Rating: K+

Word Count: ~2500

Anonymous asked you: Most of the stories I've read Henry is happy that his mom's are together, what if Henry hated his moms being a couple and tried to break them up in order to 'save' Emma from the Evil Queen so she could meet a prince and marry so that he would have a dad.

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AN: Alright. I just want to say that this is not like every other fic I have ever written… ending-wise. So, you have been warned.

It started just after the curse broke. He first saw it when Emma invited his mom to dinner. There was an understanding or something between them, a look. He knew his mother was changing, but it was only so long before she changed back.

He was in his room. It was late. They had gone out on their 17th official date. Their 17th. He thought that he'd be okay with it by now. He thought he'd like having two moms, but there was something that his thoughts always rounded back to: She's the Evil Queen.

He had to save Emma.

If he didn't then his other mother would win. Evil couldn't win; that's not how it worked.

Good always wins.

He watched them walk up the sidewalk that led to the house he and Emma moved in after she got back from the broken fairytale land. She needed to have a place that was not with her parents and Henry didn't want to stay with Regina. He watched as Regina opened the front gate for Emma and walk her up the sidewalk, then he ran as quietly as possible downstairs. He had a spot in the kitchen that he could see from and knew they couldn't see him. That's where he went.

"I had a good time tonight, Regina." His mom's voice was weird; it wasn't hard and badass like normal… this was not good.

"Yes, I did as well…" He watched as his brunette mother traced the zipper lining of his blonde mother's infamous red leather jacket.

He watched Emma take the hand tracing her jacket, "Thanks for paying; I mean, we could have gone halfsies—"

"Nonsense." His brunette mother's face seemed serene, content even—it had to be part of some scheme. She had never been serene or content, "I asked you out for tonight, so I paid. You can get it next time. That's the deal"

He could tell from her tone that his blonde mother was smiling, "Alright, I will!" He saw Emma's hand reach up and her finger's trace Regina's face before wrapping delicately around the back of her neck and pull her in.

They were kissing.

First of all: Ew. Second: This could not be happening. Emma was the savior… THE SAVIOR! And Regina was… she was evil and probably heartless.

"So, I'll see you in the morning? For that budget meeting?" Emma's comment came after a few moments of silence, which Henry could just not stand.

"Oh, yes. The budget meeting. I have to be there." Regina smiled. Henry tilted his head in confusion… she was smiling. And it seemed the most genuine he'd ever seen at first, but something growing in his stomach told him that his mothers could not be together. There was something in that smile that was fake.

Emma took Regina's face in both of hers, "Hey." She tilted her head much like Henry just did, "I can tell when people are lying. Even through a smile." Her voice was still soft.

"I'm not just a person. I'm a witch." There was the genuinely fake smile he'd been looking for before.

"Regina." Emma kept her hold on the woman's face as she tried to move away, "That smile was the closest thing I've seen to real from you since I got here. But you're eyes were lying. You're scared. What are you scared of?"

"You."

…At least that's what Henry thought she said. That's what it looked like her mouth said.

"Me?" Yup, he'd been right. "Why are you scared of me?" Emma dropped her arms and put her hands on her hips.

His brunette mother's lip was quivering and it took her a couple attempts before she actually started speaking, "Because I feel myself falling in love. And when that happens, something detrimental happens and I lose everything. It's happened every time." She pushed from Emma completely.

"Hey," The blonde was pulling her back in, one hand on her hip and the other on her cheek, "Hey, Regina? Listen to me…" When the brunette stopped moving, the blonde continued, "You're never going to lose me."

~0~0~0~0~0~

Their 17th date only ensured Henry's belief that they had to break up. On a Saturday two weeks later he was eating breakfast in the kitchen. Emma came down and kissed the top of his head, ruffling his hair before moving to the shelf above the stovetop to get her own cereal.

"So, I was thinking," She sat down with a bowl and a spoon and her box of Count Chocula, "That maybe we could have your mom over for dinner? That'd be fun, right? Just the three of us? A family?"

