Sorry for the late upload! i have been trying to get this chapter up for the last two days and it finally went threw! So i won't bore you any more I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Two days ago at MM's and David's…
Emma just dropped Henry off at school and was now on her way to see her parents. If she was being honest with herself she was nervous to tell them about the baby. She didn't know how they would react, if they would be happy for her or shun her because her little girl is also Regina's. She didn't let these worries affect her too much as she was still on cloud nine about being a new mommy and just wanted to get back to Regina and her baby girl.
Pulling up outside the loft, Emma put the bug in park and turned it off. She quickly got out and walked inside the building.
When she opened the door she saw David doing dishes while Mary Margret fed Neal, Emma's now one-year-old baby brother.
Upon hearing the door open the trio looked up to see who entered and smiled when they saw it was a glowing Emma. "Hi honey, don't you just look all glowy."
"I Do?" Emma looked down at herself thinking for a moment that she was actually glowing.
"How's Regina? Is she out of the hospital yet?" MM greeted her.
"She's fine and no, they are going to keep her for a few more days." Emma replied while walking over to her little brother who was now clearly done eating and wanting to be held by Emma, his next favorite person next to Regina. Much to MM's displeasure, anytime Regina and the baby were in a room together Neal always wanted to be held by Regina and to this day, still does. Once snow got used to the idea of her baby adoring Regina and Regina adoring her baby, she loved the image her head created of the potential family they could be.
Once Emma had Neal in her arms, she took out her phone and opened her pictures. She then wound her arms around her brother so he could act like a shield if there was any back lash for what she was about to tell her parents. "So there is something I need to tell you guys and I need for you to let me tell you and show you everything before either one of you says a word ok?" Emma said with a stern look on her face. Both her parents nodded. "David, you might want to sit down for this." Once David was sitting down at the table Emma took a deep breath. "The reason Regina went to the hospital was because she had a baby…" Emma held her hand up when she saw that her parents were about to berate her with a million questions. When they looked like they would not interrupt she continued, "I know this is a big shock considering Regina didn't even look pregnant but I can assure you that she had no clue because I was there when she found out. But that's not the important part, the important part is that you guys are grandparents again to a beautiful baby girl." Emma beamed at them as she slid her phone over to her parents so they could see Regina smiling in a hospital bed holding a baby girl with dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. Regina looking at the camera tilting her arms so that the baby could be seen. "You can ask questions now if you like." Emma said with a hesitant smile on her face.
David was the first to speak, "How is she our granddaughter?"
"Well she is my daughter and you're my parents, making you her grandparents."
"How do you know she is yours and not Robins? I only ask because one, if she is yours, then that would mean that you slept with Regina and two, Robin was still here nine months ago." Snow said.
"Well your right. I did sleep with Regina, not that it's any of your business but it was three months after everything happened and we just … we were there for each other and Regina was insistent about getting a paternity well maternity test I guess in this case to prove that I am the other mother because everyone is going to ask the same question you did and I am 100% that baby girls mother." Emma said as she shifted her and Neal around so she could show her parents the test results.
After seeing the test, MM looked up at Emma then back down to the picture on the phone then back to Emma again but this time with tears in her eyes. "She's beautiful, she has our chin." MM whispered. David got up and walked around the table to where Emma was sitting and enveloped her in a hug.
"Congratulations," he whispered in her ear.
"Thank you."
"What's her name?" David asked as he let go of Emma.
"She doesn't have one yet. We can't decide between Eva and Aubree."
"Those are beautiful names." Snow said. "Oh! If she didn't know then that means she doesn't have anything for the baby or have a room ready! Oh, Oh, we can throw her a surprise shower and turn one of her guest rooms into a nursery! And we can make it a whole thing! Show her that she is not alone that we are all here for her!" the more Mary Margret went on the more excited she became. "We can invite Red and Granny and Archie and Marco …." She trailed off mumbling to herself as she got up to get a pad of paper to write everything down.
"Well I guess we know what Mary Margret is doing for the next few days," Emma laughed.
"Is she taking any visitors?" David asked.
"Well you guys are the first people we have told so I don't know, I don't see why not but just let me ask her first ok?"
