Chapter 9
UUHH! Who will win? What will happen! Will Neal kill Regina? Have fun finding out! :)
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Whale checked upon Regina. She had felt a bit ill again and Cora directly ordered him to do something against it. He had sent everyone out and sat down next to Regina. "You know what's happening?",he asked her softly and Regina nodded. "I'm pregnant... but I never... had a man... and Mother is acting weird... and Emma... she says she would be the mother of my children... it's confusing.",Regina answered and Whale smiled. "Well, that's something I can't answer but I can show you your children.",Whale said and Regina looked at him wide-eyed. "It's too early to have them.",Regina answered and protectively wrapped her arms around her stomach.
"Well. In this world you can look into the stomach with the help of a machine. It's not painful and won't harm you. I promise and until now I kept my promises, didn't I?" Regina slowly nodded and Whale helped her up. "Would you mind if Emma would join you?" "No, but why?" "Because she is the other mother of your children and it's only fair, don't you think?" Regina thought about it before she nodded and Whale helped her to another room. A nurse brought Emma in who directly sat down next to Regina and took the tiny hand. Emma smiled brightly at Regina who shyly smiled back. If that's the other mother of her children than wow. She was one of the most beautiful woman she had ever seen and she would be damned if her children would inherit her own ugly body.
Whale ordered her to lift her gown so he could reach her stomach. She hesitantly obeyed and revealed the amounts of scars. Regina looked ashamed and than felt Emma softly kissing the back of her hand. She looked into Emma's eyes and saw the deep love and a bit sadness. Emma smiled lovingly and turned her head back to Whale who had prepared her already without her noticing. He already looked for a good angle to see the children and Regina watched fascinated. She gasped when she saw a tiny little head. "That's... that's one?",she asked and Whale nodded. She felt Emma's grip tighten a bit and smiled.
Whale showed them all 5 children and their smiles grew bigger with each second they looked at them. "They are beautiful.",Emma whispered and Whale chuckled. "They are just 8 and a half week old, Emma." "That doesn't matter, Doctor Whale. As parent... the child looks beautiful, no matter how it looks like.",Regina said and Emma nodded. Whale printed out a few pictures for them before he gave Regina some tissues to clean her stomach. "Everything is alright with them. You just need a bit magic again from your mother and you'll feel better in no time.",Whale said before he left them alone. Emma helped Regina down of the table and led her back to her room.
"Ehm... why are you so sure that you are my children's other mother?",Regina asked when they were back in her room. Emma smiled at her and pulled her phone out of her jeans pocket. She scrolled through it for some pictures and than showed one to Regina. It was Regina's birthday were the two of them and Henry were sitting by a camp fire with marshmallows on sticks. "Well, I know that because that beautiful woman are you and because we are married.",Emma answered and Regina took the phone and studied the picture. "She is beautiful... but it can't be me. I'm not beautiful... Mother is telling me that often enough...",Regina answered and Emma gasped.
"You are the most beautiful woman I've ever met in any realm and I was in two by now." "Who is that boy?",Regina asked and Emma smiled. "Our son Henry. He is 10 almost 11. You named him after your father." "So we are married since 11 years?",Regina asked and looked up to Emma who shook her head. "Since 3 days now." Regina looked shocked. "Than Henry is a bastard child! How did we kept him a secret in front of my mother?",Regina asked scared and Emma took her hands. "You raised him alone until I arrived 10 months ago. He is my biological son but you adopted and raised him. Your mother was missing until the day before yesterday. And she won't harm you anymore. If she does than it's the last thing she'd ever done.",Emma answered and Regina took a few deep breaths.
