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FULL CIRCLE

Chapter One

Things haven't been the same in Storybrooke since we got back from Neverland. Henry is back living with Emma and the Charming's at their small apartment instead of living with me in the house. I want to be mad about it, I want to curse them all and bring my son home to me, but I know I can't. Henry would never forgive me. Neil is with them…Neil is with Emma. He came back from Neverland and professed his love her and he explained that he wanted to make things work not just for her but for Henry. He wanted to be a family.

What gives him the right?

Henry is my son, mine and Emma's. What makes him think that he can just come back into our lives and take over my family. I have been here from the beginning. Caring for Henry was he was sick, helping him through all his problems he's had with me being the Evil Queen. We have since moved past that and Henry has accepted my past and I've been working towards being a better mother for him, as well as being a better person.

"You coming back to bed beautiful?" His voice makes my skin crawl. Everything about him makes me want to throw up and just curse all off Storybrooke again so that I can have my little life back. But I can't. I have to be strong. "You know staring out the window won't bring him back."

I throw my hand up and I can hear him chocking behind me. Getting up from where I was sitting to turn around and look at him. "You don't think I know that," I say pushing him towards the door of the bedroom. "I also know slumming it with you isn't going to bring him back either." I let and evil little smirk cross my lips. "Your below me Hook, Emma and Henry hate you more than me and I never thought that was possible and for that I am grateful. You're going to be our common ground, you're going to help me get my family back."

I just go of him, letting him fall to the ground.

"And what if I don't help you?" he asks holding his throat, getting to his feet.

I walk over to him, my stare never wavering. Look at him, standing there all tough and confident as if he even has a choice in helping me. Our eyes lock, "oh Hook," my arm shoots out and his eyes widen as my hand embeds itself into his chest. I can feel his heart beating against my fingers. I have to say this is probably the best part of this whole process, seeing the fear in his eyes. "You don't have a choice." When I release him he falls to his knees and tries to catch his breath. "I will have my family back."

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The rain is coming down heavily outside, normally this type of weather wouldn't bother me, I don't mind being kept inside, but something tells me that Henry would rather me outside. Instead he's cooped up inside with Mary Margaret and David. And that alone is suffocating. Things haven't been the same between them since we returned from Neverland. I think it has something to do with that fact that she's waiting for him to drop dead.

We were told by Hook that David would not survive leaving Neverland due to the poison that was once running through his veins. And yet we've been back for a little over a week now and he's still breathing, so naturally we all believed that Hook was lying to us, but Gold confirmed it, he admitted that he doesn't know how David is still alive. Saying that since he took that cure for the poison he should have died the moment he left the island.

"Emma," turning at the sound of his voice I see Neil walking towards me. Oh yes, Neil. He came back to Storybrooke with us, and decided he wasn't to make our family whole again, that he would do anything he needed to do in order to make things work between us. I allowed it only because of Henry. He needs a father, he needs someone he can look up to, also he needs someone who has made mistakes. We need to show Henry that not everyone is perfect, that people make mistakes and that you can learn from them and make things right. Neil has made his share of mistakes and so have I, and I believe that Henry has a great deal that he can learn from us. "Have you though anymore about what we talked about on the way back to Storybrooke?"

Ah yes. The conversation we had on the way home. On the way back from Neverland Neil decided he'd confess his love to me. He said he wanted to work things out between us so that the three of us could be a family. I told him I'd have to think about it not because I don't love him, but because I can't trust him. He left me once already what's to say he won't do it again? I can't put Henry through that. I can't have him depend on Neil only to have Neil leave again in the end.

"I don't know Neil," I say turning away. "Can we talk about this later, when we're not all cooped up inside this house," I say. I feel my phone vibrating and when I look down I see her name. "I promise we'll talk about it later," I walk into the bathroom, closing and locking the door as I put the phone to my ear. "Regina."

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"I want to see my son," taking a sip of my coffee as I watch Hook getting ready to leave. "And don't start with this whole thing where he's not my son, I raised him, I wasn't there from the beginning, I deserve to be a part of his life." He comes to give me a kiss before he leaves and put by hand up to stop him.

"Neil doesn't feel comfortable about having you in Henry's life."

"I don't care what Neil has to say about me, Henry is more my son that he is his. I was here when he wasn't, after all, he didn't even know he had a son a few months ago," I comment as I hear the door closing behind Hook as he leaves.

"I'm sorry Regina, but Neil is his father, whether we like it or not."

With that I heard the click of her cell phone shutting. Did she just say "we"? I have long since accepted the fact that Emma is going to be in Henry's life whether I like it or, but having Neil there too, I don't see myself accepting that little fact anytime soon. I guess the only question that remains now is do I not like Neil because he is in Henry's life or because he's in Emma's.

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Author's Note: Any feedback would be great appreciated.