Chapter Two

Enchanted Forest

Emma felt like she was on fire as she felt herself traveling so fast she felt like fluid. And now that fluid was climbing higher and higher until she appeared on a metal circle in a forest gasping. She was dressed in a rough spun grey dress and coat. She wondered what had happened to her clothes, the only thing that was clear to her was that she was not in storybrooke anymore. Her body was already trying to reject the darkness she noted and painfully so. Her gut was twisting into knots too, but she had to hold on, wherever she was she had to find someone and hope they knew what the nearest town was and if they knew anything about Merlin.

"Where am I?" Emma whispered out loud as the sign of whistling filled her ears.

"Who's there!" Emma snapped turning around and throwing back her hood. She was shocked to see none other than Rumpelstiltskin. "You're supposed to be in storybrook, you were in a coma."

"Yes, I am or rather he is," He giggled.

"What are you?" Emma asked her.

"I am many things, I am the voice inside your head, the Dark One's powers inside you, inside all the dark ones'. Rumpelstiltskin is one of many, perhaps I can be another. How about Gorgon the invincible." He changed into a boar that breathed fire and Emma crouched in fear.

"No stop!" Emma cried.

"Yeah probably easier this way," He told her. "Are you ready to begin?"

"Begin what?" Emma asked.

"Learning to be the dark one of course. Now think of me as your guide, but only until you've learned to embrace your powers."

"I will never embrace the darkness," Emma declared. She had to get back to her family and control this evil inside of her.

"Oh they all say that, everyone that sips from this well, enjoys the taste too much. The only way to stop is to be stopped. This is the fate of all dark ones."

"Ugh," Emma said and tried to walk away.

"You can't just walk away," He told her appearing before her now.

"Look I'm in the Enchanted Forest now, which means Merlin can't be far from here, and I am going to find him so he can destroy the darkness once and for all."

"Merlin, oh you're better off with me."

"No!" Emma yelled. "I'll never hurt the people I love, the people that love me." Rumpelstiltskin disappeared, and Emma kept walking all she could think about was Regina, Henry, Charlotte, and now Viveka. Past that she thought of her parents and Neal. They all loved her, and she loved them, and she would get rid of this darkness, protect them, and go home. She promised Regina she would not leave her family again and that was a promise she intended to keep.

"You know you've been walking in circles," An unfamiliar voice said to Emma. Emma paused a chill ran down her spine. The voice sounded familiar, but it lacked something that she couldn't put her thumb on. She turned slowly as she gritted her teeth. The image before her was enough to torture her and bring her to her knees.

"Regina?" Emma asked her eyebrows rising above her hair line as her eyes widened. Leaning against the tree, she swore it was her love and yet it wasn't. Maybe it was the Evil Queen, but it also didn't feel right. Also, her hair it was all wrong it was a dark red, and her eyes they were brown like her love's, but they were not her love's eyes. There was no love, they were empty, and even when she had come upon the Evil Queen in the past they were so full of emotion it was almost startling as it went against everything she had been told even by Regina herself. And now, now she didn't know what was in front of her. The woman in front of her fiddled with an apple.

"Is that what you want to call me?" The woman asked teasingly. Emma frowned.

"I don't understand, who are you, are you real?" Emma asked.

"Hmph, I was only gone a few weeks, and yet you've forgotten me already mummy," The woman told her playfully as she pushed herself off the tree she had been leaning on and threw the apple behind her. Emma watched her walk at her just a lethal as Regina had been in tan leather pants, with a burgandy embroidered suit jacket that fit her form perfectly, it was short in the front to the waist, but had coat tails in the back. And the brown booted heels, well if she was related to Regina, they were killer, while a pork pie hat graced the top of her long hair. Half her hair was up in a bun surrounded by a braid, while the rest came down in a braid that rest over her right shoulder.

"Mummy….Cha…cha…charlotte?" Emma asked. The woman nodded.

"Well I was Charlotte, but no longer," She said making a face. "I wanted to be named Viveka, it's a pretty bad ass name don't you think for a future Evil Queen. Queen Viveka they would have called me, but a las you gave my name to another." Emma's eyebrows squished together as she ran her fingers through her hair.

"I'm going insane, the darkness is taunting me with some vision of my daughter," Emma whispered as she turned and walked away slowly.

"You can't walk away from me mummy," The woman told her. "I'm with you, wherever you go."

