NOTE: This is my submission for day 8 of Swan Queen Week on tumblr. I decided to sort of mix two of the prompts from the Creator's Choice theme. I chose time travel and surprise twin. And despite my promise to myself that I wouldn't start another fiction until I finished off a couple of my current ones, I started having too much fun with this one.
Emma walked up the stairs to the room she and Henry had been renting from Granny since returning to Storybrooke. She knew they would need to look for more permanent accommodations but she really couldn't think about such things right now.
Henry was spending the night at Regina's, and Emma hoped that they went well for both of them. It had been a week since Emma had brought Marian back and a week since Regina had been seen outside of her home. Emma had tried to go talk to her but the magical barrier she had erected around the place had kept that from happening. From what she could tell only three people had made it inside – Robin, Tink and Henry. She could only guess at what Regina and Robin spoke out. Robin too had been scarce this week, but Marian was with him from what she understood.
It's not like she intentionally set out to hurt Regina, but Regina seemed to think that way and all Henry knew really was that his mother was upset and it was his mom's fault.
She unlocked the door and went in, feeling around for the light switch. Once she flipped it on, she felt something hit her hard in the head and she went down.
…
Emma blinked several times as she woke on the couch.
"Sorry about hitting you so hard," a woman's voice said and Emma turned in that direction, her eyes going wide. "Actually you know what; I'm not sorry. I don't know what the hell you did to my life, but you are sure as hell going make it right."
Emma blinked again, to no. 1 make sure she was actually awake, and no. 2 to make sure she was in fact seeing herself standing there against the wall staring back at her.
"Who are you?"
The other Emma sighed, "really? Somehow I don't remember being this dumb. I am you. Future you."
"That isn't possible," Emma said standing up to quickly and feeling dizzy from the blow to the head that she sat back down. She had to admit the other woman did look like a slightly older version of her. Although clearly an unhappy older version of her.
"You are the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming and you think this is impossible. You are the reason I am here, so we need to figure out what you did."
Emma did not like how "she" was talking to her and if she could get her head to clear the other her would be lucky if she didn't cold cock her. "How did I bring you here?"
"You didn't, not directly. I brought me here, well I had help in casting the spell, but once I realize someone messed with my past to screw up my life I had the spell bring me to the place and time where things went wrong. It brought me here to you."
"That doesn't make any sense. I haven't done anything to screw up my life. If anything my life is going pretty ok right now."
"The spell would suggest otherwise, but what do you mean by your life is pretty ok right now?"
"You know, it's ok. I am happy and we just got done defeating Zelena and it's ok."
"You mean Regina just got done defeating Zelena."
"Yeah, I mean we were there assisting her."
"You say your life is ok, define ok."
"I don't know. It's ok. Um my parents just got done giving birth to my baby brother."
"Neal?"
"Yes."
"That is the same in my time line. Go on."
"I decided to stay here in Storybrooke to be close to my parents instead of going back to New York."
"Yes."
"Henry has his memories back."
"Yes."
"I just started dating Killian."
"You what!"
…
Emma watched as older version of went straight to the kitchen area and began looking in cupboards, finally finding a bottle of whiskey Emma had stashed there, poured herself some and drank it down. The woman currently had her second glass in her hand as she was pacing back and forth muttering various things that were said too low for Emma to hear. Although she did catch a couple of idiots being thrown her way.
Finally she stopped. "Ok, the first thing you are going to do is pick up the phone, call the pirate and tell him it's over and you never want to see him again."
"I will do no such thing. Look I don't know who you think you are, but you aren't going to come storming in here and telling me how to run my life."
"It's my life too and whatever you have done, whatever possessed you to start dating Hook, that has to be the problem here. Please God tell me you haven't slept with him."
"That isn't any of your business."
"Pick up the phone and call him."
Emma stood this time. "I will not. I like Killian. I want to see where this goes."
"Oh, you want to know where this goes, let me tell you where it goes. Up until about a week ago my life was great. Then I wake up in a shitty, one-bedroom apartment in Boston that has a fridge with more condiments in it then actual food. The only food is half-eaten Chinese food in cartons that look like a disease culture is growing in them. There are empty liquor bottles in about every trash receptacle in the place," she said. "I thought I had been kidnapped from here and taken there for some reason until I started looking around and I find mail with my name on it. My clothes in the closet including my red jacket that I can never seem to throw away. I find my phone and there are only a couple of numbers in it that I recognize – my parents and Henry. I call my son and start to explain to him what is going on, and you know what he does? He hangs up on me but not before saying next time try calling when I am sober. That is there that goes."
"I don't believe you. How can me dating Killian have that much of an affect on my life?"
"Because dating Killian keeps you from who you are supposed to be with. Damn it Emma, we finally got our happy ending. I was happy, extremely happy and now that is all gone and I am not going to let that happen. So start from the beginning and tell me what led you to date Killian."
"Wait, you said you woke up in that apartment about a week ago."
"Yes, why?"
"Shit," Emma said sitting back down.
…
"Let me get this straight," older Emma said once again pacing. "You and the pirate went through the time portal. You almost manage to keep your parents from ever meeting, thus endangering the chances of you being born. You try to fix this and in the course of doing so you bring back Robin Hood's long dead wife Marian to this time. Robin is now with Marian and Regina is locked away in her mansion where Henry is with her now. And you start dating Hook because he gave up a stupid ship, is that about right?"
"Um more or less."
"Wow, when you screw up you go for the big time, don't you?"
"You know I am getting more than a little tired of how you are speaking to me."
"Forgive me for not being polite, but my entire life got stolen from me because of what you did here."
"And what is so special about your life?"
"For one, I am married, and have been happily so for the past four years. In addition to Henry, I now have a two-year-old daughter Alexandra, who I usually just call Alex. Henry loves being a big brother and loves that he is the big nephew to his uncle Neal. My relationship with my parents has never been better and I am still sheriff in this town."
"Married? I am married."
"Yes, happily, blissfully married. Like I said we finally got our happy ending. And I want it back, which means you need to fix things here."
"Who am I married to?"
"Regina, of course."
