Finally, you had her where you wanted her. The Evil Queen, bested in combat. She had used the Shears of Destiny to sever the ties that connected the both of you. So now, you could kill her, without any repercussions to yourself. And that was what you had wanted to do - or so you thought.

You had parted with her in the first place because you wanted to get rid of that part of yourself. That evil that had hurt the lives of so many. But it hadn't worked, and the Queen had been set loose in Storybrooke. Here, you finally had the chance to put an end to it all - but something stopped you.

Standing before her, her heart in your hand, you prepared to crush it - but then you caught a glimpse of your own reflection in the broken shards of mirror. And you remembered how you'd felt so long ago, when an arrow leading you to gaze upon the person you hate the most had lead you to your own reflection. The recollection made you pause, looking at the Evil Queen.

Her expression turned to confusion at your hesitance, and then to shock as she watched you remove your own heart from your body.

"What are you doing?"

The Queen asked, shaking her head as she was freed from the restraints you'd put in place. The two beating hearts pulsated in your hands - the Queen's darkened heart, and your own, beating with love. The Evil Queen was incapable of loving whilst it wasn't in her heart. But by giving her some of the love from yours, you could change that.