Chapter eighteen

Regina opened her eyes slowly, her dry throat instantly causing her to break out into a coughing fit.

What she didn't expect was to feel someone jump to their feet next to her as they scrambled to pour her a cup of water. When she fully opened her eyes, her mouth hung open slightly when she saw the brunette boy who was handing her the cup. For a moment, she wondered whether she had fallen asleep whilst watching 'Young Justice' and kissing the saviour in the forest had all been part of a very elaborate dream. But when she thought about it, she realised that she remembered the brief moment she had opened her eyes earlier. Hearing Henry call her mom for the first time in more than half a year had been both confusing and amazing at the same time and now that most of the grogginess was gone, she was ready to discover whether it had been some kind of cruel hallucination.

"Thank you," she said cautiously, as she turned to survey the room. The moment her eyes fell onto to Emma, she somehow knew that the curse must have broken. During the curse, she had always looked somewhat confused, but now she was wearing an expression of concern and a hint of anger.

Standing, the blonde helped the other woman sit up so that she could drink her water and once she was suitably satisfied that she was comfortable she went back to her chair and asked, "how are you feeling?"

"I…I'm not sure…mostly confused…" she admitted, looking back to Henry's caring expression that was far more intense than any he had shot her during the curse.

Emma nodded and said, "you…died…" there was a catch in the woman's throat at the memory and she decided to quickly move past that particular painful memory as she continued, "the curse broke and me and Henry were able to kiss you to unfreeze your heart…then Whale used the paddles to bring you back…"

"Both of you kissed me?" Regina asked slowly. Part of her couldn't help a certain feeling of glee at finding out that the saviour was in fact her True Love, but the other part of her couldn't really accept the fact that her son actually loved her after everything he had done. But when she looked over at the guilty expression consuming his face, she instantly knew that his regret meant that the curse had somehow changed him. It had given him a chance to spend time with her without having to worry about just how evil she was, and obviously, that was what he needed to actually appreciate her for the mother she had always been to him.

Henry nodded quickly, coming to stand in front of her as he placed his hands on the mattress, "I…" he began, but tears welled up in his eyes when he realised that there were no words strong enough, but he knew he had to say something, so he decided to go for, "I'm really sorry, mom, I shouldn't have ever made you believe that my life would be better without you…"

The older brunette's mouth fell open for a moment as realised that she was finally getting exactly what she had been dreaming about during her seven months of loneliness. Somehow, though, none of the times she had imagined this happened could stand up to the real thing when she realised that this meant that she didn't have to be so alone anymore.

"It's okay, Henry," she said softly.

"No it's not," the blonde behind him mumbled, which caused Henry's eyebrows to shoot up as he turned around to face his other mother.

"Emma…" Regina said cautiously.

"He forced us to break up and you forced me to completely forget our relationship. I felt like a terrible person for months because I had a crush on you, but I couldn't help it because my subconscious knew that I love you!"

The brunette looked at her cautiously, deciding to only smile internally at the fact that she had used the present tense. However, she couldn't think of any defence and replied, "I know, Emma, and I'm sorry, but I had to do it…"

"No you didn't, did you even consider the fact that you're not obligated to listen to a ten-year-old?"

Henry winced at her words and Regina brought her hand forward to squeeze his reassuringly, hoping that he understood that his mother's anger was completely justified.

"I…" the older woman trailed off and winced as she felt a jolt of pain run through her head, leaving her incapable of thinking of a comeback and the saviour instantly deflated.

"Are you in pain?" the blonde asked softly.

"I'm fine…"

The blonde just shook her head and said, "I'll go and get Whale…" before she was halfway across the room, she seemed to think better of it and walked back over to Regina and leaned down to kiss her on the cheek, "I'm really glad that you're okay…"

With that, she awkwardly turned on her heels and made her way to the door.

Regina watched her go and brought her hand up to cover her mouth in hopes that Henry wouldn't see how close she was to tears. But she failed miserably as tears were already trailing down her cheeks.

Henry swallowed hard as he considered whether his mother had ever cried in front of him and then he felt a stab of pain as he wondered how many times she had cried because of him. After a moment of thought, he climbed into the empty space next to her and carefully leaned his head on her shoulder, hoping that the movement didn't hurt her.

"I'm really glad you're okay too," he mumbled, unable to stop his own tears from falling.

Regina pulled her arm around the boy and smiled sadly.

"Thank you, my little prince."

-One week later-

"Did ma call?" Henry asked as he entered the kitchen.

