AN: So many One-shots and prompts just sitting on my computer taking up space, so here we are!
Prompt One: Heaven
Tears prickled the back of Regina's eyes as she felt the transcendence air surrounding her. It filled her with so much warmth that she generally associated with her love. The smooth touch of coldness caressed her body in the most caring way, very similar to when Emma would wrap her arms around her if she was having a bad day. Yet Emma was no longer here, it didn't seem fair to either of them to let this go on any farther. It wasn't even a battle or an epic fight with some fairy-tale villain, just a very slippery road and a tree.
"Are you okay?" Emma's voice carried through the air unnaturally as Regina swallowed roughly. She knew she would forever hate herself for what she was about to do.
"I fought for you the hardest. It made me the strongest..." Regina started, looking at the transparent figure of her fiance who frowned.
"Did I do something wrong? Did I upset you or something?" Emma seemed to know exactly what was coming and she was panicking on the inside.
"You did nothing wrong my love." Regina assured, watching her hand slide right through Emma's.
"I don't want to do this." Emma looked away from them, peering at the photos of them and what had been.
"I know...I'm sorry." The first tear fell, and they both wished more than anything Emma could wrap her arms around Regina one last time.
"It's gonna be okay." Emma promised.
"I just can't stand to see you leaving." Regina croaked out, sliding into her bed she buried her face in Emma's pillow. Her heart clenched even more when she could barely smell the blonde. Six weeks was enough time for her scent to begin to fade.
SIX WEEKS EARLIER
"How is he?" Emma asked trying to concentrate on the road in the rough rainy conditions and the conversation with Regina.
"He won't stop crying. He misses you...I don't think you returning so early was a good idea." Regina sighed as she heard her newborn son wailing.
"We both agreed that when he turned four months I would go back, Gina" Emma responded.
"I know, I just hate to see him so upset." Regina pouted.
"I'll be home in a couple of minutes, I'm just approaching the Curved Slope just past the woods." Emma tried to reassure her frazzled fiance.
"Wait your driving in this weather, while talking on the phone?" Regina's voice raised.
"You wouldn't stop calling, I thought it was an emergency." Emma defended.
"Ms. Swan! You need to be more responsible." Regina chastised.
"Look babe, I talk to you when I see you. Love you!" Emma pressed a kiss into the phone before quickly hanging up. She didn't need to hear the responding 'Love you' back to know that Regina did indeed love her.
"But heaven couldn't wait for you. No heaven couldn't wait for you..." Regina mumbled but it was loud enough for Emma to hear.
"I didn't mean for this to happen Regina. I can't just go- I can't. Please don't make me." Emma's bottom lip trembled because she knew if Regina asked her to, she would finally let go what was teetering her.
"We laughed at the darkness. So scared that we lost it...You showed me love was all you needed." Regina smiled faintly at the fond memory.
FIFTEEN MONTHS AGO
The first thing that alerted her that something was amidst was the lack of shoes sprawled haphazardly in the front hallway. She knew for a fact Emma was home, the ugly Yellow death trap parked in front of their home informed her of that. The next clue was the smell of bleach, it was everywhere leaving a clean but slightly chemical smell all throughout their home.
"Emma...?" She called out for the blonde.
"Upstairs!" Emma answered. Regina took the stair slowly, unsure of what she was going to find when she reached there. She didn't expect to find Emma folding laundry on their bed, that was for certain.
"Is everything okay, my love?" Regina asked worriedly, looking at their very tidy room. None of Emma's clothes were laying around, and all of Regina's jewelry had been picked up from this morning.
"Yeah yeah, everything's fine!" Emma assured her.
"Are you certain?" Regina asked cocking an eyebrow. She watched as Emma bit her lip before she was hit in the face with a t-shirt.
"What was that for?" Regina chuckled, pulling the white t-shirt off of her. She noticed the shirt had writing on it, and when she opened it her jaw dropped.
'MOMMY TO BE!' was written in black and red writing as Regina glanced back and forth between the shirt and her girlfriend.
"Are you-? You're? We're gonna-?" Regina stammered causing Emma to burst of laughing.
"How very eloquent, dear." Emma mocked before taking pity on the brunette. Rising from the bed, she slowly approached a gaping Regina. Grabbing a pair of slightly tan hands, she placed them on her toned stomach.
"We're gonna have a baby."Emma said softly, her admission caused Regina to break away from her violently.
"A baby? As in a very new human being? I can't be a mother, I don't know how!" Regina's bottom lip trembled.
"Regina, I've seen you with Alexandra and your wonderful with her. I don't exactly know how to be a mother either but I know I'm going to try my best. Neither of us had a good home growing up but I know we can give this baby what we didn't have. Love." Emma smiled when Regina sank into her.
"We're having a baby." Regina was in awe, as her hand slid of Emma's non-existent belly.
"I was so scared." Regina chuckled lightly at the memory, watching the smile grace Emma's crystalline face lightly but faltering.
