15 year old Emma was doing homework while her 5 year old son ran around the sofa that she was sitting on when she got stuck on a math problem she put her books down and waited for Henry to come in front of her and as he did she snagged him around the waist and pulled him onto her lap.

"Hey kid how about slowing down? Otherwise you'll wear a hole in Regina's carpet." She said as she tickled the little boy who she'd give her life to protect.

"Ok momma." Henry said, for a 5 year old his speech was that of a 10 year old.

Just then they heard a click as a key entered the lock on the front door and Regina walked in.

"Emma? Henry? Are you here?" Came Regina's voice.

"We're in the living room." Emma called back.

Regina entered the living room and sat down next to Emma sitting right down on Emma's math books, Emma tried to hide the smile on her face a s Regina realised she had sat down on something hard and pulled Emma's books out from under her.

"So how was Henry?" Regina asked trying to recover from the embarrassment.

"The kid was tearing around the sofa till I snagged him. He may be 5 but he talks as if he's 10." Emma said proudly.

"So how's your homework coming?"

"Well my academic achievement has grounded to a sudden halt, but my mental breakdown is progressing nicely thanks. Ruby has been quizzing me for my history test and she said that if I don't get an A she'll send a hit man after me... Graham."

Regina let out a chuckle as Emma smiled.

After helping Emma finish her homework they had dinner and got Henry ready for bed, once he was asleep Emma sat up with Regina for awhile.

"Thank you for all you've done, I don't think I could have done it alone not to mention making it by myself. I owe you so much."

It was plain to see that Emma was so grateful to Regina that it let the brunette know that she had done the right thing, and she started to think that maybe she could have a happy ending of her own.

As Emma and Henry grew Regina's love for the girl changed to something more than how an adult loves a child after all Emma was becoming a young woman.

Emma was blossoming into a real beauty even more fairer then her mother and slightly more pale then her mother when Emma would get sick Regina had a hard time deciding if Emma was sick pale or just naturally pale.

Emma was doing exceptionally well in school especially literature she loved to read but even when she was 10 she never even so much as looked at fairy tales, she was more into action, mysteries and others but never children books.

Regina had vowed when Emma was younger that she would do anything to protect her and when the Evil Queen makes a vow she keeps it, with every scrape or ounce of trouble Emma got into Regina made sure to get her out of it.
Emma was never grounded if she did something wrong because Regina didn't feel that it was necessary to do so besides when Emma turned 13 she had stopped doing the wrong thing, Archie had said that because of the trauma that Emma had suffered from her foster parents she was just releasing her frustration and had a less destructive way to do it he gave her a notepad and a drawing book and told her that anytime Emma looked like she was going to act out to get her to draw or write what she was feeling, and it had helped.

What Regina and Emma didn't know was trouble was coming and it would come in twos.