Storybrooke
-4 months later-
"So, Regina's due date is nearing." Belle said.
"I know." Rumple said and put his hands arms around her waist, holding her close.
"Should we visit or something like that?" Belle asked, leaning back into him, her back were pressed against his chest.
"I don't know, maybe we should call her first, see how she's doing." Rumple suggested.
Belle pulled away from him and got her phone from the back, she dialed Regina and then waited for her to pick up.
"Hello." Regina answered.
"Hi, Regina, it's Belle. Umm, we know you're due date is nearing and we were wondering if you need something and should we come there to help you with preparations and things." Belle explained.
"No, I have everything ready, thanks for offering." Regina answered. "Who are you talking to?" They heard a female voice ask Regina, they couldn't hear Regina's answer.
"Sorry about that. Where were we?" Regina said and focused back on the conversation.
"We were asking if you need us at the birth, we'd love to come but you know with the whole Robin and Emma stalking us situation we thought it'd be risky." Belle said, to someone who was listening to their conversation it would be like she was exaggerating but she wasn't. Robin and Emma followed them around the town in shifts, it was ridicules and very annoying. Emma promised Henry she'd try her best to find Regina so she was following them all the time.
"Yeah, you're right. But we will video chat and you'll get to meet the baby and then maybe you could come once when the baby would be born." Regina said.
"Of course." Belle confirmed.
"How's the situation in the Hood family?" Regina asked and sighed.
"Better, that's for sure. I think they are starting to get happier." Belle explained, Rumple lost his interest in the conversation, "call me once you're done talking about that thief, I still want to talk to her." He said and walked to the back of the shop.
"Henry?"
"He is… better, he still misses you, but he's not like before, he smiles, sometimes laughs on a good day." Belle said. Regina's departure hit Henry hard, he missed her dearly and even if she said that it was no one's fault that she left he couldn't stop blaming himself and feeling responsible for her leaving.
"That's good. I need him to be okay, and to be at least a little happy so if he smiles and laughs I'm grateful." Regina said softly.
"Yeah, I need to go, but Rumple wanted to talk to you." Belle said and went into the back to look for him.
"Okay, bye Belle, I really do hope to see you soon." Regina said.
"Bye and take care of yourself and the little one. Speaking of which we can't keep calling it little one, have you decided on the name?" Belle asked.
"I'm still deciding." Regina answered shortly.
"Okay, bye." She said and handed the phone to Rumple.
"Did you find her?" Rumple said.
"Well, hello to you too, I'm feeling great, what about you?" Regina said sarcastically.
"I'm sorry. How are you? How's the little one?" Rumple said and Regina chuckled lightly thinking on her previous conversation with Belle.
"I'm fine, the baby's fine, we are both fine." Regina said. "No, I haven't found her, maybe you were right, maybe she is really dead and the globe showed my baby." Regina hadn't told him that she had found Zelena, partly because Zelena insisted but also because she didn't want to imagine what he would do to her this time.
"Yeah, I'll be right there." Regina said to someone in the background. "I have to go, bye, and you should really tell her." Regina said.
"I can't tell her you know that… Okay, bye, take care."
"She is more understanding then you think Rumple, tell her." Regina said and hung up.
Boston
Zelena waited until Regina finished the conversation and went to sit with her on the couch.
"How's my favourite sister doing today?"
"I'm your only sister." Regina answered.
"Exactly." She said and they both laughed.
"Where were you today? I woke up and you were gone." Regina asked, Zelena had moved to her place so that she could watch over her and the baby, and they were getting closer as days passed.
"I had an emergency at the hospital." Zelena said and Regina didn't ask farther about that subject.
"So, what did the Golden couple had to say?" Zelena asked causing Regina to laugh again.
"I told you to stop calling them like that. Belle's being careful and kind and wonderful and Rumple wanted to know if I found you I told him no and that you were probably dead and that the globe showed my baby." Regina explained.
"That's... good, I guess?" Zelena asked and Regina nodded.
"Are you hungry?" Regina asked Zelena.