"That's totally understandable sweet heart."
"You know you guys took this rather well. I thought there was going to be some kind of back lash with either not believing that the baby is not mine or that I slept with Regina in the first place."
"I'm not going to lie, it's a shock that you guys had a baby. But as for the sleeping with Regina we knew, we just figured when you didn't tell us about it that it was a one-time thing."
"Oh…" Emma looked down at her brother trying to hide her embarrassment.
"We need noise makers!" Mary Margret exclaimed out of nowhere.
"No!" both David and Emma exclaimed back.
"No fun! None of you…" MM mumbled as she turned back to her planning with a determined look on her face, while Emma and David chuckled at her.
Two days ago at the hospital
"God, I'm so bored!" Regina thought to herself. She had given up on trying to find something good on TV to watch and they had taken her daughter to the nursery so that they could collect their samples and give her, her shots she needed. That was twenty minutes ago. And now she was bored and thinking about calling Emma to have her pick up a book for her to read and to hurry up so she could keep her company.
Deciding that is just what she is going to do she reaches for the phone beside her bed but before her hand can even touch it, a cloud of periwinkle forms down by her ankles. It soon dissipates to show her crying daughter. Her shock was quickly replaced with concern. "Aww baby, why are you crying, hmm?" Regina murmurs as she reaches down and picks up her daughter and cradles her in her arms. "Did the mean nurses give you your shots?" Looking over the baby's body she saw there was a small band aid on her arm. "I guess they did. Well it's ok now little one, mommy's got you." She soothed as she rocked back and forth to get the baby to stop crying. Once baby Mills was asleep in Regina's arms, Regina let her mind wonder over the fact that her baby was only hours old and already has power that she can't comprehend.
A commotion out in the hall brought Regina out of her musing. She can faintly hear a nurse saying 'I lost her and what am I going to tell her she will kill me!' Deciding that they finally figured out that her baby has disappeared, she pushes her call button so she doesn't wake the baby and waits for the nurse to come in the room.
No sooner did Regina press the call button, a nurse came in the room. "I believe you are looking for my daughter." Regina smirks at the nurse who seemed so relieved to see her holding the baby.
"I'm so sorry! She was there one minute then the next she was gone."
"It's ok. I have a feeling this is going to happen quite often." Regina chuckled.
"Well, we have everything we need for now so she can stay with you."
"Ok, thank you." With that, the nurse left as Emma entered.
"Is everything ok?" Emma asked eyeing the nurse as she left the room. Walking over to Regina's bed, giving her a quick peck on the lips and leaning down to kiss the baby's forehead.
"Yeah, everything is fine. Our daughter didn't like it when they gave her, her shot so she decided that it was ok to poof to mommy and scare the nursing staff." Regina replied with a chuckle.
"She can poof?!"
"Well, she managed to hide in my own body for nine months without me knowing so yes I think she knows how to use magic dear."
"But she is a baby! How is she doing all this magic? I had to become the dark one learn how to properly poof myself to a different corner of the room let alone a different location."
"If I didn't know any better I would say you were jealous of our daughter's magic, Miss Swan." Regina teased.
"Har har, Madam Mayor, I'm not jealous, just confused I guess."
"Well as soon as I get out of here, we will be making a trip to see a certain someone."
"That's not a trip I'm looking forward to. Oh and speaking of seeing people, are you up to seeing a few of them?" Emma asked sheepishly.
"And who do you mean by them?" Regina asked skeptically.
"Oh you know my parents, Red, Granny, and the rest of the town…" Emma mumbled but Regina caught every word.
"If you think for one minute that I'm going to let them parade in and out of here, gawking at me and our baby, you're surely mistaken!" Regina exclaimed a little too loudly because the next thing she knew, the baby was in Emma's arms crying.
"Aww, did mommy scare you? Its ok, she didn't mean it. Its mama's fault, she should have known better to mess with mommy. Shh, shh, it's ok baby girl." Emma lightly bounced to soothe the baby. It didn't take long for her to calm down and when she did Emma handed her back to a teary eyed Regina. "Hey, not you too. Its ok, I get it. I should have explained myself better before I just dropped that on you." Emma ran her hand threw Regina's hair and kissed her forehead.
