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I'm so, so, sorry for taking so long, but I had some serious blocking, but here it is. I liked very much the outcome of this chapter and I hope you'll like it as well.

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Dark Wings...

Chapter 16 – Just Like Family

For a moment there was no movement, no sound coming from anyone. The moment the savior mentioned her name the whole town went stiff, as if someone had put them under some kind of statue like spell.

Emma watched them curiously, trying to understand why saying her name did all that. She looked at Regina thinking that maybe she would be able to have some kind of explanation, but the smaller woman's gaze was glued to the pixie-cut woman, waiting to see her reaction.

When she was finally able to put two and two together, Snow couldn't help the tears that formed in her eyes. Not even thinking twice, she ran to the blonde woman and held her in a smothering embrace with Charming following suit.

The deputy was wondering what the hell was happening when something clicked in her head and she realized that the voice she remembered saying the words 'True Love' for her belonged to the woman that held her.

Letting Emma out of the embrace, Snow, still with tears in her eyes, cupped the taller woman's face stating "You found us. You saved us. I'm so proud of you".

"Y-you are my parents?"

Emma stuttered as she asked.

Snow and Charming merely nodded.

"Well, that's a lot to take in"

The blonde muttered to herself. Looking everywhere but the two people that happen to be her parents, Emma found Regina's eyes. The brunette who had been watching everything – Emma mainly – with close precision, did no more than just stand in the same spot then before, but that was more than enough for the sheriff take a grip of herself.

The look in the mayor's eyes, reminded Emma what she had really gone there for. Taking one deep breath as to steady her nerves, she turned to the crowd that was gathered before her and said:

"I'm very glad I found out who my parents are and everything, and you probably won't want to listen to me at all, but it's not that difficult to do what I'm about to ask, okay? All I ask for is that you leave Regina alone. No more death threats or anything alike"

Emma finished, her eyes transmitting all of her fears and the vulnerability she could not put out loud.

"But she cursed us. She killed many of the people we knew. She needs to be punishment"

She heard someone argue back – she couldn't point it whom exactly, but if she had to guess she would say it was one of dwarves, Sleepy, probably.

"He's right Emma, she needs to be punished"

Charming tried to persuade his daughter, no need to say he didn't do it.

Getting tired of this whole 'she's the Evil Queen, so she must die' thing, Emma used the only argument she knew it would work.

"Ok, there's one thing you all need to know. This damn curse only broke because Regina and I kissed. And I think all of you know what it means"

The blonde yelled impatiently, and the silence that followed after was deafening.

A few seconds later the sound of a thud was heard, and as people turned their attention to the direction of the noise, they were met with the non-conscious form of Snow White.

This time it had nothing to do with apples, well, sort of.

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After Snow White finally regained her conscience and began recovering from her shock, she politely dismissed her loyal people, and assured them that the debts the queen had with them would be paid, but first there were other matters that need her attendance.

Once the four of them were all gathered inside the mayoral mansion, Snow didn't even had the time to register the words that left her mouth.

"Why her? So many people fitting for being your true love and in the end it's her! Besides isn't your true love dead, Regina?"

"Firstly, don't think I'm all happy about this situation myself, do you think that I planned to fall for my enemy's daughters? Well, let me tell you that I must certainly did not. I also thought my true love was dead Snow, if I had known otherwise things would have been very different, but that's how love works."

Regina snapped back at the woman who caused the death of her first love, though her eyes remained glued to the blonde next to her.

"Look, you can't change the fact that I love Regina and that she loves me," Emma begin looking directly at her parents, well aware of the pair of deep brown eyes watching her closely. "and neither will I allow you guys to stand in the way of whatever may or may not happen between us just because you're my parents and you think you have the right for it. Well, let me tell you what, you gave up that right twenty eight years ago, and even if you hadn't, it would be nonsense for you want to interfere in my love life." Emma stopped for a few seconds to take a much needed breath before continuing. "Regina and I talked, and I asked her to give me some time to spend with you guys before we figure out what to do, but the thing is, that after knowing she loved me back spending one night away from her with this decision in mind almost killed me, so I'm afraid that you guys will have to learn how to live with each other"

Snow and Charming were both speechless, while Regina could barely contain the smile that began to form in the corners of her mouth.

"Are you serious Emma? We won't have to be apart anymore?"

The brunette wasn't able to register the words that passed through her mind and left her lips.

Standing face to face with the former queen the blonde let her arms loosely circle the smaller woman's waist, whom in return put her arms around the taller woman's neck, feeling as happy as she ever remembered being in a long time.

"After last night, I never want to be away from you anymore, it felt like someone had ripped my heart out. I didn't know it would be so painful, I mean it was just a few hours"

At the mention of having her heart ripped the savior could sense Regina's happiness faltered, if only for a few seconds, but she let it pass, she would have the chance to ask her about it another time.

"Well, that's how works with true love, Emma, being apart for even a short period of time can hurt two people deeply"

Snow interjected, understanding what her daughter was talking about and remembering the occasion in which Charming was supposed to marry Abigail and loving him was so painful that the only way out she found was to forget him, using the worst way possible.

"For as much as I hate to admit, Snow White is right. And I never want to be away from you again"

With that said Regina couldn't contain herself anymore, and taking advantage of the position they were in, buried herself in Emma's embrace, which the blonde was more than happy to return, feeling complete as the mayor settled inside her arms.

"Promise me if you ever leave again that you still come back to me?"

Regina asked in whispered tone, that Emma could barely hear, and Snow only did listen to it, because of how entranced by the scene was she.

Emma smile down at her and pressed her lips against Regina's briefly before replying.

"Always. I'll always come back to you"

For as much as she wanted, not even Snow White was capable of saying she couldn't see the love between the two women, it surrounded the entire room and it was just so contagious that she just had to smile at the scene unfolding before her eyes.

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Unknown for all the adults in the living room, Henry was sitting on top of the stairs watching everything, happy that his mothers had accepted the fact that they should not be apart and that the only place they truly belonged to was each other.

Tired of just sitting around and losing all the fun, he excitedly descended the stairs lunging himself into both his parents direction, almost knocking them out of their feet as he joined the embrace.

"Hey there kid"

Emma greeted her son, smiling down at him.

He only smiled in return while saying "You saved mom".

"I'm the Savior, aren't I? And what kind of Savior would I be if I didn't rescue the woman I love?"

The boy beamed, happiness written all over his pretty little face as he asked both his mothers

"Does it mean we can all be together now? Like family?"

"Yeah kid, just like family"

Emma answered her eyes wandering from him, to Regina and to her parents.

"A rather dysfunctional one for sure, but definitely family, right Regina?"

Snow said. The decision of trying and resolving the matters she and Regina has clear in both her mind and heart. For a long time she had known that one day she and her former step-mother would have to come with terms of what happened between them, of course she never thought the main reason for it would be for her daughter being Regina's true love, but if this was how it was supposed to happen, so be it.

Regina was well aware of what agreeing to Snow White's affirmation meant, but she was also very certain that as long as she had Emma and Henry not much really mattered.

"Yes, Snow, family. Our family"