A/N: Once again, thank you to all my faithful readers who are giving this story a chance! :) I absolutely love this film and am doing my best to pour my heart into every typed word. Remember, keep reviews friendly. Happy reading! More updates on the way.


As soon as she could, Regina pulled the nurse out into the reception area of the ICU, glaring at her with wide eyes. She still couldn't believe how this entire misunderstanding happened or why.

"Why did you say that?" She asked the gawking nurse.

"Say what?" Asked the nurse.

"I'm not his fiancee."

"Why did you tell me that you were?" She asked the brunette.

"I'm not his fiancee, I've never even spoken to the guy." She informed the clueless but big hearted nurse, her brow furrowed.

"But, downstairs, you said- you said you were going to marry him." Said the nurse, not understanding anything.

Regina rolls her eyes, "Oh, God, I was talking to myself."

"Well, next time you talk to yourself, tell yourself you're single and end the conversation."

The brunette rubs her temples, already feeling a headache coming on. "What am I going to do?" She asks in a murmur.

"I don't know." The nurse gave the brunette an apologetic look. Feeling like this was all her fault.

"They all held me so tight, you know, I couldn't just tell them-"

"Excuse me, nurse." Eugenia Lucas startles Regina, as the brunette fears she probably heard her whisper conversation between her and the nurse. "Is there a pharmacy in the hospital?" She asked.

"What do you need?" The nurse asked.

"It's Louise. She needs nitroglycerin." She informed the woman.

"Oh, for her heart problem." The nurse nodded.

"Problem?" Granny Lucas chuckled. "Problems." She turns to Regina, smiling ever so sweetly. "You know something? I think you saved her life. In fact, I think you saved the whole family. Bless you, dear."

"Why don't you come with me? I'll take you down to the pharmacy." Said the nurse, walking away with the older woman.

How did this happen? Why me? Regina shook her head. This is what she gets for saving a man's life.


Regina found herself in the waiting room, only her and Graham's- as she learned was the man's name- family. And during that quiet moment in the waiting room, the brunette was the center of attention to each pair of eyes there. Mary Margaret sat on a couch, while her husband David paced around the room, Eugenia Lucas, who Regina learned was Ruby's grandmother and a good friend of the family's, they both were. While the other older woman was Graham's grandmother. She could remember the name Emma being mentioned, but she wasn't sure who that was yet.

The brunette shifted in her seat, her fingers fidgeting with a loose yarn on the sleeve of her sweater.

Finally, Louise, as she learned was Graham's grandmother's name broke the silence. "So, tell us how you met Graham." She smiled sweetly at Regina.

"Mom, she doesn't want to talk about that right now, okay?" Mary Margaret glanced over at her mother before Regina could get a word out.

"Why not? We could all use a nice story." The grandmother replied.

"How do you know it was nice?" Ruby's grandmother asked.

"Of course it was nice. Why shouldn't it be nice?"

Regina's brows shoot up slowly upon listening to the two bickering old friends.

"What about that other girl? What's her name, the one he met at the bar?" Granny Lucas asked David, knowing he would remember the woman's name.

"What's that have to do with the price of eggs?" The older grandmother asked, completely confused.

"Ashley Bartlett Bacon." David shook his head.

"David." Mary Margaret glares at him. They had never met Graham's ex-girlfriend, but they had heard of her from whatever little conversation they had with him when he remembered to call them.

David shrugged, "All I know is she was pretty high and mighty for someone named after breakfast meat."

"Well, he has a nice girl now." Mary Margaret smiled at Regina, who forced a smile of her own.

"So, did you steal him from Ashley?" Ruby asked, curious to know herself.

"I bet it was love at first sight. Right? I have a sense about these things." The older grandmother leaned in more as she said this.

Eugenia rolled her eyes, "Louise, let her tell the story."

"She is telling it," Louise quickly replied, giving all of her attention to Regina. "I bet that he picked you up in that fancy car of his-"

"What was about him that first struck you?" Mary Margaret asked, giving Regina a chance to answer one of the twenty questions that were asked of her by Graham's family.

"It was his smile." Regina smiles, actually meaning that given that that was the first thing she noticed about Graham when she laid her eyes on him for the first time.

"They're caps. Six hundred bucks a tooth." David retorted.

"Shh!" His mother in law glared at him, and he only shrugged.

Regina noticed the happiest smiles stretched on Graham's mother, grandmother and- what was Ruby to him? A sister figure maybe? A friend? Well, she was all smiles, too. She couldn't have the heart to not come with a story that was a little close to the truth.

"Well, we saw each other. And he smiled, and I knew that my life would never be the same."

Good enough. Everyone seemed content with that.


Regina went straight home, relieved that she would be able to sleep this exhausting day off. She was on her way up the stairs to her floor when she noticed Neal coming right down the stairs.

"Tomorrow night. Eight O'Clock." He said to her as he passed her down the stairs.

"What?" She stopped mid-stair, rotating her body as she saw him pull out two tickets.

"I got ice Capades. I know a guy." He shrugged, his jacket unzipped as it exposed his muscle shirt which was too tight on him.

Regina hummed, not bothering to say anything else except to lock herself inside of her apartment for the remainder of the night.

Of course, she couldn't find sleep during that night. All she could do was think about Graham. His family. How happy they were thinking their son, who they hadn't seen in God only knows how long, found someone modest, nice and was happy. And, she did still like Graham. She hoped he would wake up and remember her saving his life and they would fall in love like in one of her many favorite films she has repeatedly seen.

