FOURTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY
"Your song" by Amaia and Alfred and "I loved her first" by Heartland are the songs they dance to and this is a two part chapter, i would have the honeymoon in a few days, i hope. I don't own OUAT or any of the lyrics used in this chapter and every error is mine.
-Oh Regina, you look beautiful princess –said Henry Mills Sr. entering the room where his daughter is dressing for the wedding with the help of her sister Zelena, Cora and Kathryn and his eyes watered when he saw his daughter dressed in a strapless white dress that got tight at her waist and then got loose again and she had light make up and her hair in a braid, looking as young as the first time she got married –and Emma also looks beautiful, you will love her.
The past month has been a total bliss for the former Evil Queen: her soon to be wife had a tiny baby bump already and looked even more beautiful than before and she couldn't stop touching her belly and kissing her, her morning sickness had just stopped and according to Sadie everything was looking good even if they couldn't found the sex of the twins yet. Cora has done a pretty good job winning Regina's and Zelena's trust again: she made plans for the four of them as a family to get to really know each other that involved horses, picnics and apples (both red and green), she helped the sisters to make amends with each other, she helped Regina and Emma with the wedding, being polite and friendly with Emma and giving her advice on pregnancy and even apologizing to Snow and Charming that were trying to give her a second chance. The daughters discovered a part of Cora that they never saw before: she was kind, generous and a very loving grandmother to Henry. And beside all of that Regina has found the perfect location for the wedding in the far end of Storybrooke, in a clear on the woods near the Merry Men camp, were Zelena, Cora, Hades and her has created a celebrations hall with a big garden. They decided to get married in the garden after noon, at 1 p.m. approximately and then have a cocktail and photos party from 2:30 to 5:30 under a tent and then, at 6, they would have dinner inside the celebrations hall.
Regina smiled at her father and hugged him: you look very handsome yourself; my son and father in law did a very good job helping you choose the suit daddy. I can't believe I am doing this again and that I have you all here with me.
At the other room was Emma with her mother Snow White, with Ruby Lucas that returned in time for the wedding from a three months mission in Oz with her girlfriend of a year whom she wanted to propose to; a six month pregnant Belle and Ashley. Emma had the perfect attire for the wedding on: it was a pant suit, it has a laced beige tortoise neck shirt and a white jacket that was tight around her middle showing her baby bump when she closes it but letting it free when open and she completed it with white smarty pants and white high heels. She has light make up and her curls free with a tiara on top of her hair that was the old she would need for the wedding and it was also a gift from her parents, it belonged to your grandmother Eva they said and she couldn't help the tears of finally having a family.
-Where is dad? We have to get going, Regina and I are arriving at the same time and I can't be late.
Ruby and Ashley laughed: you forgot the sorry I'm late of your soon to be wife right? She likes to be fashionably late
-I know, I know, but she promised me she would not be late to our wedding so I can't be late to our wedding.
Before she could complain again about her father not being there he entered the dressing room dressed in the same suit as both Henrys and instantly gasped at the beautiful sight in front of him: Oh Emma, my gorgeous princess, you look phenomenal, I had always dreamed about this day baby.
After a few more tears and checking that she was ok in the mirror Emma took a deep breath and walked down the aisle with her father when the song "Waiting for a girl like you" by Foreigner started playing and when she looked in front of her was the love of her life, her true love, the mother of her children walking down the aisle by the arm of her father and with Zelena (by the hand of Hades) and Kathryn (by the hand of Frederick) as her maids of honor while Ruby and Ashley were Emma's maids of honor. They were at the altar at the same time and both hold hands immediately. Their son is in first row of chairs between his grandmothers and Archie is there to marry them. After the few traditional words that he had to say he asked them to say their vows:
-Regina, you can go first
-When I first came here I was sad, angry and alone but that changed when I adopted Henry –she looked at him and he inclined his head in gratitude- he brought me hope again. That was the first gift you gave me Emma and the most precious of all, for that I thank you again –some tears gathered around both women's eyes- We have saved ourselves so many times that I lost track but what I would never lose track of is the many times that you said you loved me and the many smiles that you send my way in this last year and I promise I would save you as many times as it takes because now I know I don't want to live without you Miss Swan. I promise to love and care for you, and I will try in every way to be worthy of your love. I will love you, hold you and honor you; I will respect you, encourage you and cherish you, in health and sickness, through sorrow and success, for all the days of my life.