"He maybe can explain you why we made children together. I'll get him, okay?" Regina nodded and Emma stood up. She knew that Henry waited outside to finally enter. "Henry? She wants to see you now." Henry bolted into the room and smiled brightly at Regina. "Hey, Mom.",he said and sat down on her bed. Regina was a bit surprised and smiled back shyly. "Henry. Don't forget that she doesn't know you right now." "Oh,right. Sorry, Mom. I'm Henry. I'm yours and Emma's son. Uhm... I'm almost 11 years old... well..." "It's a pleasure to meet you.",she answered and directly felt the motherly love for him her older self hat felt. "It's a bit weird to see you like this but I guess somehow we can make you old again." Regina giggled at that and Henry smirked.
"So... uhm... can you answer me a question?",Regina asked and Henry nodded. "How can Emma be the mother of my children?" "True love. As far as you told me you have a special day every fourth month in which you can get pregnant by a magical being even if you are in a world without magic. Emma is made from true love and therefore has magic. And well... I hope you know how babies are made because I surely won't explain that! it's gross. Ew!",Henry shook his head disgusted and Emma chuckled. "That's even not for your age, kid. Anyway. We discussed it and I never wanted to leave you again so we agreed that we would have these children and that we would marry.",Emma said and Regina slowly nodded.
She studied both of them. Henry and Emma looked similar and had the same happy smile on their faces. Both sat slumped next to her and both had the same mischievous glint in their eyes. They definitely were related to each other. Emma excused herself to talk with Cora about Gold and Neal and left the two of them alone. They joked around or just laid on the bed and enjoyed the peace they had until suddenly the door banged open. Both sat up shocked and scrambled of the bed. Neal stood in the doorway with a crazy glint in his eyes. "Who are you?",Regina asked shocked and Neal angrily flung the hospital bed against the wall next to them. Regina pushed Henry behind herself. "The person who will kill you." "Good thing that you have to defeat me first.",Emma said from behind Neal and tackled him.
Neal growled angrily and flung Emma through the room into one of the machines which had stood next to the bed. "Why do you want to kill me? Why hurting others than?",Regina asked and looked at Emma scared who groaned and tried to get up but Neal knocked her unconscious. "As long as you are alive, Emma will never love me!" "And you really think that when you kill me she suddenly fawn over you? That's idiotic!",Regina answered and slowly walked to Emma. He growled at her but got distracted when Henry tried to run out of the room. He froze him and sighed. "Kiddo, it's just for our best. When Regina is gone she can't hurt anyone anymore. We could be happy and the Evil Queen would be finally dead.",he cooed softly and Henry shook his head.
"We can't be happy! She isn't the Evil Queen anymore! She never was! She was just lonely and hurt! You are really evil. Mom was just misunderstood!",Henry screamed and Neal growled. "Don't you dare say that, kiddo! I'm not evil! I'm good! I want to protect our family!" "Which family! We never had one and we never will! I finally understand why Emma tried to keep you a secret! You just care about yourself! If you would want us happy you would leave my family alone!",Henry screamed. Regina had finally reached Emma and slowly caressed her cheek. If she was Emma's true love than a kiss had to wake her up again. She leaned down and pecked Emma's lips. Emma opened her eyes surprised and took a deep breath.
Regina smiled at Emma and helped her up. Neal gasped. "I put you under a sleeping curse!",he growled and Emma gritted her teeth. "Well. True love is the most powerful magic on the world, Neal. Didn't your father taught you anything? Even when you didn't spent much time with him? I know it and I just know my parents for 10 months. And now leave Regina's and my son alone.",Emma hissed and stepped in front of Regina. Neal looked furiously at her before he flung Henry hard against a wall and a loud cracking sound was heard. Henry collapsed on the ground and Emma gasped. Neal magicked a dagger into his hand and threw it at Emma who hadn't looked at him but at Henry in that moment.
She gasped when she felt the pain in her abdomen and looked down. "I wanted to give you the world but you... you kicked my efforts with your feet. That's your payment, Emma... I just wished it would've ended better. Without killing you and everyone else. But there is obviously no cure for the curse Regina put upon you.",he said and shook his head. Emma collapsed too. Neal looked back up to Regina who had watched everything in shock. "You ever heard of the Dark one?",Neal asked and Regina nodded. "Well. I was his son until I killed him and took his power. And now. Now you'll see what happens with people who destroy my happy ending." He flung a spell at her but suddenly Cora appeared in front of her and blocked it.
