🐦 Protecting the Town 🐦
Thursday, August 16th, 2012 - Very Early Morning at Various Locations
The idea that protecting the town, and more importantly, her family, meant bringing back magic had been hard for Regina to accept at first. For the duration of the curse and a week after, everyone had lived without it and she was worried about how they’d react to waking up to it’s return. How Ruby, Del, and any other werewolves would react was especially troubling as the full moon was tomorrow.
David hadn’t listed any of those reasons when he’d tried to convince her not to pursue her current course of action. He was worried...worried about villains getting magic back, and even the heroes to because someone may come after her. Mostly though, he was worried about her being injured or dying trying to put up the barrier. She’d given birth to the twins at night, and it was currently morning, so she was still a bit shy of being even one week postpartum. The labour and birth had taken a lot out of her. David may have been right to worry, but she still had to try because if she didn’t he and many others could die.
Being worried that David would try to talk her out of plan, she plotted secretly with Adaline and her father last night and they’d made their plans to meet long before anyone in Storybrooke, including her husband, would even be awake. By the time people were starting their day, magic would already be back and the barrier would have been up for over an hour at least.
First, they’d needed to go to her vault and get the magic true love potion Mal had traded her back in the Enchanted Forest. She’d gone in alone and retrieve the bottle as well as a potion to restore her strength. Once she had what she needed it was back to the car and onward to the wishing well, which was a decent walk into the forest. “Are you both ready for this?” she asked as she stepped up to the well ready to drop in the vial.
