Okay so it seems the reviews problem is solved! That's a relief.

Also Emma's speech will be from this video called 'I am a champion – the greatest speech ever [ENG SUB]' check it out it's just awesome, obviously not his entire speech will be in this fic but parts of it will.

Now here we go to this long ass angst chapter, enjoy!

Special thanks to my beta fiend89.

Chapter 3: Henry – Part I

Regina's Mansion – 2 Months later

Regina was laying on her king sized bed with her 2-month old son. She had just placed him in this comfortable pillow she found online and he was sleeping. – While he slept comfortably besides her, she went through her emails from her laptop that rested over her lap. There was still some work left behind that Mal and Kat couldn't finish but she appreciated their help very much because if they haven't done anything, she'd be incredible busy and stressed out to get back on schedule and still take care of Henry. Things like this were already stressing so she couldn't imagine how it would be if she didn't have her friends' help.

Her phone soon rang and she picked it quickly from her nightstand so the vibration wouldn't wake up Henry. She could never understand how simple noises can wake him up and loud noises doesn't bother him. – She fixed her reading glasses to take a better look at her phone screen and noticed it was a number she didn't recognize but she had to pick up the call anyway because it could be one of the civilians trying to get in contact with her. "Yes?"

"Am I speaking to Regina Mills?"

"This is her." Regina perked up an eyebrow.

"Ah, Ms Mills, this is the military base from Boston speaking. We just wanted to let you know that we got in contact with the area Emma Swan was at."

Oh right, Regina had almost forgot about this, she just has been so worried sick about Henry that sometimes she forgets this issue. "And?" She stopped breathing.

"Well we are sad to inform you that we can't exactly get in contact with her because she was just assigned a new mission. It started last week and from what we know it's a very long term mission. We can't give you any more information because everything else is confidential."

Regina just dropped her head back as she brought her free hand to caress her forehead while she closed her eyes. When was she going to get in contact with this Emma Swan? "So there's absolutely no way I can get in contact with her? Not even if I leave a message with you people?"

"I am sorry but on the records it says she's completely out of our grasp."

Regina just let out a loud annoyed sigh because she just couldn't believe this.

"It's like…picture an undercover mission like you see in the movies or cop shows. Those don't have contacts with their families in order to not get them in danger or get caught; and Chief Petty Officer Emma Swan seems to be in those kind of missions. Any contact made with her can interfere with the whole assignment and ruin it."

Regina knew if she snapped at the woman it would just be rude, but she kind of disliked how the woman basically felt pity for her and started to give her examples of what Emma's situation. She already got it the first time, she didn't need this overkill. "Alright, I understand." Yet she managed to keep her cool and not snap.

"We are sorry for this late news, Ms Mills. We hope you can get in contact with your girlfriend soon. – Goodbye, have a nice day."

"She's not-" Before Regina could correct the other woman, she simple hung up and made Regina stare at the phone with a frown. Then, she just let an irritated groan and placed her phone back over her nightstand before grab her other free pillow and press it against her face to frustratingly scream in it.

Things never worked out well for her and she completely hated it. When she finally gained the courage to inform the blonde woman nothing seemed to be letting her tell that news. It was just giving her more time to have more doubts and in the end just chicken out. – But before she could put much thought about this her baby boy started crying and she quickly put the pillow aside. "Hii, Henry." She said sweetly as she placed the laptop on the opposite side of the bed and picked up her small two-month old baby.

"Are you hungry, sweetheart?" Henry just cried louder, so she pulled down her very loose tank top and allowed her baby to latch his mouth at her nipple. – She managed to actually breastfeed him on the second week he came back home. In the beginning he seemed to still prefer the bottle because of his time in NICU but then he got used to normal breastfeeding, which actually made her happy because she knows how much a mother's milk is important for the baby and it just gives her joy to provide him something like that. She always thought she'd never have her own children because she went through some ovaries issues when she was younger and was kind of naïve in her teen years while discovering her sexuality thinking only being with women would stop her from having a child with her blood running through his veins.

