A/N: This is it, guys. I hope you love it like I do. Much love to all of the people who followed and faved and read and reviewed and all of that good stuff, and to this AWESOME beta a have but still didn't use because I have memory issues ;), y'all are amazing!

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Faster. Harder. Longer. She had to get away. She was the monster they said. So why were they chasing her? Why are they catching up so fast? Did they know that she was older and prone to lose her breath faster than they were? It was obvious she needed to work out more if their short legs could catch up so fast.

"We're gonna get ya Mama!"

"Yeah, Ma, you can't run forever!"

"Ma! Mom wants you!"

She immediately stopped in her tracks when she heard Henry speak. Soon enough 2 bodies were barreling into her, knocking her to the ground and knocking the breath from her lungs.

"Hey" Emma smiled down at Sophia.

"Hey. You better get up and get to Mom before she has to call you again." Sophia chuckled and kissed her mother's cheek before she stood up taking the other girl with her.

"I know right!" Emma huffed as she stood and took the tan skinned girl from Sophia's arms.

Emma lifted the little girl up in the air and twirled her while watching her laugh happily and spread her arms out like wings. This little girl was the perfect mix of them. Her and Regina. She had dark brown hair that had the same curls as Regina did when she got out of the shower, the same curls the woman tried to hide for so long. She had Emma's sea green with a light brown ring around the iris. She had Regina's smile and of course Emma's chin. She was perfect just like they knew she would be.

"Emma!"

Shit. Emma winced when she heard her daughters both giggle at her.

"Coming!"

Sophia just laughed at her blonde mother's reaction. You would think that after 5 years of marriage she would actually listen some of the time. Still, it was like they had just met at the park again. They had all moved in with Regina and she got to cook with the woman whenever she wanted. Of course she was 16 now, so cooking with her mom wasn't number 1 anymore, but she loved it nonetheless. That's right, they were married now, but it was no big planned thing it just sort of happened. Kind of like them, Emma had said.


"Do you know what it's like?"

"Do I know what what's like, darling?" Regina had responded as she propped her feet on Emma's lap while they wtached television.

"What it's like to want to marry someone so bad, but not know how to do it?"

Regina instantly perked up at that but didnt turn only side eyeing Emma as the blonde continued.

"I mean, like, do you?"

"Of course I know what it's like."

Emma turned on the sofa and stared into the side of Regina's face until the woman turned to listen. "Regina?"

"Yes?"

"Marry me?"

Regina tilted her head, surely something she had picked up from Emma over the past year, and her mouth was flapping without words.

"You want to marry me?"

Emma grinned and bounced in her seat excitedly while nodding hard enough to fracture something. "Hell yeah!"

Regina smiled lovingly at the adorable woman in front of her before she nodded softly. "Of course. Of course I'll marry you, Emma!"

"So... Is that a yes?" Emma joked as Regina jumped into her lap.


Like they said, first comes love, then comes marriage, then come baby in the baby carriage.


Regina was absolutely miserable. She hadn't been able to leave bed in days because she was just so tired Emma had told her she needed to get checked out, but she hadn't wanted to actually be told something was wrong with her. Nothing else was wrong besides her being tired 24/7. She just figured that all of the years she had worked herself non-stop were finally catching up to her. Still, she was only 30 years old and she shouldn't be so tired. So, no matter how much she hated the prospects of it, she made an appointment.

"Miss Mills, I have some good news, and some bad news."

Regina nodded and said,"Just tell me than."

The doctor nodded before he began while "Well, the bad news is that your yearly bills will be going up for the next 18 years." He ended it with an inside laugh, surely there was something he was actually inside on to account for the laugh, but Regina didn't know what is was.

Regina furrowed her brows at that, having no idea what that could possibly mean.

"And the good news, which is directly related to the bad, is that you are pregnant."

Regina could do nothing but stare disbelievingly at the man. "I- What?"

"You're pregnant. The bad news isn't really bad, I only kid."

Regina internally rolled eyes at the man's faked accent and took a deep breath before shaking her head to clear the confusion. She looked down at her stomach with a tilted head as if she couldn't understand how in the world a baby had gotten in there "Okay. Thank you doctor."

He nodded politely giving her a number to call when she figured out the unseen conundrum before leaving the room.

"Hey, Mom," Sophia greeted as soon as Regina came through the door.

"Hello, sweetheart." Regina was still in a daze as she walked right past Sophia without giving her the hug that they had made routine over that past 4 months, and not even becoming shy when Sophia called her mom like she usually did.

Sophia watched her go and ended up shrugging it off as her always being tired lately.

Emma got home about an hour later from picking up Henry from Cora's only to find Sophia napping on the couch and a quiet house.

"Come on, kid, let's make some dinner for the girls, yeah?"

Henry snorted and kicked off his shoes before leading the way to the kitchen. "Sure, Em, I'll make dinner while you watch."

"Hey!"

Regina heard them come in and she smiled when she realized what she would be telling them over dinner that night.

After the first 3 months Regina's pregnancy was far easier than she had expected it to go and Emma had stuck with her through everything, the unease included.

Regina heard singing coming from the living room and she followed it until she saw Emma, clad in boy shorts and a blue T-shirt, dancing and wiggling her behind while she cleaned her camera lenses which were sprawled out on the foot table next to the couch. She stopped in the door way just simply watching with her hands on her protruding stomach untill Emma stubbed her toe and cursed.

Emma snapped up from her position of holding her left foot when she heard Regina snigger behind her. "Funny, huh?"

Regina bit her lip and nodded shamelessly at having laughed over Emma's pain.

Emma smirked and walked up to Regina taking her hand and pulling her farther into the room as the next song on her playlist began.

