Back To Storybrooke

by Snow-White-Ginny-Goodwin

Emma swan and Regina mills were together happily, that is until Regina had to say goodbye to the thing she loved most. It wasn't Henry. Emma left and lost all her memories. Instead of the residents of Storybrooke going back to the Enchanted Forest, they stayed in Storybrooke and time reversed to 2011 again. Except they all remember. Only Henry can bring back Emma, but how?

4. Chapter 4: Alone Time

I was so relieved this chapter. It's been such an easy write for me because I love this relationship so much! I tried to write a little longer chapters, while still making them fun and cute. Please follow, favorite, rate, and review! Also, follow my Instagram im_in_henrys_book! I just reached 6k!

Chapter 4: Alone Time

After Henry went out the door, the excitement dropped to an all-time low despite the fact that Regina's heart was still fluttering seeing Emma before her eyes. After 20 minutes of scrolling through Pay-Per-View movies, they decided on a movie called Duplex about a couple who moved into a duplex with the upper level being rented out by a grandma. Regina found it hilarious and every so often Emma would join in the laughter, their two voices joining in harmony. Every time Regina's hand swiped across Emma's in the popcorn bowl, her heart skipped a beat. Around 6 o' clock the phone rang. Regina raced into the kitchen to find the phone and answered it.

"Hello. This is Regina Mills." Regina nodded slightly. "Yes that's fine. I can bring your stuff by? Oh. Ok. That's fine. Ok. Love you Henry. Bye."

"What was that about?" Emma asked. Regina walked back into the TV room, smiling.

"Henry is spending the night at Grace's house. Apparently he already planned on that so he took his stuff." Emma smiled, looking at the credits of the movie.

"What should we do now?" Emma asked, turning the TV off. Regina walked into the kitchen and went to the fridge.

"We could make Henrys mothers signature hot cocoa!" Regina offered, remembering the days Regina would spend with Emma, spraying each other with whipped cream. The memory came on like an attack and Regina blacked out from reality.

"Everyone's talking about us. How I'm dating The Evil Queen... They don't understand," Emma says letting a tear drip down her face. Regina felt her pain. The amount of weird looks she was getting lately was worse than even after the curse broke.

"Em, it'll all be okay. They don't understand yet, but they will. I love you, and no one can take it away," Regina said kissing Emma's forehead and holding her close. "Why don't we make some cocoa?" Emma nodded and went rummaged through the pantry looking for marshmallows and cocoa powder. Regina went in the fridge and looked for some whipped cream.

"Hey do we have cinnamon?" Emma asked Regina.

"Yeah it's in the back of the spice cupboard," Regina said as she gathered the ingredients on the table. "Ok. We have everything." Emma sat down on the counter and handed Regina the cinnamon.

"So how was your day?" Emma asked as she started heating milk on the stove. Regina smirked and explained the long story about an encounter with Whale that was quite...awkward. He'd come up to her from behind and put his arms around her like he used to when Henry was little. He whispered in her ear,

"I heard you and Emma are getting it on...I'm all for that kind of action." Regina rolled her eyes and kept walking while Whale trailed behind her smiling and saying, "You know you want it!"

Soon enough, the milk was done and Regina measured the cocoa powder and put it in the cups of hot milk. Next Emma shook the whipped cream and started putting it on the hot cocoa when the can exploded and whipped cream sprayed all over Regina. Emma giggled at Regina's shocked expression.

"Oh you are so gonna get it!" Regina said grabbing the spare whipped cream bottle and spraying whipped cream all over Emma's head.

"Really Regina?! I just got it blown out!" Emma laughed and soon the room was a mess covered in whipped cream. The two women laughed dabbing whipped cream on each other's noses. Finally, Regina broke the space between them and kissed Emma deeply. Emma returned the kiss and then broke apart when she ran out of breath.

That was the beginning of October, and by Halloween, Emma was gone. Ever since that day, Regina kept the two empty Cool Whip bottles in her vault and sometimes, when the days were bad and she needed Emma, she'd go down there and hold the bottle Emma used, crying and cursing herself for ever letting Pan get to Storybrooke and ruin everything.

Regina woke up from her haze laying on the kitchen floor with Emma leaning over her.

"Regina?! Are you ok?" Emma asked looking concerned. She'd just met the woman and now she was fainting on the kitchen floor. "Oh thank god, you're awake." Emma smiled one of her 'relieved' smiles and Regina's heart fluttered.

"Let's make that cocoa."