Iraq – Tents

Emma Swan was marching back to the small camp her and her three guys team made after being assigned to a long term mission. She had to admit it was the longest mission she ever had and it was dangerous. There seemed to be lots of things to be done but she was glad the rest of the soldiers would also interfere time to time to slowly take down the streets of the entire town this terrorist just made up. "What's for dinner?"

Killian rubbed his chin, feeling his beard growing bigger than ever. "Canned beans and ye' aint complaining."

Emma rolled her eyes as she smirked. "Of course, Chef Jones."

"We seriously need to get better food than this next the time they come check on us." August groaned.

"We should just get a personal chef." Jefferson suggested with a chuckle.

"Wouldn't that be wonderful!" Killian shouted as he prepared the bonfire.

"I think we have bigger things to worry about than a personal chef." Emma said as she put her gear away.

"Yea, as in why the fuck did they gave me such long mission?" August almost barked as he dropped himself on the ground besides Killian.

"I feel ya'." Jefferson sighed and sat down on the ground besides them.

"Well at least we are important enough to be a part of such an important mission." Emma tried to cheer up the guys.

"Ain't no important soldiers here, Swan." Killian swatted air with his hand. "We just happened to be foolish enough to face the dangerous."

"Isn't that still a good thing?" Emma chuckled as she sat beside them.

"Sometimes I think you do have a death wish." August eyed the blonde woman.

"Nah, she just a better soldier than us." Jefferson commented.

"How so?" Emma perked up an eyebrow.

"Cause unlike you we think about the consequences while you just keep gunning for the victory." Jefferson explained.

"Well I am a soldier..." Emma frowned slightly not sure where this conversation was going.

"I am just saying, Ems. I love my country, I really do, and I love what I do but I must say I don't have the same bravery as you do." Jefferson shrugged.

"Yeaa, I am pretty tough but you girl are the toughest." August smirked at her.

Emma shook her head with a smile. "I am pretty sure I am just like this because I am not leaving anybody behind." She said because she knew they all had their own family; Killian had a long-term girlfriend, Jefferson had a husband and they already adopted twins while August might still be searching for the one but he had a bunch of siblings.

"Swan..." Killian frowned as he looked at her, he hated whenever the blonde beat herself up by not having family. They knew her lonely past but only Killian knew the full story.

"No, I am serious." Emma shrugged. "If I had a family, like a girlfriend, or a kid, or even siblings I wouldn't be so determined as I am right now. I am not stupid guys, I know that my life was planned just for this, because who the hell takes an orphan child to a military academy? It simple to turn her into a great soldier because they know there will be nothing behind for them." She didn't sound as hurt as she was truly feeling but she learned to shut down her feelings long time ago.

"Dude, you got a family." August threw a can of bean. "We are your fam."

"Yeah, we are your brothers!" Jefferson added with a grin.

"Aww man, seriously? Can't I pick other people? Like normal ones?" She teased.

"Oh shut it!" Killian laughed as he threw a spoon at her lap. "Ya love us and ya gotta deal with our brotherhood love!"

"Things got kind of gay right now." August perked up an eyebrow as he eyed Killian.

"True story and I am the gay man in here." Jefferson commented.

"I am the only gay in the village!" Emma made a funny voice because she was simple quoting one of her favourite characters from a British show called 'Little Britain'.

And they all knew about that because they already watched it together, so they just let out cheerful big laughs that would fill the rest of their night and give them more reasons to wake up the next morning and carry on with their duties.

12 months later – Storybrooke – Park

"Hey, Henry! Wanna come to Auntie's Kat lap?" Kat said with a big smile as she patted her own lap.

The 14-month old toddler shook his head slowly and watched his aunt. "No, no, no, no." He mumbled those no's.

Regina and Mal both laugh at how polite Henry sounded while rejecting Kathryn. "To be fair, his favourite word now is no, it comes right after mommy." Regina told Kat. They were all on the grass from the park with a large blanket underneath them as they basically had a picnic.

"Mommy!" Henry then pointed at Regina when he heard her saying the word 'mommy'.

"Yes, sweetheart." Regina just smiled and watched him clumsily walk up to her before he dropped himself forward, completely trusting her to just catch him and she did. "Are you ready for your snack, Henry?" She asked as she fixed him better on her lap.

