A/N: SO I meant for this to be a one shot... this might be more of a two shot instead cause... I suck at short stories. Anyway This idea came to me because I like separation fics for some reason. anyway, Enjoy!

Deja Vu

Ten years ago

Regina held the Dagger in her hand and shakingly as she cried out. "I can't ... I'm not strong enough Emma."

"Regina… Please… Just…" I begged. I had just watched her accept Robin's proposal and instantly felt myself fall apart. "I am in love with you."

"No… I thought… " She gave me the dagger. I had trusted her with it and she handed it back to me. "I'm marrying Robin," she said.

I leaned on her wall of hearts heavily. though there were no longer any beating hearts in those chests I could feel the residual dark magic in them. She had called me into her vault when she saw me flee as she accepted Robin's proposal. "I get it. Robin is uncomplicated… and a man."

She let out a breath that was more a sob than anything. "The fact that he is a man has no bearing in this decision… Emmaaaaah." She tried to speak through her sob and she looked at me her eyes pleading for me to understand. I did. She was in love with me. "You took the darkness so that I could have my happy ending with Robin… I can't just… Everyone would think…"

I couldn't take anymore I pulled her to me and I kissed her. When I felt no resistance I pushed for more. I felt her magic reach out to mine and mine to hers. Then I felt a white hot blast of magic, stronger than I have ever felt, envelope us. I lifted her over the trunk she had in that vault and I made love to her, if a dark one could make love to anyone, there in that vault. I saw a flash of her doing the same with her so called soulmate right here on this trunk, and I felt a certain satisfaction at taking her right where he had made her his that first time. Because if Regina was Robin Hood's soulmate, she was my true love.

Present day.

"Hey Ma?" I heard from behind me. I turned to look at my now grown son. I smiled and I looked up at him.

"Henry!" I said and I reached up to touch his bearded face. "I can't believe you. It's no shave November, this is still October."

"I think it looks great." He said and hugged me again. "Happy birthday Ma."

"Thanks Kid." I said and moved out of his arms "Your grandma is on her way over with your aunt and uncle. Grandpa is stuck at the station till just before cake time. I don't know how I got stuck doing the planning for my own surprise party."

Henry laughed. "That's what you get for being such a kid and figuring things out before hand."

I pouted. "Whatever. I should be in bed right now sulking because I'm old." I said

"Oh please, Forty is hardly old. "Mom is seventy and you don't hear her complaining." I winced. Henry closed his eyes at the slip up. He'd found his mother after she had run. she didn't even marry robin, she just disappeared without knowing what she had done to me. without knowing what she gave me along with that broken heart. "Sorry Ma…"

"How is she doing?" I asked as casually as I could.

"She asked me not to-"

"Fine." I snapped and walked away. "I need to take a walk."

I headed out and went to our spot. That bench at the boardwalk by the docks. I sat staring out across the water. The last time I had been here with Regina, I didn't know it would be the last time I'd see her.

Ten Years ago

I teleported to the docks and I saw her there lost in thought. I came closer to her. "Are you still gonna marry him?"

She didn't even startle she just turned her head to me. "I am in love with someone else." she said softly. I couldn't help but smile.

"I love you too." I said softly.

"Emma… We can't."

"Why the hell not?" I asked angrily.

"I can feel your darkness consuming me…" She said "I have to leave. Please take care of Henry."

"No… wait!" I said completely confused. But she stood and teleported away. By the time I caught her trail, she was riding out of Storybrooke.

Present day

Henry had been destroyed, and angry for the most part since then. I did my best to make sure he understood why, even though I felt that her leaving was selfish as hell. Besides… there was Rayna. "Mom?"

I looked to the side and my Rayna, My little girl who looked just like Regina except pale and blonde, approached me. Rayna would turn Ten the very next day. "Hey there kid."

Rayna was all light magic. The light magic that eviscerated all of the darkness inside of me. I was grateful to Regina for giving her to me, and I wish Regina had been here to see her grow. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing, just thinking about your mom," I said. I never kept Regina from her.

