Chapter 2
"Regina, wake up." Regina felt harsh hands dragging her out of bed as Emma started to push her somewhere.
"What are you doing Miss Swan," Regina said still dazed, sure she was about to be kicked out.
"You stink; you have been here for almost three days and haven't showered. That is gross; get in the shower, Henry is feeling much better. Here are some of my cloths. He will be alive when you get out I promise." With that, Emma slammed the door and walked to the kitchen to start making everyone breakfast. Breakfast was getting cereal and milk out. Regina stood in the bathroom completely stunned. This was the last thing on earth Regina ever though would happen, Emma Swan questioning her hygiene.
"Hell has officially frozen over; if this isn't rock bottom I don't know what is." Regina said rubbing her eyes and shaking her head.
When she emerged from the bathroom twenty minutes later Henry and Emma both stared at her. Henry giggled at seeing her dressed in skinny jeans and a black tank top. Emma smiled because even though Regina should have looked ridiculous, she came out and owned it. Only Regina could pull off Emma's look better than Emma could.
"So since today is Saturday and Gramps is covering Mom's shift, we should have movie day all day." Henry said eating cereal like he had never eaten food before.
"Slow down, you will make yourself sick again." Regain said taking a few bites of her cereal. Henry slowed down and then looked at both his moms. He gave them his best puppy dog eyes.
"It sounds like fun, not too stressful for Henry." Emma said looking down at her bowel.
"Great it's settled," Henry yelled grabbing Regina's hand and then Emma's and pulling them into the living room. He made them sit down, put a DVD in and then plopped down in-between them.
"This isn't a movie, what is this." Regina said looking at the screen.
"Legend of the seeker, it's amazing and Emma's favorite." Henry said to Regina. Regina just raised her eye brow but didn't say anything else. They almost watched all of the first season in one day. Stopping only to grab food from the fridge and rushing back to the couch. Henry ended up lying down on the floor. Regina and Emma sat as far away from each other as they could get on the sofa. Emma noticed Regina couldn't take her eyes off the screen. Emma couldn't stop watching Regina. Another side of Regina, Emma had never seen. Regina was almost acting like a kid. Emma though to herself,' I could get used to Regina acting like a normal human. Too bad this can't last forever.'
"You have the same super power as the Confessors, Emma." Regina said pulling Emma out of her thoughts.
"I can't confess people Regina." Emma said rolling her eyes.
"No, the fact that you can tell when people are lying, how do you know you couldn't confess someone. We were in a land without magic, have you ever tried. What an amazing power that would be." Regina said without taking her eyes off the screen.
"Ok that's scary, just stop." Emma said shaking her head. Emma could only image the damage Regina do with a power like that. Oh wait she used to rip people's hearts out, Emma though.
"Mom it would be so cool if you could do that. Plus you're a child of true love. So that practically makes you a confessor because that's pretty much their power, true love." Henry added his two cents from the floor.
"You know I never saw myself like that. Besides it's not cool, it forces people to become your slave, kind of like ripping their heart out, it's basically the same thing." That must be why Regina likes it so much. Emma though. "I always liked the Mord-Sith, personally. Richard and Kahlan are cute but they remind me too much of Snow and Charming. I always like the interaction between Cara and well pretty much everyone instead." Emma said with a shrug.
"What's a Mord-Sith and who is Cara," Regina said looking over to Emma then down to their son.
"You'll see" they both said together.
"Mom if Emma's a confessor then your differently a Mord-Sith." Henry said looking up smiling at his mom.
"Is that an evil queen jab?" Regina whispered to Emma. Regina started to fidget and looked like she was about to get up and Emma grabbed her hand.
"No not really just watch. A confessor's worst Enemy is a Mord-Sith. In the show a Confessor and a Mord-Sith become best friends." Emma said unsure of how to respond. Emma did not let Regina's hand go and Regina made no effort to remove it ether. The trio did not make it to the second season. They all passed out shortly after in the living room.
