A/N: Disclaimer I do not own... Just a tweaked version of the show.
Twenty-eght Years Later
Emma Swan worked as a bailbonds person, Her Twenty-eghth birthday started out as a normal night to catch a runner. She got her guy as usual, using her skills she picked up over the years. Later that evening Emma returned home to enjoy a little birthday cupcake she had purchased earlier that day. Taking out a box of candles She placed one single blue star into the center of the chocolate swirl cupcake. Lighting the candle with a match, Staring intently into the flame. Emma closed her eyes and made a single desperate wish...
As the flame was extinguished by Emma's breath, A knocking on her apartment door became apparent."Hold on a second."She yelled from the kitchen as the knocking persisted. She opened the door swiftly looking around and not seeing a soul until that is she looked down. "Hello, I'm Henry your son..."The little boy spoke softly. "Hold up kid, I don't have a son."Emma spoke cautiously as the boy entered her home. "Ten years ago did you give up a baby for adoption?"Henry asked sweetly."I need a minute."Emma called out as she rushed into her bathroom to gather her emotions. She sat there on the toiletseat for what seemed like hours. 'How could this happen? It was a closed adoption. Why now? I need to get this kid home.' Thoughts running through her mind like hamster's on wheels. Emma finally exited the bathroom with a calm physical appearance. "Alright kid, Where are you from?"Emma asked with a semi cold tone. "Storybrooke Maine, I want you to come home with me."Henry looked up at his birthmother with his deep brown eyes. "Your going on a bus kid."Emma replied shortly. "Then I'll call the cops and say you kidnapped me."Henry retorted. "And they'll believe you because I'm your birthmother..."Emma thought aloud as she looked over at the boy. "Your bluffing! Kid I have this thing let's call it a super power, I can tell when anyone is lieing and you kid are."Emma smirked. "Fine, Just come home with me please."Henry pleaded with Emma. "Fine, I'll take you to Storybrooke Maine..."Emma laughed as she said the name of the town. 'Storybrooke who the hell names a town storybrooke' She thought as they went to the car...
Welcome to Storybrooke, Emma read the sign before pressing the gas petal further down to the floor. Eager to get the boy sitting in her passenger seat back where he belongs. Just as her speed regulated Emma looked over at the boy, seeing him clutch a book of fairytales. "Hey kid, What's that?"She asked. He looked up at her with a frown. "I have a name you know, It's Henry and I'm not sure your ready."Henry replied. "Ready? For a book of fairytales..."Emma chuckled. "It's not just a book of fairytales, Everything in this book actually happened."He spoke with certainty in his tone. "Yeah, Right..."Emma laughed once more before parking the car infront of a resteraunt named Granny's. "So ki- Henry... How about an address?"Emma asked sweetly. "fortyfourth not telling you street."Henry replied. Which only upset Emma in her own emotional state. " Look it's been a long night and it's... Eight fifteen?"Emma stared at the clocktower in the center of town. "That clock hasn't moved my whole life, Time's frozen here... The evil queen did it with her curse, She sent everyone from the enchanted forest here."Henry explained. "An evil queen sent a bunch of fairytale characters here?"Emma questioned him. "Yeah and now there trapped."He replied with a straight face. "Frozen in time, Stuck in Storybrooke Maine. That's what your going with?"Emma smirked. "It's true!"Henry exclaimed with desperation in his voice. "Then why doesn't everybody just leave?"She asked. "They can't if they try... Bad things happen."Henry spoke softly. Their conversation was cut short by a man with a dalmation dog walking over to them."Henry, What are you doing here? Who's that?"The man asked. "She's my mom Archie."Henry replied with a grin on his face. "So this is why you missed your session?"Archie asked with kind eyes. "Yes, I went and found my mom."Henry smiled brightly. "Hey Archie, You know where he lives?"Emma smiled taking her opportunity. "Yeah, Right up on Mistlend street, The mayor's house is the biggest on the block. Can't miss it."Archie smiled as he walked away from the two of them. "Wait a damn minute, Your the mayors kid?"Emma asked with pure shock in her voice. "Maybe..."Henry replied cautiously. "He didn't seemed cursed to me."Emma stated as she got into her car." "He's the one who needs help, Because he doesn't know.."Henry explained as he entered the car after her. "He doesn't know he's a fairytale character."Emma replied half heartedly. "None of them do, They don't remember who they are."He explained further. "Conveinent alright I'll play. Who's he supposed to be?"Emma asked with a smile. "Jiminey Cricket!"Henry retorted as if it should have been obvious. "Right, The umbrella and let me guess he's your shrink to?"Emma said disbelievingly. "Well yes but I'm not crazy!"Henry snapped. "Hmm, Did your nose just grow a bit?"Emma giggled as she joked with the boy. "I'm not pinnochio!"He smirked as he folded his arms across his chest as they drove off. "Of course your not... Cause that of all things would be rediculous."Emma laughed.