"No, you are not Charlotte, Charlotte is good, Charlotte is not an Evil Queen, Regina would not have it so, I would not have it so. You won't trick me!" Emma was out right yelling into the forest around her. The woman before her laughed, but it was devoid of amusement.

"You think you can stop my destiny?" She asked.

"Your destiny is done, you don't really exist, maybe you were once a possibility if I hadn't saved Regina from that possessed doctor, you are not real darkness and you will not trick me. I will rid myself of you and go home to my family. You won't win." The woman giggled in an almost Rumple like manner.

"You're almost cute mummy," She said skipping next to Emma as she tried to leave again. "I guess I can see what Mommy sees in you." Emma noticed she didn't say mommy with the taunting tone she used when she called Emma mummy. Whatever this darkness was trying to do to her, it didn't let this version of Charlotte refer to Regina in a bad way.

"What is your aim here Rumple, you can't say mummy without making a face, but you change your tune when you speak of Regina. You think by speaking positive of my love I'll give into you well you're wrong."

"Ugh don't call me Rumple, I'm definitely not a Rumpelstiltskin. Could you imagine all the little peasants going around calling me Queen Rumpelstiltskin, Ugh, I'll pass no thanks." Emma growled.

"I'm not playing games with you!" Emma yelled.

"Ah not that way mummy, we'll just go in circles again," She taunted. Emma grabbed her head and squeezed her eyes shut. She fell to her knees on the ground.

"Go away!" Emma yelled. "You aren't real!"

"Aww I'm hurt mummy, but fine, I'll check back in on you when you're ready to go in the right direction. You may not think I want us to get to Camelot, but I do really. I don't fancy watching you starve to death out here in the forest." Emma frowned and rocked back and forth. Finally, though there was only silence, so she stood back up and resumed her journey.

She eventually was near a road and heard, the sound of, what she thought was pots clanging together. Emma instantly broke out into a sweat as she ran towards the sound. She was finally going to see an actual real person, she would get to safety, she would get back to Regina. They would get rid of this darkness and she would never again be plagued by that monstrosity that claimed to be her daughter. The idea that she could have failed her daughter, not saved Charlotte again, was just too much. She ran faster still.

"Help, please help me!" She cried out as she clutched at her dress, raising it as it would hinder her speed otherwise. When the man came into sight pushing his cart, Emma let out a breath as he stopped and turned around. "Please, please help me." He grinned at her and looked her over.

"Yeah sure for thirty silver pieces," He told her.

"Why you sniveling little peasant turd, how dare you," The woman cried appearing again. Emma tried to ignore her.

'Why does she even care, she's not real...she's just feeling what I'm feeling outrage,' Emma thought. 'She's just in my head after all.'

"But I don't have any silver," Emma said her voice small, her eyes sad as she neared tears. She hadn't felt like this since she was a teenager on the streets begging for every scrap of food or clothing she owned. Her voice was choking as she spoke hoping he would have mercy on her. Hadn't her mother always said there were good people in the Enchanted Forest?

"Then I can't help you sorry," He said.

"What a despicable human, I'd kill him if I were you," the woman told her. "Yes, let's kill him mummy." All of a sudden, the man was lifted off the ground and choking in front of Emma.

"No, no stop it!" Emma cried at her. The woman giggled.

"But mummy I'm not the one being a bad girl, you are," She laughed. Emma's eyes went wide as she looked to see her right hand slightly raised as she shook almost uncontrollably.

'No, what the hell am I doing?' Emma thought. She forced herself to release the man. He fell to the ground, as soon as he recovered enough breath he ran off leaving his cart.

"You really should have killed him mummy, even so he's left his cart, maybe he has food, we should eat," the woman told her.

"You're not real, go away, you won't make me hurt anyone else again," Emma told her hurrying back off and immediately getting lost again. She cursed herself for not keeping to the road, why hadn't she just kept to the road.

"Oh, dear mummy you're really in a pickle here aren't you?" She asked appearing next to Emma.

"You aren't real you're just the darkness trying to trick me."

"Am I though?" She asked. "I'll go away if only you name me." Emma frowned.

"You have a name if you are who you say you are," Emma reminded her.

"A name long gone, and you've given my true name away, so now you must name me," She told her.

"I don't like your games, and I will not play them any longer. You are not my daughter!" Emma stomped again.

"Oh, come on mummy don't be like that, look I'll even be helpful and save you like you didn't save me." Emma whipped around as a pain pulsed in her chest. It was that pain she got every time she thought of Charlotte, but tenfold.

"How dare you," Emma growled.

