My New Beginning: Part 3

Chapter 25 The Swan-Mills Kiddos

Emma was up early and decided to check on Katherine. It took me a while to get up and move around. My body was still a little sore from giving birth, but I could handle that. After doing what I needed to in the bathroom to make myself look presentable, I walked out my room to go meet Emma. I could hear her talking to Katherine as I approached the door.

"Hey baby girl, guess what? Your little sister and brother are here. Yeah, they came early, but they are fine. Mommy is doing amazingly well. I wish you could see them. You would love them so much. I wish that you were awake and were your lovable self again."

I smiled then I heard Emma getting excited about something. "Kat…baby girl, it's Ma! Can you hear me?"

I walked in and questioned, "Emma? What's going on?"

Emma, with a huge smile on her face, reached out to me. "Babe, come here! She squeezed my hand just now!"

"She did?" I sat next to Emma and took her free hand in mine. I placed my hand on my daughter's chest.

"Hi my love, it's Mommy. If you can hear your Ma and I, squeeze Ma's hand."

To our surprise, Emma's hand was squeezed again. Both Emma and I were all smiles.

"Hi baby girl, we miss you so much!"

"We sure do, sweetheart. Did Ma tell you about your little sister and brother? They're here, and they are fine. Ma and I are about to go see them."

Nothing. Doc walked in to check on Katherine.

"Doc," Emma began, "Katherine squeezed my hand twice! Once when it was just me, then she did it again with Regina in the room."

Doc smiled, "Emma, you must not get excited about these things. The brain has electric spasms in patients that are in many types of comas. She just so happened to have two this time."

I squeezed Emma's hand letting her know it was time to see our twins. Emma kissed Katherine's hand and let it go. We stood up and left the room hand in hand.

* * * * *MY NEW BEGINNING* * * * *

Emma and I were let into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where the Swan-Mills twins were currently kept on oxygen. We put on the surgical garb then walked into the room with the rocking chairs. One of the nurses brought Hope and I took her in my arms. Another nurse brought Michael and Emma took him in her arms. Emma moved her rocking chair closer to me and sat down.

"Hey baby girl and baby boy, Mommy and Ma are here."

The babies made a small grunt and stretched. I smiled and gave my daughter and son a kiss on their foreheads.

"Yes, Mommy and Ma are here to love on you. We can't wait for you two to meet your big brother, Henry. He loves you so much already, and he hasn't met you yet. And Katherine…" I choked back the tears and continued, "She already talked with the two of you, but I know she loves you very much."

The flood gate was released, and I kissed them again. "I'm so sorry. I wasn't thinking about you when I went to fight that mean lady. I was only thinking about getting revenge on what she did to your sister. It's all my fault that you are so small and had trouble when you were born."

"Regina, stop, I refuse to let you blame yourself for what happened. You couldn't control how big they would have gotten. You couldn't control if they were able to breathe on their own once they were born. So, this is not your fault."

I turned to Emma and smiled weakly, "I still don't understand what I did to deserve you."

Emma shook her head and smiled at me. "You, babe, have done so much to deserve me. You cast a curse for us to share a son. You broke your curse to save us from a new one. Not only did you become my best friend during a time when I needed it, but you saved me from a flying monkey. You enchanted me with your smile and your heart of gold, fell in love with me, agreed to marry me, showed me a love that I never thought existed, co-created a beautiful little girl, delivered her, co-created another beautiful little girl and a handsome boy, and delivered them. You, my dear Regina, are one amazing woman who deserves to have all my love in any way, shape, or form."

I thought I couldn't cry anymore and Emma kissed my cheek. The nurse walked in, and she smiled at us holding the tiny babies in our arms.

"Madam Mayor, would you like to try to feed them?"

I nodded then the nurse closed the blinds to give us some privacy. I lowered my gown and Hope had no trouble latching on.

"She has your appetite dear," I pointed out, and Emma laughed, "That's right baby girl, eat up so you can get big and strong like Ma."

