Author's Note: I'm back! So for anyone coming straight here, I insist and recommend that you stop reading this right now, and go back to the beginning. This is actually Part 5 in the series Happy Ending...Happy Beginning. Number One is titled A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes. Now if you are not new to this welcome back, and a reminder that this is rather a happy interlude to what's been happening in storybrooke and what will happen in storybrooke. I don't think this will be as long as the last interlude before I start on Fallen Swan part 2, but I'm just going to see where the characters want to take me and therefore you on this journey. I hope you enjoy chapter one.


A Dream Is A Heart Your Makes: Interlude 2

By

Lady Razeli

Chapter One

Town Hall

"What do you mean the attack failed?" Blue raged. Hook glared at her, he hadn't wasted any effort or requested any fairy dust. Arthur had unfortunately demanded the fairies use what was left to get through the barriers now erected over half the town. Regina's house on Mifflin was also protected again as well as the new house which he never got even close too. Somehow Emma and her spawn with Regina held most of the power.

"Exactly what we said," Hook replied. "And if your idiot King hadn't wasted the fairy dust because he was so blinded by killing Regina, you'd at least have something to start with, but now you have to mine from scratch."

"How could you have used it all?" Blue demanded to know.

"There were three barriers, Emma's was the first, easily dealt with just like at Mifflin with enough fairy dust as it is light magic and her power is split three way. And then King Idiot here dumped a quarter of that one Regina and Maleficent's barrier, an I am pretty sure they stood on the other side laughing at him as he just kept having the rest thrown. It didn't even fizzle."

"How is this bitch suddenly so powerful!" Blue yelled. "What the hell happened in Camelot?"

"She should be dead," Arthur raged. "I fucking stabbed her in Camelot I remember that, no one has ever survived a cut from Excalibur no matter how small. It does not heal." He grimaced as he paced slowly, each step pained him greatly, but he was being driven mad by his fear at what had occurred, and his revenge. If he stopped for one moment he was going to fall apart, and he couldn't give her the satisfaction.

"Get me the fucking dwarves, and take the farms, we'll fucking starve them out if we have too," She growled.


Black Kingdom/ Storybrooke South

"You're sure we have everything we need for the babies?" Emma asked.

"Yes, Emma I packed everything except the christening gown," Regina said. "That should be enough until we get back," Regina told her. "Everything else we can buy later." Regina had donated the car seat and stroller they had briefly used for Henry, they would need one for twins now. Emma let out a breath.

"Okay, Okay I'm sorry, I'm just panicking that we won't have what we need."

"Well relax we aren't moving into the wilderness away from civilization all right?" Regina asked. "We don't need to have everything right this second."

"Yeah, but we will when they're here, our home isn't finished we were supposed to have it finished," Emma complained. She sat up a moment with a frown feeling her barrier go down, and she knew they were trying to get through Regina and Maleficent's, but it was like Regina hadn't even noticed they'd tried. So once they had stopped she raised her barrier again without a second thought.

"Em, calm down, this house wasn't going to be finished by the time we had them again, as soon as we planned on running off to Cuba, I knew we'd finish our house one day and I knew our baby would be older. We'll build their nursery just like we thought of it with the apple orchard, and Henry wants his room from the mansion exactly the same. This house is going to slowly come into reality, well maybe a little faster with magic. And until then the mansion will still be home to us our little family just like it always has been." She stroked Emma's face and Emma smiled as she pulled Regina into her arms.

"How could I live without you, you keep me calm," Emma told her kissing her head. Regina kissed her chest in response not willing to move from her arms so she could raise her head up further.

"And you keep me balanced. Now let's talk about Neal."

"Martin, I've decided it's Martin now," Emma replied.

"Okay well not that I'm not ecstatic you've given up on Stuart of all things," Regina said rolling her eyes. "But are we leaving Neal or is Neal staying?" Emma shrugged.

"I don't know and Stuart was good."

