Regina Mills walked to the front door of her home after the third ring of the doorbell pulled her away from packing away old baby stuf from her son for the move. Much to her displeasure the person on the other side of the door was none other than the blue fairy.
Regina smiled devilishly and quipped, "I'm sorry dear we don't need candles, you might want to hit up the dwarves, I hear they are always willing to stock up."
"Regina." Blue said with forced civility. Her disdain and lack of patience for dealing with the Evil Queen written all across her face and that just spurred the former mayor on.
"Moth." Regina replied with a smirk.
"I understand you are choosing exile and are leaving Storybrooke."
"If you have a point please get to it quickly, I have much to do." Regina replied sounding bored.
"Your timeline is unacceptable. Word is getting around that the Evil Queen has her magic and it is dividing the people."
"Oh and let me guess who has been stirring the rabble up?" the queen peered knowingly at the magical being on her porch.
"It is putting the sovereignty's competence under question, Regina."
"And why should I care? I will be out soon enough."
"Will it be soon enough? Do you really think putting your granddaughter's parents in mortal danger is the right way to start off your incestuous heathen relationship?"
"Excuse me? Incestuous?" Regina exclaimed exasperated. The fairy licked her lips and smirked, "You are her mother's mother, are you not?"
"I am not! Need I remind you that Miss Swan and I are not related! I am barely a few years older than Snow and was never a mother to her!" The queen's fur was up instantly and Blue simply smirked which just added fuel to the fire. "Need I also remind you that Miss Swan grew up while I was stuck in a time loop! I am not her grandmother you pious gnat and if you don't wish to get your wings singed I suggest you get the hell off my porch!" Regina circled her hand around and summoned a fireball and stepped out of her doorway backing the fairy down the steps to the stone walkway. It was then she saw the satisfied smirk on the nun's face and brown eyes looked up to see several towns folk gawking and pointing. She extinguished the fireball immediately and sneered at the fairy. "What is it that you want bug? "
The fairy very calmly stepped into the queen's personal space and quietly said, "Do you really think being the savior will help your granddaughter when the town turns on the both of you?"
"You will live to regret crossing me." the queen ground out between her clenched teeth.
The fairy conjured the gaudy bracelet with a sly smirk. "Set the town at ease Regina. Resume wearing the bracelet. As you said, you will be leaving soon enough. What is a couple weeks to keep your family safe?"
Regina looked out at the onlookers in front of her home and then held out her wrist for the fairy.
"You are making a wise decision Regina."
"Get off my property. Before I get the Raid." the former mayor hissed.
"Oh hell no!" Emma raged when she saw the magic dampening bracelet around her love's wrist.
"It is only a few more weeks Emma." the queen wrapped her arms around the savior's waist and pulled her in close.
"Uh, no." Emma detangled herself from her lover's attempts to smooth it over and tried to unlatch the junk jewelry from the queen's wrist. "What the fuck Regina?!"
"Blue made it so neither of us are able to remove it dear." the brunette nervously plucked at the costume jewelry.
"Jesus fuck Regina!" Emma started to pace the length of the kitchen in her displeasure.
"I had no choice. She has been flying around town stirring the pot." Regina slipped back into her lover's embrace. "By wearing this I'm protecting your parent's rule."
"What about protecting yourself?" Emma shouted and pulled away once more. At this point she couldn't care less if her parents remained in power or not. Her family was at stake here.
Regina reached out and grabbed the agitated woman by the wrist and pulled her into a solid embrace. "I have my own personal savior to keep me safe, don't you know?" Dark brown eyes found green and Emma hugged her close and kissed her on the side of her head.
"You are safe with me." Emma whispered into the brown curly locks of her love. "I'm still not happy."
"No I'm sure you're not."
The front door opened and slammed shut and an 11 year old stomped up the stairs and the women heard the door of the boy's room slam and Emma sighed. "I'll go see what is bugging the kid."
