Hey everyone! I am sorry it has taken me slightly longer to update this story but I have just recently moved house so my life has been in boxes and I have been busy packing and then unpacking as well as sorting out all my furniture. But everything is semi-sorted now so I am hoping to get this story finished now. In this chapter I have done a bit of a time jump and I'm not sure if the next chapter will be the last or if there will perhaps be another chapter and an epilogue. I need to decide how best to end this story. Anyway, please enjoy!

Regina and Emma spent the next week making themselves public to the rest of Storybrooke. When they went out together they held hands, the cosied up to one another and Emma even dared to kiss Regina in the middle of Main Street. They could tell everyone was staring at them. Watching them but they didn't care. Regina was nervous at times. She had her moments where she pulled away but she let Emma guide her and she basked in the love Emma and Henry showed her. She let them help her when she needed it amd together she found out they were much stronger.

Three years later...

It had been a manic three years. Everyone had accepted Regina and Emma as a couple, well mostly everyone and anyone who didn't were generally put in their place. Emma continued to stay in the mansion and within a year she and Regina were married, a simple ceremony with only close family and friends being invited. The ceremony being held in the mansion. It was all both women wanted and all they needed.

Emma walked into the living room to see Regina sat on the sofa, her feet up and in her arms cradling their beautiful sweet baby girl. They had talked about having a child a few months after they were married. Regina had shared with Emma how much she would love to experience pregnancy and so with that they decided to have a baby. Finding a doner was easy enough and surprisingly the whole process went easily and it didn't take long for Regina to fall pregnant.

Now they were both trying to get used to having a baby around, their little girl keeping them very busy, Regina especially as she seemed to like her food. "How is the little one?" Emma asked as she flopped down onto the sofa beside Regina and leaned over to look at their little girl who was now suckling on Regina.

"She is fine, hungry as usual." Regina replied staring down at the baby in her arms.

"We still need to come up with a name." Emma pressed looking up at Regina. "We can't keep calling her little one for the rest of her life."

Regina nodded. "I know...I just...I don't want to just pick a name because we have to. I don't want us to rush into it and then...I don't know...not like her name. I want her name to be special to us."

"I am more than sure we can come up with a name that is special to us." Emma said with a smile. She leaned back on the sofa and looked up at the ceiling, thinking through lists of names she had in her head. Naming the baby was the hardest thing they had come across through the whole pregnancy. They had named so many names and each one of them said no to whatever the other said. "Are you sure Pheobe is out of the question?" Emma asked.

"Yes it is still out." Regina sighed as she moved the baby in her arms a little and covered herself back up. She leaned over and gently placed the baby in the basinet and then made herself comfy on the sofa and looking back at Emma.

"Okay...what about Emily?" Emma asked.

"To close to Emma. I want something different." Regina replied.

"Right." Emma said with a nod. "Rosie?" Regina shook her head. "Hannah?"

"Nope." Regina said shaking her head again. "Sarah?"

"No. I knew a Sarah when I was younger. She was horrible." Emma said, her face screwed up a little.

"Okay no Sarah then." Regina said.

"Oh you know what name I heard the other day that I thought was really nice..." Emma said as she pushed herself up on the sofa. "I was watching a tv show on Netflix when you were sleeping and a character in it had an unusal sort of name."

"What was it?" Regina asked.

"Aria." Emma said. "I looked it up and it means pure and chaste and also with it's link to music melodious. I think it would be perfect you know with you loving to play the piano and it calming you and all."

"Aria…" Regina repeated, she turned and looked down at the sleeping baby girl. "Aria..." She smiled as she looked down at their beautiful little girl. It was perfect. She suited it perfectly. "I love it." She smiled as she looked back round to Emma. "I think it is perfect for her."

"Really? You really do like it?" Emma smiled and Regina nodded. "Great!" Emma leaned up looking into the basinet. "Our little Aria."

"Aria Swan Mills." Regina smiled.

It hadn't been a good day. Regina had woken up with a raging headache, had hardly slept as it was and it seemed Aria was catching onto her mothers mood, spending most of the morning and afternoon crying her eyes out, showing her brunette mother than indeed her lungs worked perfectly well.

Regina had tried everything she could think of to try and calm Aria down. She had tried to feed her, Aria taking her milk a couple of times but clearly it wasn't what was wrong the rest of the times. She had changed her nappy, perhaps more than was really neccessary but she had no idea what else to do. Putting her down for a nap didn't work either, Aria just cried and cried.

Regina was running out of ideas, it was beginning to get to much for her and she wasn't sure what else she could do to help Aria. She cradled her in her arms, rocking her as she paced up and down the living room. "Shh. Please Aria stop crying." Regina said softly. She could feel tears welling up in her eyes. Her emotions were getting the better of her but it had been a long horrible day. The worst in a while and she wasn't sure if she could handle it anymore. "Aria please stop crying." Regina said in a more desperate tone.

