Here you go guys I hope you enjoy this chapter. Thank you for all the sweet reviews and for supporting me in writing this new and different story. I hope that I don't lose any readers from my previous stories just because this is not a SQ story; I respect all ships and that is just how I am. I just want to say thank you for reading and for taking the time to read and review. Enjoy.

Emma woke up and smiled when she looked up and saw a beautiful crystal mobile hanging above her and it was casting rainbow colors on the light pink walls of the room where she had found herself to be in. She sat up and looked at all of the toys and books and she hoped with all of her heart that she could play with them.

She started to babble the few words she had learned the other day and although she had barely turned three her vocabulary was very small from the little time she was around others; most of her life she lived confined to the wall or locked up in the cage like an animal. "RoRo! MaMa! DaDa! ReRe! Quack!" She squealed laughing as she saw Regina walk into the room.

The blonde stood up in the crib and lifted her arms as she squealed and pointed at Regina, "MaMa!" She smiled when the brunette picked her up and spoke gently to her; it felt like a dream to Emma as she wrapper her arms around the brunette's neck and breathed in the comforting smell of love.

Regina couldn't help but let a few tears fall down her cheeks as Emma had called her MaMa. It had only been one day and this child trusted her enough to call her mama. "Hey baby mama is here. Did you sleep good?" She asked as she walked over to the closet and picked out a cute coral dress with white leggings and an aqua bow to put in the blonde's beautiful hair.

Clothes weren't an issue because Emma only weighed about 25-30 pounds and was very short and thin that she could fit into the clothes that were given to Regina when she was pregnant with her baby girl; the clothes that her daughter was supposed to grow into.

Emma lifted her arms and let Regina get her dressed and she giggled when the brunette kissed her belly button and tickled her. Finally she was dressed and her hair pulled back into a pony tail with a sparkly aqua bow and cute silver glittery flats were placed on her feet. Emma felt weird in shoes as she had never worn them before.

She tripped a few times as she tried to get used to the feeling and that was when it hit Regina that Emma didn't know what shoes were. "Emma, these are called shoes. Can you say shoes?"

The blonde looked down at her feet and pointed and squealed, "Choo! Chew!"

Robin peaked into the room and laughed to himself Emma's attempt at saying the word shoe. He couldn't help but smile at watching his wife with the little girl. "Good morning princess." He said as he crouched down in front of his wife and Emma and smiled when he felt little arms wrap around his neck and smelt the sweet scent of bubble gum.

"Dada! RoRo! ReRe" She squealed before running out of the room in search for the two boys she had met last night.

Robin and Regina laughed as they followed the sound of tiny feet padding on hardwood floors and the little girl call out, "RoRo! ReRe!"

Roland came out of his room with sleep still in his eyes dressed in dinosaur pajama's. "Emma!" He said as he hugged her sleepily. "Do you want to play?" He asked as he saw her looking at all of the toys in his room.

"Play?" She said confused at the word but connected the word with the toys he was pointing at. "Play!" She said as she ran to the giant stuffed animal tiger and laid her head on it sweetly.

Henry woke up and got dressed and sat down and began to play with Emma and Roland as they turned their room into a zoo and taught Emma all of the animal sounds; while Regina and Robin went downstairs to make breakfast.

They finished making pancakes and getting the table set with 5 plates and 4 cups and one sippy cup filled with chocolate Pediasure instead of orange juice. Regina sat down in front of her husband with a cup of coffee in her hands, "dear you never told me what happened to her real parents."

Robin took a long sip of coffee as he cringed at the question. "It's complicated dear and we are still investigating but so far all we know is that her mother is dead and the father we don't know where he is located. We found a strange note hidden inside of her blanket with a necklace with a strange charm hanging from it; they found her on the side of the road not even a day old." He said as he rested his hand on his wife's hand.

Before Regina could respond Roland and Henry running down the stairs with Emma following behind them. Roland and Henry both cheered at the sight of the pancakes. "Pancakes!"

Emma followed her foster brothers down the streets and started to cheer as well, "ancakes! Ancakes!"

Robin smiled and winked at Regina before getting up and helped Emma sit down in her booster chair in between the boys. Regina walked behind Emma and put a bib that had a catcher attached to it around Emma's neck; which made it very easy to cleanup a toddler who didn't fully understand how to use a fork.

The brunette placed a plate of cut up pancakes with syrup lightly poured on top in front of Emma and smiled when the blonde looked curiously at the plate in front of her.

"Ancake?" She asked as she pointed at the plate.

"Yes. Emma this is called a pancake" Regina said as she emphasized the "pan" in the word "pancake."

They finished breakfast and the boys got dressed as Regina cleaned up the sticky blonde at the kitchen sink careful that the water didn't get too hot.

Henry came down the stair with his brother following close behind him. "Mom and dad can we go to the park today?" He asked giving both of his parents pleading eyes.

Robin just smiled and nodded his head he loved Saturdays because it was his and Regina's day off of work. "Go get your shoes on and then we will go."

Emma wiped her face on the kitchen towel and let the brunette help her down from the stool as she said, "go ark?"

Regina chuckled at how cute Emma was. "Yes, Emma we are going to the park."

As soon as Regina opened the door she noticed how Emma hid behind her and covered her eyes; she bent down in front of Emma, "we are going outside and I promise no one will hurt you okay."

Emma nodded her head and raised her arms silently asking the brunette to carry her.