Emma, full of pregnancy hormones, couldn't stop the sobbing that escaped from her lungs and she hugged Regina, crying in her shoulder. After five minutes of sobbing in her fiancée's shoulder she finally pulled away and took a piece of paper.
-I was gonna read what I wrote in here but…it's not as personal as what I have to say to you from the bottom of my heart: it still amaze me that just after I wished upon a candle, almost four years ago, to have a family and never found myself alone in my birthday again our son knocked on my door and took me home. And it is also funny to think that I spent my 28th birthday with you and with him and now you are my home, my family –Regina has no excuses for her tears but she didn't care, it was her day and it was expected of her to cry- And as you know and your mother definitely knows, no one can take my heart because it's a product of true love, but the truth is that my heart had not been mine for over a year, it has been yours and it would be yours until death do us apart and even longer than that because today –Emma grabbed Regina's hands in hers and looked deeply into the most beautiful brown eyes in all the realms that she so hoped her kids would have- I promise to be your lover, companion and friend, your partner in parenthood (again but since the beginning), your ally in conflict, your greatest fan and your toughest adversary. I promise to be your comrade in adventure, your student and your teacher, your consolation in disappointment, your accomplice in mischief. This is my sacred vow to you, my equal in all things. All things. Forever."
Regina continued crying but just whispered an I love you to Emma and they sat down again to listen to Cora, Henry Sr. and Snow's speeches that made them cry again and finally Archie, after an hour and a half of hosting, asked Emma's brother, Neal, to give the rings.
Neal walked to the altar with the rings in his hand; he gave them to Emma and Regina that bend over to kiss his head.
-With this ring I gave you my heart, my mind and my soul, I gave you my live so we can share it, together.
And Regina put the ring in Emma's ring finger.
- With this ring I gave you my heart, my mind and my soul, I gave you my live so we can share it, together.
And Emma put the ring in Emma's ring finger.
-You may kiss the bride.
The place filled with cheers and applause while the brides kissed passionately but with pure love and adoration.
-I love you Miss Swan-Mills
-And I you Miss Swan-Mills
After the ceremony they went to the cocktail area where they received the congratulations of all the guests and took photos, first of the two of them and then with all their family and friends, and they chatted with all their guests. Then it was time to have dinner and while they were waiting for the first plate after a delicious starter David stand up on his seat that was beside Henry's that was beside Emma and clicked at his flute to grab the attention of all the guests.
-Thank you everyone, I am sorry for interrupting your interesting conversations but I am a very emotional father that just got to marry his daughter to her one True Love and I want to say something –he turned to his daughter and smiled at her –Emma, my sweet princess, when we conceived you the only think we wanted was to see you happy and with your own family one day and we thought that would never happen because someone –he looked at Regina and the both of them laughed- ripped our family apart but now we are together again and we have fulfilled our dreams. You deserve all the happiness in the world princess, you are beautiful, smart, funny and the best mother in the world. I wish you two the same happiness I have been experiencing all my marriage. To Emma and Regina
Everyone said "To Emma and Regina" back and they cheered and drank from their flutes. And they started eating the delicious meal and chatting and laughing but Emma couldn't stop touching her wife, she caressed her arm before resting her head on her new wife's shoulder when they were listening to her father speech. She brushed Regina's hand with her fingers while they were eating and she did it delicately, as someone touches a fragile glass for fear of breaking it and when Regina looks at her with big brown chocolate eyes she grabs her cheeks in her hands and pulled her towards her so they could kiss. In that kiss their lips fitted like pieces of a puzzle, their breaths were one and they melted in all they love they could feel for each other. All the hall exploded in applause and they separated, blushing but smiling, content with their lives.
