A/N here it is the stories end, thank-you for reading and for your comments and I hope you enjoy the ending.

Epilogue

Fourteen Years Later.

A dark-haired young man waited for the prisoner he had come to see to appear, drumming his fingers on top of his chosen table in the visitors' room, both to calm his nerves and because his patience was waning.

Finally spotting her in the doorway he ceased his tapping and sat up a little straighter, pulling his hand from the table and resting it in his lap instead.

"Do you Swan-Mill's ever talk to each other" the red headed woman jested as she settled into the chair across from the youngest Swan-Mills son who was now nineteen years old, his handsome face bearing very little if any resemblance to his father who had decidedly weak genes Zelena thought not for first time, as her eyes rose from his dark serious eyes to his curly crown of hair.

Despite having spent the last fourteen in prison the years had been kind to Zelena and unlike Roland who she had seen grow up in to the fine young man that now sat before her, she hadn't changed much at all and still looked almost the same as when she had been locked in here, a feat that she credited to her continued visits with her daughter over the years and her even more frequent updates on her wellbeing, in her mind being able to play any small part in her daughter's life kept her young.

"A few weeks ago I saw your mothers, just last week it was your brother and now you're here, you could have all just visited together you know" she chuckled.

"Hello Zelena" Roland replied evenly, he possessed no prior knowledge of his other family members recent visits, but it didn't really surprise him to learn that they too had been by, what did perhaps surprise him a little was that nobody had mentioned it to him after said visits had occurred, but that he supposed was a question to ask them later.

"Hello to you too Roland" Zelena smiled "and what brings you here today?" she asked the knowing glint in her eye indicating that she already had a very good idea as to why Roland just like Henry before him had suddenly chosen to visit her for the first time in fourteen years.

"I think you already know but I'll say it anyway" Roland shifted in his seat leaning in as close to Zelena as the table between them permitted.

"Your imminent release date is what brings me here" he said.

"Don't mistake me Zelena I know that you didn't kill my father, if you had then you wouldn't have been a part of my sisters life all this time, my mom's wouldn't have helped you fourteen years ago and they wouldn't be helping you again now either" he spoke with conviction and Zelena's brow arched a little in surprise, because this was the first time that she had been given any indication that any of the children had been told about why she was here, or what had happened to Robin and this new information made her wonder just what her own daughter may or may not have been told regarding the subject.

"So, what do you know about what happened to Robin?" Zelena unable to contain her curiosity asked and she could have almost bitten her tongue off after for asking such an insensitive question, Robin had after all been Rolands fathers however poor he might have been in said role.

"Sorry" she said immediately backtracking "I really shouldn't have asked you that, it wasn't fair of me."

"It's fine" Roland shrugged, he had been so young when his father had passed that he didn't remember too much about him now and he had, had such a great upbringing with his moms that he didn't ever feel the need to dwell on the what ifs or maybes of the past.

"Mom, uh Regina" he clarified for Zelena though she thought that she already knew to which mother he had been referring and he had just proven her right with his elaboration.

"Says it was a tragic accident, that you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and got charged based on circumstantial evidence, she said that Aunt Mal helped you get your sentence reduced, but couldn't get it overturned entirely" he explained, nothing in his tone suggesting that he didn't believe this version of events.

"That's right" Zelena nodded for as far as she was aware that was indeed what had happened.

"But that's not why I'm here" Roland replied swiftly returning to the reason behind his visit.

"My sister" he said, "means the world to me as do the rest of my family and I won't tolerate seeing her or any of them hurt."

"And you really think I would hurt her?" Zelena questioned sounding a little affronted, Roland just shot a knowing look in her direction.

"You can't be serious!" she exclaimed "she's my daughter I could never hurt her."

"Maybe not intentionally, but who knows, you did after all set out to destroy my entire family and take my own mother away from me so that you could replace her when I was just a small boy, even when you knew that I had already been abandoned by one mother once before, so who really knows exactly what you're capable of" Roland stated.

Zelena taken aback silently gaped back in astonishment.

"Yes, I know about that too" Roland smirked a look that Zelena instantly thought made him look a lot like Regina, "And I also know that you wouldn't have followed through with it after Poppy was born" he added.

