January

A/N: HEY! So it is a week and a half later than I wanted this to be I am sorry... but life. I've found new love and my daughter's you tube channel has found an interesting audience and I am dealing with the business that is her public status. So I have been a little busy I have to say. Also, I had gotten a review from some guest person about why we choose Emma to be the carrier . I chose Emma mainly because Its so unexpected. Its like most people would think Regina should carry the next baby because Emma already did Henry. Yes it would only be fair, but I like Regina and Emma doing things that throw them a little off balance. So that's why I chose Emma... I choose Emma mostly because all of the best Magic Baby stories choose Regina. That is all. It is my preference, especially since she is younger. That settled, here is the much awaited January. Enjoy

January 6, 2016

I rolled my wrist and opened and closed my hands. I was so bloated and my hands… oh god, I couldn't even grip my gun. Not that I was allowed out on a beat anymore. But this typing wasn't helping my situation at all. I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my tired eyes.

a familiar staccato struck down the hallway, and I looked at the clock. Was it lunch time already? "They keep leaving him for a reason. I want that date, don't you dare give the hall to that man!" Regina was saying as she stopped at the door.

She looked at me and smiled. "Figure it out. I'm the mayor and If I have to I will pull that card." She stopped to listen a bit. "Great, I am at the sheriff's office right now, I'll let her know."

I looked up at her and raised my eyebrows in question.

"Will you be available for a Cake tasting tonight?" Regina asked setting food down in front of me.

"I'm always available for cake Regina." I answered. She laughed a little and finished her phone call as I looked through the contents of the bag she had brought. "Where is your food?"

She sat across from me as she put her phone away. "I already ate."

I gaped at her. "Why?"

"I Had a lunch meeting with Blue Beard, He's opening up a restaurant for seafood by the wharf. he brought a sampling."

"Since when is a sampling a meal"

"Since my ass has nearly doubled in size since the beginning of this pregnancy. It isn't fair that you have the same shapely rear-"

"Regina I work out all the time. You don't have to run you know, there are other ways." I interrupt.

"So you do agree that I am fat."

"I agree that you are insane!" I said and bite the burger she bought for me."

"You just said I needed the exercise-"

"Because you were complaining about the size of your ass!" I screamed and I was done with the food. because now I was upset, and it was all going to come up anyway.

I turned in my chair and grabbed the wastebasket and hurled. Regina rushed to my side and held my hair back.. "I'm sorry… I'm just.." She said at a loss.

"hormonal… I get it. So am I. I said taking a deep breath and reaching for a bottled water to rinse my mouth. I spit it into the basket and tied off the bag.

"let me…" Regina said and took the bag outside with her. I stared as she did so, and smiled. She didn't have to do that, but it was the little things she did for me that made me love her more. She came back inside with a resigned look on her features. "Maybe you are right, I should probably join you on your runs."

"Baby, you look great to me." I answered letting my eyes roam her figure. Yes it was fuller, but only in the right places, and not by much anyway.

She smiled and lifted me out of my chair. She sat down then brought me on to her lap and just held me close. She placed her open palm where she could tell by the spell Bean was putting the most pressure, then kissed the side of my face. "you're welcome Dear. You looked like you were going to throw up again if I let you take it outside."

"This tether is the best idea ever!" Emma said with a chuckle.

Regina smiled, and kissed my neck again. I don't feel what she feels, but I know she feels my urges as she does what she does and her arms tighten around me and she is fighting to control herself. "Um… Excuse me…"

I startle and spring up from Regina's lap. I see her close her eyes and shiver in the chair. "Hi…" I say absently then I turned to look at the man . "How can I help you sir."

"Er… I haven't seen My Sister Abby in five days. She's disappeared you see. She was Blue Beard's wife, and he says she run off somewhere and that just ain't like Abby."

I looked at Regina, and she leaned forward. "How long have they been divorced?"

"Not Divorced Ma'am…"

Regina stood. "Then why is he seeking to get married?" She muttered and walked out of the station.

"Babe, where are you going?" I asked following her to the door.

"To the library." Regina said and instead of hurrying across the road, she vanished into a puff of smoke.

January 13, 2016

I stepped out of the bathroom after changing my pj's to some running clothes and noticed my girlfriend stretching, in some running shoes and leggings. I smiled. "You're going again?" I asked amused.

"Yes." She answered standing up to look me in the eye.

"What happened to I'm never running again Emma?"

"I realized, that I was winded because of you… and not because of me?"

