A soft knock came to the door before a brown head of hair and another pair of green eyes poked between the door and the wall.
Both Emma and Regina smiled as curious eyes made a quick sweep of the room before landing to the blanket-covered chest of Regina.
"Hey, Kid."
"I got Dr. Whale set up." Henry said as he slipped completely into the room, "Rose is asleep and I think Aurora's just staying in their room the rest of the night. And Ashley, Sean, Alexandra and Sammy went home." The entire time the boy stared at the bundle in the blanket on Regina's chest.
"Thanks for being the host while your mother and I were…indisposed." Regina pursed her lips as she watched her son watch his sister.
"Well you and Emma were in the middle of having a baby. I think everyone understood why you couldn't be the perfect hostess…"
Emma laughed at the way the kid was practically bursting at the seams, "Oh my God, Regina. Let him hold his sister before it kills him!"
Regina smirked as she lifted Hannah from her chest and carefully placed her in Henry's arm, "Henry meet Hannah."
"Hi, baby sister." Henry whispered and walked around the room with her.
The mothers watched their teenaged son as he had his private bonding time with his new sister.
"She's gonna have everyone wrapped around her little finger. She won't need the magic she's gonna have…" Emma whispered as her wife cuddled into her.
"I know. We're going to be in so much trouble." Regina whispered back in the blonde's neck before kissing it.
Emma quickly moved her head to receive a proper kiss. She then leaned over to her nightstand and grabbed up her ear bud to see how things were going. "Oh damn!" Emma took it back out, "I'm pretty sure the Angels are taking care of everything."
~0~0~0~0~0~
Mulan caught herself on the floor after the chain broke with the cement. She looked up, iron mask still on her face, to see if the if any of the guards heard her. She smirked when she saw two of them run and stare at her. She smiled when she saw the fear in their eyes and stood straight.
She pulled her legs free from the wall, one at a time then ripped the iron mask from her face.
One of the guards finally found his voice, "SHE'S FREEEEEEEE!" He yelled as he ran down the hall.
She stalked to the front of the cell. The other guard started stuttering, "Y-y-y-you c-c-c-c-c-ca-can't g-get through! The c-c-c-cell is p-p-p-protected b-by ma-ma-magic!"
Mulan, with an arrogant smirk, grabbed the wooden bars of the cell and broke the two she had her hands on. This gave her more than enough room to walk out.
The guard whipped his wand out and tried to magic Mulan back to her cell.
It didn't work. Mulan walked slowly and when she got close enough, she grabbed the wand and snapped it in two. She turned at the sound of more than a few footfalls and found about 10 guards, all of their wands out. "What's up?" She growled before she started in on all of them.
~0~0~0~0~0~
"Why didn't you tell me?" Hook said after he slammed the door to the warehouse loudly. "If you were in trouble, why didn't you let me help you?"
"Why would you help me?" Tink asked as she carefully packed the many flowers in their individual pots into racks and then the racks into crates.
Hook saw what she was doing and started helping. Both moving carefully but quickly. "Oh, come of it, Tink! You know that anyone around would have helped you! Emma and Regina? You honestly thought that they would leave you in the dust? The woman is coming after their child!"
"Hey! Maybe I don't need help! Maybe there are things I can do all on my own."
"Oh yeah? How's that working out for you?" Hook loaded a crate onto a dolly and turned back to her, "What were you going to do once you got all these little beings loaded up?"
"I was gonna get them out of here."
"How?"
"I have a big truck outside."
"And after that? When Blue comes to find you, when Blue uses her magic to track you?"
"I… I was going to take this to the fairies to show them what she did…"
"And when Blue puts a sleeping spell on them then convinces them otherwise?"
"I… Shut up!" Tink looked off to the side.
"No! You need to get this through your head! You can't go through life only looking out for yourself then trying some ridiculous feat! You have to let someone in!"
"No!" Tink hissed and ducked behind a shelf, pulling him with her, "Shut up. I hear something." She whispered after the man landed on top of her.
~0~0~0~0~0~0~
"I smell her." Ruby said after making sure Hook got into the warehouse.
"Where is she?" Belle asked, expecting Ruby to automatically know.
Ruby started following her nose. They made their way into the woods and found what appeared to be a cellar door. Ruby knit her brows and inhaled once more, "Belle?"
"What?" Belle turned from the door to the werewolf at the tone of her voice.
"Duck." Ruby pushed Belle's head down and leapfrogged over her tackling the guard coming after Belle in mid-air.
~0~0~0~0~0~
Mulan looked around the guards she'd taken down; she waited for more movement, but when no other guards came out, she stalked towards the exit. She saw her letterman jacket hanging on a coat rack, grabbed it, then found the last door to her and the world beyond the cell she'd been in for the last however long. She punched the angled door and strutted up the stairs with a growl.
"Mulan!" Both Ruby and Belle were fighting guards.
"We were just coming to get you!" Belle smiled before punching her opponent in the face.
