Hey folks! Chapter 18 is up! I loved writing this chapter and I really hope you all like this. This chapter is going to bring more sense for you and you'll see why I chose Regina to be pregnant with twins... and a little scare is coming.

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CHAPTER 18 – THE PROPHECY

Regina and Henry continued to have nightmares and they were becoming more frequent. Regina continued to visit Cora, sometimes she visited her mother two or three times a week. Cora was proving to be a much better mother than she had been in years. Their relationship was growing and every day Regina loved her mother even more.

Belle and Mr. Gold were snacking when Belle finally said "Rumple, I'm so happy with you, you've really changed. You're even helping Emma and Regina" she said cheerfully.

"There is something I never told anyone about Regina, Belle."

"What's that?" Belle asked confused.

"There is a prophecy that the real battle between the Good and Evil will take place between two witches. Although Emma is the Savior, Regina is the real weapon between good and evil. When I met Cora, I realized that the woman had potential for the evil. She was my best student, she was willing to do anything to achieve power. And she did." Mr. Gold continued talking as he watched Belle's watchful eyes. "When Cora was pregnant, I could feel the power coming from her baby. When a witch has a daughter, that daughter is born with magic and her mother's magic becomes even more powerful than before. I knew Cora was expecting a girl, because power flowed from her. When a witch is pregnant with a boy, this boy doesn't gain power, only the women of the family."

Belle interrupted the man. "Why are you telling me this?"

Mr. Gold glanced at his beloved and continued "This prophecy also says that from the witch's belly that will destroy evil will be born twins, two girls, too powerful. When I heard this prophecy, I knew instantly that Cora's baby was that witch, Regina. We made a deal, but Cora broke it and stayed with Regina. After Regina was born, Cora became the most powerful witch I ever met until now. When I'm near Regina, I can feel the power that comes from her and I can tell you, Belle, I never felt so much power coming from only one person."

"Does Regina already know about it?" Belle asked curiously.

"No! I thought no one knew, but when I saw Cora attacking Regina in the mine, I realized that Cora already knew about this prophecy and will make sure she doesn't think twice before killing Regina's daughters, if she knows that Regina is expecting two girls." Mr. Gold said.

"So we should tell Regina, don't you think?" Belle asked confused.

"No!" Mr. Gold almost cried. "She can't know that because the prophecy says that she will have to find the power to destroy Cora within herself and by herself. If I tell her, she'll not find this power, she may even believe, but there'll be no power in her, not the needed power to destroy evil."

"This is crazy." Belle said still trying to understand all the things she had just heard.

"I know it's confusing to you, but believe me, Regina will need to figure it out alone and it cannot be now. We have to expect this until these girls are born."

"So you already knew she was pregnant with two girls?"

"Not at first, just when I found out about the twins."

Then they finished eating and Belle went to the library.

Regina, Emma and David continued training every morning. Regina began to realize that apart from Emma getting more powerful, her magic was fading with time. She was getting scared. She didn't know why it was happening, but she continued to train in the hope of recovering her magic, but it wasn't happening.

Emma noticed a few weeks ago that there was something wrong with Regina's magic. She never had the opportunity to ask because David was always around, but she could feel Regina's magic getting weaker every day.

Regina used magic only when she was training with Emma and it was true that she didn't want to use it, but now that she realized that she was losing her magic, she was terrified because without it she couldn't protect herself or protect her babies. With the curse broken, many people were still angry with her and wanted revenge and she couldn't risk her children's lives. Magic was the only way to protect her and she knew that many people didn't try to hurt her because of their fear of her magic.

David was trying to attack Emma as she and Regina tried to deflect his blows. Regina was watching the spells that Emma was casting when David turned suddenly and threw his sword towards Regina.

Everything happened so fast. Regina saw the sword being thrown in her direction. She smiled, raised her hand and mentally cast a spell to block the sword. To her surprise nothing happened. She was helpless. Their eyes widened in horror when they saw the sword suddenly stop inches away from her belly and fall to the ground.

Emma dodged an attack from David and watched as he threw the sword towards Regina. She watched as Regina wasn't taken by surprise and raised her hand. She was horrified when nothing happened and the sword continued its way. She had no time to think. She raised her hand toward the sword and closed her eyes and then she opened in time to see the sword, which was now frozen, falling to the ground a few inches away from Regina's belly.

David and Emma let out a relieved sigh, but Regina was still holding her breath and with wide eyes.

"Regina, I'm sorry, please, I didn't do it on purpose!" David said running to the woman who was a few feet away.

"Regina, what happened?" Emma said running to her.

Regina didn't answer. Her magic had failed and if it wasn't for Emma she probably would be dead. She stood there staring at nothing.

"Regina, tell me, are you okay?" David said, holding her cold and trembling hands.