"Now you'll be out of here in few days and you're welcome at our home Zelena, we all agreed with that, but one step out of line, any hint of disrespecting any of our boundaries or causing any upset at all and that invitation will be revoked with immediate effect, remember you're only welcome for as long as we all agree that you are, so if one of us says the word, you're gone, like that" he clicked his fingers "and I'll be only too happy to be the one to say that word if I need to, to protect my family, do you understand?"

"Completely" Zelena replied her lips curling up into an amused smile "and I'm glad that Poppy has such protective big brothers" she said remembering the similar words of wisdom that Henry had impressed upon her during his visit during the week prior.

Roland nodded once in response, glanced at the clock on the wall then cleared his throat nosily before he spoke again.

"In that case I should really get going" he said rising to his feet ready to leave "I'll see you in a few days Zelena and I look forward to getting to know you" he added over his shoulder as he left, leaving a surprised Zelena watching after his unexpectantly abrupt departing of her table.

With no further reason to stay seated Zelena followed suit, standing and walking towards the opposite door to which Roland had just disappeared through and waited for the guard who flanked it to let her back through to her cell block.

She paced the small room that had been her home for the past fourteen years pausing to glance over pictures that adorned her wall showing all the events that she had missed in her growing daughter's life, all of her first-time achievements to date, her childhood milestones, birthdays, Christmas's, thanksgivings, school events, it all felt so unjust in some ways.

Sure, she knew that she had done some despicable things that deserved punishment but not this punishment, or at least not for this long, she should have been charged for her crimes against Regina which she was sure wouldn't have resulted in such a long sentence as being charged with being responsible for somebody else's death had.

Still, she had things to be thankful for she supposed, her imminent freedom for example would never have come without Regina and Mal's help and she couldn't imagine having served all of this time and still being faced with the prospect of spending rest of her life stuck behind bars.

So she knew only too well that things could have been so much worse for her, she knew exactly what she had to be grateful for and exactly what she'd done wrong, she also knew that she deserved the slightly hostile warnings from the members of the Swan-Mills family who had been to visit her over the past few weeks but none of that took away the pain of what she had lost over the last fourteen years or made up for all that she had missed out on in her daughters life so far, deserving to be here didn't make missing out on so much of her child's life feel any less unjust to Zelena.

But her days were down to single digits now, she'd soon be out, and she knew that she'd never screw up again and she wouldn't ever miss out on another thing in Poppy's life because of a set of bars and a lock and key.

Zelena's release day arrived quickly bringing with it a mixed array of feelings for her teenaged daughter.

The fourteen-year-old red head stood in the middle of her messy room, looking at herself in her full-length mirror, examining her appearance closely.

"Are you ready Pop's" Emma shouted up the stairs "It's almost time to go."

Poppy cocked her head to one side as she considered her reflection for a little while longer, staring at her bright blue eyes so like her birth mothers and the red curly hair that framed her face both a blessing and a curse because as beautiful as it looked it could be a bit of a pain to maintain at times.

"Poppy!" Emma bellowed louder this time cutting through her thoughts.

"Yeah, ma I'm coming" Poppy called back unplugging her phone from its charger and racing down the stairs to put on her shoes.

"How're you feeling about today?" Emma asked as she watched her daughter lace her favourite converses, Emma's face showed a few signs of the years that had passed but aside from that she was in tip top shape and her hair fell around her shoulders in waves as blonde as ever.

"Okay I suppose" Poppy shrugged, "I mean I'm glad she's getting out but it's still gonna be a bit weird having all three of my mom's staying in the same house and seeing her every day."

"Yeah, it'll be an adjustment for all of us" Emma replied resting a comforting hand lightly on Poppy's shoulder , "but she doesn't have to stay here you know, we can change our minds, there's always the half-way house instead."

"If we changed our minds now Aunty Zee would have to stay in there longer while they find her somewhere else, wouldn't she?" Poppy asked.

"She would" Emma agreed "but she'd understand if you aren't ready for this, we all would" she added, and Poppy nodded.

"I know" she said, "but I want to do this, it's just a lot to get my head round is all, but I'll be okay, anyway it's only temporary, and it's not as though she'll be in the actual house is it? it's just the tree house and it's just until she gets her own place right, so even if it's hard it won't be hard forever?"

"Exactly" Emma agreed feeling proud of her daughters mature attitude towards everything that was happening "And she knows she can only come into the main house by direct invitation and that that invitation has to come from you, this is your safe space Pops and it's for you and you alone to choose if you want to invite Zelena into it, okay?"

