"Regina!" Emma screamed from the doorway of her daughter's bedroom.
"What's wrong?" Regina asked as she rushed towards the terrified looking blonde stood motionless looking into the baby's room.
"Look." She said, simply unable to explain what she was seeing and questioning if it was actually real or she was seeing things.
Regina rushed passed Emma and into the room. Two month old Elizabeth was lying on her back with a collection of soft toys dancing over her crib. A small smile graced the baby's tiny face as she watched the colours moving in front of her. Regina checked the baby was ok. Running her hands over the small body that seemed to distract the baby and the teddy bears fell to the bottom of her crib.
The girl's tiny bottom lip began to tremble but quickly stopped when Regina gathered the small child in her arms and kissed her head. She looked over at Emma who was looking at the baby like she was an alien, still stood motionless in the same spot. "That was new?" Regina said cautiously trying to break the tension and reassure Emma everything would be ok.
"What does it mean?" Emma asked as she walked over to Regina and placed a kiss on their daughters head. She was trying to stay calm but she was terrified. It was strange because she had magic and Regina had magic but the thought of her baby being burdened with the responsibility that it would eventually lead to terrified her. Maybe it was because she was so small, maybe it was because she felt responsible but mostly she just wanted the child to have a normal childhood like she never got.
"It means she's figured out how to use magic to get what she wants." Regina said with a small, forced, tight lip smile.
"She's two months old." Emma replied sadly. She hoped so much that the baby's magic wouldn't show until she was old enough to understand it, until her and Regina could help her deal with it.
"I know darling. At least she was just levitating teddy bears and not you or me. I know this is scary for you but she didn't seem scared at all. She was just entertaining herself."
"She could do that? Levitate me or you? " Emma said with big concerned eyes.
"I'm not sure but it is a possibility. Her magic is very strong. I just hoped it would take her longer too realise that she had it and how it worked."
"What if she hurts someone?" Emma asked the question but she already knew the answer. Magic was dangerous and unpredictable, even Regina had the occasional magical mishap and she had trained for many years.
"I don't know." Regina said not taking her eyes off the small bundle she held protectively in her arms. She didn't know the answer but she would do anything to stop that from happening.
"I didn't want this for her." Emma confessed sadly. "I wanted her to have a normal childhood. I wanted to ease her into magic by watching Harry Potter and teaching funny little tricks."
"I know darling and I did too but it's ok. We will help her. Once she gets bigger we will work with her. We will help her control her magic."
"What if she hurts someone though?"
"You can't think like that. We will deal with things as they come. I think maybe it's time we speak to Gold though."
"I think you're right."
The problem was that Gold had seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Regina had tried numerous times to contact him in person, by phone and even by locator spell but still she came up with nothing. She was sure the sadistic Imp was punishing her for sending him away.
Regina and Emma sat on the sofa with their sleeping daughter in front of them. The sleeping child looked like an angel.
Since the incident with the teddy bears a week earlier there had been a couple of incidents with levitating toys. The mothers had taken to using distraction techniques to stop the magic as soon as it started. The problem with that was she was constantly attached to one of them all the time.
It was a week later and the incidents had lessened. The parents had left their baby for the first time, it was then that they realised an intervention was needed.
Emma and Regina sat opposite Henrys teacher Mrs Potts who was singing their sons praises. Both women wore matching smiles as the woman spoke.
"He is a well-mannered and pleasant young man." The grey haired woman said with a cheerful smile.
"Thank you for saying that Mrs Potts." Regina responded with a huge smile. Taking Emma's hand in her own as pride filled her heart.
Emma was just about to speak when suddenly as if from nowhere she disappeared.
The teachers eyes were wide as were Regina's as she looked at her hand that was holding Emma's a second earlier and the empty seat next to her, the lilac smoke that resided made Regina's heart clench as the implications of what just happened resonated with her.
Regina apologised to the teacher profusely before excusing herself from the desk. She poofed herself home in an instant, where she stood in her living room. Emma was sat on the sofa, Beth attached to her breast. Emma looked confused and panicked while Snow paced the room in distress.
"What happened?" Regina asked frantically moving over to Emma to check on the feeding child and her other mother.
Emma looked to Snow for an explanation.
The Pixie haired woman looked like a deer caught in headlights as the former evil queen looked at her for answers. "I don't know. I was trying to give her a bottle but she kept refusing it. She wouldn't stop crying. I was rocking her, walking around with her and then Emma just appeared."
"I told you to call if she was distressed." Regina hissed in frustration.
"She wasn't distressed, she was hungry. Baby's cry when they're hungry I thought I had it under control." Snow replied defensively.
"Well clearly you didn't." Regina snapped angrily.
"That's not fair. You didn't tell me she could just magic her mothers with a blink of an eye. I tried my best."
Regina didn't respond to Snow, she looked the baby and Emma over before speaking to the blonde. "Are you ok?" She finally asked leaning down next to Emma and placing a hand softly against her shoulder.
"I'm fine now I have my bearings. Nine week old's don't transport as flawlessly as you do." She forced a small smile trying to lighten the situation and reassure Regina she was ok.
Regina looked down at the floor. She really didn't know what to do to make things better. She hated not being in control and at that moment in time she felt she was losing control of everything. She looked up at Snow with a sorry smile.
