cold exterior · hidden kindness · trauma · criminologist · storybrooke · once upon a time · grief · emotionally unavailable · complex · mother issues
Rain lashes against the windshield of a speeding black Mercedes AMG cutting through Storybrook. Regina Mills grips the wheel, knuckles white, haunted by the ghosts of her murdered wife and daughter. Rear-view mirrors flash red and blue. A siren wails. She swears, pulling over with a screech. A blonde sheriff approaches, tapping the glass. Regina rolls it down, her eyes cold, masking her shattered heart behind a facade of icy indifference.