Updaaaaaaates! Lol! Hopefully your guys' day is going better than mine. I'm about to throttle my government hahahahaha! So happy reading! Please leave a review! I haven't forgotten about CM I'm just super caught up in this one. I will give CM an ending I promise!

"This bed is divine," Regina sighed happily as she spread herself across it and rolled beneath the soft heavy blankets while David chuckled at her from the bathroom.

"This whole house is amazing," he replied in wonderment as he looked around the bathroom. It was not as big as the mayor's master bathroom but it was still considerably large. Again he flicked on the tap and water came rushing from it. He had lost track of how many times he had turned it on and off that morning and he was still fascinated by it. It came so quickly and easily and it could come out hot or cold just by a simple change of direction on the handle.

He turned it off again with a smile and then turned to the large glass box. It too had a similar water control handle inside of it on the wall and it looked as though the water came out the top from the silver spout with many holes in it. He had to guess this was the shower the mayor had spoken of. With a curious hum he turned and left the room and went back to his beautiful bride haphazardly sprawled and tangled through the sheets and blankets of the bed. The sight of her had him laughing quietly and he slowly crawled up on to the bed and over top of her, grinning even wider when she closed her eyes and laughed happily. Just happy. He adored seeing her happy.

"How about," he started with a mischievous grin as he lowered himself down closer to her and she pulled her bottom lip between her teeth with her playful grin, "we go try out this shower of hot water," he continued and she let out a small laugh and rolled her head back when his lips lightly pressed against her jaw and neck, "and see what that brings out of you," he grinned and she laughed, her throat vibrating beneath his heavier and wetter kiss against her jugular.

"That sounds like an excellent idea," she breathed with a wide smile and closed eyes, another laugh softly leaving her lips as his kisses wandered lower and grew hotter as his fingers pulled the blankets down to slowly reveal the entirety of her bare body. They may or may not have gotten a little carried away last night. At least they stayed quiet. "Are you going to be able to make it to the shower?" She teased with a shaky breath as his heavy hands wandered to her hip and ribs while his mouth nipped at the top of her breast. It was a wonder to her how he got her head spinning so hard so fast.

"Haven't decided yet," he breathed and she purred as she stretched like a cat beneath him.

...

Henry woke up first. At first he was confused but who wouldn't be? For the last six months he had been spoiled with a bed so enormous that he never woke up in the same spot twice and now all of a sudden he was confined to one place. But as he took a deep waking breath it all came back and he smiled sleepily. His mother's scent filled his senses once again and he nuzzled his nose back in to the hollow of her neck.

Her arms were heavy around him and she was warm against him and he couldn't even remember the last time he had fallen asleep in her arms. It felt good. His whole body felt like jello in the best way as every muscle remained completely relaxed. After a long while of staying there like that with his eyes closed and his face in her neck, Henry carefully pulled himself higher so he could look at her face and smiled at the small frown and furrow in her brow as she tightened her arms around him at his movement.

She was an adorable sleepy evil queen and he had to bite his bottom lip to keep from laughing in endearment. When she settled there was still the remnants of a sleepy pout on her face and he couldn't help but laugh just a little before he moved his head just a little closer and kissed her nose. At that her eyebrows twitched and released their furrowed place and her mouth softened as she took a deep breath through her nose and smiled upon her drawn out exhale as she dipped her head to settle her forehead against his, "morning, mom."

"Good morning, Henry," she breathed, her voice groggy and raspy with sleep as she nuzzled the side of her head in to the pillow they shared. Her smile never leaving her mouth. "I don't want to get up," she whispered and he chuckled softly which had her smiling more as she slowly blinked open her eyes, her sole motivation for doing so being that she could look at him again after he had been gone for so long.

"We don't have to get up," he replied and she hummed gently through her smile and lifted a hand to tuck his hair behind his ear and it lingered there. Her gentle hand on his head, her thumb moving softly along his temple. It made him smile but he wasn't lost in her touch. He was lost in her eyes.

Big, friendly, calm, dark eyes. They were bright with love and affection and they held him steady but most of all they recognized him. They knew him. Those eyes had watched him grow up, they knew what he liked and disliked, they knew his habits, they loved him, they scolded him, they forgave him. The queen's eyes were different. They were learning him. But the comfort of his mother's eyes went unmatched. It felt so good to be known. It had a lump growing in his throat and right on cue her concerned voice was heard.

