A/N Ok, this is based in the beautiful idea of lisqueen on Tumblr and I still don't know where this is going but I hope you all like it. I have done a few changes of the last episode on the third season but well, given than in OUAT they tend to not give us the exact years of anything please bear with me.

Disclaimer: They characters portrayed in this story aren't mine; neither is it the world or the situations that they are going to encounter.

The travel (in which a Queen learns more than she needs and finds something that she would have never expected)

The Evil Queen clenched her fists, fuming at the thought that Snow White had escaped again. Looking at the floor of her chamber she scowled at the bugs that now were dead at her feet and growled, thinking of another plan to catch the meddling princess.

"The imp" Thought briefly but she shook her head, dismissing the idea entirely or, at least, trying to. She was beyond making deals with Rumplestiskin, she knew perfectly well what that man could create and do if anyone was stupid enough to trust him. But it was also truth that she didn't know how or where that princess was.

"Maybe he is willing if I offer him his little Belle" Murmured as she looked at the balcony in which the moon was starting to reflect as it raised slowly, signaling the beginning of a new night.

She didn't like the prospect of wasting such a good secret with the Dark One but she was starting to run out of options and she wanted Snow's heart in a plate as soon as possible, and if she was going to be the hunter as well as the murderer so be it.

Raising her hands she evaporated in the middle of a purple mist leaving behind her castle and the remainders of the three trolls.

Rumplestiskin was about to finish his potion when the doors of his castle opened, being pushed by a force that he recognized immediately. Smirking, he turned to the doors and bowed in mockery at The Evil Queen who was looking at him in pure rage, as it was usual.

"What can I do for you, your majesty?" Asked, his tone full of mirth as the woman approached him with her chin raised and a snarl in her lips.

"Stop pretending, you know perfectly well what I want, what I've been wanting all these years"

The dark one nodded pensively, rising once again as he put one hand in the wooden table that was the only thing between him and the brunette.

"Let me see, the heart of the little Snow. Am I right?" Asked sweetly and Regina half closed her eyes trying to show her disdain for the obvious mockery that held the man's tone.

"How intelligent, Rumple" Said final, walking around the table until she was inches apart of the man. "I thought that you could help me with my little problem"

The Dark One shook his head and raised his left index finger, his other hand protecting the vial which contained the potion.

"I don't think so dearie, you don't have anything that I want"

The Evil Queen smiled and she lowered her voice, making it as tantalzying as possible as she played her card.

"And if I had something that you really desire?"

The man squinted his eyes, trying to find the trick under that last statement but the brunette seemed truthful and that made his curiosity grow.

"And what it's that?" Asked, baring his teeth as he saw how the woman smirked a little, her eyes trying to bore holes in his'.

"Maybe something about your little… I don't remember her name…"

"Belle" Said the man, growling at the thought that the brunette wanted to show him the grave of the incredible woman that had perished because of him.

Regina snapped her fingers as if Rumplestiskin had given her the key to her problems and smiled.

"That was it, Belle. Well, we have a deal?"

The Dark One tilted his head to his right side as he pondered about that new possibility, the Evil Queen wanted desperately Snow White's heart and he needed the Queen, or, at least, he will need her at some point in the future. But he also didn't want to taint more the potion and with every second it was going to be less effective in the long run so, deciding against the offer of the other woman, he smiled and opened his eyes, letting them reflect the dim light of the candles.

"Well, we want to know about where Snow White is, right?" Asked, his voice darkening with each syllable as he distanced a little from the Queen who raised one brow trying to determinate if she had won the encounter.

"Indeed" Replied regally and Rumplestiskin laughed in false delight at that.

"Well, you are not being the first one who had… a personal interest in the whereabouts of the little running princess" Kept talking the man in a paternal tone, one that made The Evil Queen stand as tall as she was as she approached him again, ready to make him talk.

"And who wants to know? What have you tell them?"

Rumplestiskin cackled at that before answering, his hands sparkling as he raised them. "Well, how about you ask them yourself?"

And with that the Evil Queen was gone in the middle of a deep red mist from which it could be heard her last scream full of anger.

When the magic mist finally dissipated Rumplestiskin turned again to his potion, knowing full well that he was going to have to wait to know what was going to happen with the brunette.

