Emma frowns as she looks at the sobbing Regina. She knew that Cora was her mother and they had a…difficult relationship. She knew the story thanks to Henry and his book, but she never thought Regina would be so heartbroken over it. She understood a few tears for the mom she never had and the mom she never would have. Emma shook her head. She realized then what all this meant.

She looked over at Gold, "That's why I am alive isn't it? You did something that made so she died in my place. How?"
Everyone stared up at Gold, except Regina. He shrugged, "You could always ask Snow. She is the one who obtained the object."

All eyes shifted over to Snow. Her jaw dropped in realization and she whispered, "The candle."

David, who was the closest one to her, was the only one that heard, "What candle? Snow?"
Snow turned to look out the window, "Before my mother died I asked the Blue Fairy for a way to save her. She said there was no way unless I used a dark magic. The candle. One side was black and the other white. She said if I held the candle over someone's heart and whispered their name, then lit it, that person would die in my mother's place." She rests her head against the glass and welcomed the cold, "I couldn't do it. I felt I had let my mother down, but she said she was glad, that it meant everything she had taught me was good." She turned to face the group with sad eyes, "She died soon after. On my birthday."

David touched Snow's shoulder, "You did the right thing, Snow."

Regina looked up, "It wasn't the Blue Fairy."

Everyone snapped around to look at her. Emma stepped forward, "What do you mean?"
Regina sighed heavily and wiped the rest of the tears from her eyes, "Snow was tricked. By Cora. Cora…" She bit her lip then shook her head, "She poisoned your mother and tried to get you to do something evil. She did so I could be Queen. Everything she did was so that I would be who she wanted me to be."

Hook stood up from the stool where he had been listening, "So let me get this straight. You used the candle that your mother, disguised as the Blue Fairy, gave to Snow to kill her?" He scratched his chin, "Sounds like poetic justice to me."

Emma slapped his shoulder, "Really, Hook?"

He shrugged, "What? She tried to kill you. She almost succeeded. I'm just saying what comes around goes around."

Emma rolls her eyes, "Cora was Regina's mother. However grateful I may be, I would never have asked her to do that." She stepped closer to Regina, "I would never ask you to sacrifice your mother for me. I just…I know what it's like to…" She looked back at Snow and David, "Not have anyone who would keep me safe when I had nightmares or to give me advice. I know how much it means to miss out on having a real mother."

Regina smiles, slightly, "When she was alive she never listened. It is so hard to be good when your mother tells you, you are doing everything wrong." She touches Emma's hand, "I did it because Cora would have wreaked havoc on our lives and Henry needs both of us." She looked down, "The last thing she said when I put her heart back was 'You would have been enough.' I just wish I had known that was all it took a long time ago. Maybe none of this would have happened."

Emma squeezed her hand, "But then Henry wouldn't be here. Our lives…" She holds her arms out, encompassing the room, "All of our lives have been hard. We have had to fight and scratch and kick to get where we are. Some of our actions were wrong and some were good, but everything that lead to us being here matters." She laughs as she looks at each face, "Half of us are enemies and here we are in the same room. I know a lot of death has come out of this and I know that it is hard to forgive, but everything that happened to us hasn't been without its reward." She touches Henry's hair, "Henry is my reward. And yours." She says to Regina then turns to Neal and smiles, "And yours."

Henry laughs, "Wow, Emma, way to get all mushy."

She laughs and hugs him, "I'm just saying we all have a lot to be thankful for."

Regina takes Henry's free hand, "I agree. I'm sorry that it took me this long to see it." She looks over at Snow and David, "I know I did wrong making this curse, but I can never be sorry. Because of this curse I have Henry and I won't apologize for that."

Snow smiles brightly, "As much as this curse took away from me, it gave me a lot more. I could never ask you to apologize."

Mr. Gold shrugged, "As touching as this moment is, I have business to attend to." He looks over at Emma, "Consider your favor fulfilled."

They all roll their eyes at him as he walks out the door.

Emma rubs the back of her neck as she knocks on the door of the hotel room. She didn't know what she was going to say or how she was going to say it. All she knew was that she needed for him to hear it. She needed him. Ever since her near death experience a week ago she couldn't stop thinking about him.

He opened the door and broke into a wide grin, "Hello, love. I was starting to think you forgot about me."

She laughed up at him, "I could never forget you. No matter how hard you tried to make me. You were always somewhere in the back of my head. In the back of my heart."

Hook reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear letting his hand linger on her cheek, "I have regretted every day that I didn't come back with you. I felt like a piece of me was missing. I felt as if I wasn't whole."

Emma smiles and steps closer to him, "Let's not lose another second." She touches his cheek and stands on her tiptoes, so close their lips were almost touching, "I want you. I want every part of you."

He grins and closes the space between them with a passionate kiss. One that had so much heat and so much love behind it. He pulled her into the room and closed the door. Nobody would take this moment away from them. They would have each other. He hoped that he would have her forever.