"Snow I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you. I was scared and I over reacted, I'm sorry for shouting. We should have made you aware of the baby's magic. She's only ever moved cuddly toys before. I didn't think she would be capable of transporting Emma."
"It's ok. What are you going to do?" She asked in a small voice.
"I really don't know." Regina said honestly. She knew she needed to do something to stop the baby's magic but restricting her daughter like that really didn't sit well with her.
The parents sat in the waiting room at the hospital, a sleeping baby against Regina's chest. Beth had been fed, burped, changed and cuddled all morning before her check up in the hope that she wouldn't cause any trouble at the hospital.
"Elizabeth Swan Mills?" The cheerful nurse smiled as she called the family.
They sat and answered all the questions the woman asked about feeding, bowel movement and sleep, before the woman asked if she could examine the baby.
Regina lay her small baby on the big hospital bed and was relieved to see she was still asleep when she looked down at her.
The nurse poked and prodded the still sleeping baby. Lifting tiny arms and legs and monitoring the baby's reflexes.
Emma had to look away, she was terrified that the baby would wake up and fireball the smiley nurse in annoyance at being poked and prodded whilst she slept.
Once the checks were completed the nurse said "thank you," and motioned for Regina to retrieve the child.
Emma sat next to Regina at the desk facing the woman who seemed to be making notes. The blonde played with the zipper on her jacket nervously "So is everything ok?" She asked unable to wait any longer to hear the answers.
"Everything is as it should be. She is meeting all of her milestones. Her reflexes are all great."
"She's a little angel isn't she? They very rarely sleep through all the checks. You've got yourself a good one there."
Emma barely spoke on the drive home and Regina gave her the quiet time she seemingly needed.
Once home Emma made lunch while Regina played with their now very awake daughter. She stood on the doorway watching the two of them giggling and smiling as Regina blew raspberries against the baby's belly. She watched them in awe; they both looked so happy, so content with one another. It wiped the sad frown from her face and replaced it with a big genuine smile. So much of their daughter's future was uncertain and that terrified her, but they had one another and that was all that mattered, together they could overcome anything like they always did.
Emma was so lost in thought she didn't even notice Regina approach until she felt soft lips connect with her cheek.
"Are you ok?"
"I am now. I'm sorry I've been so freaked out by all this."
"That's ok. It's a lot to take in."
"You do it so easily though."
"I'm terrified too but I know that together we will deal with this. We can do and we will do." Regina hugged the blonde closely to her body careful to not squash the girl between them. There was a small squeal that made both women smile.
"She agrees with me." Regina said with a smile.
"So do I." Emma said happily. "Together we get sh… stuff done."
The woman's lips met momentarily for a soft and promising kiss. The kiss remained unbroken until squeals from the baby told them to break it up.
After lunch Regina had to go to work, so Emma and Beth spent the afternoon playing and watching trashy television.
"Please don't tell your Mommy I let you watch this crap." Emma said to the baby sat on her bouncer chair in front of her. "Or that I cursed in front of you."
After a feed and lots of cuddles the pair strolled down Main Street, Emma wearing the baby in a baby carrier. The girl was wide awake and alert and Emma took the opportunity to take her on a full tour of the town.
They sat on the benches by the pier "this is where I think I realised that me and your Mommy could be friends, although I secretly wanted more, maybe all along."
They stood in the spot that Emma's car had been clamped. "Right back when I first came to town your mommy had my car clamped here, all the while telling me to leave town. See she never really wanted me to leave right?" Emma looked down at the baby for an answer. When she kicked and squealed she took that as Beth agreeing.
As they approached Emma's old house an overwhelming sadness hit the blonde. "This wasn't the happiest of houses for me. Your mom came and called me out on my bullshit when I was going through a really… Dark phase shall we say. She's good at that you see. She's gets me and I get her."
Emma wasn't sure why she was crying it was a mixture of happiness and sadness she supposed. How things had changed in such a small amount of time.
The next thing she knew Regina was stood on front of her, her phone to her ear and a pile of papers in her hands, a startled expression across her face as she realised where she was.
"Are you ok?" Regina asked as she saw Emma's tears, the fact that she had just been transported across town soon forgotten when she saw Emma's tear streaked face.
"I'm fine. Happy tears." Emma said with a smile.
"Did she transport you here?" Emma asked nervously already knowing the answer.
"She did. She must have thought you needed me." Regina said softly.
"I'm sorry we were just out for a walk and I thought I'd show her some of the important spots in town."
"It's ok Emma. Come here." Regina opened her arms and the blonde stepped in.
Regina hugged the blonde as much as she was able to with her papers in one hand and phone in the other. They heard a content sigh from the baby between them and both laughed at the craziness of the situation.
"I know it's selfish, but I'm glad she brought you here." Emma confessed sheepishly.
"Me too, although it's a long walk back in heals." Regina said with a small laugh.
"Why don't you poof back?"
"I'm sure you remember what it felt like to be transported by this little princess' magic. I have no desire to experience that again anytime soon."
Emma knew exactly what Regina meant. Beth really needed to work on her transporting skills. "We will walk you back."
"I'd like that." Regina said with a smile.
Side by side the women walked back to Regina's office hand in hand. They really needed to speak to Gold and soon.
Thank you so much for the continued comments and support. I've struggled writing this past week so that's why there was only once chapter.
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