"You won't hurt my daughter, you disgusting imp! I did it much too often and I won't let it happen that you'll continue with it.",Cora threw spells at him and he appeared fake weakened to her. Cora stepped closer to rip out his heart when he suddenly froze her and ripped out her heart. "Mother!",Regina screamed and Neal laughed cruelly when he crushed the heart in front of Regina's eyes. And suddenly everything came back to her. Her whole childhood. Her whole life. Just everything. She remembered her promise. No one would ever destroy her happy end again. Not without a fight.
She shot a spell at Neal who countered it. Magic clashed like swords against each other and blended them. They didn't stopped. They put all their strength into their attacks and tried to overpower the other. The bad thing was that Regina hadn't recovered her magic fast enough to fight him off for a long time. She knew that she would die. She was scared at first but than she looked down at Emma who laid there with opened eyes which were staring into nothing. Emma would be there. They would be together again. She, Henry, Emma, her parents and her babies would be there. She knew that death wouldn't be bad anymore. But she owed the people that she would protect them of Neal. She couldn't give up yet.
And in that moment Regina suddenly felt stronger. She felt powerful. But most important she felt four pairs of hands on her shoulders and looked around. Next to her stood her mother and Gold. Behind her were Emma and Henry. They looked at her with sad smiles. "You did wonderful, Regina.",her mother said. "You make me so proud." "I love you.",Emma whispered and Regina took a deep breath. She couldn't cry now. It would distract her. "You aren't a villain, Mom. You never were. I'm proud that I'm your son.",Henry said. "I'm the proudest father on the world, Regina. Even if I manipulated you... you stayed strong and did your own things. You never stopped believing in love. You can stop now. It's alright.",Gold said but Regina shook her head.
"I owe the people.",she said. "I owe our children. I owe all of you." A warm feeling spread in her stomach and suddenly golden magic shot out of her hands towards Neal. The room lightened up that much that Regina was forced to close her eyes. She was knocked off her feet and fell on her back. Everything quaked around her and she thought a last thought. "I just wish that everything would've turned out fine and no one would have to be dead but Neal." Than everything was silent. She sat up groaning when the quaking had stopped and opened her eyes. Everything still looked the same like before she had seen her family.
She crawled over to Emma who now had her eyes closed. She still had the dagger in her stomach but she was breathing again. "Whale!",Regina screamed loudly and half a minute later Whale stood with a handful of nurses in front of the room. He saw Regina hovering over Emma. Whale quickly ran to her and checked her pulse. Than he looked around the room. He saw Henry lying on the ground next to one of the machines which had been attached to Regina. "I need to gurneys!",he shouted and the nurses directly bolted off to get some. "Will she survive?",Regina asked and Whale nodded. "Yes. I think so. She has a normal pulse and it looks like the blood is not flowing too much. Just press your hands on her wound.",he answered and Regina nodded.
He walked over to Henry and checked him. He sighed relieved. "He is just knocked out cold and has probably a broken arm but it's nothing too serious.",he told her and Regina nodded. The nurses came back and heaved Emma and Henry on the gurneys before they brought them into surgery. Another doctor checked on Regina who finally had grown into a woman again. "It looks like you just have some scratches which will heal pretty soon. Otherwise you and your babies are fine.",he said and Regina nodded gratefully. "Thank you." She magicked clothes on and walked back into the room. Snow and David were standing there and looked around shocked. When they saw her they quickly ran to her and hugged her. "You're alive.",Snow breathed out and Regina hugged her back.
