Hi evryone. So this is the last chapter. I just want to thank everyone who has reviewed, favourited and followed this story. it has been a pleasure to write and I would also like to thank EvilQueensDaughterRapunzel for the prompt. I am hoping to start a new story soon, from the stories I have previously mentioned but since they were all in quite high demand I am hopefully going to try work on all of them and post them up.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this last part. Thank you again for reading!

Seven years later…

It had been a tough seven years. The towns people took a while to warm to Cora, most thinking her redemption was just another one of her evil plans and that she would turn on them at any moment. However Cora had proved those people wrong. She had been as good as she promised she would be, showing her good side as well and as best as she could. She helped the nuns in their charity efforts, she helped Leo with any fairs or functions that needed to be organised and she helped Regina and Robin out with the twins as much as she could. She had really shown everyone in town that she wanted to be good and she now had a place back in the town.

Cora smiled as she sat back on the porch of the mansion and watched her family out in the snow. It had been a harsh winter, very cold and the snow had started the night before, never stopping until early that afternoon. Of course as soon as Roland and Lily saw the snow they had nagged Robin and Regina about going out in it. So Regina had dressed them, put them in their all in one waterproofs, wellies, scarves, gloves and hats, before she let them out to the snow.

Henry being fifteen years old now hung back a little, claiming to be far too old to play in the snow. He tried to act like the teenager he should be, moody and all but a snow ball from Emma to the chest was all he needed to let go of the moody teenager attitude and be himself, playing in the snow with his family. Lily and Roland tried their best to throw snowballs at their parents, their Auntie Zelena, Auntie Emma and Henry but their aim wasn't quite the best only getting in a few good shots here and there.

Cora laughed as Roland managed to trip Robin up sending him flying to the ground and then he and his sister jumped on their father. All laughing, the sound lighting up Cora's heart. Cora then smiled a little more as she saw Regina walking over to her, Regina smiled at her mother as she perched herself beside her on the bench. "Where's dad?" Regina asked as she looked out to her family, Robin and Henry now pinning the twins down and tickling them causing their giggling fits.

"He's just inside finishing off a bit of work. He's had a lot of work to catch up on recently." Cora replied. Cora then looked over to Regina, studying her daughter for a moment. She reached out running her fingers through Regina long dark brown hair. Regina had let her hair grow out over the last few years, her long hair giving her a look of innocence and it reminded Cora of when her daughter was younger. "I like your hair like this." Cora smiled.

"So do I." Regina replied returning the smile to her mother.

Cora looked back out to everyone else. Lily was now chasing Roland around the garden with a whole pile of snow in her arms and she chuckled a little at the sight. "Lily reminds me so much of you when you were younger. Looks and all."

"She does?" Regina questioned.

Cora nodded her head. "She looks exactly as you did at that age. Same personality too…well at least I'm sure that is how you would have been in the snow if I hadn't…"

"We don't need to talk about that mother…" Regina replied placing her hand on Cora's knee. "We have done enough talking of the past."

"Your right." Cora said with a slight nod. She let out a sigh. "What did the doctor say the other day when you saw him?"

"Oh he said I am doing perfectly. Everything is good and healthy." Regina replied with a smile as she placed a hand on her still flat stomach. "Twelve weeks along and no signs of being twins again."

"Well…that will be easier for you dear." Cora said with a slight smirk.

Regina laughed. "Yes…I can't imagine having two sets of twins."

"Have you told Roland and Lily yet?" Cora asked.

Regina shook her head. "No not yet. Robin and I were trying to figure out the best way to tell them. I think perhaps tonight we will tell them. Now that everyone else knows and soon enough I will start putting on weight."

"I bet they will be over the moon to be getting a little brother or sister." Cora said.

"I do hope so." Regina replied.

Lily ran over to Cora and Regina, jumping up the steps to the porch and skipping over to them standing right in front of Cora and leaning on her legs. "Grandma we gonna make a snowman. Come help us." Lily said excitedly grabbing Cora's hand and pulling lightly on it.

"You want my help?" Cora asked.

Lily nodded her head and then reached over to her mother and took her hand too. "You too mommy. We all got to make snowman. We gonna make a huge snowman!" Lily said and pulled on both of the women's hands.

Cora and Regina let Lily pull them from the bench and drag them over to where everyone else was collecting snow to make the snowman. Cora smiled as she joined in. This was what she had always wanted really. She had wanted her family, a family she could love and who would love her in return and now she had her heart back she had it. She no longer locked away her feelings, she no longer believed love was weakness. No, love is strength and she took it wherever she could and always would.