Not sure how long this fic will end up but let me know what you guys think of the start of it. I do not own these characters and am just borrowing them from OUAT.

Emma and Regina are both lonely and not sleeping well. Bad dreams can become good when someone is there with you to help you cope. AU where Emma realizes that hook is actuallly a manipulating and selfish jerk and dumps his ass.

Emma's nightmares had been getting worse. Since the visions had started she slept so little that any respite she got was usually void of anything, but for the past few weeks she had been sleeping better and thus, dreaming. She figured this probably had to do with the fact that she was sleeping alone now. The fighting with Hook had become so strong that she had just broken it off. She had loved him, but she couldn't deal with his controlling and manipulating of her life, especially not with Henry starting to date now. He needed a descent role model of how a good relationship worked, and she and hook were not it, and so the sleeping alone began, and the nightmares started.

Tonight was no different. Each nightmare usually ended with her watching a different member of her family dying. Sometimes it was Henry, or her mother, or father. Tonight it was Regina. It had been Regina the past couple of nights. It was strange because these dreams always left her more shaken than the others. Maybe it was because she was the only one who Emma never usually had to save, or maybe it was because she was alone now and….nope emma wasn't going to think about that tonight. She was going to try to go back to sleep and not dream of horrors she could not change.

Regina sat in bed reading one of her countless novels. She didn't sleep much now that Robin was gone. She mainly tried to keep herself busy and going. She fueled her mad attempts with copious amounts of coffee and magic, and when she did have to sleep she always put a spell on herself so that she didn't dream.

The dreams were the worst part. She had now seen three people she loved die right in front of her. She wasn't a doctor but she was pretty sure that left some lasting damage. Regina tried not to think about it as she got up and began her nightly rituals. She took off her makeup and cleaned her face. Then she set out her clothes for the morning and made sure her alarm was set. She had already changed into her pajamas after her evening shower, so she walked out her bedroom door and down the hall to check on Henry.

"Henry, I know you are still away. Stop Texting Violet and go to bed."

"Ok mom." came through the closed door.

She used to go in and check on him, giving a kiss to his forehead before pulling his covers up over him but he was far too old for that now. Now was the time of dating and staying up late and growing too old for the minute affections of his mother. However she knew as she lost her little boy she was gaining a friend. Henry was turning into quite the young man and she was very proud of him, but she still missed that soft smell of his hair after his nightly bath as she riffled it and his tiny hand in hers as they walked across the street as they used to do.

With a small sigh she went back to her room and got into bed. She laid down thinking about the last few days she had deprived herself of sleep and of the little boy that used to run through her house, who now only seldom ran into her dreams.

As she was about to doze off she quickly realized she had forgotten her spell and muttered it slurred in her exhaustion. She then fell fast asleep.