22: : Who is secretly the Number One Swan Queen shipper? Who is anti af about it? How do they meddle? How do our girls react to that?
Charming becomes basically their first fan the second they decide to tell they are together. As far as he is concerned Regina is good for Emma and having getting rid of the pirate he very much loathes at that point is something good for him. He is the first one talking about the two of them, protecting them whenever they aren't there to defend themselves and he helps Henry when some boys at his class start staying things they definetely shouldn't be saying about the two women.
Regina tries to act as if she is bothered by it but, as well as with Emma, she can't quite hide the grateful smile she always gives to David whenever the man is in the room. David never brings it up.
Emma acts like an embarrassed teenager, which David doesn't mind in the slightest.
Strangely is Hood the one that fights more against it, not the pirate, who yes, tries to meddle and spends an embarrassingly amount of time trying to get Emma back to his side –which no, is not happening. The thief (or pretended thief as Emma sometimes likes to mutter under her breath) spends weeks talking with Tinkerbell about what he can do to get Regina back, trying even to buy some spell from Rumple to make the former queen love him back once again.
Rumple laughs at that and says something about how as evil as he can be he is definetely not stupid and is not going to play the game of trying to destroy Regina's happiness for a second time
(Which is something he may have said it because Belle is watching him like a hawk but it works for both Emma and Regina)
Emma is finally the one who breaks the news to him about how he can move on or stop trying to serenate Regina while trying to summon some evil demon in order for him to kill the blonde. Which may be probably accurate since the next villain in town is Facilier and his ghost-like friends who aren't in any way friendly.
But that's another story.
23: Do they have children? Naturally, magically? Do they adopt? Foster?
They never exactly talk the possibility of being mothers once again. Henry is their child, one they have actually walked a lot in order to have the possibility to both be with him and know him and so is not until the boy is out to college when Snow approach them with the idea, Neal (Still Bae on Emma's mind) a rambunctious boy by now who "would be amazed with the possibility of being an older cousin"
Or uncle, or whatever because their family tree is particularly complicated at that point and neither of them has really tried to study it hard enough to remember it half of the time.
At the end though, they decide not to; Storybrooke is a place where abandoned children are not exactly a common thing and the idea of making another child face half of the things Henry himself faced when he was a pre-teen had the two of them cringing. Plus, they find that they are perfectly content being mothers already of a soon-to-be Historian, one they are particularly proud of.
However, they usually are the designated "aunts" of almost every young child remotely linked to them by blood and by a few more of them like Ruby's when the girl decides to adopt. Which Regina loves even if she tries to keep her Evil Queen malevolence every now and then. A move that has already become as little threatening as possible for almost everyone involved.
(Emma finds that hilarious, Regina does not)
24: Which ridiculous trope is the one they wind up in? (body swap, accidental marriage, act of true love, trapped in an elevator….sex pollen?)
Is quite embarrassing how many times Emma can touch things she wasn't supposed to be touching in Regina's vault. Which has led to an entirely new term in Storybrooke when something that's not a curse nor a villain's plan happens; "The Swan Effect"
Like the time she managed to summon a swarm of pixies and since she wasn't able to pay them the amount of honey they asked for she ended up in Regina's body. Henry spotted the problem the second he had entered the Mills household but the former queen had needed almost a week in Emma's body to find a solution for the spell (Meanwhile the pixies had decided that honey wasn't good enough and had ended up drunk on Jefferson's cellar)
Or like that other time in where she had tried to show Regina she was able to create a sleeping potion from scratch and she had ended up needing a kiss from a reluctant Regina to finish with the curse she had created on herself. The whole idea of True Love have been the talk of the day on Granny's.
Regina though remembered fondly the time Emma spilled on herself a particular powerful dust that made the two of them impossibly horny. The amount of orgasms she had had the couple of days they had needed for the hex to wear off definetely the best ones she had had in a really long time.
Chapter 25: : Do they ever break up? Why? Do they get back together? How long does it take? Does anyone need to intervene?
Two years after they first start to date Regina finds herself feeling trapped on the relationship, part of her unsure if that's what she wants or even if what she feels for Emma is still love and care. The way she feels for the blonde has definetely changed and there is a bittersweet feeling in her chest she can't quite pinpoint and has her doubting if she is just about to keep in something she isn't happy anymore.
