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Chapter 28

5.5 Months Later

Regina smiled as she stared at the ultrasound that Emma had sent her a few weeks ago, according to the letter the baby was growing extremely well, and both of them were doing fine. She had found a place to live as well as a job, but she hadn't told her where. Which Regina had found odd at first, but then she figured that because Emma had been accused of murder that she'd rather keep her location secret in case anyone found the notes.

Emma had also told her that closer to her due date she would send another note about where to meet her, which hopefully would be any day now.

Although, no matter how excited Regina was about the baby, she also was worried, because Killian was still convinced that Emma was a murderer, she had had to lie to him and say that she had found a surrogate from out of town, named Amanda. Luckily he had bought it, so far, but there had been a few close calls, like when she had accidentally left the very first note that Emma had written her out in the open, when Killian came over unexpected ally, she had passed it off as a note her Mother had written her, and hid it away, and then distracted him so he had forgotten all about it. Then when Emma had sent Regina the few ultra sound pictures, she had had to edit the name on top. Truth was it was pretty stressful for her to keep this secret, but Regina knew that it would all be worth it as soon as she held her baby for the first time.

"Regina!" Cora called from downstairs, "You have a letter!"

Gasping Regina looked at her cellphone, it was ten thirty, she had lost track of time, she always made sure to be the first one to check the mail incase Emma had written her a note.

"Coming!" Regina called running down the stairs, where she found an envelope, with no return address, sitting on the table.

"Is that another note from your surrogate?" Cora asked taking a sip of her coffee.

Regina nodded her head, "more than likely."

"How come she never writes a return address?"

Regina quickly tried to think of a lie, "she just moved and I guess that she's not settled yet."

Cora shrugged and went took another sip of her coffee, "so are you and Killian looking forward to becoming parents?"

Regina smiled, "very much so."

"Amanda must be set to give birth pretty soon."

"Yeah, probably in the next few days."

"Does she know what she's having?"

"I don't know, Killian and I both agreed that we didn't want to know."

Cora finished off her coffee and rinsed out the cup, "oh I ordered that crib that you liked."

"You did?" Regina asked surprised.

Cora smiled, "well the baby's going to have to sleep somewhere."

"I know, I'm just kind of surprised that you're this excited about Killian and I adopting a baby… you weren't that excited when I was expecting at first."

Cora walked over to Regina kissing her head, "that was before, when I wasn't sure about Killian, but now I know he's a great guy, and you two are going to be amazing parents."

Regina smiled at Cora, "thanks Mom."

"You're welcome, sweetheart," she said taking out her cellphone, "I have to get to work."

"Alright." Regina said watching as Cora walked to the door, she turned around blowing her a kiss and then walked out of it.

As soon as the door shut Regina ran back upstairs, but this time she went to the nursery, smiling when she saw the crib that was now sitting in the corner. It was brown, and it matched the rocking chair beside it perfectly. Walking over to the rocking chair Regina sat down in it, smiling as she thought of the idea of rocking her baby in it.

"Soon…" Regina said before opening the letter, which was sure enough from Emma,

Hi Regina,

I went for my last ultrasound a few days ago, the baby is still healthy and is facing the right way.

I've started having Braxton contractions, which means that it could be coming any day now. Once you're done reading this note please destroy it, since I'm going to tell you where I am…

On the twenty first of this month come to Augusta, here in Maine. Meet me at a restaurant called "Scully's" at twelve o clock noon. If I am not there then it means that I'm in the hospital there giving birth.

There is one thing you must do before the twenty first, we need the required paperwork so that I can give my baby to you… I'm trying to keep a low profile here, so you need to get the adoption papers and bring them with you.

I will see you in a few days.

Regina looked up trying to do the math in her head, today was the twentieth the letter must have gotten lost in the mail or something. Meaning that she only had today to get everything ready. Also there was one small problem with what Emma was asking her to do, besides Cora, no one else knew that Regina and Killian even had a surrogate. How the hell was she supposed to get adoption papers? Gold was a bit of a blabber mouth sometimes, how could she ask him to keep his mouth shut? But Regina knew that she didn't really have much of a choice, if she wanted Emma's baby she would have to take the chance.

Mary Margaret sighed leaning back in her chair staring out the window, she had been living in this home for about five months now and she really hated it. Mainly because she didn't get a moment's peace, doctors were constantly coming in and out checking on her, which other than the fact that she couldn't remember anything or anyone from the past she was doing great. Also because they came to see her almost everyday she was beginning to remember Ruby, James, Regina, Killian, and surprisingly David, who had been allowed to stay in his own house because both Ruby and James were able to take care of him.

"Hey Mary Margaret," David said walking into her room.

Mary Margaret turned to the door smiling, "hi David," she said before turning her attention to the door expecting to see Ruby or James behind him, but to her surprise it was only him.

