A/N: This is the final chapter, thank you all for reading my story.

Emma woke to an empty bed and checked her phone to see the time – it was past noon. She got up eager to find Regina. There was no note, no returned ring so she was going to take those as good signs.

Despite wanting to see Regina she showered, knowing if she had to ask Regina to marry her again she would at least have to look presentable or she could be Regina would remark on it.

She hurried downstairs finally and saw Henry first. He was lying on the couch watching a movie while playing a game on his tablet. "Where is your mom?"

"In her office."

"How has she seemed today?"

"Um, normal I guess."

"Nothing out of the ordinary?"

"No," he said. "Grandma dropped me off this morning and mom said the arrests went fine last night. Nice bruise by the way."

"Yeah, looks a little worse this morning than it did last night," she said. "But a few days and I will have forgotten it was there. How about you, me and Regina go out to eat tonight to celebrate."

"What are we celebrating?"

"You know the end of the arrests and stuff."

"Stuff?"

"Yes, stuff, how about it? We could go out of town, eat someplace different."

"Sounds good to me."

"Good. I will go make sure your mom is up for it."

She figured she and Regina could tell him the other "stuff" later tonight. She made her way to Regina's home office and knocked on the door first before coming in. She got closer to the desk and noticed Regina wasn't wearing the ring and immediately felt nervous.

"Um, thanks for letting me sleep in," she said, taking a seat. Yep, definitely no ring she observed.

"You are welcome. You certainly needed it and deserved it."

"How are things today?" Emma asked, unsure how to ask Regina why she wasn't wearing the ring.

"I would say things are good," Regina said. "Except for a small mystery I thought our town sheriff could help me with."

"And what is that?"

Regina reached into her top drawer and pulled out the ring, holding it between two fingers. "Maybe you could explain this."

"Well, it's a diamond engagement ring."

"I gathered that. Why did I wake up with it on my hand?"

"Because I asked you to marry me last night and you said ok."

"What? When? I would think I would remember if I got engaged last night."

"In your defense you were a little tired, a lot tired. It was when I got home last night. I told you I loved you and you said you believed me when I said it and you were sort of drifting off to sleep when I said some other stuff and then I asked you to marry me and you said ok."

"I said ok?"

"Yes."

"Just ok?"

"Yes."

"I wouldn't say ok to something like that."

"You don't want to marry me?" Emma said feeling her heart constrict. She honestly didn't think Regina would reject her.

"Yes I want to marry you, but I don't want my wedding proposal to be something I say 'ok' to and then fall asleep."

"I thought it was kind of cute actually," Emma said feeling relief wash over her. That was until she saw the look on Regina's face. "Hey, I was planning on asking again this morning you know if you weren't quite sure about the one last night. I can do it right now."

She got up prepared to take the ring and get down one her knee, but Regina held the ring back from her.

"You will not ask me in my office like it is some random thing," Regina said.

"What does it matter?"

"Miss Swan, if you want me to say yes to your proposal you had better give it a better presentation than that."

"Oh. I thought you, Henry and I could go out of town tonight to eat, would that be an acceptable time to do it?"

Regina handed her back the ring. "That would acceptable yes," she said. "And Miss Swan, never breathe a word to anyone that you asked me the first time and I said ok."

"You are high maintenance, you know that right?"

"I was a queen, I imagine all queens are," Regina smiled. Emma bent down and kissed her.

…

15 months later

"Ok, ok, everyone settle down, it's my turn for the spotlight," Ruby said. She had taken the microphone in order to give her Maid of Honor speech. The two brides sat at the wedding party table, the smiles seemingly plastered to their face since Emma had walked down the aisle with her father. It was a touching scene that the residents of Storybrooke wouldn't soon forget as Charming formally gave away his daughter's hand in marriage to Regina.

Ruby, wearing a bridesmaid's dress that she made Emma choose, stood beside Emma as the best man, Henry, stood beside Regina. Emma was dressed in a white suit that still made her look feminine while Regina had opted for a white dress that simple yet elegant.

But now that the deed was done, and they were wed Ruby felt the real party could begin.

