No new episode tonight, they said…you have to wait until next year, they said…well, leave the gun, take the apple, I say, because I’m dropping some Swan Queen AU on you right now.  Coming to HBO this winter, from the creators of The Sopranos, Once Upon a Time in America Storybrooke tells the story of Regina “The Knife” Mills, aka The Queen of the Dark Hearts/La Regina dei Cuori Scuri, aka just Padrona, if you’re Emma and you’ve been nasty.  As acting boss of one of the five families of the Enchanted Forest, aka the Evil Regals (motto: Vivo ogni settimana come se fosse la settimana degli squali) she has always been a made woman and exerted tight-fisted control over every element of her realm, including the police force.  And if you ever cross her, well, that’s the worst curse imaginable.  When she suspects that the Sheriff, her (former) #1 soldato, is starting to turn on her and is also breaking the 2nd commandment by trying to step out with her wife, she sees red and decides it’s time to do what she does best, because she did not leave the South Side of Chicago the Enchanted Forest Heights Adjacent for this.  It’s time to reclaim what is hers and remind everyone who is in charge…because, as they say in the old country, and as Emma knows, once you go BAMF, you never go back…  

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