Alrighty here is the next chapter! Emma and Regina chat and then Emma, Snow and David chat. As always enjoy and please review. Getting reviews really let me know if people actually care about what's going on and if I should continue on with the story. So please leave something.

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Emma stared down at the phone number she had managed to get from a friend of a friend. She still had plenty of connections from her bond hunting days, which she was grateful for, and she had managed to get a friend to look into finding Regina. It took nearly two weeks but her friend came through. She had the information that she needed and now..now she just had to gain the courage to go through with this. She knew that her son needed his mother back and she knew, well she hoped, that Regina could come back if she heard just how bad Henry was getting. Even though she was sure that Regina would come back she was still frightened of what would happen if she did. Would she stay? What would happen with the three of them after Henry got the mom he seemed to want even more than he wanted her? It hurt to think that she wasn't enough for Henry but she understood. Regina had raised him for 10 years and Emma only showed up a few months ago. She was clueless when it came to most things but she was trying her best to do right by him. And if doing right meant calling his adoptive mother and getting her to come back to town than that was what she was going to do.

With her mind made up she grabbed her phone and dialed the number she had been staring at for the last ten minutes. With shaky fingers she held her phone close to her ear as she waited for Regina to answer the phone. Please let her answer the phone. Was the mantra that she repeated over and over again until she heard the all too familiar voice of the former mayor saying hello.

"Hey. Regina. It's me Emma.."

The other side of the line went silent for a few moments before Regina said. "How did you get my number, ? Is Henry okay?" the urgency coming to her tone as she thought about her son.

Emma took in a slow breath. It was obvious that Regina still cared about Henry. Maybe this wouldn't be that hard afterall. "I had a friend of mine look into you and before you get angry it was for Henry. He...he isn't doing good. I mean he's not sick or anything like that but he really misses you and he's acting out and I don't know how to help him. He won't let me help him and I'm really worried about him, Regina."

Regina remained silent for a few moments before she sighed. " . I was exiled. I can't just return because you can't handle your son." It hurt to say but she had to. She wanted to return so badly but she knew that she couldn't.

"Can't handle my son?" Emma hissed as she clutched the phone tightly. "He is our son and Regina I can't do this. He's not talking to me. He tries to hide it but he holds your picture at night and I know that the cries. He's doing horrible in school and my parents aren't helping. They keep fighting and this town is driving me crazy. I can't..I just.." she sighed as she ran her fingers through her hair to calm her hair. "I'm drowning here, Regina. Please. We need you.."

The other line remained silent for nearly a minute before Regina sighed. "Even if I do come back what is stopping your lovely parents from kicking me right back out again? What is stopping the town from throwing me right over the townline." Her hand moving down to her stomach as she thought about it. If the town found out that she was pregnant and just who she was pregnant by she was sure that she would not be welcomed back. The nagging thought of them trying to take this child from her had her clutching her belly gently and shaking her head at the mere thought.

"I won't let them. And like I said my parents are too busy fighting than to notice anything. I don't even think they noticed we moved out until Ruby said something.." Emma said with a frown.

"Fighting? Your parents? What on earth are they fighting about?" Regina asked curiously, her heart beating quickly in her chest.

"Mary Margaret feels like David is holding back. David is struggling with all of this. He thought they were going to return to the Enchanted Forest after the curse. I'm sure there is something else but he won't talk about it. They just seem different." Emma replied with a frown as she grabbed a donut out of the box Ruby had left her. "Are you going to come? Henry really needs you, Regina.."

Regina sighed softly as she gently rubbed at her stomach. Her head was still reeling at hearing that David and Mary Margaret were fighting. A small part of her had to wonder what that meant for her if she returned to the town. Would David put the pieces together? Would he care? How would Mary Margaret react to it? She sighed once again before she replied. "I'll come. I will not be staying though. I have a life going for me know and I'm not going to stay in that town only for them to kick me out when I so much as breath wrong."

"What if Henry wants you to stay?" Emma asked softly. She was glad that Regina was going to come back but she was worried what would happen after she left again. How would Henry react?

"We both know that what Henry wants isn't going to stop a lynch mob, Sheriff. And before you say that I'm being dramatic you don't know those people like I do, ."

Emma wasn't going to argue with her about this now. Not when she could quickly change her mind and hang up the phone. "Fine. Okay, when are you coming?"

"I need to talk to my boss and ask for the days off. I'll come Friday and stay the weekend. Leave Monday or Tuesday." Regina said softly. She knew her boss would give her the days off, the older woman always wanted Regina to rest anyway.

"Boss you have a job? That's cool. What are you doing?"

"I work at a bakery." Regina looked at the clock at her side. "I would love to continue this engaging conversation but I have a doctor's appointment to go to, . I'll call you Friday when I am close to the townline."

"Doctor's appointment? Regina are you o-" But the other line discounted. Emma rolled her eyes and placed her phone down on the desk. The other woman was still the same Regina and it made Emma smile. She was actually going to come back. She was going to help Henry. Now she just had to explain this to her parents.