Regina looked up from the vegetables she had been chopping and smiled widely at the boy as she had done every time she had seen him casually walking around her house since she had been discharged from hospital. She could have never imagined that being attacked by some insane Snow Queen would have resulted in her getting her son back after seven months of hell.

During the curse, she had often thought about what would happen if it were ever to be broken. One of the things that she often wondered was just how Emma would take it. She had taken her memories from her without permission and she had forced her to move on from their relationship after she had begged her to get back together. She often wished that she had taken that offer to continue their relationship in private, but she knew that would cause just as much heartache as their current situation had.

Therefore, she found that the blonde was perfectly justified in her request for space while she sorted out her feelings. At first it had been so she would be able to help Elsa and her family find their way back to Arendelle, which must have taken at least four days from what she could tell. But that still meant that she had spent the past two days actively avoiding her and Henry and she couldn't really blame her.

"She just needs space, Henry," Regina replied as he came and sat on one of the stools propping his head on his hand, "you can't just expect her to get over what happened."

"But it was all my fault," he frowned, "she shouldn't be punishing you for something that I did…"

The older brunette frowned and placed the knife down so that she could give him her full, undivided attention, "I cast the curse Henry, she has every right to not just accept the first apology I gave her. We both made mistakes and we can't expect her to just pretend that none of it happened…we can't just deny the last seven months of our lives…"

Looking down at the counter, the boy nodded slowly as he tried to swallow the lump in his throat, "but I made the two of you break up…if I had just accepted your relationship, you would probably be with her right now instead of just waiting for her to call…"

"You were just doing what you thought was right. I believed that making you believe that you were crazy for over a year was the best course of action because I so desperately wanted to protect my curse. Everyone makes mistakes and most people are able to admit to those mistakes eventually, but that's not an easy thing to do. It's even more difficult for others to accept that you've accepted your own mistakes."

Henry bit the inside of his cheek and thought for a minute, before he said, "have you spoke to her at all though?"

"We've exchanged a few messages about her progress with Elsa, Anna and Kristoff, but she has made it clear that she wishes to be left alone for a while and I think that we owe her that much, wouldn't you agree?"

"I guess…" he mumbled, "but I just don't get why she wouldn't want to spend time with you after being apart for so long…"

"I am willing to wait, Henry, I have waited seven months, I can wait longer if I need to…"

Henry cringed at her words and she quickly shot him a sympathetic look when she realised that she had said those words out loud.

"We owe her the chance to think things over, if she was going to run, then we both know that she would have done so by," the older brunette said as reassuringly as she could. "Emma will reach out to one of us when she feels like she can."

The boy sighed, but nodded in understanding nonetheless. He could see why his blonde mother had every right to pissed at both of them and with helping Elsa find her way home, he doubted that she'd really had much time to think through her emotions.

"So what's for dinner?" he asked after a moment of silence.

Regina smiled at him weakly and picked up the knife to continue her preparation, "lasagna."

Henry smiled at the thought of another meal from his brunette mother. Even before the newest curse, food had been one of the biggest things he had missed. Emma wasn't as terrible a cook as she once was, but it would take more than seven months for her to ever match up to Regina's skill in the kitchen.

The pair sat in silence for about five minutes, before a thought occurred to Henry and he asked, "have you watched Ant-Man?"

The mayor looked up at him with a quirked eyebrow and replied. "I haven't seen any Marvel movies since Winter Soldier."

A huge grin spread across his face and he jumped up from his chair, "we need to have a movie marathon then, I really want to see Civil War soon."

"Okay," Regina laughed lightly and watched him as he went off to get his laptop.

Letting out a small sigh, she looked back down to the vegetables.

Everything was almost perfect and she couldn't help but worry that there was a chance that she didn't deserve actual perfection.

Emma stared at the ceiling and let out a small huff as her mind was assaulted, once again, with her conflicting feelings.

On one hand, she missed Regina and Henry, but on the other hand, she couldn't stand the thought of facing the two people who had caused her so much pain. She couldn't help the feeling that if she and Regina were meant to be together then there wouldn't have been something so major getting in the way of their happiness. But then she thought about how much her parents had gone through, only to stay together. Even after losing their memories for nearly three decades, they had stayed together and tried to rebuild their family the moment they'd had their memories returned to them. Plus, there was the fact that when she tried to imagine her future, it always involved Regina and Henry and she knew that it always would, so she was obviously just stalling.

"If you're going to continue moping in my apartment, you could at least clean up after yourself," Ruby huff as she walked in to see the bearclaw wrapper on the coffee table.