"We're not a family." He said into his cereal.

"Henry—"

"We're not a family. You're my mom and she's my mom, but we are not a family. We will never be a family. I don't want you to call her family, mom. She's evil."

Emma had no idea what to do or say. She sat there, mouth agape with nothing coming out of it. Not even air.

Henry couldn't take the silence, so he—forcefully—threw his bowl in the sink and went upstairs to his room. His Xbox had just loaded when Emma burst into his room, slamming his door against the wall.

"What the hell was that?" She asked angrily.

"The truth." He got to the home screen of the game and clicked 'start'.

"The truth?" Emma asked, "The truth is that we'll never be a family?"

"Yeah."

"Why?"

"Because she's evil!"

"No. Henry, she's not." Emma's voice was barely above a whisper, "She's not evil. Not anymore."

"Yes she is. She's feeding you lies—"

"I can tell when she's lying—"

"She's going to make you fall in love with her and then she's going to crush you." He refused to turn around, "She won't care when she does. You'll be nothing. You'll be a bug." He took a breath, "And she can't do that to you because you're the savior."

"Henry, she's not going to crush me—"

"Yes she is! You just don't see it now because you're too close. Grandma, Grandpa, Ruby, Grumpy—everyone else can see it. She's told you before: She will destroy you if it is the last thing she does."

Emma walked in front of him, "Henry, you have no idea what you're talking about." She squatted so she could look at his face, "I am not going to leave her because you think that she's still evil… Even though I know you know otherwise." She mumbled the last part under her breath as she closed her eyes trying to think this through, "I'm falling in love with your mom kid. And isn't true love more powerful than any magic?" When he didn't say anything, she got up and went to the door.

"Only when it's true on both sides." He said after the door closed.

The next day Regina picked him up for lunch.

"Emma says you don't want us together?"

"No."

"Why?"

"She didn't tell you?"

Regina gave half a smile, "You're mother doesn't do well with words when she is too frustrated, angry or confused. And I think she was a little of all three of them yesterday…"

Henry nodded and turned straight to watch where they were going, "She's the savior." It was a simple three words and Regina already knew where this was going.

"And I'm the evil queen."

"Yeah."

"And you believe that this is some scheme of mine to crush her."

"Mhmm." Henry nodded along.

"And there's no possible way that I could just love her too?"

He thought, but only for a split second before answering, "No, you already had your true love… Emma needs hers, mom. It's not you. You had Daniel."

"Henry people get more than one chance at love…"

"Maybe other places… Here, Ruby's with no one because she ate Peter, Belle's with Rumple, Grandma and Grandpa are Grandma and Grandpa, Abigail's with Frederick, and Emma deserves to find her own Prince Charming." He looked down, "When she first got here, I thought it was going to be Graham, but he died. Maybe it'll be my dad after all…"

"And I'm just alone for the rest of my life? I get no other chance?"

Henry looked up to his mom, "Well, what have you done to deserve one?" He paused, "I mean, sure you're being good now, but it's only a matter of time, Mom…"

~0~0~0~0~0~

He knew that he shouldn't eavesdrop, but he couldn't help it. He was going to see his blonde mother after school when he stopped and listened in the station hallway to her and his other mother.

"Well that's ridiculous. Everyone gets another chance at love, Regina."

"He doesn't believe it's so. He doesn't think I deserve another chance. Maybe he's right."

"What? Regina, that's ridiculous—"

"I killed Graham."

"…You… What?"

He peeked inside to see them both. Regina had tears in her eyes and she was nodding, "In the old world I took his heart so that I would own him. And I told him that if he ever tried to run from me, then…" She looked away and shook her head, "And then you came here and he tried to run."

"Well…" Emma started.

"Don't." The brunette turned back to the blonde savior.

"Don't?"

"Don't do the forgiveness thing. I don't deserve it and you know it. Don't be nice and sweet with me, like you do. I don't deserve that either. I deserve what Henry thinks I deserve. I deserve to be alone and heartbroken for the rest of my life."

