Bon voyage
Storybrooke (Regina and Emma's mansion)
Regina woke early the next day, even earlier than usual. This caused her wife to-be to groan and cover her head with her pillow. "Get up Emma. We have work to do." Emma groaned again and pulled her blanket over the pillow.
"No worky. Sleepy." Regina heard the muffled voice of her lover under the bedding and rolled her eyes. She sincerely hoped that their new baby wouldn't take after her mother and brother. It seemed that being difficult in the morning was in Emma and Henry's genetics. It was yet another thing she could blame on those idiot Charmings.
I heard that.
"Then get up Miss Swan." Regina crossed her arms and began to tap her heels on the carpeted floor. Emma started to roll her body up like a burrito in the blanket.
"You wore me out last night. I need at least three more hours. Maybe four." Emma's muffled yell came from inside the blanket. "You know what? Get back to me later." Regina began pulling on the blankets but only got resistance.
"Oh God Emma come on!" They began a tug of war with the blanket. "How old are you? Stop being so childish!"
"Never!" Emma wasn't giving an inch. The blanket was taught between them and her long bare legs were now visible. Her heels were digging into the bed as she clamped down on the blanket.
Regina finally let go. "Okay Miss Swan. If that's how you want to play." Regina flicked her wrist and the pillow and the blanket vanished. Emma was left with nothing to cover her except her cut off t shirt and boy shorts.
"Using magic? No fair Regina! We should have a no magic rule in the bedroom!" Emma pouted and rolled over onto her stomach and closed her eyes shut.
"If we had that rule then you wouldn't be pregnant Miss Swan." Regina snarked. "Now get up before I teleport you into the shower." Emma punched the bed and growled as she rolled off the bed.
"I blame growing up in the Enchanted Forest." Emma huffed as she stormed toward the master bathroom. "You guys had all those birds singing on your window sills and shit right at the crack of dawn! You don't understand the joy of the snooze button." She slammed the bathroom door behind her.
Regina shook her head and gave a small smile. Even though her childish antics frustrated her, Regina had to admit that she found Emma adorable. As she had watched the leggy blonde cross the room on her way to the bathroom she had enjoyed seeing her ass sway from side to side. The cute pout on her face made her want to kiss her right there, but she was supposed to be mad at her so she decided to file that kiss for later. A moment later she heard the water from the shower. Turning back to the bed she flicked her wrist and the bedding reappeared and the bed was made.
We only have a few days left before our wedding. We need to get started on the planning.
Hey, I thought the bathroom was a 'no psychic link zone'.
Well, this is an emergency. Emma chuckled in the shower as the warm water ran down her toned body.
This is an emergency?
Yes Miss Swan. We are getting married on the first day of spring and that is only two days away.
There is the small problem of the vampire's and evil Pinocchio remember.
I don't care. We are getting married on the first day of spring and that's final! Emma could feel the determination coming from Regina, but she also felt the fear.
Regina. It's going to be okay.
You don't understand Emma. I will not let vampires or puppets or fate ruin our day! Emma wanted to be out of the shower and in the bedroom hugging her lover right now. The fear and sadness was growing stronger inside Regina. All our lives we have been given the shit end of the stick. I want us to start our lives together on the first day of spring to signify our new beginning.
I know you do babe. But any day would be the perfect day to marry you. I love you so much Regina. We could be married on a rainy night in a parking lot with an alley cat giving birth nearby and it would be perfect. Emma felt the amusement inside Regina.
I know Emma. But please, you know how much this means to me. The blonde did know how much it meant. She felt the same way Regina did about their pasts. They had been through so much in their lives, so much tragedy and heartache that they did deserve a perfect day for their wedding.
Okay babe. For you I will move the moon and the stars to give you the perfect wedding. Emma felt the warmth and love rush into her from Regina.
I love you Emma.
So, where did we land on that dirty alley cat giving birth at the ceremony? Yay or nay?
You're an idiot.
Yeah, but I'm your idiot.
Storybrooke (Regina and Emma's kitchen)
Regina entered the kitchen and found Henry sitting at the island counter. He was eating a bowl of cereal and on his phone. Probably texting Violet, Regina thought. She regarded his face and it looked to her like he had calmed down from last night. "Morning mom." he said with a mouthful of cereal.
"Good morning Henry. Don't talk with your mouth full." She said in reproach as she stood on her tiptoes to kiss the top of his head. He rolled his eyes at her and looked at his phone. He was even taller than her sitting down, she thought with a tug at her heart. His eyeroll confirmed to her that his mood had lightened.
"Mom, you guys are powerful enough to open portals into other worlds now right?" Henry asked as he set his phone on the counter. Screen up, Regina noticed. Henry may be giving her his attention but it was not going to be undivided.
"Perhaps Henry. We did use one to get back from the old west." Regina responded. "Traveling between worlds requires very powerful magic however."
"Well you guys are the most powerful magic users around now." Henry grinned.
She smiled proudly. He was correct, she and Emma had united dark and light magic and absorbed it all into themselves. Had she still been the Evil Queen she would have killed to have this much power, but now having Emma and her children was more than enough for her. She had come a long way. "I guess we are at that. What are you getting at Henry?"
"Well with Mr. Gold and the others being vampires there are a lot of people scared." Henry began. "A lot of them are refugees still stuck here from when the merging stopped. I think we should send them home."
