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THIS ONE JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD AND I HAD TO WRITE IT!
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"Regina, please pick up the phone..?" Emma begged as she rocked her three week old baby girl in her arms.
She had been screaming for the past 1 hour and Emma couldn't take her little squeals anymore.
Emma was in a loose tank top, to accommodate for her still lightly swollen belly and a pair of pyjama shorts.
She had tears running relentlessly down her cheeks and her eyes were red and tired.
"Miss Swan..?" Regina bit her tongue as soon as she heard Emma's new-born's screams in the foreground.
"Regina, I need your help…" Emma let out a sob, she was so completely and utterly exhausted she couldn't control her emotional outlets anymore.
Regina's heart broke as she heard Emma crying down the phone to her.
"Is Hook not there?" Regina asked, confused as to why Emma would me phoning her and the not the one handed wonder.
"He went out again, please, I wouldn't usually ask, but I can't get her to settle and I'm so tired…" Emma stopped speaking as Regina materialised next to her.
Regina was dressed in her silk pyjamas, as it was almost midnight.
Henry was at a friend's house, so Regina really had no excuse for not helping out her friend.
After the trip to the underworld Robin had unsurprisingly brought Marian back, once again leaving Regina alone and single.
The older woman had told Robin never to speak to her again, she refused to be his second choice ever again.
Regina outstretched her arms, with the intention of Emma passing the baby to her, but Emma let out a sob, letting her own body be wrapped up in Regina's embrace.
"Emma, dear…" Regina simply rubbed Emma's back, feeling the blonde's tears soaking her pyjama shirt.
Regina had known that Hook's and Emma's relationship since the Underworld had been rocky.
Especially since Emma had said she knew she was pregnant before they had entered the Underworld.
Hook had shouted and hit Emma when he found this out, screaming at her that the child was the only reason she came after him.
Emma begged him to see that she loved him, but he'd changed, he had wanted to die in the Underworld and in his eyes it was Emma's selfish actions that had stopped him from fulfilling his wishes.
Regina had tried to see Emma for coffee at least once a week, but their visits became sparser as Emma's stomach grew larger, along with her bruises.
Regina begged Emma over and over to leave Hook, but the blonde was so blinded by her love for him that she blamed herself for everything that was happening.
But once the baby had been born, Emma had hoped Hook would change.
He didn't.
He continued to drink heavily and roll up in the early hours of the Morning.
He would then take his Wife, who was still sore from her pregnancy, in any way he wanted.
He then complained the child was too noisy, or too tiring, or too something.
The way he talked about their Daughter infuriated Emma, but she became quickly determined not to let another child grow up without it's Father.
But the past few days had been almost unbearable. Hook had barely been home, and when he was he had been forcing Emma to do things that she really didn't want to do.
The poor blonde was at the end, she was too tired and too emotionally exhausted to function anymore.
That's why she had phoned Regina, who had been her rock for the past 7 months, she just needed to be around someone who cared.
"Emma, dear… Let me see to this Little One…" Regina pulled back, lacing her arms around the tiny squirming bundle in Emma's arms.
Emma watched as Regina cradled the little girl to her chest, the girl still refusing to quieten.
"Go and have a shower, I'll prepare us a snack and we can have a chat." Regina smiled, Emma tracing her finger up and down the little girl's side. "She'll be ok…"
Regina smiled, not moving until Emma had made her way to the back of the apartment into the Master Bedroom.
"Now, now, Little One, let's give you Mama a bit of a rest shall we?" Regina rocked the baby against her chest.
Regina walked around the roomy apartment, picking out some soup from Emma's cupboard, and finding some bread to put next to it.
"Is that better is it?" Regina asked, the little girl's screams turning into softer sniffles.
Regina caressed the Little Girl's cheek, the baby girl suckling on the finger with her eyes half closed.
"Oh, you're tired, baby?" Regina snuggled the blanket tighter around the baby who seemed to be dozing off.
Just as Regina had finished heating up the 2 bowls of soup, Emma emerged from the bathroom.