"He's lucky he's adorable." Kat said as she began to search for Henry's yogurt that she knew Regina had packed.

"That he is." Mal commented as she looked down at her nephew, well he wasn't really her nephew but she and Kat were Regina's best friends and she allowed them to let Henry know he could call them auntie.

Regina nodded with a big proud smile as she watched her toddler already nibbling on the bib she just put it on him. He was indeed the most adorable child. She knows every parent says that about their child but Henry is truly a beautiful and adorable toddler. – He has lots of thin hair that Regina always loved to caress, and it was dark brown like her own. He also had thin lips that for sure weren't hers. She still remembered those thin lips, and oh his green eyes were just a spitting image of Emma's. Regina thought about the blonde every time she wakes up and looks into her son's green eyes, it was obvious the little one was a mixture of them. He had their both genes and Regina loves it and hates it; only because she still couldn't make any kind of contact with the blonde woman.

"Here." Kat handed Regina the yogurt and a small plastic spoon.

"Thank you." Regina mumbled as she began to feed Henry his yogurt, at least this time the little one seemed to stay still to eat.

"So…about our mysterious woman, still no word?" Mal asked as she ate a strawberry.

"Not even a whisper." Regina replayed as she looked down at her son to make sure he was actually eating and not just playing with the yogurt in his mouth.

"Still? How long will that mission last? Like it has been far too long." Kat said with a frown.

"Far too long indeed." Regina was keeping her answers short because it was also kind of her fault she had no word from the military, simple because she stopped calling. She really chickened out and decided to just drop the subject and focus on her work and on Henry, they said they'd call her so she waited and see if that actually happen by itself. However a year as passed she still haven't received any calls.

Mal easily figured out her friend. "Are you still calling? Or you just gave up on that idea?"

Regina frowned and both sisters could see one of their friend's eye twitch. "There's nothing else I can do, they don't have information then fine, I won't be desperate about it, Henry has me."

"Yes, dear, that he does however-" Mal was trying to bring the rational out because she knew her friend was upset.

Regina interrupted her. "He has me and he's just fine like that. He doesn't need one more mother." She stated it more firmly and helped him standing up as he took a few steps forward but then came back to her. Regina gave him another spoon of yogurt; there he was moving around while eating again.

Both blonde sisters just looked at each other and decided they had no more words on that matter, if Regina made her decision they couldn't do much about it.

Iraq

Emma just left the building she was using her weapon at because there was a truck with all her friends waiting for her.

"Time to get ya back, Swan!" Peter shouted with a big smile as he fist bumped her shoulder the very moment she jumped into the truck. The young soldier just missed her; she was basically the one that 'babysat' him through his entire time in Iraq, but when she spent this whole year busy with these new assignments he just had a terrifying and loud superior that just wouldn't leave him the hell alone.

"Hey, Pan, did you grow a beard?" Emma teased him as she noticed that the boy really looked older and tougher, but for her, he was still that skinny awkward soldier that she took care of sometimes.

"Yea, like it?! My wife loves it." Peter grinned as he rubbed his scruffy beard.

"Oh a wife?" She perked up an eyebrow, curious.

"Yup! I proposed to Wendy when I was sent back home again after our celebration, then I married her on my second time off. We are married for two months now, look at our baby girl!" Peter said all excited as he took out a crumpled photo from his pocket and it showed a beautiful toddler that was probably through her first year.

"She's gorgeous, Pan." Emma grinned and wrapped her arm around his neck before rubbing her fist on the top of his head. "You made a beautiful girl for a guy hella ugly like you." She joked.

And Peter just laughed as he tried to get out from Emma's strong grip around his neck. "She got her mother's genes!" He admitted that her daughter was indeed beautiful and was a spitting image of her mother, and nothing made Peter prouder than to have a mini Wendy around, he loved his baby girl.

Emma finally let go off him as they just leaned back. "How's everybody back at the camp?"

"The usual shit, ya know." Peter shrugged. "I am super glad you are finally back, Ems. I fucking missed you. I am tired of my superior, that man's scary as fuck and he ain't leaving me alone." Peter admitted with a chuckle that made the rest of the guys that were in the truck with them laugh as well.