"Well, where was I?" Muttered to himself as the heavy doors closed once again.

The Queen looked around her as soon as she landed, thinking of how she was going to punish the damn imp whenever she put her hands on him.

"The next time I'm going to skin him alive" She said turning around, trying to distinguish where she was but the thoughts about killing Rumplestiskin were soon forgotten as her eyes landed on two figures a few meters in front of her.

She was going to approach them when one of them turned and she could see the face of the woman that had been in the ball. Leia.

Frowning, she started to approach the couple, the other one unconscious as the blonde talked to herself as if she was trying to do something with what looked like a wand. But it was the blonde and not the wand that caught her attention as she was dressed in something entirely different from the first time that she had saw her.

"Interesting" She thought hiding behind a mirror, the darkness of the place helping her to remain unseen, the blonde was saying things that she didn't quite understand but the sight of the wand and how the blonde tried to move it around made her remember of how she had been at first in her magic lessons and she pursed her lips, deep in thought. Maybe that blonde was much more than she had first thought.

Something that turned to be accurate when the blonde stopped talking as a big, golden hole appeared in front of her, the wand vibrating and glowing with it.

The woman was about to carry the other figure through that hole when Rumplestiskin appeared and said something to her, something that no longer mattered to the Queen, too engrossed on thinking what was the hole and where it lead to. Sharpening her hearing she could hear the word "future" coming out from the blonde's mouth and with a snap she realized that if that portal was a door to the future maybe she could change some things after all.

Raising her right hand she paralyzed the scene before her and approached the glowing hole, cloaking herself in a little spell, making herself invisible. With another snap of her fingers the figures of Rumplestiskin and the other woman resumed unfolding in front of her as she smiled, prepared to jump at the same time of the other woman.

When Rumplestiskin finally let the other woman go, carrying the dark woman with her The Queen followed them, prepared to change and learn whatever she could from the future before returning and smashing Snow White as the bug she was.

And if in that future she could roast Rumplestiskin alive without turning into the dark one she wasn't going to complain.

The travel was full of turns and bumps that The Queen attributed to the blonde and her obvious lack of magical training but, all in all, the portal worked fairly well and when she finally arrived she found herself in what looked like some kind of barn.

The doors of the barn were open so she could distinguish the flickering lights of the stars and a soft glow that looked like a million candles in front of her. Looking around she decided that probably and due to the incompetence of the blonde she had arrived in a slightly different time frame so she decided to go and investigate what had bring the future to herself.

Evaporating once again she arrived at the border of the lights who, turned out, were the lights of what looked like houses, stronger looking than what had been in her time, the road was also different and wasn't formed of clay or mud but something dark that covered entirely the floor of what had been forest. The few carriages she saw were also different and the omnipresent castle in one extreme of the village was missing.

"I must have travel more years that I expected" Said to himself as she walked, trying to find some vassal of that reign and demand them to be escorted to the presence of whoever was in charge.

The village, though, seemed deserted so she kept walking trying to find the tavern of the place, maybe she could find some guards there, or the blonde and demand to be presented to the king or queen, maybe even herself if she was still around.

She was passing near a place that looked like the tavern she was searching judging by the mix of voices and laughs she heard erupting through the windows of the place when someone opened the door and exited.

"This is interesting" Said the Queen as she saw herself in a completely different attire and fuming, the other self looking at her with her brows raised and her eyes still glimmering with what looked like sorrow.

"Of course she would bring me from the past" Muttered her other self under her breath and when she was starting to open her mouth and ask where she was the door of the tavern opened again and Leia's voice echoed in the night.

"Regina!"

Both of them, herself and the other version, turned to the blonde who had stilled and was looking at them with her mouth open in disbelief.

"Oh" Said eyeing her other version with worried eyes.

"Miss Swan, care to explain me why I am here?" Asked her other self lacking of the composure of the Queen they both were.

"I think I can explain that part" Said and her older version raised both of her hands in desperation.

"Of course I can" Mumbled as she eyed the blonde again who was biting her lower lip as she eyed both of them, her cheeks flushing red like a scolded child.

"Is this a good moment to say that I'm sorry?" Asked Leia and even the Queen looked at her disbelievingly.

"Who is she?" Asked and her other self turned to her with a strange rictus on her face.

"The daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, and a total and complete idiot"