"No… You don't." Emma put her hands on Regina's shoulders, "You deserve love. And if you don't, I do, and I want to love you and for you to love me. So there."

"You can't always get what you want."

"Don't quote the great philosopher, Jagger to me." Emma said, "I will just quote him back."

"Excuse me?"

Emma didn't answer instead she continued with Jagger, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need." Emma pulled her in close, "And I need you."

"No." Regina swallowed hard, "You don't." She blinked to keep the tears in her eyes from rolling down her face, "You can easily get along without me. Henry can as well. I'm not needed in this world or any other."

"Regina, what… What are you saying? Are you ending this?"

"Yes. Henry—our son…" She let the words sink into the blonde's head, "Does not want us together. If I'm going to respect anyone's opinion on my love life, it's his. If he doesn't want me to be with you because I'm going to corrupt and ruin you, then I am not going to be with you so that I physically won't be able to corrupt or ruin you."

"But… You can't—You can't just do that!"

"I can, my love." She nodded, "And I just did." She started fading away, deciding she could leave faster if she traveled by poof than by foot.

"Regina!" Emma tried to grab her, but she was already gone, "REGINA!"

~0~0~0~0~0~

It had been a year.

Emma was still in love with the brunette, but she couldn't do a damn thing about it. Regina was in love with her as well. She knew she was.

Everyone hated Regina for a long time, but they didn't shun her. Most of the town was actually thankful that they broke up for the same reason Henry thought he broke them up for: She hurt Emma.

Regina had been able to show her face in public places for a little while now and she liked going to the diner at 9 AM for breakfast. It was pretty dead by nine and she could eat in peace.

Ruby set her toast and fruit and yogurt parfait in front of her. "Thank you, Ruby."

The lanky girl stared at the former mayor for a moment, "You're welcome, Regina." She said before she moved away.

Emma stalked in the diner. She didn't even bother pulling the stool out to sit on; she just mounted it and slumped forward. Regina watched with undivided attention as the blonde laid her head in her hands and waited for Ruby to come around to her.

"Hey, hey, Sheriff."

"Hey, Ruby." Emma didn't bother picking her head up.

"Why are you so glum?"

"Just tired."

"Uh huh." Ruby obviously believed nothing from the sheriff. "Bad date?"

"Of course."

"Why do you go on them if you know that they're not going to work out?"

"Because Henry." That's all that needed to be said.

Ruby leaned forward, "Well, how do you know that they're not going to work?"

"Because according to my son us fairytale people only fall in true love once, and my true love had already fallen in true love once… And there was the whole she used to be evil thing, but the fact of the matter is he just doesn't get it. I love her and she loves me and none of the rest of it should matter. But his philosophy is 'once evil, always evil', and he's too damn blind to see that Regina's done nothing but what he's asked of her since the curse broke and—" She slammed her fist into the countertop effectively making an echo throughout the (almost) empty diner, "I'm never going to be happy if I can't have her. And I can't have her, so I'm never going to be happy." She shook her head at herself as tears fell. Ruby cautiously placed a to go cup in front of the sheriff, "Thanks Ruby." She said before she moved out of the diner.

Ruby walked over to Regina with the excuse of filling Regina's coffee cup, "I assume you heard it all?" She asked while she poured.

Regina nodded, "Emma is not the most quiet or calm person in the world."

Ruby laughed, "No. But she is in love."

The former mayor stared at the table, "As am I."

"You're really going to let Henry keep you apart?"

"His happiness comes before mine. He's my son." Was all Regina managed.

"Do you think you'll ever get the chance to be happy?"

"I'm never going to be happy if I can't have her." The brown-eyed woman looked to the blue, curious eyes, "And I can't have her, so I'm never going to be happy." She dug into her purse and handed Ruby some money, "Keep the change."

AN: I know. I'm a horrible, horrible person. Should I add a chapter with a happy ending? You tell me.