She doesn't break up with Emma, nor right away, but she soon starts finding excuses and fights with the blonde as much as possible, trying to fight against the nagging feeling that the blonde is not quite what she really needs at her side.
Emma fights against that too as best as she can, first because she doesn't understands, then because she does and doesn't want to give up on the relationship. They need hours of talks, tears and mumbled whispers to understand that yes, they still love each other, that love can evolve past the feeling of fire and flame and that's actually nor bad or a symbol they don't love anymore but of growth.
Chapter 26: How do they deal with Henry dating (if he does! or how do they deal with him not dating)?
The boy never exactly dates, not while in Storybrooke anyway. To be truthful, he is not interested neither in the girls nor the boys of the little city, and his friends, as good as they are, don't seem interested on asking him on a date. Which considering that his mothers are the former evil queen and the reluctant and former dark one is quite understandable. For the kids part at least.
Is Regina the one who acts more affronted, at first angry of the mere idea that perhaps no one thinks Henry is good enough for them. The boy needs quite a few embarrassing talks to make both of his mothers understand that he is neither dating behind their backs neither sad nor worried over the fact he is couple-less. Emma is glad that the boy doesn't need to be with someone in order to be happy considering the kind of relationship advices Snow and even herself during her time with Hook, sold.
Once the boy is out of Storybrooke news about his dating details are scarce and few and none of them seem serious enough for him to talk about them with her mothers enough to drag attention. Which for Ruby is maddening because she wants to know every juicy detail but for Emma is amusing. When later on her son comes to her and admits he doesn't exactly sees himself with someone as a couple she hugs him and helps him as he learns to know himself. Regina follows as soon as she learns about it, driven with the purpose of teaching and knowing that yes, there are too many ways of loving someone.
Chapter 27: What family traditions have they developed?
On the other's birthday (Henry's, Emma's or Regina's) the other two wake earlier and prepare a special breakfast that then served in bed. Regina always complains about it "Crumbs, Emma, do you know how nagging those are?" but she smiles and kisses both Emma and Henry either way.
On the day after Christmas Emma and Regina always take a walk, no matter how long or small, that usually end up in the benches of the deck, the two of them reflecting on the year that had passed and in the things they had learn. Henry at first doesn't want to go but as he grows older he begins to accompany them too.
Once a month the ban on magic they both had agreed on putting inside the house disappears and there are games and tricks that need to be done before a certain amount of time passes. Henry is the one who comes up with those games and Emma still can remember the time Regina turned her hair blue because of it.
At the end, just like everything else in their lives those tradition evolve and change but truth is that even after Henry moves out he always manages to go back at least for his mother's birthdays which they still celebrate them by preparing each other's breakfast.
"Crumbs Emma, crumbs!"
Chapter 28: What do they love most about each other?
Emma loves Regina's strength, her passion, the way she loves even when the brunette was told once and again she was worthless of said emotion. Emma loves the way Regina fights, the way she looks up at danger and faces it, chin raised, eyes flaring.
Emma loves Regina's softness, the way the brunette smiles at Henry, at her sometimes, she loves how that powerful force that the former queen is can change into hugs and careful, well-placed words about the other's well-being.
Regina loves Emma's laughter, the small little things the blonde is and possess like that twinkle on her eyes when she is about to do something she knows Regina won't agree with her, she loves the ferocious strike she has and the way she challenges her.
Regina loves Emma, just her, for the way she is, for the way she listens, for the things she isn't. Regina is frugal in words about feelings and love, being someone who prefers to act and show so she just kisses Emma's earlobes when the blonde is half asleep because she just loves that part of the blonde's body and waits until Emma is almost gone of her side to touch the lower part of her back because she wants to know she is safe.
Chapter 29: When was the most opportune time in canon for them to first hook up/date/fall in love?
Is perhaps the way Regina is completely infuriating and still so deliciously sexy the main reason why Emma decides to pick up the chainsaw and see how far the other woman is willing to go. Is just pure lust at that time so apart from masturbating after the whole incident Emma does not act on it.