"Do I really look like her?" She asked. "I mean I have seen pictures, but I don't see it."

I laughed. "You have her eyes, and her nose and mouth and her curly hair she used to like to and you're sassy..."

"I like my curls." Ray said.

"That's because they are her's" I smirked.

"Grandma, Neal and Aubry are at the apartment already," my daughter said.

"They sent you to collect me?" I stated, more than asked.

"Henry got a phone call, and kind of left," Ray said.

"Okay, lets go celebrate our birthdays." I said standing up and heading back to our apartment. On the way back I passed by the old house on Mifflin and just stared at it. The place was desolate and showed signs of wear from having had no one live in it for the past ten years. Ivy had over grown it and Regina's apple tree was massive and pregnant with apples that hadn't been picked. The ground littered in decaying fruit. I had never looked back and no one has wanted to occupy her space since.

"Do you think she will ever come back to see me?" Ray asked.

"No Ray, I don't," I answered truthfully. She put her arms around me and I could feel her tears through the material on my stomach.

I Sat on my couch alone hoping that all the focus would stay on my daughter for this party. I was still in a weird mood and kind of ticked that Henry had never come back from whatever it was that had taken him away from me. I haven't had a birthday without him since he found me in Boston.

My apartment was full. So much family and so many friends, I couldn't believe this was my life. year after year, my birthday seemed bigger and bigger and I realized that my wish to never be alone on my birthday ever again came true.

"Sis, come and blow out your candles!" Aubry my seven year old sister came to me and pulled me to the table where they sang Ray and a I happy birthday. I thought about what I might wish for now. I had it all. I had everything except my true love by my side. That was what I wanted. I sighed and blew out the candles.

"Hey everyone, sorry I'm late… " Henry said. "Oh, Ma… there is someone I want you to meet."

I looked at Henry as he pulled a dark haired girl from behind him. I gasped she looked just like me, except tanned and with the dark hair. I knew right away who she was… at least what she was, and I wasted no time in holding my daughter to me. I have no trouble believing anymore. If my life is any testament. The girl held me back tentatively. "What is your name?" I asked.

"Emilyne." She said softly.

I let go of her and took a good look at her face. It was like Deja vu. Twelve years ago, my birthday wish brought me Henry. and today, It brought me Emilyne. "That's a beautiful name. You're beautiful." She smiled and looked past me at Ray. "That's your sister Rayna."

Ray smiled and waved. Emilyne looked a little shell shocked. "I'm sorry… It's just that all my life there's been no one but me and Mother… Then Henry came, and made me believe in this mythical mom, mother had only mentioned in passing. He told me how he found you on your birthday and I wanted…" She started to cry too emotional. I held her to me. "Today is my birthday too."

"I guess we know who is the older twin." I said softly kissing her head. "Then this party is for you too. Come on have some cake."

I watched as the rest of the family embraced Emilyne. She seemed a little overwhelmed, but also eager to be in the thick of family. "Ma… Mom's on her way to get Em."

My heart rate quickened. "No… she can't take her away from me already."I know that maybe I have no right to feel this way. but something in the air has changed since Emilyne walked into the room. Drawn not only by blood and Magic, but by fate. She was fated to come to me.

"I'm sorry, I had to call her." Henry said.

I nodded, "I know."

Ten Years Ago

"What do you mean you're pregnant?" My mother said when I told her. I had just been coming to terms with the fact that Regina had left me. and that the moment she left me, my dark magic seemed to have been ripped from my body.

"I mean just that." I said.

"Hook?" Mom asked.

"Mom…" I said exasperated. "NO, NO… I… I slept with Regina… maybe something happened...This is not normal. It took three months to manifest itself."

"Regina?" My mother's face was more surprised than horrified. I was relieved not to have to explain my preferences to her at this moment. Maybe I'd need to explain later but right then, she was just thinking of the logistics of how Regina could have done this to me.