"May I come?" Regina asked with trepidation in her eyes. "He was at Paige's and something may have happened with Jefferson."
"Yeah, come on, let's tag team parent." Emma said with a smile and Regina's heart tightened at how domestic they had gotten so quickly. She had been able to raise the boy alone, and by Emma's own admission she had done a good job. It was however really comforting to be able to lean on the blonde and share the burden of moulding their son.
Emma knocked on their son's door and when she didn't get an answer she went in with Regina in tow. "Okay, what happened kid?"
The preteen was sitting in the center of his bed, his knees pulled up and his face buried in his arms. "Did something happen with Paige, darling?" his brunette mother asked dreading the answer. The boy nodded his head silently.
Emma sat down on the bed next to him and he broke down and let go of the river he had been holding back the entire way home. He sunk into his blonde mother and cried thick tears, but didn't give a clue as to what the issue was. Emma held him tight and Regina stroked his back and both women allowed the boy to just feel his feelings without pushing him to explain despite each of them having their own theories as to the issue.
After an unbearably long silence Henry started to calm down and Emma pulled him back and wiped his damp cheeks dry. "Wanna talk about it kid?" His cheeks flushed as his eyes darted between his mother's and he shook his head no.
Regina made a move to stand and leave the room thinking the boy would open up to his birth mother more if she wasn't there, but Emma put a hand out and stopped her. The blonde looked into the boy's green eyes and smiled a little half smile. "Hey. You can tell us anything kid. Is this about that thing you told me about the kids at school?" he looked to his brunette mother nervously and shook his head no. "Okay." Emma soothed and ran her fingers through his thick brown hair. "What's going on then?"
"Paige said she can't be my friend anymore."
Regina closed her eyes and silently cursed Jefferson as she just assumed that mad hatter had something to do with hurting her little boy.
"Did she tell you why?" Emma continued not jumping to conclusions.
He nodded his head and his blush deepened. "She said when I have kids they are going to be retarded because our family is inbred."
Emma's eyebrows shot up into her hairline and gaped while Regina rolled her eyes and silently cursed the blue fairy. "I'm sorry what?" Emma gasped. "I am not related to Neal, Henry."
"No she said that mom is your grandma so my kids are going to be retarded."
"Henry, we don't say 'retarded'." the queen scolded her son.
"That's what you are taking out of what our child just said? Seriously?"
Regina rolled her eyes and deadpanned the blonde who's surprised face turned to shock when she realized Regina wasn't as surprised as she was herself by this news. "Oh shit, you've heard this before?"
"Emma language!" the queen scolded her son's mother.
"We are not related!" Emma exclaimed out loud feeling the need to just put it on record.
"I am well aware. Blue may have mentioned it, I thought she was just trying to get a rise out of me, which worked mind you, but I am not surprised this isn't something she has kept to herself."
Emma held up her palm to her love as if to physically just hit pause on what the woman was saying and turned back to her kid. "Dude do you know what inbreeding is?" he shrugged his shoulders and avoided eye contact with both of his mother's.
"Okay so in order for birth defects ," she paused and looked to the former mayor for approval of her political correctness, "I would have to have blood relation to your father. Which I don't."
"Oh." he wrinkled up his nose and his blush deepened still.
"For the record, I am not Emma's grandmother." Regina huffed. "I was never a mother to her mother."
"And even if she was, we are still not blood related and I didn't grow up with any of them. It barely feels like I'm related to Snow and David most times."
Henry's eyes darted up and asked the one question that mattered to him. "I didn't grow up with you, do you not feel like my mom?"
The shock on Emma's face told Regina she needed to swoop in and save the savior. "You are still growing darling. There is a massive difference between being 10 and meeting your birth mother and being 28 and meeting your parents for the first time."
"Yeah that. What she said. I am totally your mom kid." she reached around him and pulled him into a hug.
