Hey guys, here is chapter 14 and I'm so sorry for the delay in updating this. Last week I was totaly busy because of my University. I spent a whole night studying and ended up taking a 2 on the test. (2/10) I was so angry!
To Hannah Holloway; I'm so sorry for the delay. Maybe Cora deserve some chance to change? I don't know, I just think she souldn't have died so fast in the show. I'm sad. I like Regina/Emma moments too and I have some moments more nice coming, just wait!
To Ailec-12; Really! I'm not lying. I think Regina don't want tell anyone about the dreams, I don't know, maybe she thinks it will pass with time? But I think it is not working for her. Annnnd, the names babies (you already know it :/) will be here in the next chapter, unfortunately for you, it will not be a surprise. See you, sweet! haha
To Aussie-Muggle; Yep, you're right! Sorry haha and thank you for correcting me, please keep reading and reviewing my story.
To Guest; I don't know your name *sad* but I loved your idea, seriously, you opened my mind haha now I have some ideas. Thank you so much! Really! Thank you!
To Marina Masterson; I'm glad you liked. I think your source is totaly right and I'm so sorry but I can't promise you anything. This is a drama story... I need DRAMA! haha But I think Cora could change for her, just as she did for Henry. Don't you agree with me? Love u migs ;)
To Ana Paula; Migs, Thank you so much for read my story! haha Please, keep reading and LEAVING ME REVIEWS! haha Because of you I'm writing many sweets moments between Regina and Archie. You'll see.
To Annie; Thank you, my beautiful and fantastic beta reader.
Thank you all of you!
Enjoy it!
CHAPTER 14 - THE NIGHTMARES ARE BACK
Henry was asleep when he felt someone shake him from his sleep.
"Henry, Henry, wake up!" Emma called.
"Emma?" The boy asked still sleepy.
"Come on, Henry! We need to find Regina and get out of here! Cora is coming." Emma whispered frightened.
"What? Where is my mom?" The boy asked rising more seriously.
"I don't know, Henry, we need to find her, Archie's waiting for us out there." She said getting up from the boy's bed and running towards the door.
"She's asleep, she must be in her room, let's go" Henry said pulling Emma toward the Regina's bedroom.
"No, Henry, I've been there. She wasn't there. Come on, we need to find her."
"But she was asleep, she is very tired, where is she?" The boy said worried.
The two tried again in Regina's bedroom, but she wasn't there. They searched for her in every room possible, but couldn't find her. Leaving only the home office left to check. When they opened the door, the two let out a sigh of relief at seeing Regina asleep on the couch.
"Mom?" "Regina" They both tried to wake the woman.
"What? What is it?" Regina opened her eyes frightened.
"Come on, Regina, we need to leave. Cora is coming!" Emma said, helping Regina to sit on the couch.
"What? My mother is coming? Damn! Where's Archie?" She asked panicking.
"He's out there waiting for us. David and Mary Margaret are also there in case she comes and they need to stop her from entering" Emma explained.
Regina left the couch with Henry and Emma's help. She was huge and the baby could come at any moment. Running as fast as a pregnant woman could run, Regina, Henry and Emma went to the door of the house. Smoke appeared between them and the door. Cora appeared smiling insanely.
"Trying to get out before me, my dear?" Cora asked with a dark laugh.
"Stay away from her!" Henry shouted and before Regina knew it, he and Emma were placed in front of her protectively.
"Regina, I said I'd find you. You think you can escape me?" Cora said starting to get irritated. "And you two... you really think you can fight me?" Cora said, with a wave of the hand was throwing Henry and Emma away from Regina and slamming them against the wall.
"No!" Regina shouted. "Don't hurt them! What do you want?" She asked feeling helpless against her mother while a pang grew at the bottom of her belly.
"You know what I want, Regina. I want you!" She said taking steps towards Regina.
Henry watched stunned when Cora came dangerously close to Regina and invoked a spell. With the noises coming from inside the house, Archie, Mary Margaret and David ran into the house in time to watch a purple smoke that was enveloping the two powerful women.