"I don't even know why I'm crying! This is stupid!" Regina softly exclaimed.
"It's totally ok. It happened to me after I had Henry. It will pass don't worry."
"What did you mean when you said you should have explained yourself better?"
"Oh well the whole town is not actually here but they know and want to see the baby. BUT!... I told them no. The only people that are here and will understand if you don't want to see them yet are my parents, Granny and Red."
"I guess I wouldn't mind seeing them. Zelina said she would be stopping by later."
"You finally call her? She has been blowing up my phone none stop wanting an update on how you are doing and I know you wanted to be the one to tell her so I just kept ignoring her calls. You know I am actually surprised she didn't just storm over here for answers herself." Emma rambled on not really giving Regina a moment to but in.
"Emma dear your rambling and yes I finally had a moment to call her she is excited to be an auntie; her words not mine." Regina chuckled to herself. "Is everyone here already or are we waiting for them to arrive?" Regina asked.
"Right! No they are already here and that's good I'm glad she is excited, I'm going to go get everyone!" Emma flew out of the room so she could tell everybody to come meet her daughter.
"Your mama is silly," Regina smiled while softly running the back of her index finger down her daughter's cheek.
Minutes later, the door to Regina's room opened slowly and eventually showed Snow White barely holding back her excitement. David who was holding Neal, Red, Granny and Emma walked in just after Snow.
"Congratulations! How are you doing!?" Snow boomed, causing both mother and daughter to startle. Thankfully, little baby Mills just kept sleeping away only giving a grunt of annoyance for being startled. "Sorry." Snow whispered giddily.
"I'm doing fine, thank you. Let's try not to scare the baby ok?" Regina said with a tight smile on her mouth. Emma seeing this walked over to her and put her hand on her shoulder and she instantly relaxed. Everyone saw how Regina responded to Emma but they chose to ignore it.
"Can I hold her?" Snow asked tentatively. Regina nodded her head and sat up a little straighter while Snow walked over to the side of the bed where Regina handed Snow her daughter. "She is beautiful Regina." At that moment, little Neal started to make it be known that he wanted Regina. With a chuckle, she opened her arms and David sat the now happy boy in her lap. Once David let go, Neal turned into Regina and buried his head in the crook of her neck so he could cuddle.
"Well hello to you too, Mr. Neal." Cooed Regina as she kissed his forehead and rubbed his back. As Regina was cuddling with Neal, Red and Granny went to check out the new baby.
"Yup, she is definitely both Emma's and Regina's." Red said once she was close enough to smell the baby. "She smells just like them."
This caused everyone to laugh.
"Miss Lucas, if you could refrain from smelling my daughter, that would be lovely." Regina said with a smile on her face.
"God, I'm still not used to you being a wolf." Emma said shaking her head.
"Ok Snow, let me see her." Granny said gruffly.
Snow silently passed the baby over to Granny, who instantly smiled down at the girl. "You're going to be trouble, I can tell."
Once Granny was done holding the baby, Ruby took a short turn feeling uneasy with the baby in her arms. She was about to hand her off to David when the baby decided she had had enough of being passed around and poofed over to Regina who was ready for it. "What? You have something against boys?" Regina cooed down at her baby. Neal seeing the new person in Regina's arms decided to investigate. He crawled back on Regina's lap and leaned over the baby. He looked from the baby to Regina to the baby and back to Regina again. "Do you see the baby? Can you give her a hug?" Regina asked Neal who gave her the biggest smile his little face could hold. He turned back to the baby in her arms and leaned so his head was lying on the baby's belly. There was a chorus of aww that filled the room. "Can you give her a kiss?" Regina asked pointing to the baby once he picked his head up. And once again he turned to the baby but this time he moved up a little and planted an open mouth slobbery kiss on the baby's chin. Another chorus of aww's went around the room. It went on like that for the remainder of the visit.
About an hour after everyone left.
"Okay! Where is she? Where is my sweet baby niece!?" Zelina boomed as she barged threw the door of Regina's room with baby robin asleep in her arms.
"Well hello to you too sis. Your niece is currently eating so you're going to have to wait a bit."