"Can we order and just stay on the couch and watch a movie or something?" Zelena said.
"I was kind of hoping you would say that." Regina said with relief.
"Since when are you the one for take out?" Zelena asked her sister.
"I just don't feel like moving and I can't... I just want to eat and considering your cooking skills, take out seemed like the best option."
"Oi! How dare you mock my cooking?" Zelena said and pretended offended.
"You burned spaghetti. Burned a spaghetti, I didn't even think that was possible before." Regina said and that shut Zelena up. They ordered pizza from a pizzeria that was close to them but it still needed some time before it arrived and they decided to pick a movie.
"Regina, what movie are we going to watch?" Zelena asked.
"The... ummm... Saw, let's watch SAW." Regina suggested.
"What kind of movie is that?"
"A horror.
"No, you're pregnant and your due day is in two days!"
"Fine." Regina said grumpily and then an idea came to her. "How about a musical?"
"Okay." Zelena said and then the bell rung. "I'll get the pizza, you set everything up."
Regina pulled out a copy of "The Wizard of Oz" and put it in the DVD player, she had this movie for a long time but could never get Zelena to watch it. Zelena quickly returned with pizza, she got a dishtowel and two plates from the kitchen and set it all up on a little coffee table in front of them. Regina returned to her original seat, taking a slice of pizza.
It took some time for Zelena to realise what they were watching "The Wizard of Oz? Are you kidding me?" She turned to Regina but she only shook her head and said "I'm pregnant, I want to watch this movie." Regina explained.
"Yeah, that's why we're watching this." Zelena said, her tone obvious that she didn't believe her but she kept watching anyway.
"Over the rainbow? What? No. Oz isn't over the rainbow just a portal jump away." Zelena said after she heard the song.
"No, she didn't die she was one of the good ones and slippers do not work like that you can take it off if you want to." Zelena commented on The Wicked Witch of the East's death. Regina just looked amused and listen to her sister correct everything. "Is that supposed to be me?!" She half shouted when The Wicked Witch of the West appeared. "I don't... this isn't... I feel offended." Zelena said. "A brain, a heart and a courage, well I guess they got that right." Zelena was relativle quite for the rest of the movie when she saw her movie death. "That is not... A bucket of water can't kill me!" She yelled in frustration.
"Do you want a cup of tea? To calm down?" Regina asked and Zelena only nodded, it was quite for some time and then she heard a shattering of glass and something that sounded like Regina gasping. She quickly went into the kitchen and found Regina holding her stomach.
"I... I... think I'm... in... labour." She managed to say between breaths.
"Oh, crap." Zelena said. "Okay, calm down, take deep breaths." Zelena instructed. "Where is your phone we need to call Doctor Montgomery." Even though she had Zelena living with her, Regina decided that Doctor Montgomery would be in charge of her pregnancy.
"The couch." Regina managed. Zelena grabbed her arm and carefully pulled her towards the door but not before she took Regina's phone, she quickly dialled Doctor Montgomery. "Doctor Montgomery." She heard the woman answer her phone.
"Regina is in labour, we're heading to your hospital, hurry up and meet us there." Zelena hung up, she didn't care if she was rude she needed to get Regina to hospital. "TAXI!" She yelled and one stopped in front of them, she put Regina in the back and then sat next to her. "She's in labour, take us to the hospital." Zelena said to the cab driver.
"I thought you were a midwife!" Regina hissed.
"I am, but I'm also your sister and you already have a doctor who is going to deliver your baby." Zelena said, soon they stopped in front of the hospital. "Thank you." Zelena said to the driver and gave him the money. She exited and helped Regina out, they walked in the hospital and she saw Doctor Montgomery and went to her. "Help her." She said, the doctor called for someone to get a wheelchair and they took Regina to the labour, leaving Zelena alone in the waiting area.
After 14 hours someone finally came and told Zelena that the baby was delivered and that she could see Regina. Zelena went into her room and found her half asleep. "Hey." Zelena whispered as she got closer.
"Hi." Regina said, she was tired and in pain the labour exhausted her.
