Oh Neal, you're right in so many ways. But the thing is? Regina doesn't care. When he gets in her face, she doesn't flinch, doesn't move in any way. Stronger people than Neal have threatened her, gotten in her face and let her have it. She wouldn't have been a very effective villain if she caved every time someone got angry at her. This? This is nothing. But in this moment, she can see the family resemblance. Even if she wisely chooses not to comment on it.
It doesn't change the fact that her own temper is rising. It doesn't help that she's had the residual anger from Zelena thrumming in her system, but this? This is all Regina Mills.
"A father? He did well enough without one for ten years." She can admit to her own mistakes, but there was plenty of parenting experiences she did right and alone. "And in case you haven't noticed? You're dead for him. For all of us. We moved on, Henry moved on." Is there such a point as too far? We just don't know, and Regina certainly wouldn't care if there was. "And he's just fine without you."
When he walks away from her, she follows to continue her tirade. The issue with second chances is something Regina has thought long and hard about. The addition of the Author has done nothing but complicate the issue, but it hasn't changed how she feels about them. "She gets a second chance, because we all get second chances. Or did you somehow manage to forget every awful thing Rumplestiltskin did, everything I did? Why do we get second chances and she doesn't? What makes you so special that your death is apparently the worst thing someone could ever do?"
She'd really like to know the answer to that question. Even if her own personal feelings about Neal have changed recently, it doesn't change the fact in the grand scheme of things, Zelena is nothing compared to herself and Rumplestiltskin and that's what gets Regina. Why are Zelena's crimes so much worse than theirs?
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It doesn't change the fact that her own temper is rising. It doesn't help that she's had the residual anger from Zelena thrumming in her system, but this? This is all Regina Mills.
"A father? He did well enough without one for ten years." She can admit to her own mistakes, but there was plenty of parenting experiences she did right and alone. "And in case you haven't noticed? You're dead for him. For all of us. We moved on, Henry moved on." Is there such a point as too far? We just don't know, and Regina certainly wouldn't care if there was. "And he's just fine without you."
When he walks away from her, she follows to continue her tirade. The issue with second chances is something Regina has thought long and hard about. The addition of the Author has done nothing but complicate the issue, but it hasn't changed how she feels about them. "She gets a second chance, because we all get second chances. Or did you somehow manage to forget every awful thing Rumplestiltskin did, everything I did? Why do we get second chances and she doesn't? What makes you so special that your death is apparently the worst thing someone could ever do?"
She'd really like to know the answer to that question. Even if her own personal feelings about Neal have changed recently, it doesn't change the fact in the grand scheme of things, Zelena is nothing compared to herself and Rumplestiltskin and that's what gets Regina. Why are Zelena's crimes so much worse than theirs?