"Sorry I'm just excited. I never thought I would have this." Zelina said as she walked over to Regina and the baby, carefully giving her a quick hug as to not wake Robin before she settled in the chair next to the bed.
"Never thought you would have what?" Regina asked perplexed as she accepted the hug from her sister. She watched as she settled in her chair before she answered.
"I never thought I would have family. I never in a million years would have thought that I would be happy about being a mom and now that I am I excited that you're a mom again too and that we can raise our girls together. It makes me feel less alone and more connected to you somehow. It's silly really. I'm sorry I'm being a complete mush." Both sisters gazed at each other with watery eyes when they were interrupted by Emma coming back in the room with food.
"Okay, so they didn't have a chicken salad so I got you a Cesar salad instead I hope that's ok?" Emma said as waked in not looking form fiddling with something in her bag. "Oh! Hi Zelina when did you get here?"
"I just arrived a few moments ago."
"Oh cool" Emma walked over to the other side of Regina and placed the food on the table and then promptly giving Regina the baby a kiss.
Zelina just arched a brow but otherwise kept quiet knowing that once she got her sister alone she was going to gill her for all the juicy details.
The rest of the visit went well. Zelnia and the baby bonded while Robin was glued to Emma until Zelina declared that it was time to be heading home and that she would visit once Regina returned home.
Present….
"You have a name," Regina said whose eyes had changed back to their normal chocolate brown, with a smile looking down at the baby who had been shifted during the spell.
"Adeline May Swan-Mills. It's kind of long but it's your name and it's beautiful." Emma cooed at Adeline.
"And now that you have a name, we can go home." Regina's baby voice in full swing while talking to Ade.
"I'm going to go get a nurse to tell them we finally picked a name so we can finish all her paper work and find out when you can leave."
"Ok sounds good." Emma left to find someone about the papers and Ade started to fuss. "I suppose you're hungry, huh?"
Five minutes later, Emma walked back into the room to find Regina feeding Adeline. "I got the papers we need to fill out and the nurses said that you can be discharged tomorrow around 10 or 11 in the morning."
"That sounds wonderful. I'm so tired of being here; I miss my bed." She watched as Emma walked over to the table and sat down to start filling out the paper work. "Do you need help filling that out dear?"
"Nah I got it, you're busy feeding our daughter." Emma replied looking over her shoulder throwing a smile Regina's way.
"If you insist." Regina shrugged her shoulders and started softly humming to the baby.
The next day….
E: When will u guy's b ready? They r letting Regina out in an hour."
Emma typed quickly while Regina was in the bathroom getting dressed. The party was supposed to be a surprise and Emma didn't want to be the one to ruin it. Looking down at her phone she saw she already had a reply.
MM: you need to stall for as long as possible! We are all running late. But don't worry I have everything under control I'll keep you updated.
E: you better.
The bathroom door opened so Emma put her phone back in her pocket and turned to look at Regina who upon seeing she was being looked at said, "See something you like?"
"You know it," Emma playfully replied as she got up to embrace Regina from behind. Once the blonde's arms were around the brunette she sunk into the embrace willingly.
"What are we going to put Adeline in to go home? We have no clothes, no diapers, no furniture." Regina asked as she laid her head back on Emma's shoulder clearly feeling defeated.
Turning her head slightly, Emma kissed Regina's forehead and squeezed her a little tighter. "Don't worry, we will figure it out on our way home. We will stop and get some more diapers, pick up a few clothing options and when we get home we can make a nice list of all the baby things we need ok? But for right now let's not worry about it because stressing over it will not change anything."
"When did you become the voice of reason here?" Chuckled Regina.
"Well someone has to be." Emma smiles down at Regina causing her to smile back. "Oh speaking of clothes…." Emma pulled out of the embrace and walked over to her bag, "I saw this in a shop yesterday and I just could not resist; it was the cutest little thing." Emma turned around to show Regina a deep purple baby dress with a white ribbon going around the middle and a matching purple diaper cover. "I figured she could wear it today when we take her home. It should be her size. It says it's for newborns, it even snaps in the back! So it's easier to put on!"