"Aw, I am pretty sure he's not that bad." Emma said.

"Nuh uh, man looks like he came out from a badass movie, I swear." Peter crossed his heart.

"I will be the judge of that." Emma grinned and showed her strong tattooed biceps, basically showing off and wondering if there was anything scarier than her, of course there were but she always liked to mess around whenever she had a chance to.

Peter laughed out loud as he shook his head. "He's going to beat you up!"

"We will see!" Emma shouted at him before ruffle his hair.

And when they thought they'd carry on with their silly conversation two hours to their camp, they were completely wrong because in a second a grenade hit the road right in front of the truck, but they were lucky it didn't overturn the vehicle.

"Ambush!" One of the soldiers shouted as they all got out of the truck and went to find a place to cover.

"Everybody cover!" Emma shouted as she ran to some building close to the truck and watched some soldiers doing the same but within a few seconds she watched two being shot dead, a perfect shot. "There's a fucking sniper!" Emma shouted again to warn them all as she quickly uncovered herself to start shooting her other weapon at some enemies that were coming closer by foot, but she only stayed uncovered for three seconds and then quickly hid herself again not wanting to get the sniper to get her.

Emma wasn't only concerned about her cover, she was wondering where was August, Killian and Jefferson. They weren't in the same truck as her, they were a bit further ahead and she just hoped that the grenade didn't hit their truck.

"Where the fuck is that sniper!?" Killian shouted as he did his best to kill the enemies closest to them to keep himself safe.

"I don't fucking know!" August shouted back.

Emma could hear their voices so she felt glad they were alive, then her eyes caught sight of Jefferson inside some building as well, so he was alive too, now about Peter…She almost panicked till she noticed the boy was hiding behind some wall of a ruined building, okay he was fine too- "Pan, behind you!" Emma shouted as she noticed there was an enemy running towards Peter.

Peter heard her and he just gripped on his gun ready to shot the guy behind him but he just wasn't fast enough.

"Fucking no!" Emma barked as she looked at a soldier that was hiding with her in the same building. "Cover me!" She ordered him and then went quickly towards Peter's body but on the way managed to easily kill the enemy and keep the bullets from her body as far as possible.

She was pretty sure one had just hit her forearm; yet she ignored the pain and threw herself on the ground, crawling her way towards Peter's body. "Kid, hey kid!" She shouted at him and didn't saw him moving. That was making her worried sick, so she just kept crawling and when she was finally was safe behind the wall, she took a better look at Peter and noticed blood coming from his mouth as he did his best to keep his eyes open. "Fucking hell, Pan..."

"Em- Emma..." Peter mumbled as he shut his eyes tightly and let out a groan of pain before opening them again slowly. "Please don't make me die here…just please…Emma do something…"

"Shhh, shut up, Peter. Stop talking, you're losing strength." Emma ordered as she looked down at his body and tried to see where was the main issue, all she saw was probably five bullets in his body, he wasn't going to make it… "Kid keep those eyes open, we will get you out of here." Emma told him as she brought his head to her lap and decided to pinch his cheeks time to time to make sure he'd keep awake.

"Right..." Peter let out a dry chuckle as he could still hear the battle happening right behind them.

"I am always right, Pan." Emma frowned as she stared down at him, completely ignoring the bullet still in her forearm.

"I don't want to die here…please..." He almost begged.

"You are going to make it! I fucking know it!" Emma quickly shouted at him because she wasn't going to lose him. She couldn't lose Peter, he became like a little brother to her and she refused to lose him.

"Emma..I- I was waiting for my applications to g-get confirmed.." Peter coughed, he really didn't want to die in this shitty place. "I tried the...boston's uni..t-they said they'd answer me this week.." He groaned in pain.

"And you will be there to get their letter, Pan, just hang in there." Emma told him as she gripped his shoulders.

"I was…I was going to do wha-what you said..." Now he was trying to not cry. "I was going to leave this…r-raise my baby girl…god Emma I love my baby girl..." Now he just broke down crying with a desperate expression on.

