A/N: Because Emma is into women. Am I the only one, or was young!Lily's bus stop speech totally a love confession? Heck, you don't tell your BFF she's the light of your life without it meaning something more. I'm onto you Kitsis & Horowitz.
BELOVED
In Storybrooke there are two women, dark and light – whom in the end, don't exactly hate each other but still, and by that I mean very frequently, argue. Because through three (or is it more?) decades of absent family ties, broken hearts, and feelings of revenge (or is it justice now?) - they have found their happy endings in each other.
Henry, their son, couldn't be happier. The gangly teenager who saunters down Main Street to meet his mothers at Granny's Diner, book and pen tucked under his arm, feels the swirl of given magic in the tops of his fingers and smiles at a bystander.
Everyone is home now. His extended family is large and ridiculous and even as his role as the new Author - if he had to explain time travel and complicated relationships to an outsider – it would take up a whole billboard (and then some). But he laughs about it. His mothers too.
Emma Swan kisses Regina Mills underneath the orchard trees of their home, her soft lips plaint against the queen's immaculate rouge, and says,
I love you, Regina.
She chuckles. I need you, too.
Fate brought them together, and anger kept them apart. But even dark, crumbling hearts could not trump the force of True Love, and the Saviour has more than she could ever want. Well, perhaps she could squeeze in a few more road trips to New York. (Besides, the Yellow Bug still has miles to go.)
Because here, in Storybrooke, people find their happy endings. And no one is alone.