"It's beautiful, Emma. Thank you." Regina walked over to her and wound her arms around Emma's waist while laying her head in Emma's neck. Emma who at this point was the one who had initiated all contact since coming to the hospital was surprised by Regina's embrace. She soon shook it off and hugged her back. "I'm going to feed Adi and then we can put her in your beautiful dress ok?" Regina leaned back far enough to look Emma in the eye before she stood on her tip toes and gave her a chaste kiss on the lips.
"Ok…" was all Emma managed to say as shock was still clearly written all over her face. Regina could be heard giggling in the back ground.
E: Mary Margret I don't know how much longer I can stall! Regina really wants to come home! Please tell me you're ready for us!
Emma typed as fast as she could as she walked to the car. She said that she would go on out and get the baby in the car under the pretense of being away from Regina long enough to find out if they could go home yet or not. Once Emma hit send she didn't have to wait long for a reply.
MM: this is Ruby! No we are not ready yet. Very close! Just need 45 more minutes! Then you can come home ok? Ok!
"Uggg!" Emma moaned into the air beyond frustrated with this whole surprise thing.
"Do you need help dear?" Regina's voice sounded out of nowhere causing Emma to jump and drop her phone and hit her head at the same time. Bending down, Regina picked up Emma's phone which thankfully switched to the lock screen when it fell and handed it back to Emma with a raised eyebrow.
"My head is fine, thanks for asking." Emma sassed as she turned back to the baby to finish strapping the seat in. "And no, I don't need help. I just remembered that we have to stop at Gold's so we can figure out how I knocked you up."
"Do we really need to do that today? I just.."
"Want to go home. Yes, I know Regina, you have been saying that all afternoon and believe me so do I but I don't want to put this off. I would much rather just get it done and over with."
"Fine, if we must." Emma turned just in time to see Regina round the car so she could get in the back with Adeline. Emma closed the back door to the Benz and got in the driver seat. Once everyone was buckled, she pulled out of the parking lot and headed towards Gold's pawn shop.
About five minutes later, they were pulling up to the shop. Both Regina and Emma quickly got out of the car, meeting on the side where Adeline lay sleeping. Regina opened the door and gently took her out of the car seat. She then turned to Emma and handed her the baby. "Your magic is working right now. If anything goes down, anything at all, I want you and her gone. Do you understand me?" Regina said in a voice that left no room for questions.
"Yeah, I understand but everything is going to be ok. I'm not going to let anything happen, I promise." Regina turned and walked into Gold's, throwing the door in her usual fashion with Emma following closely behind her.
Upon hearing the bell on his door being practically ripped off, Rumple walked out into the main room to see the savior with a baby and one very grumpy queen whose body language screamed, 'try anything and you'll die!' "Well this should be fun," he thought to himself as he meets the couple in the middle of the shop. "Well dearies to what do I …." Gold briefly trailed off upon getting closer to the two witches. He knows both of the women's magic signatures and he had sensed the great power when they entered the shop but he just figured that it was because both women's emotions were running high and playing off of each other like they do most times, but upon closer inspection he could feel that this was a new magical signature and it was coming from the baby in the Savior's arms. It was a perfect blend of both Regina and Emma which meant only one thing. "Oh my, my, my. Is that power I feel?" Upon uttering these words, Regina took a defensive step in front of Emma and practically growled in Gold's face. "Back off Gold!"
Emma trying to keep the peace and calm Regina down. She put her hand on her back while she said "Let's all calm down. We all know there is a lot of power in this room. We don't need it getting out of hand, not with a baby present, so if we could talk like adults…" Emma nodded her head looking both Gold and Regina in the eye to make sure they understood that any behavior besides a civil one will be unacceptable.
With a nod of his head, Gold gestured for them to move to the back. Once there, they took a seat around a random table. "Now what can I help with dearies?"
"What's your price gold?" Regina said knowing they were not getting information for free.
"Oh it's nothing much. I just want to hold your darling daughter." he said with a twinkle in his eye.
"On the condition you give us your dagger while you hold her. Once she is back to us, you get the dagger back. Do we have a deal?"
"Deal."
"Good, now we want to know how we made a baby together." Emma said bluntly. Everyone looking down to a still sleeping Adeline.
