Well here is a new story! This idea came to mind and it wouldn't leave so I wrote it down. So I hope you guys like it. As always review and tell me what you guys think!

I don't own OUAT or the characters. I'm just playing around with them.

Being exiled had to be one of the hardest decisions she had to make. But she would make it again if she was given the same option. Exile or death and she had chosen life. Merely for the possibility of her getting the chance to come back. For her to come back to Storybrooke to see her son.

Gods, her son.

Regina Mills sniffed softly as she rest back into the slightly uncomfortable couch in the too small apartment that she had found herself in the grand city of Boston. For it to be so many people Regina had never felt so alone. She wanted to be back home in her mansion. She wanted to wake up from this and realize that these last few months had only been just a dream. That the curse never broke, that Emma Swan never strolled into town that her son..that her son still loved her. Of course that wasn't going to happen and Regina was still wrapping her mind around. Along with another bout of news that hit her only a few weeks after she had left town. Sighing softly she dropped her hand down to the swell of her five month pregnant belly and started to rub gently. Finding out that was pregnant had scared the living daylights out of Regina. She had always assumed that she couldn't get pregnant and the father of this child..the father..well she didn't have to worry about the father because she was never going to see him again and that was something she was grateful for. It had been a foolish thing for her to do, her quest for revenge and a moment of lust had clouded her mind and she made a decision that fateful day. But she wouldn't regret it. No. That would mean that she regretted or had any ill thoughts towards this child growing inside of her and she didn't. She couldn't.

She would raise this child on her own and love it as much as she could. This baby, this beautiful unborn child, was Regina's chance to start over. It was her chance to love and be loved in this strange new land without magic. She had a job now, a baker's assistant at the local bakery, and she had her apartment and she had this baby. She also had her over the phone therapy conversations with Archie, something those back in town didn't know about but she knew she needed them and there wasn't a therapist here in this land she could talk to without fear of getting locked up in some sort of establishment. She had so much going for her but she couldn't help but feel lonely and stuck. She wasn't meant to be in this strange land. She enjoyed it but she wasn't meant to stay here. She should be home with her son but she couldn't be and it made her chest ache whenever she thought about him.

So she tried her best not to think about him. She went about her life day by day. Reading books about her pregnancy, working at the bakery, getting odd little trinkets for her unborn child. She was going to make this strange land work for her and her baby. Whenever she felt her mind slipping into memories of a place she could never go again, a child she would never see she would close her eyes and place a hand on her belly. She could do this. She would do this. She didn't have a choice.

~~Storybrooke~~

Emma Swan couldn't do this. She was tired, cranky and not at all happy. She was the Savior to the town full of fairytale characters. She was now a single mother to a troubled boy and she was the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. Who seemed to be one argument away from splitting up. It wasn't fair. It really wasn't. She thought her son finding her and then finding her parents meant that things would start looking up for her. She had a family now and yet she felt so alone. Alone and overworked.

Everyone one in this town wanted her to fix their problems. The curse had broken a few months ago and after the town decided to kick the former Mayor/Evil Queen over the townline everything seemed fine. But then..then people started to complain. The town was falling apart. People wanted to go back home to Fairytale land while others wanted to cross the townline and explore the world and then there were the people who just loved to complain. 'Why can't I open a sword shop?' 'My dog is missing! I bet the Evil Queen had something to do it!' 'Pay for a parking fine? Do you have any idea who I am!?' It gave Emma a headache.

But that wasn't the worse of her problems. Her family, god how weird is that, was causing her the most issues. Her parents started to fight soon after Regina had been banished across the townline. Either it was something small like Mary Margaret and David disagreeing about something that came to the town or something about their cursed personalities. It just never seemed to end for them. So Emma moved Henry and herself into another apartment. Henry had been upset about it but they managed well enough.

At first.

It only took about three weeks for Henry to realize that having all his dreams and wishes come true wasn't something he actually wanted. Not at the price of losing his mom. Emma knew that Regina being kicked out would bother him eventually but she hadn't expected him to react to it the way he did.

The kid just shut down. It started off with smart remarks about Emma not knowing the right to make his school lunch or his favorite meal or anything about him really. Then it turned into him ignoring her altogether and then his grandparents. He spent more time at the mansion in his own room than outside playing with friends. He had pictures of his adoptive mother at his bedside and Emma was sure that he cried himself to sleep at night. And Emma had no idea what to do about and she hated herself for it. She hated that her son was hurting and she hated that the one thing,person, that could make him feel better wasn't in this town anymore.

She had to do something and fast. She couldn't go on like this. She couldn't let her son go on like and she sure as hell wasn't going to let the town go on like this. It was these thoughts that forced her to take the next step in her plan. She didn't give a damn what the town thought about her plan or even her parents for that matter.

She was going to bring Regina back home. Henry needed her and Emma would do anything for her son, even if it meant bringing the Evil Queen back to the town that forced her out in the first place. Emma was sure that Regina held some sort of ill will towards the town, especially her family, and she could only hope that Regina would agree to come back for Henry. But first she had to find the woman. Good thing she was a bit of a pro at finding those who wished to remain hidden. She just hoped that after finding Regina she could convince the woman to come back to Storybrooke.

To come back home.