"So because you and mom aren't related, you guys can have a baby and it will be alright?" he asked innocently. Emma's jaw dropped and then instantly closed when she saw something in the dark eyes of her lover just before she looked away, so quick, if she hadn't been looking she would have missed it.
"Yes if we could have a baby, it wouldn't have birth defects because we are not blood related." Emma responded absently as her mind had started to spin at the possibility of having another child with the woman she loved.
"Oh. But you.. you can't?" he looked up at her with confusion in his eyes and Emma couldn't take her eyes off of his mother.
Regina had started to feel anxious about where the conversation had taken a turn and stood up from her son's bed to put some distance between herself and the feelings she was having. Her anxiety mounted and she couldn't make eye contact with either of them.
She had had a baby talk with Henry when he was 5 and wanted a sibling. She had told him at the time that in order to make a baby in mommy's tummy it takes two people who love each other. She hadn't gotten into specifics about gender because at the time it didn't matter, she couldn't have children then anyway even if she did have someone who loved her.
However, now.. She had both the ability and the love.
Emma saw the turmoil in her son's mother and bent down and kissed his head. "Give me and mom a second okay kid?" with the nod of his head she stood and took the hand of the brunette and led her out into the hall. After closing the door to their son's room she whispered, "Okay. So I want to pull wings off of fairies right now."
Regina hummed and nodded.
"Why aren't you more upset about this?"
"I suppose I'm just used to the peasants talking smack. We know the truth. They don't matter."
Emma grinned and teased, "Talking smack, really Madam Mayor? Remind me to tell Henry to stop teaching you slang."
Regina folded her arms and huffed, but her eyes didn't hold the same level of mirth Emma would have expected and she knew something else was bothering the queen.
"Okay. What's going on?"
Regina hugged herself tighter and shook her head.
Emma rolled her eyes, "Don't give me that." she considered what could be bothering her love and asked, "Did you tell him where babies came from?"
"Not logistically. No." Regina shook her head and blushed.
"Okay well when should we tell him?" Emma looked to the brunette for direction and raked her fingers through her hair.
"Why are you asking me?"
"You are the alpha parent here. I've only been his mom for barely a year and you always know the best way to handle all his... stuff." Emma said quietly and Regina's eyes started to well up with tears. "Babe what's wrong ?"
"I.. I don't know." Regina shook her head and looked down as if she found the savior's socks the most fascinating thing in all of the realms right at that moment.
That look in the queen's eyes was back and a thought occurred to the savior. "Do you want more children?"
"Do you?" the brunette countered without answering pinning the blonde with a skeptical glare.
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"Of course Regina." Emma pulled the older woman into her arms. "I love our family, but I have always wanted a house full of kids. I want to have more. Do you…" Emma lifted the queen's chin to meet her glistening eyes. "Do you want to have kids? I mean, have them have them?" Emma touched the queen's abdomen gently to indicate what she meant.
"I don't know," Regina stalled then quietly admitted, "Yes. I would. I made a rash decision all those years ago to take the potion to make myself barren, I regretted it almost instantly. Now that I am able, I… I would like to try. Yes."
Emma couldn't stop the grin that spread across her face. "When we get out in the real world we will look into sperm banks okay?"
Regina cleared her throat, her chest tight at the thought of carrying Emma's child. "Well, we could try while we are still here. While we still have magic." she looked down at her braceleted wrist and amended her words, "While you still have magic."
"I can do that?" Emma looked skeptical. "With my magic?"
"You are very powerful dear."
"I am that aren't I?" Emma said smugly and Regina rolled her eyes.
Emma leaned in and kissed the queen gently and Regina in turn deepened the kiss and pulled her into her.
"I fucking love you so hard." Emma mumbled as she lifted the giggling woman up into her arms and held her up against the wall of the hallway. Regina groaned into the passionate kiss the savior laid upon her and she slid down and untangled herself from the embrace.
"Come darling let's go tell our son where babies come from."