Henry, their son, also wanted to give a speech so he grabbed a microphone once they all finished eating and started talking: the truth is that I saw this coming almost four years ago. I saw the way Ma's eyes softened when she looked at her, Mom's sarcasm being even stronger when she was around Ma and I have to tell you that Mom's sarcasm is her way of protecting herself for feelings she doesn't want to say out loud and I mean, c'mon, all that saving you did for the other kind of make you obvious. But I wanted to say that I am so glad, so happy to have finally a family as beautiful and as special as us and I can't wait to meet my siblings. To my moms, Emma and Regina.
Everyone cheered for them again and Henry signaled for the DJ to start the music: Ok, people, I want the married ladies to come here and start dancing to the song they chose to have their first dance with, they told me is a song that always made them thing of the other when they listen to it so…just come here and dance, the rest of the lovely couples can follow when the dance finishes.
The DJ started the song and Emma grabbed Regina's hand, took her to the middle of the dance floor and put her arms around her wife's neck while Regina just grabbed her waist and made their bodies collide, they liked to dance with as much parts of their bodies touching as possible and they also wanted to do as they do when they are alone listening to this song: they sing the lyrics to each other so Emma started singing:
I never thought I could be
Here in heaven so close to the sound of my dreams
I put my heart upside down
When your beautiful mind turns my life back around
To sing the next lyrics Emma changed her arms to Regina's waist and lifted her in the air even if by the look on her wife's eyes she would not do it again, not while she was pregnant.
Now I'm falling
Free, I'm falling
Regina peck Emma on the lips and together they sang the next lyrics:
Feels like I'm dancing in bright shining stars
Pulling you close is like touching the sky
Now I know how it feels to be loved and alive
Feels like I'm dancing in bright shining stars
Next to you
Regina:
Oh, oh
You make me feel nice and warm
With your voice and your smile I could just sing along
Everything's perfect, it's love
Take my hand, take me home and then show me the world
And finally, just slowly bouncing on the same place but looking almost crying into each other eyes they finished the song:
Feels like I'm dancing in bright shining stars
Pulling you close is like touching the sky
Now I know how it feels to be loved and alive
Feels like I'm dancing in bright shining stars
Now I'm falling
Free, I'm falling
Getting closer
To your song
Flashed of the guests' phones stopped, people clapped and the brides kissed. Then it was time for the rest of the lovely couples to starts dancing and they danced to Ed Sheeran's songs Shape of you, perfect or photograph, to all 80 ballads songs and finally, after almost an hour and a half of dancing the slow songs were interrupted.
-Guys, David Nolan and Henry Mills Sr. here wants to do the father-daughter dance with their daughters so how all of you go and sit and rest your feet's.
Both girls starts dancing the fathers-daughter song, I loved her first by Heartland and while they were doing this Snow, Cora, Zelena and Henry were plugging the video they made with old and new photos of them and photos of them with their family.
Look at the two of you dancing that way
Lost in the moment and each other's face
So much in love, you're alone in this place
Like there's nobody else in the world
I was enough for her not long ago
I was her number one, she told me so
And she still means the world to me
Just so you know
So be careful when you hold my girl
Time changes everything, life must go on
And I'm not gonna stand in your way
I loved her first
I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it's still hard to give her away
I loved her first
How could that beautiful woman with you
Be that same freckled face kid that I knew?
The one that I read all those fairy tales to
And tucked into bed all those nights
And I knew the first time I saw you with her
It was only a matter of time
I loved her first
I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it's still hard to give her away
I loved her first
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
Someday you might know what I'm going through
When a miracle smiles up at you
Yeah, I loved her first
And even if David has only had four years with his little girl, it was true that he loved her first, that her first breath was for him and that she would always held a part of his heart in his and that's why he was crying in his daughter's shoulder at the end of the song. And it was also true that Henry felt like he was falling in love again when his little girl first smiled at him and it was also tru that for a long long time it was just his baby girl and him against the world and that's why he was cleaning the tears away from her daughter's face.
And the rest of the ceremony was beautiful and funny, with free drinks for all the guests, the mothers son dance with Henry, the disco moves competition and just love everywhere.
Henry stayed with his grandparents that night so the moms could have the mansion for themselves and they didn't waste any time in making love as newlyweds and christening every surface of the house. The next morning they had a late breakfast with their family before saying goodbye and driving to the airport in Regina's Mercedes, ready to have their two weeks honeymoon in Bahamas.
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