She knew she was probably asking for too much, but hey, it could happen. Right? There was such a thing as true love. Her father always made sure to tell her that. Her parents' marriage was a perfect example of true love. And she knew Graham was her true love.

Quickly taking a shower and getting dressed in another pair of jeans, her boots, a purple sweater and her trench coat along with her scarf and left to the hospital to keep Graham company. All of his family had left home with with being Christmas Eve and all, and the last thing she wanted was for him to be alone for Christmas.


Regina walked into the hospital, made her way into the elevator and pressed on the button to the fourth floor. She walked over to Graham's room, where he was still in a comatose state, sleeping soundly and peacefully. She stood there for a while, just taking in his beautiful sleeping state before sitting on the nearest chair by his bed. The only sound in the room was the beeping of the machine.

"Hi. I hope you don't mind my coming to stay with you." she said softly. "I bet you're wondering what I'm doing here in the middle of the night, huh?" She chuckles, shaking her head, because this was crazy. "Well, I thought I should introduce myself. My name's Regina. Regina Eleanor Mills. I think you should know that your family thinks we're engaged. I've never been engaged before, this is all very sudden for me."

So far, so good.

She released a heavy sigh, "What I really came here to say is that I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I just… I don't know what to do." She scoffs more at herself. "I mean, if you were awake I wouldn't be in this mess- oh, God- not that I'm blaming you. I'm sorry." She shakes her head, holding onto his hand out of instinct.

"It's just, you know, when I was a child, I always tried to imagine what kind of life I would have, what I would be or what I would have as I grew older. Not that I'm complaining or anything, of course, because I have a cat, I have an apartment." She squinted her eyes as she thought about the next best thing in her life. "Sole possession over the remote control, that's very important." She smiled a sad smile that soon disappeared. "It's just… I never met anybody that I could laugh with."

She paused and stared at Graham for a little while before she spoke again. God, why did she have to be a huge romantic like her father?

"Do you believe in love at first sight?" She asked him, smiling at herself. "I bet you don't, you're probably too sensible for that. Or have you ever seen somebody and you'd thought, if only that person really knew you they would… well, they would, of course, dump the perfect model that they were with and realize that you were the one that they wanted to just grow old with." Another pause, and this time she could feel her eyes water. "Have you ever fallen in love with somebody you haven't even talked to?" She chuckled, wiping away at the corner of her eye and releasing a heavy sigh. "Have you ever been so alone that you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?"

Little did Regina know that standing by the door and having heard every word she just said to Graham was Eugenia. She didn't know Regina, but after overhearing her conversation to Graham, she knew that her heart was pure and in the right place. No stranger would come by in the middle of the night to visit someone they hardly knew in the hospital and say such beautiful things to them if they didn't truly love them.


Regina woke up leaned over on the rail of the hospital bed, realizing she had passed out after her chat with Graham. Lifting up her sleeve, she glanced at her watch, jolting up from the chair by the bed and gathering her trench coat and purse. She needed to get to work.

"Bye." She whispers to Graham, startled by his entire family as she turns on heels, a gasp escaping her lips.

"Regina! We didn't know you were here." Mary Margaret beamed as well as everyone else.

"Hi." Regina smiled.

"Were you here all night?" David asked her.

"Yeah," the brunette nodded.

"You're like me, dear, I could always sleep anywhere." Louise chuckles at herself, walking over to the chair by her grandson's bed.

"And believe me, she has." Granny Lucas whispered over to her.

"So, how is Graham this morning?" David asked the brunette.

"Well, he certainly has more color." Regina smiled down at a sleeping Graham.

"He does, doesn't it?" David smiled over at his wife, happy to see his son slowly recuperating.

"Well, I should really get going, but it was nice to see you all again." The brunette smiled, waving at the entire family.

"David," Mary Margaret yanked on her husband's jacket. "Go ahead, ask her if she'd like to join us." She murmured, nudging her husband.

David neared the brunette, and Regina could see all the kindness in the man's eyes as his hands held onto his beanie. "We didn't get to celebrate Christmas, so uh… it would be nice if you could join us."

Regina had never been invited to spend Christmas with anyone before, let alone an entire family. It pulled on her heart strings.

"Oh… I would love to, but I can't." She smiled with a pink blush on her cheeks.

"Emma's going to be there!" Ruby smiled at the brunette, excited for Emma's return back home tonight.

"That's right! You haven't met Emma yet." Said Mary Margaret.

Emma. That was the second time she heard that name. She couldn't help but wonder who she was.

"No, not yet." Regina smiled.

"Oh, she'll be so happy to meet you!" David's wife smiled.

"Here," David hands the brunette one of his business cards along with a pen that he kept in his coat pocket. "Write your phone number and address down there. Mary Margaret will call you and talk you into coming tonight."

"Okay." Regina chuckled, writing down her phone number and address on the back of the card and handing it back to him. Clearly they weren't taking a no for an answer.

"And here's another card for when you change your mind. We are in the estate furniture business, we buy furniture from dead people." He hands her another business card, which reads: Swan Family Furniture. It had drawings of a chair and a table underneath the name, along with the address of their business and their phone number.

Hm. Maybe this Emma worked for him? Regina thought to herself. Maybe she was David and Mary Margaret's daughter, which would make her Graham's sister.

"Okay, well I'll think about it. Bye." Regina waved, giving the family another warm smile before leaving the room.