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This couldn't wait. Anticipation rolled over Regina's skin time and time again, creating a clenching knot in her stomach that grew tighter and tighter each time the wheels on her car rotated. Home was another five minutes away, she needed her magic [i]now[/i]! Pulling over to a small park where she had taken Mason that first day, Regina got out of her Mercedes after grabbing the book and hurried over to the nearest park bench. As the children were still in school it was completely empty, save for the tumble of the fall leaves that got caught up in the small breeze.

The spine of the book creaked as she opened it up to the bookmarked page, and just for a brief moment, Regina let the pads of her fingers trace over the wrinkled paper that kept the place of her mother's progress. Somehow knowing that the last person to have ever read these pages was her own mother gave Regina a sense of familiarity over the foreign text. She hadn't noticed the lump that began to form in her throat until she swallowed, finding great difficulty in the simple task.

Pulling the bookmark from the pages, Regina sat it next to her on the bench and opened up the book wide, scanning her brown eyes over the ancient runes and for a moment, she could almost [i]feel[/i] her mother's magic. Inhaling a deep breath, Regina blew her breath over the pages and watched as the ink lifted itself from the parchment in a swirling cloud. She breathed it in quickly through her nose, feeling the magic pulsing through her blood immediately. Her iris' flashed a deep purple color for a brief moment and her entire body shivered. [i]This[/i] was the feeling she had been missing, [i]this[/i] is what she had been deprived of since Rumpelstiltskin brought magic to Storybrooke.

Slamming the book shut, Regina held the tome tightly to her chest, letting her eyes close as the magic ran its course through her body. She knew she had missed the aspect of being able to use magic ever since casting the curse, but what she hadn't realized until then was just how [i]empty[/i] Regina Mills of Storybrooke had been. But no longer. Snapping her eyes open, a twisted smile came across her lips. She was back, The Evil Queen of The Enchanted Forest was back. And with Snow White and the Savior gone, there wasn't anything standing in her way to reclaim the power she had lost after the curse broke.

Standing from the bench, Regina let the magic now fueling her blood take care of the injuries she had been sustaining over the last few days, the last piece of the puzzle of her completion. Still clutching onto the book, Regina walked back to her car, a new air of confidence in the way she stepped. She tossed the book into the passenger side seat and got into her car, closing the door tight before reaching into her dress pants pocket and pulled out her cell phone. First order of business was Mason's protection. There was one man standing in the way of her and her son, and she had every intention of destroying the weed before it could even begin to take root.

Scrolling through the town contacts, she found the name she had been looking for and dialed, waiting for the other end to pick up with a pleasant smile on her face.