Regina had used the blue fairy's spell before her magic was rebound to enchant a thin metal chain and against Emma's better judgement talked the blonde into allowing her to be used as bait.
"Are you kidding me right now? No." shaking her blonde head and chuckling as if her girlfriend had told her an actual joke.
Regina put her hands on her hips and drawled the blonde's name as if it were a reprimand. "Em-ma…"
Emma finished putting the dishes in the dishwasher and called over her shoulder, "Don't say my name all sexy and think I'm just going to be putty in your hands!"
"Emmmaaa…" Regina came up behind the savior and circled her hands under her muscle shirt and dug her nails into the woman's abs.
Emma's breath caught and the light touches along with the sexy way Regina was saying her name was distracting her from the point. "Dammit woman! I mean it. No!" she tried to stay firm but Regina scratching her nails down her abdomen was sending chills down her spine and weakening her resolve for pretty much everything.
Regina's husky breath whispered into the blonde's ear, "You'll be right there, you poof the chain on him and then we have nothing to worry about."
Nothing to worry about? Emma thought and broke the sexy enchantment the woman's fingers and voice were putting her under. She grabbed the thin wrists of her love and pulled them away from her, turned around and stated her case with renewed fervor. "Problem one: I have to be how far away?"
Regina rolled her eyes and reiterated the information she knew the blonde knew but had asked her to repeat for dramatic effect.
Princesses and their drama. Regina sighed. "At least 200 feet otherwise he will be able to sense both your magic and my magic in the chain."
"So yeah, exhibit A 200 feet is a big fat nope. Problem two: I can poof things to me, poofing things from me to somewhere else not so much!"
The former mayor sighed heavily as they had this argument already and she knew at the end of it she would get her own way, she always did, the blonde just needed to feel like she was being heard. However the process was repetitively dull. "Emma it is practically the same thing, you'll get it on him and it will be fine."
"Do I need to remind you about the ice cream incident?" the savior pinned brown eyes with green and she put her hands on her hips as if Regina were a child in trouble.
"No dear, but you've gotten much better since then and I was able to get the stains out of your yellow liability on wheels. Let's just be thankful it wasn't the Merc."
"Oh yes because thatis what is important here. Your precious car didn't get covered in chocolate chip mint!" Emma threw up her hands exasperated.
Regina smirked, "Of course dear."
"So exhibit B for nope is my magic is unpredictable. Problem three: You don't have magic Regina!"
"I am painfully aware of that fact Miss Swan." She deadpanned and crossed her arms over herself.
"Don't 'Miss Swan' me because you are losing this argument Regina." Emma crossed her own arms and mirrored the queen.
The brunette rolled her eyes lazily. "I hardly think I am losing. I am rebutting your insignificant exhibits thoroughly!"
"Are not."
It was Regina's turn to throw her hands up in exasperation, "You are such a child!"
"You love me anyway." Emma smirked.
"I should have my head examined." Regina snarked and shook her head.
Emma nodded her head emphatically. "You should actually if you honestly thought I was going to agree to this hair brained scheme!"
"We have no other choice Emma. If you have a better idea…" the blonde began to open her mouth but the former mayor cut her off, "That doesn't involve bodily harm…" Emma closed her mouth and pouted. "Exactly. This will be real simple. I meet him, you poof the chain on him, we take his memories and we go home. Done and Done."
"Have you met me? My life has never worked that way!" Emma thought about it for a second, "Have you met YOU?" Regina pulled her savior into her breast and stroked her head.
"It will be okay my dear. I believe in you."
"I'm glad one of us does." the savior pouted and mumbled into the soft fabric of her lover's sweater.
