Hello everyone! Thank you for the support so far, thank you all for reading I really appreciate it! :) And this new story is soooo not what I planned to do at first. But that idea went to the trash because of technicalities and I had to come up with something entirely different and this is what happened... Hope you'll like it! :)

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SWAN QUEEN WEEK

Day 6- Act of True Love

Every time an act of True Love is done, your heart gets lighter just a bit, the lightness collecting and balancing out the darkness in you. People who have more lightness in their heart are usually more cheerful and carefree afterwards, the light in them making them feel good.

But with Emma Swan it was a bit different. Her chest was feeling like it was expanding with each passing day, feeling like her heart was getting bigger and heavier and after a while it was uncomfortable. At times she could even swear she saw her chest sparkle or light up or whatever and it was totally freaking her out. Because she had absolutely no idea why it was happening or what it meant. She still didn't know much about magic or true love. She only knew about True Love's Kiss and it's ability to break any curse. She was still learning a lot and trying out her powers, and really this thing about hearts getting lighter wasn't really common knowledge even back in the Enchanted Forest. There were barely a few people who ever felt more than the usual effects.

She knew it couldn't be a simple health issue, not with feeling like her magic was bubbling out of her too so she asked Regina about it one afternoon they were sitting together in the backyard of the mansion.

"You know that feeling when you've eaten a whole bunch of lot and you're just so full you feel like you're going to burst out any minute?" she asked from Regina, who narrowed her eyebrows and wrinkled her nose in an adorable way.

"Not really, I have this thing called self-control, Emma." she said with a smirk and the blonde rolled her eyes with a sigh. "Why?"

"I feel this funny thing in my chest..."

"Is this your way of telling me you have a heartburn from my homemade enchiladas? Because I told you not to eat that second helping..." she shook her head.

"No, no... not like that. Like literally in my chest. Like my heart is... About to explode?" Emma said uncertainly, not really knowing how to explain.

"Have you seen a doctor about it, dear? Maybe it's a heart condition...you should get it checked." Regina suggested, the evident worry in her voice making Emma's already swelled heart flutter.

"Yeah, maybe I will." she nodded but her mind was already wondering who might be able to help her case. She knew for sure that it wasn't a doctor from the hospital. She needed someone magical, someone who knew a lot and who could be trusted with her heart. She wasn't very superstitious or anything but if she had learned only one thing during her years in town, it was that your heart was more important than you ever thought. She shuddered to think of a possibility of her heart literally getting into the wrong hands...

And that was how after some more consideration overnight, the next day she knocked on the convent's door, where the fairies lived. A brown-haired woman opened the door and greeted her with a welcoming smile.

"Hello, may I help you?" she asked.

"Yes, I came to see the Blue Fairy." Emma said, feeling a bit awkward.

"Emma, good morning." came Blue's voice immediately from behind them and the blonde looked up at her in surprise. "Your magic is very powerful, I felt your presence before you even knocked." Blue explained. "How can I help?"

"I..have a question, of the magical sorts..." Emma started hesitantly.

"Of course, please come and sit." Blue smiled widely, ushering her into a sitting room. "What is it you wanted to ask about?"

"I wonder if you know why I sometimes feel like... like my heart is too big or heavy for my chest. At times I think it even...glows or something. I know it sounds crazy but..." Emma rambled expecting the fairy to tell her to go see a doctor as well but instead Blue just smiled and shook her head.

"Not at all. If this is what I strongly believe it is then it's a rather uncommon but entirely possible thing." Blue told her and she waved her hand in the air, making a wand appear.

"What do you mean?" Emma asked in confusion.

"Whenever you act out of True Love, your heart gets lighter. For most people it's just evening out the darkness, or maybe making them feel cheerful but it seems like, Emma, that your heart is overflowing with Acts of True Love."

"I-I don't understand... I haven't broken any curses recently or anything." Emma muttered.

