Retrospective

Chapter 1

Emma strutted into the Mayor's office with a smug expression as she wore the burgundy leather jacket with white fur in trim that her fiancée got her for their anniversary three months ago. It was becoming her favorite piece of clothing.

The blonde saw her future wife studying old books from the Enchanted Forest looking for answer. Emma placed the plastic food container in front of the older woman. "How do you feel about kale salad?" She questioned.

Regina was three days away from being five months pregnant and she had been complaining about eating nothing but junk food because she lived with two horribly undignified children. "Looks like someone found someplace other than Granny's for take out." The brunette mused, not once looking up from her studies.

"I ate my grilled cheese from there on the way." Emma informed her lover and tried to take the cap off of one of the root beer bottles she had in her hands.

Brown eyes rolled playfully and she moved her gaze up for a quick glance at the younger woman. "You eat like a child." She saw two dark brown glass bottles in her hands. "Is that a root beer?"

Emma smirked, showcasing her dimples. "Two." The sheriff showcased. "I got you one- thought you could use a break." Plus her fiancée had been on a bit of a root beer kick for the last two weeks. Emma would be lying if she said she didn't find the woman's pregnancy cravings hilarious.

"A break from what?" The former queen scoffed. "Dead end after dead end?" With a frustrated sigh she looked down at the various books on her marble desk. "I've found spells to close the border completely or open it to all, but apparently making it one sided is unheard of."

The blonde was struggling to open the supposedly twist off bottle caps. "It's only been a few weeks, baby."

Regina looked up into the green eyes of her fiancée. "Exactly and I've concurred entire realms in less time." She told the savior in all seriousness.

"Can you concur these bottle?" Emma asked casually. "I thought they were twist offs." She put one down on the marble desk and went searching for a bottle opener.

"Do I look like I can pry them off with my teeth?" Regina questioned her true love. "I'm a queen and a bit more refined, dear."

The sheriff cranked her neck back and raised a blonde eyebrow at her. "Yeah, I got that." She huffed and opened a dresser drawer, finding nothing useful. "You were really refined when you were begging me to fuck you in our kitchen yesterday."

Brown eyes rolled. "I didn't beg you." The older woman argued. "And I do believe you were just as eager to have me return the favor afterwards."

Emma gave up her plundering and walked back over to the mayor's desk. She smirked at the memory from the day before. "Oh, make no mistake baby, I will always be eager to give or receive any kind of sex from you. Why else would I propose?" She wondered as she turned a bottle upside to help her open it. It worked and she handed the open one to her true love.

The brunette laughed and grabbed her salad and drink, effectively taking a break from her useless search. "Glad to know you asked for my hand in marriage for all the right reasons." She teased with a small smirk.

Green eyes sparkled as Emma grinned back at her fiancée. "So I know you've hit a dead end in the whole border situation, but what about Belle?"

Since event at the border three months ago, Regina and the former maid had buried the hatchet and had been trying to find a way to one side the border on all sides.

They both had their reasons for why they wanted to do it. Belle wanted Gold to be able to leave without having some kind of magic helping him remember his identity if God forbid Neal left town again. Regina, however, wanted the border situation figured out for more sensible reasons; Henry was getting better at football and she wanted to build a stadium for them just outside of Storybrooke so the team could expand their horizons. Also, she figured it would help local businesses and the overflowing port they had. Fewer things would be shipped in and out if the residents could leave on their own free will.

With a sigh the mayor shrugged and opened her salad. "I spoke with her yesterday, but she's yet to find anything useful."

Emma gave the unopened bottle of root beer one more grunt and it popped open. "Finally." She muttered before taking a long swig. "Well we'll figure it out either way." She told her fiancée. "How's the baby doing?"

"He or she is hungry." Regina confessed and took a bite of the green leafs. She chewed and swallowed before saying, "I made an appointment with Whale on Thursday."

That got the savior's attention. "Yeah? Will we be able to find out if we're having a boy or a girl?"

Regina licked her lips. "I'm far enough long to be able to tell, but whether or not find out depends on the baby and their positioning."

"I'll be pissed if our kid doesn't cooperate with us." The sheriff chuckled.

The former queen took another bite of her salad and moved her hands over her small protruding belly. "At least we don't have to worry about having twins." She joked, rubbing the tiny bump. She was halfway through her pregnancy and she was carrying it very well. She'd only gained about five pounds.

