Here's a little something i wanted to try. A mixture of 17 Again and OUAT magic. Hope you like it. :)
I own nothing from 17 Again or OUAT.
Chapter 1
17 year old Emma was out on the castle court yard practicing for a game. This game of sorts was very strange and different from the other kingdom sports. This game consisted of bouncing a ball and throwing it into a round basket. It as very different from all the other sporting in the Enchanted Kingdom, such as horse back riding or bow and arrows, but everyone seemed to just love the sport. And Emma was a pro at it.
Princess Emma was the daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White, King and Queen of the Light Kingdom. It did shock numerous people when they saw a girl, much less the princess, could out play and out wit the boys in this sort of game. But people just loved watching Emma play.
Since the sport was discovered…let's just call it…Basketball. Yes basketball is a good name for it. Since basketball had been discovered, the kingdoms liked to throw these big events and games that all lead up to this being the final sport, basketball. In that tournament, there would be two teams playing against each other. On the court would five players from each team, and they would play, throwing the ball into the basket to get points. The Light Kingdom were in the lead. All thanks to Emma of course, the star player. The King and Queen never thought much of it that their daughter rather play a dirty sport with the boys than to stay in and learn to cook or ride horses like the other girls. They knew their daughter was rather unique. As long as she was happy, they were happy.
The games were about to start in a matter of hours and Emma was practicing for the big game. They were facing the East Kingdom. They was the second best in the Enchanted Forest. If the Light Kingdom beat them, the would be the Ultimate Champions of the whole Enchanted Forest. Plus bragging points.
"Emma, sweetie…" Emma pauses from shooting next ball when she heard her mother call to her. "…come long sweetheart. The games are about to begin." Snow White says.
"Okay mom, I'll be there. Let me just make this last shot." Emma says before turning back to the basket. She set the ball up and throw it into the basket making the shot. "Yes" Emma cheers before jogging over to her parents.
"Well I guess there's no reason to ask if your ready then huh?" Charming laughs. Emma smiles up at her father before the three walk out of the court and into the games.
Hours later, once all of the other games were done, it was time for the main course. The basketball tournament was about to begin and the teams were practicing. As they practiced, there were girls in the front of the court dancing, as if to get the crowd ready for the up coming game.
While they were dancing, Emma was watching and playing around with her best friend, Red Riding Hood, Red for short. Emma caught something from the corner of her eye that brought a giant smile to her face. Red looked around to see what had her friend looking like a love sick teenager until she saw and a smirk come over on her face.
Emma sent Red a grin before jogging over.
"Well hello there" Emma says as she approaches the girl.
"Hello" the girl says trying not to smile.
"So tell me, what is a beautiful girl like you, doing at a place like this?" Emma flirts.
"Oh well I thought I'd come down and see a bunch of dirty sweaty boys fighting over a ball. Unfortunately I ran into you." the girl smirks.
"Oh ouch. You hurt me Regina." Emma put her hand over her heart in feign pain.
Regina can't help but laugh before pulling Emma by her shirt and into a soft and passionate kiss.
"Mmm apple. My favorite." Emma hums as they pulled from the kiss. Regina laughs. Emma finally opens her eyes and looks into the beautiful brown eyes staring back at her. "Hey" she says with a dreamy smile.
"Hey yourself." Regina says back.
Regina was the daughter of Cora, also known at the Queen of Hearts and the late King Henry. She was Queen of the Dark Castle. Regina and Emma had been seeing each other for about two years. Although it wasn't heard of two women being together romantically in the forest, not many people paid attention to it. What most people worried about was, why would Emma, Princess of the Light Kingdom, would date Regina, Princess of the Dark Kingdom. They all figured she'd turn evil like her mother sooner or later. They never said that to her face though. Afraid of what she might do. She could turn as evil and sadistic as her mother. But Emma knew better. She knew Regina. She knew there wasn't an ounce of evil in her and she loved her, and that was all that mattered to Emma. She was going to spend the rest of her life with this girl.
"Hey what are you doing here? I thought you weren't gonna make it." Emma says hugging her girlfriend.