"Alright, as the Maid of Honor, it's my duty to say embarrassing things about Emma that will make you laugh but still makes Regina look at her like a love sick pup. And let's face it, who but Emma could make Regina look like a complete softy. But what I am about to tell you next would probably be a secret under any other circumstances," Ruby said. "Then again I got Emma drunk at her bachelorette party and it isn't like she swore me to secrecy."

Everyone laughed. Regina looked at Emma, still smiling, "Should I be concerned?"

"I was so drunk that night I could have told her anything."

"If she mentions that night at the sheriff's office with the handcuffs, I swear I will have this marriage annulled," Regina whispered to her while keeping the smile on her face.

"That reminds me did you pack the handcuffs?"

"Of course my dear."

"So anyway there was Emma practically passed out as I dragged her back to my place, and I get her down on the couch and she starts laughing like the happy drunk she is at that moment. And she says she is going to tell me about how she proposed to Regina. Now we have all heard her tell his story like a million times, about how she took Regina and Henry out to this fancy restaurant out of town and then afterward they were walking on the boardwalk together looking at the ocean and she got down on one knee and asked Regina to marry her and Regina said yes and they hugged and kissed. All very romantic," Ruby said. "But that isn't the story Emma told me that night."

"You see the night before this romantic gesture was the night of the raid to clear the streets of those racers and Emma comes home to Regina who is like dead asleep. She wakes up a tiny bit as Emma gets in bed and tells her that she loves her. Then Emma gets it in her mind that she will ask Regina right then and there and so she does, and what does Regina reply before falls back asleep – Ok. She said ok and fell asleep at her own marriage proposal."

The reception hall erupted in laughter and Regina squeezed Emma's hand hard and leaned in whispering, "forget the annulment I am just going to kill you."

"Let me kill Ruby first."

"Deal."

Ruby went on with some other jabs at Emma and Regina in her speech before handing the mike over to the best man.

Henry stood up and walked in front the wedding party's table.

"Um, I am not really sure what I am supposed to say. Emma said I should say something funny. Regina said I should say something nice and polite. And I guess that kind of sums of my moms. They are different. If I want a good meal, I go see what Regina is cooking. If I want something unhealthy I go out to eat with Emma. A lot of people probably didn't give them much of a chance when they found out they were getting married. I may be a teenager but I am well aware that there are people in this town who will never be able to look at my mother and not see the evil queen, and that's ok because those are the people we don't need in our lives. I look at Regina and I seem my mother. I see the woman who held her arms out to me when I was learning to walk and the woman who was there to pick me after my first day of school. She had made mistakes and she knows it and she accepts it. She accepts that there are people who will always hate her. For a long time I thought she just unhappy and had gotten used to being unhappy and then Emma came along."

"Emma and I don't have the same kind of relationship that Regina and I have. Emma is kind of like having this big goofy kid around at times. She can be serious and tough, but with me it's about being relaxed and having fun. My point is while they are different I get the best of both of them at all times. And I couldn't be more happy than I am now. I guess what I really wanted to say tonight is that this is my family. This is what the three of us wanted; it's what the three of us needed."

Both women got up and came around the table and hugged him.

…

Emma came back from the beach house and sat down on the blanket next to her wife. She handed her the glass and filled with the wine she brought back with her. They had been on their honeymoon for three days now, three days of constant touching and kissing. They sat now watching the sunset into the ocean.

"Can you believe we made it?" Regina asked.

"Of course," Emma said.

"Really?"

"Yes, really. I never doubted it."

"You are such a liar," Regina said, giving her a kiss.

"There may have been some doubt, especially when you started dating Robin. The way I looked at it though, as soon as I got my shit together and knew I loved you there was no way I wasn't going to do whatever it took to get you to believe that I loved you. See I knew you loved me. That night when you tried to get me to see that it was more than just sex, you weren't telling me anything I didn't know. I knew there were feelings there between us, but I wasn't ready to accept it and you wouldn't accept anything less. And you shouldn't have accepted anything less. You were right to cast me out of your life. You were right like you are right about a lot of things. As stupid as my first proposal was with you, when you said ok and I put that ring on your finger that was the happiest moment of my life. In that moment I knew you believed in my love for you."

She gave her wife another kiss.

"You do believe in me, in us, and that we are going to spend the rest of our lives together, right?" Emma asked.

"Yes, I do."