Emma looked over to her and smiled sadly, before she waved her hand, making the wrapper disappear.

The wolf's eyebrows shot up and she said, almost in awe, "I thought that you only had one magic lesson…"

"I've been practicing," the blonde shrugged as she sat up.

The brunette just rolled her eyes and came over to sit on the couch space that was now free.

"You know that you could have been learning from a magical master instead of moping in your best friend's living room."

Both women turned their attention to the other brunette who had come in with her girlfriend and was staring at both of them judgingly.

Ruby noticed that some of the expression was directed at her and she said defensively, "what have I done?"

"You haven't been telling Emma that she needs to go and talk to Regina," the librarian shot back, "as her best friend, you're not allowed to just let her be miserable while the person who can make her happy is just across town…"

The waitress just shook her head and Belle rolled her eyes.

"We talked about this, Rubes…"

Emma furrowed her brow as she looked between the pair and said, "talked about what?"

"Belle is convinced that you should go and talk to Regina…but I'm not so sure…"

The blonde sighed and replied. "of course you're not, she cursed you two as well…I mean, Belle, she forced you to be with Gold…"

"No…that was his request. If you thought that you could do something to make Regina or Henry happy, you know that you would have agreed to the terms too. I know I probably would have felt as though I had no choice, Rumple is good at making people feel that way…"

Ruby jumped up from her seat and hugged the other brunette, who instantly hugged her back.

After a few moments, they parted and Belle said, "the moment the curse broke, all I wanted to do was go and see Ruby and you know that you want to go and see Regina. Don't let your stubbornness be the reason that you spend another seven months so miserable…Especially since you know exactly what the solution is."

Emma sighed and looked down at her lap, "I don't know…"

"Do you love Regina?" Ruby asked unexpectedly.

"Yes," the saviour replied instantly.

"Then Belle's right, you need to go and talk to her," the wolf sighed, feeling a twinge of guilt at the fact that she was part of the reason why the blonde had yet to go and sort out her love life.

"But…"

"For better or worse, Swan," Ruby interrupted.

"We're not married, Lucas," Emma replied crossing her arms petulantly.

"Oh come on, we all know that you will be eventually. She deserves happiness."

"I thought you hate her…" the blonde frowned.

"I may not be her biggest fan right now," she admitted, looking over to Belle who nodded at her encouragingly. "But we were talking and we agreed that as long as Regina is miserable, you'll be miserable too…why would you want to make yourself unhappy?"

"Because I don't want to go back and pretend that it never happened! How am I supposed to just go and say that I'm perfectly fine with what she did?!"

"Because you love everything about her," Belle offered, "even her mistakes."

"But…"

"You're a grown woman, Emma and you shouldn't be spending your time feeling sorry for yourself instead of working out your issues. No one is saying that you need to forgive her, but we are saying that you need to go and talk to her so that you don't end up regretting all of this time that you've wasted."

Emma opened her mouth to spout another excuse, but she decided better when she realised that the librarian's words made complete sense. If the woman who had been collateral damage in the former queen's curse could forgive her, then the woman who loved the brunette with all of her being could certainly make an effort.

"Fine, I'll go and talk to Regina," she sighed.

Ruby and Belle smiled at each other in triumph and five seconds of silence past before they each looked at the blonde expectantly.

"Right now?" Emma asked once she noticed them staring at her.

"Yes, right now," Ruby sighed as she came forward to practically pick the woman up off her couch, "it's not that I don't want you here, but you could have waited to sell your apartment you know…" she whispered.

The blonde looked over the taller woman's shoulder and silently berated herself when she realised exactly what the other woman was about to say, "having me living on your couch is cutting into your alone time with Belle," she whispered back, making sure that the other brunette couldn't hear, "sorry, Rubes…"

"It's cool," she chuckled, "just go."

The blonde laughed lightly and quickly hugged her best friend, before she stepped over the coffee table and said, "thanks guys."

-In Arendelle-

"Will you stop pacing?" Anna chuckled as she watched her sister, now finally wearing a blue dress that suited her far more than her Storybrooke attire had.

"I'm not worried," Elsa said defensively, causing her sister's eyebrows to shoot up.

"I said you were pacing, I didn't say that you were worried," the younger woman laughed.

The blonde sighed and said, "I'm just worried that Ingrid will somehow find a way out of the dungeon before her trial…"

"You're lying," Anna said instantly, "I know that you have complete faith in that band. Emma said that it would work, so you know that you have nothing to worry about…"

The older of the pair huffed and mumbled, "has everybody got this ridiculous superpower now?"

