This is a sequel to Fireworks and prompt from some wonderful reviewers! Yes, there will be babies! Picking up in Storybook but moving on to some other worldy action soon!
They lay in a comfortable and satiated silence for a few minutes, maybe longer. Regina took Emma's hand and kissed her fingertips. She saw the sparks in the air and nudged Emma to open her eyes.
"Look what we made Princess."
Emma looked around the room and saw the multicoloured sparks dancing around.
"Fireworks!" Emma squealed in delight.
Regina kissed her lover giddily, amazed that they had caused this magical scene with their love making.
"Yes my dear. Yes they are."
Emma looked up at her queen with admiration. There were no words to describe how she felt in that moment. Everything had changed between them forever and yet felt so familiar. She couldn't believe that she was in Regina's bed, holding her in her arms. Suddenly she began to panic. Had it been a mistake? Had Regina just permitted her advances for the sake of not wanting to hurt her feelings?
"Regina?" Emma questioned softly.
"Yes my princess?"
"Do you, erm, does this mean we are.." Before she could finish the sentence, Regina had her lips on the blonde's, kissing her gently and whispered into her open mouth,
"Emma Swan, will you be my girlfriend?" Regina was resting her forehead against Emma's, biting her lower lip with a cheeky grin on her face.
Emma giggled and gently headbutted Regina forward and responded in a childish manner,
"I'll be yours if you'll be mine."
The women showered and dressed, unable to keep their hands off each other making The process take much longer than anticipated. By the time they got downstairs, it was already 11:30. Regina saw the story book and a piece of paper resting on the counter. It was Henry's handwriting and she smiled as she read it.
"What did the kid say?" Emma nodded towards the paper. Regina handed it to her new lover and flipped open the story book.
"It seems our son has been keeping secrets from us for quite some time." Regina drawled amused as she found the new pages. Emma linked her arms around Regina's waist from behind her and peered over her shoulder, resting her chin there. On the pages in front of them, the women marvelled at the image of themselves sharing their passionate first kiss. They read the passage and shuddered together, remembering the surges of magic they had only moments ago felt.
"So how do you feel about being a fairytale princess in a children's book?" Regina turned her cheek slightly to gauge Emma's reaction.
"Honestly," Emma mulled over, "I really wish the kid had clued me in sooner because this feels awesome. You feel awesome." She turned Regina around so they were face to face and pressed her against the kitchen counter. The pair were lost in each other with their passion fueled kisses and failed to hear Zelena come in with the three children.
"Well, this is rather awkward," Zelena sarcastically interrupted. "I thought you'd be done by now."
Regina pushed herself off the counter and said coyly tilting her head to the side,
"It would seem that Emma and I had some years of catching up to do and that, my dear sister, cannot be rushed."
Zelena rolled her eyes and shook her head. "As pleased as I am that you two have finally accepted your fate, maybe save it for when you don't have an audience."
The next few weeks were one's of domestic bliss. Henry still cringed everytime he accidentally walked in on his Mothers being soppy and romantic, but he really was happy with the way things were. The story book had been kept hidden in his room and nobody asked him anymore about it. As far as Emma and Regina were concerned, they assumed the next page had the 'and they lived happily ever after'line written on it. Henry knew differently but didn't want either of him Moms to freak out. Plus, he really didn't want to instigate that conversation.
Emma was at the sheriff's station feeling a bit sick. She'd woken up even more exhausted than usual and thrown up at the smell of her morning coffee. Her stomach was swollen and she could smell the trash from across the room as if she had herself rolled in it. Roland had been sick the past couple of days with the flu and she and Regina had been taking turns to sit up with him. David walked into the office and gave a concerned look to his daughter.
"You should really take the day off. You look terrible."
"Thanks Dad. You don't look so hot yourself." She snarked. "Roland had the flu and I think I'm coming down with it pretty bad. Would you mind holding the fort?"
David came and rested his hands on his daughter's shoulders. "Go home Emma. Let Regina take care of you."
She drove the short drive back to the mansion, stopping only briefly to pick up some Pepto Bismol at Storybrook's pharmacy. When she got home, Regina was upstairs fussing over Roland but didn't look too great herself. She was still in her night clothes and hadn't done her make up.
