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PROMPT: the whole 3x11 goodbye scene except that Emma and Regina are already in an established relationship. Your choice on genre, do what ever you think is best suited :) Thanks in advance!

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Regina looked deep into Emma's eyes, holding back the tears that were threatening to fall. "When the curse washes over us, it will send us all back. Nothing will be left behind…including your memories. It's just what the curse does. Storybrooke will no longer exist…it won't ever have existed. So these last years…will be gone from both your memories…and they'll just go back to being stories again."

"What will happen to us?" Emma asked, barely above a whisper, her voice trembling with emotion.

"I don't know"

Emma knit her eyebrows, her eyes wet with tears, "That doesn't sound like much of a happy ending."

"It's not…but I can give you one." Regina smiled as best she could, fighting the urge to break down.

"You can preserve our memories?"

"No…I can do what I did to everyone else in this town, and give you new ones."

Emma placed her hand on the side of the brunette's face and gently caressed her cheek. "I don't want new ones, Regina, I want to keep ours. We can't forget you…I can't forget you."

Regina turned her face into Emma's palm and placed a soft kiss onto it, tears slowly falling from her eyes. She took her hand in hers and held it close to her heart. "My gift to you is good memories, a good life for you and Henry. You would have never given him up. You had always been together."

"You'd do that?" Emma spoke through choked back tears.

"When I stop Pan's curse and you cross that town line, you'll have the life you've always wanted."

"But it isn't the life I wanted. Not anymore." She met her gaze, "Regina, the life I have ever wanted is right here. With you and Henry. With a family that I know I've fought for, the family I want for the rest of my life… How can that compare to a past that isn't real?"

"Your past won't be real, but your future will. I know that somewhere in your heart, you'll know that I love you, no matter how far we may be. As you go on with your life, there will be times that you won't understand why your heart will suddenly change its rhythm…Just know somewhere in the back of your mind that it's because at that moment, my heart is beating in time with yours." She moved closer and placed a soft lingering kiss on trembling lips, "Now go, there isn't much time left. The curse will be here any minute."

The two women pulled apart as Emma unclasped the silver necklace that she always wore. She reached over Regina's shoulders and fastened it behind the nape of her neck, placing her hand on the circle pendant in the middle of the brunette's chest.

She leaned forward and whispered tenderly into Regina's ear, "No matter what happens, I will find a way to get back to you."

Regina kissed her one last time before she saw her son and fiancée disappear into the distance.

She held onto the pendant tightly and whispered to herself, "How will you find a way to get back to me, if you don't remember who I am."

Through tear stained eyes, she pulsed her magic against the curse as the town disappeared with the cloud of smoke.