Emma woke up with a sleeping Regina, leaning her head on her shoulder. Emma's whole body hurt from being in the same siting position all night. All she could think about was how close Regina was too her and even though her muscles were screaming she really did not want to move. Then Henry sat up and jumped on his moms, causing Regina to wake up and smile down at him. Regina then surprised Emma even more when she started to tickle their son. Laughing and practically wrestling with the kid. Emma could not believe she was the same person that was fighting with in the Kitchen a few nights ago. Then again, she never saw them like that.
Before all Emma ever saw, was a cold angry woman trying so hard to hide everything from the outside world and a little boy who wanted to be believed. Emma hated Regina lying about everything but she understood why she did.
Emma felt guilty that she had been keeping the two apart. Especially since she knew how much it hurt her when Regina wouldn't let her see Henry. She justified it with the simple fact that Regina was evil and destroyed her life.
A knocking on the door shattered their happy moment. Emma got up to see who could possibly be at her apartment so early.
"I came to check on Henry, haven't heard from you guys in a few days and was worried."
"I called you Friday, after the Dr.'s appointment to tell you it was just flu." Emma said as Snow was moving past her to get into the apartment. Snow stopped dead in her tracks when she seen Henry and Regina sitting on the couch together.
"What the hell she is doing here, we all agreed she shouldn't be anywhere near Henry for his own safety. You have no idea what she is capable of."
"Didn't David tell you, I came over because Henry asked for me while he was sick?" Regina said cool calm mask in place. The loving mother that was there only a few moments ago was gone. She was replaced with the evil snarky bitch that Emma new all too well.
"That was four days ago, and it doesn't explain why you are wearing my daughters clothing."
"Henry is still a little under the weather and he wanted his mom here, no big deal." Emma said scratching the back of her head.
"You're his mother not her." Snow said looking at Emma
"No he has two mothers, and like it or not she has taken care of him for ten years and knows everything about him. I almost gave him something he was allergic to. Who knows what could have happened to him. She may be your worst enemy and probably mine too but she is his mom. Henry wants her here so she can stay for as long as he needs her." Emma said taking a deep breath.
"She has no right to see, him. This is all just a trick to hurt my family and I won't let it happen." Snow said moving to grab Regina but Emma stepped in front of her.
"She isn't going to hurt him, she may have tried to kill you and me, and you again, but she would never deliberately hurt him."
"Poison pastry."
"Again, she is horrible and evil and I never argued that, but it was meant of me. As much as I hate to say it she really loves him." Emma said looking down at her son and his mother.
"You know it's her fault our family was destroyed, she kept you from me for twenty eight years."
"Same old song and dance, Snow haven't you said that a hundred times now, along with that crap about always finding each other." Regina said sarcastically getting up from the sofa.
"Be quiet," Emma, said pointing at Regina and then she turned to Snow. "Did she tell you to put me in the wardrobe?"
"You know what happened, the evil queen threatened to take away everyone's happiness. We did it for the greater good. We sacrificed everything for you. You know that, we loved you so much."
"I know why you did it, and I'm not talking about that, it's Gold's fault. He made up the whole thing and destroyed everyone's happiness. She was a pawn just like me."
"She made those choices, Emma she didn't have to become the evil queen. She could have become someone like you but instead, she decided to make everyone pay. She made a choice to be evil. You had a very similar life and yet you did not become what she did. ."
"She isn't the evil queen anymore, and I'm going to let her see Henry."
"Emma, don't let her play you. She is evil, there is no love left in her heart. She will do nothing but hurt our family and I am not going to let that happen. You have to trust that sometimes I know what is best when it comes to that woman. "
"She is Henry's mother, and she took care of him when I couldn't. Henry is smart and a wonderful person because of her. If there was no love left for him she wouldn't fight me so hard to keep him. Don't take this the wrong way but when I was a kid I would have given anything for a mother like that."
"It's her fault you never got to have a mother. She only fights with you because she enjoys seeing you miserable. She doesn't care about Henry."
"Regina was his mother when I was way too screwed up to be. She deserves to have him in her life. Regina cares about Henry as much as you care about me. So maybe you guys can find a middle ground."
"That's never going to happen." Regina said behind Emma
"See, she can't change, I have given her plenty of chances."
