Disclaimer: I own my laptop and imagination, not once or the characters.

Just in case you were wondering, I think in terms of timeline I'd place this just after season 1 finale where the curse is broken and the wraith hasn't appeared because Mr Gold decided to use the power of love and not call upon that evil. This chapter goes back and into more detail, and it has cute snow and charming.

Chapter 2

"Snow?" Charming heard a sob into the phone and instantly panicked, "Snow, what's wrong?"

"It's Emma, she-" another wailing sob, "She loves Regina."

"What? What did you say? Snow?"

"Please James, come home." Charming couldn't bear to hear his wife like this and immediately headed towards their apartment, still on the phone to his true love. "Tell me what happened."

"Emma, she wanted to know why Regina and I hate each other so much and I told her about what she did to my father and before I could even explain any other things she, started defending her, denying that Regina would do that." Snow tried to calm her breathing.

"She was so agitated, I've never seen her like that, I asked her why she said that, she knows Regina was the Evil Queen and she just- she looked right at me and said "I'm in love with her" and walked out" Snow sobbed again, this time for longer, hiccuping into the phone as Charming whispered calming words to her.

"I'm coming up the stairs now," she opened the door and waited to see his face. As soon as he reached her he took her into a warm embrace, soothing her.

"It'll be alright Snow," Charming felt his heart ache seeing his wife like this, the thought of their daughter being in love with the person they hated most was painful beyond measure.

Regina unlocked the door to the mansion, letting the blonde in first, she led her into the living room where they sat silently. Soon Henry came running down the stairs talking about some new comic he really really needed to get. He stopped upbruptly when he noticed both his Moms sitting down together in the living room. The young boy proceeded carefully into the room.

"Emma?" He noticed her frown and hugged her, and Regina watched his affection towards her with a tinge of jealousy. "Emma'll be staying over tonight."

The Mayor stood, and made her way to the kitchen, feeling annoyed with herself. "I hope you like lasagna," the brunette said with a small smile noticing Emma and Henry had followed her in.

Emma nodded and let out an equally small smile, knowing she shouldn't let herself bring everyone else down due to her grumpy mood, "I love it actually," her words a whisper but Regina caught them perfectly.

Emma sat at the dinner table and watched Regina's every move, Henry telling about his day. Regina smiled and asked him about his assignments and the comic book he'd spoken about before. Watching the scene hit the blonde with a strange sense of family, of comfort. She realized she had no idea how to make things right with Snow, and she was afraid of whether the mother she'd longed for was upset with her. Of course she would be, Emma after all had yelled at her and proceeded to admit to loving the Evil Queen that had cursed Emma away from her mother.

Well she's the one that put me in a damn closet, at least if the curse hit we'd have been sent here together. The Sheriff immediately regretted the thought as she noticed Henry grinning at her, which caused her to stand up suddenly and walk over to him. She placed her hands on his shoulders and realized that after everything, it was definitely worth it.

"Don't you think so, Emma?" The boy smiled up at her and she looked down confused.

"Think what?" She looked up at the brunette who stood with a hand on her hip.

"Don't you think Batman is so much cooler than Superman?" Emma smiled at Regina, and then down at Henry.

"Hell yeah!" Regina frowned at the choice of words and superhero, but glad that Emma was brightening up. "I wouldn't have pinned you for a Superman type girl, Madame Mayor."

The grin on Emma's face allowed Regina's first full breath of relief of the afternoon, and she turned smilling to herself as she stirred the sauce. "Of course I am Miss Swan."

The three continued like this talking about whatever made them smile, the two women bickering and flirting, even after they'd eaten dinner and as they helped Henry with his homework.

As the night grew, Henry went to bed and the two women were left alone in the living room once again. A yawn escaped Emma's lips and the brunette couldn't contain a smile.

"Come on," Regina stood, turning off the tv, and showing Emma to her room.

"Hey I was watching that" Emma said standing,

"My house, my rules," the blonde looked deep into Regina's eyes and the air electrified. She took a step closer towards the older woman, "I'm a grown woman, Regina."

Regina tried a stern face but then looked down shyly and turned quickly to walk up the stairs. Her guest followed suit and led her into the guest bedroom. Everything was prim and proper, as expected and Regina told her to wait as she left the room and came back minutes later with a change of clothes for Emma.

"Thank you again for letting me stay," Emma spoke gently as she took the clothes from Regina's hands.

"Miss Swan, as aggravating as you can be, you are the mother of my child." the Mayor blushed at her own choice of words and quickly moved topic, "I hope the clothes are good and I- Goodnight, Emma." She spoke quickly and walked out of the room, leaving a smiling Emma.