NOTE: This is it, the final chapter. I thought about continuing it and I may return to it some day, but honestly my original plan was only to do a year of marriage. I was having too much fun with it so I continued it. Thank you again to all who have read it and commented on it.

Marriage day 440 continued

Emma looked down at her son once again. Her son. Like Henry, this little guy was hers too. Even if she wasn't the one who gave birth to him she felt the connection with him immediately. All those nights where she laid in bed talking to Regina's belly so the child would know he had two mommies and now here he was.

She laughed out loud. Now she needed to give him a name.

A beeping sound forced her to tear her eyes away from her son and she looked to see Regina was laying there, her eyes closed. Dr. Andrews was giving orders to the nurse, as she remained between Regina's legs.

"What's wrong?" Emma asked.

The doctor didn't answer as she was too busy working on Regina. Before a nurse guided Emma back, she could see blood dripping on the floor. Emma stood there holding the baby, not registering the words being said as she watched her wife's face, willing Regina to open her eyes.

Even as Dr. Andrews told the nurse to warn emergency that they were bringing in a female who had just given birth and was bleeding out, Emma stood there holding on to that tiny life in her hands. The nurse and Dr. Andrews released the locks on the hospital bed's wheels and only when they were transporting Regina from the room did Emma slowly come back to her senses.

"Where are they taking her? What's happening?"

"Please Emma," the nurse said. "Give me the baby and then you go to check on your wife."

Emma looked down at the boy in her arms. She didn't want to give him to the nurse. She was supposed to give him a name. Regina should have been able to hold him by now.

"Mom!"

Emma saw Henry in the doorway with her parents.

"Where are they taking mom? What's going on?"

"I don't know," she said, gently handing the baby to the nurse. She went up Henry. "We need to go to the emergency area, that's where they took her. She was bleeding and I don't think they could get it to stop."

She glanced back once more at her other son who was being placed on a portable basinet by the nurse. This wasn't happening, her mind told her. Regina had been smiling at her. She asked her what she was going to name the baby.

She realized her parents were saying something, but she pushed by them intent on finding out where Regina was and if she was alright. She had to be alright.

Emma found Dr. Andrews coming out of a set of double doors.

"What's wrong with Regina?" Emma said.

"It's called post-partum bleeding. It can happen after a woman gives birth, but Regina would be considered at low risk for it. It almost always happens in women who have C-sections. It can happen in the first 24 hours after giving birth, but this was almost immediate," she explained. "It could be a blood clot or a tear in the uterus. We got her into surgery to find the cause."

"How dangerous is it?"

"She's in good hands."

Emma knew that was exactly the kind of answer that doctors gave when they didn't want to give a bad answer.

"How dangerous is it?" Emma repeated.

Dr. Andrews reached out and put her hand on Emma's forearm. "It can be fatal, but you can't think about that. I gave her an immediate dose of oxytocin but I couldn't isolate where the bleeding was coming from which is why I gave the order for surgery. You have to believe she's going to be okay. Now I need to go back and check on your son. They will page me if there is any news and if I hear anything before you, I will be right back here to tell you and explain anything that needs explaining."

Emma wasn't even listening to that last part as her mind was still stuck on "it can be fatal."

She felt another person's hand on her and she was directed over to a chair to sit down.

"She's going to be okay," Henry said as he sat beside her.

"Henry's right," Snow said. "Regina is a fighter and she isn't going to let anything keep her from you and Henry and the baby."

"We had a boy," Emma said. "We had a boy."

...

Snow and Charming looked at their new grandson through the glass partition of the nursery. The card on the basinet merely said baby Swan-Mills. They hadn't named him yet so that is what the placard said for now. Charming reached for and took his wife's hand in his.

"We may not get the chance to spoil him as his parents will probably beat us to it," he said.

"He should be resting in his basinet in a room with Regina and Emma," Snow said.

"He should be and he will. You said it yourself, Regina is a fighter."

"It's not fair," Snow said. "After all Regina has done and been through, she finally gets to experience love again and now this. What if she doesn't make it? Emma will be devastated and Henry …"

"Hey, don't even think it."

"She has been in surgery for an hour. If it this was something simple they would be done by now."

