A/N Sorry for the confusion with the story. It wouldn't let me pair the character, and by wouldn't let me I mean I did it wrong. The story was deleted and reposted. I love hearing your thoughts and concerns, so please leave reviews.
WARNING- WARNING-WARNING! This chapter is not for the faint of heart. You will find out why the girls are in Storybrooke and why they said that Emma wouldn't notice they were gone. If that wasn't bad enough you will find out why Anna came along. You have been warned. It's a very eventful chapter.
Chapter 3
"I think I may need to sit down." Emma stumbled backward until she was against the booth. "How? Like...how?"
" I think it's a little late for the talk."
Emma looked at Elsa again and then over to Anna, who had yet to move. "How?"
Snow stepped over to Emma. "I've only ever heard rumors about this. When I was a teenager, there was a queen in another land. Rumors spread quickly of a tryst that she had with one of her maids. The maid was hiding amongst the Queens helpers in hopes of destroying the Queen. She ended up falling in love with the Queen and one night the Queen became pregnant. The maid also shared the Queens magic abilities and the child was said to be born of not just true love, but true love's magic." Snow looked at Elsa. "Which is also said to be the strongest of magic."
Emma sat with her face in her hands. "How in the hell do I fall in love with Regina?"
"Mama -" Anna speaks. "I know that you are in shocked, but it's already happ-"
"Anna." Elsa stopped Anna from saying anything else knowing it was too soon to reveal everything. "It will happen in about a year. Then in another year I will be born to you. Two years later, Mom gives birth to Anna."
Emma looks over at the younger daughter. "You look..."
"I know." The young girl smiles and it almost took Emma's breath. "I look like Mom. You always tell me that."
"I mean...you look...just like her." Emma stumbled over the words to recieve a smile from the girl.
"We need your help, Mama." Elsa sat down beside Emma.
"With what?" Emma was still having a hard time taking her eyes off Anna.
"On your and Mom's 10th wedding anniversary, the two of you go to dinner. On the way home there's an accident and..." Elsa couldn't seem to finish the story causing Emma to turn to her.
"The accident was bad." Emma turns to Anna who picks up the story. "We woke up the next morning and Grandma was still at home with us. You and Mom hadn't come home the night before and Grandpa, and the rest of the town, where out looking for you."
"It took them 24 hours to even find the car." Emma turned back to Elsa. "You had swerved to miss a deer and had ran off in a ravine. Your car couldn't even be seen from the road. Aunt Ruby was the one who found you, but when they got to you..." Elsa stopped again and took a deep breath.
"That's why you're here?" Emma asked as she looked at the floor.
Snow placed her hand on the girl's shoulder to encourage her. "They said that Mom died almost instantly." Emma closed her eyes as a surprising pain went through her. "You were unconscious, but alive. They said that you were still holding Mom's hand when they found you. We have no idea how long that you had been that way. You had a compound fracture in her left leg and your right leg was also broken." Emma was still silent. "The car was turned onto its side and you were unable to get yourself out of the seatbelt. You said once, in a drunken rage, that you didn't leave her." Elsa stopped for a moment in order to let Emma process. "You drink a lot now."
Emma looked over at her youngest daughter with sad eyes. "That's why you said that I wouldn't notice you were gone?" Anna only nodded. "I'm sorry." The words came out just over a whisper.
"You looked away from the road. You've always said that it was your fault."
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June 21st, 2028...
Regina looked over and smiled at Emma. "Thank you for dinner."
"Thank you for 10 years." Emma placed a kiss softly on Regina's lips.
"Do you remember that day at Granny's? I told you that people don't change-"
"They only fool themselves into thinking they can." Emma smiled, finishing her wife's sentence.
"I really thought that was true."
"I know that you did."
"Sometimes I still can't believe this happened."
"Well, that makes two of us." Emma chuckled.
Regina thought a moment. "Two amazing kids and 10 years later and I still have trouble believing it." She waited a beat before speaking again. "You saw past all the hate and anger."
"It was when you told me 'you have no idea what I am capable of'. You had me from that moment on." They both laughed. "I had to see for myself exactly what you were capable of."
"So? Was it what you expected?" Regina smiled.
"Absolutely not." Regina had a playful frown on her face. Emma reached over and poked her in the ribs. "It was sooo much better."
Regina returned the jab and caused Emma to lean against the door. "It didn't help that you had me against a wall. What was I suppose to do, Miss Swan."