"You too, huh?" Emma said with concern. Regina stood up and ran out the room with her hand over her mouth. Emma followed her to the bathroom more concerned with her girlfriend than herself. She held Regina's hair back off her face as the usually regal woman wretched up her guts. Emma was heaving too. She'd never been good with puke and her nose was especially sensitive today. Before either knew what was happening, they were both spewing their guts up side by side over the shared toilet bowl.
"Some saviour you are Emma!" Regina spluttered in between pukes.
After 3 days of both women being unable to control the contents of their stomach, Roland was completely recovered. He hadn't thrown up the whole time he was sick and Regina and Emma assumed it must have been food poisoning from Granny's. Regina had refused to call Dr. Whale insisting that it was a bug and would pass soon enough. Emma was just as useless. She hated going to the Doctor for anything. The only time she ever went was when she was pregnant with Henry.
Zelena sat next to the two women in bed after another fun morning of cleaning up after them.
"You know, if I didn't know any better, I'd say the two of you were pregnant! I wasn't just a fake midwife."
She had meant it as a joke but Emma clicked. She had felt just like this when she was carrying Henry. 'Pftt, yeah right!' She thought to herself. She'd only been with one person in the past year and She was lying next to her.
When Zelena left the room, Emma turned to Regina and asked, "Did you get your period yet?"
Regina thought about it and slowly responded, "No, I don't think I did." She looked at Emma questioningly.
"It's just, I thought we were syncing up or something, you know, all us women living together, but I haven't had mine either."
Emma jumped off the bed, dressed quickly and headed out into the streets of Storybrook. She flew into the pharmacy and grabbed a multi pack of Clear Blue Digital tests and raced back home. She had a hunch and her hunches were usually right.
"Here. Pee on this." She said as she flung one of the tests at Regina.
"Emma, don't be so ridiculous! I can assure you I have been with nobody else since you and I cannot conceive." Regina looked pissed off that Emma would even think she'd been screwing around behind her back and a little hurt.
Emma was already in the bathroom with the door open peeing on the stick. She shouted to her girlfriend, "Regina, do you trust me? Just pee on the God damn stick. I'm not accusing you of anything."
Emma came out and pointed at the bathroom door for Regina to follow suit. Reluctantly, she made her way into the bathroom and closed the door behind her.
"What do I even do with this thing?" She asked in frustration from behind the door.
"Just, take off the blue cap and hold it under you for a few seconds while you pee on the absorbent part. When you're done, put the cap back on."
Emma had to laugh at her girlfriend's lack of knowledge as to how a pregnancy test worked. Regina really was innocent at times and Emma loved her even more for it.
Regina came out of the bathroom holding the test. Emma hadn't even looked at hers yet, distracted by having to instruct her girlfriend.
"Now what?" Regina asked.
Emma looked down at her test at the screen and showed it to Regina.
Pregnant. 6+ weeks
Regina gasped not quite sure how to react and looked down at her own test. The same line was written on hers.
"Emma, I... I," she stuttered in shock.
"Regina, is this," Emma rubbed her eyes in confusion and continued, "..is this even possible with, with our magic?"
Regina stared into space as if searching for an answer. "Emma, I honestly don't know. I've never heard of such a thing in all the realms."
"Come on, get dressed my queen." She gave her a kiss on the cheek and rubbed her girlfriend's arm. "We should go and see Belle. She's got a shit tonne of books on magic and stuff. If anyone knows what's going on, she will."
Regina nodded, waved her hand and was instantly in her pantsuit and gestured for them to leave.
"Might wanna zip the pants first my queen!" Emma winked and pointed at Regina's fly.
Regina blushed and tried desperately to pull the zipper closed. "Emma it won't go up! What the.."
Emma laughed and poofed the mayor into her stretchy black slacks. "You are gonna have to get used to wearing spandex for a few months, Madam Mayor."
"That's it!" Belle exclaimed. "I knew I'd read something about this before."
Emma and Regina stepped closer to the librarian trying to get a closer look at the pages in front of their confidante.
"According to the legend of Maternidadia, there will be two great sorceresses in distant lands who shall wield enough pure magic to create and birth the most powerful princesses of all time. These sorceresses will possess a love like no other, both having lived through the blackest darkness and returning to the light. The princesses will be born of noble blood and everlasting love and no realm or time shall ever know such power."
