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1 Day Sharing a(nother) child

The toddler's laughter filled the place just as Emma's own one rumbled deep on her chest, her right hand still close to the child's cheek, fingers extended, just about to graze his skin. The sun's rays entered through the window, haloing them both in a warm light Regina found herself smiling at, cup of tea cooling on her hands as she attempted -and failed- not to be distracted by the couple.

"They are adorable." Snow said at her side. The two of them were leaning on Regina's kitchen counter, the open doors of the room permitting them both to see brother and sister as they played. Snow turned to look at Regina in the way the former queen had learnt to fear even if she wasn't going to admit it. With her eyes wide and open Snow seemed just as happy as Neal who was now muttering quick nonsenses into Emma's ear as the blonde picked him up, green eyes never leaving the toddler. "Aren't they?"

Regina could only nod at the other woman's words, knowing very well the implicit question that hid behind Snow's words, the one that sometimes seemed about to fall from Snow's eager lips and even more frantic eyes. Grasping the mug even more tightly between her fingers, she absentmindedly eyed the spot on her hand in where a small, simple ring stared back at her.

"I don't want anything fancy." Emma had said "Just something for both of us."

She had agreed, the pirate's memory still too fresh at the moment for them both to consider anything else but to timidly start living together. That, however, had changed quickly on the last two years and Regina could feel the whispers crawling up her back whenever the two of them walked into Granny's.

Sometimes, she thought while smiling slowly into the beverage, she missed the days in where the fear she imparted was so great that no one would ever question her love life. Or family life for that matter.

"They really are." She finally answered, thinking again on the words neither she or Emma said outload. Words about a childe, one that could be them and them alone.

She had used to think that that would betray Henry in many, different, complicated ways. Still did. However, as weeks passed and what she had started with the blonde that was now kissing the toddler's while he tried to tell her some story or other (Apparently being a storyteller was nothing but the norm on the Charming's household) had turned from complicated and fragile to something strong and easy she often found herself wishing… more.

Snow's wishful sigh at her side made her swallow a sudden lump on her throat and take a sip of her tea, leaving the mug on the kitchen's counter far too forcefully eliciting a small jump from the other woman. Eyeing her, the former Queen blinked slowly, turning towards Emma who was, as well, glancing at her.

Emma's ever present green eyes were light, her face open in a way Regina hadn't realized had changed again over the years after Hook's departure but that now was poignant enough for her to feel speechless, breathless. Just like she had once felt at the town's line. Forgetting about her doubts Regina found herself smiling at Emma, at the way the blonde frowned ever so slightly before answering the smile with one of her own, the skin around her eyes crinkling, blonde tresses framing her face just as she ducked her head, looking at her baby brother and nodding along to him. The moment was over far too quickly but by the time Regina reminded herself where and with whom she was everything else had faded to the back of her mind.

That night, she thought while picking the mug once again, doing her best to feign she wasn't seeing Snow's satisfied smirk from the corner of her eye. That night she would ask Emma. Perhaps, she thought looking at the drink, it was time.