I've had a few people ask for another one shot showing Emma and Regina's life before having kids. Possible trigger: infertility is a theme in this.

Emma knew that her wife wanted children, she could see it in her eyes every time there was a diaper commercial, every time they passed a family. It didn't help that Regina was the mayor and had to oversee many family projects. Before Regina, Emma had never thought she wanted a family. Kids just weren't her thing. Then she met her wife and envisioned a future with at least one child. They could be a pretty spectacular family.

Unfortanately, sometimes those who want a child the most, find it the hardest.

Regina had revealed to her when they were dating that she found out young that she would not be able to get pregnant. She was completely honest that seeing Emma pregnant would be hard for her and if the blonde was being truthful herself, she wasn't sure if pregnancy was for her. That left them with very few options, one of them being adoption. That just seemed like such a risk. Regina had heard the horror stories, you grow attached to the baby and then the parents change their mind. Of course they had every right to do so, but it didn't make it any easier on the perspective couple.

They were stuck in limbo, unsure of what they wanted to do. They had been married for a little bit and knew there was no rush. They were young and healthy, they could wait. Emma didn't mind doing so, she wasn't sure that they even needed kids. Regina didn't realize that she felt that way. It wasn't a conversation they had and she was afraid to ask. If they couldn't become parents, would her wife leave her?

Things came to a head when their friend Mary Margaret gave birth. Regina always struggled with visiting new mothers after they had just had their babies, so they held it off as long as they could. Their friends had no clue that they were struggling, it was something private between them. They knew it wasn't fair to keep putting it off, so a few days after the new mother had arrived home, they stopped by the house, a gift in hand.

"Do you want some tea?" Mary Margaret asked, going to get up.

"Mary Margaret, you just had a baby," Emma told her. "You should relax."

"I don't get much time for that. He keeps us up all night," the woman lightly laughed. "Then he sleeps during the day."

A cry rang out through the monitor and David stood up. "I've got him, babe." With that, he disappeared upstairs and returned a moment later, the swaddled babe in his arms. "Regina, Emma, this is Neal Leopold."

"Leopold, huh?" Emma asked.

Mary Margaret smiled. "It was my father's name."

"She wanted it to be his first name, but I thought he may get his ass kicked," David teased, bouncing his son. "So, we compromised on a middle name." Baby Neal stopped crying not long after. "Would either of you like to hold him?"

"Sure," Emma said. Regina said nothing, she just smiled politely, as she always did. David walked over, lowering the baby into her arms. Emma smiled down at the tiny thing. "He's adorable, the perfect mix of the two of you." The exhausted new parents beamed under the praise.

Regina looked over at her wife, watching her with the baby. The faces she was making, the way she cooed at him. So natural, so loving. And he wasn't even their child. What if they never had that? What if all she could offer her wife, was herself?

"Do you two ever talk about kids?" David asked. Mary Margaret shot him a look. Emma and Regina were close friends, but even she knew that it could be a potential sensitive subject. "What?"

"It's fine," Regina said, softly.

"We talk about it, but ya know, it's a little harder for a couple like us," Emma added, trying to keep her voice joking. "Little more than just getting off the pill for a few weeks."

"I think you two would be great mothers," Mary Margaret said.

"Thank you. Hopefully one day, we will be."

Regina drew back a deep breath. When Emma offered to let her hold the baby, she politely declined, claiming she had a little cough and didn't want to pass anything down. Emma took the hint and said they should let the new parents get some rest while they could, leading her out. She didn't miss that her wife was quiet for the rest of the evening. It was even more than usual than after they would see a baby. Before she could say anything, she got a call from Mary Margaret.

"I hope David didn't start anything," the schoolteacher said, her voice filled with worry. "I saw how sad Regina looked after he said that."

"It's fine," Emma replied. "You have a new baby, don't stress about us."

"Is everything okay with you two?"

Emma sighed. It was hard having no one to talk to about it. "Neither of us is going to get pregnant and we're both wary about adoption, so we're unsure if motherhood is in our cards."

"Emma, I am so sorry."

"It's fine, really."

"Do you want children?"

"I do, but it'll work itself out. If it's meant to be, it'll be."

"Now I wish we hadn't invited you over. I can't imagine…"

"Really Mary Margaret, it's fine. Sometimes it's just harder on us than we like to admit, but I loved meeting Neal. Please don't treat either of us any different. We're the same people as we were before."

After hanging up, she couldn't find Regina anywhere. She checked every part of the house and then realized that her car was missing. Emma tried calling her, but came up short. Panicking, she started pacing, wondering where she possibly could've gone. It wasn't like her to just take off like that, that was more Emma's tactic. Two hours later, Regina finally made it through the door.

"Where the hell have you been?!" Emma demanded. "You didn't tell me you were leaving, you don't answer your phone!"

"You sound like a mother," Regina mumbled.

"No, I sound like a pissed off wife. Why would you do that to me?"

"I just needed to think."

"And scare me to death in the process?"

"Am I going to be enough?"

Emma paused, staring at her wife for a minute.

"What?"

"If we don't have kids," Regina continued, quietly. "If we don't adopt, if it just doesn't happen, if all we ever have is each other, am I going to be enough?"

Emma bit her lip, feeling absolutely terrible. Regina didn't get vulnerable often, but when she did, it was scary. She hated seeing her wife so distraught and stressed. The woman had lost enough people to last a lifetime. Her mother wasn't in her life, she had lost her first true love to the war and then her father to cancer. The sheriff was all she had left, outside her career. And being the mayor wasn't going to keep her company at night.

The sheriff stepped closer putting her arms around the mayor's waist. "I would spend the rest of my years with you, no matter what. Kids, no kids, a million cats or no pets at all. I don't need anything but you."

"Really? Because I'm sure you could go find…"

"Where would I go, Regina?"

"There are millions of other women out there, billions actually."

"Are any of them you? Because honestly, all I need is you."

Regina looked up at her, her chocolate brown eyes clearly watery. "Are you sure?"

"Positive. I didn't marry you on the condition of us starting a family. I married you so we could spend forever together. If we add a kid to the mix, awesome. If we don't, that's fine too."

"So, you won't regret ever having a child?"

"I'd regret losing you."

Regina drew back a deep breath, feeling a little silly for walking out due to the phone conversation she had overheard. Emma didn't think it was silly at all, though. She understood why she was so upset. She couldn't blame her. Regina could probably live her whole life without becoming a mother, but she couldn't lose another person she loved. And she wouldn't.

"I love you," Emma told her. "Sickness and health, richer or poorer, 'til one of us dies…and then the other has to, because I don't think either of us would last 5 seconds without the other."

Regina laughed in spite of her tears. "Only you would find a way to make this into a joke."

"I just like making you smile. It's the eighth wonder of the world."

The mayor rolled her eyes. "Alright, cheeseball."

"You love me, though."

"Yes, I do." Regina kissed her. "For the record, all I need is you too."

"I already knew that," Emma gave her a warm smile.

"I just…I think we need to take a break from thinking about all of it. Just enjoy each other."

"I couldn't agree more. When the time comes, the time will come."

"Exactly."

"Now, what do you say we go enjoy each other right now?"

Regina smirked. "I can't think of a better way to spend tonight."

And in just a little over a year they would get their miracle. Sometimes, life gives you just what you wanted, when you weren't even expecting it.

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