After Regina cast the dark curse, her magic mirrors became her only source of amusement, but even spying peasants' miserable lives was dull when their routines repeated in an endless loop. When she was about to give up her sanity to her humdrum life, her mirror showed her the only fairytale character that was remotely amusing a little girl with blonde curls and bright green eyes.
Emma Swan is starting her second year at college and she finds out that her new roommate is no one else than Regina Mills, the same chick who has made her life in college, literally, a big ball of crap, every day since she first stepped in the campus and the very same chick she has an inevitable crush on, since she first stepped in the campus. Swan Queen AU.
Emma daily sneaks into the Mayor's mansion and into her private bathroom to take a shower. The reason? She is an addict. SQ Week - Day 1: Awkward Situations.
Emma finds Regina in her office, severely beaten and mistreated, she refuses to go to the hospital, or talk about who made this to her and she doesn't stop repeating that Emma is the one in danger. Nothing made sense and she'd have to find out what is going on there, as she always did. But this time she'd have to break Regina's secrets into pieces and then pick them up again.