Chapter nineteen

"Why are you staring at me?" Regina asked as she turned away from the stroller where her daughter was happily snoozing.

Emma tilted her head, keeping her head balanced on her fist and smirked, "why can't I stare at my girlfriend?"

"Because...it's weird," the brunette laughed.

Emma rolled her eyes and brought her hand across the table, which Regina met with her own without hesitation, "the last two days were a living hell."

"I know."

"Speaking of which, how did you know what happened?" the saviour asked.

Regina looked uncomfortable for a moment and considered whether this piece of information would bother the blonde.

"I…was an apparition of sorts," she admitted.

"So you were a ghost?" Emma returned and received a nod, "and you saw everything?"

"If you are referring to your magic lesson, I saw all of it," the mayor laughed.

Emma sighed and replied, "will you please be my teacher again?"

"But you learnt so much from my mother," Regina replied in faux seriousness.

The blonde pouted and Regina rolled her eyes, "fine, but if you try to distract me again you'll have to go back to her."

Emma nodded vigorously, and fell back into her seat with a broad smile on her face.

"What?" Regina laughed nervously.

"It's comforting…knowing you were there the entire time."

"I am very difficult to be rid of, Sheriff, you know that," the brunette chuckled.

"The lack of heart gave me pause," Emma laughed.

Regina instantly frowned and said, "it's not too late to change my mind about you, Miss Swan."

"I'm pretty sure it is now that we have two kids, Regina, speaking of which," Emma dug into her pocket and allowed her hand to close around what she had been carrying around since they had left New York. She was just glad that Hook had agreed to occupy Henry while she went to a jewellery store. After a deep breath, she pulled the box out of her pocket and placed it on the table. "I should have done this a long time ago…"

Regina blinked a few times and stared at the velvet box that her girlfriend had placed on the table. They had of course talked about marriage, but after she broke Pan's curse, she was pretty sure that there was no way that it would ever happen.

Emma took her silence as assent and stood from the booth, in one swift motion, she grabbed the box and fell to one knee, "will you marry me, Regina?"

Before the mayor could reply, a squeak could be heard along with the bell ringing out, and everyone in the diner who had been silently watching the scene turned to see Snow, with Charming behind her trying to get the stroller through the door.

The saviour looked over at her mother and instantly smiled at how excited the brunette looked, Snow quickly nodded in encouragement.

Regina rolled her eyes, though she was still smiling, trust Snow White to interrupt her moment. But unlike all the other times, she found that she couldn't be angry at the woman who gave her Emma, especially since her nod seemed to be all the permission she needed. Not that she wanted the Charming's approval, or at least that was what she told herself.

"Regina…" Emma whispered, her voice now slightly laced with nervousness.

The mayor looked down at the sheriff and realised that she had yet to answer her question, finally she said, "of course I will."

The blonde let out a sigh of relief and rose to her feet to place the ring on the offered finger. She then leaned down and placed a quick peck on her fiancés lips.

The diner quickly erupted in applause and Regina laughed as the saviour fell back into her seat with bright red cheeks.

-Fourteen years later-

Henry pulled up to the white mansion which he had moved out of eleven years ago and took a moment to look at his childhood home. It still looked exactly as it had when he was ten, but he knew that everything would be completely different when he entered.

For one thing, it wouldn't just be Regina there to greet him.

He now had two sets of grandparents, another mother, two sisters, an uncle and even an aunt. It had certainly been a hard road to redemption for Zelena, but neither Cora nor Regina were willing to give up on the red-head. Even if the former witch spent a considerable amount of time in the institution, constant visits seemed to convince her that her vendetta was ill placed. She was now as important in his family as any other member, and even if he regretted the way he treated his mother before the curse broke, he could hardly argue with the results that it brought. His family tree was insane, but it was still perfect.

Stepping out of his car, he grabbed his duffel bag and walked straight to the front door.

"Hello?" he called.

Regina emerged from the kitchen within a moment and smiled at her little boy, who was no longer so little.

"I thought you were coming up tomorrow," she replied, still taking the chance to hug him.

"I'm a writer, mom, my schedule is pretty flexible."

Regina rolled her eyes, and pulled away from the hug, though she was still smiling broadly, "so maybe you could visit more often?"

Henry chuckled and said, "I'm here nearly all of the time."

Before Regina could try to argue, even if she knew that he was right, the front door opened and someone stormed without greeting the two people in front of her and went straight upstairs.

Emma walked in looking completely unfazed and let go of the nine-year-old's hand, but the girl still remained close to her.

"What did you do to Tamsin?" Regina sighed.

"Nothing," the blonde replied incredulously.

Regina raised her eyebrow at her wife and then looked down to the girl next to her, "what did your mother do, Emily?"

"She said Tamsin couldn't go to the cinema with Caine," the brunette replied instantly.

"Traitor," the blonde hissed, causing her youngest daughter to giggle. Regina and Emma had actually spoken extensively about this, the blonde was supposed to have given her permission after not allowing her to go on the last date.

"We talked about this Emma," Regina said lowly and Henry let out a small bark of laughter.

"She's fourteen," the blonde sighed.

"Henry went out with Violet when he was thirteen."

"That's different," Emma sighed.

"Being a little sexist, aren't you, ma?" Henry asked.

"You want your little sister to go out on a date?"

The brunette grimaced and shook his head, "no, but you know if you don't give her permission she'll just do it anyway. At least this way you know where she is."

Emma narrowed her eyes and finally sighed, "Fine…Tamsin," she called.

The teenager came down the stairs a moment later with a frown deeply etched upon her face, "what?"

Emma narrowed her eyes and her fellow blonde instantly let her shoulders fall from their tense position, "what do you want, ma?" she sighed.

"I overreacted, you can go to the movies as long as you finish all of your homework."

Tamsin looked at her suspiciously for a moment, before she turned on her heels and hugged Regina, "thank you, mom."

"Hey!" Emma called indignantly.

The blonde ignored her mother and Regina just laughed as she brought her arm around her daughter, Tamsin looked over at her other mother and said, "mom convinced you didn't she?"

Emma nodded and Tamsin turned back around to hug Regina.

The blonde rolled her eyes and then turned to Emily, "never become a teenager, okay?"

The little brunette giggled and nodded, leaning into her mother's side with a hug.

As chaotic as it was, everything was perfect in the Swan-Mills household.

A/N Hope you guys enjoyed this fic XD

I know a few people were expecting Zelena to be punished in some way, but I don't feel like it would have made sense considering the whole family vibe in this fic haha sorry if you were expecting something but it just didn't feel right to me.

Anyway, I would love to hear what you thought, and I need to thank QueenApples for being the amazing beta that she is XD