After a couple miss attempts, Michael latched on. "There you go my sweet boy. Eat up."

"Looks like he has my appetite too, babe."

Emma and I exchanged an admiring glance then shared a butterfly kiss to our eagerly waiting lips. I returned my gaze to my nursing babies.

I exhaled, "I feel like a momma cat or dog nursing their litter."

Emma laughed and shook her head, "Can you stop? This is amazing. If we were back in the Enchanted Forest, this would be the only way we could feed them."

"I know," I smiled then continued, "I was so scared that neither of them would have latched on and we would have had to bottle feed them. I'm so happy that they can nurse."

"Me too," Emma replied then I quickly turned to my wife. "I thought you would have liked to feed one of them."

"Whenever you pump, I will feed one, and you can feed the other."

I smiled. "That's fine. We could tag team it."

"You have been watching Henry and me when we play his wrestling game on his Xbox?" Emma smiled then I laughed. "You got me. I did."

Emma kissed my cheek and leaned her head on my shoulder. "Of course, we can tag team. We can tag team on feeding, burping, changing diapers, bathing them, changing their clothes, putting them in their car seats…"

"I think I got it dear." I leaned my head to where it was against Emma's.

Emma just smiled as she watched our daughter and son nurse and kissed my cheek.

* * * * *MY NEW BEGINNING* * * * *

Emma and I were walking back from the NICU when Doc flagged them down. We noticed the concern in his face and stopped.

"Thank goodness I found you two," Doc tried catching his breath, and I questioned, "Doc, what's wrong?"

Doc caught his breath and answered, "It's Katherine. There was magic surrounding her, and when I went to check on her, the bed was empty."

Emma took off in a sprint and ran as fast as she could to Katherine's room. I arrived with Doc and Emma was sitting on the bed with the stuffed horse close to her chest.

I turned to Doc. "Where's our daughter?"

"Well…I…"

Emma saw red. "Doc, answer her! Where is our daughter?"

"I…I don't know…"

I magically choked him. "You better find her. Have all hospital staff searching every floor and every room of this hospital. I want her found!"

"Yes, Madam Mayors…" he squeaked, and I let go of him going to my wife. Doc ran out of the room to alert the hospital staff.

I sat down on the bed and Emma was looking at the stuffed horse. "She has her. I know she does."

"I think it's time for us to pay her one last visit and it's time to end this."

Emma turned to me with tear-stained eyes. "I agree."

* * * * *MY NEW BEGINNING* * * * *

Emma and I blasted the door to the parlor room into fragments. Claire got up and saw the two of us standing in the middle of the room.

"Ugh…what now? I didn't do anything."

Emma sent a golden fireball toward her knocking her backward. "You're lying!"

Claire fell to the floor and slowly got up. "What would I be lying about?"

"Everything that comes out of your mouth is a lie. We want to know what you did to our daughter," I demanded then Claire looked at us as if we were crazy. "I haven't seen your daughter since I left the hospital."

Emma's arms were glowing a golden fire. "I am tired of you coming after my wife and my family! It ends now!"

"Yes, Claire, it ends now. This vendetta between us ends now," I stated, and my arms were engulfed with a golden fire.

She laughed so hard I thought she would have fallen over. "Oh, I agree. But we need a change of scenery."

"What are you talking about?"

Claire walked closer to me. "Come on, Regina! You mean to tell me that you forgot about what you did to Pan's curse?"

My eyes widened. Oh shit! Please no! She lifted up the paper that the curse was on, ripped it, and held up her hands. Lightning crashed and thunder roared.

"Claire, what are you?"

Her blue eyes met Emma's. "Time to go back home; to the Enchanted Forest."

The curse clouds crashed into the parlor room. Emma took hold of me and I held on to her as tight as possible. What about our newborns! Henry, Snow, David, Katherine…oh my God, Katherine! I hope everyone makes it!