"Yeah sure baby, but you do need to know you kidnapped him so you kind of need to plan this, I'm not going to be with a half ass villain, don't do it at all or do it right," Regina told her looking up at Emma. "Any good villain worth their salt at any point and time before they retire would tell you the same." Emma groaned.

"Fine, but you loved my half assery just fine when I was just the savior."

"Hated it then too babe," Regina told her. "Unfortunately I can't help smiling at your dopey grin." Emma gave her that grin.

"So then we don't have to talk about Martin."

"We absolutely do seeing as we are leaving in thirty minutes, does he stay or does he go?" Regina asked her. "And don't you dare start singing Ms. Swan."

"Should I stay or should I go," Emma sang, she couldn't even help herself. Regina grunted shoved her away a little.

"Great why was I ever worried about you as the dark one, you're such a dork." Emma laughed.

"Your dork," Emma replied.

"Idiot," Regina called her.

"Only for you my Queen," Emma grinned.

"There's a lot of things you do only for me," Regina told her as she stepped back to her and teased her with little kisses. Emma moaned. "And you're going to make a decision for me without joking around if you ever want these kisses again Ms. Swan." Regina called her Ms. Swan on purpose because she knew it would arouse Emma.

"And they say I'm the dark one," Emma groaned.

"Mama!" Henry called from the bathroom. "I need help with my butt."

"Duty calls let me know when you get back from butt wiping what you decide."

"What no, he wants you," Emma frowned.

"He clearly said Mama, which means I'm off the hook," Regina grinned.

"Mama!" Henry called again.

"Aww man I thought his butt wiping days were over, he's practically a grown man," Emma whined as she went to the bathroom. Regina chuckled and checked her draw string purse again. They had everything including Excalibur and the dagger, now they just needed to leave. They had wanted to make sure all the protections were stable and aside from Emma's going down, hers had taken just about all the fairy dust and left them with nothing to go after Maleficent or Regina's. They would have to mine for at least a year. That gave them more than enough time unless Hook suddenly got enough control to help the fairy dust, but she doubted it. They'd put up several shield levels and put up three higher than Emma couldn't break. Plus there was an extra shield made from the black kush they didn't know about and wouldn't detect until they were on it.

"Has your princess decided what to do with the White Kingdom's Prince my Queen?" King asked coming in. Regina shook her head.

"No, but she should have an answer as soon as she's back from the bathroom with Henry." Emma walked in with Henry after another three minutes.

"Princess Emma have you decided what to do with Prince Neal?" King asked.

"Martin his name is Martin," Emma told King who looked at Regina who just shook her head. Emma huffed and pursed her lips a little. "He can stay here, I don't want to deal with him, he like stay at the orphanage or something."

"You will not do that to favorite charming, Emma you act like he is an inconvenience when you stole him. Go give him back to your parents if that's the case right now," Regina ordered as she crossed her arms.

"Fine," Emma huffed and disappeared. She reappeared with Neal inside of town hall where her parents were standing guard.


Town Hall

"THERE SHE IS THE DARK ONE ATTACK!" They yelled.

"Leroy bring the chains if we can trap her, we can draw out the Evil Queen and kill her spawn!" Snow yelled. Emma's eyes went hard as she threw them all back with magic. Fairies came forward and tried to trap her with fairy dust well what was left of it anyway.

"Oh you're such an idiot mummy running into a trap," Little Queen said in her head.

"How are you even still in my mind like this, you left."

"Trade secret I'm afraid all that matters is I am with mommy now and not with you," Little Queen told her.

"Glad you could join us Dark One, but you are here to stay," Blue told her appearing with her wand.

"Not a chance in hell gnat," Regina told her. She threw her across the room with magic. Leroy came at her with a pickaxe but she blocked it with her grandfather's sword. She disarmed him easily, and turned to the fairies trying to hold Emma.

"I suggest you walk away now, I don't want you hurt." They backed off after looking at Blue who was knocked out. "Good, now come along darling, it seems the Charmings aren't interested in Neal." They both disappeared.


