Author's Note:

Hello all! This is my first OUAT story that I've posted, and I hope you all enjoy it!

Quick explanation for the premise of the story - Basically this sets up what would have happened in season 1 if Emma and Regina got together in the pilot episode. I plan to do a rewrite for each episode with the main show plot still occurring, but the focus will be on SwanQueen. I have interweaved some dialogue and scenes from the show with my own storylines intentionally to make it feel like this was the story that actually happened. Hope you like that approach!

~DreamsFromADistance

Title: The Battles We Will Face – The First Step

Rated: T (mostly for language, some suggestive themes)

Summary: After bringing Henry home that first night, Regina invites Emma inside for drinks, just like the pilot. Diverges soon afterward. They are nervous, both having felt something the instant green eyes met brown ones. Once they kiss, everything changes, beginning the battles they would face in their relationship. SwanQueen from start. Season 1 Rewrite with SwanQueen as canon.

Disclaimer: I do not own OUAT, its characters, or its storylines.


Prologue: 108 Mifflin Street

108 Mifflin Street.

If only I had known how very attached I would become to the grandiose mansion and the two people residing there. A mayor missing her happy ending and a ten year old believer. Combined with a lost savior, we made a great team.

I wish I had known how everything would change in the instant brown eyes met green ones. After one simple word escaped my lips.

Hi.

That was how my relationship with Regina Mills started. The most complicated and heartbreaking, but at the same time, the most beautiful and loving relationship I had ever been in. Regina understood me. She felt my pain. She was broken, just like myself. Together, we were able to mend the emptiness and loneliness that had accompanied our lives in a way that no one else could have ever done for us. It was all thanks to Henry, who had brought us together that first night in Storybrooke. The night that changed everything.

Regina and I would forever be grateful.

I just wished I hadn't taken as long as I had to admit my true love for Regina.

~Emma Swan