Her hair was wet and stuck to her back, a big hoodie was slung over her figure, and a pair of leggings clung to her toned legs.
"You got her to stop crying." Emma smiled tiredly, her eyes half closed as she slumped into one of the breakfast bar stools.
Regina sighed, Emma almost asleep as she rested her head on the side.
Regina glanced down at the sleeping Little Girl in her arms, their noses completely identical.
"Why don't we go and eat in your bed, dear? I can snuggle with this Little Munchkin, and you can get some food inside of you and a good rest." Regina smiled, holding out a plate with a bowl of soup on and 2 rounds of bread.
"It's ok, I can take her…" Emma reached out for the baby, but Regina shook her head lightly, tapping Emma's hands away and pushing the bowl into them.
"You need a proper rest, dear." Regina took her own plate, balancing it, her other arm around the tired baby.
By the time they were settled onto Emma's bed, Emma having flicked on the TV, the baby was asleep on Emma's chest.
"Whale thinks she had Colic…" Emma bit into her bread, rubbing her eyes tiredly as she chewed.
"Well, she gets it from you, dear, Henry had Colic as well…" Regina shifted the baby so she was laid on her shoulder and Regina could also eat her bread.
"Sorry." Emma suddenly mumbled, Regina sighing to see tears rolling down Emma's cheeks again.
"My dear, you have nothing to be sorry for." Regina put down her bread to try and placate Emma, but she wasn't having it.
"You did all of this by yourself, and here I am, a crying mess!" Emma sobbed, putting down her food and scooping the child off Regina.
"I didn't have a boyfriend who hit me." Regina said bluntly, brushing a piece of hair from in front of Emma's eyes.
"He doesn't mean to…" Emma whimpered, holding the Little Girl close.
"He does, Emma. Come here, my dear…" Regina closed her arms around both of the girls once again.
Emma came undone, she didn't want to feel like this anymore.
She was constantly tired and on edge, not wanting to upset Hook in the fear that he would hurt her baby.
"Why don't you come back to mine?" Regina whispered to Emma, who was shaking from her crying.
Regina was surprised the baby hadn't awoke.
"All of the baby's stuff is here, I can't just…" Emma wanted nothing more than to run, but she didn't know if it was a wise idea.
"You can, Emma I have magic dear, we can all be away from here in less than a second if you wish." Regina stayed quiet a few minutes, giving Emma chance to process what she had said.
"Can you take me away?" Emma whispered, Regina simply flicked her wrist.
Emma's eyes opened slowly to reveal they were now sat on a larger, more pluscious double bed.
Regina was still beside her and the baby was still in her arms.
The crib and everything had been transported next to Emma's side of the bed. Emma's wardrobe also stood next to Regina's.
"It's ok, you're safe now." Regina rubbed Emma's side. "Both of you."
They sat still for quite a while, Emma starting to doze off in Regina's arms.
"Let me take her…" Regina slipped the baby from in Emma's tight grasp. "I'll look after her, I promise, get some rest…"
Regina slipped the thick duvet over Emma, the blonde was asleep in less than a second.
Regina padded quietly out of the room, making her way down the stairs with the snoozing child in her arms.
Hook hadn't been around enough to name the child, and Emma refused to do it without him.
Regina bit her lip as realised just how much Emma had been desperately trying for the three of them to make it as a family.
It had been at times physically painful for Emma to with people over the value of having Hook in her life.
Henry had been accommodating.
But Henry was equally naïve.
He didn't see Emma's bruises as abuse, he just thought every couple had their arguments.
Regina knew it didn't make him a bad kid, but at times she wondered how he slept at night, knowing his Mother was probably enduring another sleepless night with her new-born.
Regina had barely stood still for a few seconds, when the baby started to scream, Regina started to move again, hushing her gently as she quietened again.
Regina paced around the house, glancing at all of the pictures strewn around the sides.
"That's your Big Brother, Little One…" Regina smiled, patting the baby's bum as she rocked her.
