Set in Season 2. When Henry runs away from the Charming home, Emma and Regina are forced to look at their tumultuous relationship in order to give him the family that he needs. They grow from enemies, to friends and possibly something more than either could have imagined. But will their shared and separate pasts prove to be an obstacle too great to overcome.

Single-girl anxieties cause Emma Swan to ask her ask college professor Regina Mills to be her date for the weekend. Her plan, attempting to fool everyone in Storybrooke that have been dating for a while, proves to be her undoing. This is a different take on how Emma and Regina met and came to Storybrooke.

Emma Swan meets the evil queen, raising her son in a fairy tale land inexplicably located in Maine. Soon she's a prisoner in the castle, embroiled in royal politics and a curse with no end in sight, and navigating a volatile relationship with a queen who's determined to see her dead. (It'd be helpful if she wasn't so attracted to her, probably.)

SwanQueen multi-chapter. It was difficult to describe, but in a way... she felt connected to Regina now. They had been at each other's throats consistently since her arrival in Storybrooke and yet she felt the most unusual pull to her.