"I know, Peter, I know, and you will see her soon." Emma tried to convince him and herself he'd be fine, and she freaked out a little more when she noticed he was awfully quiet and his eyes almost fully closed. "Okay, tell me her name, what's her name Peter?!"

"Hayley…it's a great name...don't you think?" Peter asked with a sad smile.

"Yes, it's wonderful, keep telling me about her. She can already walk?"

"Y-Yea...she falls a lot...but keeps get-getting back up.."

"Just like her father, she's a fighter, you will get back up too, Pete."

Peter let out a very weak small chuckle. "W-Wendy keeps smothe-..hows the goddamn word..?"

"Smothering?" Emma said with a small smile.

"Y-Yea...she keeps doing that…and she hates wh-when I don- don't help out Hayley in her…move struggles…or whatever.."

Emma chuckled lowly as she felt tears threatening to fall. "Yea, I know. Mothers can be like that, but don't worry, your kid's strong."

"I know…she loves to play wi-with my dog tags…" Peter felt like he was taking his last breathes, so he went for it. "Tell them-"

"No, Pete! You tell them whatever you have to say! I refuse to listen to it! You are the one who will tell them that!" Emma shook him.

Peter smiled sadly and just stared up at the sky, he was going to embrace his fate. "It's so...beautiful.." He mumbled those words and Emma couldn't understand what he actually meant by that. "Take- take care..of them Ems.." And that was Peter's last words.

"No…no, no, no! Peter wake the fuck up! Come on!" Emma now shook him violently, she didn't even know why she was losing her mind like that, she never lost her cool about somebody like this, but she just got too attached to Peter and now she was hurting too much. "Pan, don't you dare to die on me, you heard me?! That's an order, soldier!" She screamed and cried and did her best to wake him up.

But with all this going on she completely forgot she was in a war zone and suffered the consequences, because next thing she knows is that she heard another explosion and she was no longer behind that wall next to Peter. She was laying back on the ground, feeling pain throughout her body. She felt completely numb as she coughed out blood and green eyes stared at the battlefield as she held her head to the side. She didn't see anything beautiful, she saw war, ugly war, but the noises were all gone, that was the only decent thing right now. "What's so fucking beautiful about that..." She mumbled those words very slowly and weakly as she finally gave in and closed her eyes.

"Emma!"

"Swan!"

9 months later – Boston Military Base

Where is she…where is she… Regina Mills thought to herself as she tried to find Emma Swan through the room filled with soldiers and people sitting down on the all chairs well placed. Everybody paid attention to the words the commander was speaking. – This was basically a reunion to give soldiers their medals. When Regina found out about the reward ceremony in Boston, she demanded a list of soldiers that were going to be there and found out that Emma Swan was in it, so she wasn't going to chicken out this time. She was going straight to Boston and face this woman and tell her the truth.

She left her toddler son in Mal and Kat's care because there was no way she was just going to show up here with her son in her arms. She knows he's still too small to completely understand this but he's also clever for his age and there might be topics of conversation that Regina won't be comfortable to be talking about while her son is around.

"And now our silver star goes to Chief Petty Officer, Emma Swan!" The commander announced as everybody watched two male soldiers bringing up a wheel chair with somebody in it, and that was Emma Swan.

Emma hated that she had to ask August and Killian to bring her wheelchair up, but the platform was high and there wasn't any kind of ramp. She thanked them nonetheless and wheeled towards the commander, allowing him to put the silver star on her brown camouflage uniform. She greeted him politely and the other two superiors besides him, then the commander pointed forward and gave her a microphone basically allowing her to make a speech. "Okay so…I couldn't find my twenty pages speech..." She joked and everybody slightly laughed.

But not Regina, the brunette woman was in shock because the blonde was completely different, first of all she was in a wheelchair and she had no leg…that was the first thing Regina's eyes caught on, that from her left knee down, there was nothing, and Regina knew it was just rude to keep staring but she couldn't stop.

