the night." David pointed out.

Regina looked up and shook her head. "Sarah."

"Do you think she was trying to..." David didn't get a chance to ask the question.

"I know she was. As reasonable and cool headed as she was acting last night we both know she's as stubborn as a mule when she gets something into her head." Regina said as she continued to shake her head at her daughter's actions.

"Hey...come here!" David opened his arms and Regina let out a laughing sigh as she willingly allowed David to embrace her.

"We'll find them! If it's one thing we both know it's that I will always find Snow. And wherever Snow is...Sarah is sure to be." David said as he rubbed a hand up and down Regina's back as she snuggled into his chest.

Regina believed David, it was just something in her telling her that wherever her daughter's were...it wouldn't be so easy to find them.

"Promise me we'll find them." Regina insisted.

"We'll find them. I promise."

Regina let out a sigh and moved away from him.

David kissed her brow and moved away.

"James is searching the forest now. If he finds anything..." David didn't have to finish the sentence.

Regina nodded.

David turned to walk out when Cora began to enter.

"Any news?" Cora asked David.

David shook his head as Cora reached out to take David's hands.

"Did you make sure to check.."

"The stables and..."

"And the gardens and fields. Yes. Nothing so far." David continued Cora's thoughts.

Cora let a huge sigh and shared a brief look with Regina and then back to David.

"If we have no choice...I could use magic.."

"No!"

"No."

The words from David and Regina making Cora instantly regret suggesting it.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. If they were heading where I think they were they could be held up in the woods." David spoke soothingly.

Cora nodded her head slightly.

"I have to go." With that David placed a peck on Cora's cheek and was about to leave the room when Regina asked a question.

"Has there been any news of the alliance with King Midas?" Regina asked with hope in her eyes.

David shook his gravely.

Regina nodded and swallowed down the panic that rose.

"We will find them Regina." David reassured once more. With that he finally let the two woman.

Regina sat down heavily on the chaise chair next to the window staring out into the kingdom.

"He will you know...find them that is." Cora said as she approached Regina.

"If anything happens to them..." Regina couldn't even fathom the thought.

"They're fine. Trust me. You'd feel it if they were in danger." Cora played with her daughters hair, trying to ease her worries.

But Regina was already crying.

"If he's touched her..."

Cora stiffened at the implication.

"The kingdom will go to war more than willing." Cora's voice hardening and coldness reminding Regina of the day her mother had killed her beloved.

But many things had passed since that day.

Things that made Regina believe that she was destined to save Snow.

Her little girl, her little princess who had been so unaware of what she had caused.

In the end all things happened for a reason.

Regina knew that now.

Daniel's loss was great and soul wrenching...but nothing would have prepared her for what she would face with Snow.

She wouldn't undo one thing...knowing what she did now.

"Why do I love her soo much?" Regina asked her own mother.

Cora placed her lips on Regina's head.

"Because that's what mother's do dear. They love their children." Cora explained simply.

Regina nodded her head.

Cora said nothing as tears in her own eyes brimmed them but never fell.

So many things left unsaid between the two...only time would tell if the wounds would ever heal.

************** Back To The Mainworld************************

Mary Margaret was worried.

Not about Snow or Sarah. But she hadn't heard anything from Emma in quite some time.

The phone call informing her about Rumpelstiltskin being Henry's grandfather was shocking, but the last few hours of having a duplicate of herself show up in town...plus a sister that she had never had...it was confusing to say the least.

But she was more worried about her daughter than anything else.

She had heard the panic and desperation in her voice. She could only hope after her confiding in her, she had done the right thing.

Her mind wandered though, as much as she tried not to, it kept going back to the diner.

"What are you thinking about?" David asked as Snow sat down at the table.

"Nothing...just.." Snow shook her head as one hand played with her bottom lip, "I just...I keep on thinking about why it upsets me so much."

David's brow furrowed.

"Whadyah' mean?" David asked with his head cocked to one side.

Words to explain her feelings wouldn't come out though, because even in her own head they sounded absurd.

The fair skinned beauty just shook her head.

"You'll think I'm crazy."

