Over in C Block, sitting down on the makeshift mattress in Regina's cell, Emma was sat down with Henry cuddled into her left side, as she read 'A Giraffe and A Half' by Shel Silverstein to him for the tenth time that afternoon trying to put him down for a nap.

Her head wasn't hurting as much as it was three days ago but there was still an ache that was very much there. Not noticing the figure standing near the door of the cell watching them as she read aloud to him, Emma heard Henry's little gasp and watched as he stood up quickly stepping across the mattress.

Emma looked to the door and saw Regina standing there, smiling brightly as Henry rushed over to her. Emma felt her heart rate race and warmth wash over her at the sight of Regina bending down to pick Henry up and hug him tightly at the same time. Henry wrapped his little arms around her neck just as tight and cuddled as close as he could get to her.

With her hand on his back, Regina looked over Henry's shoulder and down at Emma. Taking in her curls surrounding her face and the cut under her eye, Regina felt anger flood her body, grateful that this Walsh fucker was dead in the street somewhere. Rubbing Henry's back and kicking off her boots and keeping her eyes on Emma as she walked around the mattress, Emma bit the inside of her cheek as she watched her move.

She was kind of hoping Regina would stay at the church with her sister after the guys brought over the food, of course she missed her girlfriend whom she hadn't seen in almost three days, but she really didn't want to be yelled at. Again. Granny yelled at her and then even Big Henry put in his two cents about her actions. Even Mallory had to voice her opinions. Ugh!

Regina bent down and placed her knees on the mattress right next to Emma, leaning her upper body down she put Henry's back on the sheets and brought her hands back to start tickling his little sides. Regina chuckled as the toddler giggled uncontrollably and wrapped his legs around her waist trying to wiggle away from her fingers.

"Gi-na!" Henry giggled and squealed.

Emma smiled as she watched and inwardly winced, scrunching up one side of her face, she turned and reached back for her bottle of water. Doc said it was important that she stayed hydrated so she took a few good sips, and reached over for a pill bottle as she decided to take some more pain meds too, it had been a few hours.

Regina eased up on Henry's tickle torture and pulled back, smiling down at the boy. Henry suddenly remembered he had to be quiet and gasped again, putting his little pointer finger over his lips. Henry signed 'hurt' and pointed to his head, whispering as low as he could "Mama." Pointing over to Emma, rubbing his eyes sleepily.

Regina nodded her head and signed back 'Yes' and that she knew, rubbing his little belly. Emma had been teaching them both, being stuck inside left the with a lot of free time. Turning her attention back to Emma as the blonde was turning back around to them.

Emma blushed and looked down as she saw Regina was watching her. Regina was closer now and could see the stitches up close. The vertical scar stitched up, red and blotchy, no don't causing her some irritation.

Reaching her right hand over and running her thumb gently over Emma's cheek, Emma bit her lip again and looked at Regina looking over her face.

"Hey." Regina finally greeted her.

"Hi." Emma gave her a small smile back.

"Emma-"

"Wait, if you're gonna yell at me can we wait till my head stops hurting?" Emma chuckled trying to lighten the already sour mood but Regina was clearly not amused. Emma shoulders sagged and her lip jutted out a bit, looking Regina in the eyes.

Henry crawled up to the pillow behind Emma and laid down pulling his book back over to him.

"No. We'll talk about it right n-"

"But Regina-"

"I cannot believe you left and put-"

"I had to!"

"No you didn't! And what you did was so incredibly fucking stupid, Emma!"

"Language." Emma looked at her with a straight face and scuffed.

"Emma-"

"I already know how stupid it was, Regina. I don't need you to tell me."

"You really need to stop interrupting me, little swan." Regina arched her brow so quick, Emma's visibly deflated just as quick as the older woman checked her.

"I'm not a child who needs to be scolded for her actions." Emma huffed defiantly and she bit the side of her bottom lip.

"Oh No? No! Of course not! My mistake you're an idiot who goes riding down the street on a motorcycle with explosives while men are shooting at you!"

"I know what happened Regina." Emma mumbled.

"Then you know why I am so angry with you! Emma Swan!"

"Regina-" Emma started to rub her head.

"I mean explosives?! Emma seriously?! Being shot at?! Almost blowing yourself up?! Or setting yourself on fire?! What the hell were you thinking!?" Regina hissed.

"I was thinking I couldn't leave them! I was thinking I had to work fast with what I had in that moment!"