"What happened? Why did the sword not stop?" Emma said almost shouting to get attention from the woman.

As if coming out of a trance, Regina took a fright.

"I... I'm fine... I..." she stammered, trying to speak, but was interrupted by Emma.

"You're not fine! Are you crazy? He almost hit you!" Emma shouted to the woman.

"I didn't do it on purpose, I'm so sorry, Regina!" David quickly apologized still worried about her.

"I'm okay, Miss Swan." Regina tried to say in a voice more serious than she could, but seemed shaky even to her own ears. "And I know you didn't do it on purpose, David. I don't know what happened, I think I was distracted." Regina said trying to hide the real reason. Her magic had failed.

David looked at her a little suspicious, but still worried. Emma, however, looked into her eyes and could see that she was not telling the truth.

They decided to stop the workout and David went to the police station, even against his own will.

Emma decided to stay. She had noticed the difference in Regina's magic in recent months, but this? She could have died. They should talk about it and Emma knew Regina was hiding something. Emma saw that Regina had lied when she said she was distracted. Lie.

"Regina, we need to talk." Emma said as she followed Regina who was walking toward her car.

"About what?" Regina frowned.

"How about that? You could have died today! Something is happening and you will tell me what it is!" Emma said starting to get irritated.

"I told you, Miss Swan. I got distracted!"

"Lie! You're lying!" Emma shouted.

Regina looked a little irritated and then started to walk again toward her car.

Emma ran to the woman and grabbed her arm.

"I'm talking to you, Regina."

"I heard and I said what happened. Let me go!" Regina shouted as she pulled her arm away from Emma's grip.

"You're lying, Regina, and you know that I know when someone is lying. What happened?"

"I have said. Enough talking." Regina said and turned her way.

"Your magic is weakening, isn't it?" Emma asked suddenly.

Regina stopped and held her breath for a few seconds without looking back.

"That's it, isn't it? You think I didn't notice?" Emma asked again.

Regina turned slowly and found Emma's worried eyes.

"Why haven't you said anything before, Regina?"

"Because even I don't know what is happening." Regina said throwing both hands in the air. "I realized some time ago. I thought it had something to do with my pregnancy and I thought that was just changing my magic, but it isn't." Regina continued, speaking lower now. "It's fading. I'm losing my magic and today... I... it... simply didn't work."

"We can fix that, Regina." Emma said softly "We can talk to Mr. Gold, he should know why is this happen-"

"You're crazy!" Regina shouted. "No one can know that, no one! Many people in this town hate me, they haven't tried to kill me yet because they fear me, if they know I'm losing my magic, they wouldn't think twice, they would kill me and I'm not risking my babies' lives."

"But Regina-"

"No buts! This conversation is over." Regina said and got into her car, leaving behind a speechless Emma.

Unfortunately, neither of the two women noticed a shadow that hid behind a tree. The person saw and heard everything that happened that morning.

Emma learned to respect Regina and even developed a fondness for the woman, but she often hated the attitudes of the brunette. Regina was stubborn and self-sufficient and Emma hated when the woman acted alone.

Emma wouldn't give up on this conversation so easily. She waited all day and when she finished her shift at the police station, Emma made her way to City Hall where she knew Regina would still be.

After talking with the secretary and being sent away by the same woman on Regina's orders, Emma became angry and walked into Regina's office.

"I told you to leave!" Regina shouted from her desk when she saw Emma slamming the door behind her.

"I don't care what you said. We will finish our conversation" Emma said walking toward the seats in front of Regina.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Miss Swan. We have nothing to talk about."

"Don't give me that 'Miss Swan' thing, Regina!" Emma almost shouted angrily.

"Enough!" Regina clapped her hands on the table and stood up, grabbing her purse and coat and headed toward the door. "I don't have to sit here, listening to you."

"Ah, but you will hear me out." Emma said pulling her arm. "You listen to me, because we're in this together. You are teaching me and I have never complained, because I trust you. Then this happened this morning and you're acting like it's the end of the world. We will think of a plan. Now you'll sit there and we'll talk." Emma shouted as she faced the woman and pulled her to sit on the couch.

Regina let out an exalted and angry breath when Emma pushed her to the couch. As much as Regina was strong, Emma was much more. She sat down, crossed her arms over her belly and looked the other way, ignoring Emma in a slightly childish way.

"You can be angry as much as you want." Emma said looking at the woman sitting beside her.

"Uh-huh" Regina nodded angrily.

"Okay, good! Now let's talk like civilized people."

"I don't know how this conversation can be considered civilized. You are forcing me to stay here!" Regina turned slightly to face Emma with anger.

"See, you've even started talking." Emma tried a sarcastic joke and watched as Regina snorted angrily and rolled her eyes, which made Emma laugh softly. "You think it will go away?"

