After unsealing the box, Regina plays with the wand, knocking herself unconscious with a magic blast. Cora promises to see Regina at supper, and then, she leaves the room, forgetting to take the drawer key with her. When Regina notes that she never has free time, Cora speaks of working in the mill as a child and learning to depend only on herself, and this ultimately bettered her life. Regina wants to play with her mother, but Cora declines, stating she has too much work. Some years after, Cora seals her wand in a box with a blood magic, and when she enters into the study to lock it in a drawer, she finds a young Regina playing with her doll. Months after this, Cora gives birth to a daughter, Regina, and proclaims she will be queen one day. Cora, ripping out her own heart, later confesses to Rumplestiltskin that she had to in order to reach the top. When he asserts that "love is weakness", she recognizes that having a heart will keep her from gaining power. After he teaches her this, Cora speaks with the king, who makes her choose between her lover or her husband. The couple plan to run away together, with Rumplestiltskin changing the deal so any child she has will be his, but before going, she asks to learn how to rip out King Xavier's heart. The day before her wedding, Cora realizes she wants to be with Rumplestiltskin more than having wealth and power. Later, in front of an audience, Cora demonstrates her talent and earns Henry's proposal. As she envisions harming those who scorned her, the straw turns into gold. Rumplestiltskin, recalling his own humiliation and desire for vengeance, instructs Cora into channeling anger into magic. Intrigued, she requests, as part of their deal, that he teach her to spin straw into gold. Trapped in the tower, Cora finds an unlikely ally in Rumplestiltskin, a wizard who wants her first-born child in exchange for assisting her. As proof, the king asks her to spin straw into gold and gain Prince Henry's hand in marriage. Insulted, Cora boasts of her ability to spin straw into gold and how she could have made his kingdom rich with gold had he not affronted her. Once they are alone, he warns her against trying to reach above her station. Briefly, Cora waltzes with Henry before King Xavier cuts in. That night, she sneaks into a castle ball for the king's son, Prince Henry, who must find a bride. On King Xavier's command, a humiliated Cora kneels and apologizes to Eva. Cora, carrying the bags, spills flour everywhere, and she is then blamed for ruining the princess's shoes. Fed up, she hauls the flour bags to King Xavier's castle herself, where her presence catches the attention of a familiar face, Princess Eva, who trips her. One morning, Cora sees her drunken father collapsed outside their flour mill, although he is supposed to be making supply deliveries. (" Bleeding Through", " It's Not Easy Being Green") Clinging to her dream to being more than a miller's daughter, Cora abandons her child in the woods, where a passing cyclone whisks the baby to Oz. With her lie exposed, Cora is taken away by guards, and she later gives birth to a daughter. Before she can fulfill the deal, Eva, having overheard the conversation, exposes the truth to Leopold. Two days before the wedding, Jonathan threatens to reveal their past and her pregnancy unless she provides him with riches. As they bond, he tells her about his engagement to a princess, Eva, but decides to marry Cora instead. She is found by Prince Leopold and later shows him how to build a campfire. Jonathan doesn't care, so she calls for help, but he knocks her away and flees. When Cora admits being pregnant, she asks him to provide her with money for herself and the child to get by, and if not, she will tell the actual prince what he did to her. After two weeks, Cora doesn't hear from Jonathan and finds him, two months later, at the royal estate, where she learns he is not a prince, but a gardener. Prior to his leaving, they consummate the marriage. Citing that he had hoped for her to know him as a normal man rather than a prince, Jonathan proposes to her with a straw ring and promises, in two weeks' time, to return with a gold ring. He mentions having to depart soon, and drops a handkerchief, which is embroidered with the royal crest. Jonathan compliments her for behaving with the grace of a lady, and Cora talks about doing so because of her wish to be better than what she is. He, who has been coming to the pub for a week, offers her a seat since she has been working past the end of her shift. After pushing away one man, she accidentally falls into Jonathan's lap. (" Sisters")Īt some point, Cora begins working in a tavern, where she fends off the flirtatious advances of patrons. Despite this hardship, the experience teaches her that the only person she can rely on is herself. As a child, Cora, a miller's daughter, works in the mill all day, wearing nothing but rags.
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