"But today ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to be here, more honoured to be a part of this with soldiers we shared the battlefield with." She looked over her shoulder to the all enlisted behind her as she rubbed her left thigh. "I remember before joining the Navy I kept telling myself that I will conquer what has not been conquered, defeat will not be in my creed, I will believe what others have doubted, I will always endeavour for the prestige, honour and respect of my country."

She looked at the suppose audience. "I believed that, I had trained my mind and my body would follow. I'd acknowledge the fact that my enemies do not expect me to win but I would never surrender. Weakness will not be in my heart! And let me tell you right here I will do it all over again!" She was finally feeling what she was really saying and showing bit of her rage and frustration. "I will look to my comrades and to those who trained me and I will draw strength from them!" She felt her hands getting wet and her leg was back at it with the pain again, and so did a recent scar on her back from a stupid bar fight. "I will gladly go out into the battlefield, and I will move, groove, and do everything that I can do and I will reach my field of battle by any means at my disposal; and when I get there I will arrive violently. I will rip the heart from my enemy and leave it bleeding on the ground, because he cannot stop me!"

Everybody was paying extremely attention to the blonde soldier and her closest friends could feel everything she was feeling right now because only them knew what she went through these past nine months after being sent back home when they suffered that ambush. – Regina felt something in the blonde's words. She felt anger, the woman did not look like the sweet, flirty and funny blonde who managed to get under her skin that night.

"To my side I have comrades, comrades that have been with me through thick and thin, through sacrifice, through blood, through sweat, through tears! Never will I let them fall! Never will I let them down! And I will never leave an enemy behind! Because our enemy does not know my heart!" She shouted. "None will deny me, no one will defy me and none will tell me what I can't do. Belief will change my world. It has moved continents, and countries, and put a man on the moon, and it will carry me through this battle!" She finally seemed to calm down after those words but she was still not done with her speech, she just kept staring at the people in front of her but she wasn't really paying attention to their faces, her mind was going too fast right now and she felt such adrenaline right now, but at the same time bad images from war was running through her mind and she was starting to feel angrier, especially when a flash of Peter dying in her arms came in her mind. "Defeat, retreat, those are not in my words. I do not understand those definitions, I do not understand when things go wrong, I do not understand mistakes but I do understand this: I understand victory and I understand to never surrender! No matter how bad things go, my heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak! And victory shall be ours!" And with that she finished her speech and everybody stood up from their chairs to clap and cheer her, the usual speeches were more soft, they weren't even long, but everybody seemed to also get motived by Emma's words and all pumped which made the all cheering start in the large room.

In few minutes everything seemed to calm down, they all stopped giving the medals and now everybody was simple chatting away and some were leaving, but Regina was trying to gain the courage to just approach the blonde woman before she could leave. So when she caught sight of her alone, she was ready to march there. However, some petite woman approached her first and placed on the soldier's laptop a toddler girl that looked to be the same age as her Henry. Regina didn't understand what was going on, and her body betrayed her, because in a second she was hiding away in the bathroom and calling her friend.

"Yes?" Mal voice sounded on the other end. "Regina, Henry's fine you really need to calm down with all the calling." The woman chuckled.

"I think she has a family." Regina quickly spoke as she tried to breath normally.

"What? What are you talking about?"

"Emma Swan…I think she has another child."

"Oh- Wha- Okay how do you know that?"

"I just saw a petite young woman placing a little girl on her lap."

"Regina, that might mean nothing, maybe it's her niece or something."

"What if it's her daughter? I can't ruin a family like that, Mal."

"Regina please, just get her alone and talk to her. She needs to know, I am sure this has been eating you up lately, you need to have your conscious clean."

"But…if that's her family, how is Henry going to fit in there?"

"You said you didn't care to raise Henry alone, and you are going to carry on with that thought for now, till you get an answer from that woman. So woman up and go tell her."

"You are right…" This is why Regina called her friend Mal and not Kat, because Kat would just freak out with her and Mal was wiser to try calm her down and make her 'woman up' and just do it. "Alright, I will tell her."

"That's my girl, now bye I am going to feed Henry, tell me later how it went."

"Make sure he eats it all."

"Got it."

"But don't force him or else he will throw it all up later and it will leave his stomach empty."

"I know, 'Gina. Just go."

