"Regina hadn't received a birthday present since she was seven. She opened the card, tears blurring her vision as she read the different signatures wishing her a happy birthday." A touching short story exploring the friendship between Granny and Regina.

After a big gulp, she started ranting about all the paperwork that had piled up over the weekend. She had been so occupied that she hadn't noticed the tears steadily streaming down Regina's face… or the fact that her mother was the one consoling her. She sat her glass down gently and glanced from her mother to her wife. "Regina?"

"Nothing is going to come between us," Emma said, "look at everything we have defeated, together. This is fate, Regina. This happy ending is yours and mine. Nothing is going to change that."

She stood just outside the door and took a moment to look at him. His tiny frame was swallowed in the white of the hospital blankets, skin tone almost matching. His chest was steadily rising and falling to the beep of the monitors he was hooked up. Regina wanted to cry. Regina/Emma friendship. OQ and CS.

Regina is having trouble gaining the back the normalcy that was taken from her, but with Robin by her side, she finally begins to see the hope.

Olivia and Brian would always remember Noah, no matter how much it hurt.

After a tragedy, Olivia moves to a small town in hopes of forgetting it all. What she discovers when she gets there might just change her life again; for the better.

Alcoholism: an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or the mental illness and compulsive behavior resulting from alcohol dependency.