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Chapter Fourteen

Please

Neal stared at Emma. Did he hear right? "What?"

"I had twins. We have twins," she said, a little bit louder.

Neal looked down. He really was a jerk. He left Emma pregnant with twins and nowhere to go. How could he have done that? He was being selfish. Neal looked back at Emma. "Emma, I'm so sorry for what I did."

Emma blinked back the tears that were threatening to fall again and shook her head. "It doesn't matter. You can't change what you did. Now, tell me. Do you want to meet… our… children?" It was weird to say our around Neal.

Neal nodded. "If they want to meet me, then yes."

Emma nodded. "I know Lia does."

Neal gave her a confused look.

"Lia is the girl you saw last night and she is our daughter."

Neal nodded. "Who's our other child?"

"His name is Henry, but I have to ask his parents if he can meet you."

Neal gave her another confused look. "Wouldn't that be you and Killian?"

Emma shook her head. "Neal, when I had the twins, I knew I didn't have the money to raise them both and I couldn't bare to separate them. So as much as I hated it, I gave them both up for adoption. Henry was adopted by a nice couple, but Lia's family died almost a year ago."

Neal looked down. If he hadn't abandoned Emma, Emma could've kept their children and he could've helped raise them.

Emma stood up. "Be here Friday night at 6:30. I'll bring Lia and Killian and hopefully Henry and his family."

Neal nodded. "Thank you, Emma."

Emma nodded and walked out.

When Emma got to her car she started to drive towards Henry's house. She needed to talk to Regina.

When she got there, she knocked on the door a few times before someone answered it.

"Emma? What are you doing here?" Regina asked, after she answered the door.

"We need to talk," Emma explained.

Regina nodded and gestured for Emma to come inside. They went into the living room and sat on the couch.

"What is it?" Regina asked.

"Neal is in town," Emma explained.

"I'm sorry, but… who is Neal?" Regina asked, confused.

Emma sighed. "Henry and Lia's birth father."

"What? He's in town? Why?"

"At first he said he wanted to see me, but it turns out he wants to see his kid. He didn't know I had twins, so I explained that to him. I told him that I would bring Lia to meet him this Friday at Granny's at 6:30. I told him I would talk to Henry's parents about Henry meeting him."

Regina didn't say anything at first, but then she responded with, "What do you think?"

Emma looked at her, shocked. "What do I think?"

Regina nodded. "Yes. You are Henry's birth mother and I know Henry wants you in his life. Robin and I do to. So we have agreed that sometime in the near future… you'll get partial custody of Henry."

Emma smiled and hugged Regina. "Thank you so much!"

Regina laughed and pulled away. "You are very welcome. Now, back to my question."

Emma's expression became serious. "I think we need to ask Henry."

Regina nodded. "You're right."

Emma nodded. "Do you want to ask him or…"

"You can ask him. I know you've been looking for some more bonding time and this could be it."

Emma smiled. "Thank you. I'll pick him and Lia up after school and then head over here."

"Sounds good to me."

At 3:00 Emma went to the school and waited for Lia and Henry. Finally, after about 10 minutes, she saw Lia and Henry walk out, side by side.

Emma rolled down her window. "Henry! Lia!"

Henry and Lia looked up and saw the familiar yellow bug. They ran towards it.

"Hey, Mom," Lia said once her and Henry reached the car.

"Hey, guys. Get in," Emma said.

Henry's eyes lit up. "I'm going home with you?"

Emma shrugged. "Not exactly, but you'll see."

Henry and Lia smiled and climbed into the car.

Emma pulled up to Henry's house.

"What are we doing here?" Henry asked.

Emma put the keys into her pocket. "This is where you live, right?"

Henry nodded. "Yeah, but-"

Emma looked at him and smiled. "We are all going in. Come on."

Henry nodded and him and Lia reluctantly got out of the car and walked inside.

"Hey, Henry," Regina said, walking into the room.

Henry smiled. "Hi, Mom."

"Lia, Henry. Come here," Emma said.

Lia and Henry walked into the living room where Emma was sitting with Regina following.

"What is it, Mom?" Lia asked.

Regina sat next to Emma and Lia and Henry sat across from them.

"So, Lia already knows this but Henry doesn't." Emma faced Henry. "So, last night… an old… friend came to my house. It was Neal. Your birth father."

Henry looked down for a moment and then looked back at Emma and smiled. "My dad is in town? Can I meet him? Please?"

Emma laughed. "I'm fine with it, but it is really Regina's decision."

They all looked over at Regina.

Regina nodded. "You can meet him."

Henry smiled and jumped into Regina's arms. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Mom!"

Regina laughed. "You're welcome."

"Mom?" Lia asked once her and Emma got home.

"Yeah?" Emma asked as she started to get dinner ready.

"What is Dad like?"

"Well, he is the deputy of Storybrooke and we have been married for three years-"

"No," Lia interrupted. "My birth dad."

"Oh." Emma turned around and looked at her. "Well, he was very unique. I've never met anyone like him. He was kind and funny."

Lia smiled.

"Which is one of the reasons I was surprised when I found out he left me."

Lia looked down. "I'm sorry. It's probably hard for you to talk about him. I shouldn't have asked."

Emma shook her head. "No, no. It's fine. But you'll get to meet him on Friday, so let's wait until then to find out what he was like."

Lia nodded. "Thanks, Mom."

Emma nodded. "Anytime. Now, go do your homework while I make some dinner."

Around 6:00, Killian got home.

"Hello, love," Killian said, walking into the kitchen

Emma looked over at him. "Hey, 're back early."

Killian nodded. "I just wanted to make sure you were alright after your lunch with Neal. How did it go?"

Emma shrugged. "I don't know. I'll tell you and Lia all about it during dinner."

Killian nodded and kissed Emma's forehead. "As you wish, love."

Emma smiled. "Speaking of dinner, call Lia in. Dinner is ready."

After they had all sat down and had their food dished, Emma started talking, "So, I'm guessing you guys want to know how my lunch thing went with Neal, huh?"

Killian nodded. "How did you know?" He smiled.

Emma laughed and shook her head. "I have no idea." Both of them laughed while Lia just stared at them like they were crazy.

"So, it went okay, I guess. I yelled at him, I told him what happened after he left me, and I told him that we had twins," Emma explained casually.

Killian and Lia looked at her, wanting more information.

"What?" Emma asked, with a mouthful of food.

Killian laughed and shook his head. "We just want to know if anything else happened?"

Emma swallowed. "Nothing else really happened after that. I just told him to be at Granny's at 6:30 on Friday if he wanted to meet… our… kids." It was still strange calling Lia and Henry, Emma and Neal's kids.

Killian nodded. "I see."

They ate in silence in the rest of dinner, all thinking about what would happen on Friday.

I hope you liked it. It was kind of a slow chapter, sorry about that. Please review!