"She fell asleep about an hour ago, she was trying so hard to stay awake." Emma smiled knowing her munchkin would have fought sleep until the very last moment trying to stay up to wait for her. Tonight she'd had a bounty and had been called into to get and had left her daughter with her neighbor down the hall, Lena.

"Thank you so much Lena, how much do I owe you tonight?" Emma asked the redheaded woman who shook her head watching as Emma kicked off her heels.

"Yeah right, it's your birthday Emma, and you know I'd watch her free of charge, she is too precious and too much fun." Lena smiled as Emma nodded in agreement.

"She's like her other mother in that respect, Violet always knew how to have fun and get out of trouble." Emma shook her head thinking about her late wife as Lena's smile softened.

"I can only imagine, well, I have to be at the hospital in the morning, happy birthday Emma." Lena hugged the blonde before leaving. Emma walked over to her breakfast bar and looked at the box that housed two cupcakes. This had been their tradition since Violet's death, birthdays weren't as fun without her. She'd always known how to go all out and have fun. Taking the cupcakes out Emma placed a candle in the chocolate one knowing her daughter preferred vanilla.

Walking back to her bedroom knowing that's where Lena would have placed her munchkin Emma turned on the stereo. Emma turned on her bedroom light as It Takes Two began to play. "Calliope, sweetheart," Emma sang sitting on the side of her bed wiping curls from her daughter's forehead. She had her other mother's caramel complexion with springs of curls that often made it hard for Emma to do anything but allow her five-almost-six year old to wear her hair in an afro of ringlets. Violet hadn't been able to get pregnant the first few times they'd tried, so they'd picked an anonymous donor that resembled Violet instead of Emma and well, here Calliope was.

"Momma?" Calliope questions opening her eyes looking up at her mother who was smiling. "Momma!" Calliope shot up hugging her as tightly as her little arms would allow.

"Happy happy birthday momma! I missed you! Did you gets the perp? Did you give it to him good? Lena said you prolly beated him up!" Calliope fired her questions as Emma couldn't help but laugh at the sudden energy her five year old had obtained.

"Lena should really stop telling you things like that." Calliope stood up on the bed her height matching her mother's sitting down before she starting jumping to the beat of the song.

"I likes hearing about you beating up ugly guys and saving the day!" Calliope explained giggling as she continued to jump. "Come on momma! You gots the cakes? It take two to make a thing go right!" Emma nodded with a chuckle at her daughter's awful grammar habits she continually tried to correct. She had thought about taking Calliope to speech therapy but the doctor said she was developing fine for her age, it was something she would grow out of because her vocabulary was already larger than most five year old children.

"It takes two to make it out of sight." Emma sang standing up while scooping up her daughter into her arms and dancing until they made their way back kitchen as Calliope giggled the entire time. Emma danced with Calliope in her arms until the song died out. As another song started playing Emma set her daughter on a bar stool and turned off the stereo system and pulled a lighter from one of the kitchen draws.

"Makes a good wish momma!" Calliope clapped as the candle was lit. Emma leaned over and kissed her temple getting a smile as she leaned on the counter looking at the lit candle. Emma wasn't so sure she believed in wishes anymore, she'd had everything she wanted just a little under three years ago. A wife and partner who loved and supported not only her but their daughter, but now, they seemed incomplete, so if anything she just wished to have a complete family again.

"Blow it out!" Calliope exclaimed as if knowing her mother had just settled on to wish. As Emma blew out the candle Calliope clapped her hands once more before picking up the vanilla cupcake she knew to be hers. "Happy birthday, mommy!" Calliope held her cupcake up to toast her mothers. As the cupcakes touched the doorbell rang throughout the condo. Emma furrowed her brows as Calliope ignored the sound and took a large bite of icing effectively smearing it all around her mouth.

"It's probably Lena, she might have forgotten something, stay there munchkin. I'll be right back." Emma walked to the door still holding her cupcake as Calliope nodded continuing to eat her sweet treat. "What'd you forg—" Emma stopped talking when she didn't see Lena standing in front of her.

"Are you Emma Smyth?" Emma looked down to see a boy around eleven or twelve looking up at her with large brown eyes and a smile too expectant.

"Formerly Smyth, its Swan now." Emma clarified as the boy's smiled grew even larger if that was possible.

"Oh well, I'm Henry Mills, your son." Emma blinked as he invited himself into her home.

"I don't have a son, kid."

"Ten almost eleven years ago, you gave up a baby for adoption?" Emma stared at him but managed to nod. "Well I'm him, I'm the baby, well kid now." Henry explained looking around the home. "Nice home, you have any orange juice?" Henry asked walking towards the kitchen only to stop and stare at the toddler licking her palm.

"Hi, who are you?" Calliope asked licking her other palm of the icing.

"I'm Henry Mills, who are you?"

"Calliope Swan!" Henry stared at the brown skinned little girl with bright green eyes and an afro of brown ringlets who had icing smeared all across the lower half of her face.

"You have another kid?" Henry turned around hearing footsteps behind him. Emma could see the hurt in his eyes as he looked at her.

"I do." Emma answered slowly as the hurt didn't leave his features. Emma knew that expression well, she'd probably worn it more than a few dozen times in her life. He felt unwanted in that moment, wondering why she'd given him up. "Look kid, I know how you must feel, but I'm not your mother. I gave you up so you could have a better chance." Henry looked around the home.