Emma looked at Regina and chuckled. "oh" She said seductively. "I know what that 'Miss Swan' means now, Madam Mayor." Regina only called her that when she was trying to seduce her wife. "You better watch out or I'll-"
"EMMA!"
Emma turned her head to see the large deer standing in the road. She jerked the wheel and the car suddenly left the road and moments later was speeding into the wooded ravine. The Audi Q7 hit several trees and rolled twice before it came to a stop on its side. Emma's side of the SUV was facing up, which left her basically hanging over her wife, who was laid against the door.
"Gina?" Emma said as she tried to unbuckle her seat belt, which was locked and wouldn't release. When there wasn't a response she looked down at the woman who had a large gash above her right eye that was pouring blood over the right side of Regina's face. "Oh God, Regina!" Emma tried to lean over to her. She screamed in pain as she realized for the first time that her legs were pinned under the collapsed dash of the SUV. She tried again to reach over. "Regina. Please! Answer me."
There was a groan that came from Regina.
"Hey." Emma smiled as she saw Regina's eyes crack open. "We're gonna be ok. Can you reach your phone? I'm kinda hung over here." Regina's eyes meeting Emma's was the only response she got. Emma was still stuck in her seat hanging above Regina. She tried to reach down to Regina, but the distance was too far.
Regina tried to speak, but was unable to. She started again. "Tell the kids..."
"No. Don't you do this, honey. Don't!"
Emma noticed the blood that was starting to come from Regina's mouth. "Emma." The name came out in a shaking breath. "Tell...them...love them."
"No. You are gonna tell them yourself." Emma tried to change the subject as she tried again to get the belt to release her. "Can you try to reach your phone? It's to your right. I can't reach it?"
"I love you." Regina chocked out. "I always loved you."
"Please, Regina. Don't do this." Regina eyes batted and Emma noticed the blood that was pooling against the door. She wasn't sure where all her wife was bleeding, but it seemed to be everywhere. She knew that some of it was apparently coming from the back of her head. "Regina?"
Emma watched brown eyes slowly open. "Thank you...believing I could...change. For loving...me...and...our kids.
Emma was jerking at the seat belt. "Damn it! OPEN!" She watched as Regina's eyes started to close. "NO! Don't Gina, Please. Keep looking at me." Regina's eyes opened again. "I love you too. You stay awake." Emma tried to keep talking. "The kids. They are at home right now planning our surprise party tomorrow night. Did you know that?"
Regina smiled the best she could
"They are. Henry was talking to Mom and Dad at the station and accidently walked up behind him." Emma chuckled. "They didn't see me. I didn't tell you, so that one of us would be truly surprised. They are home planning this for us. Please don't do this. Don't you leave us. Please." Emma pled.
"I'm sorry...you have to tell Anna..."
"No. Don't you be sorry and you will see Anna. You can tell her yourself. Try to fight this, honey, please." Emma was literally watching the life drain out of Regina. "Give me your hand." It was all the Regina could do to raise it, but did just enough for Emma to grab hold of her finger tips and managed to bring her hand up further. "I love you, Regina Mills."
"Love...you...Emma Swan...Mil..." Regina stopped talking and Emma knew what was happening.
"Gina?" There was no response. "Gina?" Again, nothing. "GINA!" Emma cried. "NO! GINA!"
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2014...
Everyone was silent for a while as the girls gave their best details of that night.
"You said that it was your fault. That you killed Mom." Anna said. Emma looked over at the young of the girls. "You said that you shouldn't have looked away from the road."
Elsa then spoke again. "We didn't blame you. No one did. You just blamed yourself. You were in physical therapy a couple months to rehab your crushed legs. You started drinking a couple of weeks after therapy was done. I think that pain medications kept you numb enough. When they were done, you needed something else."
"You drink all the time now." Anna said. "I can't remember what I saw last. You sober or you smiling."
"Mama, we aren't here because we want to change the future. We're here to save our family. You have proven by Anna and I even existing that you are each other's one true love. We have to save that."
"Henry must be devastated too." Emma said with pure sadness in her voice.
"You and Henry don't talk anymore." Anna said quickly.
"What?" Emma said.
"You and Henry got into a fight a couple months ago and you haven't spoken since."
"Wait." Emma said. "You said that Henry was gone to check on me. That's how Anna got here."
"No one has heard from you in two days so Henry went to check on you. You all fought, but you're still our Mother and we love you."
"I was afraid." Anna started. "What if something was wrong? What if we lost you too? I didn't want Henry to come home and tell me that. So...I came with Elsa."
Emma wondered how the savior could screw something up this badly. "What were we fighting about?" The girls just looked at each other. "What?"