"Well I-I just had to see you." Regina says sounding nervous.
"Well I'm glad you're here. You could be my good luck charm. God, Reggie I am so nervous, but with you here, I'll be good." Emma says pulling Regina in for another kiss.
"Princess stop making out with your girlfriend and get over here!" the coach yells.
Emma rolls her eyes but pulls from the kiss. "I have to go, but I'll see you after the game ok." Emma says. Regina nods her head. As Emma was about to turn and join her team, she noticed the nervous and…scared? look Regina had. "What's wrong?"
"What? Oh it's nothing. Just…just have a good game." Regina says trying to brush it off.
"Reggie, come on. I can tell something's wrong. Just tell me." Emma says.
"I don't want you to worry. You have a game…" Regina tries.
"And I'm going to worry anyway because something is wrong with my girlfriend. So please just tell me." Emma practically begs.
Regina looks at Emma, feeling tears starting to fill her eyes, she takes a deep breath before talking.
"…I'm pregnant." Regina whispers.
Emma's eyes widen in shock.
In case you're a little confused but this. Emma wasn't born like usual girls. She was born special. She was born with a penis. A full functioning penis. She and Regina had been sexual active for quite sometime now, but she didn't know this could happen. She didn't know she could get a woman pregnant.
"Emma, get over here! We have a game!" the coach shouted.
As if on autopilot, Emma, still shocked, wordlessly places a kiss on Regina's forehead before walking over to the court. She walks on the court with a lot of things on her mind. How was she to take care of a child. She and Regina were still young? And how would their parents take it?
Shocked by her girlfriend's sudden departure, Regina turns to leave the court, not wanting anyone to see her cry.
Emma must have seen her walk away, because all of those scary thoughts disappeared from her mind and all that mattered was Regina. Nothing scared her more than for Regina to leave her. She was her first love, her first everything and if the myths were correct, Regina was her True Love. If she were to have a child with anyone at a young age, she was glad it would be Regina.
That being said, just as the game was about to begin, Emma drops the ball and jogs off the court and after Regina.
Everyone in the stadium were shocked and confused by their stars sudden departure. Snow White and Prince Charming watched their daughter in both confusion and understanding, but Emma wasn't worried about any of that. She was only worried about Regina and the child they were going to have. Thinking about the child brought a smile to Emma's face.
"Regina!…Regina!…Reggie!" Emma calls out.
Regina stops and turns when she heard her name being called and was surprised to see Emma chasing after her.
"Emma" Regina says shocked. "Emma what are you do-" Regina was cut off when Emma smashed their lips together in a passionate kiss. They broke apart when air was needed. "Emma wh-what…the game…?" Regina tried to ask.
Emma shakes her head. "I…I don't care about the game. It's not important. But you…and this baby are." Emma says placing her hand over Regina's stomach. "I know…I know we're to young. And our parents might kill us, yours more than mine. But as long as we do it together, we'll be okay,right." Emma says leaning her forehead against Regina's.
Tears start to roll down Regina's face.
"Together" Regina says.
Emma looks her with a smile. "Together…I love you." she says.
"I love you too." Regina repeats before pulling Emma in for another strong kiss, wrapping her arms around her neck. Emma wraps hers around Regina's waist. As the continued to kiss, Emma lifts Regina and spins her around making Regina giggle into their kiss. Yea they could handle this together.
11 years later
Emma was sleeping peacefully in her bed when she felt a dip in the bed. She ignores it until she feels is bouncing on her bed.
"Emma! Emma! Wake up! Wake up Emma!" Emma hears over her. "Come on Ems. Wakey Wakey Eggs and Dakey Emmsy!"
"Ugh Neal, go away." Emma grumbles pulling the cover over her head.
"Nope. Not till you get up." Neal says still jumping on the bed.
Emma tries her best to ignore it, but then she feels another dip and more bouncing. Yep it seems Ruby has joined the party. Yea, the 'bug Emma while she's trying to sleep' party.
"Are you kidding me?" Emma groans. It gets worse when she hears them singing and believe they are not the best singers.
Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
So hears my number
So call me maybe
The two song above Emma. She again tries to ignore them, but to no veil.
I knew you were trouble when-
"That's it!" Emma shouts getting up quickly, throwing pillows at both Ruby and Neal, knocking them both on the floor. "God you two are worse than alarms." Emma says getting out of bed.
"Well that's why you love us." Ruby says getting off the floor.
"Yep, what was I thinking." Emma grumbles.
"Come on Ems, get a move on. Wez got a stake out to get to!" Neal says excited. Emma rolls her eyes, but grabs her clothes and head into the bathroom.
An hour later, Emma comes out of her room fully dress in black loose fitting jeans, enough room for her 'special friend', a grey tank top, a black leather jacket and black combat boots slightly untied.
"You ready?" Emma asks Neal
Neal turns to her with his mouth full of Lucky Charms. "Sure" he says. Emma rolls her eyes and snatches the box away. "Ahhh, me Lucky Charms!" Neal shouts. Emma sticks her tongue out at him before digging her hand inside and taking out a hand full of cereal and putting it in her mouth. "Alright, I'm ready. Now let's go kick crimes ass." Neal says.
He and Emma head to the door.
"See you guys. And don't come back injured cause I'm not taking you to the hospital." Ruby says sweetly.
"You just don't want to run into that hot nurse." Emma smirks.
"Duh, now off you go. Love you guys." Ruby says.
"Love you too." she hears back from both as they leave.
30 minutes to an hour later, Emma and Neal were in their car, waiting for news on their target. They looked out with binoculars, scouting the area. As they watched, Emma couldn't help but stare at a little family across from them in the park.
A mom was playing with a little girl. The girl had a big smile on her face and ran away from her mommy was about to chase her only to be caught, picked up and tickled by her daddy. Emma watched as the happy family laughed and played, and she couldn't help but feel a tug at her heart.
"You know I've always wondered…" Neal starts bringing Emma out of her head. "…did you ever imagine us…me and you doing this?" Neal asks.
"What?" Emma asks turning away from the family and looks at her best friend.
"This. Being cops and fighting crime. First living a life of crime, now we're fighting it. It's surreal." Neal says.
"Yea, who knew just from someone forgetting the right pick up time and someone else getting arrested for it could lead to this." Emma says dryly, but from the sounds of it, Neal knew she was being playful.
"Yea, and hey you remember when we went to "couple's" therapy in the academy and you said you forgave me for that." Neal asks.
"Well yea, but…"
"Then get over it dude!" Neal exclaims, making Emma laugh.
Emma's laughter stopped when they got a report. They target was close to them, they had to get moving.
"Showtime" Emma says as she and Neal get out the car.
"Aww yea!" Neal exclaims.
As they tracked down their target they saw him coming close to them. They drew their guns.
"Freeze!" Neal shouts. The target sees them and starts to run the other way. Emma sighs.
"Why do they always run." Emma says. Neal shakes his head.
"Flying panda?" Neal asks a giant smile spreading across his face. Emma mirrors his smile and nods.
"Flying panda."
With that the two took off running in opposite directions. As they ran it seems Neal was closer to the target.
"Freeze! Stop right there!" he shouts, but his shouts go unanswered.
The guy just continues to run. He looks back to how far the cop was, but out of nowhere, he was tackled into the ground by a strong force. Neal runs over to find Emma now cuffing the target.
"Damn lady, what are you a football player or something?" the guy asks in a pain strained voice.
"Or something." Emma just smirks and picks him up. She and Neal take him back to the car. Once at the car, Emma pushes him against the car door and was about to ask him questions, but the guy beat her to the punch.
"Look whatever it was I didn't do it." The guy says. Emma and Neal look at each other with smirks on their faces. Oh the just love when criminals assume things. Then they start singing like canaries.
"Um do what exactly? I never said anything about doing something…did…did you Neal?" Emma says mock confused.
"Nope, never said nothing." Neal says looking at the guys wallet.