"Scoop over." Zelena said and laid next to Regina, she put her hand on her hair, stroking it and humming lightly to get her to fall asleep.
After a few hours, a nurse woke them up because she bought them the baby. Zelena asked "May I?" and the nurse just nodded. Zelena picked up the baby carefully. "Hey, there little one, I'm your auntie Zelena." She said smiling down at the baby.
"Can I hold her?" Regina asked after few minutes.
"Of course you can." Zelena said and gave her little niece back to her mother.
Regina's eyes softened and she smiled brightly when Zelena gave her the baby. "Hello, there beautiful, I'm your mommy." Regina smiled brightly at the baby. "Look at what I've done, she is beautiful." Regina said to Zelena. Zelena kissed Regina's temple. "Should I get your laptop do that you can video chat with Belle and Rumple?" Zelena might not be okay with Regina talking to Rumple, but she knew how much the both of them mean to her. Regina merely nodded, not taking her eyes away from her daughter. Zelena set everything up and sat behind the laptop with the baby so that they couldn't see her.
Regina waited and soon Belle's face appeared on the screen, Belle saw Regina's face and got worried.
"Regina, what happened?" Belle said.
"Could you get Rumple so that I can tell you together?" Belle nodded and went to call Rumplestilstkin.
"Give me her." Regina said to Zelena and soon her daughter was back in her arms. Rumple and Belle appeared and saw Regina holding a baby and smiling at her. "Rumple, Belle meet my daughter."
"She's so beautiful." Belle commented.
"Congratulations, Regina." Rumple added. They were both smiling widely.
"What's her name?" Belle asked.
Regina was about to answer and then glanced and noticed that Zelena wasn't in the room.
"Excuse me? Where is the woman who came with me?" She asked the nurse that was still in her room.
"She is just outside, she wanted to give you some privacy."
"Could you call her in, please?" The nurse nodded and went to get Zelena, Zelena entered and sat on the bed.
Regina finally answered. "Lily Cora Mills."
"Are you sure?" Zelena asked.
"Yes, my mother loved me in her last moments and we won't call her by her middle name, we'll call her Lily*." Regina said. Rumple and Belle chatted more with her while Zelena had the baby, they asked who was with her but she'd just brush it of and say "no one." Soon, they hung up.
"You're tired, you need to get some sleep." Zelena said to Regina.
"What about you?" Regina asked her.
"I'm going to call the nurse to take the baby, and then I'll go home, take a shower and sleep." Zelena said.
"That sounds good." Regina commented.
"Bye." Zelena said, hugged Regina and was out of the room.
Storybrooke
Belle and Rumple walked into the diner. "Oi! Everybody, take one of whatever you want, we're paying." Rumple said.
They went into the last booth next to the window and sat down.
"She is beautiful." Belle said.
"Yes, she is." Granny went to them to take the orders, strangely they order two glasses of wine. Soon, their wine arrived.
"To Lily Mills." Rumple said and raised his glass towards Belle.
"To Lily." She said and they both took a sip.
"Who the hell is Lily Mills?" Granny asked them quietly.
"No one." Belle said.
"Don't lie to me. I know you've been in contact with Regina, is she alright?" Granny asked concerned.
"Can you keep a secret?" Belle asked.
"By that she means if you tell anyone even Red, I will hunt you and your family down and skin you." Rumple warned.
"Yes, I can."
"Lily Mills is Regina's daughter, she was born today and she is absolutely gorgeous." Belle said.
"Do you have a photo of her?" Granny asked interested, she believed that Regina could change and she felt happy that Regina now had something to hold onto.
*Lily - From the name of the flower, a symbol of purity. The word is ultimately derived from Latin lilium.
So, someone pointed out that if you ride while being pregnant that endangers the baby, I had no idea, I'd suck at being pregnant. And also internet says that the first labor lasts for 12-24 hours thus 14hours.. Someone wanted a graphical vivid labor, google it or read it somewhere else... I'm going on a vacation(YAAAAAAAAY!) so I might update Saturday before I go and if I don't I'll see if i can update while I'm there. Thanks for reading!