The time crept by so slowly and they thought they were going to lose their minds as Emma tried to help Regina survive the pregnancy. Regina kept trying to get out of bed but usually when she tried, she was met with a searing pain so bad that she had to stay in bed and Emma had to go to the hospital and get a bed pan. Regina got so weak that Emma had to feed her and clean her.
Emma and Regina were terrified. They thought Regina was going to die, so Emma had Stacy come over to keep tabs on Regina. Stacy kept saying it was all ok, she would survive if she would just stop fighting the power inside her belly and just let herself be sick. Her body was fighting to survive the power within her, and fighting that power was only going to kill her.
Day 19, Regina was running a 104.1°F fever, sleeping 16 hours a day, and couldn't even talk any more. Stacy insisted Regina would pull through in a couple days but by now Emma was unsure of a lot of things, including Stacy, and was certain Regina was going to die. She got hysterical and threw Stacy out.
Day 21, Regina had been unconscious for 26 hours. Emma was panicking, Stacy had come by again to check on Regina, and tried to reassure Emma that, "According to my readings, the baby is starting to develop brain cells, so it is a matter of hours and then she should start to get better."
That evening, sure enough, Regina's fever broke.
The next day, she woke up.
It took a couple days till she was back on her feet. She started experimenting with the baby's powers, namely the power to breathe life, it took her 4 and ½ days to get the hang of it, but then she got it. She went to Henry, and with the goddess's powers of life growing in her belly, she breathed the Breath of Life into him, a breath of magic so powerful that even fate couldn't stop her from getting her son back now.
Henry woke up, took a deep breath, and feeling joyous at being back with his family, and having a second chance at life, shouted, "Mom! and mom!"
When he came to, Regina and Emma both hugged Henry so tight that he complained about not being able to breathe. As they hugged him They both began to cry, for they were both so happy to have him back. Henry could not understand what was wrong for from his perspective he was just hit by the car and blacked out, woke up for a moment, said, "Mom!" and blacked out again, and was now waking up again.
To him, no time had passed, but the look on his mothers' faces had him worried. They explained to him all they had gone through these last few months to get him back, and how much they had missed him, and even how he was going to be a big brother. Henry was so sad for what they had had to go through to get him back and was so excited about being a big brother. Then they hugged him again, and again he had to ask for air so they'd let him go.
Now that Henry was back among the living, Emma and Regina took him home to Regina's. They discussed putting him back in school, gave him ice cream and let him do all the stuff they wouldn't have let him do before he died. They were able to start to plan for his future again.
Emma and Regina went to create the two Emma's and Regina took out Emma's heart. Stacy poured a potion over it, rubbed it with some stones, and crystals then chanted. The glowing in the heart separated into two lights. Regina split the heart while Henry buried Emma in sand, all but her mouth with a piece of PVC to breathe. Stacy submerged the two halves of the heart into a potion, chanted, pulled out two whole hearts, poured another potion over Emma, and had Regina reach through the sand to put the heart back. Emma got up out of the sand, exposing another Emma, and Regina put the other heart in that Emma.
Stacy explained, "Right now there is one life split between two bodies, and they will both die if you don't give them both the Breath of Life."
Regina did so, and they took a few minutes to figure out how they feel as opposed to the memory of how they felt, and the Emma that was in love with Regina went home with her. While the other went home to Hook. Due to the help that Stacy had given them thus far with the pregnancy, Emma and Regina agreed that they still needed her, and invited her to stay in town till the child was born. Although the rest of the pregnancy went exactly like any other pregnancy would have.
Both of the Emma's eventually agreed that the Emma that went home to Regina would be Emma 1, and the Emma that went home to Hook would be Emma 2.
With enough exposure to Stacy, they began to understand her, and even like her. So Emma 1 and Regina asked stacy to stick around longer. Stacy eventually became friends with them. They decided that Stacy would be called aunt Stacy, and although Henry never took to it, they expected that the baby would.
As the baby was being born, Emma 1 put a drop of true love on the baby's forehead and she began to glow. When she was fully out she glowed so brightly that everyone had to look away. Eventually, the glow dimmed and faded, and Emma 1, looking at their baby and smiling, hugged Regina's head and kissed her forehead. Stacy never told them that the original Emma was the one who became Emma 1, or got the heart of love for Regina.
They never found out which one was the real Emma, and which one was the copy. As for little baby Hope, well we need to leave something for the next story.