Black Kingdom/ Storybrooke South

"How did you know?" Emma asked.

"Little Queen told me," Regina shrugged. Ruby looked relieved as well as King when she saw them as Regina had just disappeared.

"What happened?" Ruby asked.

"My parents are with Blue, full on, they want to kill Regina and our babies, but I'll hurt them first," Emma growled as her clothes changed to black again.

"Calm down, we will deal with them later, but we will spite them first by focusing on us," Regina told her.

"I'll take Neal then, you really shouldn't be traveling with an infant, it will be harder, Henry will be a lot easier to take to the hospital without having to figure out bottles and diapers," Ruby told them.

"That's true, I need you to rest, you won't get any between the fights and the babies later," Emma grumbled as she shook her head at her parents. "Maybe I should age Martin up a bit, that will teach them. They'll miss his childhood just like they chose to miss mine."

"Leave Neal alone, he's innocent, focus on me," Regina told her grabbing her hand and making her look at her. Emma nodded as she took several deep breaths.

"My Queen, we are all set," Cox announced as he came inside.

"Good, and every backyard has been prepared with the potion Maleficent made, and Claudio has made sure to start planting?" They nodded.

"We even have good stock from the animals brought in from the Enchanted Forest, they will not starve us out my Queen."

"Good, then if security and food is handled, I believe I am comfortable with leaving you all to protect our end of things. Please remember no one ventures unnecessarily outside of the zone. Leave Hook be we have no way of holding him captive until our return. I don't want anyone dead understand?"

"Yes, my Queen," Cox and King replied. Regina nodded.

"Good, let the soldiers know I will personally rip out and crush the heart of anyone being stupid, I didn't make the black guard to be heroes understand?"

"Yes my Queen."

"How can words that shouldn't be a pep talk, sound like a good pep talk?" Emma asked.

"War ma'am nobody needs to be a hero when the risk is low. The barriers are perfect, we need only be a hero when saving one another from an immediate threat. And with the barriers well we may as well be in another world." Emma nodded.

"Then one last walk through I think and to address the people." They nodded. Soon they were standing before the town swimming pool. There was a hall there for parties so it was large enough to accommodate people to listen to her.

"Welcome, as you all know by now the town has been split in half with some residents from other parts of storybrooke taking refuge here." There was murmuring around the room acknowledging that they all knew this. Maleficent stood to her left with Lily and Emma on her right with Henry. "You also are all aware that Emma is the Dark One, however she will not be doing anyone harm any time soon. I want you to know that she is unable to brainwash me or whatever other idiotic mind control someone else might come up with. We have true love still and that makes me somewhat immune to particular manipulations on her part."

"Are you sure my Queen?" Someone asked. She nodded.

"Very, thank you for caring." She nodded. "Now the reason for all this, is that before Emma became the dark one, we found out I was pregnant and so she saved us from the darkness unfortunately we hadn't realized that she was pregnant. As a result Blue has made it her personal vendetta that this time she kills my babies. Most of you were around for Charlotte and feel free to fill in your neighbor's lack of knowledge it is too much to relive here. And because of Blue, it has been determined that it's best I leave storybrooke just to ensure the safe birth of our Princesses. I know I am asking you a lot after you have crowned me Queen and…."

"Do you have enough baby clothes my Queen?" Some shouted interrupting her.

"Do you have a doctor lined up?" Someone else asked.

"Should I travel with you my Queen?" Someone else called out.

"Take guards my Queen, we won't leave you unprotected.

"Yes, take guards, you cannot leave without guards, what if one of them crosses the town line, you will be without your powers, and so will Emma we presume," Claudio told her.

"Claudio you know very well I can take care of myself," Regina told him.

"That may be, but I don't want you too, not when you will both be pregnant with my princesses," He said.

"Well technically she went to Regina before we came back to Camelot so they will be like twins," Emma pointed out. "I will be fit."