"Okay" Poppy nodded standing up and taking a deep steadying breath "let's go."

Emma nodded and moved to open the front door.

"Where's mom?" Poppy asked her brow pulling into a slight frown "isn't she coming with us."

"Of course, she is" Emma smiled "She's already outside, she went to get the car started" she explained and nodding Poppy followed her outside where her other mother was indeed sitting in the car waiting for them to join her.

Her dark hair fell to her shoulders a few silver streaks the only visible evidence that fourteen years had passed and the diamond on the engagement ring that sat nestled against her wedding band catching the sunlight as both of her hands gripped the steering wheel in front of her a show of one big change that had occurred over the course of that time.

Emma and Regina had been married for a little over eleven years now, Emma had been the one to propose dropping onto bended knee after Regina had opened the delicate crystal swan which Emma had gifted to her on their second Christmas together wearing the diamond ring around its slender neck.

But they had waited almost two years longer to actually tie the knot so that Poppy would be a little bit older and be able to play a bigger part in the ceremony, she had been the most beautiful flower girl to ever walk down an aisle as all three of her moms had frequently told her over the years and there were plenty of photos of her in her little white dress with a band of dainty white flowers in her flaming red hair to prove it.

Zelena had kept one of those pictures in pride of place on her wall of photos for the last eleven years and now it was nestled in her bag along with all of the other photos that she had taken down from her now bare prison cell wall.

As soon as Emma and Poppy were secured into the car Regina moved off to begin the four-hour journey to the prison.

Poppy stared out of her window, silently watching the world go by as a mess of tangled thoughts spun almost dizzily inside of her head seeming to become more and more tangled the harder that she fought to work through them.

"You're very quiet sweetheart" Regina observed, "Are you sure you're okay with this because it's not too late to change your mind you know" she said her brow creasing into a look of concern for her daughter.

"I know, Ma already told me that back at the house" Poppy smiled she loved how her mothers were always so in tune with one another, always seeming to be somewhere on the same wavelength, she hoped that she too would be lucky enough to find that with another person one day when she was older.

"Well, your Ma is right" Regina catching Poppy's slight smile in her rear-view mirror offered a reassuring smile back and reached to squeeze Emma's leg just above her knee appreciatively.

"It's just new, that's all" Poppy sighed "I have no idea what to expect, what she'll be like outside of prison, it's all a little overwhelming at the moment but I really do want to do this, it's just a lot, you know...?" she trailed off and Regina nodded her eyes focused fully on the road again now.

"You're a wonderful young lady Poppy and I want you to know that if this arrangement ever becomes too much for you, you only need to say the word and we'll end it and find somewhere else for Zelena to live" Poppy nodded her eyes wandering back to the passing scenery and Regina took a deep breath before she continued.

"We don't want you to worry about upsetting us either" she said speaking for herself and Emma on a subject that she knew they both agreed upon, Poppy frowned a little and looked back to the front of the car enquiringly.

"What I mean is that we support you all the way in this sweetheart" Regina explained catching Poppy's eye in the mirror again and smiling warmly at her before her own eyes returned to the road ahead.

"This is your chance to properly get to know your birth mother and we want you to know that we would never stand in the way of that" Regina offered Poppy another reassuring smile before she ploughed on with her well thought out speech, Poppy she felt needed to hear this, it was important that she know that there would be no hard feelings towards her from anyone that loved her whatever choices she might make regarding her relationship with Zelena and that they all just wanted her to be happy and not feel any unnecessary confliction over where her loyalties should lie through fear of hurting any of their feelings.

"We completely understand if you want to make the most of her being here, just as we and Zelena would also understand if you chose to maintain some distance between the two of you instead. There are no right or wrong answers here Poppy there's just whatever feels right or wrong to you and we are here for you in this, we're here for all of it, whatever it ends up looking like. So don't worry about a thing, spend as much or as little time bonding with Zelena as you feel comfortable with once we've gotten her home and know that you have our full blessing throughout and don't for a second worry about upsetting us because you never could." Regina finished and after a brief pause to clear her throat.

"Thank-you mom" Poppy said through welling tears that she managed to prevent from falling, "you don't know how much hearing that means to me." She sniffed.

Regina just nodded and refocused on her driving leaving the teen in peace with her thoughts until they finally pulled up in front of the prison.

