How it all started

A/N: New SwanQueen story. This is how Regina and Emma first encounter each other. There is no curse and instead of Henry being Emma's he is technically Regina's born son. AU you could say. I hope you enjoy though

Regina was sitting in her office rather tired of all the paperwork she had been doing for the amount of hours she'd been at work. Being the mayor had its ups and down, but the dark haired woman loved being authoritative. Pushing aside the rest of the files needing to be done, Regina grabbed her laptop signing onto a chat room.

Emma had just come home from another long day of her bounty hunts. She entered her small apartment grabbing a beer from the fridge then sat upright on her bed. The blonde loved her job, but sometimes things just got out of hand. Taking a few swigs of her drink, Emma put her computer in front of her signing onto a familiar chat room she visited often.

Amber pools stared at the loads of conversations that were going on, but as she looked through scrolls of the women and men nobody really caught her eye until an oddly amusing name signed in.

Green eyes searched through every conversation laughing at what people were saying back and forth to each other. They scanned over to the list of men and women in the room until one name stood out from the rest really sparking their interest.

A small window popped up on Regina's screen, "Ugly Duckling request to talk to you." The brunette smirked as she read this and accepted without hesitation. "Evil Queen has accepted your request," Emma had a big smile on her face seeing this pop up on her screen.

Ugly Duckling: "So are you really the Evil Queen?"

Evil Queen: "Are you really an Ugly Duckling?"

Ugly Duckling: "I asked you first, your majesty ;)"

Evil Queen: "You just answered your question by that comment dear."

Ugly Duckling: "Then yes, I'm an ugly duckling born to be a beautiful SWAN!"

Regina couldn't help but laugh at that last sentence. After a few seconds smiling at such little conversation she was having, Emma added more to her previous comment.

Ugly Duckling: "Funny that comment I just made. Swan is actually my last name, Emma Swan at your service your highness."

Evil Queen: "You may address your queen as Regina, Regina Mills."

Ugly Duckling: -bows in the presence of her queen- "Queen Regina."

Evil Queen: "Rise Miss Swan."

Ugly Duckling: -rises- "Well, I know you are a queen so that means you do something ruling, but don't you want to know what your ugly duckling does?"

Evil Queen: "I'm the mayor of my town, so yes you are right, and I assume you are going to tell me dear. Queens don't like waiting."

Ugly Duckling: "Yes your majesty." Silence for a few moments. "I'm a bounty hunter or in your presence your highness I would be your white knight."

Regina couldn't surpass the smile that formed on her lips reading what she did. They had talked back and forth like this for hours explaining more about each other, covering the basics, and just having a decent conversation.

Evil Queen: "I hate to leave my savior in the dust, but even Evil has to finish up work before little Henry gets home."

Ugly Duckling: "Ah I wish you didn't have to go, but I understand family first. I'll be thinking of you your majesty and will miss you terribly! Hope we talk soon."

Evil Queen: "I'll miss you too my swan to be, and don't worry we'll talk sooner than you think. Bye for now dear- Evil Queen."

Emma smiled reading the last message Regina sent her before they both logged off. The blonde pushed aside her computer finishing off her drink before lying back in her bed staring up at the ceiling smiling wide soon drifting off only to dream of her Queen.

Regina finished her work before heading home to do her daily afternoon/night routine with Henry. As bedtime approached her son was sound asleep in his room, and the brunette lay in her bed with a smile plastered on her face knowing who she would be dreaming of when sleep overtook her body. "Goodnight my ugly duckling," she whispered to herself closing her eyes to escape to dreamland with Emma in it.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this first chapter. Loads more coming soon!