"Wait… MOM knocked you up? with her magic?"

"Only way it could have happened Henry," I mumbled.

"And she left you like this?" He asked angrily. He was still so hurt by Regina's disappearance.

"Well… " David finally said "This is still a blessing. She cured you. It's yet another reason to be grateful to her."

"But what about me?" Henry said. "She left me, after fighting so hard to keep me she could just..."

I reached out to my son and held him close. "Henry, your mom, she loves you with everything she has. Never forget that." He began to cry in my arms.

"Why did she leave me?"

Present day

That was how I chose to look at it since. She had to leave us to save us from what she was becoming. But what would happen if she came here now? would I become the dark one again? Would she? The dagger had been in her vault and devoid of a name for a full decade. I looked at Emilyne and Rayna as they caught up with their lives. They were just babies.

I felt a strange charge in the air. A change had come. It was something I hadn't felt in a very long time. I looked around the room. Everyone I loved was there. They were safe and happy, but I could feel the threat. My magic had changed me and made me more aware of everything around me. It is the residuals from the dark one. I still protected the dagger.

I walked over to Henry and whispered. "Hey, I need to check your mom's vault. I feel something happening to the dagger."

Henry turned to me. "I'll keep them busy while you check."

I nodded and flicked a wrist to teleport to Regina's vault. It had been disturbed. I rushed down the steps and entered. "Emma!" Regina breathed out.

She was older but still as beautiful as ever. The sight of her made me breathless. "Regina?"

"What are you doing in my vault?" She asked. I walked over by a wall, and I reached through it with my magic and pulled out the dagger. I turned it to see the engraving on it. I gasped and hugged the dagger to my chest. "What is it?"

"Take our daughter out of here… please take her home."

"I was prepared to fight with you about this… what is going on Emma?" She pulled my arm and I handed her the dagger. Emilyne Mills was inscribed on to it. "I don't think I can take her home… but I do know where to find Merlin."

"Hen, watch over your sisters, your mom and I need to find an old man." I said as we headed out to Regina's car.

"Ma, what's going on?" He asked.

"It's a long story Kid. Just please take care of them," I asked.

"Of course, see you later." Henry said and I hung up the phone. I noticed the confused expression on Regina's face but chose to ignore it as I strode forward.

"Them? Sisters? Emma?" Regina wondered stopping just short of the car."

"You weren't the only one that left this vault with a bundle of joy." Emma said.

"Ugh… It's you and Lily all over again." Regina groaned. "I want to meet my daughter Emma, but I have to save Emilyne."

I smirked a little. "You named her after me?"

Regina shrugged. "Get in the car Swan." we got in and drove out of town as fast as possible. The border having been lifted so that only magical beings could enter because I couldn't maintain it without Regina. I simply don't know how.

"What's her name?" Regina asked after about a half an hour of driving in silence.

"Rayna." I said softly. "It means-"

"Queen… I know. You named her after me?" she asked.

I shrugged. "I didn't want to forget…"

She nodded. "I couldn't have forgotten anyway, Emmy looks so like you, except her coloring."

"Same with Ray… Like you, I mean." I stammered. God she still makes me stupid.

Regina turned toward Salem Massachusetts, and to a wooded area just outside it. "Reach in there for a scroll. it casts an enchantment over this vehicle."

I find it and hand it over to her. "What kind of Enchantment?" I asked.

"one that will keep the senile old codger from detecting our approach. He had been dodging me since I left Storybrooke." Regina said. She mumbled the enchantment and blew over the parchment and the whole car turned a glowing neon green around us. as did we and then I looked over to Regina and didn't see her anymore.

"How am I supposed to know where you are?" I asked.

Regina paused. I wondered what she was thinking at that moment. She cleared her throat and tried to speak but I could hear the pain in it when she said. "You will only see what you want to see."