"And now we wait" Regina said shutting off the engine and glancing towards the exit which she knew that Zelena would soon be re-entering the outside world through.

Minutes later the buzzing sound of the door opening echoed through the silent car park and all three of them looked up seeming to take one collective breath as a prisoner exited the building, but it wasn't Zelena.

They let out their breaths as someone stepped out of a nearby car and waved at the newly freed woman capturing her attention.

The buzzer sounded three more times over the next forty minutes each time they held their breaths and each time it wasn't Zelena.

"This is getting ridiculous" Regina sighed getting a little irritable now "she should have been out ages ago; how can they keep people waiting around like this" she was starting to rant now "I'm going to find out what in the hell is going on" she declared pushing the car door open just as the prisons buzzer sounded again.

Regina stepped out of the car slamming the door behind her, she was a woman on a mission, so set was she on giving some poor member of the prisons staff a piece of her mind that she didn't even notice that this time it was in fact Zelena who had stepped outside, Zelena spotted her though and with a grateful smile she headed in Regina's direction.

But seeing the brunettes face set in fierce fiery determination she pulled up short just shy of calling out to Regina.

"Regina?" she ventured timidly finally alerting the brunette to her presence.

"Oh" Regina stammered surprised to suddenly find Zelena standing right in front of her "I was just coming to find out what was keeping you so long."

"Yeah, sorry about that" Zelena flushed a little through embarrassment, things outside of the prisons visiting room felt a little more awkward for some reason.

"It seems that a few of us were due for release today and the discharging process takes a surprisingly long time, especially when it's been fourteen years and they can't locate the rest of your belongings" she added holding up her clear plastic prison issue sack for Regina to see.

Resting on the top of everything else inside was a large, padded envelope containing everything that had been confiscated from Zelena and placed into storage upon her arrival to the secure prison.

After her sentence had been reduced she had been moved to this slightly more open one and the envelope had come with her but from there someone had apparently managed to misfile it leading to a greater delay in Zelena's release that day while the staff tracked it down again.

"Okay, well you're here now so how about you put that stuff in the trunk then we can get out of here" Regina replied pressing the button on her keys as she walked around to the rear of the car so that the trunk popped open.

With Zelena's belongings secured away, Regina slipped back into the driver's seat leaving Zelena to take the passenger seat behind her.

The awkwardness continued throughout the journey home, with both Zelena and Poppy staring silently out of their windows, Zelena in quiet awe at finally seeing so much of the outside world after so long spent seeing so little of it and Poppy through lack of knowing where else to look or what to say.

Regina focused on steering them all home safely, exchanging the odd worried glance with Emma along the way each one going unnoticed by either of their back passengers who both remained rigidly staring out of their windows as Emma and Regina silently wondered if they had done the right thing.

"Wow" Zelena gasped looking up at the house as they finally pulled up in front of it.

"Don't get too excited, you're not staying in the main house remember" Emma chuckled.

"I know" Zelena replied, "But I can still appreciate the beauty of this place, can't I?"

"Appreciate away" Emma invited as she let herself out of the car.

"You know, pictures really don't do this place justice" Zelena smiled as she too stepped out the car pausing just outside to turn on the spot and take in more of her surroundings.

"If you think this is special just wait until you see your tree house" Poppy finally finding her voice for the first time since Zelena had first slid into the car beside her and she had offered her birth mother a shy hello, interrupted excitedly.

Zelena stopped looking around and focused on her daughter instead who was already running off eager for her to follow.

"Come on Auntly Zee" she called behind her, as she headed round to the back garden, her confidence steadily growing now she was back on her home turf.

"Wait you mean it really is a tree house?" Zelena called out as she hurried after Poppy "only I didn't think you were being literal when you said that" she added thinking back to her last visit with her daughter prior to her release where she had excitedly filled Zelena in on the work they had been doing to create her a space to stay at their home "I thought the tree house was just a nickname for your guest house".

"Oh, it's so much more than just a tree house" Poppy called back as she rounded the corner and ended up out of sight.

Poppy was already at the bottom of the tree trunks winding slope which led up to front door of the house that rested high in its branches by the time Zelena had her in her sights again.

"Okay, this is way better than a regular guest house" Zelena gasped as she looked up at the huge fancy two story building built into the massive tree.

She took her time walking up the slope, dragging her fingers tips along the tree's bark and breathing in the woodsy smell in the air until she finally reached the door which already stood a jar.

