Regina left her wife's side, not because she wanted to, but she knew she had to get home and sleep. She could almost hear Emma's voice in her ears. "Regina babe you are eating for two. Regina you need your sleep because that is my baby in there. Regina have you taken your vitamins."

It had been seven and half months of Emma's constant attention and/or nagging. It was like Regina was some fragile egg all of a sudden. Even when they first discovered that it had worked and Regina was pregnant Emma had been on her about taking care of herself. It made Emma seem more endearing to her.

Now Emma was the fragile egg.

She walked out to where Charming was waiting for her.

"How did she seem?"

Regina started to cry and Charming hugged her to his body. "It'll be ok. She's strong. She's got everything in the world to live for."

Emma opened her eyes and realized she was in a hospital bed. "What the hell," she said sitting up. She looked down at body – everything seemed to be in order. She got up out of bed and took two steps before looking back at it. She saw a quick flash and saw what seemed like a woman lying in the bed hooked up to all kinds of machines and wires. She only got the briefest glimpse but it looked like her.

"That is you," a woman's voice said.

She turned to see a woman standing in the doorway to the room.

"Who are you?" Emma asked sensing something familiar about her.

"I'm Eva. I am your grandmother."

Emma looked back at the bed, again catching the barest glimpse. Then she turned back to the door. "Am I dead?"

Eva laughed. "No my dear, you aren't dead. Not yet at least. Follow me, we should talk."

Emma didn't know why but she followed Eva out of the room. They went down a couple of floors and down some halls – the whole time no one looked at them. They ended up in the nursery standing outside the large window where you could see all the newborns.

"Are you nervous?" Eva asked.

"About the fact I may or may not be dying, yes I am nervous."

"No. Are you nervous about the impending birth of your child?"

Emma was getting more weirded out by the moment. "I don't know. I guess a little."

"I would say a lot, and probably for good reason."

"What do you mean by that? Is there something wrong with the baby? Is there something wrong with Regina? Why am I in a hospital? What happened?"

"Calm down Emma."

"Calm down. First you say I am not dying yet, and now you are talking about my unborn child as if I need to be concerned about something. I am far from calming down."

"I suppose I haven't given you much reason to remain calm."

"Just tell me is there something wrong with the baby or with Regina?"

"That has yet to be determined."

"Damn it, just give me a straight answer."

"It's like a domino falling. One falls then the next, then the next. But what happens when one domino doesn't fall, does the whole pattern change? Is everyone ruled by destiny, and if so is there such a thing as free will? Tell me Emma, how much faith do you have in Regina?"

"I have total faith," she said in all seriousness.

"And if that faith were challenged?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean whether or not you get to stand in front of this window and peer into a bassinet with your child in it is no longer something you can affect."

Emma looked in at the babies. Her head was aching and she wasn't even sure that was possible if she was really the woman in the hospital bed hooked to a machine that was probably keeping her alive. She put her hand against the glass.

"Is this happening because of what I did?"

"It wasn't just you."

"I practically forced her to do it."

"But Regina did it all the same. You didn't. You didn't have the understanding of magic to do it."

"Please. It's not her fault and it sure as hell isn't our baby's fault. If someone needs to be punished for it, it should be me."

"I understand you and Regina don't know the sex of the baby."

"We wanted to be surprised."

"It's a girl."

Emma sunk to her knees and started to cry. She didn't understand what was going on. Was this real? She wanted to ask for help to feel her wife's arms around her. She needed Regina to tell her it was all going to be alright. But she wasn't sure that was true. Regina had warned her that all magic came with a price.

She looked up to ask Eva another question, but the other woman was gone.

She was alone.