"I dare because I can, now if you calm down I can tell you how to find Merlin." Emma's eyes narrowed, and she thought about walking away, why would the darkness help her find Merlin. She didn't know but she thought maybe she could out smart it.

"All right, I'm all ears," Emma told her. The woman grinned it was so like her Queen's, but so not her Queen's grin. It was almost unnerving and torturous. She didn't like being so far away from her family. She was supposed to be home sheepishly explaining to Regina how the mug had burst into flames in her microwave, how it hadn't been her fault. She was supposed to be kissing Regina's frown away when she realized they had eaten all the cookies anyway, blushing when Regina said I told you so when Henry woke up with a stomachache. She was supposed to be learning how to sooth that stomachache from Regina. She was supposed to be curled up in her love's arms even though it was the mid-morning and planting a trail of everlasting kisses all over her body to celebrate Regina bringing a new life into their family and yet also to worship the Goddess that was her Queen. And yet she was here lost in a world that was never hers, lost with a weird image of what could have been their daughter with a twisted personality being used by the darkness to break her. But she wouldn't be broken it would be, it had to know she would win and that's why it played these games with her.

"Good, because I happen to know there's a magical forest that will take you wherever you want to go," She teased. Emma took a deep breath in through her nose.

"Just tell me what I want to know." The woman only gave her a smile. "And no magic!"

"Oh, I won't be using magic, mummy, promise," She told her giving her a smile that could have easily been Henry, Emma thought, but not quite, this woman before her just lacked actual emotion it seemed.

"Good then, where is this forest," Emma replied.

"Okay picture in your mind a beautiful forest surrounded by clear blue skies, and in that forest there's a lack that mirrors that same beautiful sky, and next to the lake is a tall tree, one of the tallest you've ever seen, and the branches hang low providing excellent shade for lounging. Focus only on that and see it clearly."

"Yeah…." Emma started to say as she focused and then with a pop she was there. She blinked rapidly realizing she had transported to the spot by magic. "I said no magic!"

"I didn't use magic," the woman told her. "I promised." Emma frowned.

"You tricked me," Emma cried.

"But we are here," the woman told her. "And look that blue wisp thing is just what you need to find Merlin. If you take it back home, it will lead you where you need to go." Emma frowned as she watched the willow of the wisp flying through the trees. "Better hurry, if it gets away you'll miss your chance." With that Emma was all alone again, so she ran off after the wisp, hoping against hope that it could actually help her find Merlin.

"I think we're here," David told them as the diner gave one last jolt, and the green tornado disappeared from around them and sunshine poured into the diner.

"Oh, thank God we didn't arrive in the rainy season," Granny muttered. "Now you go find Emma, I need to make sure this place doesn't go up in flames."

"Roland you stay with Granny and the dwarves," Robin ordered as he grabbed his bow and arrows.

"No, I want to come."

"No, you stay here and guard favorite charming for us," Regina told him. She magicked a quiver and arrows for him exactly like Robin's and he was placated, as he now took his job as protector very seriously.

"I no stay, I find Mama," Henry told her when she turned on him. She frowned at him.

"You're lucky I think Mama really needs to see us both now," She told him. He nodded and lifted his arms. She lifted him up and hurried out the door as Hook was trying to get the dagger off Mary Margaret.

"This is stupid we should call her to us immediately," Hook argued.

"HEY!" Regina yelled getting their attention outside the diner. "We will not summon Emma like she is some slave, we will not control her. Anyway, she's nearby, I can feel her, we don't need to call her." Regina turned on her heel and hurried off towards her connection towards Emma. They all followed quickly behind her eager to get to Emma and help her break free of the dark curse.

"Everyone stay quiet for orges, I forgot my bow and arrows," Mary Margaret reminded them. "And David's without a sword."

"Seriously we're back in the Enchanted Forest now, you left defenseless," Regina grumbled.

"I don't see you carrying anything," David quipped.

"I have my magic, I can just disappear," Regina replied. David was about to reply, but realized she had a point. She could escape at the least. They continued on until they heard a noise that sounded like arrows being fired.

"You're a crazy woman, I don't want to talk!" They heard someone say. Hook went rushing off up ahead attempting to play the hero. They all hurried off after him.

"Mama!" Henry cried as they reached a stone circle.

"Swan!" Hook yelled the same time as Henry. Emma was standing in the middle holding the heart of a curly haired red head woman in a blue dress.

"How?" Emma asked as tears fell from her eyes seeing her family.

