A/N:

Just clearing a small thing up here, Robin is mentioned, as he is in other chapters and also, the father. This is not an OutlawQueen fic, It's SwanQueen all the way.

IMPORTANT-13/10/16-This chapter has been re-edited, as mentioned in Chapter One, enjoy! X

~Regina.

So, Emma Swan thought she could barge into her life and take away her child again.

She thought it slightly amusing that this time around it was her biological child, yet still, her little Bambi who she and she alone had been caring for. And she couldn't let them take her one salvation away from her, the one little person in the world who heard her, understood her and had no problem seeing who she was. SHe thought that could have been Emma and Henry, but they didn't think so. It sounded ridiculous to think that this was a little child who could to so much for her, but this was it, she had to protect the child who wasn't born yet, but had already given her so much- she had to protect the small child inside of her.

She had to leave Storybrooke.

~Emma.

She had picked up the book and spun herself and Mary-Margaret out of the door, she knew she couldn't trust Gold but with Regina doing baby-voodoo what was the lesser of two evils here? Dear god, she prefers Rumplestiltskin to the Evil Queen. Since when did that happen?

When they came to Gold's shop it looked abandoned, no-one seemed to be around, but when Belle came around from the corner of the shop carrying some books she watched her smile falter before being replaced by something that wasn't forced, just wary.

"What can I ...uh, do for you?" She seemed nervous and rightfully so, the book in Emma's hands was glowing brighter slowly, a soft gold haze emitting from it and Belle -being smart- was eyeing it closely.

"We found this at Regina's, I finally got through the damn barrier, and she has a nursery and books like this with babies all over them and like, she's not even there, so I just-"

She was interrupted by Gold sauntering into the room then, cane in hand, and his threatening smile playing slowly across his face.

"-Why Hello there dearie. Glad to see 'you' got through the barrier." She gave gold a quizzical look before tossing the book down on the counter.

"Gold, what the hell is she doing with this book and her house...? You know something, so spill." Gold shook his head and almost laughed, before Belle coaxed him not to with just her eyes.

"Fine, I am turning over a new leaf, after all. Regina, hasn't done anything malicious and she is at home, though panicking now, no doubt." Another quizzical look from all women in the room, a tentative hand on his shoulder coaxed him once more.

"That book, is all about strange magic involving unborn children, powerful magic that has resulted in them being created. Regina, for once, has done nothing. That spell I gave you for the barrier only weakened it but her- Ah Bambi- as she so eloquently puts it, weakened her spells by draining her slightly." She stepped forward, pointing to the page in the book she found it at, watching it glow more brightly at her touch.

"What does the book have anything to do with a child? Who is her Bambi?" She asked, while Gold examined the book and his smile drained from his face.

"You didn't see her when you were there? Did you check everywhere? Fell any magical draw? Anything Miss Swan, think because time is of the essence!" Emma shook her head, her mouth forming a small 'o' shape, slamming it shut she shook her head again, confused as to what is going on.

"Gold, what has she done?" Gold shook his head and retreated back into the curtain-veiled room, Belle nodding at them before trying to find him. Snow and Emma shared a curious, confused glance at one another before hearing Gold rushing back through with Belle carrying a heavy book behind him.

"Set it down there.. Yes well done.. Okay yes.. Grab the potions, the purple one in the cabinet.. Yes, okay good." The two women stood back in awe at gold's communications with Belle and her nods as she silently seemed to understand every word he was saying, glancing warily at the still ever-glowing book reaching brighter shades of golden yellows, still the fog it emitted growing stronger the closer anyone stood next to it.

"Okay, Regina may be extremely idiotic, but I need to check she hasn't left yet. Everyone stay silent. Emma, I'll need you to place your hand on this pool of water, just breach the surface a little." Emma stood forward tentatively, and unwilling, her head shook as she felt the strong pull of the magic while he poured potions and waved his hand over it, sending glowing red ripples through the water.

"Miss Swan, we need to be fast, I shall explain later, so long as we don't let Her Majesty leave, her child will be safe." Snow's mouth finally hit the floor.

"Emma do as he says. Now." Emma nodded, slightly scared that her mother just got angry over the safety of Regina's- god what was going on here? She stood over the glass bowl with the water and placed her hand just lightly over the surface, like Gold said, careful, and-

"Now, think only of Regina, the connection will be breaking because of the child but you must reach past that."

As she did, she felt for a numb connection that she had shared with Regina's magic since they opened the portal, since they came through a well, since they stopped a trigger, since they caused an eclipse, since they saved their son, since she traveled back in time to meet her. She thought of the strong pull and felt two, following the one that reminded her of the perfume that somehow managed to stay intact even in the jungles of Neverland, and followed the pull to open her eyes, from Snow's gasping and Belles intent looming ( though to be honest, she was just interested in the magic) There was Regina, and shit she looked like she was about to burst with being pregnant, bustling around her room stuffing clothes into bags, stopping every once in awhile to relieve a weight from her back, and huffing once when she dropped some clothes, she almost pulled her hand back, but Gold glared at her, and he continued telling her what was going on.

