Emma went through weeks of the burning room before Regina got an idea, taking a necklace (she hadn't worn since she cast the curse 29 years ago) she placed a spell on it which would allow her to see the solution to stop Emma from going back into the burning room.

Regina waited till Emma had fallen asleep then used the necklace and she found out that what making Emma constantly going to the burning room was the guilt she felt from giving Henry away she felt like she had abandoned him just like she had felt abandoned for her whole life until she had found her parents 28 years later.

A tear escaped Regina's eye but she quickly wiped it away just as Henry came in to check on Emma.

"Hey mom how's ma doing tonight?"

"She's still going to the burning room but now I know why."

"Well are you going to tell me or am I going to have to try and read your mind?"

"She feels guilty for giving you up for adoption she feels like she abandoned you just like she felt abandoned until she found her parents 28 years later."

Henry thought for a bit when he got an idea.

"Mom I know how we can make her feel not guilty anymore."

"And how do we do that my little prince?"

"We tell her what life would have been like for her if she had been cursed with everyone else then we tell her what life would have been like if she had kept me."

"Henry I think that might actually work. Good work." Regina said with a smile as she wrapped Henry in a big hug.

The next day when Emma woke up she found that Regina wasn't there like she had been whenever she woke up then she heard Regina's voice reach her ears from downstairs.

"Emma can you please come downstairs?"

When Emma made it down Regina took her into the living room and got her to sit down on the coach while both her and Henry sat down on the coffee table in front of the blonde, the atmosphere was making Emma nervous which Regina noticed and placed a hand gently on Emma's which the blonde had started wringing.

"Emma dear it's ok you're not in any trouble we just want to talk with you."

Regina removed he hand from Emma's and looked at Henry.

"My little prince do you want to start?"

With a nod Henry scooted forward and took both of Emma's hands in his and gave them a squeeze to get Emma to look him in the eyes.

"Ma, mom and I both know about the guilt you are feeling but you need to understand that there is no reason to feel that way."

"But I abandoned you when you were born just like I was." Emma said through tears that had started to fall.

"Ma you didn't abandon me you gave me up for adoption for my best chance at a better life if you hadn't of done that then I could have come and found you and brought you to Storybrooke and you would never have broken the curse and be reunited with your parents. We would have been living who knows where with you doing who knows what job it may not have been a bail bonds person it could have been a waitress or a mechanic, a lawyer or even a doctor."

Then Regina had her turn.

"Besides what sort of life you would have had if your parents didn't send you through the wardrobe I can tell you, you would have been a newborn forever, now what kind of life is that?"

"So you see Emma you weren't ever abandoned, grandma and grandpa did what they thought was best for you, to keep you safe. Sending you away was the hardest thing they ever did."

"Just think if they hadn't sent you here you never would have met Neal and you never would have had Henry."

Emma looked at both Regina and Henry.

"You're right I have no reason to feel guilty I gave you up Henry because I loved you so much I wanted you to have a better life than I did, to have the safety that I didn't."

"Dear what do you mean the safety you didn't?"

Emma looked at Regina with a desperate pleading in her eyes which told Regina that she didn't want to say in front of Henry.

Henry being smart picked up on Emma's apprehension and left the room.

"Ok dear Henry's out of the room."

"It started when I was 16 it may have started earlier but I can't remember I may have blocked it out, anyway the foster family I was living with..." Emma trailed off not sure how to phrase her sentence.

"Did they hurt you?"

"My foster mother was nice she took care of me, so did my foster brother they were the only two out of the three, the foster father on the other hand all he ever did was hurt me."

Before Regina could ask what he did Emma continued.

"Sometimes he'd hit me with his hand, other times he'd use either a belt or his favourite a beer bottle. There were times when he'd lock me down in the basement for another guaranteed beating, he always told me to keep quiet or he'd make sure I'd never have another home then one day I got so dirty playing outside that my foster brother ran a bath for me and my foster mom was waiting in the bathroom to help get the dirt out of my hair when she noticed I was struggling to remove my shirt she helped that's when she saw the bruises and cuts upon scars."

"What did she do?"

"She got out of there and she took my brother and I with her, she filed for divorce and took back her maiden name Swan, then she adopted me and so I became Emma Swan."

Regina sat beside Emma and put her arm around the younger woman.

"It sounds like they really care about you."

"They do or he does anyway, she hardly recognises me anymore."

Regina looked at Emma confused.

"She has Alzheimer's disease it started about a year before Henry found me. That picture of me in jail wasn't real it was part of an undercover operation that had to seem real enough to fool the crooks, all the pictures and files should have been deleted but I guess one of them got missed but it's not the worst undercover operation I did. I was young enough to pass as a teenager and so I went undercover to ferret out a rapist but it didn't go as I planned."

"You mean he..."

"No but I got made and so he beat the crap out of me. I was in a coma for 8 months when I woke up I couldn't remember anything about what had happened to me."

Emma started trembling as she remembered her past Regina took Emma's hands and gave a slight tug to get Emma to turn to face her.

"What happened to make you remember?"

"I suffered PTSD causing flashbacks which filled in the blanks, then I ended up not sleeping for a month which caused me to become sleep deprived. Anyway that's in my past and that's were I want to keep it."

Regina didn't press the matter as she could tell it was causing Emma to become distressed.

"How about I teach you how to cook?"

Emma quirked her eyebrow at Regina.

"Uh you do remember what happened the last time you let me in the kitchen don't you?"

Regina chuckled at the memory of the last time Emma tried to cook.

"But this time I will be there to help instead of letting you do it on your own, besides I don't want to have to clean the entire kitchen of ingredients."

"It wasn't the whole kitchen just a large part of it."

With another chuckle Regina stood up and took Emma's hands and pulled her up.

"Come on let's get started."

Under Regina watchful eye Emma made one of the best chicken parmigiana's Regina had ever seen if she was being truthful it looked as if it belonged in a restaurant, then Henry came back in.

"Hey moms what's for lunch?"

"Chicken parmigiana that Emma made and before you think about making a face she did an excellent job."

After lunch was finished Henry spoke.

"Ma that was one of the best chicken parmigiana's I have ever eaten."

"Oh really kid and who makes the other best chicken parmigiana? As if I don't already know."

"Mom makes the other best chicken parmigiana. So mom did Ma make a huge mess like last time?"

"Hey! I resent that kid."

Henry laughed and wrapped an arm around each of his moms waists and gave them a hug.

"I love you mom and I love you Ma."

"We love you too kid."