A/N Last chapter of the night. I'm sort of bombarding new chapters because I'm not sure when I will be able to upload a new one as I'm going to be so busy the next month or so.


Chapter Seven

Emma stood staring at the door for just less than five minutes, she was in complete shock. Regina Mills a woman she had known less than a day, a woman who she thought was as straight as an arrow had just asked her out on a date. Emma needed time to process this, Ruby was working so she decided to go to the canteen. Just as Emma opened the door she was bulldozed to the floor by a very excited girl. "She's me Emma, it's true, I'm her."

Emma stood up, brushed herself off and just stared right through her. "Emma are you listening to me. I'm LILY FOSTER" she shouted.

"That's amazing news. We should call your grandparents and let them know your safe and I will text Regina and let her know."

Lily looked around the room and was pretty confused why Regina wasn't there waiting for her. "Where is Regina?" She questioned

"Well something happened and Regina needed to go back to work."

"Emma what did you do?"

"Why are you assuming I did something?"

"Just a hunch."

"Emma can I have your phone so I can text Regina myself."

Emma leaned over, grabbed her phone and handed it to Lily. "Regina will be busy so don't be surprised if she doesn't reply right away."

Emma: Knock Knock?

Regina: Emma I'm working I don't have time for knock knock jokes

Lily placed the phone on the bed and huffed. "What's up?" Emma asked.

"Regina thinks it's you and won't answer my text properly."

Emma grabbed the phone and started to laugh. "That's a good one. Did you think of that while you were down in the canteen? Just ask Regina to answer it and I'm sure she will."

"Yeah the nurses helped me think of it."

Emma: Regina can you please just answer it

Regina: Fine. Who's there?

Emma: Lily

Regina: Lily who

Emma: Lily foster. It's me Regina, Emma let me use her phone so I could text you to let you know that the dental records confirmed that I'm lily foster.

That's wonderful. I'm going to be here for a little while then I will come back over. Hopefully your grandparents will be there soon.

Lily handed Emma's phone back to her. "What did Regina say?" Emma asked

Lily just shook her head and took a sip of her drink "that she was going to be working for a while but will come back later, she didn't seem very bothered though" she sighed.

Emma walked over to Lily and wrapped her arm around her shoulders. "I'm sure she is bothered sweetie but I think what's going on at her work is very important and it will help find who kidnapped you and killed all those people."

"I guess so."

Emma pulled Lily into a hug "hey don't worry about it. We know who you are now so let's look into calling your grandparents shall we."

"That sounds like a plan. Do you think Regina will be by to see me later?"

"I'm sure she will.

Lily climbed onto the bed and Emma could tell she was tired. "You get some sleep and I will get the nurse to ring your grandparents." Emma left lily and walked to the nurses' station to find a note left on the desk for her.

Grandparents have been notified and will be here about 8pm.

Emma grabbed the note and felt a wave of sadness wash over her she didn't expect Lily's grandparents to get here so soon. Emma walked back in the room, grabbed her phone and decided to text Regina letting her know she should try get to the hospital soon to say goodbye to Lily just in case she can be discharged tonight.

Hey. Just letting you know Lily's grandparents have been notified and they will be here about 8pm so if you want to say goodbye try and be here before then.

Emma sat patiently staring at her phone. Nearly an hour went by and Regina still hadn't replied. Emma decided she would try and have a quick nap. Just as she started to close her eyes her phone vibrated against her leg.

"Thanks for letting me know. I'm pretty busy here but I will try my best to be there about 7:30ish."

Emma was a bit annoyed that Regina wasn't going to make more of an effort to come and see Lily, Emma understood that Regina was likely very busy but she was sure she could spare an hour to see Lily. Emma walked to the window and just looked out at the view. She wondered if when building the hospital, they took into consideration the view because she was sure she read an article somewhere about how a calming view could help patients recover more quickly and what was more calming than the view of the Thames. Emma got lost in her thoughts and didn't realise that Ruby was stood behind her until Ruby tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey, Em how's everything been up here?"

"Well we now know she's Lily Foster and Regina asked me on a date."

"That's great Em. But don't you think that's a bad idea, if you dance with the devil you will get your fingers burnt."