"Even so I demand King at least goes with you, Cox can command in her absence just fine and it will make it easier to discuss things tactically with someone next to you then someone just over a screen. There was yelling for her to take at least King. She waved them down.

"Fine, King go pack…" She turned to see King already had a bag. She glared at her as King tried to look innocent. Once the meeting was over and a group had been started for making baby clothes and they had been presented with the finished hemp woven blankets.

"So, I guess you don't want mine then," Granny huffed. She also had two knitted blankets. They chuckled.

"Perish the thought they need matching blankets from both of their mothers," Regina told her.

"I'm sorry I couldn't put names on them yet, I know it's tradition for the Black Kingdom to officially name babies at their christening and not before." They nodded. "So I will add their names later."

"We look forward to that Granny," Emma told her. Eventually after congratulations and some black guard started a party, they left amid the celebrations.


Town Line

"Here you wear your sword and dagger around your neck, out there they will take it if they see you with this weapon," Regina told King. "We need to appear non-threatening." King nodded. Once she had turned it into a necklace they teleported to the town line with the Mercedes.

"Baby please."

"Emma when we return, we will have to trade the Mercedes in, are you going to trade the bug in?" Regina asked her. Emma bit of her lip for two reasons, one that Regina had automatically thought of giving up her car and not blindsiding Emma with dumping the bug to be able to safely transport two infants. And two because she would give up the bug in a heartbeat no matter how much it hurt. "We'll trade in the Mercedes still on the way back." Emma was startled back to reality when Regina shrank her car until it was the size of a hot wheels car in her hand and the bug stood in it's place.

"I love you very much Regi," Emma told her kissing her.

"Swan!" Hook yelled.

"Well that didn't take long," Emma muttered she had felt their true love push out of them and she was wearing the same white sweater from the night of her taking on the darkness. She could still feel the darkness although she felt like she looked more normal like Gold in storybrooke versus the glitter skinned version of him that haunted her.

"Mommy," Henry said. He didn't like Hook at all, he still remembered what Emma had told him outside the diner, that Hook was a bad man.

"We're safe love Mama and King will protect us."

"Swan what are you doing at the line Swan it's time to give me the sword." Hook told her.

"Not a chance," Emma told him, and she knocked him back. Rumple's image giggled next to her.

"Such a weak dark one, we've not been split before but he's so useless compared to Rhiannon," Rumple giggled.

"Don't speak of her especially not with him around, he is just a storage unit for now," Emma told him. Regina put Henry in his car seat in the car, while King took out her sword.

"Fortunately for you we value her more than you both," Rumple giggled and disappeared.

"Emma transport him to the mines, he will have to physically leave and not transport. His magic seems to be working on instinct or he would have easily blocked you," Regina instructed.

"Swan fight her love spell, we are meant to be especially now, we can rule this town together me with the sword, and you with the dagger. No one could stop us," Hook told her even as he reached out sending a blast of magic towards Regina, but King was there and deflected it into the forest.

"When they told me, I'd be up against a dark one, I thought you would actually pose a challenge," King sighed.

"Let's get something straight Hook, we are not together you were nothing more than a poor barrier for my denial to latch onto your every touch disgusted me," Emma told him before she waved her hand dismissing him. He disappeared and reappeared in the mines with his Hook off and wrapped in rope it would take him a minute, but it wouldn't hold him unfortunately. The adults got into the bug with Regina getting in back neck to Henry. King got the front seat.

"Eww it smells like butt in here," Little Queen complained in their heads.

"It does," Viveka added. Regina conjured up a vomit bucket just in time.

"I'll clean the car at the next car wash," Emma murmured as she rolled down the windows.

"Please," Regina said sitting back as wave after wave of nausea rolled over her. In that moment her only regret was that they weren't taking the Mercedes.

"Butt, butt," Henry sang as they drove over the town line. He was not pleased with his loss of magic and the girls weren't either although it wasn't complete on their end as it was for Henry.


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