"Nothing was keeping us apart, you promised me we wouldn't be apart again," Regina reminded her.

"I know, I'm so sorry," Emma cried. "Just take Henry away I have to do this to protect you all, I need to do this to find Merlin and get rid of this darkness."

"And if you do this it will consume you," Regina told her.

"You don't know that," Emma sobbed.

"But don't I, I know better than anyone here," Regina told her.

"Swan, come on put her heart back, we'll go home, and it'll be just like before," Hook told her. Regina stepped in front of Hook as Emma frowned remembering life with him.

"No, it will be better than before, we have a bright future to look forward too, remember Charlotte," Regina told her. "She wouldn't want you to do this."

"And yet I very much would mommy," the woman said as she stepped closer to Regina and stroked her face, but obviously she didn't feel it. I've really missed you mommy it's been a long two days and even longer still since I've heard your heart beat." Emma looked at Regina and the woman who claimed to be her daughter confused as she lowered her head to Regina's chest. Regina's body seemed to turn slightly towards her as if leaning into her, but it couldn't be, she wasn't really there.

"I don't understand!" Emma cried before she shoved Merida's heart back into her chest. She fell forward crying and Regina immediately went to her along with Henry. They hugged each other tightly and Henry gave her lots of kisses telling her never to leave in an evil vortex again. She promised him she'd try not to.

"Now that we're together I just have one question," Regina told her as she finally calmed down. Emma looked up at her through her lashes. "What the hell happen in the microwave?" Emma couldn't help but laugh as she hugged Regina even tighter still.

"You'll never believe me," Emma laughed. Regina kissed her forehead.

"Emma," Mary Margaret said as they finally stood up. Emma hugged her parents happily. Hook glowered at Regina but gave Emma a smile.

"Well you don't look like a crocodile," He said thinking he was funny. Emma rolled her eyes as Mary Margaret held up the dagger.

"Here we think you should have it," Mary Margaret told her. "You are in control, we want you to fight this, and not have anyone be in control of you." Emma stepped back away from where her name was glowering at her. She was actually surprised that it said Emma Swan and not Emma Mills, but then she realized that Mills was only a dream and only something scribbled on a piece of paper. Regina and she hadn't taken vowels, hadn't really made it so. Even in her heart she was still just a Swan, and not a Mills.

"No, give it to Regina." Regina raised an eyebrow.

"Me?" she asked to be sure. Emma nodded.

"I know that for Henry you will do anything including do what needs to be done if I can't win," Emma told her. "You are the only one strong enough to control me and outsmart me." Emma said Henry, but Regina noted she really meant Viveka, because ultimately at the end of the day she was the real threat to Emma's power later. "And I trust you." Regina nodded and took the dagger tucking it into her coat. Emma was about to say more when she spotted the woman talking to Henry, and worse yet he was talking back to her.

"NO!" Emma yelled. "You stay away from him!" The others turned and saw nothing as far as they were concerned Henry was talking to air, well Regina didn't believe for a moment that Emma had lost it. She just realized that whatever Emma saw she couldn't see.

"But Mama it's Charlotte!" Henry exclaimed. Regina frowned.

"I don't understand," Regina muttered.

"No, it's not, it's the darkness Henry, it just wants to trick you," Emma told him holding out her hand. He hurried over to her and took his hand. "You stay away from him, find if you wanna play tricks on me, but leave my son alone." The woman smirked.

"He and I have a connection mummy just like always, is he still in charge of naming me, because I'm sure he has plenty of ideas." She grinned and disappeared.

"I will not name you!" Emma yelled. Regina rubbed her back in soothing circles sensing that whoever Emma was interacting with was gone.

"Emma who were you talking too, what's this about Charlotte?" David and Mary Margaret asked.

"Nothing, nothing this darkness is just taunting me, I couldn't even sleep last night because I kept replaying Charlotte's death over, and over again," Emma told them, which was partially true. Apparently Dark One's don't need sleep, and the woman didn't help by inciting her to kill Merida or telling her it was her fault she died.

"Come on let's get back to Granny's, you must be exhausted," Regina told her. "We'll set out to find Merlin in the morning, maybe you can't sleep, but there's something to be said for resting among friends." Emma nodded and allowed Regina to lead her off. They made their way back to Granny's. As soon as they arrived though Granny came out with the dwarves and Roland.

"See no shortage of people to come save the savior," Regina told her as they swung Henry between them.