Regina gave a confused look to Emma.

"Magic!" Emma explained "You think your magic will disappear completely?"

"I don't know." Regina shrugged and then dropped, showing her weariness.

"You think it's because of them? I mean, maybe this is happening because you're pregnant, I don't-"

"No! It is not related to my pregnancy. Witches never lose their power during pregnancy. I don't know any witch who lost her power..." Regina said.

"Okay, you're doing something different? Maybe eating something or drinking something, I don't know-"

"No!" Regina said as if Emma was asking the silliest questions in the world "Nobody loses power because they ate or drank something different, Miss Swan."

"Okay, so you don't think we can trust Mr. Gold? I mean, he also has much to lose if you lose your power, without you we cannot defeat Cora."

"I don't believe in it, Emma. You are extremely powerful and he knows it and... I don't... I don't want anyone to know about this, please." Regina said and Emma could see how vulnerable Regina was.

"Ok, I will not tell anybody, nobody needs to know, ok? We'll find a way, I promise!" Emma said with a tranquilizing smile.

"Don't make promises you cannot fulfill."

"I don't!"

A silence settled between them, but it was soon broken by Emma.

"You mean I'm free of drills in the morning?" Emma said with a huge smile to Regina.

"Not at all, Miss Swan. I haven't lost my magic and I won't liberate you. Our classes will continue as normal, even without magic I'm able to continue teaching you." Regina said quickly. Emma just rolled her eyes.

"Okay, no problem. I'm very good with magic." Emma said.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that." Regina looked at her and both fell into a laugh.

After a while, Regina's phone rang. Archie was wondering what she was doing, how she was feeling and what time she would leave. Regina answered every question and then they hung up, a smile graced her lips. Emma noticed. 'Operation Amor' occurred to Emma.

Emma smiled at Regina, who quickly hid her smile.

"You love him." Emma said gazing at her own mobile.

"What? What are you talking about?" Regina was blindsided.

"Archie, you love him!"

"No, I... I don't love him..."

"Admit it, Regina. Come on, isn't that hard." Emma smiled cheerfully.

Regina rolled her eyes. "You say I'm stubborn, when in fact, the adjective best applies to you."

"I'm not stubborn." Emma said crossing her arms.

An amused chuckle escaped Regina's lips, surprising her.

"Sure." Regina said smiling. Suddenly a huge affection that now she felt for Emma, surfaced.

"Tell me something." Emma asked. "You were afraid of losing Henry?"

"I still am." Regina admitting with a softer voice.

"What about Archie? You keep trying to push him away and seem angry with him, when indeed it seems that you are afraid to lose him. That's why this game of cat and mouse exists between you two."

Regina frowned. The feeling of tenderness aroused by Emma quickly faded, giving way to anger. "Emma." growled Regina, but Emma just laughed aloud.

"Your anger towards me confirms that I'm right." said Emma.

"I hate you!" Regina screamed so childish.

"You don't hate me" Emma said, still smiling. "You like me, Evil Queen."

Regina sobbed.

"I like you too." said Emma and Regina's face contorted in pain lines.

"You like the Evil Queen?" Regina said huskily. "It's stupid!"

"Maybe." Emma admitted. "But I like this Regina that I am getting to know."

A spark of hope which shone in Regina's eyes confirmed to Emma that part of her mission had been accomplished.

"Now I must go." Emma said walking toward the door. "I have to go pick up Henry who is staying with a friend. In fact... do you want to stay with him tomorrow? Something tells me he will not complain." she whispered in confidence.

Regina let out another laugh. Emma walked over to where Regina was and gave her a quick hug, then bent down and kissed her belly, whispering a "get well, girls."

Then Emma went toward the door.

"E-Emma..." Regina said uncertainly.

Emma turned and, when she faced Regina, her face lit up when she identified the sentiment stamped in her eyes. "Don't worry, I will not tell anyone about our conversation and I'll keep you on your feet, whether you like it or not." she said emphasizing the last sentence. Basically, they both knew that Regina would like that.

When Regina started to say something, Emma interrupted, saying with a smile: "I care about you, Regina."

Regina frowned and again opened her mouth, starting to speak. Again, Emma interrupted "Don't worry." Emma said rolling her eyes. "I'm not going to tell Archie that you love him. You will..." Regina rolled her eyes also "very soon. And don't argue with me." Emma exclaimed when Regina opened her mouth again.

Regina smiled, a feeling of warmth returning to wrap her completely and lighting her features.

That is it! What do you think? Regina and Emma as friends. I would love to see that happening on the show!

The next will be fluffy! More Archie and Regina, of course.

Thank you for reading until here!

See you in the next!

Bárbara