"Oh yeah." Emma sighed as the heat rose to her face. "That's it."
She licked her lips, mouth salivating at the thought of the delicious juices about to hit her tongue as she stuck it out to catch a couple of drops of sweet, salty essence that fell out of her prey.
"Oh yeah, you are one juicy little slut…come to mama…"
"Emma?" Regina's head popped into the kitchen door, confusion written on her face. "Who the hell are you talking to?"
Emma's face went red as she looked towards her finacée, putting the tray in her hands down and kicking the oven door closed.
"My cheese fries."
Regina rubbed a palm over her face in exasperation, opening the door to reveal a semi traumatized Henry and Amorie standing behind her, the present, baby version of Amorie in Henry's arms.
"Oh…hi kids." Emma grinned sheepishly.
"You are so weird." Henry groaned.
"It doesn't get any better with age, trust me." The future version of Amorie rolled her eyes as she took a seat on the island bar.
"Would you two quit sassing me?" Emma said, putting her fork down and coming to Henry to take baby Amorie in her arms and hugging her tightly, switching to her baby voice. "You don't think mama is weird, do you?"
"Run kid, it's a trap." Adult Amorie said with a smirk.
"Should you even be in the same room as the baby version of yourself? Shouldn't that like, cause a rip in the space time continuum?" Henry asked.
"Yeah it suddenly dawned on me how freaky this is, I'm holding a tiny version of you while the adult version of you is sitting like, right there." Emma held baby Amorie out to look at her and then at the adult version. "It's like looking at a regular sized and fun sized snickers bar, side by side."
"Exactly what I want to hear, my mother comparing me to candy." Amorie rolled her eyes.
"You know I'm starting to hope it takes a long time for baby you to learn how to do that." Emma said.
"She won't." Amorie smirked at her.
"Are we done?" Regina asked, obviously exasperated. "I do believe we have bigger problems than Emma's food kink."
"Gross." Henry and Amorie groaned again.
"You didn't warn me about their weirdness before you sent me to the past." Amorie said accusingly towards her brother, pinching his elbow.
"Ow!"
"Serves you right."
"I didn't even do anything yet!" he whined.
"Well I can't pinch future you right now and I don't hold grudges for that long." Amorie shrugged.
"Oh my god. Would you two stop acting like children?" Regina demanded. Suddenly, baby Amorie threw the rattle that was in her hands right at her brunette mother, getting adult-her and Henry to laugh.
"She did it." they both said, pointing at baby Amorie who was giggling while Emma tried not to laugh.
"You are grounded." Regina said towards adult Amorie.
"Why me?!" she complained.
"Because grounding a baby would just be pointless." Regina said, going over to Emma and taking said baby in her hands. "Wouldn't it? Yes it would."
"I'm being discriminated against because I'm not as cute as I used to be." adult Amorie crossed her arms and huffed.
"Hey at least she's the only version of you that willingly craps her pants." Emma said.
"We're getting ridiculously side tracked." Regina said. "Though I agree with that pants-crapping thing."
"Okay. So, you came to the past because you needed our help right?" Emma asked.
"Yes."
"Okay...so what do we need to do?" Emma asked.
"Well first I think we should find out how Rumple got back to the Enchanted forest." Regina said. "In this time, he's still very much banished from town by his wife."
"Ex-wife." both Emma and Amorie piped up.
"Right." Regina said, glancing between the two of them.
"Sorry, Aunt Belle always rolls her eyes when we get that wrong." Amorie shrugged.
"Aunt Belle?" Regina asked.
"Long story. You'll figure it out soon." Amorie waved her off.
"I thought you could tell us anything?" Henry asked.
"Have you never heard of spoilers?" Amorie teased. "Some things are less fun if you know they're going to happen."
"Anyway." Regina jumped in, hoping to get back to the point. "So first we need to figure out how Rumple managed to get ahold of magic outside of Storybrooke."
"Right." Emma nodded. "Then we find out who this Black fairy bitch is…"
"Then we figure out a plan for how to defeat them." Regina nodded.
"And then we go to the future." Amorie finished. Regina and Emma's eyed going equally wide as they looked at her. "What?"
"Go to the future?" Regina asked.
"Yeah...or...well...you go to the future, I go...back...to the...future…" Amorie said.
"What do I look like, Marty McFly?" Emma blurted out.
"I told you guys, I need you there!" Amorie said. "With you guys around my magic is stronger - it doesn't matter which version of you that is. The minute Ma was within a hundred mile radius of me, I could feel it, and my magic instantly got stronger. We're defeating a dark one and a dark fairy, I don't know where the future versions of you are...how am I going to do that alone?"
Emma and Regina looked at each other, a silent conversation happening in between the two silent women. The baby version of Amorie in Regina's arms fussed and looked over at her mother, while the adult version sat there, watching them and silently pleading that they go with her.
Emma sighed, she knew that the baby version of her daughter was feeling the second-hand effects of her future self's anxiety, so she was feeling it twice-over, not to mention the same indecision that plagued her, plagued Regina as well...They were caught in a web. And if they didn't help their daughter, they'd curse her to an uncertain future.
