It was nearly dawn, and winter was coming to the town. Winter in Main was harsh, with bone-chilling cold settling in.

Snow went to the station to visit Emma, who had been working overtime for nearly 4 weeks. She thought hot chocolate with cinnamon and bearclaw would be the best medicine.

She was talking about random topics with Emma, when she suddenly heard her daughter saying something unexpected.

"What do you mean, you kissed her?" Snow said she couldn't hide her confusion or anger.

"I kissed her, and it felt right, and... I don't even have words, for how I do feel... it's just...I am happy." Emma said it with that childish smile of hers that usually melts every heart.

"But... But... she is Regina...she is... Emma, what do you mean with it felt right?!" Snow saw the face of her daughter, and she could see that Emma seemed happy.

"There was a sense of light when we kissed, and I felt a deep peace, more profound than I ever felt with him." Emma didn't even want to mention his name. Hook left her and the baby a few weeks after Regina's coronation. He didn't say a word; he just left.

"But Emma, I am sure you confused something; this cannot be. That's what you described. If that's is true it's true loves kiss magic. And your true love is Hook!" Snow was desperate; it couldn't be true, and by the love of all that's good, it couldn't be.

"There is something I need to tell you, and it won't be easy nor right—in a way, at least. There is a possibility that the baby is not Hooks. It happened, and we knew it was wrong, but we couldn't stop.

"I knew she didn't feel the way I did." Emma didn't know how to tell her mother that she and Regina got drunk and had a baby. Emma didn't even know how but she remembered, how she found herself explaining to Henry that she would have a baby. She still remembered Regina's facial expression. So she forced herself to lower her emotions as much as she could and tell everyone the tale of how it was Hooks baby.

"Emma, you cheated on your fiance, and now you are telling me that you think the baby is Reginas?! Are you out of your mind? How should that even work?! She is a woman!" Snow was angry—no, angry pissed—was the right expression.

"I know that you are angry at me, but please try to understand what happened that night between me and Regina—it was magic, mom, and I love her!" Emma said it out loud. She was shocked. She said that out loud. She didn't even know how to hide the truth from herself anymore; she simply couldn't.

"I love you, Emma, but... I need time to process all of this. Are you going to tell your dad about this development of your relationship with Regina?" Snow was pale—more than she already was, usually.

"I told him three days ago. And mom, there is no development. Regina thinks that I am... That I am lonely, that I kissed her therefore, and that whatever there was was just an outburst of my magic. But before you say anything to that, let me tell you, I am not lonely, and it was not an outburst! I was a coward, mom. I thought if I ever gave in to the feelings I had all those years for her, I would hurt more people than I had a right to. And he was the easy way out. Do you really think that I sacrificed myself for Regina out of a good heart? I loved her mom; how could I let anything happen to her?" The noise that both women heard was from another person entering the station. They turned and saw a white-faced, shocked, and emotional queen. It was the first time in a long time that Regina didn't know how to even breathe.

"The baby is mine." That was all she managed to say before pulling up a chair and sitting down. It was the safest thing she could do before fainting.

"The baby is mine, and you didn't tell me, Emma?!" Apparently, she did find some words. And she was angry; she would kill Emma. "Miss Swan, explain yourself right now!"

When she is angry, Emma thought, she is so hot.

"I will go now and let the two of you discuss this, whatever this is. And as far as it goes for you, Emma, we see each other tomorrow." Snow left the station; she wasn't even able to look at Regina.

Not that Regina noticed any of that; her focus was solid on her swan. Emma felt a mix of fear and excitement at Regina's intense gaze upon her. Realizing she needed to explain and hoping to resolve the situation with the mayor, Emma prepared to address the escalating circumstances.