Regina though whispers hotly on the blonde's ear after the younger woman manages to come back from the enchanted forest that first time, sorrys already having being muttered in front of Granny's, the thoughts of the other woman to actually invite her making her smile and want her at the same time. They fuck each other that night until neither of them can take anymore.
However is still nothing else but that, and they know it.
Emma actually thinks she can be in problems in Neverland when Regina disappears and she does have little to nothing to work with, the amount of worry she feels at that time is just comparable enough of what she feels about Henry. For Regina everything changes the second they are back in the Jolly Roger and there are things and words she knows she should be saying but Pan attacks and there is not time for reflecting in feelings she yet doesn't quite understands.
The never say each other how they feel after the whole Dark One thing, mostly because they finally realize that there are no pages they should follow or rules the should stick to, they are just them and if they started all of this over a promise of cider and red panties so can they re-shape it with kisses and curses and caresses that can and are more than what they can seem.
Chapter 30: Which fairytale do you think suits Swan Queen best?
They can be the thief and the princess, the lion cub who doesn't know how the play and the one that knows more about the land in where sun does hit the grass. They can be anyone they want however once Neal (Still Bae no matter how many times Emma tries otherwise) is old enough to understand and seem them both David and Snow feed him on the stories that ended up being mere fables on this world.
(Regina of course bans the couple of letting him see Snow White and the seven dwarves and as godmother of the boy Snow lets her have that)
The point is that when Bae laughs and cries at the screen, pointing at the characters that are there portrayed is common in the apartment to have one or more familiar figures pointing at the same screen and claim that neither of them dressed like that, were like that or talked like that. And Neal laughs and laughs and squeals whenever Charming or any other starts doing their best impersonations of the characters displayed there.
Until one day he turns and looks at his big sister with big innocent eyes as he talks to her in that still quivering voice of his.
"And who are you?"
And is Emma turn to laugh even though is slightly mechanical at this point because yes, albeit she doesn't resent having grown up in the land without magic, not anymore at least, there is that deep hidden feeling of not being enough for the fairy tale characters that have become and had reveal as her family in the last few years.
Is Regina of course the one who answers the boy by interlacing her fingers with Emma's and smiling softly at him.
"I'm afraid your sister doesn't appears there, she is another type of character"
And so she proceeds on explaining to him the kind of woman, the kind of person, his sister is. Because, as she will later explain Emma, neither of them are anything they don't want to be and their own stories are more than enough.
Is not that they aren't or could be like a fairy tale romance, is just that they don't need to. They are them, another kind of fairy tale.
Chapter 31: What's your favorite alternate universe/reality way for them to meet?
It happens the day Emma decides to go hunting near the castle's forest. She knows is basically suicidal but she needs the money the carcass of a doe could grant her and she has heard that the king is not in the kingdom for the week, having decided to take his daughter to some other reign for the princess birthday.
(At least that was what Ruby heard on the tavern last night when the guards of the castle stopped there in order to get a refill. She really hopes they weren't drunk enough to mix up the dates)
So off she goes, with her short bow and two knives, the best Jefferson was able to steal from his last trip to Agrabah, boots and hood tightly corded around her body and face covered as much as possible.
When she arrives to the clearing she has first decided to stop and start her haunting she distinguishes a young woman walking between the trees, dark eyes that seem to bore holes on the ground and one of the most beautiful faces Emma had ever seen.
She will later on know that that woman is the Queen but for the moment she is stunned and unable to say anything else but a soft "Hi" when the brunette sees her and approaches her, showing on her face a mix of intrigue and worry.
(Emma never realizes that she is in fact surrounded by guards, not until later when Regina herself will point it out, but that's another story)
The brunette tilts her head and seem to make a decision for a second, her pupils now focused on Emma who has just realized that with the bow and knives obviously on display is not a secret why she is there.
"If you want to hunt there is a curve in the river, a few meters from here, in where deer come to drink"
She then turn and leaves, smiling at Emma one last time before disappearing again. The blonde remains speechless.
(That day she goes back to her hut a few golden coins richer than before, which is in fact what prompts her on going back to the forest in a quest of finding the woman and be able to thank her properly for her words)
