"Right now all that matters is that I need to be with my family, while I can be..." the blonde woman said to Rumpelstiltskin, than turned to the familiar brunette on her side and asked"...come to Granny's with me."
"No. I can't." answered Regina, still not able to look the blonde in the eyes.
"Regina… Please" said the blonde as she stepped closer to the woman, reaching for her hand.
"It's too much… I'm sorry." And with that said the former Evil Queen exited the pawn shop, tears in her eyes and heart in pieces.
It was quite unfair, after all that had happened, Regina was losing the only person who ever accepted her fully, and she was losing her to something so rare like this. For months all she could think was that there had to be a way, amnesia caused by overpowering the system with magic was more rare than any other occurrence in the magical world, but since Emma had been the first person capable of carrying both the purest and the darkest magic in her being and surviving the experience there wasn't many comparisons to make.
The first time Emma noticed something was wrong with herself was five months after their trip to the underworld, she had been forgetting things like the townspeople names, her lunch and dinner plans with her family and friends, she sometimes even forgot the way to the police station, but she just guessed it was because she wasn't sleeping very well lately, and this "cases", as she kept calling, happened once or twice a month, so she didn't pay much attention. Until one day they became more frequent.
Regina was quite concerned with Emma when she noticed the change in the blonde, since Emma and Hook had broken up, Regina became closer and closer with the blonde, they spent more time together now than Emma spent with her parents, every day they had dinner or lunch together, sometimes both, but that had become their ritual, if Henry was out at night, they would have a night for themselves, where they could drink as much as they wanted and talk about everything while watching some movies, and if their son decided to stay, they would have a family night, because that was what they had become. A family.
And well… Regina just couldn't be happier, she finally had everything she wanted, the townspeople had asked her to take her job back as mayor, her son finally forgave her and felt comfortable to show that he loved her, she had her sister back, hell, she even had Snow and Charming, she refused to say they were her family, but deep down she knew. And she had Emma, her beautiful, clumsy Emma. She was in love with the blonde, and even if they had developed a relationship where Regina knew they were best friends, the brunette couldn't help herself but think, what if they could take it to the next level? Regina had a few signs that the blonde could reciprocate her feelings, from the way she would stare at the former evil queen, the way their magic would react together, the way Emma was protective of her and most important, the way she would listen to each and every single thing Regina would tell her, about her preferences and fears, her plans and her past… But more importantly the blonde tried her hardest to make her happy, even in the small things, such as her favorite wine, her favorite kind of movie, her favorite dishes… everything.
But one day it just stopped. Well, Emma had been forgetting some of their lunches and dinners, skipped a few game nights, but Regina just imagined the blonde was spending it with her parents, or maybe a few of her other friends, until the day of her birthday. Emma had planned her last birthday, it had been a surprise, Henry and Emma had pretended the whole day they had forgotten about it, and just when she was losing hope she heard her doorbell ring, Emma was dressed in a beautiful blue dress that fit her body just perfectly and Henry looked handsome dressed in a tuxedo, they handed her a garment bag with a gorgeous red dress inside and told her to get ready, she just smiled and hurried upstairs, after she was ready they led her to the car and took her to their destiny a few miles outside town to a beautiful cabin where they had dinner prepared and set in the garden, where they could spend the whole night staring at the moon and stars. It was quite cliché, but it was special. A few hours after dinner, Henry had wished them goodnight and went inside the cabin to sleep, after all the boy was exhausted from all the preparations to the dinner. As the night went on, the two woman started lay closer and closer to each other, until their faces was finally inches apart it finally happened, they kissed and Regina just knew that this would be her favorite birthday for a long time. So as time passed, they became a couple, and when Emma just forgot her birthday this year, Regina knew something was wrong. And that was when everything started to go wrong.