"Yea, not see if we didn't say anything and you did, well that just makes me think that you just might have something to confess. Now why don't you just tell us what it is and we'll this a painless as possible." Emma says. The guy remains silent.
"Hey, nice family you got here…Greg." Neal says holding up the wallet, showing a picture of a woman holding a little boy and girl, all smiling at the camera.
"Yea, they really are beautiful. And I'm pretty sure your wife and kids wont be happy to know that their daddy is in jail because of something stupid now would they." Emma says.
"Oh please what do you know about family." Greg sneers.
Emma's demeanor completely changed to emotionless and Neal saw. Before he could say anything, Emma had taken Greg and slammed his face into the hood of the car.
"Sorry, you tripped there buddy." Emma says sarcastically tossing Greg, who's nose is now bleeding, to Neal. "Put him in the back." she didn't mean for it to sound as harsh and hard as it did. Neal gives a short nod before he shoved Greg to the backseat door as he yelled about police brutality.
As he did that Emma took a moment to herself, taking a deep breath and leaning against the hood. She didn't know why what the guy said had gotten to her. Sure the guy was a scum bag, but what he said about her not knowing what family is really pissed her off. Because to be honest she didn't know.
Since she can remember, Emma has been in nothing but foster homes. It was hard at first, but she had Ruby by her side, so it seemed okay. At the age of 18, the system all but kicked her out, so she and Ruby were left to fend for themselves.
To make matters meet, Emma turned to a life of crime. Petty things like stealing from grocery stores or raiding rooms so they could sleep or even taking money out of an unlocked car. That's how they met Neal and together he and Emma became thick as thieves. Literally. They would try to steal whatever and as much as they could before getting caught. They ever went as far as Emma pretending to be pregnant to get away with things.
"Dude, next time you're playing the pregnant one." Emma said at they ran from their last "five finger discount".
Ruby was never really into the whole stealing thing. It made her feel uncomfortable. Emma and Neal knew and so they could keep their innocent friend out of trouble, they never took her when they went on one of their "heist".
Then on one of their "heist", things went wrong and Emma ended up in jail for 18 months and Neal nowhere to be found.
16 months, instead of 18, for good behavior, Emma was released and she decided that she really wanted to change her life, so with the help from some of the guards she had befriended in jail, Emma was able to sign up to the police academy. As for a place to stay, from letters upon letters, Emma was able to find Ruby easily.
After Emma had been arrested, Ruby had worked really hard to get her off. Emma refused, but Ruby never gave up. If she couldn't help Emma get out, she would make as much as she could so that at least when Emma got out, she could have a place to stay.
Ruby may be pretty, but don't judge a book by the cover. The girl was smart. Like crazy smart. Crazy computer smart, and a bit of a geeky nerd. She loved video games or anything technology. She took that knowledge that she had and went into jobs with it. It is safe to say that now Ruby is now one of the high paid female computer genius in the whole state of Massachusetts, and they now live in a three bedroom condo in Boston.
6 months after being released, Emma was in school for criminal justice, when they received a surprise visit from Neal. As it turns out, a week after Emma's arrest, Neal was turning himself in, hoping to get Emma out, but sadly it didn't work that way, and he was sentence to 2 years in jail. Once he got out, early also on good behavior, he went searching for Emma and Ruby. After hearing what he had to say and forgiving, the three were back together and better than ever. Neal even joined Emma at the police academy. Figured if he couldn't cause crime, might as well fight it right. Weird reason, but whatever he's Neal.
Emma loved Neal and Ruby. They were the closest thing to family as anyone would ever get, but she couldn't help but feel a bit lonely at times. Like there was something missing in her life. That companionship type relationship or wanting the unconditional love of a child. Something like that.
There had been girls. Many…many…many…many girls, but none of them ever felt right. Plus some of them only wanted her for sex and her money, which she had a lot of now.
And she had never met her real parents. Something else that nagged Emma to no end. Like didn't they even think of looking for her? Did they not want her that much?
Once again Emma was brought out of her thoughts when she heard Neal screaming her name.
"EMMA!"
"Damn dude, why are you screaming? I can hear just fine." Emma snaps.