But little Aria continued to cry and cry, her cries getting louder and louder. She wasn't stopping for anything and all Regina wanted was to know why her little girl felt this way, what she could do to help her little girl. She sat on the sofa, pulling her blouse to the side a little and tried to feed Aria again but she wasn't up for feeding. That wasn't what she wanted once again. Regina fixed herself and then pushed herself up from the sofa, still cradling Aria in her arms.

"Aria I don't know what you want from me." Regina said, tears spilling down onto her cheeks. "I don't know what you want me to do. I want to help you but I don't know how to help you." A sob left her mouth as she continued to rock the crying baby in her arms.

It was then that Emma walked into the house with Henry trailing behind her. The crying of Aria ringing through the house. "Wow she is still going." Henry said as he kicked his shoes off and threw his bag down. "I am sure that's the noise she was making when we left this morning."

"Yea, sure sounds like it." Emma said as she pulled off her leather jacket and hung it up on the stand. "Come on let's go see." She said placing her hand on his back. They walked up the couple of steps to the foyer and over to the sounds of crying taking them to the living room to see Regina pacing up and down, rocking Aria in her arms. Emma looked a little closer to see Regina had tears falling down her cheeks. "Hey what's going on? Are you okay?" Emma asked as she walked a little further into the room and over to Regina.

"No. No I'm not okay." Regina said as she spun around to look at Emma. She walked over to her and passed Aria over to her. "Take Aria." She said firmly before darting passed Emma and Henry and quickly leaving the living room and running up the stairs.

Both Emma and Henry turned to watch Regina leaving the room, confused looks on their faces, not sure what was or had been going on. Emma then looked down at Aria who was still going strong letting her other mother and her brother know that she wasn't happy about something. Emma sighed and she motioned for Henry to take Aria. "Here hold Aria and see if you can get her to calm down. I will go and see what's going on with your mom okay?" Emma said handing Aria to Henry.

"Okay." Henry said nodding his head.

Emma turned on her heel and walked out of the room, heading up the stairs two at a time. Walking down the hall towards her and Regina's room she could hear crying and she wondered what had happened since they had gone to work and school. She gently knocked on the door and pushed it open peering in to see Regina lying on the bed, her back to the door and her shoulders moving with her sobbing. Emma walked into the room and walked around the bed, climbing on and lying down, looking at Regina. "Regina what's happened?" Emma asked softly. She reached out and placed her hand on Regina's upper arm, moving her finger over Regina's soft skin. "Talk to me Regina. What's wrong?"

Regina hiccuped as her sobbing slowed down. She sniffled a little, her eyes moving to look up at Emma. "I-I can't..." Regina started but a sob broke through. She took a moment to calm herself. Taking a deep breath. "I'm a horrible mother..." She whispered out, tears still falling down her cheeks.

"What? Regina that's not true. You are a wonderful mother." Emma said shuffling a little closer to Regina.

"No...I'm not." Regina whispered back. "I can't even work out what is wrong with Aria. She has been crying all day and I don't know what is wrong with her. I haven't been able to help her. All I want to do is help her and I can't." Regina said.

"Regina..." Emma said softly. She reached over and gently pulled Regina closer to her letting Regina rest her head on her chest and wrapping her arms around Regina in a comforting way. "Not being able to figure out what is wrong with Aria does not make you a bad mother. She is only four weeks old Regina. She can't tell you what is wrong. Her only way of communicating is through crying just now."

"I know but she has cried all day and...I tried everything. I tried feeding her, I changed her, i put her down to sleep, I held her, rocked her...I tried everything and nothing worked. What if..." Regina said and trailed off at the end.

"What if?" Emma questioned.

"What if she doesn't like me? What if she has figured out who I really am?" Regina asked, tears still slipping down her cheeks.

"Regina..." Emma said pulling away slightly and making Regina look at her. "Firstly Aria loves you. Your her mother. And secondly she already knows who you really are and it is not the Evil Queen if that is what you are getting it." Regina sniffled a little, her eyes moving down to look anywhere but at Emma. "Thats the past Regina and it was not who you really are. People helped to turn you into the person..."

"I can't blame anyone but myself for what I have done in the past." Regina said.

"Perhaps but people played a part in what happened to you and what you did. You may have had a part but others did to. You are not the Evil Queen and you never truly were. You are Regina Mils, my beautiful wife, a loving mother to Henry and Aria and the most amazing person I have ever met." Emma said placing her hand on Regina's cheek and making her lock eyes with her again.

Regina sniffed. "Why couldn't I calm Aria down today then?"

Emma shrugged her shoulders a little. "Perhaps she was just in a bad mood today..."

"Well if she was then it was probably my fault." Regina sighed.

"Why would it have been your fault?" Emma asked.