"Where's everyone else?"

David sat down in the chair across from Mary Margaret, "Ruby and James are kind of getting on my nerves, so I snuck out."

"Oh?"

"Ruby is such a nice girl, but she keeps pushing photo albums at me, and playing old home movies, and playing songs that she says are "our songs" to try and get me to remember…"

"That sounds unpleasant."

"It is, and she's just making me more confused… and frustrated."

Mary Margaret looked out the window, before sighing and looking at David, "at least she's trying to help you remember."

"She's trying to make you remember too isn't she?"

"Well kind of," Mary Margaret admitted, "but really neither her nor James are really trying to help me remember, James barely talks to me when he's here."

"I've noticed that too."

"I wish I could remember what I did to him…"

David took Mary Margaret's hand, "I'm sure he's just being a drama queen." He said chuckling, Mary Margaret also chuckled. For a few minutes the two of them just sat there holding hands and staring out the window.

"Do you want to go for a walk?" David asked.

Mary Margaret smiled, "yeah I'd like that."

David also smiled standing up and offering her his hand, which she gladly took. Although Mary Margaret would never admit it she was starting to have feelings for David, which she knew was silly, it made no sense for two people with amnesia to even try and be together. Since at some point they would remember everything and David would probably go back to Ruby, but for now it was kind of nice to have someone who understood exactly how she felt.

Emma gasped as she felt another contraction, this one was a lot worse than the other ones had been. "Please stay in there…" she whispered rubbing her stomach, she had told Regina to come on the twenty first, if she gave birth today, she really wasn't sure what she was going to do with the baby, she had nothing for it. Her plan always was to pop it out and hand it over to Regina, and then she would move somewhere else. Ever since she had left Storybrooke, about five and a half months ago, she had moved to several different woman's shelters, only staying at them for a few weeks at a time. Surprisingly none of them had recognized her from the news, and even more surprising was that Neal hadn't found her.

"Ms. Swan?"

Emma smiled when one of the women who ran the Women's Shelter that she was living at sat down beside her, "hey, Christine."

"Are you alright?" She asked concerned.

"The Braxton contractions are getting worse." Emma admitted.

Christine put her hand on Emma's baby bump, "if they get any worse be sure to tell me."

"I will."

Christine gave Emma one last smile as she stood up and walked away.

Regina took a deep breath as she walked into Gold's shop, where she found him cleaning one of the displays.

"Hello Ms. Mills," He said without even looking up, "what can I do for you?"

Regina walked over to him, glancing down at the display she saw that it was full of antiques, when she looked up again she saw that Gold was staring at her, she quickly cleared her throat, embarrassed.

"I was wondering if you could help me out with something." She said hopeful.

Gold leaned on the counter, "it depends what that something is."

Regina's heart began beating quickly as she thought about how to word what she was about to ask, "I need adoption papers…"

Gold rose his eyebrow, "oh really?"

Regina nodded her head.

"Who are you adopting from?"

"A surrogate."

"Don't they usually have the papers?"

Regina shrugged, "Amanda asked me to get them."

"Alright I can have them by tomorrow morning, does that work?"

Regina nodded her head, "thank you, Gold." She said turning and walking away, as soon as she walked outside she let out a big sigh.

"OK, time to go get packed up!" She said hurrying home.

Cora watched in disbelief as Mary Margaret and David walked down the street hand in hand, "seriously?!" She demanded, "I erase their memories and they still fall in love?!" She screamed stomping her foot down on the ground, as she began to wonder what it was going to take to keep these two apart. It seemed like they were destined to be together, however at least there was that loophole in the spell, that it could only be broken if they kissed with their daughter present, which didn't seem too likely to happen.

Cora watched as the two of them walked away and then rolled her eyes before hopping back in her car and driving off.

Christine hurried over to Emma's beside, kneeling down beside her taking her hand as she cried out in pain, her water had broken about a half hour ago, and now she was about ready to start pushing. The other workers had set up a sheet to at least give Emma some privacy, she had expected to give birth in the hospital, but with how quickly Emma was progressing there was no way she would ever make it to the hospital.

"OK Emma," Samantha, one of the other workers said, "you need to start pushing.

"No, I'm not ready yet!" Emma cried tears streaming from her eyes, she was supposed to give birth when Regina was here.

"You can do it!" Christine encouraged.

Emma tried to fight back the urge to push, but her body had other ideas as when she took a breath she started pushing, "no!" She cried, "I'm not ready!"

"OK breathe!" Samantha said, "I need some towels over here!" She called and a woman, Meg, ran in holding several towels.

"Give me a good push!" Samantha encouraged Emma, who screamed squeezing Amanda's hand tightly, this was the worst pain that she had ever been through.

"You're doing great!" Samantha said smiling.