"Whoa, sorry. I've been calling your name for the past 5 minutes and you didn't answered." Neal replies. Emma sighs.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snapped. I just…I'm thinking." Emma says.
"What? About what that guy said? Emma he's a dick. Don't listen to what he says." Neal says.
"Yea, I know. Look let's get going. I don't want this scum in my car longer that he has to be." Emma says she heads for the driver's side.
"Hey…can I drive?" Neal asks bouncing on his toes, looking like a kid hyped up on candy.
Emma rolls her eyes, but tosses him the keys. "Just don't crash my car."
"YES!" Neal cheers as he and Emma switch sides. Emma shakes her head, but smiles at her friend.
6 hours later, Emma and Neal were heading home after their shifts ended. She was so exhausted. All she wanted to do was get home, take a shower and fall face first into the bed and just block out the rest of her world. But that might prove to be a little difficult.
As they got closer to their house, Neal was looking a little jittery. Well more than usual. Kind of freaked Emma out. He's only ever like that is when he has something up his sleeves. Emma decides to ignore it and unlocks the door.
When she opens to door, the apartment is strangely darker than usual. Then out of nowhere the lights cut on and Ruby jumps out with a party hat on and both her and Neal scream.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" the shout. Emma looks shocked but happy.
She had totally forgot it was her birthday. She was never really big on her birthday. She didn't really care for it much. Sure it was the day she was born, but she just didn't do anything for it. She only ever really did do something when it came to Ruby and Neal, so she'll suck it up and had fun.
While the two sung happy birthday to Emma, Ruby brought out a small cup with a single lit candle in the middle of it.
"Alright, make a wish oldie." Neal jokes once they finished the song. Emma gave Neal a hard but playful push before blowing out the candle.
"Don't forget to make a wish." Ruby says before Emma could blow out the candle.
Emma rolls her eyes playful. Oh course how could she forget about the wish. Emma thought really really hard for what she wanted to wish for. Taking a few more minutes, Emma blow the candle, and Ruby and Neal cheered.
"Wooooo! Yeaa!" they cheered.
"Now let's get this party started…" Neal started to say, but there was a knock at the door. The three looked at the door confused before looking at each other. "Did you wish for strippers Emmsy?" Neal jokes.
"Wh-what…no." Emma says and goes to open to the door.
As she goes over to the door, Neal steps closer to Ruby.
"Did you get the strippers?" he whispers.
"No." Ruby says
"Then who got strippers?" Neal asks.
"There are no strippers." Ruby says.
"Well how do you there's no strippers?"
"There just isn't now stop it." Ruby says and Neal pouts.
"So…there's no strippers…?"
"NEAL!"
Ignoring her friends bickering, Emma makes her way to the door and opens it. She doesn't see anything or anyone, until she looks down and saw a little boy, who looked to be about 10 or 11. She looks at the boy shocked before looking back up and down the hallway, trying to find any adult that might have been with him.
"Uhh…can I help you?" Emma asks confused.
"Yea, are you Emma Swan?" the little boy asks.
"Uh yea. Who's asking?" Emma replies.
"My name's Henry and I think you're my mom." the boy, Henry says.
Emma's face turned from confused to shock in less than 5 seconds before she burst out laughing. Ruby and Neal look towards their friend confused while Henry's face drops.
"Nice…nice try kid, seriously who are you?" Emma asks after she stopped laughing.
"Really I think you're my mom." Henry says. Emma burst out laughing again.
Ruby and Neal…and Henry, now looked at her like she was crazy.
"Uh Em, what's up?" Ruby asks.
Emma ushers the kid inside the apartment, still laughing.
"Definitely not strippers." Neal whispers.
"This…this kid says…says he thinks I'm his mom." Emma laughs as she explains. When she doesn't hear Ruby and Neal join in her laughter she stops. "Whoa, you guys don't…you guys don't seriously think…" Emma starts.
The two friends look at each other unsure before looking back at Emma and shrugging.
"Well…you are a bit of a player Em." Ruby says.
