Once upon a time lived a little girl who was destined for greatness. She grew up with her loving Father and Evil Mother. Her Mother wanted the little girl to grow up and become Queen, So the mother did everything she could to teach the little girl what she needed to know. One day when the girl had grown up, her Evil Mother set her up to rescue the Kings daughter. Knowing that the now young woman had a kind heart, the Evil Mother made the Kings daughter's horse go wild so the young woman would save her. The mother then arranged for her to become married to the King as a way of giving thanks for saving his child. The King wasn't a very nice man and nor was his daughter.

Once she married the King, the young Queen kept to herself. She was nothing but a show piece to her new family and it made her quite sad. An evil man, known as the Dark One, saw the sadness in the Queen and offered to help her out. He taught her the dark arts of magic so she could over throw all that caused harm to her. Her first task was to send her mother away. She was sent to an unknown land for her own safety, as well as everyone else. She then had the king murdered to stop the chaos he has created across the lands.

Once the young Queen had control over the kingdoms, she set everything back into place. The land went back to full bloom and everything became right again. the Young Queen really loved to bring happiness to her people and she was finally happy.

until one day, when her step daughter ran away. The Princess went around to all the villages and told the people how she had murdered their king. A lot of people were mortified but some of the others thought it was great. That was until the Princess told them that the Queen was trying to murder her too. The villagers did not like that one bit. They all banded together to attempt to over throw the Queen from her reign. The Queen did not like this one bit. She retaliated and hit hard. The Princess spread across the lands and informed the neighbouring kingdoms of her lies that the Queen had turned Evil and was trying to kill her. It didn't take long for them all to name her the Evil Queen.

This made the Queen even sadder. She wanted to stop fighting and wanted to live her life happily. She went back to her teacher and he told her about a dark curse that would send everyone to a land without magic. A land where all her enemies would have their memories replaced with others, so she could live peacefully among them without further conflict. This appealed to her a lot.

So the Queen travelled the lands to find the ingredients she needed to enact this curse. In the time it took her to find everything, the Queen was pushed out of her own Kingdom by the Princess and her new lover boy, a Prince Charming no doubt. They shared true love and was expecting a child to be born when the Queen was due to enact her curse. The Queen was ready but the only thing that was stopping her was that the cost of this type of magic would be to give up the thing she loved the most, the heart of her father.

Troubled by the decision she had to make, the Queen spoke to her father at lengths of what she had to do. he told her that she can have love again but they should just leave and leave this all behind. The happiness they could have together would be enough. The Queen agreed and was set to leave with her father the next day.

But plans didn't work out like they had hoped for. After the princess gave birth to their child, the Princess and her Prince came intruding on the Queens castle, stripping her of her magic temporarily and killed her father in front of her eyes. The Queen was sadder than she ever had felt. All that she loved was gone. So instead of being evil like they all thought she was, the Queen put herself under a sleeping curse.

21 years had gone by when she was finally awoken by her true love. The Queen thought the fates were cruel when she found out the Princess who had awoken her, was the child that was born from her step-daughter.

The fates were not so cruel though. Over the time that had passed, her step-daughter had passed away in battles that were created by her teacher losing his power. The land no longer saw the Queen as an Evil Queen, but as a Queen that was misrepresented while she defended her ruling. The people once again fell in love with her reign, thanks to the young Princess. They fell madly in love with another. The Queen knew from the very first moment she met the Princess that she would love her. The Princess fell down head first into the dirt and left a very rememberable first impression. For the Queen was always use to protocol and seriousness, the fact that her true love was carefree and a clutz was exactly what the Queen needed. The Queen and her Princess reopened the Queens castle and brought back prosperity to her lands. After getting married and making her Princess her Queen, they travelled the land to spread the word that they would join their kingdoms and rule them together, with the help of a little boy that they had created with their true love magic that was on the way.

After their little Prince was born, the two Queens became happier than they ever thought they could be. They travelled the lands and introduced the future King to all their neighbours. The kingdom couldn't be happier either. With the thanks to the Queens, life in the Enchanted Forest was peaceful. Everyone lived happily ever after.

Regina closed the book and looked up to see her wife and son in the yard. They're spending Henry's 5th birthday in Story Brooke, at the request of the little Prince. His addiction for icecream was definitely becoming a habit that was getting on her nerve. The young boy had a sweet tooth just as bad as his other mother. Regina watched as Emma taught their son Henry how to wield a sword. He was quite talented for such a young man, but with Emma as his mother, it was no wonder that he was becoming so great at it. Regina admired her little boy. His dark brown hair matched her own but his facial features and eyes were all Emma, except that evil smirk, that was definitely Regina's.