They tried to approach, but an invisible force prevented them from doing so. The two women were silent, staring into the eyes of the other deeply. They were fighting and they were communicating in a way that only they can understand. They spent few minutes in that way, a dispute between them was happening.
"Mom?" Henry shouted worriedly when he saw blood starting to run down Regina's legs, making a puddle of blood on the floor.
"Regina?" Archie yelled worried, trying to approach her, but failed. "Stop, Regina! You're hurting yourself, Regina!" He kept screaming.
The four were staring transfixed at the two women, they couldn't do anything. Henry watched as his mother's face contorted in pain, yet she didn't break eye contact with her mother. Suddenly, more blood began to drip down her legs, now her nose was bleeding too and her whole body turned pale.
A strong explosion happened and the people in the room had to close their eyes to avoid the strong light could hurt their eyes. A few seconds later, they opened their eyes and there was only silence. The women, who once were floating in the room, disappeared. Suddenly, Emma shouted as she saw Regina lying on the ground.
They ran to her and tried to wake her. Archie was stunned, Mary Margaret and David couldn't believe when Emma touched Regina's neck looking for some sign of life and couldn't find anything. She was dead. Dead. That word sounded in Henry's ears and he couldn't believe it. In the next second, he was yelling at her and holding the lifeless body in his arms, waiting for her to open her eyes and said everything was fine, but she didn't.
His precious mother had died.
"Henry?" The boy can hear the despairing voice pulling him away from Regina. Henry?"
"Henry?" Emma and Mary Margaret were shaking the boy and calling him.
"It's okay, Henry! It was just a dream, just a dream!" Emma said, trying to calm the boy in her arms, but Henry couldn't control the tears.
"What happened, Henry?" Mary Margaret asked worriedly, meeting his eyes.
"I want my mother!" The boy struggled to speak between desperate sobs. "Where is my mother? I want to go see her now!" He said, his eyes swollen as he rose from the bed.
"But Henry, it's the middle of the night! I'm sure she's asleep" Mary Margaret tried to speak.
"No." the boy screamed "I want to see my mom now" he said.
"Why don't we do the same as before? You call her and check if she's okay and you will stay with her tomorrow." Emma tried, knowing that the boy would never sleep if he didn't speak with Regina. These nightmares he was having were becoming more frequent and although the boy didn't tell Emma about what these dreams, Emma knew that these were about Regina.
"No! I don't want to talk to her on the phone, take me there, please?" He asked crying.
The two women saw that there would be no other way to calm the boy. Emma had to take him to Regina. Even though it was late at night, it was the only way the boy would go back to sleep. Emma picked up the phone to call and tell Regina that she was going to leave Henry, but the boy stopped her, saying he didn't want to wake his mother now.
When the two arrived at Regina's door and Emma was about to ring the bell, Henry took a key from his pocket and opened the door.
The boy threw the bag on the couch and made his way to the stairs, being followed by Emma. Silently, he opened Regina's door and Emma could see the look of relief on his face when the boy saw that she was sleeping. Emma was at the door when she saw the boy approaching the bed and take a good look at his mother, as if making sure that she was really fine. Gently he whispered into his mother's ears and shook her shoulder.
It didn't take long for Regina woke up. She was still very sleepy when she opened her eyes and saw her son's figure. He had been crying, she knew it.
"Henry, what happened?" She asked, looking much less sleepy and more serious than usual.
"Nothing happened, Mom. I just couldn't sleep..." The boy tried to lie to not worry Regina.
"Henry, I know when you're lying, what happened?" She asked looking into his eyes and then she noticed Emma's figure in the door "What happened, Miss Swan?" She asked a little irritated.
"He had a nightmare and asked me to bring him to you" Emma explained.
"The nightmares came back, Henry?" Regina asked worriedly.
The boy only nodded. "Can I sleep here with you tonight?" He said a little embarrassed.