"I can see that." Mulan growled as she started stalking towards them. When the only guard besides the two the other Angels were fighting closed in on her, she threw a single punch, which made the man take flight and land a few feet away from her. She grabbed the guard fighting Belle and threw him on the ground, "Stay." She growled. She then moved to the one Ruby was fighting. She punched him.
This, of course, was when the guard on the ground tried to trip her. She turned back to him and kicked him in the chest, "Stay!" She growled once again. She moved back to the standing guard and received a punch in the face. She gave him a look that told him that wasn't the right move. Two punches later, he was down and with a final kick to the face of the one that was still trying to trip her, she turned to the other Angels and straightened her jacket. "What'd I miss?"
Belle reached into her pocket and held a new ear bud for the other Angel, "Blue's behind it."
"Right… the flowers are fairies…"
"Evil fairy spawn to be exact." Ruby turned, catching the air, "Mulan, you wanna keep punching bad guys?" She turned not needing a response and started for the warehouse.
"A welcome back present already?" Mulan followed her.
"What exactly are we going to do?" Belle asked.
"Improvise." Ruby shrugged.
A foreign voice came to them "Angels? How's everything going?" Emma asked.
"We found Mulan." Belle answered.
She's super excited to hit some more bad guys." Ruby added.
"Keep me updated."
"As always!" Ruby replied.
"How many are there?" Mulan asked they approached the warehouse door.
"It's like all of Regina's evil army from back in the day." Ruby stopped them at the entrance, "Oh… Hook and Tink are in there… But they're the good guys."
Mulan squinted her eyes, showing her weariness.
"He's Archie on this case now… except he's getting involved." Belle provided.
"What happened to Archie?"
"He's… not making the best decisions." Ruby answered before pulling the door open.
The Angels quickly made it to the main part of the warehouse to find Hook and Tink both swinging swords, that they'd lifted from guards they took out no doubt, and fighting a losing battle.
Mulan quickly ran into the fray. She swiftly took out two of the guards trying to get at Tink before moving around to another one. She tapped his shoulder, "What's up." She nodded her head up and waited for him to make a move. He reached for the wand that had a special sheath on his belt and found it gone. She smirked and held the wand up before breaking it. "Come on." She growled through her grin as she crooked her first two fingers, both ordering him to come at her and mocking him out of arrogance.
~0~0~0~0~0~
"Mu's fine." Rose said as she put her crayon down and stopped coloring. It was way past her bedtime but her mommy didn't seem to care. And she liked coloring. She looked up at her mother, who had been pacing in the room they were temporarily sharing at the Mayor's and Sheriff's house while Mu was away finding the bad guy that kept taking babies.
Aurora sighed and ran her frustrated fingers through her hair as she turned to her daughter, "She always is."
Rose mimicked her mother with a sigh of her own, though she didn't intend to; this was a simple trait they shared, "No, Mommy." She sighed again, "Mu is fine. She's coming to get us tonight. I think she's gonna be tired though and we'll still sleep here."
"Oh you do?"
"Uh huh." Rose smiled, "Mu's punishing all the bad guys right now. That's her job. Don't worry, be happy." She sing-songed the last part.
~0~0~0~0~0~
Blue stayed outside the Sheriff and Mayor's window a bit longer, but something inside her told her that she needed to get to the warehouse.
When she did, she did not expect what she saw. Mulan. free. bashing together the heads of the only still standing guards. This would not do.
However it wasn't until she looked at the shelves did things force her to take action.
~0~0~0~0~0~
"And now we're waiting to hear from the Angels so we can give you a proper 'The End'."
Regina had scooped the baby from Emma's legs as soon as Emma started her story, "You're ridiculous. You make it seem so cool and nonchalant."
"You would have given her a nightmare."
"She's hours old! She won't have dreams for a whole year!"
The baby started to whine.
"What'd we do?" Emma stared at Hannah as if she were a thing and not a baby.
Regina smirked as she pulled her shirt up, "I think she's hungry."
Emma watched as her wife put the baby's mouth to her nipple and stared intently as the baby started to suckle.
"See something you like, Darling?" Regina asked sarcastically.
"Yeah…" Emma sighed with a smile, but decided clarification was in order, "But not in a dirty way. In a curious, fascinating, loving way." The blonde looked up to find a smile in her wife's brown eyes.
"I love you, Emma Swan."
Emma smiled, "I love you too, Regina Mills-Swan."
AN: Hello and my apologies! Things have become all of the sudden incredibly, overwhelmingly busy! A couple weeks ago I found out that I was admitted to one of the film schools I applied for (a top film school, which I was completely not expecting at all, not this year anyway)! So, I'm currently racing against the clock trying to find a place to live and move to LA from the Midwest, and everything is so surreal! I will try to post the next chapters here pretty quick (because I do have the story written in its entirety), and I will try to post other one-shots I've written. And then I'm not sure when I'll be able to write fanfiction would be for the next little while, as I will be having to support myself in one of the most expensive places to live…
As for this chapter… I hope you like it! Please read and review!
