AN: Thank you all for being patient with me! I have been so busy with work and life i haven't had time to sit and write. So i hope you enjoy this chapter. To anyone who is following Eventide i promise you i will do an update soon!

Emma pulled into the side of the road gently stopping the little yellow bug. Emma opened the driver's door and slid out allowing Henry to get out behind her. She walked round to the other side of the bug and opened Regina's door and gently maneuvered her out of the vehicle.

"Are you going to tell me where we are now? I tried to follow the turns in my head but got lost pretty quickly." Emma shot a look at Henry who smiled back at her. Emma had deliberately driven around the town before heading out on the right road knowing the Regina would try and plot their course.

"Nope, because then that would spoil the surprise, although I am pretty sure its not going to be a surprise anyway as you created this town." Emma slid her hands down Regina's arms and linked their hands at the same time as motioning for Henry to grab to basket from the car.

"Well I may have made the town but I have been too busy with mayoral duties to explore it all. You may surprise me." Emma smiled at that thought. She had always tried to keep Regina on her toes ever since the beginning of their relationship but most of the time she had failed because Regina could always tell when Emma was up to something which is why Emma had taken to doing things spontaneously.

Emma gently pulled on the brunette hands urging her to move forward onto the path that leads into the woods. Henry stayed slightly behind carrying the basket and the blanket. He was growing fast and getting stronger every day.

Eventually after a few stumbles over some of the rougher terrain they reached the spot that Emma had been thinking of and lead Regina right into the middle. She let go of her girlfriend's hands and walked over to Henry to help him lay the blanket out on the grass. After about 20 seconds of being stood still, Regina sighed and crossed her arms, having no idea that both Henry and Emma were behind her laying food out.

"Emma? Will you please take this ridiculous blindfold off so I can see where we are because I am getting impatient and have work I could be doing instead." Both Emma and Henry had looked over at her when she had started talking and were quietly giggling to them selves. The sight of Regina getting angry at thin air was quite amusing to the pair.

"Okay okay…" Emma sighed as she got up off the blanket and went to stand in from of the regal woman. She reached round her, planting a small kiss on her cheek as she undid the knot in the scarf and let it fall away.

Regina looked at Emma with a small glare at being kept waiting, until she glance over Emma's shoulder and took in her surroundings. They had come into a wooded glade, wild flowers growing up betweens bright green blades of grass and the sun beaming down on them from the circular opening in the canopy of the trees.

It was absolutely beautiful and Regina couldn't help but turn full circle to turn to take it all in. She came to stop when she was once again facing Emma and gave her warm smile.

"Emma this place is beautiful, how did you find it?" Emma shrugged before looking around the glad and back at Regina.

"A few horses escaped a couple of months back, I tracked them down to this place and have been wanting to bring you here for ages."

"Moms, can we eat now I'm starving!" Henry whined from his spot on the blanket but there was a small smile lighting up his face, he loved seeing his moms together, happy and content. Emma took Regina's hand and led her over to the blanket and settling herself on top.

For the next hour the talked, laughed and shared stories of all the adventures they had been through since Emma had arrived in the small sleepy town. They spoke about their family, work and school, and even some of the villains they had faced.

Emma reached over to the basket and pulled out the camera she had placed in their before leaving the house. She turned it on and quickly flicked though pictures that were on there. She looked up at Regina with a beaming smile as she saw the woman was smiling and concentrating on what Henry was talking about so decided to make use of the opportunity.

She pressed the button and reviewed the photo that she had taken, now aware that Regina was looking at her with a small glare. Regina didn't ever really like her picture being taken every time Emma got he camera out she shied away or took it from the blonde. She passed the camera to the woman so she could see and Regina's face wrinkled.

"Please delete that, it's not my best angle" but Emma just reached over and took the camera off of her.

"Not a chance, you look beautiful and more relaxed than you have in weeks. Now come on we need a family photo." Henry jumped up from his seated position and looked round the glade.

"We should take it in the grass, with the flowers," Henry said looking from Emma and back to Regina who gave a small nod in acceptance "and we should lay down with our heads all meeting in a star shape. Henry ran off to find the perfect spot and then waved them over.

All three settled into position and Emma took a test shot to make sure she knew how to position them all in the frame.

"Okay, are you guys ready?" With a yes from both other parties Emma lifted the camera up into position and then looked over at Regina only to find the brunette was looking back at her. This brought a small loving smile to both of their faces and so Emma hit the button.

She brought the camera back down to see the picture. To her it was perfect, Henry had a brilliant smile and was looking directly up and into the camera and his moms were looking at each other silent messages of love passing between them.

"I love our family" Emma said never feeling safer, happier or more at home than she had ever felt before.

Emma lifted a hand to the glass covering the photo which they had had blown up to put on the wall and stroked over the faces of her son and her partner. Emma never imagined that she would feel the way she felt now. Having been bounced around from foster family to foster family and then when she had been old enough, running away and learning to fend for herself she had always thought of herself as a nomad and that a family situation would never appeal to her.

But with Henry and Regina and her parents she finally felt like this was what she had been looking for her whole life. Like the final piece of the puzzle, the one that kept her bouncing around the country, had been found and that now she was complete and that there was nothing else on Earth, or any other universe, that she wanted. She had finally found her forever home.

Tbc…