"What really happen between you?" Emma said looking between the two.
"I told you when we were in fairy tale land. I told Cora something I shouldn't have and it got Regina's true love killed."
"Daniel." Henry said out of Now where.
"You told him," Snow said looking at Regina like she was going to hit her.
"No, Dr. Whale is really Frankenstein and he brought him back to life. He tried to kill me so mom and gramps stopped him." Henry said.
"What." Emma and Snow said at the same time.
"Yeah, a lot of things happened while you two were away."
"Why in the world would you curse Frankenstein?" Emma said being ignored by everyone.
"Wait, Cora crushed his heart."
"Whale gave him one in the vault." Henry said
"Ok so he tried to kill you." Snow said, looking confused at Henry.
"Yeah, but then Mom and Gramps came, and Gramps pulled me away from them, and Mom cast a spell that killed him." Henry said looking at all three of them surprised that they had not talked about it before. Then he felt bad because Regina looked like she was going to cry at the mention of his name.
"You cursed Frankenstein." Emma said again pacing up and down. Everyone continued to ignore her commits.
"You did that for Henry." Snow sat on the sofa, a look a pure shock on her face.
"I didn't do anything, just removed the spell to preserve his body." Regina said sitting down next to Snow.
"Wow, he was your true love." Snow said
"You would have done it for Emma." Regina whispered.
"Is anybody going to tell me why in the world you curse Frankenstein?" Emma was yelling now.
"Because she cursed everyone who had a part in making her become the evil queen." Henry said looking surprised that Emma hadn't figured it out yet.
"So what did Frankenstein do?" Emma said looking a Regina.
"I don't want to talk about it." Regina said crossing her arms over her chest.
"Really it's one thing to curse people in fairy tale land now you're cursing mad Dr.'s." Emma said hardly believing what she had heard.
"Let's just say Frankenstein helped to create more than one monster."
"Really that's all you're going to say, gee Regina, thank you for making that so perfectly clear." Emma said dramatically.
"Really it's not hard to figure out mom is taking about herself." Henry said shaking his head. Great now the kid is making me feel dumb. Emma though, He really is that witch's kid.
"It's really very simple, he helped Gold manipulate me that's all. It was too late by the time I knew what they had done. So I had to punish him along with everyone else." Regina said rolling her eyes and trying her best to look like she didn't care.
"So that doesn't explain what he did to you." Emma said
"Does it really matter, it's in the past." Regina said looking almost defeated.
"It matters to me." Emma said
"Why." Regina said looking at the floor.
"I just don't understand how someone, turns into…" Emma was cut short.
"A monster." Snow finishes
"It's surprisingly easier than you think." Regina said with an audible sigh.
"Years of abuse, being told daily you are an unworthy daughter. Throw in a betrayal from someone after you saved her life. See your true loves heart crushed in front of you. Add some soul poisoning magic and a weird little imp man that has owned you since birth. Who repeatedly crushes your spirit, and rips apart your dreams. Did I leave something out, seeing the one person you blame for everything every day. Forced to stay in a loveless marriage with another person who feels you are unworthy. Until you finally go completely crazy. "
"I didn't know she killed him then, you said he ran away. Why did you wait so long to tell me the truth? I always thought it was because I was prettier than you were. You waited until I was about to eat the poison apple to tell me the truth." Snow yelled. Everyone turn to see Emma suppressing a giggle.
"You think that this is funny Miss Swan."
"Nothing, keep going."
"It's really not funny Miss Swan."
"It's kind of funny; I can't believe Sn-Mom though she was the prettiest." Emma could not help it she was laughing, Snow just glared at her. Then Emma released what she said and how it sounded. Snow, Henry and Regina decided to ignore her and continued their conversation. "I mean your both pretty but come on… I mean… I would be annoyed to if that is the only reason you thought I was angry. I was not saying that Regina is pretty or anything like that. I was merely stating that… it um… would also…" Emma said tripping over her words, no one cared, and they continued to pretend as if she was not in the room.
"I couldn't tell a child that. I wasn't a monster yet." Regina said looking away from Snow.