I raised an eyebrow. "I'm not winded."

"You are right now… but you have more endurance." Regina said. "I don't actually want to run Emma, but I don't want to let you go alone."

"Okay then, let's go." I said and headed down the stairs carefully. Everything I did now was more careful and deliberate. We ran, I ran slower than before so that she could keep pace with me. Yes I was winded. I lose my breath just putting on my pants. And that symptom seemed to hit Regina harder than any other thing she might be experiencing. so I took a deep breath but I overdid it, and everything went black.

I felt her hands hold on to me. "Breathe Emma."

I did, I slowed my breathing down as she walked with me to a bench. "Don't say it…"

"Fine… we will talk about something else." Regina said rubbing my back. "Bluebeard has had seven wives, all seem to have disappeared without a trace."

I took two slow breaths and leaned back into my fiancee. "Seven?"

"But the disappearances usually correlate to seeing him cavorting with someone new. He is a cheating bastard, and Abby his last one was a fool because she was best friends with the one before."

"Ugh… Men."

Regina looked at me and smirked. "They are not all like that, need I remind you who your father is? Or Neal even…"

"Neal was a bastard too… but not a cheater, this is true." I said. "Hook… however… Wait." I perked up. "Abby?"

Regina turned to face me. "What?"

"She was the one with Hook… She… Maybe she ran away with Killian!" I said standing up and running back toward the mansion.

"Emma! Wait." Regina said running behind me, but I really had to bet back home to dress.

I stared up at the deck of the Jolly Roger and sighed. I hadn't been in that ship since I had seen Abby under Killian. I put my freezing hands in my jacket pocket and stepped tentatively on to the plank.

It was still early, so Hook was either still passed out or just settling down to sleep from the night before. I walked toward his captain's quarters and knocked at the door. There was a groan on the other side and I leaned against the wall to wait trying not to vomit on my pretty new boots Regina had gotten me for Christmas.

He opened the door, and I remembered why I had liked him before. The man is a work of art in the looks department. Even in his current state of inebriation. I looked him over and bit my lip suppressing the tiny spark of attraction I still felt for him. It was pure lust, and I had the real thing at home. Except I know she felt that and could feel that she was down on the docks and I remembered what I had come there for. "Where is Abby?"

"Abby, who Luv?" He asked a bit groggy.

I stepped away from him a little as his Rum breath roiled in my stomach. "The one who you've been fucking… you know Bluebeard's wife?"

"His wife?" He looked around as if he were being punk'd. "I, haven't been with anyone since… you know and she weren't married when I was with her."

I tilted my head. He was telling the truth. "You haven't had sex in Six months?"

"I went much longer than that and I was with you luv." He said and looked down at my belly. "Can't say the same for you."

"I haven't had sex in six minutes." I answered with a smirk and turned away from him, kind of happy to have ruined him for others. "Your girlfriend has disappeared. Join me at the sheriff's office once you've slept off your liquor."

"Aye," Killian said and entered his cabin.

I walked carefully down the plank, and saw Regina standing by the doc railing with her arms folded and a pout on her lips. "I am not dead Regina, I will find other people attractive."

"But that's Hook!" she said.

"Yes… It is. So you should trust I'm never going there again."

"But you would go with someone else?"

"Babe!" I said in frustration. "You can't tell me that you don't look at some people and think, oh my god he… or she is so hot. This tether doesn't work both ways, I'm not aware of your hormonal changes. But I know you love me, and you want me, and I trust you not to hurt me."

"Emma…" Regina said and wrapped her arms around me. "I love you so much it scares me."

"I know… and I thought I was the one with the commitment issues."

"You aren't scared?" Regina asked.

"I'm Terrified."

She then took me in her arms and pulled me close. She kissed me softly then deepened the kiss. "I love you." She said once we broke apart.

"I love you too." I whispered. She kissed me one last time then I pulled away. "Okay, I gotta get back to this. Thanks for waiting for me. See you at lunch."

January 20, 2016

The call came in during Family dinner. "SH-Sheriff Swan… I - I know that I am the last person y-you want to hear from… I'm sorry but I need your help."

I tilted my head and looked up at Dad. "Who is this?"

"It's Abby Blue…" She whispered. "My husband is…"

"Bluebeard… we have been looking for you, where are you?" I said and both Dad and I got up from the table.

"I'm in the wharf. The restaurant he wants to open. I broke out of a room he has in the cellar...It's… Oh god He's coming."