When I need motivation. My one solution is my queen 'cause she stay strong

Yeah, yeah.

She is always in my corner. Right there when I want her.

All these other girls are tempting, but I'm empty when you're gone.

And they say.

Soon enough Emma was dancing around Regina as she sang to the blushing brunette. This was how Regina had always dreamed of feeling with someone. Loved. Once it got to the second verse Regina was swaying along with Emma as the blonde continued to sing.

She walks like a model. She grants my wishes like a a genie in a bottle.

Yeah, yeah.

'Cause I'm a wizard of love, and I got the magic wand.

All these other girls are tempting, but I'm empty when you're gone.

And they say

It was beautiful what they had together, and neither of them ever wanted to loose it.


Then of course Sophia, nor Henry, had never known their mother to be in any real relationships so there were a couple awkward meetings and interruptions.


"Emma what was that noise?"

The blonde popped up from Regina's neck, but didn't move her hand from the place between the woman's thighs. "I don't know, babe, but this is one of the only days that the kids are out so I want to enjoy it... And you."

Regina chuckled at the way Emma was wiggling her eyebrows by the end. "I suppose you're right."

Emma grinned and continued what she had been doing. Just when they had gotten back into it they were interrupted by a voice.

"Oh god! Ma Ugh!"

Emma cursed and pulled the blankets up over them before making Sophia get out, watching as the girl ran into the door frame multiple times due to having her eyes covered tightly.

Emma was completely horrified and and she was stuck in a seemingly permanent grimace until it turned to shock at the chuckle coming from Regina. "That's so not funny!"

"The fact that she walking in on us wasn't funny, correct, but the fact that it took them this long without having done so yet, is."

Emma's face slowly turned into a grin as she nodded and rubbed the back of her neck while laughing quietly. "I guess that's true."


"Emma?" Henry asked quietly when they were alone one day while Regina and Sophia had gone out to buy baby clothes.

"What's up, kid?"

"Are you mad at her?"

Emma didn't know what she was supposed to really say but she knew what he was talking about. "Hen, I'm not mad at her because it's my baby too."

Henry scrunched up his face at that still not understanding. "But... It has to be some guy's right?"

Emma sat wide-eyed, finally realizing that her and Regina had been together for 2 and a half years, and they were now living together yet they had never told Henry what she...was? No, what she ...had.

"Oh! Right. Umm...well, you see, what had happened was... Along time ago, don't use that against me, I was born and...The baby is still mine because I have all of the right parts, you see?"

"Oh." Henry nodded slowly as he took in the discombobulated information until he paused all movement and he squinted his eyes while tilting his head to the left. Then his head snapped straight up his eyes as wide as saucers. "Oh!"

Emma laughed slightly at the boys pink cheeks and slack jaw. "Yep."

Henry nodded once affirmatively and turned back to the T.V. only to switch it off, pick up his book, turned to Emma to say ,"Cool" with a shrug and went up to his room without a second glance.

It was awfully awkward for Emma for the next few days, what with waiting for the other shoes to drop at some point, but Henry seemed fine and it never came up again after that. Overall, Emma had been proud of the way it went, and that Henry hadn't freaked out.


Then, of course, baby.


"Regina! Regina, I need that hand!"

Regina practically pierced through Emma's soul with the glare she sent her way.

"You do understand that I will hold this over your head for the rest of our lives if you don't just. Take. The. Pain?"

"Hey, it's not my fault! you said you were on birth con-"

"Finish that sentence and I will have you for whatever meal it is by the time she comes out. I'm so hungry." Regina's face shifted from anger and annoyance to pain in a split second. "If she ever comes out!"

"Don't worry, babe."

"I'm not worried." Regina didn't even sound sure of the statement.

Emma figured it'd be best if she didn't say anything so she just smiled encouragingly and kissed the hand that was still crunching the bones of her hand. "I know."

It went on like that, Emma making unknown mistakes and Regina snapping even though Emma would never blame her, for hours. Until it finally came time to have their girl, and it went as well to plan as it could. Thankfully.

"So... What's her name?" Sophia asked when she was finally able to come in and get away from Mary Margaret's nagging.

Regina looked to Emma and they both nodded before Regina turned back to face the children plus Cora and Mary. "Kalynn."

Henry smiled and nodded, obviously y'all in approval, and Sophia smiled brightly. It was enough, all of the smiles.


What Sophia loved the most was when she got to write and Henry would read, and give her tips on how to do it better or just say he liked it. Or when Regina would hug her whenever she needed it when Emma had an out of town trip. When Kalynn would snuggle with her while she read or wrote. Especially when her Ma would make her hot cocoa every time she got her period, when she would cry because her friends had upset her, when a piece of writing wasn't accepted for a showcasing, or even just to have something to say was all theirs.

As Sophia made it to the dinning room where everybody was already sat, meal on the table, she smiled at everyone thanking all of the higher powers that she had teamed up with Henry all those years ago. She got a brother, another sister, and another mom. What else could a definite 9 year old girl have wanted?

She looked around at all of the pictures lining the walls of their home thinking about what her mom had told her.

"Mom that's crazy."

"No, really, they are the stillest way of moving somebody. Think about it."

"Well, yeah, but it's like fetch, and that's never gonna happen either."

"You'll get it one day. I promise."

She understood now. Not only was she moved by every single photo her mother had ever captured, but she could see it. Their life unfolding and folding again. She could see the happiness from the past, present, and future, and she was moved. She could see all of it through the stills.


A/N:So... No matter how much stuff I've gone through while writing this story, medical and all, I'm kinda gonna miss it. Anyway, review and tell me things still cause I love your guy's reviews. Go read my other story that I'm writing- The Changed- now that I've started I can't stop! Thanks again y'all :)