A/N:Just to warn you the characters are a little ooc - Henry being the the worst of it. I modeled him after an actual 11 year old that I am related to that was in fact the object of tug of war between two parents who hated each other. The Henry on TV is the idealistic version of what that situation would do to a kid, he plays much more grown up than an actual 11 year old and it really kinda irks me sometimes so I decided that in this story Henry would be more organic and closer to reality. This was written for my friend Yuuhi - Love you sweetie!

Now Triggers:

This is a Swan Queen piece, there is lesbian sex, eventually. There is also vivid painful descriptions of rape and assault written M/F. I did go out of my way to make it extremely violent. Don't read this if this kind of stuff triggers you.

This piece is also anti-Snow, I really make her an asshole.

I also don't own these characters. I just write about them in crazy lesbian themed ways.

Chapter 1

Henry Mills never gave up hope on getting his birth mother and grandmother, otherwise known as the Savior and Snow White back from the Enchanted Forest. They were sucked into a portal, a magical realm jumping hat, seemingly lost to an endless void.

Henry believed though. He believed they would return. With his help and the help of his adoptive mother, Regina Mills, the savior once again prevailed and they were able to return home.

Now that Emma Swan and Snow White had returned, Henry was excited, as any red blooded 11 year old boy would be, that the Enchanted Forest survived. It survived and he could return to his rightful land and be the prince he always knew he was meant to be.

Once Emma Swan returned, She found that the living situation had changed and her biological son chose to live with her, instead of the mother he had always known. In Henry's mind, she was his biological mother, and princess, and heir to the throne. Quickly he realized that living with his "fun" mom was very similar to living with the Evil Queen had been, rules and bed times and chores. Even school work?

"Why do I need to keep doing any of this? Why does any of this matter? I'm a prince!" Emma laughed at the first temper tantrum she had ever seen the boy have not directed at his other mother and this lighthearted chuckle seemed to throw gas on the fire that was Henry Mills' anger.

"This is stupid! You're being obtuse!" He shouted and when the blonde woman didn't seem to register the word he slitted his eyes and snarled, "Do you even know what obtuse means?"

"Woah hey kid, I get that you are pissy, but I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to talk to adults like that!" Emma furrowed her brow at her normally jovial son. "You don't!" he shook his brown head his anger fueling his words. "It means 'slow to understand'!"

"Oh I understand you just fine kid! I just disagree with your assessment!" Emma shot back matching his petulant bite. "And to teach you that you can't be a little shit, you lose your gaming privileges for a week!"

Enraged that fun mom was suddenly being stricter than his actual mom he stomped his foot in pure Regina Mills fashion and Emma couldn't not snicker. "I don't belong in this world!" He shouted at her, "I shouldn't be subjected to homework and school! You should be teaching me how to ride a horse and how to sword fight! Because we are going back to the Enchanted Forest!"

Emma's snicker turned into a belly laugh at this statement and said, "Kid don't be ridiculous! I was just there! We are not going back there Henry!"

She watched as her young son stormed up the metal grate stairs and slammed the curtain to their shared room.

While in his room he thought that perhaps staying with his adoptive mother would get them all back to the Enchanted forest faster than his birth mother. She was rightful Queen. He was legally her son. This was all about her anyway. Those kids would never lay a hand on his mother, not when he was king. He was to be king and he didn't much care if it was through princess Emma or Queen Regina at this point, he needed to get back there and soon. He loved both of his mother's dearly, they both clearly loved him. His adoptive mother had a minor slip up when her mother came to town, but before that, she had been trying so hard to be good! She helped him contact Emma and Snow in the nightmare realm, she had absorbed a death curse to save them! If he went with Regina, Emma would certainly follow. He was sure of it. He laid on his bed as thick tears streamed down his cheeks. This is the only way to protect her.

After the death of Cora Mills, Regina had been officially stripped of her Mayorial titles and put on house arrest as the result of the council's decision of what to 'do' with her. Many things from exile to banishment to another realm to execution had been thrown around. Much to the brunette's surprise it was in fact Emma Swan who stood up for her during the disciplinary meeting and sided with the mayor.

"She is the mother of my son. You people are not killing her or sending her away!" the blonde had stood toe to toe against her own mother who had suggested they toss the queen over the town line in exile never to return.

Emma sneered. "If you toss her out, you lose both me and Henry too!"

"What? Why?" Her mother's matching forest green eyes looked at her in disbelief. "She will live a comfortable life in the real world Emma! There is no magic there, she can't hurt anyone ever again!"

"Why? Because Henry is her kid, he goes where she goes! Henry is also my kid! I go where he goes! So if she goes, I… goes…" Emma stumbled in her exuberance, but found her footing once more. "Besides she only joined her mother out of desperation!"

"She killed Johanna!" Snow all but shrieked at her daughter unable to comprehend the defense of the woman who had taken so much from their family.

"Cora killed Johanna." Emma corrected.

"She didn't stop it!" Snow countered.

"Neither did I! Nor you!"

"How could we have?" Snow shook her head not following her daughter's logic.

"Exactly Mom. How could any of us know what Cora was going to do?" Emma's brow creased with hope that her mother was finally understanding her point. "The woman who murdered your childhood nanny paid with her own life! By manipulating Regina into killing her own mother, Regina has more than paid the price for her actions. I won't let you punish her a second time for something she was not only pushed into, but for a crime she did not perpertrate."

"How exactly was the evil queen pushed into being evil Emma?" her father piped up and defended his wife who was clearly having issues keeping her composure.

"We all knew she had been trying to be better and as soon as Archie turned up dead you all hopped on the Evil Queen bandwagon!" Emma answered and shook her head at the memories.

"I'm pretty sure you believed it too sister!" Grumpy tossed out with gruff.

"I believed in her until I was manipulated." The savior spat at the dwarf. "I knew she wanted to be better for Henry! She saved both of our lives Snow." The blonde turned her focus back to her mother.

"From a death curse she created!" Snow insisted.

"You knew Cora! She was trying to keep Henry safe! I would have done the same damn thing and I'm not sure I would have taken it back at the last minute either! There has to be another way."

So they found another way. The Blue Fairy had created a bracelet that bound the Evil Queen's magic and Regina had been hold up in her mansion ever since.

Once Henry had devised his plan, and after a particularly brutal run in with some older kids at school, he ditched one afternoon and showed up on his childhood home's steps. His brunette mother, of course, was delighted to see him. She instantly pulled him into a hug and then ushered him into their home. "Where is Miss Swan, Henry?"

"Work. She works all the time now." he said with puppy dog eyes.

"Well being the savior is a very important job Henry." Regina said softly then questioned, "She knows you are here, right?"

"Yeah." he lied. He had actually ditched the last two periods but it was just gym class and english. His vocabulary far surpassed the teacher who taught his English class as he had been a cobbler back in the Enchanted Forest, and really who needs Gym? It was perfectly justifiable and he wasn't missing anything.

"Good. Would you like a snack?"

"May I move back home mom?"

Her eyes glistened with hopeful emotion, "Wha.. What does Miss Swan say?"

"She said I can if I want." he shrugged his shoulders in the exact mannerism she had seen his blonde mother enact hundreds of times. "I miss you mom! I knew you didn't kill Dr. Hopper, even when everyone insisted it was you. I knew you were trying to be good! I think if I'm here I can help you." He smiled wide and wrapped his arms around her midsection.

"This is your home Henry. You are always welcome here darling." she ran her fingers through her son's thick brown hair.

"Thanks mom!" his muffled gratitude pulled at her heart so when he asked to go play video games she instantly gave her son permission.