"A better chance at what? My family is evil." Henry pointed out. "Calliope seems fine, why didn't you give her up?" Henry felt childish more than even in this moment. He wanted to be validated, he wanted to know what made Emma's second child better than him.

"I was twenty-two when I had her kid, not seventeen. I was married for two years before that and not in jail. I had her other mother to help me, I was in a better position to take care of Callie than I was you, kid." Emma swallowed unsure as to why she was so easily able to talk about why she'd given him up. It'd been a tough decision, but she knew in her heart it had been the right one.

"Other mother? Is she adopted?" Henry asked looking at the little girl who was just watching them.

"No, I was married to her other mother before we had her." She'd never thought of having another kid until she'd met Violet Swan. She'd never thought love was a possibility for her that she'd be able to trust another with her heart, but with Violet it'd been so easy to trust and love her.

"What about my father?" Henry found himself asking as Calliope crawled onto the table and was sitting Indian-style watching silently the interaction between Henry and her blonde mother. Calliope couldn't quite understand exactly what was going on but she could feel the emotions in the air and they intrigued her enough to be quiet and listen to what was happening instead of asking questions.

"He was the reason I ended up in jail kid, I'm sorry but your biological father was not the man you may have made him out to be. Go home kid, go back to your family." Emma sighed unsure what this boy wanted from her but she didn't want to hurt him anymore than she knew she already had.

"You have to come with me." Henry spoke as Emma looked at him.

"I'm sorry, come again?"

"You have to come with me, you have to break the curse." Henry spoke determined remembering his main purpose for being here, for finding his birth mother.

"Momma can do that! She beats up uglys on basis!" Calliope chimed in grabbing their attention as Emma looked to her icing smeared child.

"Seriously munchkin, your PJ's are all messy now." Emma sighed as Calliope shrugged her shoulders uncaring.

"Momma you gonna help Hen-tree break the curse?" Calliope asked putting her hands over her head as Emma took over her Ursula top. Her daughter had a fascination with Disney villains and bad guys in general. Emma supposed that was partly her fault seeing as how she was a bail bondsperson who had to get the "bad guys" who tried to skip out on bail and court hearings.

"No munchkin, Henry is actually going to head back home, which is, where?" Emma asked looking over her should from her daughter to Henry.

"Storybrooke." Emma's brows furrowed as she tried to place the name of the street but not recognizing the name.

"Where is that?"

"Maine." Emma's eyes widened as she turned from wiping off her daughter and looked at the time.

"Please tell me that your parent's are visiting Boston and you just happened to know where I lived?" Henry looked everywhere but at Emma as she sighed.

"Kid, what were you thinking? You could have been kidnapped or worse! It's nearly ten o' clock!"

"I needed to find you! My family is evil!" Calliope gasped at hearing that as she looked to her mother.

"Momma, you have to help Hen-trees now!" Calliope demanded as Henry chuckled not expecting that.

"Look kid, I'll give you a ride home but that's it. I don't have a son, only a daughter. I highly doubt your family is evil, what'd they do, make you eat all your vegetables and you got upset?" Henry rolled his eyes as Calliope giggled.

"I like my vegetables!" Calliope chimed in as she reached for Emma's cupcake that she'd set down earlier only to have Emma snatch it from her causing Calliope to giggle at being caught.

"You like your sweets more." Emma commented taking a bite of her cupcake as Calliope nodded her head happily.

"I'll explain on the way home, but they're evil and once I tell you the story you'll understand." Henry breathed unsure of what else to say. He didn't think that she'd agree so easily to take him home for one, and well, the toddler was unexpected. Looking around Henry wondered if her father was around. "Where is her dad?" Henry suddenly asked.

"I don't have one! I had a other mommy, but she left to fight and a flag returned." Calliope answered simply as Emma sighed sadly.

"So we, um, we don't have the same dad?" Henry found himself asking knowing logically it couldn't be possible but he was still curious.

"Huh? Oh, no, um, I met her other mother when I was twenty we married shortly after that. We were married five years before she died. Before she died, we uh, picked an anonymous donor, so Callie has no father, only two moms." Henry saw the far off look in his blonde mother's eyes as she looked to her daughter who was sitting shirtless on the table top trying to lick the icing from her cheek causing Emma to smile sadly. "We lived in Tallahassee at the time, and she had been on tour, Violet was a soldier in the army. It was her last one tour. Her unit was transporting supplies to a village when they were ambushed." Emma breathed before shaking her head before looking down at Henry. "I'm um, going to go pack a bag. Feel free to enjoy the rest of my cupcake." Emma suddenly said her voice thick with emotion. "Munchkin, go clean your face and get dressed in something warm while mommy packs an overnight bag." Calliope nodded as she climbed down to the bar stool and then to the floor.

"Want to come see my room?" Calliope asked as Henry watched Emma disappear into a room and closed the door. Calliope held out her hand waiting as Henry sighed before grabbing the rest of the cupcake and then the toddlers hand as she led the way to her room. This surely was not what he'd been expecting to find when he'd set out to bring his biological mother back to Storybrooke, but at this moment, he'd take what he could get.

First, I tried my best to fix spelling and grammar errors...Second, this story will not paint Neal in the best light...just a heads up on that...Third, this is 100% Swan Queen and some other pairing eventually...Fourth, it's AU and has an OC if you couldn't tell by now...Lastly, do you like it so far? Should I keep going?