"You don't know that. You don't know that they aren't merely taking their time to make sure they don't miss anything. The fact she is still in surgery is a good thing because it means she's still alive. She will hold that boy in there in her arms, of that I have no doubt."

"Since when did you become the optimist in the family?" she asked giving him a faint smile.

"I thought I always was."

...

Emma was pacing in front of the chairs, unable to sit any longer. Each time those double doors opened she kept expecting someone to come toward her, but they didn't until nearly an hour and half had passed by.

Dr. Whale and Dr. Andrews, who had gone back in to check on Regina, came out. Emma felt a little relief wash over her as Andrews was smiling.

"Regina came through surgery fine," she said.

"What happened?" Emma asked.

"There was a small tear in her uterus," Dr. Whale said. "It took us a while to find it but we did and it's been repaired. Now she lost a lot of blood so we have been giving her a transfusion. They are moving her to a room now and then you can go see her."

"But she's going to be ok?" Emma asked hesitantly.

"Yes, she's going to be fine," he said.

Emma couldn't help herself as she gave both doctors a hug – a shock to Dr. Whale based on the look on his face. She slumped into one of the chairs, exhaustion hitting her finally.

"We could probably find an empty bed around here if you want to get a nap in," Snow said.

"No, I am not sleeping until I see my wife and baby boy."

"You never said what you named him," Henry commented.

Emma looked at her parents.

"You haven't chosen a name yet, have you?" Henry said.

"Hey I was a little busy being worried about your mother, cut me some slack."

"You've had nine months."

She looked at him. "I have a name picked out, but I would like to run it by Regina first. Could you imagine her reaction if I named the kid something that she absolutely dreaded. She would drag us to court to get it changed."

"I don't know, the last time we were all in court together, it turned out ok," he smiled.

"I can't argue with that."

Marriage day 441

Regina opened her eyes to see the most beautiful sight – Emma walking back and forth with their child in her arms.

"Hey look who is awake," Emma said coming closer to the bed. "It's mommy. See, I told you she would wake up."

Emma held him so Regina could reach out and touch him.

"He is so cute," Regina said. "Did I fall asleep or something?"

Emma smiled. "Not exactly. You gave us all quite a scare, didn't she?" Emma said talking to the baby. "Mommy was asleep for so long, but you weren't worried, no you weren't because your mom told you that mommy would wake up."

"Emma," Regina said, noticing for the first time the IV in her arm. "What happened?"

"You had a tear in your uterus and you were bleeding a lot. They had to take you into surgery to get you patched up. You've been asleep since yesterday. But it's ok, isn't it little dude? Mommy's going to be perfectly fine."

"Please tell me you didn't name our child Little Dude while I was asleep?"

"I did not. In fact I haven't officially filled out the paperwork to give him a name yet. I thought I should wait on you."

"I told you that I trusted you to make that decision."

Emma readjusted the baby in her arms. "Mommy says that but if I had actually called you Little Dude, she would be very, very cross with me. And you don't want to see mommy cross trust me."

Regina couldn't help but smile at the way Emma was talking to the baby.

"Where's Henry?" Regina asked.

"At my parent's, hopefully asleep. It's like 5:30 in the morning," Emma said.

"Have you gotten any sleep?"

"A little in that chair over there while you were sleeping, but our son wants to be held so I am up."

"Do you think I can hold him?"

"I don't know," Emma said. "You've held him for like nine months so I think it's only fair that I get to hold him at least that long."

"Emma."

"Do you want mommy to hold you?" Emma asked the baby. "You do, ok, well then I guess it will be ok."

Emma gently passed him over to Regina who smiled down at him before looking up at Emma. "He looks like Henry."

"You think so?"

"Yes," she said. "It's the eyes. They are just like Henry's."

"He seemed to think so too."

"I can't believe I missed Henry seeing his brother for the first time. How did he do holding him?"

"He did great. And don't worry; we have pictures and a video of it. Speaking of which, we need to document this occasion."

Emma pulled out her phone and took a photo for Regina holding the baby.

"Seriously though, what are we naming him?"

Emma came up to the bed and put her hand on Regina's shoulder. "I was thinking Bodie Michael, if that is ok with you."

"Bodie Michael," Regina said looking at him. "I love it."

"You do?"