"Okay, okay, I am going. Bye."

"Goodbye, mama bear."

Regina hung up and took a deep breath as she calmed herself down in the bathroom and also fixed herself to make sure she was well presentable, and that's when the sudden courage came so she had to just go, and she did. She noticed the blonde woman was still with the little girl on her lap but Regina couldn't stop now or else she'd chicken out. "Emma Swan?" She did her best to not stutter as she kept her posture rigid behind the wheelchair from the blonde.

Emma was playing with Hayley on her lap; she had gotten pretty close to Wendy and this child since Peter's death. He wanted her to take care of them, so time to time she'd check on them and even helped Wendy financially every month for Hayley. It was only one hundred bucks but Wendy said it made a huge difference. After settling Peter's estate, there were still expenses that had to be met as Wendy got back on her feet.

Emma doesn't have much expenses herself, she hardly spends any money and she owns an apartment; just one bedroom, kitchen connected to the living room and one bathroom. She didn't need more than that, she was a loner so. - "Yes?" Emma replayed when she heard somebody calling out for her. She managed to turn the wheelchair around with just one hand and she gasped when her eyes caught sight of a brunette she hasn't seen in a very long time.

"Hello." Regina simple greeted still not sure how she was going to do this.

"You…hi." Emma was still kind of lost but greeted. "What are you doing here?"

Regina was taken back by the sudden question because it felt like Emma wanted to get rid of her right away. "Well I-"

"Hayley baby, time to go." Wendy said as she approached them and picked up her child from the Navy Seal's lap. "Say goodbye to Auntie Emma." She pecked her toddler's cheek. "Bye-Bye!" Hayley said with a big grin as she waved her hand and tried to blow a kiss to Emma.

"Bye, big girl." Emma smiled up at Hayley and waved back.

"Bye, Emma. I shall see you next weekend then, yes?" Wendy asked.

"Yea, I will be there." Emma confirmed.

"Alright, take care of yourself in the meantime." Wendy smiled at her and rubbed the soldier's shoulder before leave the two women behind, completely ignoring Regina's presence.

Regina was glad for two things, one the woman and the toddler left and two it wasn't Emma's daughter, so Regina wasn't pulling any home wrecker move.

"So!" Emma cleared her throat as she looked up at the brunette. "Want a drink?"

"You have a child." Regina quickly and simple stated, she didn't know what the hell happen with her but she just burled that out.

Emma frowned slightly and looked confused at her. "What? No, no, they aren't my family. We are just friends."

Regina placed a trembling hand upon the woman's shoulder and leaned down to whisper into her ear. "No, you do have a child, with me."

And Emma felt like they placed a bomb on her, the military never taught her how to deal with this kind of things. She knows how to deal with a real bomb, not one like this… "Noo..." She had no words, so she was on the simple stage of denial.

Regina pressed her lips together and nodded her head a she straightened up her back and placed her palms in front of her. "In Boston, when mayor attended to the celebration."

"Oh shit..." Emma quickly cursed herself as now she just remembered the incredible mistake of not wearing a condom, a fucking classic. She rubbed her own face and tried to get a grip of her emotions about this because there was nothing that could prepare her for something new like this. Well, she highly doubted other people would also be prepared to get this type of news out of blue unless the whole child was planned. "Fuck."

Regina just stood there, knowing if she moved her knees would betray her and she'd fall, she was already feeling slightly dizzy from the all nerves, her breathing was so hard. She was trying to control it to not be noticed but that only complicated her breathing even more. – Emma was just quiet, cursing herself and probably thinking about what she was going to do now, but Regina had no high hopes, just watching how the blonde is reaction right now already tells her she won't be part of Henry's life, even though some people would be running out of the door if they were in Emma's shoes, however Emma's in no condition to run but still…

"Let's go outside." Emma stated as she began to wheel her way through the people and leave the goddamn room, so she can get some fresh air and have more privacy to discuss this with the brunette woman.

Regina felt like Emma's words were more like an order than a simple statement but she followed the blonde woman nonetheless because she wanted to go get fresh air as well and the large room seemed to grow smaller each second she spent there.

TBC