"You never would've had to do it, if you stayed your ass here in the first place! You abused the fact that I wasn't here to go out there. You pushed Ruby and Kristoff to let you go. You unyieldingly told August no! Knowing I would have never agreed to letting you go out there! Look at your face Emma!"

"Regina-"

"Hush!" Regina quickly shut her up.

Emma's eyebrows shot up and she scrunched her nose up defiantly ready to argue and opened her mouth again but Regina stopped her.

"I mean it! Emma I swear..." Regina clenched her jaw, her gaze unfaltering.

Emma clenched her jaw too and rolled her eyes, folding her arms and moving to turn away from the older woman and lay down with Henry. Regina's hand shooting up and gripping her chin stopped her though.

"I'm not done talking to you."

"You're not talking to me! You're yelling at me like I'm your child and I'm not. I'm done listening." Emma growled and moved Regina's hand away.

"You're right, you aren't my child. But you're mine!" Regina clarified with an unwavering stare and put her hand right back where she had it. "You are mine! Did you think I would really be happy about hearing how you were repeatedly shot at?! On top of a motorcycle no less! If a bullet didn't kill you, you could have fallen off that damn thing. Or crashed and blown yourself up! And that asshole knocking you down?...Slamming your head into the ground?...Emma..."

"I had on a helmet." Emma pouted.

Regina sighed and got off of her knees, sitting her butt down on the mattress, right next to Emma. She put her weight down on her right arm and turned her body so that she was looking Emma straight in the eye.

"I couldn't just run away Regina." Emma whispered. "I didn't see him coming, if I had I wouldn't have even let him touch me...but Jefferson shot him down before he could hurt me any further..."

"Yes by some miracle he managed to get up and do something before you died. You almost died, Emma...and I wasn't there...I wouldn't have been there to do anything about it." Regina looked down sadly at the gauze near her neck.

Emma sighed and reached for Regina's left hand with her right and intertwined their fingers together, scooting as close as she could get, leaning back on her left arm like Regina, she looked at her face and put her forehead down on gently on Regina's.

"...Now you understand how I feel when you go out there all the time." Emma whispered.

"I don't go around carelessly putting myself in dangerous situations." Regina scuffed.

"This whole thing is a dangerous situation Regina!" Emma groaned and pulled back. "I wasn't going to leave them to die and be used by those men."

"Explosives and a motorcycle? Seriously Emma?" Regina brooded.

"I was fine!" Emma insisted, "I was out of breath when it happened and sore from riding but I was fine."

"I don't want you getting on that thing again Emma." Regina shook her head.

"But it's mine!" Emma pouted.

"You won't be riding it anywhere!" Regina scuffed.

"We have to leave the prison at some point, Regina it can't only be you and the team and the hunters that get to leave!"

"What reason could you possibly have to leave this prison?" Regina arched her brow and looked her in the eyes pointedly.

Emma struggled to find an answer, "I-. I don't know! But we shouldn't be confined to this place just because you're scared!"

Regina sighed heavily and looked away, Zelena had told her pretty much the same thing just the other day. Emma squeezed her hand and Regina turned her head back to look at Emma's face. Her eyes locked on the vertical line of stitches right under the blondes eye.

"Before coming here we were out there...I know what's it like out there." Emma said lowly.

Regina sat up more, releasing Emma's hand and bringing her left up to cup the side of the younger woman's face.

"Which is why I don't want you out there. Exposed to danger more than you need to be. You're safe in here from people like that...I just want to keep you safe, Emma."

"I know...but I'm not the only one who needs to be kept safe...there's everyone here! And your sister and your niece and those kids...Henry...they will have to be exposed to what's out there at some point, if they already haven't been. We can't hide behind these walls forever Regina. I don't want to...and just how Walsh and his men wanted to hurt us, there will be other people out there who will want to do the same...but that doesn't mean we should hide in here forever."

"...You're right."

Regina sighed and titled her head, looking over the blondes face, pushing her hand back to run her fingers through her hair and behind her ear. Emma closed her eyes and quickly opened then again.

"I'm sorry? I'm what?" Emma furrowed her eyebrows amused.

Regina rolled her eyes, "I said you're right."

Emma grinned and leaned her head forward putting their foreheads together again.

"I haven't seen you in nearly three days, and the first thing you do is yell at me." Emma huffed and pouted.

"Yes because what you did-"

"Was stupid I know. I've heard it a bunch already. Even from Mallory! Ok? I know and I'm in enough pain already. Can you just kiss me please?" Emma rolled her eyes and pouted more.

