Chapter 3

Please allow me to introduce myself

"Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!" Emma was whisper yelling and trying to zip her pants up. Regina was in much worse shape with her blouse open, bra undone, and her skirt up to her waist. The doorbell rang again. Regina's hair was disheveled, she bit her lip as she looked at the door. She heard Henry's key slide into the lock.

"This looks like a job for magic!" Emma whispered to her. Regina nodded and a purple cloud engulfed the two of them and their clothes, hair, and makeup were returned to a presentable level.

"Moms?" Henry shouted as the group walked in. He poked his head into the living room. "Didn't you guys hear the doorbell?" He asked as he, Snow, David, and Neil entered the room. Emma's pale skin was flushed and she couldn't come up with a reply.

"Uh, um, we…" Her eyes were wide as she looked between the group and Regina. The mayor composed herself and put on her 'regal face'.

"We were in the garden dear." she explained to Henry with a smile. Henry frowned a little at his adoptive mother. He was about to say something when he spotted a small piece of black lace clothing on the floor near the couch. His mouth fell open as he whipped his head back up to look at his mothers.

"What are you guys? Rabbit's?" he laughed. Regina looked down and was mortified. Emma saw the panties and tried to kick them under the couch with her foot as her face went red. Snow saw what she was doing and then spotted the underwear.

"Oh! Oh my!" she tried to look anywhere in the room other than at the couple. David looked at everyone, unaware as to what was going on.

"Am I missing something?" He asked the room with a confused look on her face. Snow tried to rescue everyone from further embarrassment. She cleared her throat audibly.

"You guys said you had some news?"

Emma clapped her hands together, happy to change the subject. "Yes news!" She turned to the mayor. "Regina?"

Regina smirked at Emma for passing the buck to her. She took a deep breath before she began. "This morning Miss Swan asked me to marry her." Snow's eyes went wide. David's jaw dropped. Henry had an enormous smile on his face. "And I said yes." Regina finished with a smile almost as big as Henry's.

"Alright!" Henry shouted and ran to his parents to engulf them in a group hug. "This is great!" Snow smiled as the news began to register in her brain. David squinted his eyes and then grinned as he too started to understand what was going on.

"That's wonderful!" Snow said as she came over and joined the family hug while trying to hold baby Neil in one arm. David joined the hug and they all squeezed in and laughed. Emma tried to push out of the group after a beat.

"Hold on, you guys might squish the baby!" she joked before she remembered that they hadn't shared that particular bit of news yet. Everyone backed away and broke the hug. Regina plastered a nervous smile on her face. David's confused look returned and he cocked his head to one side. Henry's eyes nearly fell out of his skull. Snow put her hand up to her mouth. She dropped it and tears flooded her eyes as she smiled at her daughter.

"You're going to have a baby?!" She whispered as the tears of joy rolled down her cheeks. Emma couldn't respond verbally as a lump formed in her throat as she saw the happiness in her mother's eyes. She simply nodded as her eyes grew misty. "That is so wonderful!" Snow grabbed her daughter and hugged her again. David was still standing with his mouth agape.

"What? How?" he said. Regina smirked at him.

"Magic." she simply stated to him. His mouth formed an 'o' as he pointed a finger at the couple.

"You two…?" he managed to get out. Regina rolled her eyes at him and then nodded at him, still smirking. Henry suddenly grabbed her and lifted her off the ground in a bear hug.

"I'm going to be a big brother?! That's awesome!" He laughed as he spun Regina.

"Henry! Be careful!" Regina laughed. David began to smile as the situation came into focus in his mind. He shook his head in amazement.

"I can't believe it." He laughed. They all turned to him. Snow looked at her husband.

"David?" she questioned. He continued to laugh.

"It's just incredible. The two of you. Everything that has happened between all of us. Regina if anyone had told me thirty years ago that my daughter would fall in love, marry, and have a child with the woman that was trying to kill Snow and I, I would have laughed them out of the Enchanted Forest."

Regina began to stiffen.

"But when I see how you have completely left that behind you" he continued "and the way you love Emma and how much Emma loves you. I wouldn't trade all that trouble for anything in the world. Because going through all that nonsense is what led us here, to this moment where we have truly become a family. And I'm proud to have you as the wife of my daughter."

A tear fell down Regina's cheek. Her voice cracked as she spoke to him. "For being an idiot" she began and everyone laughed "that was the kindest and sweetest thing you've ever said to me. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm proud to have Prince Charming and Snow White as my parents in law." Now Snow and Emma were crying and Henry swelled with pride. Regina moved to Snow and David and they wrapped each other in an embrace. Emma put her hands to her face with a huge grin on it and Henry put his arm around her shoulder.

They all took in the scene together and each thought that a kind of circle had become complete.

Storybrooke (Gold's shop)

Belle was dusting a small glass vial of some green liquid. She cut some bubble wrap of a huge roll with scissors, then she wrapped the potion and taped it before putting it in a box filled with similar vials and packing peanuts. She took a moment to sigh and look around the half empty shop. Most of the larger items in the store had already been moved into storage.

Gideon made cooing sounds in the small bassinet next to her. He was sleeping peacefully and Belle looked down at him with a forlorn expression. Why? Why was her child being put through so much tragedy? He lost his childhood. He was raised by the Black Fairy and turned into a heartless assassin for her. Then returned back to infancy. And then finally his father was killed.

She fought against the tears that were starting to form. "That's enough packing for today Gideon." She whispered to her sleeping son as she smiled down at him and blinking away the tears. "Let's go home."

Moments later she was locking the door of the shop and carrying Gideon in his car seat on her arm. As she turned around to head to her car she was startled by an elderly man with a beard.

"I'm sorry my dear, I didn't mean to frighten you." He said as he raised his hands and spread them in a gesture of surrender.

Belle recovered her composure and adjusted her grip "It's quite alright. May I help you with something? The store is closed I'm afraid."

"Is your name Belle?" he asked. She narrowed her eyes at him. She had never seen this man before.

"Who are you?" she asked, on guard.

"I apologize. Allow me to introduce myself." He smiled at her. "My name is Abraham. Abraham Van Helsing."