"I have heard of true loves conceiving a child when one or both people could not have them but all the stories that I heard of were about a man and a woman, never two women." Regina said clearly confused as to why she has never heard of this happening.
"That would be because what you and Miss Swan have is so rare that I don't even know much about it..." Gold trailed off musing to himself staring at the baby. This was causing both women to become nervous.
"And what do we have gold?" Emma said trying to get him to focus once more.
Looking up to meet first Emma's then Regina's eyes he said, "While true love is one of the most powerful magic's I know out there; there is one that is more powerful and that is the love of true soul mates."
"What, wait; what? You mean to tell me that soul mates trumps true love?"
"No, Miss Swan not soul mates, true soul mates. There is a difference. While true love makes you feel whole and complete. The bonding of two souls is so rare it"s only ever happened twice in the last ten thousand years. And you guys would be the third."
"Ok, so we are soul mates. Cool, fine, but how did we get a baby and why is she so powerful?"
"True soul mates"
"Yes sorry True Soul Mates. Whatever we are the question remains the same."
"That I don't have a clear answer for. I can only guess it had to do with when your soul bound to each other and then coupled with you being true love in person form, it must have created some really strong magic and voila, nine months later you got a baby."
With a frowned brow, Regina looked too Gold and said, "The magic you speak of sounds powerful enough to be able to feel so wouldn't we have known that something happened, that something changed?"
With this, Gold got up from the table and started to mumble to himself contemplating all the information. Suddenly, Gold turned on his heels and hobbled over to the women. Without saying a word, he put one hand on Emma's head and the other on Regina's. Both women were shocked and tried jerking back but Rumple held fast and started mumbling again. They could feel their magic start to respond to Gold's mutterings.
"What is he doing? I feel tingly." Emma asked Regina looking at her from out of the corner of her eye.
"He is trying to talk to our magic now shhh, I'm trying to listen." Regina promptly closes her eyes and after a few minutes' scrunches up her face and sighs. "Emma shut up I can't hear with you rambling over there!" Regina hissed.
"I haven't said anything since the last time you told me to shut up…What is Gold doing to us? And were you in my head because not cool man!" Emma half-heartedly whined.
"Would the both of you shut up!?"
Once everyone was quiet, Rumple was able to speak with the women's magic. Taking his hand off of the grown-ups heads, he moved his right hand to the baby's head and did the same thing he just did with the mothers but this time with much faster results only needing to have his hand on Adeline's head for a minute. Taking his hand away from the baby, he mumbled something under his breath that Regina or Emma didn't catch and turned away.
"What did you learn Gold?" Regina asked getting impatient of waiting.
"It seems that your baby is born from your souls briefly joining together. When they separated a little part of each of your souls were left behind to create your baby girl. As for not feeling the magnitude of the magic it's because your souls have not completely bonded yet. That is why we have not noticed anything different going on."
"Why didn't I know I was with child?"
"That is all your little girl. And from what I can tell has nothing to do with you and Miss Swan being soul mates."
Emma was about to ask another question when her phone beeped from inside her pocket. She took it out to see a text from Mary Margret.
MM: Hey we are ready! You can come home!
"Crap! Regina we need to go. Henry has been home alone for an hour now. He wants to know where we are." Emma lied through her teeth while she typed a quick message back to MM.
E: Ok thanks we will be on our way in a min we are at Gold's now.
"Well I guess we better get going then." Turning to Gold, Regina gave him a tight lipped smile and nod of her head for she turn and walked out of the room.
"Thank you for the information Gold and you know the deal as soon as we have the dagger, you can hold our baby." Then Emma too turned and left following Regina out to the car where they put Adeline back in her seat and got in their own.
It only took a few minutes for them to arrive at the mansion. On the outside everything looked like it did every day. Emma got out of the car and went to the trunk and got Regina's bag while Regina got the baby seat out of the car.
"Ready to go inside?" Emma asked with a smile.
"More than anything," Regina chuckled while both women walked to the door. "Under the mat is a spare." Emma bent down and retrieved the key and then put it in the lock. The door swung open and the women walked in and up the steps into the foyer….
"SURPRISE!"
Well there you go! i hope you enjoyed can't wait to hear what you thought! Until next time. ~Sam