"What?"

"Never mind," Elsa sighed, "perhaps you are correct that I am a little…worried...I will soon be faced with a kingdom that I have once again abandoned…"

"You're lying again. You know that I told the people you were on a diplomatic mission."

Elsa rolled her eyes and fell into her throne and replied, "I forgot how well you're able to read me…"

Anna chuckled lightly and walked over to her sister, "Giselle has missed you just as much as I did, she will be nothing but thrilled to see you again after all of this time."

The blonde felt her mouth go dry at the mention of the hand-maiden's name and she asked, "she really stayed in your service while I was gone?"

"Of course, she didn't want to miss the day of your return so that she could finally have that dinner that you promised her…"

The queen cringed, before she furrowed her brow and said, "I was under the impression that I would be having dinner with you and Kristoff tonight…"

"Well if I told you the truth, then you would have turned into a nervous mess," Anna laughed, "we have all of the time in the world to have dinner together, especially since we really need to start planning my wedding before Kristoff has a breakdown from just how nervous he has been waiting…"

The blonde rolled her eyes playfully and asked, "and does Giselle know about this?"

"No…but the chef knows and that's always a good start…"

Before the older sister could open her mouth to chuckle, she heard someone let out a ragged breath and her eyes shot over to the door where a very familiar blonde stood with her mouth hanging open. Elsa stared at her for another moment, as her mind tried to come to terms with the fact that she was faced with the woman that she had been subconsciously missing for months.

"Giselle," she breathed as she rose to her feet.

The hand-maiden also took a moment, almost as if she was ensuring that she wasn't hallucinating, but she seemed to decide finally that it must be real, as she rushed across the room.

Before the queen could even think about opening her mouth to say 'hello', the blonde leaned up and captured her lips in her own.

Elsa stood frozen in place for a moment, but she finally caught up with what was happening as she brought her hands up to the other woman's waist and deepened the kiss. They continued like this for almost thirty seconds, before Anna cleared her throat to remind them that they were not alone.

Breaking apart, but still remaining incredibly close, they both turned to the red-head, who was smirking at them.

Giselle's eyes widened when she realised that she had done exactly what she wanted to do without thinking it through and she looked up to the queen with an apologetic expression.

"I'm sorry, your majesty," she began, but she was cut off when the other woman leaned forward to steal another peck.

When she leaned back, she smiled broadly and said, "please Giselle, call me Elsa."

Regina pulled the lasagne out of the oven and sighed contently when she saw that it was perfectly browned. Laying it on the counter, she removed her oven mitt and apron and made her way to the foyer so that she could call Henry down for dinner. They had already watched Guardians of the Galaxy before dinner and Regina had told him to go and finish his homework before he put on Age of Ultron, deciding that she could make a onetime exception to her rule of not eating in front of the television.

When she made it to the bottom of the stairs, she opened her mouth to call him, but before a sound came out, she heard a quick and frantic knock at the door. Furrowing her brow, she wondered whether she had been expecting anyone. Snow had showed up at her door at least twice this week in an attempt to be civil, obviously she wanted her daughter to see that she was making an effort.

With that in mind, she rolled her eyes as she clicked over to the door and pulled it open, prepared to smile at Snow and then find a way to get her to leave as swiftly as possible.

But when the door was fully open, her mind went completely blank when she saw that it was not the Charming she had expected, in fact it was one of the only two Charmings that she would ever be happy to open her door to.

"Emma…" she breathed, trying not to think about the last time she had opened the door to this woman, it had resulted in the curse being cast.

The blonde smiled tightly at her and said, "I hope this isn't a bad time…"

"Of course not," the brunette replied quickly, stepping aside to allow the other woman access to her home. Emma stood awkwardly behind her as the mayor closed the door and turned to face her, looking almost hopeful.

The pair stood in silence for a moment, before the saviour announced, "I'm an idiot."

Regina furrowed her brow and was about to argue that wasn't true, but Emma held up her hand to cut off her reply so that she could carry on talking:

"I spent the last seven months not even realising what…or who…I was missing so much and now I finally have my memory back and I decided to actively avoid you."

"I deserved it…" Regina began, but was cut off once again by the saviour's raised hand.

"You don't deserve any pain. I have promised you many times that we could be happy together and that I wouldn't let anything break us apart and then I went against it. I know that I had the right to be angry about what you did, but spending the week being miserable wasn't helping anyone."

