My Royal Christmas

Chapter 3 Decorating the Castle

I was looking through the box of ornaments with Lucy, Ella, and Henry while Snow, David, Wish Hook, Hook, and Emma were putting the lights on the tree. I wanted amber lights inside the tree to give it a glow and white lights on the outside. Lucy pulled out a beautiful gold glittery ball.

"Where did this ball come from?"

I took the ball from her and smiled, "Oh Henry, remember this."

"It was our first Christmas with Ma. You two were finally able to be under one roof without arguing."

Ella pulled up a blue ball with Henry's name, birth date, weight, and length on it. Emma asked to see it, and I could see the hurt in her eyes.

"Henry," Ella smiled, "you were a tiny baby."

"Yes, he was, and I wouldn't have had him any other way."

Henry and I made eye contact and smiled at each other.

Hook was frustrated, "Lights are on, mate. How long will the trip down memory lane take?"

"What is your problem mate?" Wish Hook walked over to him, "Your mood has been rockier than the Neverland Sea during a bad storm."

Well, that was it. Hook blew up like an active volcano.

"Problem? My problem! My problem is that the baby that my wife had is not mine! She keeps trying to convince me that she is mine when I know for sure that she's not! You know what. I'm out of here."

He stormed out the ballroom, and Emma ran after him. Snow and David turned to me then motioned for me to follow them. I excused myself then followed my stepdaughter out of the room.

"I hate doing this to you because you have a lot going on being Queen."

"Snow, you are not bothering me. What is going on?"

"I don't think it is a good idea telling her about Emma and Hook's private life."

"David, Regina needs to know what is going on."

I blew my top, "Will someone, please tell me what is going on?"

Snow and David exchanged worried expressions toward each other than Snow finally spoke up. "Regina, when you left to be with Henry, Emma's pregnancy was complicated. She constantly got to the point of being so weak that she couldn't stand up without a magical person touching her."

My eyes widened, and I continued to listen to Snow. "Emma kept on saying how she knew the baby was magical because it explained why it was sucking her magic to the point of exhaustion. She told me how she wished that you could have children of your own or if there would be some way that Emma could have a child for you that she would make it happen."

I lowered my head and shook it, "Oh Emma, you idiot."

"Regina, when Hope was born, something felt so familiar when I held her. It wasn't until she opened her eyes and when Hook looked puzzled that I knew why it felt so familiar to me."

"Snow, is Hope my daughter?"

"We are not one hundred percent sure, but there could be a possibility."

My head was starting to spin. I felt very lightheaded. "I need to sit down."

We sat down on the stairs, and I shook my head. "Emma and I never sexually looked at each other. We don't even share romantic feelings toward each other. We never slept in the same bed together! Oh, wait…we did when we took Henry on a trip after his graduation. We had to share a bed because they didn't have a cot or pull out sofa bed."

Snow's eyes widened, "That was a little too much information for me."

"And why am I explaining myself to you?"

"Alright!" David had enough of our bickering. "We need to put our heads together on figuring out once and for all how to end this madness between Emma and Hook."

David's right. The madness needed to stop effective immediately! But where to start? Well, the only thing that got me brainstorming was decorating, so I began to dress up the stairs. I stood up, waved my hand upward, and green garland with beautiful red, and gold ornaments and ribbon appeared on the railing. I turned to the columns and raised my hands at them. Beautiful amber lights wrapped around them with a large red bow outlined in gold topped each column.

Snow was frustrated. "Regina, how can you decorate at a time like this?"

"This is how I do my deepest thinking. How do you think I always find presents for all of you during this time of year?"

David smiled, "That explains a lot. She listens when we believe that she's so focused on where we are turned out."

I couldn't help but shake my head because he was so far off, and I decided to leave that alone for the time being. While the annoying couple kept bouncing off crazy ideas like give them a romantic evening to themselves to rekindle the romance or do a magical test on Hope, I finished decorating the area, and a plan formulated.

"I think we need to do a blood test that way it can put Captain Guyliner's troubled mind at ease."

"That's a great idea."

Snow bit her bottom lip, "I still think we need to do some test with magic."

"Snow…"

She looked at me so intently, and I politely said, "Hell no. We are not doing any magical tests on my goddaughter. We will discuss this with Emma and Hook in the morning."