**** So I know it's pretty crazy to start a new fic when I'm juggling like 6 of them. But I promise it's as good as the rest so everyone should really check it out. These ideas just pop into my head and I have to get them out before I lose them. Anyhew, about 4 of them are about to wrap up pretty soon. Enjoy :) ****

CHAPTER 25

Grace's phone was ringing off the hook before the family even got home. She'd had to turn the ringer off just to get through the car ride to the house.

As soon as the front door was unlocked she'd bolted upstairs. Her phone was still vibrating. She looked at the caller ID and saw that it was of course Sarah. She sighed, threw it on her bed, and ran back downstairs to join the family.

"That was epic Ma! Were you surprised Mom?" Henry had barely been able to contain himself on the car ride home.

Regina still had tears in the corners of her eyes. She had barely said anything on the car ride over. She'd only stared at her ring while Emma drove throwing grins and glances over at her when she could. "I still am." She turned to Emma, "Are you sure about this? You don't have to do this you know." Regina's body and face was tense. She didn't want Emma to bite off more than she could chew. She'd already done so much for her and the family already.

Emma's head reared back. "You think I'd propose to you if I didn't want to marry you?" She pulled Regina into her arms and trapped her eyes with hers. "There is no one else on this earth I'd ever want to be with besides you. There is no one else like on this earth that's anything like you. You're an original. And now you're mine," Emma kissed Regina's nose before pulling her in closer and pressing her lips to hers. She wrapped one hand around the back of her neck and the other against the small of her back as she pressed her as close to her as she could get. Regina's arms wrapped around the waist and she pressed herself closer as the kiss deepened.

"Gross," Henry made eye contact with Grace and nodded toward the back of the house. The two turned and went into the den.

The two women broke apart laughing. "I love you Regina," Emma pushed back a lock of Regina's hair while continuing to hold her close. Then her face became concerned, "You do want this too right?"

"More than anything," Regina said breathlessly. "I just don't want you to regret it later. Or think that you had to do this to save me or something."

"I'm doing this because I want to. I want to be married to you. I want you to be my wife. If you want me that is," Emma batted her lashes and gave her a puppy dog look.

Regina's answer was to grab a handful of her shirt and seal their lips together.

Henry walked back into the foyer where his Moms were still locked in a tongue war and sighed, "Look, I'm glad we sorted this all out and all but, what's for dinner? I'm a growing boy. And starving me out is child abuse. I could report you."

Emma threw a glove at him while Regina went to fetch some take out menus.

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Grace entered her room as if she was a thief breaking into her own place. She had been avoiding it all night. She already knew what was awaiting her. Plus she had been enjoying her family.

After the family had ordered some take out, they had retreated to the den. Regina had even allowed them to eat there as a once in a while treat after the take out had arrived.

Everyone wanted the good feelings that had been going through the family to last. First they'd watched the video of the proposal. They laughed, pointed, and made hilarious commentary.

Then Emma had pulled out a pregnancy book. It had become a nightly ritual for her to read aloud from it for a while before everyone went to bed. Regina had also bought the kids their own pregnancy books. Things like so you're all expecting and so forth. They said they wanted them all to be prepared.

They usually did it after dinner. Emma and Regina kept saying that the baby was as the entire family's baby. Emma had wanted everyone to be prepared for what was to come. So she read aloud from the book for a while and they discussed it as they went. Grace loved the feeling of camaraderie that them being together created.

Because so much merriment was in the air, this night was filled with extra joking and laughs. Grace basked in it as she sat beside Regina who had her arms around her. Emma lay with her head on Regina's lap as she read from the book. Henry was sprawled out on the floor with a bunch of pillows. It was fun.

Then Regina had gotten tired so the foursome went upstairs together before heading to their respective rooms. Emma and Regina hugged and kissed the kids then turned toward their own room. Now dread filled Grace's belly as she stared at her phone which was still vibrating on the bed.

She picked it up while looking around as if she was being watched. 30 missed calls plus various texts for her to answer had come through. Grace hit ignore on the phone. Then went into her bathroom to go through her nightly routine.

She knew it was just the girls being nosy. But just for tonight she wanted it to be about the family. They had all been thrust into this crazy situation not by their own choices. But somewhere along the way she'd found the people that she now called home. She went to bed that night with a huge smile on her face.