Emma really hated that Ruby was judging Regina on what she heard about her. "Ruby I've spent nearly all afternoon with her and really got to know her, she's not as bad as people make out. I will be careful I promise and to be honest your dating my ex, he's not squeaky clean so you've got no right to tell me not to do this" Emma stated.

"I thought you were okay with me and Neal. I would rather you tell me you're not fine with it than you pretend you are and make snide comments all the time. I suppose you're a good judge of character and if you say Regina isn't as bad as people say then I believe you. Just please be careful I don't want you to get hurt because it's getting harder and harder to pull you out of the rabbit hole" Ruby sighed.

Emma honestly thought she was okay with it but it looks like she still needed time to get her head around it.

"Sorry Rub I'm not being fair about you and Neal I just need some time to get used to it that's all."

Ruby walked over to Emma, wrapped her arms around her waist and rested her head on Emma's neck just as Lily woke up and seconds later Regina walked through the door. Regina cleared her throat "I can come back if I'm interrupting something, but it's rather inappropriate to be doing that in front of Lily don't you think."

Emma and Ruby jumped apart even though they weren't doing anything they still felt guilty. Emma turned around and studied Regina's face, she may have got to know the woman in front of her a bit better today but not enough to know if she was being serious or not.

"I thought you was busy and couldn't get away" Lily snapped. Both Emma and Ruby were thankful for the break in silence but by the look on Regina's face she was not. "That's a very inappropriate tone to have with an adult dear. I'm waiting for some DNA results so thought it would be a perfect time to come and spend some time with you before you leave. But if that's the way you are going to speak to me then I'm sure I can leave."

Regina noticed Emma had started to look flush and was worried she may be coming down with something after all hospitals were full of 100s of germs. Regina walked forward and placed her hand on Emma's forehead. "Emma dear, you have a temperature are you feeling okay?"

Ruby stood there staring at the interaction between the two women and thought maybe Emma was right.

Emma placed her hand over Regina's, she expected Regina to pull it away as the room wasn't exactly empty and Emma had a feeling Regina was the type who hated PDA but instead Regina placed her other hand on the back of Emma's neck. Emma knew it was only to double check her temp. "I'm fine Regina, just had a hot flush that's all."

"Bloody hell Em you're a bit young to be going through the menopause you got plenty more years of visits from aunt flow" Ruby joked.

Regina slowly removed her hands from Emma's head and neck, Emma was sure she did it on purpose to see the reaction it would get from her. "Ruby, there is some food in that bag if you would like some, well that is if these greedy pair hasn't eaten it all."

Emma and Lily both looked at Regina and yelled "hey."

Regina looked at the pair and couldn't help but smile, the pair had matching annoyed looks plastered over their faces. "I'm sorry dears but it's true."

Ruby walked over to the bag of food left, grabbed it and walked back over to Emma. She leaned in, kissed her on the cheek and whispered in her ear "maybe you're right."

Regina watched this exchange and started to feel rather jealous, was Emma and Ruby sleeping together. "I won't be home tonight Ems I'm staying over Neal's."

Emma smiled at her best friend, took a deep breath and said something she didn't think would ever leave her lips "now I know, Neal can stay over at ours if you like."

"I didn't want you to think I was being insensitive."

Emma hugged her best friend tightly and without needing to use words Ruby knew that Emma had officially given her blessing. Regina felt rather relived it was clear that Ruby wasn't her girlfriend and that she had a boyfriend, one that Emma didn't approve of it seemed. "Thank you for the food Regina, it was really kind of you."

"Seems I'm not the ice queen everybody thinks I am."

Ruby went bright red and sloped out of the room without saying a word. Emma was glad that Ruby got to see that Regina wasn't the scary woman that everyone hated. "Did everything get sorted at the lab?" Emma asked.

Regina looked at Emma and then at Lily she decided not to share the details with Emma while Lily was in the room. "I've left it in Sydney's capable hands so I could come back and spend some time with Lily before her grandparents came."

"Well you should feel very honored Lil that Regina gave up work to spend time with you."

"If I'm honest I thought I would spend some time with the both of you."

"We feel very honored don't we Emma. Do you think I can be discharged tonight?" She questioned.

"How about I go and check with the doctor kid."

Emma walked out of the room to find Doctor Smith. Regina couldn't help but watch her leave and she could feel Lily's eyes burning into the side of her head. "You like her."

"Excuse me?"