The park was only a block away and so the boys ran on their own to the park as Regina carried Emma in her arms and Robin walking right next to her. Robin pointed to a yellow butterfly that was fluttering by, "look Emma! Look at the pretty butterfly; I think she likes you."

The blonde lifted up her head from Regina's shoulder and watched the butterfly in awe as she held out her bony fingers trying to touch the delicate creature. "Utter eye." She said in a whisper and to everyones surprise the butterfly landed right in Emma's hand.

Robin and Regina watched in awe as they watched the little girl smile but they both had tears in their eyes when she lifted up her hand and whispered something so profound to the yellow winged friend she had just met, "utter eye... you fwee." The butterfly fluttered off and the blonde smiled as she watched the butterfly fly away.

They finally made it to the park and Regina sat on the bench with Emma sitting on her lap watching the way the wind blew in the blonde's hair and how curious those hazel green eyes looked around the park.

Emma looked up at the women she called mama and pointed to the ground now wanting to be put down so she could explore, "mama. Down!" She said with curiosity shimmering in her eyes.

Robin was off in the distance playing tag with the boys but his attention never left his wife and Emma. He smiled when he saw Regina put Emma down and how Emma bent down and touched the grass and when she took her first steps into the play park it was like watching your baby walk for the first time.

Emma spotted Robin watching her and she squealed as she waved her hand, "dada! Gwass!" She said as she threw a clump of grass into the air and giggled when the wind blew the grass away.

Regina picked a beautiful purple flower and handed it to Emma and saw sadness in the girl's eyes and it was similar to the look the blonde had when they had the sink incident. "It's the flower it's triggering her," she said to herself as she placed the flower back on the ground and sat down in front of the heartbroken child.

"Emma, worthless." She said with tears in her eyes as she ran off towards the woods not listening to Regina and Robin calling after her.

The brunette was shocked that the child was able to say that terrible word so perfect and then it hit her; Emma learns words and can say them correctly after hearing them repeatedly. Shaking her thoughts away she called out to the blonde who was running straight for the woods. "Robin!" She yelled at her husband pointing to the blonde running as fast as she could.

Emma cried not exactly sure where she was going as the memories clouded her little mind. Not knowing where she was going she tripped on a large tree stump and fell face first into the dirt as the flashback overcame her.

Flashback

Mr. Allen walked down to the attic and gave Emma a bouquet of flowers and laughed wickedly when he saw her whole face light up. He got in her face and grabbed the flowers from her small hands and took one of the flowers and slapped the blonde hard,

"look at me brat! You are this flower." He said as he started to rip the petals off one by one off of all the petals before throwing them to the floor and stomping all over them with his foot.

"Look at them now! They are worthless just like you; you are nothing but a worthless flower! Poor pathetic worthless Emma!" He spat at he pulled of his belt and began to hit her repeatedly with the belt loving the sound of leather beating down on baby soft skin.

"You belong to me flower and I will destroy you!" He yelled as he dragged her by her hair and threw her into the small cramped metal cage and locked her up. His laugh rang in her ears as everything went black.

Robin told the boys to go home and put on a movie and that they would be home later. Henry and Roland could hear the seriousness in their dad's voice and they knew that it had to do with Emma and so they obeyed and ran towards the house.

Regina caught up to Robin as they ran into the woods calling out the blonde's name. Tears ran down the brunette's face, "Robin, all I did was show her a flower and she said that she was worthless. She's three she shouldn't know that word!"

Robin was about to say something to comfort his wife when he heard sobs and whimpers in the far off distance. "Emma! Baby it's dada I'm coming!" He yelled worriedly as he ran towards the crying.

What the saw broke their heart as the blonde was on the dirt curled up into a ball shaking, bleeding and crying.

Regina walked over to the little girl careful not to touch Emma knowing that it could only make everything much worse and she started to sing,

"If you're feeling down or weak

You can always count on me

I will always pick you up

Nothing's ever gonna change

Nothing's gettin' in my way

I will always hold you up

Anything

Come what may

Don't look back forget yesterday

Forget yesterday

It's not where you come from

It's where you belong

Nothin' I would trade

I wouldn't have it any other way

You're surrounded

By love and you're wanted

So never feel alone

You are home with me

Right where you belong

I know sometimes you're feeling lost

It's hard to find your place in it all

But you don't have to fear

Even when you mess up

You always got my love

I'm always right here

Oh, cause

Anything

Come what may

Don't look back forget yesterday

Forget yesterday"

She finished the song and saw that hazel green eyes were watching her.

"Emma, come here baby girl. Mama and dada love you very much and you are not worthless you are beautiful. Can you say beautiful?" She asked the blonde who was now in her arms.

Emma breathed in the brunette's scent as she nuzzled into Regina's neck. "Beauterfwull." She said her voice muffled with the leftover whimpers coming from her lips.

Robin wrapped his arms around both Emma and his wife, "I love my beautiful girls." He said as he placed a kiss to both the blonde and brunette's cheek.

On the walk home Emma had fallen asleep and was breathing softly into Regina's neck occasionally sucking her thumb.

Robin looked at his wife and could see that what happened in the park was still bothering her. "Hey, it wasn't your fault. None of this was our fault and we are going to have to learn the things that scares her and turn them into good things. One day she will associate a flower as beautiful. It's just like the song you sang to her... she's right where she belongs."

Regina nodded her head as her own tears fell down her face as she stood in front of their beautiful mansion that they called home; she placed a warm kiss to the blonde's forehead, "You are home with me. Right where you belong"

I will try to update soon but please be patient with me as I'm back in college. Thank you for reading and reviewing.