Regina thought for a moment. Henry was right, not only were these people trapped from their homeland they could also be in danger. It wasn't fair to them to stay in Storybrooke if they didn't have to. "You're right Henry. We should send them back." She sighed. "Also any of our Storybrooke residents that want to go back to The Enchanted Forest will be allowed to leave as well."
Henry raised his eyebrows. "Do you think there are still people that want to go back? Even after all this time?"
She shrugged. "I wish it wasn't the case, but there are a lot of people here that still resent me and what I did."
"But you're not the Evil Queen anymore." he defended her. She held her hand up.
"I'm glad you think so Henry. It makes me so happy that you don't see me that way anymore." Henry felt guilty and probably always would over the way he treated his mother all those years ago. He was a kid and didn't understand adult problems back then. He saw everything as black and white, he didn't realize that life was really just different shades of gray. His adoptive mother hadn't chosen to be evil, she was made that way by the circumstances of her life. Regina was still talking. "I'm happy that Emma, Snow, and David have forgiven me but there are some who live here that never will. They have every right to feel that way too. So if there are people that want to go back then the least I could do to try and make up for what I put them through is help them go home."
Henry nodded. "I suppose you're right." Emma walked into the kitchen.
"Regina's right about something? That's a first." Emma joked as she placed a kiss on her lover's cheek. Regina swatted at Emma's arm playfully.
"Watch it Swan."
Emma grabbed a box of cereal and shook it. She turned it upside down and frowned at Henry. "You ate all the cereal and didn't throw the box out? You're killing me kid! What am I supposed to eat now?" Emma tossed the empty box in the trash and gave Regina her puppy dog eyes. "Regina?" she asked in a baby talk voice.
Regina sighed. "What?"
Emma moved closer to Regina and slipped her arms around her waist from behind. "Can you make some pancakes?" she kissed Regina lightly on her cheek. "Please?" Regina rolled her eyes at her.
"Fine Miss Swan." Regina turned around to face her and touched their noses together. "Only because I don't want you filling up on bear claws at Granny's. You don't need to be feeding our unborn child that garbage." she gave her a quick peck on the lips.
"Thank you babe!" Emma smiled as Regina pulled out of her grasp and started to make breakfast.
Henry shook his head in mock disgust. "You guys are so lovey dovey it's sickening."
"Just for that you don't get any of my pancakes!" Emma said.
"Ma!" Henry whined. "I take it back! I take it back!"
Emma shook her head and laughed evilly. "Too late! All the pancakes will be mine!"
"Mom, can I have pancakes too?" Henry asked his adoptive mother.
"Yes dear." Regina answered without turning around from the stove. Emma's head spun around.
"Hey!" Emma shouted.
"With chocolate chips?" Henry asked.
"Anything for you my prince." Regina said. Henry looked at Emma and grinned. Her jaw dropped and she looked between the two.
"I get no respect around here." Emma muttered. "I tell you one thing, this baby is definitely going to be on my side!"
Storybrooke (the Charming farmhouse)
"She still wants to go through with the wedding? In two days?" David was shocked by the news his wife had relayed to him. Snow shrugged her shoulders as she hung up the house phone.
"You know Regina. She wants what she wants and no one is going to talk her out of it." she sighed. "Emma says that if she even tries to bring up the fact that now might not be the time, Regina breaks down in tears."
"Regina? In tears?" David couldn't believe it. Snow walked to him and put a hand on his arm.
"Look David, you have to understand Regina." she said softly. "Her mother forced her to marry my father while she was still in shock from Daniel's murder. The marriage itself was" Snow searched for the word she wanted. "Difficult. For the first time in her life she is completely happy. She wants to start her life with Emma on the first day of spring as a symbol of a new beginning. I think she's right David. I think we should help."
David looked at his wife with her pixie cut black hair and her beautiful eyes. They were true loves and so were Regina and Emma. Realizing that his daughter loved Regina as much as he loved his wife then there was no question what he should do. "You're right. We will make this happen, for our daughter and for Regina." Snow laughed. David was puzzled. "What?"
"It's just funny how life works out." she smiled. "All that time back in the Enchanted Forest, did you ever think that one day we would be planning Regina's wedding? To our daughter no less!" Snow laughed again. David chuckled and wrapped his wife in an embrace.
"I know, but with where we are as a family now, I wouldn't change anything that happened for the world." She looked up at her tall, charming husband.
"Me neither." She kissed him. "Now let's get to work. We have a wedding to plan."
Storybrooke (Town Hall)
Word spread quickly about the meeting at the town hall. Anyone who wanted to leave Storybrooke and return to their original realm was told to show up. Henry was surprised to see how packed it was. Besides all the refugees, there were quite a few Storybrooke residents there as well. He hoped that the reason so many wanted to leave was because they were just homesick. He didn't want to think that some of these people still harbored resentment towards his mother.
"Can I have everyone's attention?" Regina called out and all the talking in the hall ceased. "Emma and I are able to create portals to take you all home." there was happy chatter starting in the hall. Regina held her hand up to signal them to quiet down. "Starting tomorrow morning we will begin opening the portals. Please have your things ready at that time because once you leave here you won't be coming back." Regina finished and there was cheering coming from the audience.
Henry looked at the happy faces in the crowd. There was a lot of hugging and laughing going on. Then he looked toward the back of the room and his heart sank. One person was not happy. Standing next to her father, Violet was in tears. Their eyes met from across the room and Henry felt his own eyes start to sting.