"Stay with me but don't say a word we will be right there." I said and took Dad's hand and Vanished in a puff of white smoke.

I sat in my office late into that night. That sick bastard had a room full of bodies. All of his wives cured and ready to serve up as delicacies in his restaurant.

I felt her before I heard her. I was starting to sense whenever Regina is near. Her cloud of smoke surrounded me and she placed her hands on my shoulders the moment her body had arrived in the room.

"You should leave this paperwork for tomorrow." Regina said leaning closer, It's near Midnight."

"fine… It's just...I can't imagine you being evil, and If you were that evil…"

"I was evil, just not mentally disturbed." Regina said coming around leaning on the desk in front of me. "Emma, I would have never been that grotesque, I was misunderstood… not despised." She shrugged. "Well not a lot. I was something to endure, not survive."

"I guess… Well It's all over now."

"It is…" Regina looked back at the man, the former Pirate. A murderer slumbering on the cot as if he had not done the most despicable things. "Sometimes, I wish I were still a villain. I would snuff his life out in an instant."

"Babe, I wanted to… Like I felt that darkness build up inside me and I wanted to hurt him." I answered.

"I don't think you should be in his presence any longer. I am sending him to Zelena's old cell." Regina said waved her hand toward the man. "That man is dangerous and should not be here where he could harm you or David, or anyone who may walk through those doors." She said picking up her cell and dialing a number. She walked around the desk and talked to the people in the hidden ward at the hospital. When she was done, she turned to me. "There, he is all tucked in and locked away. Now let's you and I get home before it is no longer Wednesday."

January 27, 2016

"welcome to your third trimester!" Shirley said as I sat on the table. Regina and I smiled as I lay back. "Let's see how our little girl is growing. Did you drink all of your glucose solution this morning?"

"God Shirley that was awful." I said. "I don't remember it being so sweet."

"She almost couldn't keep it down." Regina said rubbing at her stomach. Her face was surly.

"I know, it's gross, but good news, you don't have diabetes, which is what that whole thing was for."

"Thank goodness." Regina sighed in relief. Then she smiled down at me.

"Let's take a look at this munchkin shall we?" Shirley said bringing the sonogram machine. "We just got our 4D machine and now we can take a look at our little beauty queen."

A thrill went through me. I hadn't gotten a chance to do this with Henry. I squeezed Regina's hand as Shirley applied the goop all over my belly. I stared intently at the screen and then there was an image, a round little bulge then an arm shot out from behind. I gasped. It was as if the baby had been draped in a golden blanket. She turned her head and the shape of her face appeared. "oh…" Regina said holding me tighter. No doubt overwhelmed by not only how she was feeling, but how I was feeling.

I took a deep breath and squeezed her back. "She's beautiful." I whispered.

Regina nodded and kissed the top of my head.

Shirley smiled at us as she worked the buttons. "She looks very healthy, and is growing at the perfect rate."

"So what now?" Regina asked. "Does she stop exercising?"

"Only if she wants to." Shirley said. I smirked at my fiance. "She does need to listen to her body's cues, but women can remain active all the way til the end of pregnancy."

I chuckled a little. "Regina, I'm fine, you don't have to come with me."

She sighed in frustration and sat at the chair. "I just don't enjoy running."

"What do you like?" I asked sitting up after Shirley wiped the goop from my belly."

"I don't know." Regina said. "Sex?"

"Regina!" I said in pretend shock. but I couldn't help but laugh.

"Well that is a great exercise." Shirley said "It uses all body muscles."

"We already do that." I said.

"Yes well… I exercise every day." Regina said.

"Well… the bottom line is, Regina, That sex is a great way to get your blood pumping and burn calories. Emma, every once in awhile for the sake of your relationship, you can skip the gym for a private session with your partner." Shirley said to me. then she turned to Regina again. "But For the sake of your health, make a habit of engaging in both regularly. You're better off getting sweaty in the gym with Emma first, and then reaping the sexual benefits of your workout afterward.

"We'll do different things, and see what you like." I said.

"Okay… Yeah." Regina said with a nod.

"Okay…" I said and we kind of awkwardly sat there looking at Shirley as she told us about things. Then we walked out of there in silence side by side. and I looked at her. "Wanna go do some cardio?" I asked.

She looked at me and smirked taking my hand. "We'll come back for the car later.

A/N: What did you think? I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Send me a review by writing what you think in that text box bellow it is much appreciated. I will start to work on February right away, but I am sure It will also be a little late. Til Next time, Much love! ~ S.K.