A/N: Hello everyone! This is a rewrite of my story, "The First Step". If you haven't read that story, you can still read it if you'd like to, but you won't need to read it in order to understand this one. Basically, I decided to rewrite "The First Step" after realizing I was keeping it too close to the canon (which won't make sense for Emma and Regina's relationship later on), and I wanted to add a lot more originality to the story. Each episode in season 1 will get a rewrite (a few chapters will be devoted to each episode rewrite), but expect lots of diversion from how the show played out. To old and new readers alike, I hope you enjoy the new version of this story! :)

Disclaimer: I do not own OUAT, its characters, or its storylines.

Season 1 Rewrite, SQ. Emma and Regina fall for each other the first night they meet. As she gets to know Emma, Regina realizes she doesn't want to be a villain anymore, so she strives to mend the mistakes of her past and break the curse with Emma and Henry's help. But it won't be an easy road, especially when Gold continues to interfere.

~Believe~

Prologue: 108 Mifflin Street

108 Mifflin Street.

If only I had known how very attached I would become to the grandiose mansion and the two people residing there. A mayor missing her happy ending and a ten year old believer. Combined with a lost savior, we made a great team.

I wish I had known how everything would change in the instant brown eyes met green ones. After one simple word escaped my lips.

Hi.

That was how my relationship with Regina Mills started. The most complicated and heartbreaking, but at the same time, the most beautiful and loving relationship I had ever been in. Regina understood me. She felt my pain. She was broken, just like myself. Together, we were able to mend the emptiness and loneliness that had accompanied our lives in a way that no one else could have ever done for us. It was all thanks to Henry, who had brought us together that first night in Storybrooke. The night that changed everything.

Regina and I would forever be grateful.

I just wished I hadn't taken as long as I had to admit my true love for Regina.

-Emma Swan