"You saved Grandma." Henry said looking confused for the first time.
"Yeah she did, when I was a few years older than you. I was trying to ride a horse and my horse took off nearly killing me but Regina saved me. You always could ride better than anyone else could. " Snow smiled at the memory. Regina just rolled her eyes.
"Who would ever believe you would be the person to teach me never to give up. Always get back up on that horse Snow." Snow said shaking her head.
"Regina saved you." Emma said with an open mouth, happy no one seemed to pay any attention to her rant.
"Yeah, and she taught me the meaning of true love, and pure hate," Snow said.
"Too bad it cost me everything." Regina said flatly.
"She tricked me, I was only a child, and I had no idea what she was capable of then." Snow yelled.
"You made me a promise not to tell anyone about Daniel. You broke that and she killed him."
"Mom, Cora killed him, not Grandma, Cora." Henry said grabbing Regina's face and looking her dead in the eyes.
"It was all her fault." Regina said shaking her head.
"Would you hate me if I did that?" Henry said not taking his hands away from Regina.
"I could never hate you. It's just…" Regina was at a loss for words for the first time in a long time. Regina got up and started to leave, but Emma stopped her. Emma wrapped her arms around Regina and hugged her. Regina crumbled in her arms down to the ground, tears flowing freely. Emma just continued to hold her while she cried, and Henry came over and his mom's pulled him down into their embrace. Snow sat on the sofa looking, shocked, scared, and disgusted. Then Snow got up and left, shaking her head. No one tried to stop her. Emma cell phone went off fifteen minutes later.
"That was David, saying I probably better take today off." Emma said looking down at Regina and Henry on the floor.
"Come on." she said pulling Regina to her feet and over to the couch. Regina sat down and put her head on Emma's shoulder and continued to cry. Emma put her arm around her shoulder. Henry sat down next to Regina and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Mom I never stopped loving you, I just didn't want you to hurt people anymore. And I am so proud of you for at least trying. I'm so sorry I hurt you, I guess I forgot even you have feelings. It has been a long time since I have seen anything from you but indifference. " Henry said
"Henry I told you no matter what anyone tells you will always I love you." Regina said looking down at him wiping her tears away.
"I know where having a moment but what eleven year old uses that word." Emma said shaking her head.
"I am not an idiot; you should know that by now." Henry said looking up at Emma.
"I know but sometimes I can't even believe you're my kid." Emma said looking back down at Henry. Regina then looked at Emma and shook her head.
"Let me guess it's because he's not my kid he's your son." Emma said looking at Regina.
"No, Emma he's our son, plus your mother taught him that word not me." Regina said to a stunted Emma.
"Our son huh," Emma said tightening her grip on Regina's shoulder. Emma smiled down at Regina whose head was still on her shoulder. She looked into to Regina's eyes. They were so dark after crying, they looked almost black. She had never seen Regina look so vulnerable. Emma lost herself in the black pools. Emma admitted to thinking her enemy was pretty, no beautiful. No her archenemy was stunning. She not only admitted it, she yelled it in front of her mother. A million things started to run through Emma's head sitting there. Emma looked away; this had been what she wanted to see the human side of the evil queen. She just never thought it would make her feel; she had no words to describe what she was feeling. No one had ever made her feel the way Regina did. Everything was so intense between them. Everything had always been hate, Emma could not figure out what hate had been replaced with but it scared her. Emma pulled away from Regina's embrace. Her whole body was burning up she needed to cool down.
"I don't feel so good all of a sudden. I need a shower be back in a bit. I think you two need some quality mother son time." Emma lied; she needed to get away from those eyes that were boring into her soul. Regina looked disappointed for a second when Emma pulled away. Regina's mask was back now, no more tears. The moment lost, the magic between the two women disappeared. Emma rushed off unable to face the confusing, complicating, blatantly wrong feelings she was having.
Oh Emma you really know how to fuck up your life. You finally have everything you ever wanted and what do go and do .Fall for her of all people, what the hell is wrong with you. No never, it can never ever happen. Emma thought as she showered. When she got out Regina had washed her face and was making omelets. The trio ate in an award silence.