"Henry filed for custody of Anna and I."
"What? Why?"
The youngest spoke first. "Mom, you are drunk all the time. You can't get passed what happened. Henry said that Mom wouldn't want that for us, so he tried to take us."
"Then there is Anna."
"Elsa!" Anna scolded her sister.
"What? She needs to know."
Emma looked at Elsa. "What did I do to Anna?"
"It wasn't what you did." Anna said sadly. "It was what I did."
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June 21, 2028...
"Hey, Mom." Regina watched, through the mirror, as her youngest daughter enter the room while Regina was applying her makeup, getting ready for her date. "Macy and Sara are going to the movies tonight. Can I go?"
"Not tonight, Anna."
"Mom, please?"
"No Anna. Not tonight. Your Mama and I are going out tonight so you girls need to stay home. Grandma and Grandpa will be here shortly and are bringing dinner. "
"But I want to go to the movies."
Regina stopped getting ready and turned to her daughter. "Anna, I told you no. That's final. Your grandparents have been away for over a week and they are looking forward to seeing you. Neal is very exited also. Something about a new game that Charming bought for him. "
"Mom-"
"Anna, if I have to tell you again-"
"Okay." The young girl huffed and walked away. "Fine."
An hour later Regina and Emma were ready to leave and were saying their goodbyes. Regina knocked on Anna's door and entered when she heard a soft 'come in'.
"Mama and I are leaving."
Anna didn't look up from her book. "Okay."
Regina went to sit on the bed beside her. "Don't be that way, Anna. You get to go with Macy and Sara all the time. Your Grandparents have been away and are really looking forward to this. I expect you to act better than you are right now. You need to go downstairs and be sociable." Anna still hadn't looked at her. "Anna, I understand that you are angry and that's okay, but you will give me an answer. Do you understand the rules?"
"Yes." That was all the girl said.
Regina stood and started to the door. "Alright then. Have a good night. I love you." There was no answer again. Regina would be lying if she said that it didn't hurt her. She and Anna had always had a very close relationship. Anna always told her Mom that she loved her, but that wasn't happening tonight. "Okay." Regina hated when the kids acted this way. With a pre-teen and a teenager, it happened, but Regina hated it all the same. Regina wouldn't expect anything less from daughters that shared her, Emma and Snow's DNA. "Have it your way. I will see you in the morning."
Anna didn't look up until Emma was now in the doorway beside Regina. "Alright, Anna Banana. Mom and I are outta here. You be good. Love you." Anna just smiled at Emma and didn't say another word. "Let's go Gorgeous." Emma said as she smiled and placed a kiss on Regina's cheek.
Regina gave Anna one last look. "Goodnight, dear." Then exited the room.
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2014...
When Anna looked up she saw Emma, Snow, David and Elsa all staring at her. Elsa spoke up "She wouldn't talk for 6 months after Mom died."
"Elsa." Anna warned.
"Not a word for 6 months. The doctor said that she was fine physically, but she was emotionally traumatized and would start talking again when she was ready." Elsa looked at Emma. "Which that REALLY helped with the drinking."
"Why did you tell her that?" Anna said angry.
"Because that is the biggest reason you are here."
"I need to see Mom, Elsa."
"And what? Apologize?"
"Maybe." Anna said defensive.
"This Regina isn't going to understand. Matter of fact, this Regina isn't going to care."
"You don't know that." Anna yelled.
"Yeah. Pretty sure that I do. She is just as bad as we heard she was."
"YOU SAW HER?!"
"This is the reason you were suppose to stay with Henry. She isn't what you remember here. Trust me when I say that you would have been devastated if you had seen her."
"You don't know that!"
"I do. You didn't see her. Her eyes, Anna-" Elsa stopped. "That woman isn't our Mom."
Anna stood and looked at her sister. "Can we not talk about this anymore. I'm really tired. I want to go to sleep now."
"I think that is a wonderful idea." Snow said. "We could all use some sleep I think."
Emma stood and grabbed her jacket. "You girls are going with me."
"We can just go back to ou-"
"Elsa, you are going with me. We will figure all this out in the morning. As for now, I think that it would be best for me to keep an eye on you."
"You mean safer for us. You know. The stray dogs or whatever."
"The quote was pound puppies." Emma chuckled. "Your Mom is something else, but I don't think that Regina would hurt you."
"I can take care of myself, Mama."
"Against your Mother?" Emma held open the door for the girls. "If it's all the same to you, that's a fight I would rather not see."