"What the matter, sweetheart?" She frowned softly and moved her thumb across his cheek as he let out a stressed and teary laugh that had her frown growing in concern.

"I just really missed you," he nodded and sniffed and her frown pulled in to an empathetic smile as her dark eyes flicked back and forth between his. Then with another set of sniffs he moved closer to her, hugging her tighter as he sunk and buried his face in her neck again.

Regina did not hesitate to hold him to her. With an arm around his middle and another around his shoulders with a hand in his hair she kept him close and her brow gently creased as her son's tears dampened her neck. "I love you, Henry."

"I love you too," he mumbled in to her neck and sniffed again as she gently kissed his head before nuzzling her face in to his hair.

...

Emma wandered in to the kitchen with a yawn and a hand tangled in her tousled blonde curls. She was honestly half expecting the events of yesterday to be a trick of the mind and she didn't want to get out of the comfort of Regina's guest bed. But at the sound of Henry and Regina's voices echoing quietly through the hallway as they made their way downstairs for breakfast, all doubt was forgotten. And as much as she wanted to leap out of bed and tackle Henry in a hug she knew it would be messy so she let herself stay in bed and silently work through the sudden onslaught of built up emotions exploding inside her and causing her to cry. Henry was back. It was all okay.

And the king and queen just figured out the shower. If nothing else, a version of her father and Regina having sex in a shower somewhere close by was enough to get Emma moving out of bed and out of earshot.

She had been getting along quite well with Regina. She even humoured the idea of calling the woman her friend. But with just a single word, the brunette had Emma smiling and her heart twisting and her respect and appreciation for the woman growing leaps and bounds. With just one word, all of her worries over giving Henry up and Regina taking him in were erased. Regina was good.

"Banana?"

Henry gasped excitedly through his mouthful of half chewed Cheerios, horrified that he had forgotten one of his favourite pairings, "yes!"

Regina laughed as she peeled the banana and Henry pushed his bowl toward her with both hands holding it up in the air. With a quick summoning of a knife to her palm, she sliced the entire banana into disks that fell in to Henry's bowl and the grin on his mouth grew impossibly wider.

"You're the best!" He exclaimed when she finished and he placed the bowl back in front of him and dunked the fruit beneath the milk with his spoon before he once again began shovelling his breakfast in to his mouth.

Regina's laughter faded as she watched him but her smile did not and as she sipped from her mug of coffee she caught sight of Emma in the doorway, "would you like some coffee, Miss Swan?"

"Coffee would be great, actually," Emma breathed and made her way to sit next to Henry at the counter who grinned up at her as he chewed and she bumped her shoulder against his. He had lived a good life with Regina. Despite the rocky year or two in the middle there, he had been happy and had plenty of pancake dinners and plenty of bananas on his Cheerios.

"Also, a heads up," Emma started and Regina glanced over her shoulder to assure her she was listening as she made her a coffee, "if you are not feeling two hundred percent sure with your ability to cope with your guests' affection for one another, I would not venture upstairs without ear plugs," she informed gently and watched the subtle way Regina's hands faltered in her smooth pouring and the way her shoulders tightened ever so slightly. Emma didn't know who Regina thought she was fooling. There was absolutely no way she was okay with watching herself live happily ever after with a man that didn't even live across town from her. A man who was as lost in her as she was in him.

There was only one outcome from this that Emma saw and how Regina saw a different one, she did not know.

...

"So...time travel..."

Snow sighed in exasperation and rubbed her hands over her face and could hear David sighing behind her, "no, Grumpy, not time travel."

"You've lost me."

"Grumpy I promise you are making it harder than it is," David breathed as he sat down on the couch a fair distance away from Snow. She noticed his distance but he didn't really care at the moment. His mind was still reeling with 'what if's. He wanted to go to Regina's. He wanted to talk to her. Really talk to her. She would fight him, he knew that, but he needed to talk to her. He wanted to see the couple from the Enchanted Forest again. He wanted to know what happened.

"You just told me that the Evil Queen is back in town! The only way I see that happening is time travel!"

