Freak Out!

Chapter 1 The First but not the Last

Emma POV-

"OMG!" Emma exclaimed loudly while looking shocked at her phone. "Mary Margret! Come quick! Come Look here!" Emma shouted to her mother, however when that didn't work she resorted to the one thing she knew her mother didn't like while they were at work, "MOM!" Emma shouted as loud as she could.

"Jeez, Emma what is it?" Mary Margret came out from the front Counter with Cake boxes in her hands, looking at a floured covered Emma who had a frantic facial expression and her phone in her hand.

"Look at you, you're a mess!" MM shook her head. From the moment Emma started baking she could never do it without being messy. No matter how hard MM had tried Emma's reply would always be 'You can't contain passion, Baking is an Art Form don't restrict me.' Or on some occasions when feeling especially witty she's wink at her mother 'But that's why you're here' before running off to bake some more.

"Look 'The Evil Queen', is now one of my friends on Facebook! Can you believe it?" Emma showed her phone to her mother hands shaking with excitement.

"Who Dear?" MM asked looking at the phone that's wasn't still enough for her to read even with squinted eyes.

"You know 'The Evil Queen' from that ERF Gladiator. The Reality show we use to watch." Emma was slightly annoyed that she still had to explain it to her mother.

MM still looking slightly confused at Emma as to indicate that she still remained clueless as to who she was referring to. MM was never good at recalling TV shows, Emma knew that if it were her father David, he'd know exactly who she was talking about. So Emma sighs and begins to sing 'The Evil Queen's' Theme song, the one that would play at her entrance and when she would knock contestants down, all in hopes that her mother would soon catch on.

"I fell into a burnin' ring of fire

I went down, down, down
and the flames went higher,
And it burns, burns, burns,
the ring of fire, the ring of fire
."

"Oh Regina Mills!" MM responded when Emma was done singing.

"Yes Mom! Regina Mills. You know 'The Evil Queen' 5 time award winning actress and fitness professional. The one I have…"Emma

Caught herself before she reveals she still has a huge crush on 'The Evil Queen' or that she's a member of the Fan Club. "… The one I had a crush on." Emma felt a slight hint of exhaustion having to explain this all to her mother, nevertheless she was still in freak out mode, that much even MM could tell.

"Well to be completely honest Emma. Regina is actually one of my friends on Facebook too..." Mm smiled as she headed back to the front of the Shop section of their Bakery, leaving Emma in the back. However before MM got the chance to go much further Emma jumped in front of her stopping MM in her place.

"Wait What!?" Emma looked so confused and bewildered.

"Since when? Why didn't you tell me? How have I not noticed this before? You barely use the thing! Regina Fucking Mills! She's like, she's like beyond amazing! MOM!" Emma exhales, she was busy going crazy... MM just starts laughing and shook her head. She didn't realize that Emma still felt so strongly about Regina. She had assumed that it was a phase Emma had gone through.

"It's been a few years, I think." MM smirked, this was her chance to torture Emma ever so slightly. Call it pay back for calling her mom at work and so she continued.

"You know the lady that comes in every now and then for her order of your Apple Pie?" MM asked Emma quietly making sure that the customers that were in the front section of the bakery didn't hear her.

"I think so." Emma answered unsure of what this had to do with the fact that the one and only 'Regina Mills' was her Facebook friend but she knew that eventually MM would get to the point even if it took longer than it should.

"To be honest mom, a lot of ladies come in for my Apple Pie." Emma adds, it was true, their Apple pie was a top seller. 'Yip' Emma thought to herself. 'This might take a while. Probably a friend of a friend's uncle's sister saw Regina once like 5 years ago' But she looked at her mother slightly annoyed that; one her mother had Regina as a friend before she did and that two she was taking so long.

MM on the other hand was happily to be purposefully dragging out what she was going to tell Emma if only to calm her daughter down ever so slightly before she revealed something that would probably rock Emma's boat a little.

"Okay you remember my Best Friend Zelena?" MM asked Emma. She knew Emma did but this was just too fun for her, it wasn't often that she got the chance to be on this side of the conversation, especially not with Emma and her quick wit.

"Yea, Mrs Locksworthy what about her?" Emma now far more confused, she simply couldn't see the connection between her mother's best friend and Regina Mills.

"Well Zelena is Regina's Sister, well technically they are half-sisters, but I never said that." MM confesses with a huge smirk on her face, waiting for it to settle in with Emma when finally.

"What? No ways! You never said!" Emma smiled and then as though something in her brain had clicked with what happened before the Facebook notification that had lead her down this path of Freaking out.

"Holy Shit! She just spoke to me on the phone and like ordered 4 Apple Pies for tomorrow, she said she'll come pick them up tomorrow morning early. I can't believe I just spoke to The Evil Queen's sister!" Emma placed her hands on her mother's shoulders and shook her. She knew the sister of the 'The Evil Queen' almost her whole life. 'Wait' Emma thought to herself. 'I know her whole family! I was in her childhood house. OMG!' Emma didn't know what to do with herself.

"Why did you tell me, mom?" Emma shook her head, while she laughed .MM looked at her adopted daughter. 'How far they had come from their first meeting' MM thought to herself.

