This is going to be a story about Regina attempting to move on by adopting again. She meets my OC, Emory, which I got the name from an awesome TV show called Star-Crossed. Which was canceled. Emory has migraines and has no one to help her deal with them until Regina. I have migraines so this is just my experience with them. Many people experience them in different ways. I have had them for 16 years and have not found a cause or treatment for them so there probably isn't going to be a happy ending in that sense. There is no romance in my stories because I can't write that and have no interest in getting into shipping wars. This is just a family fic.
Set 5 years after the curse broke
Chapter 1
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
I groan and roll over to look at the time. Eight o'clock flashes in bright red lights on the alarm clock I set last night for the first time in over a year. I groan again and hit snooze before I roll back over and crawl deeper into the covers.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
I hear the same noise again. I look at the time and it's 8:10. I sigh and through the covers off of me before turning the alarm off and finally getting out of bed. I head towards the bathroom to take a shower in my three-bedroom house that I purchased a year and a half ago, a little over a year after I moved here to South Carolina. Leaving Storybrooke was one of the hardests things I have ever had to do. But I was not wanted nor needed there. So I decided to go my own way. Start over. So far it has had a good turn out. I stayed in an apartment for a year until I decided I needed to get at least a part time job. I looked through options available and found an opening for a chef on the weekends. It was perfect. So I was hired and a couple months later bought my house to be closer to work. It was much homier thatn the mansion back in Storybrooke. Which had a big part in helping me decide to try adoption again. This time I am going to adopt an older child. I don't want to be faced with the decision again on whether or not to tell them they are adopted and be hated for it. Which to me is a big reason for mine and Henry's fall out. Whether he believes that or not. Which leads me to today. Meet and Greet day for the local group home. All the kids from Gwinnet's Group Home for Girls go to the Rec center for a day and meet local people looking to adopt.
Getting out of the shower, I blow dry my hair straight which doesn't take long because I recently cut my hair short again to make my job easier. Once I get dressed I head down stairs to make coffee.
While I wait for it to brew I look at the time. 9:30 am. The meet and Greet starts at eleven and goes until five. It is supposed to give the adults and the children real time to get to know each other.
I hear the coffee maker go off to let me know it's ready. As I poor myself a cup of coffee I mentally go over in my head the schedule for this morning. It takes me so minutes to get to the Rec center, so I have to leave by 10:30 am. That means I have forty-five minutes until I need to leave. I plop down on the couch in front of the TV and turn on the news. I start to lose interest in the TV and look down at my outfit. My wardrobe has drastically changed since I lived in Storybrooke. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying my wardrobe is filled with faded jeans and plad shirts. But it's also not filled with power suits either. I have on dark blue skinny Miss Me jeans with a cream-colored razor back tank top and matching heals. It may be a little fancy for the Rec center but I always like to look my best. I could have worn one of my sun dresses but I wanted to be able to play with kids and didn't want, trying to keep my modesty to interfere with that.
After forty-five minutes had past I got my purse off the counter and went to get into my 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee. On the way I turned on the radio and Headlights by Eminem came on. My eyes tear up as I listen to the words. It comes a little to clos to home for me. My hopes for Henry and I dwindle as the song comes to the end and he says, "I hope you get this message that I will always love you from afar." That's how it has to be. I keep telling myself. I shake myself out of my funk as I pull into the Rec parking lot.
This is a really short chapter I know. The next one will be really long because Regina and Emory will meet and be together the whole day. I hopefully will have it up tomorrow. This will eventually involve Storybrooke in present time and what happened before and after Regina left.