"Today...was a bad day..." Regina said quietly.

Emma picked up on that straight away. When Regina said it was a bad day it wasn't because Aria had spent the day crying and she couldn't calm her down, it meant something else completely different. "Why didn't you say something this morning? Regina you know if you have a bad day you don't have to deal with it on your own. I can help you."

"I know I just..." Regina sighed. "I don't know. I wanted to deal with it. I didn't want to feel that way again. It has been a while since my last..."

"Your last bad day." Emma finished and Regina nodded her head.

"And I thought maybe I could deal with it but then Aria wasn't happy and maybe that was because of me. Maybe she picked up on the fact I wasn't happy and then it made her unhappy. It's my fault she has been so upset all day." Regina said tears welling up in her eyes. "Before you came home...just before...I could feel myself getting frustrated with her...angry with her...She had spent all day just screaming and I just wanted her to stop. My head has been pounding all day and she just wouldn't stop crying."

Emma hated seeing Regina like this. All she wanted was to make Regina all better, make her happy. "Regina it's not unusal for mothers to go through this. I had a friend years ago that suffered from postnatal depression when she had her child and she said that was how she felt. She wanted to help her child but she couldn't and she couldn't stand the crying and she could feel herself getting frustrated."

"I don't have postnatal depression." Regina said pulling away from Emma and sitting up on the bed. "I am not depressed!"

Emma pushed herself up. She ran her fingers through her hair. "Regina I am not saying you have postnatal depression." Emma said softly but it seemed like Regina wasn't listening.

"I just told you that it has been a while since my last bad day and now to jump onto me being depressed again. Well i'm not. I'm fine. I'm just having a bad day." Regina said.

"Regina..." Emma said firmly, taking Regina's hands in hers and making her look at her. "I never said you have postnatal depression. I was telling you about a friend who had it and said she experienced similar feelings like you did today." Emma said. "And even if you did have postnatal depression it would not be anything to feel ashamed about."

Regina bit her lip and loked down at the bed spread. "I looked into it..."

"What?" Emma asked.

"Postnatal depression. I got scared. I read that because I had been depressed before I have a likely chance of..." Regina trailed off and sighed. "I-I don't want to go back to that. I don't want to feel like that again. Be in that darkness, to feel so lonely again. Then I read that i could struggle to bond with Aria and it scared me even more to think that maybe I couldn't love her."

"Regina...when did you look all this up?" Emma asked.

"A couple of weeks before Aria arrived." Regina said. "I just wanted to prepare myself. I was making sure I had everything for the baby and then I started looking at things online and came across that and..." Regina shrugged. "I have tried so hard to make sure I have bonded with Aria but what if I haven't and thats why she has been so upset all day?"

"Regina...you have bonded with Aria. Anyone can see how much you love her and she feels happy with you. Babies have bad days just like adults do and yea maybe she picked up on you having a bad day and perhaps that upset her but maybe it was because she didn't like that her mommy was upset. Maybe she wanted to help you but didn't know how." Emma said. "If you are worried about having postnatal depression why don't you talk with Archie...see what he thinks? You still have your medication don't you?" Regina nodded her head. "Maybe you need different medication or something. I don't know but I want you to know...which you should already know...that I am here for you. Whenever you need me. If you ned to talk and I am at work then you just phone me and I will be right back here to help you okay? I will drop everything to help you okay?"

Regina nodded her head again and gave Emma a small smile. "Thank you Emma."

"Anytime. I love you Regina." Emma said cupping Regina's face in her hands. She then leaned over and pressed her lips against Regina's . Pulling away a little she rested her forehead against Regina's.

"I love you too Emma." Regina whispered back.

A little while later Regina and Emma walked back down stairs and into the livingroom where Henry had Aria resting on his lap, his arms gently resting on her to keep her safe and Harry Potter on the TV. "You see Aria Harry is the boy who lived so he is special. He needs to defeat Voldomort." Regina smiled as she watched Henry with a now quiet Aria. She let go of Emma's hand and walked in alerting Henry to her prescence. He smiled up at her. "Just giving her some knowledge."

"Never to early to start." Regina replied. She reached down and lifted Aria carefully from Henry, cradling her in her arms and placing a soft kiss on top of her head. "I love you my darling." Regina whispered.

Emma came up behind Regina, wrapping her arms around her waist and resting her chin on her shoulder. "See she knows you." Emma smiled.

Regina smiled too, her eyes never leaving Aria who was now sleeping soundly in her arms. It had been a bad day but it seemed things were only going to get better.

For those of you that watch Pretty Little Liars you will recognise where I got the name for little baby Swan Mills, What do you think? I loved the name Aria when I heard it on PLL, so unusual I think.

Also do you think I should stick with ending the story with little Aria as a baby or should I end it with another time jump and skip onto Aria being a little older? What's your thoughts guys?