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CHAPTER I
"You're leaving?"
Maleficent asked , heart-brokenly. It was less than a month ago that her Lilith had been found and brought back to her , she had done everything she could to ensure her daughter was comfortable and happy in the little town of Storybrooke ; but it just wasn't enough , her daughter still wanted to leave.
"Yes , I am. I told you , this place isn't for me. The only reason I agreed to come back at all was because I was going to either get back at the Charmings myself or watch you do it."
Lily informed her , packing what few things she had in town with her into a small bag.
"And now , I don't even want to do that much. Ever since Regina forced me to change into a Dragon that first time , I just...I don't have as much anger and that anger was all I had."
The dark-haired woman finished , sighing. Maleficent stood in the doorway of the home she had talked a guilty Madame Mayor into finding and moving the two dragons into , watching her daughter prepare to abandon her by choice.
Maleficent wasn't sure of when it hurt more , when her daughter had been taken from her or when she chose to walk out the door. At least when she had been kidnapped , Lilith didn't have the time to willingly pack a bag and leave her behind.
"It's not even been a month , yet , darling. Stay , please. We were robbed of our time together and we have the time to make up for it , now."
Maleficent wouldn't be caught begging anybody else , but her daughter was different. She waited almost thirty-two years(if you didn't count the brief period of that time she was dead) to be reunited with her child , she was not above grovelling.
"Look , Maleficent , I don't...I don't want to get to know you or make up for that time. I have a life , outside of this place.
I'm not some little kid crying for her mommy , anymore. I'm grown up now and I don't need or want you."
Lily said , bluntly and Maleficent's heart shattered into a million little pieces. Her baby , her daughter she had dreamed of meeting and finally getting to hold and be there for...she didn't want her.
Maleficent stepped out of the way , reluctantly ; when Lily finished her packing and went to push past her to get out of the bedroom she had temporarily claimed as her own.
The older Dragon followed her daughter down the stairs and saw her out the door , watching her get in the car she had undoubtedly stolen and driving away without a second look back.
Maleficent decided she could not handle seeing Lily cross the border that separated their little town from the rest of the world and honestly , she doubted Lily wanted her to follow her into town.
Twenty-eight years , she waited trapped in her Dragon form who was still in the mindset of having just given birth. That whole time she was Cursed and kept under that damned Library , time never passed for her.
Her wound were as fresh as the day that Snow White and Charming stole her child from her.
Even though Lilith was grown and nearly as old as the body Maleficent currently inhabited now , she was still her little girl and the older Dragon would have been happiest that she had ever been to have a chance to have her in her life now.
Lilith didn't want her , the Charmings ripped that time that they should have had together away from them. Too much time had passed and her child no longer needed her.
Maleficent sat alone in the living room of her new and very lonely home that was almost as huge as Regina's Mansion , staring into the fireplace numbly.
It had been almost eight hours since her daughter left and she had continuously checked that cell phone thing Regina gave her and Lily taught her the basics of using , desperately searching for one of those text things to show that Lilith had made it to where she was going safely. As expected , she heard nothing.
Maleficent sighed , picking up a needle filled with the pink liquid of her "sleeping potion." It had been quite a few years since she had done this , but she felt the way her day had gone was a valid excuse to do it again ; at least this once.
She pricked the tip of her pointer finger , closing her eyes as her somber mood was replaced with a high.
It was not so potent that she went out , roaming the streets stark naked and screaming about racoons or anything ; but it was enough to dull the pain she was feeling.
After a while , she had injected herself a few more times and she was significantly higher -add that to the buzz the alcohol she thought was a good idea to consume with it.
Maleficent had numbed her pain so much over her Lilith leaving that she perked herself up enough to start brainstorming , she knew what she had to do.
She had to have another child , one that she could raise from infancy to adulthood. And she knew exactly who was going to give her that child.
The Savior.
Yes , it was brilliant!
She was brilliant!
And thought another dose of "sleeping potion" was not a good idea , it sounded like one and so she did it again!
She would approach Emma Swan with her idea first thing , tomorrow morning or evening...whenever the Hell she woke up.
Back in the day , when she was younger ; she would wake up anytime between noon and the wee hours of the night. For all she knew , she could wake up anytime within the next few days. It HAD been a long time since she did this and her sober self would admit she did go a little overboard with it , this time.