She stepped through it to find her daughter standing in the light airy open living space that was the ground floor of her new all be it temporary home.

"I hope this will be okay for you" Poppy said suddenly coming over a little shy all over again.

"Are you kidding me" Zelena beamed turning on the spot again for the second time in space of ten minutes to take in all of her amazing new surroundings.

She could see there was a lounge with a comfy sofa and arm chairs, a soft rug and a large television and there was a kitchen diner that she couldn't quite see all of because it was partially concealed by the pillar of wood that rose in the centre of it all, surrounding the tree's trunk with a staircase spiralling around it which had all sorts of useful little storage spaces and shelving built into the space underneath it.

"This place is a mansion compared to where I've just come from and from what I've heard the half-way house wouldn't have been a whole lot better than my cell" she breathed, "Thank-you for letting me stay" she beamed her gratitude pouring off of her in waves for way more reasons than just the beauty of this house built around the Swan-Mills tree, and Poppy beamed back then hurried for the stairs.

"I should show you your bedroom" she said and then there's the roof deck, I know you'll love that."

Still grinning from ear-to-ear Zelena hurried up the stairs after Poppy until she found herself in another open space slightly smaller than the one below.

This one contained a huge round bed that looked so luxurious that Zelena could already feel her limbs relaxing into it, at the foot of the bed was a wall of floor to ceiling privacy windows that looked out across the garden, the view somewhat hampered by the masses of green leaves that currently adorned the overhanging branches of the tree.

She popped her prison bag onto the bed leaving it there ready to for her to come back and unpack it later and was about to venture to check out her view more closely when Poppy impatiently beckoned her to follow her further round the room instead and as she would never refuse her daughter any request that she could so easily grant Zelena turned away from her coveted view and continued to wander around the room after Poppy instead.

She quickly came upon a wall with an open door in it, stepping through it to discover that the upstairs had been partitioned off to house a beautiful private bathroom with a huge jacuzzi bath and a shower inside and this was what Poppy had been so eager to show her next.

"This tree house has changed a few times over the years" Poppy explained "When my mom's moved it they turned it into a play house for us kids, It was redecorated before I ever saw it but my Ma showed me photos of how it used to look when it had a bar and snooker table downstairs" Poppy laughed and Zelena fought to ignore the sting in her heart when her daughter freely gave Regina and Emma the title that she knew Poppy would never give to her.

"Then as Roland and I got a bit older it was turned into a kind of hang out for us and our friends and now it's your home" Poppy finished turning and smiling at Zelena totally oblivious to her hurt feelings.

Zelena tried to smile back with as much enthusiasm as Poppy was showing her, but she must have fell short of being convincing because her daughter was suddenly asking.

"Are you okay Aunty Zee?" Aunty Zee had been Poppy's choice of name for her and as much as it killed her that her daughter clearly didn't see her in the same light as she saw Emma and Regina, she had readily accepted the term of endearment because it was a step up from just being Zelena, the lady whom she visited in jail, and anything was better than nothing in Zelena's eyes.

"Yeah I'm fine sweetie, just tired" Zelena assured her "It's been a long day for me that's all, nothing that a good night's sleep in this wonderful tree house wont fix I'm sure" she smiled broadly and though Poppy didn't look entirely convinced she didn't push and question her further for which Zelena felt extremely grateful as she followed Poppy out through the second door on the other side of the bathroom which led back into the bedroom space on the opposite side of the room from which they had entered the bathroom.

"I've saved the best for last" Poppy said racing for the wall of windows at the foot of the bed, her excitement almost bubbling over as she pushed on the two most central ones which turned out to be doors and stepped outside.

"Be careful" Zelena shouted racing frantically after her, her mind picturing Poppy stepping through the window and out onto tree branches that she could easily fall from.

But of course, they weren't windows but doors and as she too stepped through them Zelena found herself stepping out onto perfectly safe decking that stretched around the entire perimeter of the building and sported a pair of staircases branching from it leading in different points, one spiralling downwards towards matching decking surrounding the ground floor and other up to the roof and the roof was what Poppy was heading for next.

"We call this the nest" Poppy smiled as Zelena stepped up into the space behind her, her breath taken away by the serene beauty of it all, there were deck chairs dotted about up here, some strategically placed so that they were directly under shafts of warm sunlight that flooded through the gaps in the otherwise huge canopy of green above her.

