Regina Mills stood at the edge of Captain Hook's pirate ship, the wind whipping her face so hard she could barely keep her eyes open. Her hands grasped the rope Hook had asked her to hold on so tightly they burned. This was it. She, Emma, Snow White, Prince Charming, Rumpelstiltskin, and Captain Hook were going to Neverland to keep Henry from turning into a lost boy.

"So after this happens, Henry is coming home to live with me," hollered Regina above the wind. "Right Emma?" She turned and saw the blonde hadn't heard what she was saying. "Emma?"

"Regina, hold on!"

And then the pirate ship dove down into the whirlpool. And everyone screamed.

Still screaming, Regina shot up in bed with a start. Her breathing was heavy, her hands gripping the satin sheets as if to prove to herself they were really there, that she was really safe. Her left middle and ring fingers caught a lock of her wife's hair in the process as her eyelids fluttered.

"Wha...what's wrong?" mumbled Emma. "Is something on fire?"

"I...I just..." Regina paused and lowered herself back into bed, not really wanting to admit that she'd woken up screaming from a nightmare. Grown women weren't supposed to do that. Especially not mayors. "Everything's fine. Go back to sleep."

"You had a nightmare, didn't you?" mumbled Emma, resting her head on Regina's shoulder, just enough of a smile showing through her early-morning grogginess to let Regina know that she would be teasing her about this for days.

"Yeah," Regina admitted. "It was horrible. My mother was the queen of hearts and ripped out her own heart so she couldn't love anything, and Mary Margret and David were your parents, but they were also Snow White and Prince Charming, and I was forced to become Snow White's wicked Stepmother and then Rumpelstiltskin turned me into an evil witch, and my therapist was Jiminy Cricket, and Kathryn was King Midas's daughter, and everybody else hated me because I was evil...even you hated me...and then we were in some literal custody battle over Henry until you and I had to make magic together to save Storybrooke and while that was going on he was kidnapped by Peter Pan."

Emma raised her eyebrows and smiled. "Well, the part about us making magic together sounds good..."

"It wasn't like...that." Regina turned over and put her lips close to Emma's ear. "But now that you mention it..." She planted a kiss on her wife's earlobe, then on her cheek, then on her lips...

"Mom!" called Henry. "The coffee machine is making a weird noise, Ava's diaper stinks, and I'm hungry!"

Regina and Emma sighed and pulled apart. "Coming!" called Emma. "Out of bed, your majesty. You have a city council meeting today."

A/N: my first SwanQueen fic! Don't worry, I still love StableQueen, I've just started multishipping since the finale. Here's my headcanons for this verse: Regina and Emma are just a regular couple in our world, no magic. They met at a concert when Regina was twenty-four and Emma was twenty-two and got married three years later. Regina is the mayor of I haven't decided what town and Emma is a police officer. Graham is her partner and the biological father of both kids although he was never actually romantically involved with Regina OR Emma. Henry is five and Ava is two and they are the biological children of Emma and Regina respectively. Kathryn is Regina's best friend and initially Emma didn't like her very much but that changed when she was the one to convince Regina that she and Emma should move in together. Mary Margret is Emma's best friend and Regina absolutely can't stand her. Their deal is that Mary Margret and David can come over for dinner once a month if Emma does all the cooking and dishes and Regina doesn't have to do anything but nod politely. Emma and Regina's only mutual friends are Graham and Ruby who may or may not be dating, I haven't decided yet.

(Sidenote: I did not have any of this headcanon ten minutes ago. That escalated quickly...)