~*~ Charming Apartment ~*~

Emma could faintly hear the all too familiar voices of her parents even as she walked down the hall. She knew they had to be arguing about something once again and it made her roll her eyes. She wanted to turn around and go back to the station but she couldn't. She had to let them know that Regina was going to be in town for a few days. So she walked to the door and hesitated a few seconds before she knocked loudly enough for them to hear her over their own raised voices. She waited as patiently as she could for a few moments and before she got the chance to knock again the door was opening and her mother was before her.

The woman's usually pale face was flushed red and her kind eyes were darkened with what had to be anger. But the moment she saw Emma all that vanished and she smiled brightly at her daughter. "Oh Emma!" She moved forward and wrapped her arms around Emma quickly, feeling the other woman tense before relaxing always made Snow's stomach ache. But she didn't let go until Emma did. "Come in." She stepped back and ushered for Emma to follow her into the apartment.

Emma did as she was told and she walked further into of the apartment that she use to call home. She noticed her father standing in the kitchen area. He's shoulders were tense and his face was flushed and Emma knew that he was struggling to calm down from whatever him and Mary Margaret had been arguing about. Maybe now wasn't the best time to tell them about this but she didn't have any other choice. If she didn't do it now she wouldn't come back here to do it later and she didn't want them to be ambushed by the people of the town when they noticed that Regina was back.

David looked up from the cup he was holding tightly in his grasp when he noticed his daughter and he offered her a smile. "Hey, Emma. How are you?" he could feel the tension in the air between of all of them and he hoped that Emma didn't notice it but he knew that she did. He's daughter was smart like that.

"Well, I wanted to talk to you guys about something. Tell you something actually.." Emma said as she wrung her hands out in front of her. Why was she so nervous? Maybe because she knew this was upset them and she didn't want this to be the tipping point on the already rocky relationship that they all shared.

Mary Margaret's eyes went wide as the worst possible conclusion came to mind. "You aren't leaving are you, Emma?" Her bottom lip trembling at the mere thought of her daughter leaving. First this fighting with David came about and now her daughter? She wouldn't be able to stand it if Emma left. It would be like her whole world crashed down around her.

David came from around the counter to stand at his wife's side. Just because they were having a rough time of things didn't mean that he could stand seeing her look so devastated. "Emma.."

Emma's green eyes went wide and she quickly shook her head. "Oh no. No guys don't worry about that I'm not going anywhere. I promise. I mean we just found each other after all." Sure, she had thought about leaving this place a couple times but she knew the one thing holding her back was the fact she actually had her parents. Yes, things were rocky between them all right now but she was sure, she hoped, that they would be able to work through all of this.

The couple breathed a sigh of relief at hearing their daughter wasn't skipping town. Mary Margaret was the first to ask. "Then what's wrong?"

"It's Henry. I'm sure you guys noticed how he's been acting. I mean it's getting bad and I don't know what to do for him. So I had a friend try to find Regina for me.." she paused when she heard her mother grasp. "And my friend found Regina's number and I called her. She's coming here Friday to help Henry. I'm hoping that seeing her again will get the kid to snap out of whatever this funk he is in.."

"Emma. She's been exiled. You shouldn't have called her back here." Mary Margaret said with a frown on her face. She slowly shook her head as she thought about her former step-mother coming back to town. "She has no right to come here after what she's done to all of us. She cursed us to this town and you call her back? Emma, how could you?" She glanced to see if David would back her up on this but he was just standing there with an odd expression on his face. Frowning she looked away from him and to their daughter. "She can't come back.."

Emma was outright frowning as she looked to her mother. "I don't care about the stupid exile that she was forced into. Henry needs her. The kid isn't sleeping or talking to me anymore and he's just..he's a shell of his former self and I don't want him to slip away from me. I don't want anything to happen to him and if that means calling back the woman that raised him. The mother that he really needs right now then so be it."

"Emma! You are his mother. I'm sure whatever he needs you can give him." The dark haired woman exclaimed stubbornly.

"I can't! Don't you see that. I've only been his mother for a couple of months. Regina has been that kid's mother since he was a couple of months old. She's done everything for him and knows everything about him and I only know what he's told me. I don't know how to soothe him after a nightmare or how he likes his soup when he's sick. I've never had parents. I don't know what the hell I'm doing! I'm not going to screw Henry up anymore and if that means getting Regina here to fix him then so bit! She's coming and I'm not telling her to leave until Henry is better. I didn't come here for you guys permission or advice. I just came here to tell you that she'll be here."

With that Emma stormed out of the apartment and the door slamming loudly behind her. Her chest was heaving as she stormed down the stairs and outside to her car. She was doing what was best for her son and if her parents didn't understand that then that was their problem.

Guest that left a review about this not being a swanqueen story just wanted to let you know that I actually have on in the works that I plan on publishing once I finish another one of my stories! Snow's love interest is something I'm actually unsure of at the moment. Any ideas?

Apples26- You didn't miss it. I haven't said who the father is but this is an EvilCharming story sooooo -wink wink-

Ella/hevelinchris- thanks for reading and I hope you guys liked this update!