A month later
Regina has gotten better and is now able to walk on her own. She feels well enough to start going out. So she has her Dad drop her of at Granny's.
Regina walks into the diner and is instantly met with Ruby running up to her, enveloping her in a tight hug. Regina can hear a faint, "welcome back," from Granny in the background.
"Hi," Regina says with a slight chuckle, returning the embrace and then taking a seat at the counter, which –unbeknownst to her- is Henry's seat.
"So what will it be, Regina?" Granny says with a smile, "on the house of course."
"Mmmmmm…" Regina looks at the menu, "can I have double chocolate chip pancakes and plain pancakes please." Regina says with a smile, at this Ruby nods her head and goes to the kitchen to make them.
Regina starts to talk to Granny when the bell chimes above the door of the diner. Granny sees Emma's son run through the door with Emma close behind, Henry goes to go to his seat where he finds Regina sitting.
"Excuse me," Henry tugs on the end of Regina's shirt, "you're in my seat."
Regina turns around to look at the little boy, "oh I'm sorry!"
"Henry there are plenty of other seats here! Let's sit here." Emma picks Henry up and puts him in a seat next to Regina.
At this Regina just looks at Emma in shock, "you have a little boy" Regina stares at her in disbelief, as an unexpected sadness rushes over her Regina gets up out of her seat and goes to the bathroom.
Emma follows Regina into the bathroom, knocking on the bathroom stall.
"Regina are you ok?" Emma says in a soft and caring voice.
Regina opens the stall door, "no." Regina shakes her head, "I can't believe you have a child, why didn't you tell me?" As if remembering the image of the young child Regina asks, "and his name?"
Emma gives Regina a sad smile, "it's a long story… Why are you so upset?"
Regina looks down sadly, "because I lost my child" Regina chokes on the unbearable words as she starts to cry at the horrible memory.
Emma walks up to Regina, instantly wrapping her arms around the young brunette, holding her tight while whispering reassuring words in her ear. "It's ok, let it out. I'm here for you." Regina stops crying after about 10 minutes, "why did you name him Henry?"
"Well your Dad came to Granny's B&B, and… well, I went in to labor and he took me to the hospital and he was there for the birth." Emma shrugged, "I always did like that name Henry."
Meanwhile Cora and Leo are back in town and they go to Cora's office. Cora has everyone wrapped around her finger.
It is a small town and she isn't going to let Leo get into trouble just because of her spoiled brat of a daughter. Cora is looking for the picture she took, knowing it would come in handy to black mail the sheriff David Blanchard with his little affair. Once Cora finds the picture, she and Leo head off to the sheriff station.
Cora clears her throat, which makes David look up from his desk.
He sighs at the sight of Cora, great he thinks. "Hello madam mayor, haven't seen you in a while."
"I'm not here to talk Sheriff, I'm here to give you this." She hands over the pictures to David, who stands from his chair in shock.
"What do you want?"
"The evidence."
"On what?" David says fearfully.
"My daughter's case." This is when Leo strolls in to the station looking smug, knowing they had won. When he sees Leopold, all he feels is rage. David has seen firsthand what he did to Regina, he really is a monster.
"Do we have a deal sheriff?" Leo says with a smirk.
"Yes" David says regretfully.
"Good." Cora holds out her hand for the evidence, which David hesitantly gives her.
While Cora gets the evidence, Leo sees a photo on the desk of Emma and a child that looks fairly young. He looks at it suspiciously.
Cora snaps, "are you coming?" This knock him out of his trance and they walk out of the station, "now let's have some fun" Cora says with a devilish smirk on her face.
Oh yes, this will be fun.
…
Regina and Emma head out of the bathroom after a long time. Regina has calmed down a bit, though she's embarrassed of how easy it is to tell that she's been crying from her red face and dried tear tracks. Emma reassures her it's fine and that it's nobody's business.
After they've eaten, Regina starts to walk home.
Emma shouts, "Regina!" As she catches up to her she asks her, "do you want a ride home?"
Regina smiles and nods her head, "thank you."
"Do you mind if I drop Henry off at day-care first?" Regina smiles and shakes her head. Emma quickly drops Henry off at day-care.
After getting back in the car they head over to Regina's house, Emma walks Regina to the door.
"Would you like to come in for hot chocolate or do you have plans?"
Emma smiles and shakes her head, "no I don't have plans, I would love to come in for hot chocolate." Emma follows Regina inside into the kitchen where she sits at the kitchen island as Regina makes them both the hot drink.
"So… your little boy…" Regina trails off.
Emma smiles proudly, nodding her head though the brunette's back is to her. "Henry, yes."
"Who is his farther?" Regina says softly, timidly.
Emma is thankful Regina isn't looking at her, "I don't know, I had a one night stand and got pregnant." Emma's says shrugging it off. She can't let her know the truth.
Regina looks at Emma and knows it's a touchy subject so she doesn't push the blonde, so she changes the subject.
"He is a very bright little boy." Emma says with a smile, Henry always seems to make her smile.
"He gets that from your side of the family." Regina says with a smile at how proud Emma looks.
"That he does." Emma replies giving Regina a soft smile. Emma and Regina chat for a while and that's when Regina realizes the time.
Narrowing her eyebrows in confusion, "my Father should have been back about two hours ago. It's not like him not to call me if he's going to be late." Regina says starting to get worried.
Meanwhile across town, Cora and Leo stumble across Henry walking down the street to his car. Cora gets an idea as she says, "come Leo, I have an idea."
Cora and Leo make their way over to Henry and when he gets to his car door, they push him inside. Leo holding Henry down while Cora starts the car and heads out of town towards the woods where they can get rid of him for good.
…
Emma looks at Regina seeing the worry in her eyes, attempting to calm her down, "does your Father have a curfew?" Emma smiles mischievously, "is he going to get grounded." To Emma's luck her joke works as Regina chuckles hitting Emma on the arm. "Awwwww," the blonde says with a smile as Regina just smiles back. "Do you want to go look for him?"
"I'm going to call him first." Regina leaves the room and after 10 minutes comes back in the room looking more worried, "he's not answering! It's not like him to not answer his phone, especially if it's me calling!" Emma can see the panic rising in her friend.
"Ok," Emma says, "let's go look for him, I'm sure he's just been in town getting your craving of pancakes from Granny's." Emma smiles hoping to calm Regina, we'll find him.
…
Leo comes in to the room where Cora is waiting, "have you dealt with him yet?" Cora asks with a smile.
"Yes." He gives her a wicked smile back.
"May I ask what you did?"
Leo chuckles, "let's just say he's been in a terrible accident and his car ended up wrapped around a tree while he was driving drunk."
Cora gives him another smile, "very good dear, now how about that kiss?"
He leans down and kisses Cora, "much more behaved than Regina," he says with a slight chuckle.
This will be fun.
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Just want to say thank you for all the people reading following and reviewing the story means a lot and a big thank you to Amanda who is helping me so much with the story :)