Somewhere above them a squirrel rustled about but otherwise it was totally silent up here and for Zelena who paused in one of the shafts of sunlight that was free of a deckchair and looked upwards closing her eyes against the suns brightness as she basked in its warmth, with tears beginning to stream down her cheeks, it was the most at peace and free that she had felt for more than fourteen years.

"Zee, what's wrong, you're crying" Poppy said looking concerned and sounding alarmed.

"It's okay they're happy tears" Zelena assured her opening her arms to invite Poppy into her embrace, the younger red head hesitated for half a second then walked into her birth mothers welcoming arms.

"I'm just so happy to be here, in this beautiful place, with you" Zelena sniffed wrapping her arms around Poppy and dropping a kiss onto the top of her hair.

"I'm happy you're here too" the teenager replied snuggling deeper into the woman's embrace "I really truly am" she sighed contentedly because she realised for the first time that she really truly was happy with this arrangement and that this really had been entirely the right thing to do.

"I'm sorry I've never been able to be a mom to you Poppy" Zelena sniffed raising a hand to gently stroke Poppy's hair "but I really do love you more than anything in this world you know, and you'll never know how thankful I am that you've given me this chance to be a part of your life and I promise that I'll never mess up again" Zelena whispered feeling every word of what she said with her whole heart.

"But you have been a mom to me" Poppy exclaimed leaning back from the embrace to look into her surprised mother eyes.

"You put me first, above anything else, above spite and hurt feelings and you did something totally selfless; you gave me to my mom's when you could have put me into the care system where I could have ended up anywhere and with anyone. I might have gotten lucky and been adopted by a nice family, but I could just have easily ended with an upbringing like Emma had. The point is that you didn't take that risk with me, you set aside everything that was going on back then and all the bad feeling between the three of you and gave me to Regina and Emma because you knew that with them I was guaranteed a happy home full of love and family, you didn't send me off into the world alone, you let me grow up with my brothers and my moms, you gave me the best start that you could have in the situation that you were in and you did all of that thinking that you'd be in prison for the rest of your life and never see me again, that's no small thing."

Poppy's words both took Zelena by surprise and warmed her heart towards Regina and Emma more than ever before, because she knew that it was because of them and what they had chosen to install in Poppy that she knew all of this and felt this way towards her because she had never said a word of this to her daughter herself.

"What more could I possibly ask of a mother than that" Poppy continued whole heartedly "I might call you Aunty Zee but that's just to help keep things less confusing in my head but in my heart you're my mom too." Poppy smiled her eyes shining with unshed tears as she pulled a sobbing Zelena back in close.

"Thank-you my wonderful baby girl for making me the happiest mother that ever lived" Zelena choked out squeezing her daughter close.

"You have nothing to thank me for" Poppy replied squeezing her close "we're standing here together today because of the decisions that you made more than fourteen years ago, I know you did some bad stuff, but not by me, by me good momma you did really good" Poppy smiled into Zelena's voluminous red hair and Zelana if possible sobbed even harder.

This Zelena thought was the start of her finally living.

Back in the main house Emma and Regina sat together at the kitchen island cradling mugs of steaming coffee in one hand while their other hands hung between them their fingers laced together, two empty mugs sat on the side beside the kettle because they had seen the excitement ebbing from their daughter as she had led Zelena round to the tree house and they had a feeling that Poppy wouldn't be able to resist showing her into the main house once they were done there, which was fine by them.

"To fresh starts and family members finally coming home" Regina announced raising her mug to Emma any old feelings of resentment harboured towards Zelena a long distant memory.

"To a beautiful future" Emma replied bringing her own mug up to meet Regina's.

"And to us" Regina whispered putting her mug down and leaning in to kiss her wife who eagerly returned the kiss with equal love and passion, both of which had only grown stronger over the years that they had been together.

"Yep we definitely made the right decision" Emma smiled over the rim of her mug a short while later and Regina glanced up following her line of sight through the large kitchen window, a smile gracing her own lips when her eyes too fell on the two smiling red heads walking hand in hand across the garden making their way towards them.

"We certainly did" Regina replied, squeezing Emma's hand which was still tangled in hers, she smiled taking another sip from her coffee cup.

"Everything's worked out perfectly" she added as she placed her empty mug back onto the kitchen counter in front her and waited for Zelena and Poppy to arrive.