"I'll tell mom to the put wedding plans on hold." Emma said. Regina nodded, their decision had been made long before they spoke out the words.
"I can't ever thank you guys enough." Amorie sighed.
"You don't have to." Regina said, stepping towards her and placing a gentle hand on her shoulder. "You're our daughter, no matter what time you're from, we'll always be here for you."
"Yeah kid." Emma gave her a small smirk. "You're not gonna get rid of us that easy."
"I love you guys." Amorie said, leaning into her mother's side and hugging her.
"We love you too, honey." Regina said, balancing the baby version of Amorie on her hip so she could wrap one arm around the adult version's shoulders.
"This is really trippy." Emma said.
"Get a hold of yourself." Regina rolled her eyes. "Or at the very least, take an Amorie."
"I pick the tiny one who can't sass me yet." Emma said, coming over and taking baby Amorie out of Regina's arms
"So." Henry spoke up. "How do we get to the future?"
"Are you sure about this?" Amorie asked as she followed her mother out of her yellow bug and towards Snow and David's apartment. "Won't grandma have a fit or something?"
"Listen, if your grandmother didn't check herself into a mental hospital the day your mom told me I got her pregnant, nothing will ever phase her again." Emma said. "Besides, we kind of have this 'no secrets' policy and well...She's planning the wedding, she deserves to know why it's suddenly on hold."
"Yeah." Amorie sighed. "I just, don't wanna freak people out about their future or the future of the Enchanted forest."
"We won't." Emma shook her head. "We'll just explain to her that something's going on that you need our help with and that we need to put our plans on hold. And not to tell anyone."
"If mom were here she'd make a quip." Amorie said.
"Your mother makes a quip about everything. It's like her job." Emma shrugged.
"You once said you wouldn't love her as much if she weren't as sassy and sarcastic as she is." Amorie said with a smirk
"Aww." Emma smiled and nodded. "What did Regina say?"
"That she'd still probably love you just the same if you didn't eat like a child."
"Gee thanks future Regina." Emma rolled her eyes.
"In her defence you'd just attempted to stuff a whole burger in your mouth and nearly choked on it. She had to save your life via magic." Amoried shrugged. "Are we going inside or what?"
"Yes, now you just let me give it to your grandmother easy. It'll be a little hard to believe that you're the same kid who's diaper she changed this morning." Emma instructed.
"Growth spurt?" Amorie joked before she followed her blonde mother into the apartment building.
"I'll call the elevator." Amorie said, turning around and walking face first into a wall "Ow! What the-"
"This building doesn't have an elevator." Emma said, her hands gently on Amorie's shoulders and a concerned look on her face as her daughter rubbed her offended nose.
"It does in my time." Amorie pouted at her mother, who just chuckled.
"Well in this time, we take the stairs." Emma said teasingly before she lead Amorie up said staircase.
"I keep forgetting why the homeowner's association had kicked up that fuss." Amorie shrugged. Emma gave her daughter and enigmatic smile as she ran up the last couple of steps and nearly tripped on the last one.
"Woah!"
"Oh yeah! Grandma did it when you broke your leg doing...well...that." Amorie said.
"Noted." Emma sighed.
"Mom never lets you live it down, in case you were wondering."
"Didn't doubt it for a second, kid." Emma said, knocking on her mother's door. "Now, remember what I told you, just...be chill."
"I'm chill." Amorie shrugged. "I'm gonna sit quietly while you try to explain to grandma that her granddaughter travelled twenty years to the past to save your ass."
Emma lofted a brow at her. "Actually, could we not put it like that to her?"
"You do the talking." Amorie grinned and patted her mom's shoulder before she knocked on Snow's door.
"Hey wh-" Emma turned around to stop her daughter, but it was too late. And in the next second, her mother opened the door.
"Oh, hi Emma." Snow's face lit up as it always does when she sees her daughter. Her eyes briefly wandered over to the woman standing beside her, but her smile never waivered. It was almost creepy, Emma thought...If she wasn't a fairy tale character, it would be.
"Hey mom." Emma said nervously. "Can we uhh, come in? We kinda have something a little important to tell you."
"Sure." Snow nodded, moving aside from the door to let them in. "Do you want some tea?"
"No thanks." Emma said.
"What about you Amorie?" Snow turned to the youngest of the three women.
"Oh no thanks grandm- wait, what?!" Amorie's eyes went wide, as did Emma's, as they both gawked at Snow.
"What, did I say something wrong?" Snow asked.
"No it's just…" Emma looked from her mother, to Amorie, and back again. "How did you know?"
"Well the eyes mostly." Snow shrugged. "She has your eyes, if you block out everything else it's like looking right at you. And that White chin of course."
Snow reached out to gently poke Amorie's chin affectionately and Amorie rolled her eyes at her grandmother.
"And she looks far too much like Regina when she rolls her eyes. You really did come out with the best combination of your mothers. You're beautiful!"
"Grandma!" Amorie whined.
"Just like your mother."
"Okay hold on a second here!" Emma said, looking directly at her mother. "You mean to tell me you're looking at the adult version of a kid who's diaper you changed like, five hours ago, and you're not even phased?!"
