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I dragged her by the arm into a chamber, pushed her full force against a shelf so that she could barely hold herself up, and screamed at her.

"You did this."

What's gotten into you, stop it, son..." she wanted to reply, but I didn't let her speak, my anger was too great.

"He's half dead because of you, he ate your apple turnover," I hissed as I pushed her against the wall. Her otherwise so upright posture, suddenly slumped and I saw deep sadness, emptiness and love in her otherwise so cold eyes.

What? It was for you," she replies.

So it's true," I stated.

I don't know what you mean," she replied.

, .. It is true... Right?... Everything?.." I asked anxiously, my voice sounding far more confident than I felt at the moment.

Tears came to her eyes and I loosened my grip for a second as I looked into her deep brown eyes that were radiating so much fear right now and she nodded.

Yes," was all she said.

I wanted to leave here, why weren't you satisfied with that?" I wanted to know almost pleadingly.

She looked me in the eyes and I believed to be able to recognize affection in her look.

I expected that she would again accuse me of wanting to take her son away from her, but instead she lowered her gaze and slumped to the floor against the wall. I knelt in front of her, gently and carefully lifted her chin so that she looked me in the eyes again and asked again, "Why?

Because... because" She looked around looking for help, although she knew exactly that she could not expect any help.

Then, faster than I could have reacted, she lifted her hand to my cheek and gently pulled me closer to her. She looked me in the eyes, waited a moment to see my reaction, which did not come, until she overcame the last distance between us and kissed me. I felt her soft lips on mine, undecided what to do now. A mixture of different feelings spread through me and I didn't know what they meant, I just knew that I didn't want her to break away from me again and so I returned her kiss passionately. My head had turned off and so my hands themselves took command, pulled Regina onto my lap, pressed her against me and stayed on her waist.

What was wrong with me, why did I no longer feel any of the anger I had just felt towards Regina? After all, she had just sent our son into an endless sleep that was actually meant for me. Probably this was happening between us only because she wanted to buy herself time. She was playing with me, driving me crazy, and she must have known that.

The bad thing about it? It worked! She drove me crazy with her touches. I don't understand why she has such an effect on me. I could only think of one logical answer to this question. But could it be?

The kiss became more demanding and I felt her tongue, which urgently brushed over my lips and asked for entrance, which I granted her after a short hesitation. Her free hand she put in my neck to also pull me even closer. My heart was racing in the meantime and also your heartbeat I could hear, I could feel and he was in no way inferior to me. Her breathing became faster, more uncontrolled and even if I would have preferred to delay it further, I detached myself from the kiss so that she could breathe again.

There I had my answer. Yes, I had fallen in love with Regina... No, not just in love. I love Regina and truly so. She kissed me again, only this time it suddenly released a kind of shock wave that I could feel, but I ignored it, just like Regina. Suddenly I hear someone calling my name. Emma?" I couldn't place the voice at first. Mom?" Suddenly I knew who had called me and at the same moment I gently pushed Regina away from me and pulled the door open. Little one? "

The moment my eyes saw Henry, I ran and took him in my arms. I'm so sorry I didn't believe you," I said in a tearful voice.

It's okay mom, now you believe me. And Mum?" he asked.

Mhh?" I replied, still holding him close to me.

You did it. Mum, you broke the curse. How did you do it?"

I had no answer to his question. I told him that I didn't know how I broke the curse and that I hadn't actually done anything until someone interrupted me with a throat clearing. I turned around and saw Regina, her eyes lowered.

, True love Emma... Henry, I'm so sorry for everything" she breathed anxiously and sadly leaning against the wall. I felt sorry for her. I wanted to take her in my arms, but waited a moment to see if Henry would not take over. Henry, however, didn't move an inch and didn't respond to anything his other mom said.

So I get up and walk towards Regina. Still in my mind that she said true love broke the curse. Could that be? Until just now I hadn't even known that I loved her and now it was supposed to be true love?

I stood in front of her and hesitated for a moment, looking for permission in her eyes. I could not interpret her look, but took the risk and pulled her gently but firmly into my arms. She tensed briefly, but then let herself fall into the embrace and even returned it. Henry looked at us in shock, but for the moment, I ignored everything around me and broke away from the embrace a bit, only to pull her into another kiss, which she also returned. I removed the doubts about true love, because until Henry ate the apple turnover and I confronted Regina, I hadn't believed in magic either. But clearly there was magic, and they say that true love is stronger than any curse...

You're right Regina, true love, I love you," I murmured against her lips. She broke away from the kiss, looked me in the eyes and said, "I love you too, Emma, from the very beginning and I'm sorry. I felt the tears slowly running down my cheeks and kissed her again. Now I felt two arms pulling at me. I reluctantly broke away from the kiss and looked at our son.

Mom, I still don't understand why the Evil Queen is the true love of the Savior, but since the curse is broken... Oh wait, now it all makes sense, true love is the strongest power on earth... You are the Savior who was supposed to bring ALL your happy ending back. You weren't supposed to defeat the Evil Queen... You should save her... And give her a happy ending too... That between you, that's your happy ending... Mom, I'm sorry. I always thought that Emma had to defeat you... Because you were the Evil Queen and I didn't realize... That you are my mom too..." our son said, which warmed my heart. He would not avoid his mother in the future and that made me happy. Regina was also very touched, took Henry in her arms and whispered: Thank you," which I could still hear. Henry broke away from the embrace after a few minutes and asked impatiently: "Can we please go home now, I'm hungry?" He looked back and forth between us in turn and grabbed a hand from each of us to pull us along. YES is good Henry, you can let us go now, we are coming," Regina said laughing, while I could clearly see the relief in her eyes that Henry no longer ignored her and accepted her as Mom again.

Henry looked at us smiling and then ran ahead. I reached for Regina's hand and intertwined it with mine. Regina said at the same moment with a smile on her face:

I love you Emma.

I love you too Regina," I replied and kissed her.

This is a really short short story, but wouldn't it have been a much nicer ending to season 1? xD