"Gina...I'm scared." Emma whispered and the admission caused Regina to sob openly.
"I know...I just want to be able to hold you and tell you everything is going to be okay. But Heaven couldn't wait for you." The sobs shook her violently, as she tried to keep quiet to avoid waking their son.
"Regina, I don't want to go. I don't want to miss him growing up. I don't want to leave you." Emma had tears running down her own face but she couldn't feel them. She hadn't been able to feel anything for over a month and a half since her passing.
SIX WEEKS AGO
The rain was pouring down now and Emma's bug was struggling to wipe the water off her windshield fast enough. She could barely see anything ahead her, deciding it would be best for her to pull over to the side of the road and wait for the weather to lighten up. As soon as she turned the steering wheel, she lost control on the very slippery road. Her first instinct was to break but her foot accidentally hit the accelerator and she spun out of control. She was going down the steep slope when the bug began flipping sending her flying about the car, her seat belt keeping her strapped in. She hit her head twice before she saw absolute darkness.
When she woke up, she found herself at her home with Regina who was playing with their fussy son.
"I know Henry, Mama's gonna be home soon." Regina bounced the whiny baby.
"What are you talking about? I'm right here." Emma shook her head but Regina ignored her. Just then the doorbell rang.
"Silly Mama must have forgot her key." Regina cooed, watching her son flail his chubby arms. She pulled open the door and was surprised to be faced with Emma's parents. Looking towards the clock she realized Emma should have been here hours ago.
"Have you two seen you daughter? We talked three hours ago and she told me she was on her way home." Regina let them in and passed Henry to Snow.
"Regina...there was an accident." David's voice was scratchy and it was then she noticed both of their red rimmed eyes.
"What? With whom?" Regina asked, dread seeping into her body.
"Micheal was coming back from the forest he saw a car upturned. He called the Sheriff's office and an ambulance before trying to see who it was. It was Emma." David tried to be strong and professional but he was telling Regina that her fiance just died, that his own daughter just died.
"What? No, is she okay?" Regina hurried out.
"Of course I'm okay, I'm standing right next to you " Emma rolled her eyes at her parents antics.
"She didn't make it." David was now openly crying and so was Snow, who rocked the only thing connecting her to her child. A pitiful wail pierced the air and they were all surprised it came from Regina.
"NO! Your lying! She's gonna be home to play with Henry soon!" Regina denied through her sobs before sliding to the floor.
"Dad this isn't funny!" Emma shouted at her father but nobody paid her any attention.
"Regina I'm so sorry." He tried to apologize, for what he didn't know.
"NO, Tell me she's okay! Tell me she is going to be home and we're going to finish planning the wedding." Regina pleaded with David, who sank in front of her trying to calm the hysterical woman. He had seen her in many stages, as an evil queen , as a naive girl, as a nervous woman who was asking his permission to marry his daughter, as a doting mother but he had never seen her like this.
"I'm sorry." He said softly when he was unable to give her what she desperately needed.
"No, she is going to come home as we are going to argue about who will be wearing the dress. She'll put up a fight but we both know its going to be her. I'll want salmon but she will want steak, and we will settle for chicken. She's going to feed and sing to Henry like she does every night because she is just that good of a mother. We will talk about our lives in the future, whether we are going to have any more kids and how many." Regina continued to deny what she knew was true.
"Emma isn't coming home." David shook his head, his heart breaking when his grandson sobbed out so much like his brunette mother.
"She isn't coming home."Regina tried to take a deep breath but it seemed like air refused to go inside of her lungs. When Emma went to touch Regina and her hand went through, she realized what her father said was true. She wasn't coming home tonight to her family or ever again. Someone beckoned for her to let go, and to follow them. She fought to stay. To see her son grow up and to stay with her love.
"She isn't coming home" Regina sobbed.
"Please don't make me." Emma tried one more time, but she knew what Regina was going to ask her.
"Heaven couldn't wait for you, Emma. I don't want you to go but you need to. Staying here is ruining your soul. It isn't fair to either of us. You deserve to be happy and content, not staying here watching me struggle to stay afloat. I need to properly grieve you, my love." Regina bit her lip roughly, drawling blood to the surface.
Emma nodded finally excepting the words that were gonna come. "Let him know how much I love him. Please don't let him forget me"
"I won't. He's always gonna know how much his Mama loved him and how she did everything she could to be there for him. I love you..so so much." Regina sniffled
"I know, I love you to." Emma gave her full fledged grin.
"Will you wait for me?" Regina asked.
"I'll be the first person you see. Take care of our son and take care of yourself." Emma ghosted a kiss n Regina's lips, and for a second they both could feel the warm of her skin pressing against Regina's.
"Go on, go home." Regina whispered, watching as Emma slowly faded away. When Emma left she was filled with this overwhelming sadness, but she knew it was best for the both of them. She would meet Emma when her time came but for now she had to take care of their son.
"Heaven couldn't wait..." One last tear fell before she finally began grieving for the loss of her fiance.
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