"Good you found her," Granny said before she hugged Emma. "No French fries for you though I'm afraid, the fryers are busted." Emma chuckled.

"Maybe just a nice bath then," Regina told her. Emma nodded remembering how greasy her hair was it was disgusting. She turned suddenly though pushing Henry behind her. Granny raised her crossbow, so Robin raised his bow as did Roland. Mary Margaret and David took their weapons from the dwarves, Regina was ready to raise a shield to protect them as she knew in Emma's state she would go straight on the offensive. A group of armored soldiers appeared on horses. They stopped before them but did not draw their weapons.

"Who are you?" Emma demanded to know.

"I'm King Arthur and these are my knights," He greeted.

"What are you doing here?" Hook asked.

"King Arthur, then you know Merlin, is he with you?" Emma asked hopeful.

"I'm afraid Merlin hasn't been around for a long time, but he told of your forecoming, and he told us that you would bring him back if you are indeed the savior."

"The savior is among us," David answered diplomatically after a look from Regina.

"Then come with us."

"To where?" Emma asked.

"To Camelot of course," King Arthur told them. He waved to the back of the knights and horses were brought forth. Regina pulled out a strip of cloth and used it to secure Henry to her back though Emma lightly fussed about her carrying Henry as he was heavy, but she waved her off. Women had been carrying their children while pregnant longer than she had been alive.

"You ride with Zelena," Regina whispered to David, who nodded to her. The dwarves got on the back with other knights while Granny got her own horse along with Zelena deciding she'd best keep an eye on her. Emma sat sideways in front of Regina who suddenly wore boots more suitable for riding.

"I really gotta learn how to change my clothes like you do," Emma muttered. Regina chuckled as she handled the reins expertly. They followed them back to Camelot and were met with a warm welcome. It seemed that King Arthur really had been expecting them for awhile.

"My Queen," He told them. Geneviere came down dressed in a redish purple gown.

"Oh my so the rumors are true," Regina whispered. Emma frowned.

"True how?" Emma asked in a whisper.

"She is that hot," David whispered back to Regina who nodded. Emma growled, and she felt her power surge inside of her but a kiss on her cheek from Regina and comforting hand on her back calmed her.

"She is not my white knight," Regina reminded her. Emma smiled at her.

"Welcome," She greeted. Henry was the first to bow to her all cute as did Roland as the others followed suit. They all bowed forward as curtsying wasn't really practical at the moment in pants. Plus, Mary Margaret was holding Neal. "We are so glad that you are here, and thanks to Merlin's foretelling of this blessed day, we've had time to prepare a ball in your honour." They all agreed that sounded lovely.

"Uh no, we don't have time to sit around dancing," Hook told them gruffly.

"Hey, don't be rude," Emma told him just as Regina was putting a silencing charm on Zelena who was threatening to tell them she was the dark one if Regina didn't take the cuff off. Emma turned to King Arthur. "We're sorry, we're just anxious to find Merlin." She gave another glare at Hook.

"Yes of course, but the day is almost gone, let's start fresh tomorrow, trust me bringing back Merlin will be no easy task even for the saviour," Arthur told them. "And who is the saviour?" Emma was about to speak, but Regina spoke up first.

"I am," Regina lied. Emma frowned but it quickly disappeared.

"Oh, don't be mad at mommy she's really trying to help you, you know, don't want you lying about who you are," the woman taunted in her ear. Emma's fists clenched but she was determined not to look any more like the crazy woman she had been in the forest. Somehow being near Regina again was grounding her and she would be damned if she would ruin getting any knowledge out of these people about Merlin. They clearly knew more than they did. "Oh, come on start taking hearts they'll tell you all you need to know, mommy might even join you, than you won't have to worry about expelling the darkness you can run off and be perfectly evil together, wouldn't you like that?" Emma moved her hand as if swatting a fly away but really, she was trying to push the woman way.

"Well than please let us honor you," Arthur told them.

"Perhaps some rest then before the ball if the children are to join us," Regina told them. They nodded and took them to their rooms.

"Why did you lie?" Emma asked once they were in a large tub together with Henry. He played with a wooden boat she had packed as Regina massaged the shampoo through her hair. Henry gave a huge yawn in that moment.

"Hold on, stay put," Regina told her. She got out of the bath with Henry had him dried and dressed and in bed faster than Emma thought possible.

"Did you help him?" Emma asked suspiciously.

"No, he barely slept after you left, and I hope he's free of nightmares." Emma's face contorted in pain.