"It isn't time travel, Grumpy. She's just from an alternate universe. A parallel universe. One that is almost identical to ours but still set back in the Enchanted Forest time."

"So time travel."

"No! Not time travel!" Snow snapped with an irritated laugh and then took a deep breath to calm herself. She did see the way David's interest snapped back to her at her outburst though. "Just think of it as though her universe is just lagging behind ours."

"But how do you know for sure that it's not time travel?"

"Regina has assured us that time travel is virtually impossible," Snow replied tiredly.

"Which Regina?"

"For hell's sake this is going to be exhausting," Snow protested quietly to herself and took another breath and looked up at Grumpy, "the mayor, here in Storybrooke, assured us that it is not time travel. The laws of time travel have not yet been deciphered and there is no possible way it could have been done by a simple bean portal created by an eleven year old boy."

"...okay but time travel just seems easier."

"It's not time travel," David assured him before Snow's head exploded, "Henry figured it out with the queen in the Enchanted Forest shortly after he fell in to her world. While that Regina and our Regina appear identical, sound identical, and virtually pretty much are identical, they have little differences."

"Like?"

"Our Regina can cook. The other Regina would find a way to burn water to a crisp. That Regina is incredibly skilled with a bow, our Regina can only use a sword lest she stab herself in the eye with her own arrow," he offered and Snow remained silent while Grumpy mulled it over.

"Okay but seriously, you guys know how crazy this sounds? Time travel would be-"

"She's married to David," Snow interrupted and Grumpy didn't say another word but when she dropped her hands and looked up at him his mouth was still open. "She was going to put the other me under a sleeping curse but she and David fell in love and got married. With them married, Regina is happy and she lets go of her desire to curse us all to hell. With her married to David, I am not married to David which means we would never have Emma who would never have Henry. So when Henry was in that other world he was quick to see that he was not fading from existence and therefore he could not have traveled back in time. If he had, none of us would be sitting here right now."

Silence filled the apartment and Grumpy took a long look at Snow and then a long look at David and noticed how far apart the pair of them sat. He had noticed tensions had been higher than usual between the pair of them these past couple of months but now the tension was practically palpable. "So there are two queens...and two Davids...but they are not the same."

"Correct," Snow answered quietly.

"No time travel."

"No time travel," David confirmed and Grumpy nodded and nodded and then stood up and shouted.

"What the hell are we going to do with two evil queens in Storybrooke?!"

Both David and Snow merely sighed and rolled their eyes.

...

"I think...I have this wrong," David told her as he looked at his clothing and then looked at the mayor for help. She simply smiled and nodded with a light amused laugh and wiped her hands on a small towel before walking to him.

"You are close. I will give you that," she smiled and reached up to his neck, her stomach fluttering when her fingers touched the warmth of his skin as she unbuttoned the top two buttons of his dark purple shirt, "you don't need those done up unless you are going somewhere formal," she told him and he hummed in acceptance and then she moved to his wrists and he lifted each one for her in turn so she could unbutton the cuffs, "same sort of goes for those buttons," she instructed and he nodded and watched her which caused her heart to jolt as she tried to avoid his eyes.

"Then you just roll up the sleeves to about your elbow and tuck your shirt in to your pants," she nodded with a smile and he hummed a short laugh and did what he was told. Then she cleared her throat and walked back to the stove, avoiding looking at him at all costs. He wasn't her David and she knew that but he looked like her David and what little hint of him she got only filled her head with hopeless fantasies that would never happen with hers. But she did look his way when he finished and with a smile she nodded, "perfect," and damn if the smile he gave her in return didn't have her heart lurching in her chest. This was going to be harder than she thought.

"Mmmm I like those," the queen purred playfully as she hooked a finger in the pocket of his dark jeans and then tapped at the simple brass buckle on his brown belt, "this world suits you, dear," she smirked and then bounced away from him with a low laugh and stopped at the mayor's side to curiously look over her shoulder. The woman was tense but Regina was starting to figure out that the little mayor was always tense and it was just a matter what level.

"What are you making?" She questioned curiously as she picked up a stout glass pitcher with red print around it full of some sort of thin batter.

