A/N: Hey guys! I nearly got this to you on time this week. Reviews are appreciated.
Disclaimer: I do not own Once Upon A Time, ABC, or any of its characters.
"Aria," I heard a soft voice call. Groaning, I grabbed the covers and pulled them up over my head. When did I get to my bed?
"Aria, time to get up sweetie," I heard my mother's voice say.
"Mommy?" I said, peeking one eye out to see if I was correct.
"It's your big day," She beamed as I saw her holding a bundle against her chest.
"Oh, baby brother," I said, sitting up in bed. Regina, Emma and Ruby were standing around my bed with big smiles. Amaya ran into the room and practically leapt up onto the bed.
"Hey pumpkin," I said as I hugged my talkative four year old.
"I get to wear my purple dress today Regina!" Amaya said as Regina picked my little girl off of my lap.
"First we get your Mommy ready," Regina said, as my mother and Emma pushed me into the bathroom.
"But-" I started as they shut the door in my face.
"Just shower and wash your hair. We'll take care of everything." My mother said as I heard my sister's phone go off.
"Uh, I have to go." She said and I heard her bolt out the door.
"What was that?" I said, sticking my head out of the door. My mother smiled and said, "Nothing."
"Mom, I know you're lying. You have that nervous smile on," I said, narrowing my eyes at her.
"It's nothing dear. Just shower," She said, pushing me back in and closing the door. I shrugged and set to work, cleaning my hair and stripping my body of any unwanted hair of my legs and underarms.
"So how shall we do your hair?" Regina said after I emerged from the bathroom with my bathrobe on.
"Something simple. I like the flower crown Mom is putting in Amaya's hair," I noted as Amaya chatter away to her grandmother.
"Bohemian chic it is," Regina smiled as she started to enhance my natural waves with a few products. We all chatted about our plans for our lives now that Zelena was done for, and I said that I wanted to focus on family for the next little bit.
"Aria?" My mother said, noticing the look Regina and I exchanged.
"I've just had a lot of stuff happen to me over the last few years. I need time to soak it all in. And what better way to do that, then by focusing my soon to be husband and our daughter."
"Killian was willing to adopt Amaya?" My mom said, understanding where I was going.
"Mom," I said, shushing her as Amaya kept chatting to herself, oblivious to our conversation.
"He loves her, and he is already the greatest Dad to her. He's the perfect man for the job." I smiled warmly as Amaya did a little spin in her dress.
"Momma, do I look pretty?" She giggled. I smiled, "You look beautiful pumpkin."
"Amaya, do you want to grab your Momma's dress?" Regina said softly to my little girl as she kept trying to grab my attention.
"Grandma, can you help me reach?" She asked my mother politely.
"Of course sweetheart," My Mother said, taking Amaya's hand and leading her to the closet.
"Now, sit still. I haven't done this in a few years." She said, moving to tuck the curls into a messy roll, shaped like a crown around my head. I was getting more nervous the more time Emma wasn't here.
"So, do we know why Emma was called away?" I asked.
"It wasn't just Emma." Regina said, "Killian, Neal and your father went with her to investigate a giant ice wall surrounding the town."
"Um, what?" I asked, confused.
"Yeah, my thoughts exactly. They have this though. And once they figure it out, they will be here, to see you married." She smiled as Amaya ran in to try and put my dress on the bed. I was chuckling as she couldn't lift it high enough, and almost as if a light bulb went off in her head, she turned and said, "Momma, you look pretty."
"Thank you pumpkin, how about you give the dress to Grandma to lay out?" I chuckled. She smiled and handed it off to Mary Margaret and kept on twirling.
"Now, can I at least have a nibble of something for breakfast?" I joked.
"Ruby has breakfast downstairs, we just need your hair done first." My mom said as she laid out my dress and grabbed my little brother from his mobile crib.
"Ruby!" Amaya yelled and ran out of the room and bounded down the stairs. I heard Purdy move quickly and chuckled. Amaya was sometimes too loud and fast, and Purdy didn't like being startled.
"Now, how about we eat?" Regina said, with an amused smile.
After a light breakfast and sitting around doing our nails, Regina pulled me upstairs to finish my makeup off. And once that was done, I carefully stepped into my dress, and my mom started crying.
"Mom, I'm not dying," I joked to make her stop. She just kept weeping, "You look so beautiful!"
"Mom, you don't have to cry. You're here, with me, sharing this day."
"We should be having a large ceremony, the whole kingdom invited, in the palace." She said.
"Mom, our home is here. Storybrooke has been more of a home to me than anything else I can remember." I said as Regina's cell phone went off.
"David?" She asked into it.
"Wait, I'm going to put you on speaker." She said, pressing a button, "Okay, go ahead."
"We figured out who made the ice wall. Her name is Elsa and she's here looking for her sister Anna. Emma is stuck in the ice wall with her." My Dad's voice said as I started to chuckle humorlessly.
"This would happen." I whispered to myself, before saying, "Wait, did you say Elsa?"
"Yeah," My Dad said.
"This… sounds so familiar. Oh!" I said, running into Amaya's room and getting out her giant book of fairytales.
"Hans Christian Anderson, he wrote a similar story called the Snow Queen. They made a movie, while you guys were back in the Enchanted Forest." I said flipping through the book.
"This is different though. Elsa is the rightful ruler of Arendelle, and I knew her almost brother in law."
"The original story differs from the movie tremendously. Elsa and Anna aren't in the book, but they are in the movie. Tell her that. Maybe we can find her sister if she cooperates." I suggested. I could briefly hear him talking to something, and realized the sound of the walkie.