"And you were to say you were allegedly allergic to condoms." Neal says.
"Yea, but I still wear them…no matter how uncomfortable they are." Emma mumbles at the end. She looked at her friends again. "Wait so you guys seriously think I could know some chick up?" Emma asks her friends in disbelief. Again they gave her a shrug. "No way, I-I mean…look at this kid. He's like…how old are you, kid?"
"9. I'll be 10 in a few months." Henry replies.
"See, that means I knocked up some chick when I was 18..."
"17" Ruby corrects.
"…whatever. There's still no way." Emma says.
"Well you were a bit at your biggest player peak at that time." Ruby says.
"Dude! Look I know I was irresponsible at that age, but come on you guys." Emma tries to defend.
"And well I mean I kind of do see the resemblance." Ruby says taking a good look at Henry.
"Ruby!" Emma yells.
"What I'm just saying." Ruby says.
Emma looks at Neal, who nods then back at Henry.
"You guys can't seriously…Look I don't have a kid. M-maybe you have me mixed up with someone else, ok. Look maybe you can tell me who your parents are and we can straighten this all up." Emma says.
"But you are my mom…my other mom. And I went through a lot to find you. Please you have to come back with me and reunite with mom." Henry says
"Back? Back where?" Emma asks.
"To StoryBrooke. You have to come back and save StoryBrooke so you can be with my mom again. She needs you." Henry says. He rolls his eyes when it doesn't look like they were getting it. "Plus I have the papers that says it here." Henry says handing them the papers. Ruby takes the papers and reads them.
"Oh…oh yea. He is definitely yours Em." Ruby says passing the papers to Emma.
"Wait, how did you even get these?" Emma asks.
"I had an accident a few months ago and they did test. I asked my mom, but she never answered. I honestly don't think even she knows." Henry says
"What is she a hoe?" Neal asks.
"Neal!" Emma and Ruby scolds.
"No, I jut don't think she remembers. She never talks about my dad…or you I guess. I think she's under a spell." Henry answers ignoring the jab at his mother.
"A what?" the adults look confused by the little boy.
"Ugh, this is not what I had in mind when I got off of work." Emma groans rubbing her nose with her fingers.
"Uh…you know what, how about we umm…leave this heavy talk for later. We still have a party to start." Neal says. He heads over to the tv and sets up the Xbox Kinect. "It's a party tradition. You wanna play kid?" Neal asks as he puts in Dance Central 2.
Henry turns his attentions from his mom-Emma, and looks back at Neal. "I-I've never played before."
"Oh well that's cool. I'll teach you. And Em, because you're the birthday girl, I'll try not to kick your as-butt…" He corrects himself when he saw the glare Emma was sending him, as if saying, 'don't curse in front of the kid.' "…as hard." He finishes.
"Oh please Neal, you have two left feet. The kid in the wheelchair was better than you." Ruby teases. Henry laughs while Neal pouts.
"Uh you guys go ahead and play. I think I'm going to sit this one out. I have a bit of a headache. I think I'm gonna go lay down." Emma says.
"You sure Em?" Ruby asks.
"Uh yea, yea I'm sure." Emma says. "Hey Rubs, can you show uh Henry my room when you're done, I'm gonna sleep on the couch and he can have the bed." Emma says.
"Sure Em, you got it. Get some sleep." Ruby says.
Emma nods before leaving the room. She sends one more glance to Henry, and saw him looking back, before she goes to her room. Henry watched as Emma went into her room. He had to do something in order to prove to her that she was in fact his mom.
As Emma laid on the couch in her room, she thinks about Henry and what he said. If she was honest with herself, no matter how much she wanted or tried to deny it, he did look a little familiar. Especially around the eyes, though his eyes were brown while hers were hazel. He must have gotten that from his other mom.
Oh what was Emma thinking, she didn't have a kid. Probably just some chick that she messed with back in the day trying to use the kid to get money from her. Yea that had to be the reason. But Emma couldn't help but feel a small tug at her heart thinking about Henry and the woman that could be his mom. As she thought about it, Emma fell into asleep.
End of chapter 1
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