Voice Testing One NOT So Evil Queen

[uncorrupted_magic]

It's not that I don't appreciate your.. interests, but this hardly warrants bringing me here to this strange world.

[Come now, Regina. It's not all that bad.]

Miss.. Mundane, or whatever it is I'm to call you, I don't appreciate being tossed around from one place to another. You can hardly decide on "where" you're taking me from, not to mention your lack of confidence in this "voice test" you're putting me through.

[That's neither here nor there, Regina.]

But it is! I'm Queen now, and I can't just be taken away from my duties! Not to mention, I'm going to miss my lessons with Rumpelstiltskin!

[He's here too.]

Oh.. He is?

[Mhmm.]

I suppose that man is full of surprises. [A pause.] Wait a moment. Does that mean my mother is here as well? Or.. maybe even Daniel?

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[wegotlucky]

...your lessons with Rumpelstiltskin?

[Papa what did you do now]

[uncorrupted_magic]

That's correct. He's teaching me how to use magic.

[wegotlucky]

Lovely.

[He pauses, looking around with something a lot like exasperation.]

You don't have to, you know.

There are better teachers out there.

[uncorrupted_magic]

Oh? Like whom?

[Certainly not her mother. And even then she wasn't exactly around anymore.]

[wegotlucky]

The Blue Fairy, for one.

Much less chance of you getting thrown away at the last moment.

[uncorrupted_magic]

The Blue Fairy? She's had her chances to help me but I don't exactly see her around. Do you?

[wegotlucky]

She kinda comes and goes.

She's helped me out before.

[Not that that really ended well for him, but that's another story.]

[uncorrupted_magic]

[At least she's helped someone out. The woman is damn near absent as far as Regina's concerned.]

I can't same Rumpelstiltskin isn't the same, but he's around more often than not. Besides. I've seen what he can do and what he can teach me.

[Even if she's not too keen on some of the darker subjects of his magic.]

[wegotlucky]

Have you seen everything he can do?

I've seen him kill people before. Horribly. He's not someone you want around, trust me. Magic's not worth that.

[uncorrupted_magic]

[She pauses, unsure of how to answer.]

If trusting myself to him is the only way I can gain the power I need, then so be it.

[Way to dodge the death there, dearie.]

Besides! Who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do? You're not my mother, and I won't be told what to do any longer.

[wegotlucky]

I'm someone who knows how much magic can corrupt a person.

[uncorrupted_magic]

Lucky for the both of us, I won't let magic corrupt me. Not like it did my mother.

[wegotlucky]

Unfortunately for you, your teacher wants to see you fall.

I don't have to know the future to see that.

[uncorrupted_magic]

..! Now why would he want that?

[wegotlucky]

Dark One.

[uncorrupted_magic]

[...Touche, but she's not going to let you know that.]

That hardly seems like reason enough.

[wegotlucky]

It's the same reason he turns people he doesn't like into slugs.

[uncorrupted_magic]

[Le sigh.]

Look. I understand that you are trying to warn me. But I've made up my mind and you can't exactly change that, now can you?

[wegotlucky]

You're right, I can't. All I can do is tell you what a horrible idea it is.

[uncorrupted_magic]

You still never answered me original question.

Who are you? And I mean really.

[wegotlucky]

You want the truth.

[A beat. He could tell the truth, but she wouldn't believe him.]

No one special. I'm just someone who has seen first hand the Dark One's destructive power.

[He's not lying. He's just not telling the full truth.]

[uncorrupted_magic]

[Something in her gut tells her that he's not telling her everything. But, she's figured that further interrogation of his past wouldn't lead her to any answers, so she decided it was best to step back from the topic.]

At the very least, we should introduce ourselves.

My name is Regina.

[wegotlucky]

Neal. It's nice to meet you, Regina.

[magic_is_power]

Dearie... Have i wasted my time teaching you?

Being controlled by this... Mundane...

[Tsk Tsk Tsk]

Remember what i said, If you want power, show me you can take it!

[uncorrupted_magic]

By taking the heart of an innocent animal? I want power, but not if it means doing what my mother did and taking the hearts of those undeserving.

[magic_is_power]

Undeserving?

If i would have known you liked being controlled...

I would have done it myself.

[Laugh]

No one is undeserving, no one is innocent!