The brunette watched the other woman's rant for a moment, finally allowing her to finish, before she asked, "have you been practicing that speech?"

Emma stared at her for a moment emotionlessly, before a smile spread across her face and she reached out to pull her closer by the waist. Regina instantly brought her hands up to her neck and they leant in at the same time for a slow, long kiss.

When they finally parted, the brunette furrowed her brow and asked, "what was that for?"

"I just remembered that I love everything about you, even the annoying parts."

"Oh charming," the mayor muttered, though she wasn't even trying to hide the huge smile that was starting to consume her face. She had assumed that it would take far more than a week for the other woman to forgive her, but she was so relieved that she wouldn't have to wait any longer to be held in the blonde's arms.

They smiled at each other for another moment, before Emma's smiled dropped and she looked at the ground, "I haven't completely forgiven you…"

"I know," Regina sighed, her smile also dropping.

"But Belle made me realise that the only way I would ever get over it would be to remember just why the curse had hurt so much. I can't be mad at you for keeping us apart and then keep us apart."

"So you're saying that the only way you can forgive me is to spend time with me?" the former queen asked, slightly confused.

Emma nodded slowly and inspected the woman, "I think it might already be starting to work, I forgot how beautiful you are up close."

The brunette couldn't stop herself from blushing as she smiled, "and I forgot how many compliments one gets when they date a Charming."

"Well you need to get used to it again…" Emma chuckled, but she furrowed her brow and asked, "I mean…you do want to be my girlfriend again, right?"

Regina smirked at the woman's sudden loss of confidence, she had forgotten just how adorable the woman got when she was trying not to show how nervous she was.

By way of answer, she leaned up and kissed her again, before she extracted herself from their embrace and said, "could you go and get Henry for dinner?"

"Was that a yes?"

"Of course," Regina chuckled.

A dopey grin spread across the saviour's lips and she quickly stole another kiss before she ran upstairs.

A moment later, she stood in front of their son's old bedroom and she took a deep breath knowing that it was probably going to look the same as his room in their old apartment.

Knocking lightly, she waited five seconds before she heard a somewhat cautious boy say, "come in…"

When she pushed the door open, she had barely gotten across the threshold before Henry leapt out of his seat and had thrown his arms around her, hugging her tightly.

Taking a moment to get her bearings, she brought her arm around his back and squeezed him tightly, "I missed you to, Hen," she whispered.

Pulling back, the boy gave her a watery-smile, before he asked, "have you made up with mom?"

"I…I have started to and I don't think it will be long until I've completely forgiven her."

The boy nodded excitedly, before a thought occurred to him and his face dropped, "and me?"

"You're my son, Henry, I can't stay mad at you forever…"

"After mom broke up with you, you hated me…and it didn't seem like you were ever going to forgive me…I mean, you even slapped grandma…" he said, finally allowing everything to burst out. He had decided not to tell his brunette mother all of this considering just how much he had already put her through. He had no doubt that Emma would forgive Regina quite quickly, but he had been genuinely worried that she probably hated him.

The blonde frowned for a moment as she thought back to the same memories, but somehow they felt as though they were from a completely different life.

"I didn't hate you, Henry, I just couldn't understand why you forced me to end a relationship that made me so happy and I couldn't stand the way that you made your mom feel. She spent most of our time together worried that you would break us apart…"

Bowing his head in shame, the boy nodded, "I know…I was horrible and I'm really sorry…"

"You didn't let me finish, Henry," the saviour interrupted, making him look up. "Your mom was willing to put herself through seven months of torture to make you happy and I would go through any kind of torture to make you happy. If I'd had time to properly mourn the relationship, then I would have gone along with it to make you happy…"

"But you wouldn't have been happy…" he frowned.

"That's not the point," she said, bringing her hand up to wipe a few tears away. "I know I've never told you this, but emotions are difficult for me and I'm sorry if I've ever made you feel like I hate you…you're my son and I will always love you."

"Even when I'm being a selfish little brat?" he sniffled.

"Yes, I may not like you sometimes, but you need to know that I will always love you…and your mom…"

Henry surged forward to hug her again and she ran fingers through his hair for a few moments, before she remembered what she was meant to be doing, "I was meant to be getting you for dinner…"

"Are you gonna stay?" he asked hopefully.

"Well…I didn't ask…" the blonde frowned.

"You don't need to ask," she heard someone say from behind her and both Charmings looked over to the door on which the mayor was leaning with slightly glassy eyes at the touching scene she had just witnessed.