So Regina called the Daily Mirror and left a message from the queen for Sidney to meet her at the park. She said she had a change of heart and wanted to talk. Nice and simple. As the queen suspected the man had tunnel vision and didn't pick up on the sheriff hiding in the tree line. As Sidney nervously walked up to Regina, the blonde in the bushes held the chain in the palm of her hand and cleared her angry thoughts and tried not to think about how close he was getting to her queen or how the woman in question had taken a step back because it was far too close for even her preference. No. Emma sat and tried to concentrate on the chain in her hand. She pushed her feelings about the man out of her mind and focused on his wrist.
Come on Swan you got this.
His dark dainty hairy wrist. She took a deep breath and glanced up just to take his posture in her mental view. The wrist in question was hanging at his side and she imagined the chain hanging loosely around the base of the palm of his hand.
That's it Swan.
She took another deep breath and willed it around his wrist and she felt the item disappear from her palm she looked up to see a very agitated Sidney Glass.
Yes! It worked! Emma stood up from her hiding spot and started to trot over to finish up the last part of this plan, she was so ready to put this whole thing behind her.
As she crossed the open lawn she noticed he stood close to Regina once again, he was shaking the hand that had the chain securely around it, but his back was to the treeline so Emma couldn't see his face or what he was saying to the queen. What she instantly noticed was that Regina stood far too rigid and then nodded then held her hands up defensively. Emma's feet started to move faster towards her queen, but when she saw the gun he held, she froze. Emma's stomach dropped and her heart pounded in her chest.
No no no no! He will not take her from me! Fuck!
If he sees me he will shoot her! Fuck Fuck Fuck!
Emma darted behind a large oak and closed her eyes and held out her shaky hand and imagined the cool metal of Sidney's gun. She pushed her fears away and focused the way Regina had taught her. The weight of it. The shiny smooth edges of the metal how the sun glinted off of it in just the right light. How gunpowder smelled after it was fired and before she knew it a gun appeared in the palm of her hand she poked her head out and looked towards her love just as Regina balled up her fist and punched Sidney. The man fell to the ground and the queen spit on him. Emma saw a red line trickle from the queen's mouth and she realized as she had been trying to get the gun from him he had once again struck her queen. Emma's rage took over and she stalked towards the man crumpled on the ground she held up the gun and cocked the hammer back.
"Emma no!" Regina exclaimed and held up her hands as Emma pressed the barrel of the gun to the back of Sidney's head.
"Emma! There is no coming back from this. If you do this, you can not undo it. He isn't worth it!"
Emma shook her head, her scowl deepened and her hands shook with a flood of adrenaline. "I want him to pay for what he did to you! I want justice for what he tried to do to us! "
Regina took a step closer and tried to make eye contact with the savior. "This isn't justice darling, this is vengeance. Please Emma. Put the gun down. We won." The blonde could hear the thick emotion in the voice of her love and she carefully cocked the hammer back down and lowered the gun. The man was blubbering on the ground, he had pissed his pants and was groveling at Regina's feet thanking her for saving his life. Emma emptied the chamber of bullets then tucked the gun in the back of her pants before lifting him up to his feet and away from Regina.
"Hear this you sniveling piece of shit. You owe her your life because if it were up to me you would be dead. MY queen has deemed you suffer for your actions. You will live the rest of your days as Sidney Glass, you will have no magic, no memory of Regina and I am taking her away from this place so you will never see her again!"
His large brown frightened eyes looked between the women and rested on Regina. "But my queen!?" Emma jabbed him with a balled up fist, breaking his nose and tossed him to the ground.
"Emma!" the brunette behind her exclaimed.
She pulled out the small box from her jacket pocket, knelt down next to the writhing man on the ground and opened the top of the box and aimed it towards the man. A slow green cloud crawled out of the box and wrapped itself around Sidney. After a moment the cloud rushed up the man's bloodied nose and he lost consciousness.
"Did it work?" Emma asked looking back towards Regina for the first time. Thick tears covered the queen's face and Emma's heart broke. Regina fell into the embrace of her savior and Emma reassured her, "It's over baby. It's done. I got you." The trembling queen nodded into the strong shoulder of her love.