"Emma please, I'm in my sixties and I look like I'm in my thirties!" snow shrugged. "Besides, if I didn't check myself into a mental hospital when Regina told me you got her pregnant, am I really going to be surprised that a magical love child who is also the product of true love has the ability to time travel?"
"She's got you there." Amorie shrugged.
"I'm sure you knew right away when you saw her too...didn't you?" Snow asked.
"Uhh...yeah...sure." Emma said, her eyes shifting around shyly.
"It took her a minute." Amorie said.
"Whatever. We have more important stuff to talk about." Emma waved her off.
"Like what?" Snow asked.
"Like the fact that we have to do the time warp and go twenty years into the future to save our own selves, apparently." Emma shrugged.
"Please don't try to dance when we do it." Amorie quipped.
"Wait what?" Snow asked.
"Why do you think Amorie came all the way to the past? It's not to change her own diaper, that's for sure." Emma rolled her eyes.
"It's just weird!" Amorie argued. "Get to the point!"
"Please do." Snow said as she crossed her arms, her features slowly morphing into her patented 'game face'
"Amorie says there's some shit going down in the enchanted forest of the future." Emma explained. "Apparently future me and Regina went to the Enchanted forest with her and Henry and a friend of theirs and we got our butts kidnapped."
"You getting kidnapped, I can't say I'm surprised. But Regina?" Snow asked, looking at Amorie who shrugged.
"Over the years love has made her a little more impulsive than she is now." the youngest woman explained. "They trapped Ma first and got mom when she was trying to save her."
"I'm keeping that one tucked away for when Regina calls me an idiot again for trying to fish a loose curly fry from under the oven grate while it's still hot." Emma said. "We put ourselves in dangerous situations for the things we love. It's just the way it works."
"Emma, be serious." Snow said, turning back to Amorie. "Are they okay?"
"I don't know." Amorie shrugged and sighed. "Something's blocking my magic and I can't feel them. But we're confident they're alive."
"As long as you're confident." Emma scoffed.
"If you weren't...I think it would…" Amorie sighed. "I think it would...like...hurt more."
"Hurt?" Emma looked at her daughter in concern.
"Once when I was like eleven or something I was making a grilled cheese…"
"Proud of you." Emma nodded.
"And I burnt my finger on the grill. You and mom came rushing in from either side of the house. I didn't shout or anything, there was no way you could have heard me. But when I asked you said you guys both felt the burn too." Amorie explained. "It's our connection, it's the way it works. It's been like that all my life and I don't know what a severed connection would feel like but I think if either of you got killed I'd be...howling in pain or something."
"That's...a scary thought kid." Emma sighed, putting a gentle hand on her daughter's arm.
"I know." Amorie nodded. "But it also gives me hope that you guys are alive."
"That's good, sweetie." Snow said, stepping closer to her granddaughter. "But...if that's the case why do you need this time's Emma and Regina?"
"Because my magic is stronger with them around." Amorie said. "And I need to be at my strongest if we're going to defeat Rumpelstiltskin and the black fairy."
"Rumpelstiltskin is up to this?!" Snow demanded with wide eyes. "How did he even-"
"We're still trying to figure that part out." Emma sighed. "We're still figuring all of this out to be honest, but that's not what I'm here to talk to you about."
"Then what is it?" Snow asked, nothing but concern laced in her features and tone. Emma's features immediately turned sad and she looked down for a moment.
"We have to put the wedding on hold." she said. "We can't let Amorie just sit and wait, and let God knows what happen to us and our kids' future selves, just cause we wanna get married."
Snow looked from her daughter to the future version of her granddaughter before she nodded. "You're right. You can't. Your father and I would do the same thing if we were in that situation. Family comes first, it always has."
Emma nodded. "Thanks, mom."
"Of course, honey." Snow stepped up and wrapped her daughter up in a hug. "And we're here to help if you need it."
"We do, actually. We're going to be gone and we don't know for how long. We'll need you guys to watch Amorie...well the baby version of her." Emma said, getting an eye roll from her daughter's future self beside her. "And Henry. He's fifteen but sometimes he still needs to be reminded to change his damn underwear."
"Doesn't get much better when he's twenty, either." Amorie muttered under her breath.
"Of course, we'll take care of everything while you're gone. And I'll keep track of things for the wedding anyway - the minute you come back, we can pick up where we left off." Snow nodded.
"Thanks mom." Emma smiled.
"No problem, sweetie." the brunette woman said.
"Thanks Grandma." Amorie reiterated. Snow smiled, stepping up to the girl who was roughly as tall as Emma, and wrapped her up in a hug the same way she had done to Emma only a moment ago.
"I'm going to have the time of my life watching you grow up to be...well...you." Snow grinned.
"Yeah well I can tell you now, baby me is going to love having you as a grandma." Amorie shrugged.
"That's so sweet." Emma said. "And kinda weird."
"Come on." Amorie rolled her eyes. "Let's go home before mom starts freaking out."
"Why do I feel like you just summed up the next twenty years of my life in one sentence?"
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