AN: This is it. The last chapter. Thank you to all who took their time to review. I hope you enjoyed this tiny little fic. I agree with the ones that say the fic feels therapeutic. It's how it felt for me as I read it and I wish there were more of these fics. Anyway, I won't distract you guys much longer, below is the final chapter. Hope you guys enjoy it and drop me review to let me know what you guys think of the story as a whole.

"That lunatic will wake Sofia up," Emma says through gritted teeth.

"I'll go see what he wants," Regina says patting Emma's knee. "Go to our daughter. Make sure she's fine."

Emma nods her agreement and gets up to leave but before she let's Regina go face Hook, she pulls the brunette in giving her a kiss.

"Stay safe," the blonde sheriff murmurs against her lips.

"Will do," and after dropping another peck to Emma's lips she goes to face the music.

"Hello, Hook," Regina's all calm as she stands on her front porch, a calm expression on her face, faking ignorance. It took all her will power to not snap his neck then and there.

"Where is she?" he demands in anger. In the meantime Emma made her way to what was Sofia's room now, but they both kept the lights off, so as to not alert him to their presence at Regina's house.

"Where is who?"

"You know who!"

"I'm afraid I have no idea who you're referring to."

"Don't play dumb with me witch," he says furious as he approaches Regina. There's a barrier starting at the porch and he can't actually approach Regina. "Where is my wife?"

"Your wife?" she asks an expression of surprise on her face.

He just rages on, seething and looking murderous. Up in Sofia's room, the girl looks scared at her mother. They can hear the exchange, just like the neighbours can. Mrs Potts comes to her front porch and so does Mr Evans, shotgun in hand.

"It will be fine, your mom will take care of it," Emma tries to soothe her daughter. How many times was he angry and her child was scared of him and she never said anything, she never went to comfort her own child. She felt sick to her stomach knowing that this was common occurrence in her child's life, but up until now she had no one to protect her from the anger flares. "I'm so sorry, baby. I'm so sorry, I didn't stand up for you properly, that I didn't protect you like I should have."

"You were cursed. It is not your fault. It's like when grandpa was married with Katherine. He didn't know."

Emma marveled at how amazing her daughter grew to be, how kind and understanding. She was truly a mixture of her and Regina. That fighter spirit in her was from both of them.

"I love you so much, my darling," she whispered, hugging her daughter close.

"I love you too, mom. I'm glad you're back, I already like you a lot," she says hugging back.

Meanwhile

"Don't play dumb with me, you witch. You know what I'm talking about," Hook continues to rage on, just as a police cruiser stops outside Regina's mansion and David gets out of the car. He stops short looking at the exchange between Hook and Regina.

"Your wife? You never had a wife. All you had was an obedient slave, cursed to always be with you, despite her wishes, cursed to never be able to say no to you," at Regina's words, David's eyes widden in shock. This couldn't be true. But then Regina continues.

"That's right. You thought no one would notice? You thought no one would notice Emma was under your dark curse? The one you cast to hurt her?"

"Stop this nonsense now, witch!" Hook yells feeling rugged.

"Nonsense? Then why are you raging, now that there's been obvious signs of a true loves kiss? Why do you demand to see Emma? Is it perhaps that you're scared her curse was broken? Why would you come to my house, demanding that you see her?"

"This is all a nonsense!"

"Is it?" Emma's wedding rings appear in her hand and she looks at them. "For your information, Emma likes yellow, you could have at least bought her rings in a golden color, rather than silver. Alas it doesn't matter. Your wedding is a annulled as we speak, since Emma never gave her full consent to marry you."

She throws the rings at Hook then she turns to David.

"Deputy, would you mind arresting this man?"

"Under what charges?" Hook screams at her

"Oh, there's quite a few. Attempted murder, rape, assault, public disturbance. They're enough to grant you life behind bars," Emma says as she appears in the doorway behind Regina. David moves towards him, a pair of magic handcuffs in his hand.

Hook looks furious and struggles against David, punching him in the face. As David stumbles back from the punch, Hook pulls his gun, aims it at Emma and fires. Emma closes her eyes waiting for the impact of the bullet. When that doesn't come her whole being is filled with dread, as she opens her eyes expecting to see Regina had jumped in front of her and taken the bullet meant for her. The bullet however never reached either of them, as Regina holds her hand up stopping the bullet in mid air and making it drop to the floor.

Another shot rings and Hook drops his gun with a pained cry, his hand bloody. Emma and Regina look past him to see Mr Evans lower his own shotgun, a look of satisfaction on his face. David goes at Hook again but the pirate is not giving up, as he tries to hit David with his hook, only for Regina to freeze him on the spot.

He looks murderous at the brunette and he starts to yell how even if they kill him, he'll be back to murder them all, how he'll make Emma watch as he kills everyone she loves, for daring to leave him.

Emma freezes on the spot as she remembers all his threats over the years, as she remembers his promise that he will get her, that he will hurt her and how he succeed. Hook sees the reaction he caused in her and smirks in victory despite the pain, but that smirk is soon gone as a white light hits his chest, and he crumbles to the floor, his soul slowly disintegrating before their eyes.

Emma turns towards Regina to see her hold the Olympian Crystal. She breathes a sigh of relief. It's finally all over.

"He can never disturb us again. Ever," Regina says as she makes the crystal disappear to its safe place, and then makes Hook's body disappear. Emma jumps to her arms and hugs her.

"Can anyone tell me what's going on?" David asks feeling so out of it. They get him inside and they call Snow. They tell them what happened, all about the dark curse and how Emma was under Hook's influence since Camelot. How Emma never actually consented to marrying Hook. Snow and David listened in silence, shock evident on their face. Snow starts to cry and appologies for not seeing that anything was wrong, for thinking everything was okay, when it so clearly wasn't. But it wasn't their fault, it wasn't anyone's fault, but Hook's and all they could do from now on was move forward. Or at least that's what Emma was telling her parents. They were all broken, but they had the rest of their lives left to heal.

Emma refused to let her daughter and Regina out of her sight for even a moment. They knew they would have a long healing process ahead of them, all of them, but Emma was determined to make up for lost time, and Regina's determined to move at Emma's own pace. That night, when it just the two of them, they get to talk, about what all this means for them, how they'll move forward. They're both honest, after all, they lost decades being away from one another. This was not the time to be shy or undecided. They kiss some more, but they keep it at that. They have plenty of time, and more pressing issues, such as the predicament Henry was in. And so the next day finds the two women with Snow, leave to go to Hyperion Heights on yet another mission to save Henry.

The end

AN: I hope you guys enjoyed it. I loved writing this fic. It felt more like a healing fic for me and given from your reviews it felt like a healing fic for some of you. Let me know what you guys think.