Regina snickered and turned her head to the right while Emma went to her right and kissed her lips softly. Emma pushed against her lips and kissed her harder as they moved together and Regina sighed against her lips. Emma put her hand out to grip Regina's shirt before she let go and moved her hand over to touch her hip.

Hearing giggling and a tiny "Ewww" from behind them, Emma chuckled and pulled back from Regina's kiss.

Looking over her shoulder and back at Henry they saw him laying back with his little hands covering his eyes. Regina laughed and reached over to tickle his foot, and he quickly pulled it away. Emma turned back to face Regina and leaned forward placing a sweet kiss on the woman's jaw. Regina sighed and looked to her again, placing her finger under her chin to place a kiss on her nose and over to the cut under her eye softly kissing the top of her stitches.

"How are you feeling?" Regina sighed putting her hand back behind her ear.

"That should have been your first question." Emma sighed and smirked.

Regina cursed at herself in her head because, yes that should have been her first concern when she saw Emma, she looked down and went to pull her hand away but Emma stopped her.

"Don't." Emma grabbed her wrist and quickly pecked her on the lips. "I'm okay. I'm not feeling as bad as I was, just a little nauseous and my muscles are a bit sore...but I'm okay." she smiled.

"I don't want you doing anything until you're completely better." Regina said sternly.

"I was going to start on making the -"

"Has Doc cleared you to start?"

"No but he told me I could try some reading with Henry so that's what I did today."

"And how do you feel?"

"I...I just can't look at something for too long you know? If I do I start to get dizzy, but I was fine reading for a little while today. That doesn't mean I can't start!"

"Emma-"

"Limited. That's what Doc said. I can start Regina." Emma insisted. "I want to help bring your family and their group here just as much as you do." she grinned.

Regina smiled back at her adoringly and leaned back in kissing her lips sweetly, Emma sighed at the feeling of Regina's fingers playing in her hair.

Feeling the mattress dip next to them and tiny hands on their shoulders, Emma and Regina pulled back to find Henry standing near them, Henry looked to Emma then back to Regina. As he made the sign for 'Happy' with his hand over his chest and then took his tiny open palm pushing his middle finger in towards his mouth and then down to his chest to sign 'Birthday!' And he smiled looking to Regina.

"Yes babe. Happy Birthday." Emma signed to show Regina. "He wanted to tell you the other day." She looked at Henry's big smile and at Regina with a sad smile. "I just explained to him we had to wait until you came back. Everyday it's been 'Get Gina? Go Get Gina?'" Emma chuckled.

Regina had a guilty look on her face and opened her arms for Henry to give him a hug. He bent down and wrapped his arms around her neck again.

"Thank you, Henry." she pulled back and kissed his forehead.

Henry smiled at the hug and kiss he got, he gasped again and pulled back stepping between them and climbing off of the mattress, quickly moving over to the desk and snatched a piece of paper from on top of it. Grabbing his drawing and rushing back over to Regina, he smiled and pushed it out for her to take.

Regina gently took the colorful piece of paper from him and pulled him into her lap. Looking over it, she saw colors of blue for the sky and green for the grass, there were other little squiggles and marks on the drawing that kind of looked like stars. There were two figures in the picture, one small and one tall and they held hands standing in front of what looked like a tree with red circles on the bushes. Over the tree, neatly written in Emma's hand writing it read 'Gina's Apple Tree.'

"That's me! an Gina! an Gina's Tree!" Henry whispered and looked back at her as he pointed to every thing on the picture. "Mama help too." He shrugged and added that last part in there too.

Emma snickered and brought her hand up tickling him under his chin. Regina looked up at her confused so she sighed and grinned scooting closer putting her head down on her shoulder, looking down at the drawing with her.

"It's still going to need a lot more time to grow." Emma smiled "When we started planting seeds in the greenhouse, your dad told me about the big apple tree you had in your backyard...So before it got too cold outside, I took some of the apple seeds and stowed them away in a tight little jar in some wet paper towels and kept them in a warm area in the ground. Then I put them in snow to get the seeds to germinate a bit faster, so I switched them from cold one week, to warm the next and did that for about 3 weeks, then it got too cold." She titled her head from side to side. "But I did that with 5 seeds and surprisingly they all sprouted. So Henry and I put them into a seed starter and over the last few months we've been watering them...they've finally sprouted enough to move them to the ground but I figured the pots were the better route...so we were going to surprise you with them."