David gave a huge smile at that.

"Nah! I mean...if you were to tell me that your real name was Snow White...well..."

Mary Margaret gave him a huge smile and shake of her head at his dig on their sanity.

The smile vanished from her face when her mind once more went back to that moment in time where Regina had brushed Snow's hair back...

"Do you think it's possible...that she's still in there?" Mary Margaret asked as she put her thumb nail in her mouth while looking up at David.

David yet again was confused by her question.

"I'm not following you."

Mary Margaret was getting frustrated at trying to voice her thoughts, and began to fidget and wave her hands around.

"Do you...do you think that maybe we've been misjudging her? That somehow...she really is still in there...the woman that saved my life all those years ago. Do you think it's possible that we were too fast to test her? I mean...she had just announced at her execution how much she wished she could have hurt us more. Do you think..."

David shook his head, but oddly not in disagreement.

"You can't doubt yourself. At the time it was the only way we could protect ourselves."

Mary Margaret just shook her head no.

"What I saw today...I thought was gone when I was a little girl. But I saw it...I saw it today and it made me think that maybe...just maybe..."

But the words that she desperately wanted to say, words that she knew would indeed sound crazy to the man that had saved her from several horrible fates, those words just wouldn't come out of her mouth.

"Hey..." David walked over and knelled down so he could look up into the love of his life's eyes.

"Don't forget that we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her." David tried to make her feel better, but it had the opposite effect.

"Yeah...and if we had never come here we wouldn't have Henry." Mary Margaret reasoned.

David nodded his head, acknowledging that she was right.

Standing up he leaned down and placed a kiss on her lips.

"And that makes you thankful to her." David understood a chunk of the thoughts swirling around in her head.

Smirking at the words, all Mary Margaret could do was nod.

While Snow was comforting their mother Sarah extracted herself from the scene.

Sarah knew her mother didn't like to break down in front of her.

Sarah wandered around the house, smiling as she did so.

It certainly was her mother's taste.

A big black object rested on a piece of furniture making Sarah intrigued with what it could be.

Moving towards a wall of cabinets Sarah inspected the room.

Opening up one she found plates and dishes.

Sarah's face seemed to light up in understanding.

"A kitchen."

She began opening cabinet after cabinet...still not finding any food, when she came across a silver door. Opening the door Sarah drew back as the light came on.

"Wow." Sarah said as a small smile made it's way onto her face.

The Fridge was packed with goods, and the cold that came from the door being opened shocked and thrilled Sarah.

She began to dig through the treasure trove when a beeping made her jump back.

Lookiing around to see where the noise was coming from, and finding nothing...she again began to shuffle through the items.

When the beeping happened again her head was in the machine and realized that whatever the object was...it was making the noise.

Smiling as she realized this she quickly pulled the items she seemed to recognize and closed the door

After having piled the counter with her findings Sarah began to open jars and bread and began to eat once more.

Deciding to take her makeshift dinner with her she began to explore more of the house.

When she came to images on a table, Sarah couldn't help but lift up the small frame.

Sarah's brow furrowed as she stared at her mother and a young man posing.

She didn't recognize him.

Placing the frame back down Sarah realized that the only images were of the two.

There was none with Snow...and none with herself.

Sarah let out a huge sigh. She couldn't for the life of her figure out why her mother wouldn't be loving towards either of them in this land.

It was almost impossible for her to think of her mother as anything less than loving.

Especially with Snow.

Sarah having been the baby had always been taught and pushed to listen to her sister.

Of course her entire life her big sister was always there with her, playing with her, teaching her about life.

Her mother had never shown favoritism. But Snow had always been extremely close with their mother.

Their bond was extremely strong.

It hurt to see them act so differently here.

"What are you doing?"

Her mother's voice startled her with how steely it was.

Sarah smiled.

"Just curious and awed by how different this land is from ours. You have a magical door that keeps food cold. Is that common here?" Sarah asked as she turned to address her mother.

Snow still had her arms wrapped around their mother, and was still snuggled into her side.

Regina's posture was still stiff as she allowed Snow to be so close to her, but for some reason her own arm had wrapped around Snow.

