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I'm not saying it's impossible, just that I very much it happened and I find the idea disturbing. Rape is a disturbing topic. I also feel that it's pretty out of the blue to wonder if he raped her, and find it even more disturbing that people would write fan fiction about it. Just because someone has power doesn't mean they use/abuse it. And I wouldn't exactly call the marriage abusive in anyway. She chose to marry him. It furthered her ends. As someone else pointed out, she could have escaped if she wanted to. She waited until the opportune moment to kill him, not because (in my opinion) she was in some terrible, abusive marriage, but because she would have greater power with him dead, and the Genie represented a way to do it.

When I watch the episodes with Leopold, the last thing in my mind is him raping Regina. I saw a man motivated to do what he felt was best for his daughter, and then a man who felt disrespected by the idea she was making romance with someone else. (I don't mean that from a "embarrassing the family" sort of thing, more of a "I made you Queen and did all this for you" kind of thing.)