A/N: I'm sorry doesn't even seem to cut it! This story started out as my first ever Swan Queen story, and one of my favourites to write, then I had idea after idea and it got put on the back burner. All I can do, is give you this chapter and write that I am terribly sorry - I didn't actually realise how long it's been since I updated this story! Short little chapter to get us on the road! Please enjoy!

"You want to WHAT!" Ruby's voice sounded through the kitchen, Emma kicked the chair from under her as she stood nose to nose with her best friend,

"Watch your tone in my house wolf" Emma snarled, Ruby growled but she nodded and slowly sat down, Regina grabbed Emma's hand and pulled he down,

"Enough, we don't need to be at each others throats" Regina said calmly, uncrossing her legs and looking between her seething love and the Ruby who was equally as seething, "family do NOT turn each other" Regina said,

"I...I'm sorry Regina" Ruby said, taking a deep breath and reaching across the table and squeezing her hand, her engagement ring sat proudly on her finger, the black diamond shinning, Emma had given it to her earlier that morning, after their shower, Emma dropped, naked, onto one knee in the middle of the steamed up bathroom, produced the ring, and held it up to a teary eyed Regina, Regina could never control her emotions when it came to Emma, she cried as she fell to her own knees and pushed the blonde onto her back on the cold bathroom floor, Regina grinned yet tuned her hand up and squeezed the Ruby's hand back,

"I understand everyone;s emotions are on edge, everyone wants someone to blame, but none of us in this room is who that anger should be directed at" Regina said, Ruby went to speak but Regina held up her finger, Ruby closed her mouth with an audible click causing Emma to smirk and Ruby to playfully glare at her, "our issue is with the Blue Fairy" Regina said, the tension in the room kicked up a notch as memories flooded their minds,

Dark Kingdom

"You can't be serious" Emma snapped as swords dropped to the ground of the drawing room, Regina had informed both Emma and Ruby that the blue twit, as Emma called her, was coming to discuss their current, situation,

"She is coming nowhere near Belle!" Ruby snarled marching over to Belle and genrly placing her hand on her swollen stomach, Emma who had went to Regina's side, had also placed her hand on Regina's stomach,

"Why do we need her my love?" Emma whispered as she watched Ruby kiss Belle's hair and face casing Belle to scold her for talking so rudely to the Queen, Emma smiled at the blush that formed over Ruby's face, fingers digging into her cheeks made her attention go to her wife,

"I'm not at all happy about it either Emma, but she is the only one I can think of"

"She is Snow's pet!" Ruby announced, Emma nodded and Regina rolled her eyes,

"You two are impossible" Regina said, both Emma and Ruby glared at the Dark Queen, causing Belle to chuckle lightly, "a contract will be signed, that prevents her from discussing anything with anyone outside who will be present, if she utters even a word to anyone, then the Blue Fairy will be, well, just simply Blue" Regina said, a evil laugh erupting from her chest, causing everyone else to laugh with her.

Storybrooke

"I can't believe their is a possibility our boys are out there Emma" Ruby said as they walked around the perimeter of the mansion, Emma was kicking leaves and not paying an awful lot of attention to her best friend, Ruby shoved her almost causing Emma to lose her balance,

"What is your problem wolf!" Emma said, Ruby snapped her teeth at Emma,

"What is your problem, ever since Belle mentioned about there being a possibility of Henry and Chip being alive, you've not been yourself" Ruby said, "talk to me Emma, you're my best friend, you're not the only one who lost their kid that night" Ruby said,

"I don't know what I'm feeling" Emma said, stopping suddenly, "I can't look at Regina without feeling like I've failed her, I can't look at Belle without feeling like I've failed her, and I can't even look at you without feeling like I've failed you" Emma said, Ruby immediately walked over and wrapped her arms tightly around the Dark Knight,

"Em.."

"No..I don't need to hear it Ruby, I'm the fucking Dark Knight! It was my job to protect her, protect him, protect all of you!" Emma said, her anger was building and she knew she wouldn't be able to control it, "I didn't just lose my fiance that night, I lost my son, I lost my best friends, we lost everything Ruby! Our babies, our beautiful little babies are out there Ruby, because I couldn't kill my mother!" Emma said, she threw her arms out and lightening erupted from them, causing not just Ruby to gasp, but Emma to flinch,

"Em...you're magic...it..it's grown" Ruby said, looking to a wide eyed blonde who was staring at her hands, and her wife's incinerated apple tree, oh she was in serious trouble.

"Yeah, lets not mention this to Regina" Emma said looking at Ruby with wide eyes, Ruby just nodded, both of them going back to looking at Regina's smoking apple tree.

Dark Kingdom

Emma lay in her chambers she shared with Regina, she twirled her knife between her fingers, Regina sat at her dresser brushing her hair, her stomach, swollen with the growing child, her growing child,

"I love you" Emma announced, Regina paused her brushing and looked at her knight,

"I love you too" Regina said, Emma smiled, yet it didn't reach her eyes, Regina was worrying about Emma, she wasn't herself, Regina knew the news of their baby was a shock but Regina knew that wasn't it, she just hoped that it wasn't something that would make her do something stupid. Emma flipped the knife once more, wincing as it nicked the side of her finger, her mind was on overdrive, something was coming, she could feel it, and it wasn't something good.

New York

"Where are we going Henry?" the brown haired little boy asked his big brother as they stood at the bus stop, their backpacks full almost busting, wrapped up in hats and scarfs, Henry, looked down at the smaller boy he considered his brother, he was only younger than him by a few months, he was his cousin, that was all they were ever told, their parents were related, and they were to be kept together, or at least that's what their foster family had told them, both of their parents had died in a fire when they were only a few months old, they had been placed in the same foster homes, three to date, since then, at 10 and 9, Henry and Chip had experienced three different home environments, none of them bad, but none of them the best at the same time,

"We're going home" Henry said as he gripped onto Chip's hand tighter, "we're going to Storybrooke"

Merry Christmas folks! I intend to get back into this story, I can't believe it's been so long, I feel like Iost the story idea a little, if it gets too hard to pick up again, I'll wrap it up with a nice bow! For now, please enjoy!