"He shouldn't have been there, he shouldn't have seen that."

"He wouldn't have seen that if Belle had actually kept an eye on him, you thought you had left him with someone responsible." Emma nodded as she just turned and lay against Regina who was now resettled in the water. "And to answer your question, I told them I was the savior, so you wouldn't be expected to do magic. Your magic is dark now and every time you use it, it affects you anyone can see that. Your entire body is on edge. So, I'm doing everything I can to protect you. Outwardly I'll be the savior, but we're in this together and we're figuring this out together Emma. You are not alone, you have a family now who loves and cares for you." Emma let a few tears fall.

"This is why she's always been the better mother," the woman told her with a sigh as she sat in the water next to them, naked of course but Emma couldn't see anything. "She's too good for you, you know. You should have just let us go after New York, we would have been fine, you should have taken Zelena back on your own. Maybe I would have had a chance." Emma gripped Regina hard.

"Shut up!" Emma yelled at the woman sitting across from them.

"Emma what is it, who is there?" Regina asked.

"I think it's supposed to be Charlotte," Emma whispered.

"That is not my name, I've told you that a thousand times."

"What does she want?" Regina asked.

"She wants a lot of things, she wants me to use my magic, she wants me to name her."

"Well you tell her we have named her, and her name is Viveka now."

"No, you tell mommy that she gave my name away to my sister now." Emma frowned.

"She says that Viveka isn't her name, she says you gave it away to her sister," Emma told her. "I don't understand this darkness. It taunts me with her, tells me it's my fault she's dead. Tells me you're the better mother." Regina frowned.

"Her sister?" Regina asked. Emma nodded before dunked her head and rinsed out the shampoo.

"I don't know what she means, I don't know what this darkness intends to do except drive me to the very depths of my despair." Regina's hand glowed purple as she rested her hand on Emma's belly. "What are you doing?"

"Put your hand over mine," Regina told her. Emma did so and suddenly they felt it that life. It was only a bit older than Viveka's life.

"Finally, you figured it out, how unfortunate I am to have been stuck with you, the mother that so willingly sacrificed my life for some puppet," the woman growled. Regina's head snapped up and she made eye contact with her daughter.

"Wow," Regina said. The woman looked surprised.

"You can see me now mommy?" She asked.

"I felt you earlier," Regina said speaking to her. She nodded with the first real genuine smile Emma had seen come to her face.

"You always took special care of me," She replied. She glared at Emma. "Unlike her."

"I'm so sorry I lost you," Regina cried.

"I know mommy, you are, you protected me, I'm sorry I just couldn't get back to you in time, I tried, but I was too weak, and Emma had gone too far."

"But why are you in Emma now?" Regina asked her, her eyebrows knitting together over teary eyes.

"I was stuck in her filthy magic and too far from you, I could feel you just barely and you could feel me. But when you finally tried again, her magic sucked me into her. By the time I amassed enough power to make the transfer you were already occupied."

"I'm sorry mi amor," Regina told her. "But no matter where you grow, I'm going to take good care of you."

"Then will you name me mommy?" She asked hopeful.

"One day love, I have to think up just the perfect name for you my little Queen." Viveka sent a wave of jealousy. "You don't be jealous, you're still my Princess." Viveka sent love next. Under her hand though she felt the wave of disappointment but not from Emma, it was from their baby that was truly once Charlotte. "Have patience, every Queen needs the perfect name and stop torturing your mother, she's going to do right by you."

"So, two babies," Emma sighed staring off into space for a moment.

"It's always two babies," Regina replied. "I knew I should have made sure you were doing the fertility spell correctly." Emma sent her a small glare, but then she furrowed her brow again.

"I can't name her Regina, the darkness, it came for her not me, that's why she wants a name, can't be attached if she has no name."

"I know," Regina whispered. "I know as they say a name is a very important thing." They hugged each other tight as they both cried. They had a huge fight ahead of them and losing Charlotte in any form again was not an option. And neither was losing Viveka. Their family was now top priority, and no one could ever know until it was safe.

Author's Note 1: The baby previously known as Charlotte is inside of Emma. But she no longer sees herself as Charlotte, because as Charlotte she was destined for something different. That is why Emma and Regina need to give her a new name. But think of it in terms of that you just lost a baby, whom you named, and now you're pregnant again so you still view them as two separate people. And that's how this baby sees herself. This will be confusing as for the time being she shall remain nameless.

Author's Note 2: Please leave a review :)