Emma sat in the waiting room of the doctor's office, fidgeting nonstop. Normally doctor visits didn't stress her out, but she had a bad feeling in her gut about today. And her gut was never wrong.

Finally, Regina walked out to the waiting room. Emma stood up and walked quickly over to her, trying to read her face to gain an idea of what had happened.

"Let's go home," Regina said. Emma's stomach dropped at the tone of her voice. Regina sounded tired. Defeated. That couldn't be good.

"So what happened?" Emma asked as they walked out to the car.

A small smiled tugged at the edge of Regina's lips. "We need to work on your patience level."

Emma rolled her eyes before tugging on Regina's sleeve. "C'mon. I was sitting out there for a long time. Something had to have happened."

"How do you know that it wasn't just a normal visit?" Regina asked, getting into the car.

"Because you're refusing to answer my question," Emma said simply. "If it was a normal visit, I wouldn't have a bad feeling right now, and you would have answered my question already."

Regina sighed. "Sometimes it's a pain in the butt that you know me so well."

Emma laughed before starting the car. "Which means that you also know that if you don't tell me what happened, I'm just going to continue to bug you about it."

Regina smiled. "Good point."

"So?" Emma asked. "What did the doctor say?"

Regina's smile disappeared as tears gathered in her eyes. "I have pancreatic cancer."

Emma slammed on the brakes. "Emma!" Regina exclaimed. "What in the hell are you doing?" Emma didn't answer. She was staring straight ahead, clenching the steering wheel in a death-like grip. Pancreatic cancer. She could lose Regina. They had defeated so many monsters and villains, and yet cancer could be the thing to defeat them both.

"Emma," Regina said softly. "We're not that far from the house. Just drive home and then we can really talk about it."

Several beats passed before Emma slightly nodded. She took a deep breath and drove the rest of the way home. After they pulled in the driveway and shut off the car, they sat in silence.

"We should go inside," Regina suggested. Emma nodded. Neither woman moved. They had no idea what to do.

"Chemotherapy is supposed to get rid of cancer, right?" Emma asked.

Regina winced. Emma looked so hopeful, and she didn't want to ruin that. "It's too late. I have Stage 3, and it's spread too far for it to be removed by surgery. Chemo will do nothing but shrink it, not cure it. It wouldn't be worth it."

"So we just sit here and wait for you to die?" Emma asked.

Regina bit her lip and nodded. "There's nothing that anyone can do."

"What about magic?" Emma asked, perking up. "True Love fixes everything else, why couldn't it fix this?"

Regina shook her head sadly. "Magic can't fix everything."

"But it can," Emma said, tears beginning to fall. "It can. I know it can." Regina shook her head as tears began to spill from her eyes too. She reached forward and hugged Emma tightly, and they sat in the bug together, weeping for something that magic couldn't fix.

Emma walked slowly to Regina's grave, delicately placing a rose by her headstone. It had been a year since she had lost the love of her life, and it still hurt her as much as it had before.

Even though Regina had insisted that magic wouldn't cure her cancer, Emma had tried anyway. It didn't work, but Emma kept trying. Every day.

The doctors made Regina as comfortable as they could until her final days, and Emma had never left her side. Neither had Henry.

Emma reached out and traced Regina's name on her headstone. "You were right," she said softly. "Not that you wouldn't be. You were always right."

Bringing her hand to her mouth, Emma kissed her fingers before pressing her hand back on Regina's headstone. "Magic can't fix everything. Especially broken hearts."

There was a point in writing this chapter where I actually had to take a break to keep myself from crying. I think people underestimate how attached that writer's get to the characters that they write with. But, I felt like I needed to write another angst chapter, and it was Regina's turn to die since I already did Emma and Henry. Until tomorrow, my lovely readers!