Emma rested her head against the pillow trying to keep her breathing as steady as she could manage, she was so scared right now.

"You're doing great!" Amanda said putting a damp cloth on her forehead. Emma looked up at her before screaming when she got another contraction.

"OK Emma give me a good push!" Samantha said, "Your baby's almost out!"

Emma pushed, and while she did she focused on her breathing, she knew that she had to try and stay calm to make sure that no harm came to the baby. However the next words out of Samantha's mouth almost made her lose her composure completely, "one more push!"

Emma pushed one more time and the she heard it, the sound of a baby crying, her heart immediately broke and more tears fell from her eyes.

"It's a boy!" Samantha said smiling, at Emma, Christine had lifted the back of the bed up a little bit, Samantha sat down beside Emma, "here's your baby."

Every nerve in Emma's body told her not to take the baby that he wasn't hers, and yet when she looked at him she immediately fell in love with him.

"Here you go," Samantha said handing Emma her son.

Emma stared down at her baby, who was still screaming, she began rocking him lightly.

"We'll leave you alone for a moment." Samantha said smiling, "Congratulations."

Christine put her hand on Emma's shoulder, "he's beautiful."

Once everyone was gone Emma continued staring at her son for a few long moments, "hi sweetheart," she whispered, "you're so beautiful." By now he had stopped screaming and was staring up at Emma, whose heart was breaking, this was exactly the reason why she knew that she had to give birth with Regina present. She had already started falling in love with him from the first moment she had felt him kick, and when she saw him on the ultrasound. She knew that holding him would put her over the edge, but he wasn't hers, he was Regina's. Her son could never have a proper life with her, she couldn't give him everything that he needed. Sighing Emma leaned her head down kissing his head gently, before resting her head against the wall, tomorrow Regina would be here, and she was his best chance in life. Even though Emma knew that that was true, she almost couldn't bear the thought of giving her son up.

Regina looked in her trunk making sure that she had everything, she had already gotten the adoption papers from Gold early that morning, they were hidden in the console of the car, "let's see…" she said reading the list in her hand, "car seat, stroller…"

"I wish I could come with you." Killian said walking over to her wrapping his hands around her waist and kissing her cheek.

Regina turned around wrapping her arms around Killian's neck, "I know," she said standing on her tiptoes, "but we don't want to overwhelm Amanda."

Killian sighed and looked in the trunk of her car, "are you sure you're going to be able to drive back all by yourself with a newborn?"

"I think I'll manage." Regina smiled as a huge smile crept onto her face, "Just think soon we'll be parents!"

Killian also smiled leaning his head down kissing Regina's soft lips, "I can hardly wait!"

"You haven't told anyone have you?" Regina asked.

Killian shook his head, "not a soul."

"I haven't told anyone either."

"Why didn't you want to tell anyone?"

"Just in case something happened that Amanda lost the baby, or changed her mind, I honestly couldn't go through what we went through the last time we lost a child…" Regina said her voice breaking a little bit.

Killian hugged Regina tightly, "I'm sorry I should have known that."

"It's not your fault." Regina said smiling up at him, "I'd better go."

Killian smiled down at her before leaning down and kissing her again, "call me when you have our baby."

"I for sure will." Regina said walking to the drivers' side door and opening it, "I love you!" She called before hopping in the car.

"I love you too!" Killian said blowing Regina a kiss.

After Regina had driven out of sight, Killian smiled deciding to go and take a look at the nursery, maybe there was something that he could buy for it before Regina and their baby got back.

Cora wasn't home, but Regina had left him a key just in case.

When Killian walked into the nursery he smiled as he looked at the crib, followed by the bassinette, the rocking chair, and a few stuffed animals. Because they weren't sure of the sex of the baby the walls were a mustard colour, they would change it later.

"I can't wait to be a Father," He said smiling and walking out of the nursery, and towards Regina's room, he really wanted to look at the latest ultrasound. He had left his copy at home. Going into Regina's end table he was surprised to find a stack of letters, which he assumed were probably from Amanda, taking them out he glanced at one gasping when he saw the name at the bottom.

"Emma?" He whispered, as he looked at the other notes, discovering that they were all from Emma.

"What the hell is going on here?" He asked as he picked up the ultrasound pictures, they all read "Swan Emma," Putting the pictures back into the drawer and slamming it Killian ran down the stairs, almost bowling over Cora.

"Killian!" She said surprised, but he didn't stop he just stormed out the door, "Killian!" Cora called after him but he just continued walking.

When he was far enough away from the house Killian stopped walking running his fingers through his hair.

"What the hell are you thinking Regina?" He whispered, "Taking a murderer's baby?" Killian knew that he couldn't be a part of this, it was bad enough that she had lied to him about whose baby they were getting, as soon as she got back he was going to be demanding answers and he was going to get those answers to put Emma away.

End Chapter 28

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