Regina smiled slightly.

"Yes...it's common. But it's not magic...it's science." Regina said this as she turned on the lights in the dark home.

Sarah jumped as Snow jerked her head off of her mother's shoulder.

"Wow...it's incredible...light without fire." Snow said in amazement.

"I had thought the place where we ate was enchanted...but anyone here is able to do this?" Sarah asked.

Regina gave a slight chuckle.

"Well...not anyone...but a majority of the people who live in these lands can." Regina didn't feel the need to explain the fact that they were currently in a small town in a state of a huge country...and that she wasn't the Queen here. Well...technically she wasn't.

"It's amazing here." Snow said as she looked around the house.

"Well...it's no castle...but it suits us." Regina said as she too looked around the house with fresh eyes. She didn't realize that she had been referring to Henry and herself.

But Sarah did.

Walking over to the photos she picked up one of the frames once more.

"You and this boy?" She asked her mother holding up the frame.

Regina suddenly felt a tightening in her chest, and she felt defensive. Her eyes watered and she grew more rigid.

"He's my son..." Regina had been about to let her emotions get the better of her when both Sarah and Snow turned to look at her with open shock.

Snow's smile emerged with tears clouding her own eyes.

"We have a brother?" She asked with a hitch in her voice.

The question caused the nerves that Regina had felt slip away and pure amusement to take its place.

Giggling slightly Regina nodded her head.

"But you have the fortune of also calling him grandson." Regina said as she took the frame from Sarah and showed Snow up close.

Again both woman were confused until Sarah realized what she meant.

"THAT'S Henry?!" Sarah exclaimed as she walked to Snow's side to study the photo with her.

Regina watched in fascination as Snow began to actually cry.

"That's Henry?! Look how big he is!" Snow exclaimed as tears traveled down her face as a huge smile split her face.

Sarah too was smiling...but the smile slowly left her face as her mind reminded her something.

"Wait...why would you be raising Henry?" Sarah raised her head with the now familiar furrowed brow.

Snow raised her own eyes to her mother's at the question.

Regina looked up at the pair of eyes questioning her.

"You need to ask Emma that question." Was her only response.

Cora was waiting for the right moment to reappear.

She was trying to regroup, trying to understand how her daughter could have betrayed her so.

But none of it mattered.

In the end she knew she had to do what needed to be done.

There were so many things her daughter didn't know. So many things that had been left unsaid.

She very much loved her daughter. The many sacrifices and deals she had made to save them could never be explained.

If she knew just how close to death they had both come, she knew her daughter would understand why she had done what she had.

Shaking her head Cora knew there wasn't time for thinking about the past.

Things needed to be done and soon.

Nothing stopped the images though...of all those years ago. Blue eyes that had declared love for her...only to be disillusioned.

Love had deceived her...and had robbed her daughter of the life she had been born to live.

Born to be a queen, Cora had done everything in her power to protect her daughter's future.

But it had cost her...cost her more than anyone would ever know.

Taking a deep breathe she readied herself for what she knew would be coming.

A confrontation to end all confrontations.

She risked hurting her daughter more than she ever had before.

But she didn't have a choice.

Deal's had been made.

Lives had been destroyed.

But Cora didn't know just how much she had lost. Hidden deals had been made behind her back.

The man she had loved had betrayed her in a bigger way then she had yet known.

Love, she had learned, is weakness.

As Snow's stomach began to grumble again, Regina realized it was getting late once more.

Going to the fridge Regina looked perplexed.

"Where's all the..." Regina had turned to ask Sarah but found the young woman scarfing down the last bit of roast beef that had been in the fridge.

"Sarah! Doesn't your stomach have a bottom?!" Snow exclaimed as she held up the empty bags on the counter.

Sarah gave her famous pouting face and frowned.

"It's not my fault! I didn't have anything to eat with the beasts chasing us and all!"

Snow shook her head and let out a sigh.

"Can't we go back to Granny's?" Sarah asked her mother.

Regina really didn't want to be out and about after the events that took place with her mother...but she knew that it didn't matter anymore.