Walking up the walkway to Henry's home he started to sniffle as if he were about to cry. "Please don't make me go back there..."Henry pleaded. "I have to, I'm sure your parents are going crazy looking for you."Emma replied without haste. "I don't have parents... I have a mom and she's evil."Henry retorted. "Evil, Kid don't you think that's a little extream"Emma spoke with concern. "She is.. She doesn't love me, She only pretends to."Henry spoke as a tear slid down his cheek. Emma leaned down and removed the tear with her finger. "Kid, I'm sure it isn't..."Emma was cut off by a woman opening the front door quickly as she ran out to meet Henry. "Henry... Henry... Oh Henry!"The woman called out as she ran up to hug her son. "Henry, Where have you been? Are you alright... Who is this?"The woman asked in a worried tone. Henry broke away from the hug and shouted "I found my real mom!" As he ran into the house an up the stairs to his bedroom.
"You.. Your Henry's birthmother?"The woman asked with a puzzled look on her face. Emma stood motionless and stared deeply into the woman's eyes, Speechless Emma just kept standing in the same spot looking at the woman infront of her. "How about you come inside for a glass of the best apple cider you've ever tasted."The woman asked with a vicious smile. "Have anything with a kick?"Emma replied while following the woman inside, She couldn't help but stare at the woman's beautiful legs as they strutted inside the home. "By the way, I'm Regina.."The woman spoke sweetly now they were inside. "I'm... Emma."Emma replied barely able to form words. 'Why is she having this effect on me.' Emma thought. "Do you have a lastname miss Emma?"Regina smiled. "Swan, Emma Swan."Emma said as she found her will to speak. "Alright miss Swan, Heres the deal. When I adopted Henry he was three weeks old, I was told it was a closed adoption and the birthmother well you did not want contact. Has that changed?"Regina spoke with a certain edge to her voice. "Well, Regina... It sort of has I mean he came all the way to Boston to find me, I kinda want to stay and make sure he's okay. I mean I just met his shrink for gods sakes."Emma replied feeling the alcohol Regina had handed her previously start to effect her. "Well then, I guess you have made up your mind."Regina snapped feeling an urge to attack Emma, Yet the urge to take her on the couch aswell. "I guess I have, I'll be going now. Have to find a place to stay."Emma put her glass down and went to leave.. "Thank you for the drink."She added before opening the front door. "Miss Swan, I think it might be in everyone's best intrest if you just go home."Regina replied right before Emma exited her home.
Emma got inside her car, She quickly drove around Storybrooke until she found Granny's Inn. "That's conveinent."She said aloud to herself as she parked the car, almost crashing into the sign out front. Emma stumbled up the walkway to the Inn , She tripped and nearly busted her head on the concrete before the door opened and a young girl came out. She had a red streak through her long dark hair, Helping Emma up and into the Inn The girl spoke. "I'm Ruby, Are you here to rent a room? We never get guests.."The girl smiled. "Yea, I'll be staying for a week. I'm fine by the way, You can let go of me now."Emma giggled. Ruby did as she was asked , She set Emma up in a room with a view of the center of town. "Here you go."Ruby smiled as she handed Emma the key to her room and closed the door. Leaving Emma to sleep off her drunken state.
That night when all of storybrooke was sleeping, Something miraculous happened... The hands of the clocktower moved with every second, minute and hour that passed by. Time unfroze and everything was about to change.
A/N: Alright so I know this is a short chapter, But hey give me a break lol I'm not used to writing novels.. Just short stories. Okay really short stories.. I promise they will get longer and SwanQueen scenes to come.R&R.