"It's perfect. He is perfect."

"You say that now, but there will be crying later, and probably a lot of dirty diapers and late night and early morning feedings."

"I know," Regina said smiling. "I can't wait."

Emma smiled at her and then bent down and kissed her on the top of her head. "Me neither."

Marriage day 805

Emma pulled Bodie's hand out of his birthday cake and began to clean it off, despite his crying protest to the entire process.

"Hey kid, there is no need to cry, the cake will still be there when I get you cleaned up," she said.

"You realize that is a lost cause, right?" Henry said as he videoed the entire encounter. "He's just going to play with the cake anyway."

"Yes but the goal is to get him to eat something at some point and he has already destroyed half of his cake."

Bodie cried some more as Emma finally got his hand clean and he immediately grabbed for the cake again, but Emma stopped him which caused more crying.

"Just let him have his fun. He is only going to turn one once," Henry said. "Stop being such a parent."

"Fine," Emma said releasing Bodie's hand. "But you can give him his bath tonight and lay him down to sleep."

"You hear that Bodie," Henry said. "Tonight instead of some boring kid's story you get to hear the latest Avengers comic."

"Don't let Regina catch you reading those to your little brother."

"He likes it."

"What does he like?" Regina asked coming back over to the table.

"Clearly not any of his gifts," Henry said. "But he is sure going to town on that cake."

Bodie was pounding his little fist into it over and over again.

"I tried to get him to stop," Emma said.

"It's fine," Regina smiled. "He only turns one once."

"That's what I said," Henry said. "See great minds think alike."

Emma stood up from her chair. "Where did you disappear to?" she asked Regina.

"I was talking to your mother," she responded.

"What about?"

"About watching Bodie for us in a few weeks. I would like to take my wife out of town for a couple of days of alone time."

"I will have to check my schedule, but I am sure we can arrange something," Emma said giving her a kiss.

"See Bodie, that is how it starts," Henry said. He had put down his phone and was now holding his brother. "First they start kissing and then they go away for some alone time and then the next thing you know one of them will be pregnant. Now I know what you are thinking, wouldn't that be cool because you would get to be a big brother just like me. But I am telling you kid, you don't want to risk it. I mean what if that next kid is a girl."

"Stop it," Emma said swatting Henry's arm. "Sooner or later he is actually going to start understanding the words that come out of your mouth."

"Girls bad," Henry said to Bodie, who reached up and tried grabbing Henry's mouth with his cake filled hand. Henry pretended to take a bite of cake from Bodie's hand, causing his little brother to laugh.

Regina put her arm around Emma as they watched their sons interacting. She leaned over and whispered. "You know, we have talked about having another child closer in age to Bodie."

"I told you I am up for trying whenever and wherever, just say the word."

"Actually," Regina said. "I was thinking this time around we could see if I can impregnate you."

"Like I said, whenever and wherever."

Later that night

Regina woke and realized she was alone in bed. She was tired after the long day of Bodie's birthday party. The house had been packed with people and the clean up had taken a long time.

Even Henry went to bed early that evening after such a long day.

She got up and left the room knowing where Emma was at. She opened the door to the nursery and stood in the doorway watching Emma as she was in the process of putting Bodie back down into the crib. Regina walked over and stared down at him. She still couldn't believe how much he looked like Henry at that age.

"He got a little fussy," Emma said quietly.

"I am not surprised. Today was a big day for him and he didn't want to take his nap earlier."

"I love watching him sleep."

Emma didn't need to tell her that. When they first brought Bodie home from the hospital, it seemed like all Emma did was watch him even as he slept for stretches at a time. Sometimes Regina had to remind herself that this was all new to Emma. She hadn't experienced all of this with Henry.

She took a hold of Emma's hand and pulled her toward the door.

"Let's let him sleep."

"Ok," Emma said reluctantly. "I can't believe he's a year old now."

"I know, it seems like yesterday that we brought him home from the hospital."

They stopped in the doorway and Emma pulled her wife in for a hug and kiss. "I love you."

"I love you too."

"No, I really love you."

Regina laughed, "I know this."

"I know, but I don't ever want to forget to say it to you."

Regina kissed her this time and then pulled her from the baby's room. "Why don't you come to bed and show me how much you love me?"