"Crepes," Regina answered and the queen gave a short hum that clearly said 'I don't know what those are but okay' as she looked curiously at the batter before putting it down, "it seems Henry is on a pancake theme," she smiled a little with a shrug, "he had a small breakfast to curb him over and requested we wait for you before we started."

"How thoughtful," Regina replied distractedly but with a smile as she looked around the kitchen and the tools the mayor had set up to use.

"You seemed to have figured out this world's attire," Regina commented as she glanced at the queen who then looked down at herself. Black jeans, shiny black stilettos, a blood red silk shirt left untucked with the sleeves lazily rolled up over the three quarter length sleeves of the black blazer with black leather lapels. The shirt should have been done up one button higher but it wasn't at all surprising that the queen left a little cleavage. Aside from the clothes, she wore very little extra. Diamond earrings, a long delicate gold chain with a gold pendant that rested just below her sternum, her wedding ring. Her make up was sharp and fine and exact with red lips and dark lashes but her hair was pulled in a softer french braid over one shoulder with a few strands left out to frame her face. This world suited her well too.

"Yes it is much more comfortable. I do not miss the corsets," she teased and earned herself a laugh from the mayor as she shook her head.

"Nobody misses corsets," she replied and the queen laughed a little too.

"I miss corsets," David chimed in playfully and got a scoff of laughter from his wife as she turned and swatted his chest only to have her laughter grow a little more rich and low in her throat.

Meanwhile Regina did her very best to ignore the happy couple. But it was near impossible to keep her bearings when she heard them kiss.

...

"Why couldn't we have just called her? Why do we have to drive over there and tell her?" Snow asked irritably as she looked out the window. She was tired and the thought of dealing with Regina exhausted her. She didn't even want to think about the other Regina and the other David.

"So we can tell her in person that we got through to Grumpy."

"A text or a phone call would have been just as effective."

With a long sigh out his nose David tried not to bite back but his voice came out with an edge despite his efforts, "we need to check on her and see how she's coping. I don't imagine it is going well for her. Why are you even complaining? Not all that long ago you wouldn't leave her alone for more than a few hours at a time because you were worried for her."

"That was before she was so vicious. She used to just lash out at me but now she looks at me like a starving animal sizing up her next kill," she grumbled and clenched her jaw shut to keep herself from continuing and sparking a bigger argument.

"She was finally settling down. She was starting to feel comfortable and safe and was willing to trust again. Everything was going smoothly and then you went and kicked her off her little boat and in to the water. You hurt her. You betrayed her," he tried not to snarl as he put the truck in park and pulled the key from the ignition, "again."

He started to move to get out of the truck. Unbuckling his seatbelt, reaching for the door. But she didn't move. Her elbow remained braced on the door and her fingers still touched her lips, "you are lying to me."

David paused at her quiet voice and felt his jaw clench in response as his grip on the handle tightened and he looked at Snow who moved only her eyes to look back at him, "there is nothing going on between me and Regina," he told her with a snarl threatening to pull back his top lip.

Snow looked back and forth between his fierce blue eyes and after a moment she shook her head once and quietly told him, "I don't believe you," he simply stared back at her with a scowl and then opened the door and stepped out of the truck, all but slamming the door behind him. With a long exhale of her own she focused her eyes ahead of her and on the black Mercedes parked on the driveway in front of the truck. And then she closed her eyes and curled forward so her elbows were on her knees and her face was in her hands as she breathed out a shaky breath.

David's jaw was clenching and unclenching repeatedly as he walked down the path to the house as and tried to calm his frustrated breaths. His focus was quickly taken from Snow though when Regina stepped out of the house and leaned back against the front door with closed eyes and a long deep breath. She was having a bad day. He could tell. He wasn't surprised either. With his anger replaced with sympathy, David let out a breath and walked up to the porch and leaned his shoulder against one of the pillars and asked gently, "you okay?"

Regina's eyes snapped open and her posture was straight and rigid once more as she snarled, "what the hell are you doing here?" It was vicious and he flinched and then faltered when she stormed past him. She was expecting him to catch her arm and set her off further but he didn't and because of that, she came back to her senses and stopped walking so she could turn around and look at him. His expression was that of confusion and concern and her jaw crossed as she took a deep breath and shook her head, "I'm sorry. That was mean and uncalled for."

