Let me start by saying there will be another, real chapter update immediatly following this post. But because it has been so ridiculously long since I posted this story, this chapter here is going to be a short, bullet pointed, cliff notes version of the entire story so far. I know how much it sucks when things don't update because you forget what happened and can't catch up and don't want to reread everything. So hopefully, this helps catch everyone up with very little effort on your parts and you can enjoy the story going forward.

Beginning…

-Regina and the gang save Henry in Neverland

-Regina meets Luca, a lost boy - brings him home

-Henry doesn't want anything to do with Regina - still thinks she's evil.

-Henry stays with Emma - Luca stays with Regina

-Luca adapts to Storybrooke life - takes an interest in soccer

-Emma and Regina develop a closer relationship, starting with flirting and moving towards actual dating, but only in secret

-As things start progressing between them, Neal shows up out of the well.

-Henry is happy and relieved and he and Neal assume they're now going to be the perfect family.

-Regina realizes that she needs to say something if she wants to save her relationship with Emma, so she confront her outside of Emma's apartment one evening.

-Regina pleads her case and her and Emma kiss. Henry sees this and flips out, screaming that Regina is evil and whatnot.

-Regina leaves and decides she has no place in Storybrooke anymore. Leaves notes for Henry and Emma and then she and Luca drive away

-Time jumps two years later and Regina and Luca are living happily in California after traveling around the country and even parts of the world previously.

-Luca plays soccer, has a close group of friends and enjoys school.

-Regina herself has developed some friendships as well and finds a best friend and confidant in Susan, another soccer mom.

-Regina has been working on a project with orphaned and foster children, opening a center for them and providing a place for them to safely work on school work or just hangout and relax without -stress of anything else to bother them.

-Regina has developed a special bond with a young girl, Lilly, and is actively attempting to foster her at home.

-In this time, Henry and Emma have been actively searching for Regina and Luca since their disappearance. Emma does searches ever so often in attempt at locating them and at one point, found Regina in Colorado. But when she went to find her, she barely missed her as Regina and Luca had already moved on. Emma went back home even more hopeless than ever.

-In Storybrooke, due to the pressure from her son, parents, Neal and the entire town, Emma stays with Neal and agrees to his marriage proposal at one point.

-On the day of the wedding, Emma is at her office, doing a search for Regina, and Henry walks in. At that point, he'd still been adamant that Neal was her happy ending and everything was fine. But he admits that he knows she's not happy and that she shouldn't do it.

-Emma feels furious because in her mind, she did everything for him and now, he suddenly doesn't want it.

-She goes ahead with it, but Henry objects at the wedding and pulls out the letter Regina left for Emma. The one where Regina professed her love for Emma and desire that they could have been happy together. A letter Emma cried over time and time again over the period since Regina had left.

-Emma and Henry run out and their relationship starts to repair at that point forward.

-About a year later (at the two year point) Henry is in Emma's office and happens to see that a search Emma started, actually pulled up something - Luca's name at a school in Cali.

-Henry sneaks away and makes his way there, even going as far as to enroll himself in school and there, he gets his first glimpse of Luca, and then Regina - feeling understandably emotional about the obvious changes in not just physical, but their emotional beings.

-Regina opens the center officially and on that day, Henry finds them and spends the time deciding on how to move forward.

-After a near accident threatens Luca's life, Henry jumps in to save him and exposes himself for the first time.

-Regina is shocked obviously, but brings him home and finds out Emma doesn't even know where he is. She makes him call her and Emma is on her way to California.

-Henry and Regina talk, but it's been years and there's too much to discuss.

-Regina gets a call that she can foster lilly and Henry stays the night.

-In the morning, Henry sees how much of a family they are. They include Henry when they go to pick up lilly and spend the day together. Henry gets the opportunity to say he's sorry to Regina and despite the fact that there's a lot of healing that will need to happen, she tells him she loves and forgives him.

-When they get home, Emma is there.

-Things are super awkward as Emma and Regina are face to face for the first time and it goes similar to how it did with Henry.

-Emma ends up leaving and things are left unresolved.

-Emma finds out about Regina's relationship with Susan and decides to crash a party Regina was throwing with her.

-Emma professes her own feelings and regrets in a very public way at the party and Regina surprises her by telling her they weren't in a fairytale anymore and Emma couldn't do things like that. It leaves her heartbroken, but determined and Emma and Henry end up finding an apartment

-Later, Regina is driving Luca and Lily when they get into an accident. By coincidence, it's in the place Emma and Henry were just getting groceries at and Emma responds.

-Regina ends up with a broken foot and an inability to drive.

Catching up with the last two chapters

-Emma steps in and volunteers to help around with getting food and driving Regina around. She fixes the disposal and helps make dinner and does whatever she can to spend time with Regina.

-Emma spends the day acting as Regina's chauffeur.

-Things are awkward as hell when love songs keep coming on the radio.

-They make it to the center.

-Regina is on crutches from her broken foot and slips.

-Emma catches her and they have a "moment" as they're now touching.

That's a wrap. Now onto chapter 25!