Regina gave him a loving smile, knowing that the boy would not talk about their dreams. "Of course you can, come here."
Emma watched as Henry ran to the side where Perdita was lying and got under the covers, hugging Regina.
"Good night, Mom!" Henry said and closed his eyes when the tranquility of being in his mother's arms invaded him.
"Good night, my love." Regina smiled at him, snuggling up in the comfort of his son's body and kissed his head. "I love you."
"So, good night to you two. I'll see you tomorrow morning, Regina" Emma said closing the door and leaving them to sleep.
"Regina, we must come back to thinking about names... what do you think? You already have some in mind?" Archie asked looking at Regina's eyes while massaging her swollen feet. They were waiting for Henry so Regina could take him home.
"I don't know... I have some names in mind, but I'm not sure yet. And you?" She asked letting out a moan of pleasure when Archie massaged a particularly painful point on her feet.
"I also have some names in mind, not many actually, just three" he replied.
"Which?"
"Well, I thought about Kate, I like that name and I don't know why." He said raising his eyebrows "I also like Alexandria and Karol" He said sincerely.
"You're definitely not going to name my daughter Kate, and much less Karol!" Regina said looking very seriously at him.
"Why not, Regina? These names are very common and beautiful."
"Exactly, Kate is a very common name and I don't like it, Karol, I don't know, just does not fit."
"What about Alexandria?"
"Well, Alexandria is a beautiful name, but we still have a lot to discuss."
"Okay, and what are your ideas?" He asked curiously.
"I didn't think much about it yet, but I like Sophia and Julie."
"For God's sake, Regina, these names are horrible" Archie said getting up from the couch and going to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
"There aren't horrible! Yours are. You want to name one of them Kate, you're completely mad!" She was gesturing with her hands.
"I'm not mad, Regina. Sophia, I have nothing against that name, but I don't think that matches my daughters!"
"And what do you think matches them if you don't know them yet?" Regina said challenging him with a look.
"Okay, I guess we'll know when we find the right names. Although I think we will never come to an agreement, you may have to choose a name and I choose the other" he suggested.
"Out of the question!" She spoke quickly.
"Out of the question?" He asked staring at her.
"Of course not! I will not let you use these horrible names on my daughters..." She said quietly as she passed her hand on her belly.
Archie sat next to her and touched her belly.
"I'm so jealous of you" He said as he ran his hand gently down her belly. "You're with them all the time and you can already feel them, I can't even feel them moving or kicking" he said sadly. "And what if they don't know that I am their father when they are born?"
Regina had to restrain herself from crying in front of Archie. She could blame the damn hormones, but it still wasn't easy for her to be crying in front of others, even if it is the father of her babies.
"They will know. Actually, I think they already know" Regina said offering a smile to Archie.
"Why do you think that?" He asked a little more curiously.
"Because I only feel them when I'm around you." She said looking at him. "I know that they only do very small movements and sometimes I can barely feel them, but it happens when you are talking to me or are around me" she says, smiling and rolling her eyes.
Archie smiled back.
"And I'm sure you'll soon be able to feel them kicking, it will not take long, it's just a matter of time!" She said aloud, but it was like she was trying to say it for herself. "And the names? We can think about it later. Henry can also add his opinion and I like Alexandria!" She said smiling at him "But it's still just an idea."
"I like that name!" He said smiling at her.
All the spare time they both had always revolved around their babies, their names or how things were going at City Hall and how the training with Emma was going. Regina never spoke to anyone about her constant nightmares or that she was visiting Cora. Although she hated herself because of it, she loved her mother more than ever and she really believed that Cora was changing, and she was.
Some weeks later, Henry entered Regina's house, followed by Emma. The boy was euphoric. He ran into the kitchen, where Regina was eating a snack and threw his school bag on the counter. The two women only watched when the boy pulled out a piece of paper from his backpack and showed it to Regina.
"What is it, Henry?" Regina said as she recovered from the little scare.