Her mother not only knew where she lived...but she knew that she couldn't hide from her.

If something was going to happen, it was better if it was out in the open.

Thinking about her mother made her realize just how odd she had been acting. How willingly she allowed these two close to her. How fast she now felt to both of them.

Something in her told her that she had to be more careful, she couldn't let herself care for these two. She needed to keep remind herself that these two were not hers...even if they felt that way.

"I should have worn different clothes." Sarah commented as she looked at the sleek lines her mother's clothes had, and then down at the boots, cape, and over sized shirt.

Regina looked Sarah up and down and realized that she would fit in some of her own clothing.

Turning Regina walked back into her bedroom and went to her closet. Brown eyes scanned the racks of clothing as her hands danced between the fabrics.

As her eyes landed on a pant suit she smiled.

Removing the item from the rack she turned and presented the dress suit to Sarah.

"It may be a bit big..." Regina started.

"More like too tight." Snow quipped with an evil smile of her own emerging.

Sarah smacked Snow's arm.

Snow stuck out her tongue at her sister.

"Please, you only dream of having curves like mine." Sarah said as she took the clothing from her mother and placed them on her front to see if indeed she was too big for them.

"I do! You know I'm just annoying you." Snow said as she leaned over and kissed her sister's cheek.

Sarah looked up from the clothing and gave her super pout to her mother.

"You don't think I'm fat, do you mom?"

Regina pointed her finger at her daughter, "Keep eating like you did in there and you won't be thinner."

"Ha ha...nice one mom." Snow said with a huge smile as Sarah's pout turned into a look of anger.

Regina sighed as she looked as Snow.

Knowing that she indeed did not have clothes that would fit Snow she knew exactly who would. The idea of seeing Mary Margaret making Regina's hate for the girl come back.

Snow saw the look in her mother's eyes and knew she was thinking of the other her.

Staring at Snow, Regina's dark eyes would become black as coal. As if the hate in her could be seen in them.

"Mary Margaret should have something that would fit you, at least you'll be a bit more...comfortable." Regina said as she stared at Snow's clothing.

Snow blushed.

When she had seen Sarah sneaking out of the castle in the night, she hadn't exactly looked at the clothes she threw on to run after her.

"I didn't exactly see was I was putting on." Snow explained as she winced at her clothes.

"Why were you in such a hurry?" Regina asked with the tilt of her own head.

Snow let a huge sigh and turned to look at her sister who rolled her eyes.

"She was coming after me." Sarah said in exasperation.

"As per usual Sarah was about to do something really stupid." Snow said with a hint of anger.

"HEY! It was not stupid!" Sarah defended.

"And what exactly was not stupid?" Regina asked with the lifting of one brow.

Snow gave her own raised eyebrow to her sister.

"I didn't exactly get a chance to ask her the details." Snow said as she continued to stare at Sarah who had her head tilted away and her eyes looking upward.

"OK! I was going to try and reason with him." Sarah snapped and looked over at Snow.

Snow's expression changed so fast Regina almost couldn't believe the anger in her face.

"ARE YOU INSANE?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO YOU?!"

It was the first time Regina had ever heard Snow yell out in anger.

Whatever Sarah had been about to do must have been extremely dangerous or as Snow had put it...stupid.

Sarah rolled her eyes again.

"Well with what's happening in the rest of the kingdom I thought I could risk..."

"NO!NONONO!" Snow shook her head as she continued to yell.

"Damn it Snow..."

"Enough!"

Both girls looked at their mother.

"You still need clothes." Regina skirted around their fight, walking out of the room.

Sarah and Snow watched their mother leave the room.

"Snow?"

"Sarah."

"Why is she in so much pain? And why hasn't anyone noticed?"

Snow shook her head. "I don't know."

Sarah shook her own head.

"Whatever happened to her...it had to be pretty bad." Sarah stated.

Snow nodded, then turned her head to look at Sarah.

Seeing the hurt and fear in her sister's eyes Snow wrapped her arms around her sister and kissed her temple.

Sarah just stared at the empty hallway.

"Snow...I think I know how we got here."

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