"Just a bit," he agreed softly and her lips pursed as her weight shifted and her gaze focused on something beside her as she folded her arms over her chest. She didn't say anything more so he took a few steps closer to her, stopping when she bristled and tensed at the fact he was getting too close for her current mind space. "Bad day?"

"Only halfway through it," she snapped back and couldn't bring herself to look at him. She felt like an absolute basket case. She wanted nothing more than to tear his damn head off in an argument blown way out of proportion. She wanted to scream at him and she wanted him to scream back. She didn't even know what they would argue about. She just wanted to fight. However as much as she wanted that fight, an equal amount of want was gathered for just falling in to his arms and letting him hold her while she cried.

"Well then there's only half a day left," he encouraged but she was in no mood. She simply scoffed and bit back.

"Don't feed me your optimistic bullshit, David, I am in no mood."

"Clearly," he breathed irritably and let his shoulders drop and in response Regina clenched her jaw with an incredibly bitter smile before she turned on her heels and tried to walk toward the driveway only to be stopped by a hand around her upper arm. She tried to tear her arm free but only growled furiously when his grip was too tight and he succeeded in turning her back around, "Regina, talk to me. What's wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong," she seethed and rose up to him. If he wasn't going to let her walk away then he was sure as hell going to get the whole damn package.

He wasn't all that sure what he had just walked in to but he did know what it was too late to back down. So he just hoped for the best and argued, "something is wrong. Something has set you off."

"Nothing is wrong, David! That's the problem! I've been watching them all morning and all afternoon looking for something wrong with them! Wrong with either of them! But there is nothing!" She cried and David's expression softened in to a gentle frown that had her heart twisting in her chest. He knew. She knew that he could read her like a book and she didn't need to say much for him to understand what was going on in her mind. But that didn't mean she could stop her voice, "you have no idea how hard it is to watch them! To see them! To hear them! You have no idea how much it hurts to see her so happy! I know that woman! I hate that woman! She is the epitome of the Evil Queen and I have been trying so hard to accept that part of myself and forgive myself and now I have to watch her run around my house as happy as a god damned jay bird!

She is happy! She is loved! The Evil Queen is married, David! I loathe her for it! She got everything! She got everything she wanted, everything I wanted! It's not fair! And the only difference between our lives is one person! One person! An eleven year old boy that fell from the sky! A boy who was stupid enough to yell at the Evil Queen and yet kind and smart enough to know it was exactly what she needed! A boy who was stubborn enough and strong enough to push her! A boy who demanded good from her! He didn't change her, he didn't break her, he didn't suggest, he didn't turn away from her when she made the wrong decision! He demanded better of her when everyone else in her life demanded worse from her! One person! That was all I ever wanted! All I ever needed! Because I knew that I was not strong enough to get out myself! I knew that no matter how hard I fought, I was not enough! So I stopped trying!

But to see now what could have happened?! Who I could have been?! That's not fair! That is cruel! To be shown that I was one person away from happiness over thirty years ago?! What kind of a sick joke is that?!" She cried out and didn't bother with wiping away the pooled tears that finally fell from her eyes. Her chest rose and fell with her sharp and shaky breaths and she tried not to start sobbing but David's gentle and understanding expression was doing her no favours. "So to answer your question; no. I am not alright. I am tired of being lonely and miserable and I just want a person," she told him and then looked to the ground beneath her feet with her mouth tight in an attempt to keep her cries unheard.

Her resolve broke the very moment he touched her. Her silence ended and a shaky cry was muffled by his chest when he pulled her in to him and held her tight. His heart broke for her because surely she couldn't handle another break in hers. She kept her face buried in his chest and he curled around his exhausted and fragile little queen. He wanted to tell her he felt the same jealousy and anger toward their Enchanted Forest doubles. He wanted to tell her that it was just has hard for him to watch them with one another while he sat in his own version of loneliness and misery. He wanted to tell her that he wanted her. That he needed her. But he knew she would turn him away again. Besides, Snow was standing on the path beside them next to the hedges. He didn't know how long she had been there but he didn't need her hearing his side of things. So for now he kept quiet and took his eyes from her and focused back on the woman in his arms. The woman he was beginning to wonder if he loved.