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Capture and Release	By : TaylorKing Category: M through R > Once Upon A Time Views: 9639 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The late evening sun was shining onto the path through the tree leaves. It would soon be down, so they’d be traveling home in the dark. Charming wasn’t concerned. They had enough guards surrounding them to cover anything.
            Regina was sitting across from him. She was dressed in an elaborate black gown, cut low to expose her breasts. A black-feathered cape was hooked under her chin. She looked stunning. Charming had barely taken his eyes off of her, while she had barely paid him any attention.
            Her eyes were glued to the window, and she looked generally apathetic to the entire trip. Charming wasn’t quite sure why. He knew she wanted answers. He suspected it might have had something to do with seeing the Dark One in person.
            “Not much further.” He told her. Regina nodded.
            “I thought I recognized the area.” He leaned back, watching her expressionless face. Regina remained silent, and he decided he’d gotten all he was going to out of her.
            The carriage rolled further into the forest. Charming felt as though the darkness was coming earlier now. Maybe it was just because of the overgrowth of trees.
            At last it stopped in front of the guarded entrance to the Dark One’s prison. Charming stepped out before turning to help Regina out. She looked around suspiciously, as though she expected some sort of attack.
            “Your Majesty.” The guard bowed to Charming. Even after all this time, it still felt strange to him.
            “Leave some men with the Queen,” Charming nodded towards Regina, “I’m going to speak to him first, so you’ll take me to his cell. Then we’ll return, and you’ll take the Queen.”
            “My apologies, your Majesty, do you intend to leave the Queen alone with him?” The guard looked nervously from Regina to Charming. “No disrespect, but it may not be safe to-.” Charming held up his hand.
            “She’s been alone with him before.” David looked at Regina. “You don’t have a problem with it, do you?”
            “Not at all.” Regina stared at him defiantly. He wasn’t in the mood to tell her to stand down. He simply turned, and the guard led him down the passageway.
            Regina couldn’t hear his conversation, even as she inched closer to the doorway.
            “Your Majesty….” The guard shook his head. “I wouldn’t.” Regina glanced at him, rolled her eyes and turned away.
            A moment later, Charming emerged from the doorway. Regina thought she detected annoyance on his face.
            “Your turn.” He nodded towards the guard who stood at the door. Regina glanced at the guard, and then back at Charming. She wasn’t convinced this wasn’t fully a trap. “Go.” He murmured. “I didn’t bring you here for anything but answers.”      Regina gave him one last suspicious glare before turning and strolling after the guard.
            “You undeniably know the power of the Dark One.” The guard told her as they walked. “Just because he’s contained, doesn’t make his words any less powerful.”
            “That’s what I’m hoping for,” Regina muttered.
            She’d been to the Dark One’s cell before, knew all about it and his capture. She figured she was lucky that she wasn’t living out the same fate as him now. Maybe Charming really had-.
            She shuddered. Was she really starting to give Charming credit?
            “Rumplestiltskin.” She stepped in front of the cell.
            “Well, well, if it isn’t the Queen.” He gave her an elaborate bow. “That is what you’re still going by, yes deary?”
            “Why am I here?” Regina asked, folding her arms over her chest. “The King claims you know something I should. Now tell me what it is.”
            “Am I supposed to tell you something?” The Imp seemed to think. “Maybe you should tell me something first. How is life with the King? He put a lot of effort into you.”
            Regina leaned against the bars, closer to him.
            “What is that supposed to mean?”
            “You can’t tell me how life with him is? That’s unfortunate.”
            “What do you mean by he put a lot of effort into me?!” Regina snapped, wishing more than ever that she had magic to use against him.
            “Just that everyone else wanted your head. Would have been a lot easier to lock you away, or let the peasants tear your head off for him. But no, dear Prince Charming set out to save his queen.”
            “Thank you for not telling me anything I don’t already know.” Regina hissed in anger. “Why? Why did Charming invest all this energy in me?”
            Rumplestiltskin paced his cell, looking up at the ceiling with a faint smile on his face.
            “Tell me, your Majesty, how has it been living in your own cell?”
            “Ok, I’ve had enough.” Regina turned in annoyance, opening her mouth to tell the guards that she was finished.
            “Aren’t living in a cell, are you?” Rumple moved to the bars beside her. “No. And look at you, don’t look a bit worse for the wear after your “capture”. Wouldn’t do that for just anyone….they’d have to have….special…place in your heart for that.”
            Regina took a step back. She wasn’t sure she liked this, or that she was confortable with any of this.
            “Tell me. Tell me what this means.”
            “Oh, one other thing, how is life without magic? You never did really care for it, and now you don’t have it.”
            “What do you know about that?” Regina was exhausted from talking in circles. She wanted to strangle both Rumple and Charming.
            “Know about it?” Rumple leaned close enough to touch her face. “Who do you think gave him the blocker?”
            Regina glared at him, anger seething through her body.
            “I should have known.”
            “Yes, you probably should have. There are a lot of things you should know-and haven’t figured out yet.”
            “All right, enough of this.” Regina was more frustrated because she couldn’t lose her temper in her typical fashion. “Prince Charming spares me, makes Snow White mystically disappear, why? Why would he save me instead of starting his life with his true love?”
            “Maybe you’ve misconstrued the idea of his “true love”.” Rumple took a step back, laughing softly to himself.
            Regina felt like the air had been sucked out of her body.
            “You’re not saying-.”
            “Now we’re getting somewhere.” The imp clapped his hands, holding one finger into the air in victory. “You’re getting warmer, deary.”
            “What happened to Snow?” Regina whispered. “Why not her?” Her tone grew. “Is she dead?”
            “Dead? No, not that anyone knows of. However her whereabouts are completely unknown to everyone-except possibly your prince. Er, king. What is he going by nowadays?”
            Regina closed her eyes. She wasn’t sure if she was horrified, disgusted, touched, honored, or terrified.
            “Charming loves me. He gave up his life with Snow White…for me.”
            “You know,” the Dark One leaned against the back wall of his cell, “you always wanted to destroy Snow White’s happiness. And now you have!”
            “What?” Regina looked back at him, a look of annoyance at him and disbelief at the situation on her face.
            “Snow White wanted to be queen, and marry Prince Charming. Well, now you’re the queen, and you have Prince Charming. You have everything she always wanted! Also known as: her. Happiness.”
            “That’s impossible.” Regina murmured, staring at the ground.
            “Nothing’s impossible, your Majesty. Unless you allow it to be.” Regina started to turn away, and then turned back to the man who had once been her instructor.
            “I’m supposed to believe you why?”
            “Really deary?” Rumple rolled his eyes at her. “You expect me to tell you a story of how the prince has fallen in love with you? I only got invested in this plot because I enjoyed the idea of your capture.”
            Regina had had enough this time. She wanted to hear no more from anyone except for Charming.
            “Well, I appreciate the help. Shame I got out of my prison…and you’re stuck in yours.”
            “Careful deary…” Rumple smiled. “You’re on the King’s good side. You don’t want to push your luck with others….or I’ll have a new neighbor.”
            Regina turned, her gown spinning as she strolled off up the passageway. She heard the guard’s footsteps behind her.
            Outside, it was nightfall. The torches were lit on either side, illuminating Charming’s profile as he stood at the entrance.
            “Well-.”
            “Let’s go.” Regina stormed passed him. “We need to talk.”
A/N: Stay tuned….the next chapter answers many questions everyone’s been asking.
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