"I made a list. I've spent the last few weeks working on it, but now it's definitely ready!" The boy said with a triumphant look.
"A list?" Emma asked, approaching Henry and taking a look over the boy's shoulders to see what was written on the paper in his hand.
"Yes, a list! Mom said that I could help choose the names, so I have prepared a list of all possible options." He said smiling.
"Oh, I see!" Regina said getting the list from Henry's hand and glanced at it quickly. "There are many names here, Henry" she said.
"Yes, I know there are many, but I had to gather all the possible options. Come on, let's choose the names" Henry said excitedly.
"Henry, don't you think Archie would like to join us?" Regina said.
"We can call him and he'll come!" The boy offered.
"Sure! Tomorrow we can have dinner together, then go to Archie's apartment and choose the names." Regina offered.
"Okay, but we have to choose these names soon, Mom! I already have my favorites!" The boy said taking a piece of food that was on the table.
"And what is it?" Regina asked extremely curious.
"Tomorrow I'll say" The boy said with a sly smile to his mother and left the kitchen.
The next morning, Regina was waiting for Emma to do the daily workouts when Emma and David came through the door.
"David? What are you doing here?" Regina said rising from her sitting position.
"He said he wanted to help us, so I decided to bring him" Emma said.
"But he has no magic" Regina offered confusing.
"I know that I don't have magic, Regina, but still I can help you" he offered with a smile.
"I don't see that happening, but how can you help me?" Regina asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I can help you. I cannot cast a spell, but I use my sword very well. I can help you in your defense lessons, for example!" He volunteered.
Regina thought for a minute, she didn't expect him to offer help. But he was right, he could help them with training. If Regina cast a spell on the sword of David, it would be able to deflect the magic and then he would be able to defend himself and it would be interesting for Emma to also have her father as her coach.
"Come on, Regina. You know it's a good idea!" Emma said walking closer to her.
"Maybe you can help us" she said thinking "But you have to be here every day in the morning." She replied quickly, earning a nod from David.
"Ok! Shall we begin?" David said with a smile grateful.
"We will, but give me your sword!" She ordered.
Emma and David looked at her curiously but with some suspicion. Although she was trying to change, it was still a little hard to trust her completely.
"You think I'll attack you with your own sword? If I wanted to hurt you, I could do it without your sword!" Regina said irritably, when she noticed the look of distrust that she was receiving from him.
He drew his sword and handed it to Regina, carefully watching what she was doing.
Regina closed her eyes and ran her hand gently over the sword that was surrounded by a bright purple smoke.
"What are you doing, Regina?" Emma asked a little curiously, but totally fascinated with the bright light surrounding the sword.
"Here!" Regina said giving back the sword to David. "It's protected against magic. If you know how to use it, magic can't hurt you." Regina said quietly.
They looked even more ecstatic by the sword and then by the woman in front of them. She was even helping them. She was even trying to improve, trying to be a better person, trying to change.
"Can I try that?" David asked extremely curious to see how it worked.
"Of course!" Regina said with a slight smile. "I will cast magic on you and with your sword, you can defend yourself and deviate from it."
"Ok, let's try!" David said excitedly.
Regina formed a fireball in her hand, not a fireball as big as Emma hoped, but still, a fireball more powerful than Emma could do. Regina looked at David, who was watching every Regina's movement, and threw the fireball toward David. David used his sword to defend himself and was speechless when he saw that he had hit no spark.
"That's wonderful!" David yelled, breaking the silence that had settled in the stables. "Can we do it again?"
"David, this is not a joke, we must train Emma!" Regina said a little softer, but still serious as ever. She was still surprised by the excited reaction he had.
"It's true! Ok, let's go!" He said, smiling at the two women.
So, what you think about this chapter? I know it wasn't sweet but the next, I promise, will be! Wait for it.
In the next chapter you will see babies' names. You wanna try guess? (It not worth for you, Ailec-12;)
Please, leave me reviews, let me know what you think! :)
See you in the next!
Bárbara