She nodded weakly. "Emma and Henry are in surgery. Neal wanted to kill them.",Regina sobbed and Snow stroked over her back. "But he didn't. You defeated him. You saved them.",Snow answered. "But not my mother... not my father...",Regina sniffed and wiped her tears and backed away of Snow. She turned around and looked on the spot her mother had laid. Snow sighed and looked to David who looked back at her with the same saddened expression. "I'll be at the mausoleum if you need me...",Regina said and poofed herself away.
She looked at her father's grave. Or was it her adopted father? She didn't know. She didn't cared. He raised her. He had loved her every second of his life. He was her father. "Why didn't I see you, daddy? I mean... next to Mommy, Emma and Henry I love you the most... and not Gold... He was my mentor but I never loved him in anyway...",Regina said and leaned her head against the grave. "In a way you do, my sweet darling. You wanted him there because he taught you. He was there when you was vulnerable. When you were alone and needed someone to show you the right path.",a voice said suddenly and caressed her neck. Regina looked up. Next to her stood her mother with a loving smile on her face. "Mother...",Regina gasped and hugged her tightly. "I... I thought that you were dead!",she said and started crying.
"And still you somehow revived all of us.",Cora said and Regina looked up and behind her. Gold stood there, leaning on his cane and smiling proudly. "But... but you can't bring the dead back to life.",Regina stuttered. "Well, apparently your children are able to break that rule, dearie.",Gold said and limped over to them. "You... you turned me into a child.",Regina said and Gold sighed. "I did... and I'm sorry... I thought... that if I do that Bae would forgive me... that he would want me back as father... and I didn't knew that you were my daughter until the moment Cora died.",Gold explained and Regina looked confused.
"When you die you are waiting for your family so you can go together with them to heaven. I was alone until Cora appeared and I knew... I knew that you were the reason why." "What's with Neal's mother?",Regina asked confused. "She never considered me as family. I was a coward in her eyes. She hated me. I think she is waiting for Hook. With Neal.",Gold told her. "And... and how did my children... revived you?"
"I don't know. But I think... the pure magic of Emma and your dark and corrupted magic forced together because of true love... it made something much more powerful happen. You have to think about it. My magic is older than you can imagine. The darkest people had it until it was passed to me. And I passed a part of it over to you. And Cora the other part. You are probably the most powerful dark sorceress on any realm. And Emma probably the most powerful white sorceress. Do you really think it's impossible than to have children who can go against the rules of magic? When evil and good come together? When opposites who never were planned to come together do exactly that?"
"But Neal killed you. He got the whole magic." "He didn't. His own magic was just activated. But the moment I died... my magic searched for the purer child of mine. You. You were this little innocent 12 year old girl without magic and a big heart. Even if it was dark magic... it still wants someone who doesn't use it as weapon but as gift.",Gold said and Regina thought about it. "But I don't want it.",Regina said and Gold smiled at her sadly. "But's it's a part of you now." "So... I'm the new dark one?",Regina asked insecure and Gold nodded. "I can't raise my children when I'm the dark one...",Regina said and started pacing. "Where is your... my dagger?" "I think in my shop, why?",he asked and Regina poofed away.
She concentrated on the dagger and soon it appeared in her hand. She looked on it. "Regina" She poofed to the well and thought about it again. The well would grant her a wish if she would give it something as powerful as her wish required. Regina made a fireball and looked at it. It was purple. Disgusted she threw the dagger into the well. "I wish that no one can be the dark one ever again. That the magic of the dark one is banished forever.",she said and than got flung away from the well. She crashed hard on the ground and hissed slightly. She sat up and lifted her hand. She made a fireball in her hand once again and sighed relieved when it was a normal orange instead of the purple she had seen before.
She had done it. She had stopped the idiotic power of the dark one. Maybe she took people the chance away to ask for dark magic but it always came with a price. A price no one should be willing to pay. She laid her hand on her stomach. "I love you.",she whispered and smiled. "All of you and I can't wait to finally have you in my arms." She stood up and poofed back into the hospital.
Next chapter is an epilogue! I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I did and good morning/afternoon/night to you (wherever you all live:D ) For me it is night so, by dearies:D