"You like her; you think she's gorgeous... you want to hug her…you want to kiss her... her... you want to love her... "Lily sung.

"Lily that's very childish."

"Sorry but it's true, I've never been in a relationship or anything and only had the experiences of my grandparents but it's clear that you like each other."

"I will let you on in a little secret, before I left earlier I asked Emma out on a date."

Lily squealed "that's great Regina, what did Emma say?"

"I left the room before she could give me an answer."

"Regina you should have waited because I'm sure she would have said yes."

You're a right little match maker aren't you" Regina laughed.

Emma came into the room followed by an older couple. "Lily, look who I found in the corridor."

Lily's grandparents walked over to her, pulled her in to a hug and started crying. "We didn't think we would ever see you again, we never stopped looking for you."

"I missed you both so much and I'm sorry I didn't come home, if I had come straight home from the cinema none of this would have happened."

"Lily are you starting to remember things?" Emma asked.

"Not really, I just remember that I decided to meet a boy after the cinema and not go straight home."

"Don't worry about that darling, all that matters is that you're okay and we've found you."

"Lily you know the boy you had planned to meet did you know who he was?" Regina questioned.

"No I met him online, we had been talking for a couple of weeks and he asked me to meet him but when I did he never showed up and that's when I was taken."

Regina looked at Emma and Emma knew that the person who had taken Lily had groomed her and made out he was just a boy.

"Lily we told you not to speak to people that you didn't know" Mrs Foster sighed.

"I know but I wanted to make new friends and I knew a lot of kids did it on chat rooms. I'm sorry, if I had listened maybe it wouldn't have happened."

"Mrs Foster, do you still have Lily's laptop?" Regina asked.

"Everything is just how she left it. We knew one day she would be coming home so we didn't want to disturb her room."

"Would you mind if I send my forensic analyst to pick her laptop up tomorrow to see if we can get any information off it."

"That will be perfectly fine."

"Emma did you ask if I can be discharged?"

"The Doctor said as all your test results came back fine and your scans are clear so you are free to go home when you're ready. You can either stay here for the night or can go home now."

"I would like to go home tonight if that's okay?"

"Of course it's okay kid. You pack your stuff up while your grandparents go sign the discharge papers."

"We will be right outside if you need us Lil."

"I will be okay, I've got Emma and Regina."

"I'm so sorry Ladies we didn't introduce ourselves."

Emma walked over to the older man, held her hand out and the older man shook it. "Nice to meet you Mr Foster, I'm Emma Swan and the woman over there is Doctor Regina Mills."

"I'm Frank Foster and my beautiful wife is Carol. Nice to meet you Emma and Doctor Mills. Thank you for looking after my granddaughter Doctor Mills."

"It's nice to meet you both but I'm not a medical doctor I've got a PHD not a MD. I'm a Forensic Anthropologist and in charge of all the forensic evidence in this case."

"You must be really proud of your girlfriend Miss Swan" Carol replied.

"Please it's Emma and Regina isn't my girlfriend."

"Well not yet" Lily muttered.

Regina and Emma went bright red. Mr and Mrs Foster smirked at them as they walked out towards the nurse's station. "I can't believe it I didn't think I would ever see my family again; I know I haven't known you two long but I want to thank you for everything you've done for me. Will you come and visit me when I'm settled?" Lily asked.

Emma and Regina walked over to Lily and pulled her into a hug. "Of course we will kid won't we Regina."

Regina knew that it wouldn't be in the best interest for the case for her to visit Lily but she knew Emma would visit her whenever she could and Regina would after the case is solved. "Yes we will Lily, we would love to stay in touch with you." The Fosters came back in from signing the discharge papers and Lily started to pack her stuff up. "Thank you for helping our granddaughter." Lily finished packing and hugged both Emma and Regina again. "We will walk down with you all if that's okay?"

They all walked down to the exit of the hospital in silence. When they made it there, Lily's grandparents hugged both women and thanked them again. Lily hugged them for a third time and Emma tried her hardest to not to cry and she could sense Regina was probably feeling the same. Lily pulled away and walked over to her grandparents. Regina started to walk out of the door when Emma grabbed her arm. "You didn't give me chance to answer you earlier. I would love to go on a date with you Regina."

Regina smiled,walked towards Lily. Emma watched as Lily, her grandparents and Regina all walked out of the hospital.