They did a few laps of the house, Regina becoming lost in the motions when suddenly the front door opened.
"MOM, I'M HOME!" He bellowed, used to usually an empty household, apart from his Mother.
Regina cursed as the little girl started to scream in her arms.
"MOM?!" Henry dashed into the Kitchen, where Regina had reached, surprised to see a baby in her arms.
"Henry, I wasn't expecting you home…" Regina tried to pacify the screaming baby, but she wasn't having it.
"The party sucked." The 16 year old grumbled, forgetting the fact his little sister was screaming in the wrong Mother's arms.
"Henry…" Both Regina and Henry turned around to see Emma stood tiredly in the doorway.
"Emma, dear, you should be in bed." Regina walked over to the still exhausted blonde, silently cursing Henry for his loud voice, which had resulted in both of the Swan ladies waking up.
"She needs feeding… I'm not that…" Emma broke to take a yawn.
"You look like a zombie, Ma! Why are you here anyway?" Henry asked, Emma's eyes filling with tears as Regina passed the baby to her.
"I said I'd help her look after the baby for a few days, until she gets back on her feet." Regina said quickly, walking from the room with Emma, before Henry had a chance to ask any more questions.
Emma followed Regina's guiding touch, until they were sat next to one another on Regina's plush sofa.
"Here, let me hold her whilst you get yourself sorted." Regina pried the little girl from Emma's arms, Emma blushing as she lifted her top and unclasped her bra.
She let out an involuntary gasp as her breast was released from the pressure of the bra.
Regina passed the baby back, Emma tilting the girls head against her to get her to grip on her nipple.
"Come on, kid, I'm too tired for this shit…." Emma was on the verge of tears, when Regina decided it was definitely time for her to intervene.
"Hey… Come on now…" The little girl was still crying, and now so was her Mother.
Regina pressed her front against Emma's side, sitting sideways on the sofa so she could wrap her arms around both Emma and the baby.
"I'm too tired…" Emma sobbed, watching Regina cautiously guide the baby's head to Emma's breast.
Finally, she started to suckle, Emma leaning her head against Regina's and crying.
"It's alright dear, it's alright…" Regina rubbed Emma's back, kissing the side of Emma's face as the salty liquid ran over lips.
"I'm sorry, you don't need us walking in here and…" Regina shushed Emma, brushing her hand over Emma's delicate blonde curls, maintaining the soothing action until the little girl had had her fill.
Emma burped her quickly before lying against the back of the sofa and resting the baby on her chest.
"Hook is going to hate me." Emma bit her lip, rolling it between her teeth.
Regina sighed, resting her hand on the baby's back.
"I just… I can't live like that, I'm constantly worried he's going to hurt her." Emma tightened her hold on the little girl, Regina brushing her thumb over Emma's hand as they both rested on her back.
"You deserve to be safe Emma, you're safe here, I promise." Regina watched as Emma's eyes danced closed once again. "Let's get you to bed, I can look after this Little One…"
Regina tried to take the baby off Emma, but she clung on.
"Ok, let's get you both to bed." Regina helped the new Mother off the sofa, guiding her up the stairs.
Regina didn't hesitate to lead her into the master bedroom, Emma not arguing as Regina pushed her gently towards the big bed.
Emma climbed in, then laid the little girl next to her, letting her kick her little legs up and down as she chewed on Emma's finger.
"She's so beautiful…" Emma whispered.
It was dark in the room, but Regina could see the tears glistening in Emma's eyes.
"Just like her Mama…" Regina smiled, pulling the covers over Emma and lifting the baby from the bed, so she could lie down next to Emma, the baby on her chest. Emma whimpered at the loss of contact, Regina taking the vulnerable woman's hand and placing it on the baby's back once more. "Get some rest, dear…"
Regina reached her free hand over to stroke Emma's hair, the simple action soon lulling Emma's body to sleep.
Regina watched Emma's limp hand drop from her baby's back, snuggling into the pillow, before starting to lightly snore.
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