"You...planted an apple tree...and named it after me?" Regina looked like she was trying not to cry.

"Five actually." Emma picked her head up and put her chin on Regina's shoulder looking up at her smugly. "I guess we should name it 'Gina's Orchard' then." She grinned. "...As a happy birthday of course, but also as a thank you. For you know saving us, and taking us in. Putting up with me..."

Regina just looked at her smiling like she couldn't believe it, she looked down to her lips and quickly kissed them, Emma smiled and kissed her back. Melting into the passionate and sweet kiss, Emma pushed back against her lips till they heard another little "Ewww". Emma chuckled and went to pull away but Regina chased after her lips so she gave in and kept kissing her smiling as she did.

Henry let out an exaggerated breath and rolled his eyes palming his forehead with his hand. Twisting back in Regina's hold he brought his little hands up to mush their cheeks. Emma couldn't contain her laughter any longer putting their foreheads together and Regina snickered at his antics.

"I right here!" Henry emphasized

"Yes! I know!" Regina chuckled and looked down at him, turning him around and pushing him up so he could wrap his arm around her shoulders.

Emma put their foreheads back together and looked over at Henry, scrunching her nose at him. Henry giggled and wrapped his other arm around Regina's neck turning and laying his head down on her shoulder. Regina pulled back and kissed along Emma's nose, looking at her admiring everything about her features.

"I love you, Emma."

Regina told her devotedly and Emma smiled brightly feeling more of that warmth spread throughout her chest whenever Regina looked at her that way. Emma sighed feeling so much relief from hearing Regina say those words because she felt the same about the other woman, deeply.

"I love you too, Regina." Emma leaned in and kissed her lips, pulled back looking at her face smiling. "So fucking much. I am so in love with you." she said with a low content sigh of relief.

"Language." Regina teased and lifted her eyebrows playfully.

Emma rolled her eyes and leaned in to kiss her lips again, smiling. Regina sighed against her lips and started to peck them over and over.

"Don't. You. Ever. Do Something. So Stupid. And Idiotic. Like That Ever. Again." Regina kissed her between her words, pulling back and looking her in the eyes.

Emma's bottom lip poked out a bit when she stopped and as she looked at Regina's lips, she leaned in for another kiss. Regina kissed her but quickly pulled back ending it.

"I'm serious, Emma."

"Ok! Ok!" Emma whined, "I won't." She pushed forward and bringing her hand up behind Regina's head to keep her in place. Pulling away after she was breathless, she pecked her lips again, and whispered "unless I really really need to."

"Emma!" Regina chastised her.

"Regina." Emma huffed back.

"What part of keeping you safe is not getting through that head of yours?" Regina tsked.

"I understand! But I have to keep you safe too! And Henry, and August and anyone else!...Sometimes that just might require me doing stupid or idiotic things." Emma chuckled at Regina's unamused scowl.

Leaning in and kissing the frown from her lips, Regina sighed and kissed her back. Emma pulled back biting her bottom lip and smirking. Regina rolled her eyes at the giddy look on her face, fixing Henry in her hold. He must've finally fallen asleep. Regina rubbed his back and snuggled him closer.

After laying Henry down, quickly going to take a quick shower and changing her clothes, Regina laid down next to Emma on the mattress. Pulling her close to lay on her chest, Henry cuddled up to Emma's side on the pillow behind her.

"You told me you love me." Emma was looking up at her with that same giddy smile.

"I do." Regina reassured her with a kiss. "I love you and Henry. I can't lose you Emma." she said seriously.

Emma quickly kissed her and laid her head on her shoulder, the pain meds had finally kicked in. Sighing she closed her eyes feeling Regina's lips on her forehead.

"You won't lose us, Regina." She squeezed her and pulled back to kiss under her jaw.

A comfortable silence settled over them, Henry was napping and Emma needed to rest. Regina was enjoying finally being clean and back in her cell with them by her side. After a while Emma spoke up again.

"Gina?"

"Hmmm?"

"I love you." Emma cuddled into her more.

"I love you too, Em." Regina kissed the top of her head, she could feel her breath against her neck. Emma got quiet again but not for long.

"Do you love me enough to let me have my motorcycle?" Emma spoke up and asked innocently.

Regina snickered and looked up to the ceiling. Emma had her lips pressed to her neck and she could feel her smiling against her skin.

"Don't push it, little Swan."