"Regina is with child, because of magic it feeds from her own and drains it, learns her spells, which is all in this book so I'm sure she knows, she intends on leaving because of what you know Miss Swan, and you need to stop her, because do you know what will happen to them both if they cross the town line? No, you don't, well a magical baby cannot live in a land without magic until born, and this spell, says she has under a week before she's due. And magic is rarely wrong. She's nearly done packing, and she will try to leave soon, your task, is to hand her this." And he seemingly plucked a letter out of thin air, thick purple smoke dissipating when it fully appeared in his hand. "She can't leave. Go, now. Snow white, you return home, we know Regina's reaction with you and her children."

Snow nodded, shocked that all of this was happening because She knew this story from before, and she feared for what Regina was going through right now, not just as a mother but as Snow White, who grew to learn the dark secrets of Regina's past, present and now her past repeating itself in what she hoped would no longer be a grim future.

~Regina.

Everything was packed and ready to go, she had disassembled some of the necessities from Bambi's nursery, and packed the main essentials for the past week. The problem was, she had a box of Henry's memories she wasn't sure what to do with. She felt that writing him a letter would be too painful, slowly lifting the lid she tried not to cry, feeling Bambi fluttering around in her stomach, she let a hand drift downward, whispering to her child like she did so often these days because the warmth of loving words that fill the shadows of the cold dark in this house was one of the few small things that gave her hope in this town.

Her small child was the small thing that gave her hope in this town, that and her not so small son.

So when she whispered to her baby, she loved the kick she got back in response.

"It's okay, it's happy tears, I think I'll keep some things for you to know your brother by, yes?" letting the tears fall, because how could she be so closed off and not cry, regardless of her baby in this place? She pulled out some pictures f Henry as a small child, because that was when he was happiest, and set them aside, the ones of her holding him when he was a baby, the ones of him playing at the park, dancing around at the beach, smiling up at his birth mother, this one, where the blonde was laughing, funny, how she kept it. The picture had been originally taken from Sydney spying on them, it brought warmth to her heart, so she set it down on top of the pile of small happy memories. She slowly began to go through the box, keeping little trinkets, like his first baby tooth, and others like one of his old baby socks, but leaving others, like school certificates and class photos, art projects and childhood memos. Sliding the lid slowly onto the box again, the faded label reading 'Henry'. She felt silly kissing the top of it, as though it would seal it closed, she did so anyway, hand resting atop her rounded Bambi, picking up the last of her things as she went to her door, opening it slowly. This was it. She was leaving the door for the first time in months -heavily pregnant. Her first steps to leaving town, she smiled brightly at the happy faces in emerging atop the many pictures in her hands, Henry and Emma, smiling at each other in the street, and slowly slinking away from her home she stayed in for almost three decades, she slid into her car with all the grace of a heavily pregnant woman, and let the sounds of the engine calm her building anxiety, with each passing minute she passed closer to the edge of town, not noticing a flustered blonde scrambling out of her own car, as her engine refused to start. Not hearing the door slam. She was concentrating on her and her Bambi. Just the two of them, from now on.

A/N:

Glad where this is going so far? Sorry if this feels short, my first chapter usually tends to be 3x longer than any other.

Review ? ;)

13/10/16 - I know not many people might care, but I do have a few stories sitting on my laptop that are a few chapters in, that I can't decide whether or not to upload, If you like the summaries of the following, let me know, and I'll upload them maybe?

Jelly Beans and good Grades:

Emma lives-in and works at a Caravan site, having been kicked out of her religious and homophobic parent's house eight months ago. What happens when Regina Mills, her English teacher, sees Emma there repeatedly, or when Kathryn Nolan, her Guidance Teacher and Ms. Mills' best friend, discovers the blonde's struggle?

Time Travels Toward Taverns:

Emma falls into the time portal, alone, and her presence in the Enchanted Forrest manages to disrupt the magic Tink performs on Regina to find her a soul-mate. When Regina, alone and upset, stumbles upon a curious blonde, seeking help, she aids her in finding Rumplestilskin. When the blonde leaves, she thinks nothing of it, other than a sting at the fact she has been left alone again. What happens when, months later, Henry finds that in his book, Regina's Soul-mate story has been re-written.

Wicked Always Wins:

Zelena, has actually been protecting Regina all along, as much as she can from Oz. For fear her complexion will end in rejection, she hides, eventually painting herself as the villain so that Regina can finally realize her love for Henry's other mother, a fate Zelena has known since the curse's enacting.

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think of the story and the small plots in this rather long A/N!