“Save it Gold, we both know very well that you remember, don’t play games with me Gold. I know you. I was teach by you, I spent decades around you, and perhaps I can even consider you as my longest ‘friend’ so answer my questions.” She wouldn’t leave the shop until she got the answers that she had come seeking. Leaning against the counter the brunette waited.
Of course, it didn’t took him much time to start telling her the time that he had stopped by her families place and apparently held her. “So a year after my parents get married you stop by to visit my mother and that’s when you meet me. Did she knew? She knew you were there? She knew that you….held me?”
Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath Regina’s patience was running thin, the last thing she needed was details. “Save them for yourself, I don’t care about details I care about the truth. My mother had an affair with you until what? The day before she married my father? Then she gets pregnant almost right away. This is my mother we are talking about, the same woman that got pregnant by an impostor and left her first born in the woods because she would never be a royal with a baby in her arms. As much as I hate thinking this….is, there any chance that she lied to my father? To me and even to you? That I’m not my father’s daughter?”
“Of course she did. Do you think Cora let anything go by her?” That was a ridiculous notion. Cora had always had a vice grip on everything going on around her, himself included.
And then she said the very thing that had been nagging at Rumpelstiltskin since he had held Regina as a baby. Of course he had brought it up to Cora, asked her if it was true, if this child was his. And she had denied it. Her child was a princess, born to royalty, not him. Never him. And he had believed her, perhaps even knowing it was a lie on some level.
“No,” he said swiftly. “No.” He shook his head. There was no possible way that... she wouldn’t lie to him about this. Not this. His hand tightened on his cane. Not this.
But Cora would have. She would have so fast if it meant her child was royalty. She was heartless at that point. But accepting this fact, that he had missed out on raising yet another child of his, that yet someone else had betrayed him so deeply, was not something he wanted to think about right now.
