Emma's POV
I walked down the stairs with a nervous Regina following closely behind. All my mind could focus on was the clicking of her heels on each step. My mother was already scolding me with her narrowed eyes. Her arms folded across her chest with her foot tapping against the floor.
"Are you running again?" My mother questioned with a stern force causing my heart to speed up in fear. I'm a grown woman, why do I feel like a fifteen year old all over again?
I finished walking down the stairs and stood directly in front of my mother. She might be smaller than I am but in this moment she felt like she was towering over me. Regina remained at the bottom of the stairs giving my mother and I some space. In all honesty, I think she was too nervous to come any closer.
"I'm not running. Well technically I'm not. But I am calling off the wedding," I blurted out in my incoherent rambling. My mother's shoulders slumped down and I could see her relaxing in front of me. She gripped both my biceps tightly while gazing into my eye. "Are you alright sweetie?"
"Yes. I'm more than alright," I confessed.
"I bet you are..." Henry mumbled to himself but we all heard him. We all stood silent, gaping at him. Once he realized he had all our attention, he cleared his throat and stood up taller. "Don't you have something you would like to explain Moms?"
"Snow, remember what happened all those years ago in the Enchanted Forest?" Regina asked as my mother dropped her hands from my arms. I knew she knew exactly what Regina was talking about. She straightened herself while tugging at her skirt and sweater.
"So, you two..." my mother couldn't even finish her sentence nor look neither one of us in the face.
"How could you keep that from me? I'm your daughter. She is my one true love and you were going to watch me marry someone else today?" I was starting to lose my temper. Then I thought back to when I was in New York for that month, I realized just how much I missed my parents and didn't want to lose them again.
"Emma, please I thought if you didn't want to be with Hook then you wouldn't have said yes to him. I thought you were happy and you are right, I still should've told you. Regina should have too..." her eyes shifted toward Regina for a brief moment before her eyes were back on me.
"Let's just say, I've already thought about all of this and I'm done arguing about it with everyone. What's done is done and all that matters now is that Regina and I ended up together anyways. Despite everyone's best efforts," I quipped.
"I am truly sorry Emma," my mother confessed and I knew she meant it.
"Right now we have more important things to worry about, like the Black Fairy and her curse," Regina chimed in taking a few steps closer to us.
"Hold on!" Henry interrupted, "I still don't know what is going on here!"
"Regina? Do you want to take this one?" I asked which earned me an eye roll.
"Henry, a long time ago when I was seventeen I was told that Emma was my one true love. We can discuss all the details at another time. For now all you need to know is your mother and I love each other very much."
Henry's eyes shifted back and forth between Regina and I as he tried to process everything. Then slowly a smile stretched across his face, "I'm happy for both of you." I reached my hand up to rub my thumb against his cheek while Regina pulled him into a hug. Henry pulled away and asked, "Now what's going on with the Black Fairy?"
We sat down and explained everything to Henry and my mother about the curse that was to come this evening. We decided to call Blue over because we had one more question for her.
"So now that I won't be marrying Hook and I'm with Regina, there's one question," I stated while looking at the woman before me.
"What's that Emma?" Blue asked.
"Will I still have to defeat the Black Fairy if I changed the course of events?"
"That I don't have an answer to, only time will tell..."