Emma strategically showed her son how to attack when their opponent dropped their guard, Regina thinks it's the only time that she has ever seen Emma allow anyone to actually get the best of her. She smiles lovingly at the pair as they continue to joust around the swing set in their backyard.

As she continues to watch them play, she thinks back over the story, how this all came about. The curse, Snow, her dad dying, the sleeping curse, Emma, their first official kiss, the way she proposed at Emma's birthday, the conceiving of their son on that very night, their wedding, and the day that their son was born. It was all so amazing. Never had Regina ever thought that her life would get to be this great.

Regina turns her head and smiles as a little 3 year old girl comes bounding up to her.

"Mumma, Mumma" the little blonde haired, green eyed girl said as she flung herself into Regina's side.

"hello Riley, my baby girl, you must be quiet or you'll wake your little brother" Regina whispered as she looked down to her sleeping 3 month old son in her arms.

"sorry Daniel, sissy will be quiet, shhhh" Riley stage whispered to the sleeping form.

Regina just laughed and shook her head at the silliness of it all. Emma and Henry came running up towards them.

"What's for lunch Mumma?" Henry asked.

"yeah… we're starving" Emma winked at Regina.

Regina just shook her head, "I swear I have four children most days" she chuckled.

Emma screwed her nose up at Regina and leant down and kissed her. She looked down at their sleeping son and gave him a kiss on the head too.

"I'll go make us all some sandwiches. You stay here my Queen." Emma said to her wife.

"you think you're getting out of diaper duty by sucking up do you?"

Emma shrugged and offered her wife a cheeky grin as she walked inside.

They all followed Emma in and sat down at the family dining table. Regina first took their sleeping son into the baby room for him to finish of his midday sleep. Emma made everyone salad sandwiches for lunch and a glass of the finest apple juice across all the realms.

"but I wanted icecream" Henry whined as she placed his plate in front of him.

Emma chuckled as she scruffed up his hair, "that's for after dinner kid" she chuckled.

"but it's my burfday" he pouted

Regina and Emma looked at each other and smiled.

"Ma said I can get whatever I want on my burfday" he tried to reason.

"well Ma was wrong dear. Plus you know that when it comes down to rules, Mumma is the boss"

Emma scoffed and screwed her face up at Regina, "HEY!"

Regina laughed and poked her tongue out a Emma, causing Henry and Riley to laugh at the silliness of their mothers.

Emma laughed too and tickled the two children before taking a seat next to Regina.

Emma and Regina raised their glasses, Henry and Riley followed suit.

"to the birthday boy, Prince Henry Charming" Emma toasted proudly.

"to the birthday boy" Regina and Riley toasted back as Henry cheered, "to me!"

They all giggled and began to eat their sandwhiches.

The two kids finished eating and ran off to go play outside. Emma and Regina went into the kitchen to tidy up from lunch.

"I'm going to miss the simplicity of this all." Regina said as she wrapped her arms around Emma and rested her head against her shoulder.

"yeah me too. It's going to be so weird being back in the White Castle. Especially that its all been renovated and looks nothing like it use too, its going to be our forever home now. I think I might even miss doing the washing up." Emma finished washing the last plate and dried off her hands before turning to face Regina in their embrace. "I just hope I don't miss you. it's going to be a big change in responsibilities. With you running the political talking yada, yada bullshit and me doing the physical mumbo jumbo of it all, I just hope we have time for one another."

"oh don't worry dear. I will definitely make the time. strict 8 hours of the day is all we have for our duties. The kingdom is self-sufficient now as it is. A few little tweaks here and there and you'll only have to work 8 hours a day and 5 days out of the week. We still will have time for our date nights and still have 2 solid days to spend with our children. Our new life is going to work out perfectly and we won't have to miss out on much at all." Regina leant up onto her tippy toes and kissed Emma firmly.

Emma chuckled and pulled her in closer to her, "since when did you become the optimist of life huh?"

"the day I met you, then the day I met Henry, more so when you had Riley and then without any doubt when I gave birth to Daniel." Regina kissed Emma again, "my life with you is perfect. I have everything I ever wanted, I got the new beginning I asked you for."

Emma leant over and grabbed both of their glasses, she re-filled them with their honey-crisp apple juice and raised her glass to Regina

"what should we toast to?" Emma asked.

Regina looked at Emma a smiled,

"A New Beginning"