… their relationships evolved
This is just the beginning.
Zelena had a terrible scream of pain.
It was happening, just right now.
The labor.
And it hurt, hurt so much.
And she was there, on this bed, crying.
And finally, after hours of that, she was able to take her baby, her little child in her arm.
"Hello, she whispered to the little baby who was now screaming with all her forces, hello, my little Elizabeth."
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The child had a good health, and regarding to who her mother (and family in general) was, everyone had in mind that some day, the little child would soon have powers, and would also have to learn to use them.
But now, no one really thought about it, just to raise the child. A child who would have a great, great family, just as Henry had.
A family that also was extremely complex and complicated.
(Just as Henry's too.)
A mother, Zelena, and a father Robin. They were her closest family, her parents, and in fact that could have been all, if you just took in mind the link formed by blood.
(With Regina who was present too, of course.)
But it wasn't all, there also was Hades, who lived with Zelena and lived with her since now like four months, and who was as Elizabeth' step-father.
And, on the other side, we had Regina, who was with Robin, and was as a step-mother for Elizabeth. And of course, to make these things more complicated, she also was Elizabeth' aunt.
Which made of Henry her cousin.
(Or half-cousin, if it can be said.)
And then it was all.
So yes, doing this family tree surely would take a long time.
(Not as long as for Henry's family, but it also was.)
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Time passed, as it always does, even though it was kind of a surprising thing in a town as Storybrooke.
Elizabeth was just a baby, growing up normally and acting as a baby. So she wasn't not normal, her powers still didn't appear, but there was magic in her. It would, with time, when she would be aged enough to be able to control them.
And she was a beautiful child, with the red hair of her mother and the eyes of her father.
She was loved by everyone and, without knowing it, she was the one who would help Zelena to get a complete redemption.
There were still people in town who didn't accept Zelena, or at least, who didn't come to see her and talk with her. There was Rumplestiltskin, of course, and that could be understood after what she did to him, but there was a statu quo between them.
They didn't attack each other, and they didn't see each other.
But there was Belle also, who didn't forgive the witch, who was now pregnant, since two months, and who decided to go to see Zelena and her child.
For the two of them, it was the first step before the beginning of a friendship, as Belle, just as Snow was great at forgiving people.
Things were different now, as Belle saw it. Zelena really changed, just as Rumplestiltskin did too, and the young woman really felt happy that Regina did find in her a sister.
§§§§
Five years later
"Mom ?"
Zelena looked at the little girl, and smiled. The child really was a charming girl, kind and beautiful, and she really loved her. To become a mother hadn't been easy, and it took time for her, but she did it.
"What Elizabeth ? What did you want to tell me ?
- Dad Hades wants to see you, he send me to tell you to go to our house."
Zelena smiled again. The child wasn't disappointed by the situation, which was really strange. Because, in a way, the girl had four parents, two mothers, and two fathers.
She called them all the same way, so there was every day a "dad Hades" or "dad Robin", or "mom Zelena", or "mom Regina". She just called them mom or dad when she was with them, and it was funny to see two people listening to her when she just said "mom" or "dad" and that they were both in the same room.
"Tell him that I am coming soon."
She put the book she was reading, The Wizard of Oz (yes, she had been interested to know what people there thought her story happened. She felt disappointed when she read how easily she was defeated by Dorothy. Because yeah, she was more powerful than that.)
Hades was there, waiting her, and he came next to her and embraced her. Since their second kiss, things really changed between them, and their relationship really began.
And Hades truly was a good father for Elizabeth.
(Oh, and yes, don't forget the other gods, the little girl had thanks to "dad Hades" plenty of uncles, aunts and cousins by alliance that loved come here to see her.
Complications and complications, again.
But Elizabeth didn't care, she loved her great and complicated and wonderful family.)
And Hades began to talk.
"Zelena, we have been together since more than five years, and our life is wonderful. Our daughter, Elizabeth, is the proof that we have been able to form a real family, together (even though with the presence of your sister and Robin – Zelena had a little laugh). I am more happy than I ever was, even with Persephone, and I thank you for that. I love you, so tell me Zelena, will you marry me ?"
THE END
(And to be continued…)