Emma smiled at her for a few seconds before she turned back to Henry and said, "I guess that answers your question."

The younger brunette smiled broadly and hugged her again, Emma looked back over to the door and managed to wiggle her arm out to extend it to the woman.

Regina unhitched herself and walked over to the hugging pair.

As soon as she was close enough, Emma brought her arm around the woman's shoulder and Henry moved back so that he could hug her mid-section.

The three of them stayed in the hug for a while, none of them caring that the lasagne was probably getting cold.

-Fifteen years later-

Regina rubbed her temples and sighed deeply as her headache started to get progressively worse.

"It's mine," the thirteen-year-old blonde screeched.

"I need it more than you do," her carbon-copy next to her also screeched.

Moving her hand over to her forehead, the brunette rubbed it for a few seconds further, before she looked at the woman at the other end of the table and said as calmly as she could, "what are they arguing about?"

Her wife looked up from her plate and smirked before she replied, "Tamsin wants Dawn's laptop while hers gets fixed, but Dawn wants to do her homework, which Tamsin doesn't think is as important as whatever she's planning to do…"

The twins looked between their mothers and finally both looked at Regina to see how she thought the issue should be resolved and she rolled her eyes before saying, "Tamsin you broke your laptop and Dawn is under no obligation to share hers…"

"But I need to do my homework," the girl pouted.

Emma looked at her in disbelief and asked, "now that you have no laptop, you suddenly decide that you have to do your homework?"

"Do you not want me to get into college?"

"You're thirteen," Regina chuckled as she brought her glass of wine up to her lips, taking a sip.

"And you're in a grade lower than me," Dawn laughed, sticking her tongue out. Her twin huffed, she hated being reminded that her sister had skipped a grade and said sister liked to remember her at every given opportunity.

"Are you telling me, moms, that you actually don't want me to do my homework?" she asked, looking as innocent as she possibly could.

The brunette of the two mothers just closed her eyes, willing away the headache that she'd had since a particularly stressful meeting earlier that day.

Emma instantly noticed that she was obviously in some pain and said, "you can use my laptop, Tamsin," she said.

The blonde raised her arms in triumph and stuck her tongue out at her sister.

Dawn opened her mouth to complain, but Emma held up her hand up to stop her, "both of you go and take your plates to the sink and then go and do your homework."

They both looked as though they were about to protest, but at their blonde mother's stern look, they each jumped up and grabbed their plates, disappearing into the kitchen.

Emma rose from her chair and went over to sit next to the brunette, placing her hand on the older woman's hand, "why don't you go and take a nap?"

"I don't need a nap," the woman replied unconvincingly, as she yawned.

"You took Dawn to her before school science club and then you had to deal with the power grid issue…"

Regina's eyebrow shot up in surprise and Emma chuckled lightly.

"This might surprise you, Gina, but I do tend to listen to my wife when she tells me about her day."

The brunette just laughed and nodded, "I suppose that I could stand to have a couple of hours…"

"Yeah, you're going to need your energy…" the blonde replied, standing to pick up the other woman's plate.

Regina frowned as she took this remark in, but she couldn't come up with anything and then she noticed that the other woman was wearing a somewhat guilty expression, "what did you do?"

Emma smiled as charmingly as she possibly could and she said, "Henry called…"

"Yes?"

"He forgot that he planned a date with Violet and he wants us to watch Daniella…"

"So the reason you want me to have a nap is so that I don't fall asleep while we watch our two-year-old granddaughter?" Regina smirked.

"I want you to take a nap because I love you and I want you to feel better…and you know that you would want to be wide awake to spend time with her…"

"I spend a lot of time with her, Emma and Henry calls me every time he has any little question…" the brunette reminded her.

"Well obviously he would, you've raised three kick-ass kids," the blonde chuckled.

Regina was about to reply, but she was cut short by the sound of a shattering dish from the kitchen.

The blonde and brunette exchanged a look, before the older of the pair stood and placed a quick kiss to her lips, "I'll have that nap and you deal with that, I'll stay up to look after Daniella and you can go to sleep."

"Oh sure, you get to look after the cute baby and I get the grumpy pre-teens," Emma mumbled, though she smiled nonetheless as she made her way to the kitchen.

A/N So that's the end XD I hope you guys liked it :) and I would love to hear what you thought of this fic.

I need to thank my beta, QueenApples, for all of her awesome help and I need to thank PerditusFic for helping out whenever I need it XD