"So how do we find her?" Killian said, as I thought.
"Bo Peep," My Dad said, "Anna was branded by her crook. It can find her sheep anywhere."
"Let's go." Neal said.
"You all better not be late!" I said seriously.
"We're working on that love," Killian said softly, before my father hung up the phone.
"Should we go help?" I asked. Regina sighed and said, "I'll go. Get this over with so we can continue celebrating."
"Amaya, should we go out and make sure the backyard is perfect?" Ruby said as my mother handed me my little brother and a spit up blanket.
"Yup!"
"I really just want to know what his name is," I chuckled.
""Hey there" according to Emma." She laughed.
"He's perfect," I said, gazing down on him.
"I know that look." She said, seriously.
"What look?"
"The empty womb look."
"Trust me, that's not the case." I smirked, realizing I couldn't keep it from her forever.
"You...?" She asked, motioning.
"Regina confirmed it the other day, before Zelena's downfall. I've known for about three days, and Killian doesn't know yet."
"Regina was the first to know?" She asked, an emotion I couldn't read on her face.
"Well, when she used magic I didn't know existed to determine if I was or not, yeah. Emma was the first one I told my suspicions too. Killian doesn't exactly know of our world's forms of birth control." I shrugged.
"Mom," I said, getting her attention, "Regina is my step-grandmother and a very good friend. But she's not you."
"I just need to know if you still need me," She said sadly.
"You're my mom. I'm always going to need you," I promised.
"It is you that I want by my side when I deliver this baby. I just hope I carry to term," I said, lightly touching my stomach.
"You will," She smiled wide.
"Now, Amaya doesn't know either. I was planning on surprising her on her birthday."
"When is her birthday?" My mom asked, confused.
"In about…" I stopped thinking about the significance her birthday held for me.
"Two weeks." I finished.
"Are you sure you want this today?" She asked.
"Don't tell me Dad got you thinking Killian's no good for me." I joked to ease the tension.
"Aria, you can decide to wait. I know it's still fresh for you."
"I am already knocked up by him. Are you suggesting we live in sin?" I said, and she looked to be thinking.
"No, but you can wait another month."
"I love Killian, and I want to marry him today. I promised Adam I would find love again, and I have. I honored our vows, and I love Adam still, but in my heart I know I was meant for Killian." I resolved.
"Now, I'm going to get out of my dress and wait until they come back before I get back in it. If this ice wall is going to delay my wedding, I might as well go help speed up the process." I sighed getting up and handing my brother back to my mother.
"What are you doing here?" Regina said, with wide eyes as my mother, Ruby and Amaya got out of the car.
"I'm going to help bring this down. It's getting in the way of my wedding," I said, winking at Killian.
"We've almost got it," A new voice said over the walkie.
"Who's in there?" Amaya asked, moving towards the wall.
"Elsa and Emma." My Dad said holding Bo Peep's crook.
"Elsa!" She exclaimed, "Elsa's here too?"
"She lost her sister, and we've been trying to find her. Elsa," My Dad said into the walkie.
"I thought we'd find her, but she's not traceable through the crook. Elsa, the love you feel for your sister is true and we will find her. But my daughter will freeze to death in there. And her twin won't be too happy about that, today of all days."
"Not to rush you, but I'm supposed to be getting married right now, and my sister becoming a Popsicle isn't on the list of things I wanted today. Either you start digging, or I start swinging," I said, making Grumpy's pickaxe appear in my hands.
"Aria," My mother scolded me.
"I'm trying."
"Elsa, Anna completes you. Your sister is the most precious thing in the world to you. Focus on that," I heard Emma stutter out over the walkie.
"Love you too Sis," I chuckled, as Amaya asked for the walkie.
"What's up little bird?" I asked her, and she said, "Love can thaw a frowzen heart."
"Of course," I said, handing her the walkie, and she repeated what she said. It was a minute later that we saw a hole being ripped in the side of the ice wall. My father rushed towards it with Neal and carried Emma out, who was shivering fiercely.
"Emma," My mother said, hugging her tightly. Regina used her magic to warm Emma up while Amaya just stood in awe of Elsa's emerging figure.
"It's really you!" She said excitedly. Elsa didn't know how to respond, so I walked over and said, "Thank you. You saved her."
She nodded weakly, before looking at Amaya and saying, "Are you the little girl that spoke to me over the magic box?"
"Yes! I'm Amaya. And you're Elsa! Why aren't you in Arendelle?" She asked confused.
"I'm looking for my sister." She answered, bending down to Amaya's height.
"Anna! I know her from the movie. She's funny," Amaya giggled.
"She is a funny girl." Elsa said, sadly.
"Where's Olaf? And Sven and Kristoff?" Amaya asked excitedly.
"Uh, well… I'm not sure." Elsa said, looking to be drawing a blank.
"We can find out," Emma said as we all moved to head back to our vehicles.
"Well, for now, we have a wedding to get to." My Dad said, kissing my forehead.
"Yeah, well that whole 'don't see the bride before the wedding' went out the window when I decided to help." I sighed.
"Elsa, you can come with us," I suggested to the Queen of Arendelle.
"I wouldn't want to impose." She said, waving it off.
"I insist," I pressed. Amaya took her hand and led her to the car, talking excitedly the whole time about what she knows of Arendelle.
"Shall we get married now, love?" Killian said softly. I smiled, "Yes, we shall."