I am waiting here…waiting for you to come home.

Regina waited for her savior to return to her. She sent them away with new happy memories, but none of them included her or their past. Regina hoped that this would make things right and protect Emma and Henry. As the rumpling purple clouds headed towards them, her son and her true love crossed that red line and the memories of their past were gone and they only had their future together without Storybrooke without Regina. The purple cloud consumed the people Emma and Henry would never remember.

Regina waited. "Come back to me."

Emma and Henry lived in New York they had no recollection of Regina or their lives in Storybrooke.

During another late night, Emma was sitting watching the cars rush by through the window of their two-bedroom apartment. Henry woke hearing his bedroom door creak open. He looked to his alarm clock, 3:45 a.m. Henry crept out of his room and out to the kitchen and found his mother. They had been happy all their lives, but as he stared at his blonde mother he knew something was off, she had slowly changed these past weeks. Henry thought it was because of her job taking a toll on her, she'd come home late and be completely exhausted from lack of sleep. It was late October a day before his mother's birthday and Henry had a surprise for his mother that hopefully would cheer her up a little. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and returned back to his room, hoping his mother would sleep tonight.

The next day.

"Happy Birthday Mom!" Henry shouted giving his mother a hug. He handed her a green box tied with a white bow.

She opened it and gasped. "Thanks, kid. How'd you know I wanted this?"

Back in September they went shopping for new school clothes when Henry saw Emma staring at a red leather jacket and he knew that he had to get it for her and he saved every penny. "I saw you looking at it a while back and just had to get it for you."

Emma hugged her son again and thought of the time she brought him home from the hospital after he was born, wearing a tiny blue hat, swaddled in a blanket. When the sound of her son's voice shook her out of the flashback.

"Mom…can't…breathe…" Henry squealed.

"Oh sorry, kid." She replied looking at her son, "Guess I don't' know my own strength."

"It's okay," he said, "I have one more surprise." He pulled out a chocolate cupcake with a lit candle in the center and sat it in front of Emma. "Make a wish."

Emma looked at her son with awe. And realized how she wanted someone to share this with, a life with. She was lonely. Of course Henry was her whole world, but she couldn't help feel like a part of her was missing. And with that she blew out the candle making her wish.

Suddenly Emma fell of the chair landing on the ground with a thud. Pictures running through her head, like a movie, flooded in. There was a woman through out all the pictures. At first she felt anger, shock, and hatred towards this woman. But then more memories came in bringing emotions of kindness, warmth, fear, and love. She remembered.

Emma's eye flew open. "Regina…"