Unexpected
A/n: So I don't know if I'm any good at writing so sorry if you read this and it's really crap bug I really wanted to write a swan queen fanfiction.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or anything to do with ouat because if I did swan queen would be canon by now.
Emma supposed that if she had grown up as a princess she would love the Enchanted Forest. She supposed that if she had grown up with balls and admirers and someone always being there when she turned around then she may enjoy it. She supposed that if she had grown up in this land of hypocrites and judgemental people then she too may be like them. She supposed that if she had then she would feel at home in their midst. She supposed that she shouldn't feel like a stranger amongst them as she was meant to be one of them. The problem was that she wasn't and that she didn't feel at home, she didn't belong here. She belonged in the world in which she had grown up. The world in which she had felt so unwanted, so unloved and so alone. She belonged in the world of electricity, and central heating and indoor plumbing. She belonged in the world where she could live anonymously, a world where she could go about her life without having people bow and refuse to meet her eyes. She belonged in a world where she was just Emma, a world where she decided her own fate and not a world where it was decided for her. She liked living in a world that she knew, but where she wasn't really known.
The Enchanted Forest was the world she was supposed to live in, the world that had been promised to her by birth and yet it wasn't home. The earth was home, America was home. In America people weren't nosy, they didn't ask questions. She could go out into the world and not be recognised. She could go out and get on with her life without drawing stares from every person she passed. She could get on with her life without feeling uncomfortable and out of sync. She knew how every thing worked back on earth. In the Enchanted Forest the whole world was new. She felt like a child discovering the world again, but this time round she lacked the wonder and awe she should have felt.
Her lack of wonder was made up for by Henry. Her wonderful little boy was full to the brim with questions, he absorbed every detail of this new world like a sponge and he observed every little detail with the keenest attention. He made the perfect prince and he made Emma and his grand parents very proud. One day he would make a great king, but until then he was free to learn every last thing he could about this new world. He was growing up and becoming a young man. Most of the time he seemed exceedingly happy and carefree. Yet Emma could always see the tiniest echo of melancholy in his eyes, and she knew where it came from. His life wasn't complete without his other mother but Regina was nowhere to be found. To Emma it seemed strange that Regina had not revealed herself but she was sure there was a reason. She just wished that she knew the reason, especially after what had passed between them shortly before and during the breaking of the curse.
Back in Storybrooke, Regina had proven herself to be a good person over and over again and had fixed her relationship with Henry and all of the other residents. Emma had to admit that she missed her. And not just a little bit either. She missed Regina so much in this world that it really hurt. They had been on the verge of becoming friends when Emma had made what had proven to be a huge mistake in one way and not a mistake at all in other ways. Emma found that whenever she was around Regina she started to feel things that she couldn't explain. The first time she saw Regina crying (and coincidentally the last time) she had an overwhelming urge to... comfort her in some way or another. Before she could stop herself she had leaned in and kissed Regina as softly as possible. And Regina had responded. It was wonderful and it was every thing she had thought it would be, not that she would have admitted to thinking about that. As they had kissed Emma had felt more for her than she ever had for another person. In that moment she had felt more vulnerable and open than she had ever let herself be before. The world around them had become out of focus and she was attuned to Regina in that moment. It made her cringe that it was all quite so cliche. As they had continued to kiss Emma had deepened it, something had happened and everything had, quite literally faded away. When she opened her eyes at the lack of Regina she was alone in a forest and she could hear Henry shouting her name from some where in the distance.
Emma knew that she had to find Regina not just for Henry but for herself. She knew what had caused the curse to break but there was no way that she would admit it out loud, at least not until she had found Regina. There was no question about whether or not she would find her, Emma knew it was only a matter of time before she succeeded in this endeavour. Emma had told her parents, once she had found them of course, that she had no desire to become then next ruler and that Henry would take her place when he was ready instead. She dedicated her days to her training as she wished to become a knight so that she could formally quest to find Regina and restore both hers and her sons happiness alike.
When they sun began to rise over the horizon Emma would rise with it and begin her training for the day. All day every day she would drill and ride. By the time she had been in the Enchanted Forest for a year she had the beating of every champion she had faced, some thing which greatly embarrassed her many potential suitors. Emma was so skilled at swordplay that her parents could no longer delay her inevitable knighting. So instead her parents encouraged the suitors and so before she left on her quest she gave many a proposition, if they could beat her at sword to sword combat they could marry her. Emma, of course, beat them all. In doing so all of her potential suitors were humiliated that a women who had only a year of training under her belt could beat them all so effortlessly without so much as breaking a sweat. All left the Charmings' palace feeling discontented with a bruised ego. And so without further ado, she was knighted and she began the preparations for her journey. Although she didn't wish to leave Henry, it wouldn't be possible for him to accompany her and so she said her farewells and left him in the adequate care of her parents.
With her suitor problem sorted, she readied herself for the long and arduous journey she had ahead of her. Although she had far to go and much searching to do she couldn't help feeling hopeful of what her expedition would bring her. Emma felt excitement as she was certain that soon she would return with Regina and that all would be well. The one thing that she couldn't bring herself to dislike about the Enchanted Forest was that every one got their happy endings, even former evil queens and princesses that didn't quite transition into this world as easily as expected.
