Emma's whole body shook violently as she wretched into the toilet. She knelt next to the toilet bringing a shaking hand to her clammy head as she tied the hair band from around her wrist into her hair. She took a few deep breaths to try and regain some composure before grabbing the bathroom sink for leverage as she pulled herself up from the floor.

She was distracted by the knock on the front door. She looked at herself in the bathroom mirror, her face was pale, dark circles evident under her eyes. She wore an oversized grey hoodie that was ripped due to its excessive wear and an old pair of jogging pants. She looked a mess but she really didn't care. She took her time to wash her face and brush her teeth in the hope that whoever was knocking at the door would be gone by the time she got to the door. She was tempted to ignore it all together but if it was her mother she knew she would get numerous calls to follow if she tried to ignore her.

At least 10 minutes had passed by the time Emma had made it downstairs. She was convinced that whoever it was had left until a more assertive knock rang in her ears.

"Great" She mumbled to herself as she made her way over to the door. She opened the door slightly hoping to get rid of whoever stood on the other side of it. She was expecting to see her mother on the other side and she couldn't deal with her sad face today. She really couldn't.

"Great you're alive!" Regina said when Emma finally opened the door.

"What do you want?" was Emma's abrupt reply.

"I just wanted to see how you are." Regina's voice softened.

"I'm fine" Emma replied firmly, her face saying the complete opposite.

"Ok… Can I come in?" the brunette asked cautiously.

"Now's not a great time Regina"

"I made bear claws" Regina said with a hopeful smile lifting the tupperware up into Emma's view.

Emma's smiled a little. Regina was really trying but she had no desire to be around anyone.

"So can I come in or not?" the brunette tried again.

"Do you have too?" Emma asked with a straight face.

"No I guess not. If you don't want me here I will leave, but I'd really like it if you let me in, just for a little while. I just want to know you're ok."

Emma pondered her options for a while. She didn't really want to let Regina in but she could tell by her voice how much she wanted to be invited in and the woman had gone to the trouble of making her favourite food item.

"I suppose you could come in for a little while" Emma replied as she reluctantly opened the door wider to let Regina in.

Regina stepped into the house and followed Emma into the kitchen placing the tupperware on the kitchen counter top.

"Can I get you a drink?" Emma asked as if on autopilot.

"Coffee please" Regina answered with a smile.

"Go take a seat in the living room I'll be with you shortly."

Regina stepped into the living room and wasn't at all surprised to see it in a mess.

There was a pillow and duvet on one sofa that looked like it had been made into a cocoon. So she took a seat on the opposite sofa after moving a dirty sock and another discarded blanket to one side. Regina looked around the room at the mess, discarded chocolate and sweet wrappers covering the coffee table along with a few empty cans of soda.

Emma handed a mug of coffee over to Regina and put a can of soda onto the already full coffee table. She grabbed as many wrappers and cans that she could before throwing them into the kitchen bin. On returning to the living room she moved the items next to Regina on the sofa and threw them to one side, before removing the blanket and pillow from her own sofa.

Regina made no comment waiting for the blonde to speak up.

After a few minutes tidying up Emma spoke to Regina with an empty expression "Sorry about the mess" she said with a small shrug before taking a sofa opposite the brunette.

"No need to apologise" Regina replied, the mess the last thing on her mind. "Are you sick?" Regina asked nervously.

"I'm fine" came Emma's weak reply.

"Emma" Regina spoke softly "I don't mean to pry but I'm worried about you. You don't look fine." the concern evident in her voice. She spoke to Emma like she would speak to a timid child.

"I'm fine Regina…"

"I don't believe you" the brunette replied honesty, afraid that she would be thrown out but too scared not the address the issue.

"You have no right to come into my home and call me a liar" Emma's voice rose as she spoke, cracking as she spoke her last word, anger evident.

"I do when you lie to me. We don't do that… we don't lie to each other"

"I'm not lying!" Emma tried again.

"don't do that!, don't do that to me! We are past that. We are on the same team." she pleaded desperately with the blonde woman.

"I don't mean too, I just can't…" Emma's voice was low and she had tucked her legs under herself and wrapped her arms around herself protectively.

"Then tell me" Regina encouraged softly. She sat on the edge of the sofa desperate to go and offer the other woman some form of comfort.

"I can't, I'm scared" Emma's voice was weak and she was rocking herself like a small child.

"There's nothing to be scared of. I'm here to help you" Regina said as she walked over to Emma unable to watch the woman without offering some sort of comfort, she sat on the sofa next to her. She looked at Emma and placed hand gently on the blonde's shoulder rubbing it softly.

"I want to tell you, I do but once I say it aloud its real and I'm not sure how to deal with it when it's real"

"We can deal with it together; I'm here for you, your parents and Henry. We are all here for you" what Regina told Emma was the truth she'd be here to support the blonde no matter would, as would the rest of her family.

"They can't know. No one can know" Emma said her face still focusing on nothing, avoiding making eye contact with Regina.

"What happened with hook?" Regina asked while continuing to stoke the blonde woman's arm.

"He left… I told him and he left." Emma looked up at the brunette finally, there eyes met and her tears streamed down her face.

"Told him what?" Regina asked nervously. Not sure she really wanted to know the answer, but desperate to help the other woman.

"That I'm pregnant!" Emma said as she fell against Regina's and cried openly. Sobs, almost small screams escaped her lips as she clung to the other woman desperately.

Regina opened her arms and wrapped them protectively around the woman's small frame and rocked her soothingly. "Everything will be ok. I promise you, everything will be ok." She repeated the sentence over and over not sure if she was trying to reassure Emma or herself.

Emma's only response was to cling to Regina tighter as her tears fell freely.

I know the chapters are really short at the minute but once the story gets going the chapter lengh will increase. Thanks for reading and comments :-)