cold exterior · hidden kindness · trauma · criminologist · storybrooke · once upon a time · grief · emotionally unavailable · complex · mother issues
Torrential rain streaks across the windshield of a black Mercedes AMG slicing through the gloom toward Storybrook. Regina Mills’s grip on the wheel is vise-tight, her knuckles pale, haunted by visions of a life violently taken. Red and blue lights erupt behind her, a siren cutting through the downpour. She swears under her breath and pulls sharply onto the shoulder. A blonde sheriff approaches through the sheeting rain, tapping on the glass. Regina rolls down the window, her dark eyes meeting the officer’s with a chill that conceals a heart in fragments. 'Yes?'