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Prompt: Regina is pregnant. When Regina's giving birth, Emma tries to mess around with a spell that will prevent Regina from feeling pain. The side effect is that Emma feels the pain instead of Regina. Bonus points if Regina never finds out about it.

Adding to the Family is Nearly Painless

She was sitting in their en suite staring at the test that was going to change their lives. They had been married for just over two years now. Though they had talked about this for close to six months now, she didn't think it would happen this way. She thought they would adopt a little girl to round out the family perfectly.

I should have known to expect the unexpected when it comes to True Love.

Regina flipped the test over when the timer on her phone went off. At first she couldn't believe her eyes then she was so excited then she was terrified.

What is she going to think? Is she ready for this? Are we ready for this?

Her wife's voice interrupted her thoughts, "Regina, babe, are you alright? You've been in there for a while."

Regina takes a deep calming breath as she walks toward the door with the test in hand. When she walks into their bedroom, she sees her wife sitting on the bed waiting for her with a worried expression.

"Gina, is everything okay? I'm not liking the look your giving." her blonde wife says.

She looks into the beautiful emerald eyes she has come to love so much and a tear slips down her own face as she speaks the words she never thought she would get the chance to, "Emma, I'm pregnant."

Emma is off the bed and has Regina in her arms so fast Regina thinks that she used magic. "Oh my god, we're having a baby?"

Regina smiles when she sees the love and adoration in her wife's gaze. She takes Emma's hand and places it where their child is currently growing inside her. "We're having a baby."

They hold each other as they cry their happy tears as they each think of the new addition to come to the family.

It is Regina's ninth month in her pregnancy. She had just started her maternity leave and had just two weeks until her due date. Emma took the day off to try and help her transition into her stay home.

Since Henry was now in highschool they thought he could see himself to school every so often. So this morning they slept in together and Emma woke first and started brunch for them both. In the first few months that she lived in the mansion she had burned her share of breakfasts, but now she is the master of fixing breakfast without even waking the brunette that is currently sleeping upstairs.

She is so into her cooking that she doesn't hear the padded footsteps coming up behind her. It's not until she feels her wife's baby bump at the middle of her back and her arms reaching as far around her waist that she knows she not alone.

"Babe, you should still be in bed." Emma said.

"I would if I could, but your daughter decided it was time to get up by kicking my bladder like a soccer ball. Then she smelled the heavenly aroma and decided I couldn't get back to bed until I eat." Regina said in a voice that was still somewhat rattled from sleep as she reached for a strip of the turkey bacon Emma had set aside earlier.

"Alright, here I have everything already in the dining room waiting on the bacon and these last few pancakes. Why don't you go ahead and get our drinks and I'll finish the food and be right in there."

"Okay, dear. Try not to take too long or else this daughter of yours isn't going to leave you anything to eat." she sing-songed. Regina filled a glass with fresh apple juice she had made a few days before from her beloved apple tree and filled another glass with fresh orange juice that Emma made herself from some oranges she had gotten from the store the day before.

"Are you really going to do that all the time Gina? I mean, not every bad thing the kids do is my fault. I distinctly remember that time Henry decided it would be a good thing to 'help' my mom try to plan the Miner's Day celebration about three years ago when you couldn't." Emma said with her mischievous smirk in place.

"I distinctly remember that Miner's Day celebration being particularly entertaining." Regina said with a smile on her face and a laughing glint in her eye.

"For you maybe, all you had to do was show up and watch my mom run around like a chicken with her head cut off because of everything going wrong and she didn't want any of the townspeople knowing." Emma answered with a glare to her wife.

"It was still entertaining." Regina said as she finished her meal.

As Regina stood she noticed the pain in her back from last night had not subsided but had only gotten worse. Emma noticed her wife's grimace and was at her side in a second.

"Babe, what's wrong? Are you hurting? I told you, you should have waited upstairs for me to bring you breakfast." Emma fired off rapidly.

"I fine, dear. It's just a bit of back pain. I think I'll go take a bath to see if it will alleviate the pain any." Regina answered with a smile.

"Okay, Gina. Yell if you need anything and I'll come running."

The couple went their separate ways; Regina going to the master bathroom and Emma going to the kitchen to clean up after their brunch. After Emma finished the dishes she thought it best to go to their daughter's nursery and put some finishing touches that were a surprise for her wife.

When Regina was in the bath it did little to ease her discomfort, but she tried her best to relax anyway. After a while she decided it was a decent time to get out so she yelled for Emma's help. Once out she dressed in one of Emma's t-shirts and decided she was going to her study to grab a book. On her way down the second floor hall she felt a huge cramp go through her stomach area before she felt liquid running down her legs.

"Emma!"

Having never heard her wife so distressed before, Emma came running out of the nursery and saw Regina with her hand on the railing doubled over with a puddle at her feet. She ran to her wife's side and immediately knew what was going on without having to be told.

"Emma, go get something to wash this off my legs and get me a pair of my yoga pants and a new shirt. The bag is in the Mercedes ready to go. Hurry, I'll call your parents on the way to the hospital." Regina started listing off so she wouldn't panic.

Emma ran and got a washcloth, the yoga pants, and another one of her shirts for Regina before running back to her wife's side. She washed Regina's legs for her and helped her into the yoga pants before grabbing the old shirt and replacing it with the new one. She grabbed all the clothes and ran to throw them in the hamper before she got her phone of the charger and going back to help Regina down the stairs. She stopped for only a minute to get into her boots and Regina into her tennis shoes. She got the keys to the Mercedes and helped her wife into the car. Regina smiled despite the pain, knowing that the next time they pulled in they would have their daughter with them.

It was about three hours later that Regina was feeling pain rather than the discomfort she had become accustomed to. Her contractions were now about six minutes apart, and Emma could easily see the discomfort on her wife's face. She knew it was time to put her plan into action.

A few months ago, when Regina was only three months pregnant, Emma found a spell that could take away someone's pain. Seeing as Rumple still owed her a few favors, she went to him to learn the spell without Regina knowing. With her wife asleep for the moment, Emma recited the incantation and wondered if it had worked. Just about five minutes later and she felt pain rip through her lower abdomen. All magic comes with a price. She knew that she not only probably took Regina's pain from her, but she had transferred the pain to herself.

When Regina woke up from her short nap, the pain was less than it had been and was back at the level of discomfort to her. She is able to get through the rest of her daughter's birth with little discomfort, except when she had to push to bring her into this world. She never once noticed how Emma would hold her own arm to her lower stomach.

Emma realized that even though she took the majority of Regina's pain, she didn't take all of it. If she could have she would have taken all of it no questions asked, but if it was as much as she did take, well it was better than nothing. She did this as a gift to Regina, and if she had it her way she would never find out.

So on October 14, 2018, little Ailsa Grace Swan-Mills was born, and her mothers couldn't have been more over joyed that their family was now complete with this little magical gift born of True Love. Now, if only Regina won't find out about the magical gift her wife gave her of nearly no pain to her…