MM and her husband David discovered that they couldn't have children. They went to doctor after doctor but there was nothing that could be done for them. Saddened but the fact that they couldn't have their own child MM and David were still encouraged by their love for children to still have a family. They began of looking into adoption. When they found out about a little girl that was abandoned at birth and heard her story of the tragic story of how her mother died saving Emma from a fire leaving her father to bring her up alone. Though her father attempted to look after the baby Emma, overwhelmed with either the mounting hospital bills or juggling work and childcare he too abandon her, this time to the side of the road near a Diner. Baby Emma ended up in the system. Under normal circumstances a baby her age could have been adopted at the drop of a hat unfortunately Emma's case had been out of the ordinary from the day of her conception. The few scars that marred her beauty made sure she was always overlooked .That baby had grown up to be a little girl struggling to find her place. Emma was 13 when MM and David first found out about the blonde little girl with glasses and a past riddled with tragedy. Was just a little girl desperately seeking love and thus would rebel in order to get any form of attention? "Children need Love David, I know she's older than we were looking into but look at her, Darling." MM remembers telling her husband after they had only met her a few times whilst visiting the orphanage. The process was a long and complicated one, however when Emma was 14, she finally and officially had a family.

Most times Emma would, now still at the age of 28, call them by their names. It was only in moments of trust and need that Emma called them mom and dad. It wasn't that she didn't feel love towards them or from them but she still couldn't get over the fact that at any moment like her birth and foster parents, they too would abandon her.

Even after having been with the Nolan's for 14 years. 14 Years of having a family, Emma would always remind herself that she had 13 years of experience being unwanted before she met the Nolan's. MM knew that all too well and so she would sure that she would always be there for her daughter. That's why they had never pushed Emma to change her last name to theirs or why they had never even asked her to add it on. She was Emma Swan from the moment she was born. Emma Swan was who her mother saved. It was all she had when she had nothing. It was who she always became when she was returned family after family. And it who she would be if the Nolan's ever decided that she was still not who they imagined she would be. Swan was her security Blanket.

"I'm sorry dear. I just thought you knew." MM smiled as she headed to the back, she took her daughter by the hand and held them to the lovely garden at the back of their Bakery, MM sat them both down on a bench and then whispered.

"I'm let you in on a secret my darling." Emma was continued to looked confused, 'What on earth could it be?' Emma thought to herself but simply replied with a single word "Okay."

"The only time Zelena orders Apple pies is when Regina is going to be in town. Regina is Crazy for Apples. Since Zelena is ordering 4, I'm going to assume her mom and dad will be back from their trip as well." Emma's Eyes shot open in that moment.

"No ways! Oh god I know them! Uncle Henry! His my... OMG! You really think his going to be back?" Emma had once again begun to freaking out. MM started to giggle when Emma had squat down in attempts to calm down herself down. She needed to breathe.

"Like Mom seriously, how could you know this, all of this and not tell me?" Emma asked however before MM could have gotten the chance to answer the question Emma had asked of her the timer in the Kitchen had gone off, a signal that the Pies were ready to be taken out over the oven. Emma quickly ran and had gently began to remove them from the oven. No way would she burn those babies. Once Emma had all the pies out and placed the next batch in. Emma sat down and grabbed her phone she wanted to text her best friend, Ruby Lucas to tell her all about it. However once she's typed it up Emma looked down at her screen and shook her head.

'Nah, she's a person too.' Emma told herself. She cleared her message. Well at least now Emma realized that her dream of meeting 'The Evil Queen' was more of a reality, especially since she had practically grown up in front of Regina's whole damn family these last 14 years.

An hour after that Emma and her day was done. She had cleaned up. She smiled at the thoughts of the day that had passed. Emma smiled and looked at her phone. That was when she got the idea. She did a quick search for a Minion, she selected one with an apple, and Emma smirked to herself. She logged onto Facebook, navigated herself towards Regina's wall. She took a deep breath, she then began to speedily type a message, and she then went about adding the Minion Image.

'Thanks for the Accept Miss Mills. Have a wonderful day'

Emma stared at it for a few moments. Before she could change her mind Emma clicked on 'Post'. It was then that she realized that she was holding her breath Emma inhales quickly. 'What a day.' Emma had thought.

Emma decided that since Zelena had planned to collect the Apples Pies early the next morning that she would bake Regina's pies fresh Emma wanted them to be steaming upon collection. It was at that moment that Emma had stopped "'The Evil Queen' is going to eat my Pies" Emma took another deep breath in, she found she had done that a lot that day. However it had ensured that she was finally calm. Her freaks out were over.

That was until 2 Hours later when Emma had gotten a Notification from Facebook which had simply read:

'Names Regina, Dear' this had left Emma Swan once more in her freak out mode. Which had Emma almost dropping her phone in the Hot Cocoa that was before her.

The Evil Queen!

Her idol!

Her childhood crush!

Was now not only her Friend on Facebook but she had replied to her post. It was officially the best day ever until that point.

"Regina!" Emma whispered to herself as she smiled

"I'm bake you the best damn Apple Pie you will have ever have, So much so that you will fall madly in love with me" Emma giggled at her silliness. She could at least dream couldn't she?