"No, you see, an Act of True Love can be more than just True Love's Kiss, though that is the most well-known... an Act of True Love can be almost anything, Emma. As long as it's done out of love, pure love for the other person. It's hard to explain, I'd rather show you if you'll allow..." Blue suggested and Emma just nodded, feeling a bit nervous. "Don't worry, it's nothing painful or dangerous, Emma." the woman smiled reassuringly, sensing the blonde's discomfort. "Alright, there we go." Blue murmured and pointed the wand towards Emma's chest and pulled it in front of her heart in seemingly abstract patterns.

Rays of light magic shot out from Emma, forming several differently sized little bubbles in front of her, hovering in the air. Two stood out, bigger than all the other ones.

"These are the most important of your acts of true love. The ones that are filled with the most love." Blue explained.

One of them was of Henry laying in a hospital bed and Emma leaning above him to kiss his forehead. The kiss of true love that broke the curse, she remembered perfectly well.

The second was at first just a big swirling mess of black until she saw Regina in the middle and she realized instantly that this was when she took on the Dark One to save the brunette from it.

"And these are your recent Acts of True love, Emma." Blue murmured, swirling the bubbles around a bit for Emma to see new ones but she wasn't paying much attention, her eyes were fixed on the bubbles and the images inside them. They looked like little scenes from a movie, scenes from her life... She leaned forward to see them better, her hand hovering over some of them as she moved to touch them then thought better of it.

There was her and Regina watching Grease, a movie Emma herself hated with all she had but the brunette really wanted to see it. She remembered she almost fell asleep by the end of it but hearing the brunette hum along to the songs and seeing the grin on her face when the end credits rolled made it all worth it.

Then in another one, Emma was piling all her olives onto Regina's plate while dinner. Once Regina told her about her love for the vegetables and ever since Emma pretended to hate them so she could give hers to the other woman.

There was one with her punching Robin Hood in the face.

Then another one of her standing in front of Regina in an almost protective stance and yelling at a man from town. If she remembered correctly the man was giving Regina a hard time because of her past evil deeds.

There was one of her covering the brunette with a blanket when she fell asleep on the couch. Emma felt a warm flutter in her chest when she saw herself lean down and press a kiss to Regina's temple.

There were quite a few with Henry and Regina and her in it as well. Her giving them the first pieces of steak when they did barbecue. Her showing up with a huge box of ice cream at the mansion after Henry's soccer team had lost the game.

"These are acts of true love? They seem so ordinary..." Emma muttered in awe.

"Yes, well it can be something very casual too. Something that would otherwise be simply called a considerate or thoughtful act." Blue said, her eyes on the little balls as well and there was a mysterious smile hiding in the corners of her mouth.

"Then why are these different?" Emma asked.

"Not every kiss is a True Love's Kiss, Emma... just like that, not every considerate thing is an Act of True Love. It depends on the intensity of your feelings for a certain person."

"So what is wrong with me? Why is it uncomfortable?" Emma worried her lower lip between her teeth as her eyes lingered over a bubble showing her laying down in bed next to to a very sick Regina. She remembered clearly, the brunette managed to catch some nasty stomach flu and she protested weakly when Emma refused to her alone after finding out about the brunette's fever induced nightmares, despite the fact that she would surely get infected as well.

"Your heart was already full of light magic so now the lightness is built up in your heart and it seems to me it doesn't have an outlet. You do these things without noticing, without realizing it's true love and so your love, your lightness gets repressed."

"So what you're saying is, in order to get rid of some..." she trailed off, not exactly sure what the fairy was implying.

"You have to actually act on your true love, Emma." Blue smiled. "Your have so much unfulfilled love in you, Emma, it wants you to take measures."

"I don't understand... I have built up lightness in me because of my acts of true love and the only way to get rid of it is acting on my love?" Emma scowled, trying and failing to wrap her mind around the idea. "How am I supposed to do that?"

"Well... I don't wish to tell you what to do, but... I see that quite a lot of these acts are for Mayor Mills. Maybe you should... consider talking to her about your feelings." Blue suggested gently.

"My feelings?" Emma asked back. "Regina is my friend, that's all."