"What?" I asked and turned my head once again. There she was, again. "Oh…"

She let out a relieved breath as she continued to drive into the woods and came to a lake. "You've ruined me for everyone else you know?" She sighed. "I have not been able to move on, though God Knows Emmy has insisted I date so I'd get out of her hair sometimes."

I laughed at her admission. I hadn't realized just how tense it had gotten in the car. Regina relaxed a little. Could we be together finally after twelve years? "Regina… moving on was never happening for me. Rayna always knew. Did you ever tell Emmy about me?"

"Not really." Regina stated. "She knew she had another mother, but only because she overheard me speaking to some man about how not into him I was. Then she asked me if it was true but I have never really spoken of you or Henry or anyone. I didn't want her to know what she was missing." Regina sighed. I swallowed back the pain that my daughter didn't know who I was all of her life. Probably thought that I was dead, or worse never really cared about her. A surge of anger ran through me.

I opened my mouth to speak, but then she continued. "When Henry ran into us while in New York, he told her about you. I asked him not to tell you anything about my life I didn't want you to know how lonely I felt without you. but I also didn't want you to feel like I had moved on."

"I still love you, and I always will." I said my voice but a whisper. There were tears running down my cheeks. I swiped at it and tried to shake it off. Regina stopped driving. "Is this it?" I asked pretending as if I hadn't just shed tears.

She nodded and stepped out of our invisible car. She seemed to take a moment to compose herself before speaking "He has powerful magic even in this world. that's where this scroll comes from. He can sense the magic around me but maybe this will give us leverage."

I nodded taking notice that she hadn't returned the sentiment of love. Yet, somehow, I knew that she loved me. No doubt in my mind. We walked around a cottage. I peeked inside and reached for my very non magical gun, if he can't be fooled by magic maybe brute force will do it. I cocked the gun and looked in the window. If I had to hurt the old man to save my daughter I would. Regina still had Emmy's dagger on her. She walked into the door at the front. and I hurried to try and open the back. but it was locked. I watched through the window as she tried to get the asshole to listen. He ran toward me at the back. and I stuck my foot out to trip him and hit him unconscious with the gun.

"How did you?" Regina said seeing the man on the floor.

"Brute force." I said.

"Excellent." She said and helped me stuff him in the back of her car.

"What now?" I asked.

"We Take him to Storybrooke." Regina said. "And I want to meet my daughter."

I smiled and we headed back to town. He slept most of the time there he began to stir as we crossed the borders of the town. I suppose that he could feel the magic entering his body and filling him with energy. The same way I felt every time I returned home to Storybrooke. We knew he was powerful, so both Regina and I bound him magically and he was unable to move anymore. We took the old man into a special room of the hospital and placed a protection spell between the two of us. and kept him bound as well. We would deal with him the next day.

When we got to my apartment. Emmy and Ray were laying on Rays bed I walked in and signaled for Regina to see Ray I kneeled down beside her and shook her gently. "hey Kid, I have someone who wants to meet you."

Ray blinked her eyes softly and looked at Regina. Her eyes widened and she immediately launched herself at Regina. "Mom! You didn't forget us."

Regina only held on to her daughter, who she was sure felt strange as Emmy is more reserved if I do remember. I tore my eyes away from the reunion to see that Emmy had woken up. I smiled and moved over kissing her forehead. "She came all the way over here to get you."

"Do I have magic like Ray?" She asked me softly. I blanched. What could I say? kid you are black magic personified?"

"I don't know." I said softly.

"Okay." She said, and Regina reached out to tuck a stray hair out of her face.

"My love, never leave me like that again." Regina said while still holding Rayna.

"I just had to meet them Mother. They are a great family and I want to stay with them."

Regina nodded her head. "We will stay." she said softly and I wondered if she was doing it for Emmy or her… probably both.

A/N: Do you like? okay please let me know what you liked about it and stuff. I can't wait to hear what you think. This is supposed to be a one shot, but I know it is a two shot now. I'll work on that another day. 'Till next time! Much love-S.K.