Regina, Emma and Belle all fell silent and looked at each other in disbelief. Belle was the first to break the silence.
"Well I suppose congratulations are in order for both of you. It would appear you're going to have baby girls!"
Regina made the arrangements for their first scans, check-ups, well, everything. Emma was more relaxed beings as this was her second child but they were both apprehensious considering the predictions Belle had read to them. Would their little babies be born with uncontrollable magic? That would make for some interesting feeding times.
Regina was in her study reading up on all the baby and pregnancy books she could get her hands on. She had never allowed herself to believe that one day, she would be able to carry a life inside of her, let alone her girlfriend's offspring. She was excited, nervous, emotional and uncharacteristically, out of control. She'd never felt so unprepared for anything in her life.
"Need anything, my queen?" Emma asked popping her head around the door.
Regina looked up, confused and trying to fight the words that had been on her mind since waking. It was useless.
"A bear claw." She murmered.
"A what now?!" Emma was visibly beaming. She climbed into her girlfriend's lap gently and took her cheeks in her hands. "Does my queen need something sweet to nibble on?"
Emma was pecking kisses all over Regina's face to which the queen couldn't help but giggle. Regina, it seemed, was getting all the saviour's cravings and was extremely annoyed about it. Emma on the other hand had only been able to stomach fruit and kale salads. Really, if they hadn't known already, there would be no doubt as to whose child they were each carrying.
Emma jumped off Regina's lap and bound out of the study just as Regina screamed,
"And a grilled cheese with extra cheese while you're there."
The first trimester was pretty easy after the morning sickness had passed. They settled into a comfortable rhythm of life and Zelena was a great help at calming Regina's nerves. It was a strange thing. Only a few months earlier their lives had been full of tragedy and darkness and yet, here they were painting the nursery for their little princesses.
Regina had worried about Roland feeling jealous or angry or acting out, but he'd been a sweet little thing and was already used to his little sister, Robin. He didn't understand yet the complexity of the whole situation. Henry did though.
"So Ma, baby Neal is my uncle and your brother, Mom is your step-grandma and girlfriend and mother of your baby and adoptive mother of Roland, Zelena is your aunt slash sister in law, mother of my brother's sister, so, how is all this gonna work when the babies come?"
Emma stopped painting and turned to face an equally horrified Regina.
"Let's agree never to do our family tree. EVER again." Regina smirked and rolled her eyes. Even she admitted their family was more than a little messed up.
"It's gonna work like this, kid: Regina and I are your mothers and everyone else is just a huge bonus!"
Emma laughed and splattered paint over Henry's nose which resulted in a full blown paint fight. Roland was giggling and took his paint brush and placed it directly on Regina's cheek having seen his big brother do the same to Emma.
"You think that's funny do you, little one?" Regina mocked shock and began chasing Roland around the room screeching, "I'm gonna get you!" Finally grabbing him she tickled him until he screamed,
"Ma! Get her! Get her!" It was the first time Roland acknowledged Emma as his other mother and there was a love that filled the room which nobody could deny. Their family was beginning to feel whole.
Later that night, after the kids had gone to bed, Emma reached into her pocket and pulled out the ring she had been carrying around ever since their first scan. She wanted to ask Regina to be her wife but was waiting for the right moment. Ideally, she would have liked to have done things the other way around, but when you deal with magic, nothing was ever predictable.
Regina was taking a bath. Emma had ran it for her just a few minutes before and set candles, rose petals and jasmin incense out for her queen. She remembered that when Regina was younger, that had been one of her favorite indulgences. Emma walked slowly into the bathroom, feeling her heart bash against her ribs. Regina was completely submerged in the petal strewn water but for her delicate bump, head and shoulders. Emma sat on the side of the tub, mesmerised by her queen's beauty and serene expression.
"Like what you see, Miss Swan?" Regina popped one eye open but there was no malice in her words.
"I do." Emma said softly and took Regina's hand in her own. She knelt next to the tub and kissed her girlfriend's fingers as she gently slid the ring into place.
"Do you, Miss Mills?" Emma asked sheepishly waiting for Regina to catch on.
The brunette opened her eyes wide in delight as she felt the cold metal against her skin. She looked from her finger back to her girlfriend, pulling her closer into a wet embrace, Emma almost fell into the tub with her as Regina said,
"I do. A millions times I do!"