AN:Thank you to all that have reviewed and read this story. I agree with you all, this story is very therapeutic, it's something I wanted to see on the show or read in a fanfic myself. I'm not the most stellar writer in the fandom, or even that brilliant, but I hope I'm doing this plot justice and I hope you guys enjoy this story.
It was weird how these things work. At the same time her mothers realized that they were under a curse or two, Sofia realized something was wrong and started a quest that brought her moms together. Sort of like what her brother, Henry, did when he was her age. Maybe it runs in the family.
Her mom, Regina, started to fuss a little over Emma, asking her questions trying to figure out when the change in attitude happened. Sofia was present as well, listening to her mom's story. Regina started to built something like a flowchart. The conclusion was that something happened in Camelot. She only wanted to know what.
Regina prodded Emma about her feelings towards Hook and Regina, herself, while she was the Dark One. It became apparent the Dark One did everything it could to keep Emma away from Regina and pushed her towards Hook. No surprises there if her moms were true love, a true loves kiss would have obliterated the Dark One from existence. No wonder. While Emma and Hook were no longer the dark ones, because of Rumple's trickery, the dark curse Hook cast was still in place as Emma never kissed her romantic true love.
Sofia excused herself and left the room to go grab a glass of juice but when she came back, glass in hand she heard her moms speak.
"Emma, I don't know..."
"But that's how true loves kiss works, right? With a love proclamation, and you believe there's a curse and break it. That is how my parents broke the sleeping curse and how we broke two dark curses with Henry."
"Emma, while I don't doubt that we are true loves, I think this curse is trickier."
"You never know... I mean it pains me to even tell you this, but we should have to try. Please. I can't be stuck in that marriage. Please. And if it doesn't work... We will cross that bridge when we come to it. But I want you to take care of Sofia. She's not happy with Hook and I. And I trust you. I trust you with my life and I know you're a great mom, Regina. "
"It will work though. It has to. I refuse to raise our children without you. Okay?"
Sofia looks through the crack in the door and sees her mom, Regina, at the edge of the couch, staring at Emma, and using her hand to caress her cheek. Emma nods in agreement.
"I love you. No matter what happens, I want you to know that I love you."
Emma gives her a weak smile as she lifts her own hand to Regina's cheek, to pull her closer. The brunette complies and bends her head down. Before their lips touch, Sofia can her blonde mom whisper 'I love you too.'
There's a wind pushing her back, away from the door, a wave in rainbow colors emanating from her moms and she gasps in surprise. She's never seen true love. She only heard about it. Her moms are still kissing when she makes her presence known, but they stop soon after, looking at one another with so much love.
"You did it," Emma whispers.
"No, we did," and she extends her hand out signaling to their daughter to join them.
"How are you feeling?" Sofia finds herself ask her blonde mother.
"Good. Really good," with that she gets up and is now sitting on the couch. She pulls Sofia to her and hugs her, sending words of apology for how she acted.
"It's okay, mom."
"No, it's not okay. But we will make it okay. It will be fine," Emma knows what she has to do. She first rips the ring that's at her neck, and shows it to Regina. She then removes the rings around her fingers. Regina takes the ring that's around Emma's neck and destroys it, cracking it with magic. There's a small magic fizzle from the ring but then it's all gone.
"I don't even like the colors he picked. Plain silver?" Emma mutters away as she puts the rings on the table.
"He will notice I destroyed the ring. He also must have seen the rainbows. He'll put two and two together," Regina's voice is calm, yet it carries a bit of an urgency. She casts a spell so that no one can enter the house.
"One thing I need to know is how come you think Regina is your mom," Emma says turning to her daughter.
"Oh. Because she is. It's how I found her. I used the globe that you used to find Henry. It found her."
"More like it found Henry. Regina was probably with him."
"I thought of that but no, and also because of this," she pulls a dusty old book from her backpack. It has the Storybrooke library stamp on it. "it says here that a child can be born out of true love magic."
"But how? Regina and I didn't even kiss once before this?" she looks up at the brunette and blushes.
"Umm, I don't know, maybe you two did a grand magic gesture, or something, around that time."
Emma thinks about it hard then she remembers. She remembers making magic with Regina to defeat some monster, and thinking what great partners they are and how great it would be to raise more children together. The next thing she remembers is feeling nauseous in the mornings and then finding out she was pregnant. Could it be?
She tells Regina and the brunette takes her hand in her own and tells her that she thought the same thing when they were fighting that monster. They smile at one another then they both turn towards their daughter, just as the kid launches herself in their arms. Their tender moment is interrupted by Emma's phone. They look down at it and see the caller ID. Emma picks up her phone and she closes the phone call. A few seconds later it rings again and Emma ends the phone call again.
They look at one another and start to laugh. Emma finally feels free and happy and able to say no and ignore him. No remorse. Zero remorse. In fact she feels an odd sense of satisfaction.
A small ding alerts them to a text message and there is an angry message from Hook demanding that he call her as soon as possible. Emma looks at Regina and the brunette only sighs.
"You'll have to face him eventually."
"My fist would really like to meet his face," Emma says feeling quite murderous.
They stay at the mansion for the rest of the day catching up on what went on in each other's lives. Regina didn't even know how to bring up the subject that they were grandmothers. Sofia had gone to bed as she felt exhausted, so this left Emma and Regina alone to talk.
"I wish I had a time portal to erase even knowing Hook."
"I know."
"You don't sound so keen."
"I'm not. Time travel could alter a lot."
"We would still have Sofia, most likely, and Henry would have never left Storybrooke."
"Yeah, about that." Regina looks down at their joined hands, "Once we deal with Hook, I need your help with something."
"Is Henry in trouble?" Emma's tone is nothing but concerned.
"More or less. We managed to cross the wrong people. I'm quite in a predicament at the moment and I really need that charming luck of yours."
"Some luck" Emma scoffs at that and Regina rolls her eyes. Getting on a more serious note she asks "What happened?"
"Well there was a dark curse that took us to Hyperion Heights in Seattle. If the dark curse breaks Henry will die, but if it doesn't Lucy will."
"Who's Lucy?"
"Henry's daughter," at that Regina smiles and takes Emma's hand her own "We have a granddaughter, Emma, and both her and our son are in trouble and it's my fault."
Emma looks shocked at Regina. Her son had a child, she was a grandmother. She's been so caught up in this curse she not only missed most of her child's life by ignoring her to pander to Hook, but she's lost more years out of Henry's life and now her granddaughter's life. That pirate will pay.
"How old is she?"
"Oh, she's ten," with that Regina pulls out her phone and thank goodness for iCloud. She shows Emma a few pictures and the blonde starts to cry. Regina holds Emma in her arms as the blonde lets all the anger and frustration and pain out. After a few minutes, the blonde is finally calm, and Regina lifts her head as she drops soft kisses over the blonde's face, kisses that have Emma giggle.
However, their tender moment is interrupted by someone shouting outside Regina's front door.
AN:Let me know what you think. Reviews are so, so appreciated and wanted.