"Oh... " Blue sighed knowingly.

"What oh?" Emma was starting to get angry know. She knew Blue was doing her a favor but it annoyed her that the fairy seemed to get something, see a connection that she didn't.

"You're in denial, that's the oh, Emma. You don't allow yourself to admit your feelings and that is why your love feels like it is practically bursting out of you..." Blue explained.

"I'm not..." Emma started protesting but Blue just drew her hand over the little bubbles, making them disappear. "Where did you put..." she asked but then she paused because another set of bubbles appeared, these having a different color. "What are these?" Emma asked, not recognizing any of them as things she did.

"These are the desires of your heart..." Blue murmured and Emma noticed that she subtly averted her eyes, not looking at the bubbles. She was glad for the privacy because as she looked at the bubbles again she saw things she never would have expected.

She saw herself and Regina on two sides of a table with a candlelit dinner, laughing softly together.

In another one she saw Henry and Regina and herself walking down the street towards Granny's, the picture of a perfect family. She noticed she and the brunette had their fingers entwined.

Then there was one of just Regina's face, beaming at her with sparkling eyes so full of adoration that it almost hurt to look away from.

Then she felt a crimson flush appear on her face when she looked at the next one, it was of the two of them, curled together on the couch and heavily making out. As she watched that one play out for a long moment she saw that eventually they pulled away and just snuggled close, a content, soft smile on both of their faces.

"I..." Emma stuttered, tearing her eyes away from the bubbles. "I think I should go...Thank you, Blue." she murmured, feeling like her emotions were swirling inside her like the bubbles did in front of her minutes ago. But most of all she was utterly confused and she wanted some time to think.

Blue nodded and waved with the wand again, making the balls disappear completely.

"Of course, Emma. I hope I could help." the fairy nodded and followed her to the door. "Emma?" she called after her and the blonde looked back. "Trust your heart, I never lies." she smiled then closed the door.

That night, after a very long walk on the beach Emma knocked on the door of the mayoral mansion with her heart fluttering madly, feeling like it was thumping in her throat.

"Emma! Hello!" Regina greeted her with a smile. "Come in." she stepped aside but all the blonde could do was stare at her.

It was like she was finally seeing her for the first time, she watched the lights of the setting sun play on the dark locks of Regina, marveled over the contours of her face, so soft and elegant yet so strong. The depth of her eyes, it was like she could see into the very soul of this beautiful woman in front of her. How could she missed all the signs before, she didn't know. All she was sure of that now that she saw she couldn't unsee it, she couldn't act like she wasn't madly, deeply, impossibly and irreversibly in love with Regina Mills.

"Emma? What's wrong?" Regina asked, worry settling on her face as she moved closer to the blonde. "What is it? Have you been to the doctor? What did he say?" she asked, questions falling from her lips one after the other but Emma barely heard them.

"I haven't been to the doctor, Regina..." she said with a smile.

"No? But you said you'd go. I'm worried, Emma, what if there's something wrong with your heart? It's better to know in time, maybe you need treatment..."

"I know exactly what was wrong with my heart. And there's only one treatment for it." Emma said, stepping up to the brunette and letting her fingers trace Regina's arm as she slowly ran them up to cup her cheek.

"What is it? Emma...?" Regina asked, eyes widening, voice coming out a bit breathless as she felt the blonde's touch on her.

"This." Emma whispered before she pressed her lips onto Regina's, kissing her with all the love that was in her heart. She heard Regina's surprised gasp right before the brunette kissed her back just as fervently and that was when a flash of magic exploded from them, leaving little sizzle like flutters in the air around them as they continued kissing, Emma letting out a relieved sigh of happiness as she felt her heart getting back to it's normal state with the difference that it was hammering away wildly in her chest. But that was okay because she knew she would have the same problem about acts of true love as before. Kissing Regina seemed to be the most perfect outlet for the love in her and she intended to use it as often as possible. And judging by the way the brunette was clutching at her, pulling her closer as if she couldn't get enough of Emma, Regina wouldn't have any objections either.

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