Emma took another drink of her root beer and grinned. "That's true. There's no way you're hiding two babies in that hot body of yours." She winked.

Regina had to admit that her hormones has made her insecure about her changing body a few times, but thankfully her fiancée was the best at making her still feel sexy and beautiful. "The appointment is at ten on Thursday so you'll need to pencil that in."

The sheriff nodded. "I'll tell my dad to open the station." She snapped her fingers. "Speaking of which, I kinda promised my mom we'd watch DJ for them tomorrow night. They need a date night."

"That's fine. I adore your brother." The brunette smiled at the thought of the little four-month-old infant.

Emma gave her a knowing grin. "For someone who isn't a fan of Charming's, you sure take a liking to their children." She smirked.

The mayor huffed. "Don't you have work to attend to, Sheriff Swan?" She questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Wow. First I get no thank you for bringing lunch and now I'm getting kicked out?" Emma faked offense and covered her hand over her heart. "That hurts, baby."

Regina laughed. "I'll see you at home, honey."

The blonde bent over the marble desk and tenderly kissed her fiancée once, twice, and a third before she was satisfied and stood back up. "Mm. I wish I didn't have work. I love you."

"I love you too." The former queen told her. "Be safe!" She hollered as the younger woman closed her office door.

The next day was another dead end for Regina. She was beginning to think that making the border a one-way deal was impossible. She thought about making a true love potion to see if that would work, but she didn't want to perform magic while pregnant in case it hurt the baby and she didn't trust the Dark One to do it for them.

She got out of her car and spotted her dogs on the other side of the fence, roaming around the large yard. Their heads perks towards her and their fluffy tails started wagging at the sight. She opened the gate and let herself into the yard as the boys walked over to her whining for attention. "Hello my dears." She greeted them, giving the jealous animals equal love.

The front door opened the Emma whistled for the dogs when she saw they rubbing against her fiancée's legs. "Get in the house!" She told the wolves and they started running in full stride at her. She managed to escape their assault while she waited for the mayor to make it to the door. "How was work?"

Regina removed her coat and hugged her lover after she shut the front door. "Frustrating." She confessed and breathed in the life of her future wife.

The savior grinned and held the brunette close to her. "You're home now." She assured her and kissed the dark hair as they pulled away from each other.

"Where's Henry?" The older woman asked as she walked up the foyer stairs. Her question was answered when she saw her son in the family room playing video games. "I hope you finished your homework young man." She said with crossed arms as she made her way around the couch. Her jaw dropped in shock when she saw little baby DJ sitting in Henry's lap while the boy played his Xbox. "What're you doing?" She looked at the shooting game he was playing and gasped before taking the baby from him. "Henry, you can't expose his little eyes to that!"

Emma was right behind the brunette. She laughed. "Relax baby, he's too young to remember it."

The mayor clutched the baby to her chest. "Says you." She gave her son a stern look. "If you're going to have him in your lap, play something that isn't so bloody and violent."

"But he likes when the remote vibrates." Henry chuckled.

"I don't care. Have you finished your homework?" Regina asked him once again since he didn't answer previously.

The boy nodded. "Yeah. Ma checked it already."

Regina smelled the dark haired head of the baby. She accepted her son's answer and turned to her lover. "What time are your parents coming to pick him up?"

"Around nine." The sheriff informed her.

"What's for dinner?" Henry asked as he played his game.

The couple looked at each other in question. "What do you feel like?" Regina asked her family.

Emma shrugged. "I could order from Tony's. They have good Italian food and you don't have to cook."

It had been a long workday for the older woman so she agreed. "Sounds good. I'm going to shower. Do your parents want us to bathe him while we have him?"

"I told her we could." The savior revealed. It wasn't their first time watching her little brother. They did so whenever her parents requested because they always watched Henry when Emma asked.

Regina nodded, not surprised. "Okay. I'll give him a bath and Henry can watch him while I shower. After you order from Tony's will you bring a change of clothes up for him?"

"Sure. What do you want from Tony's?" The blonde asked.

The mayor pondered for a moment as she lightly rocked the baby in her arms. "Uh… get me their breadcrumb crusted chicken." She told her fiancée as she walked up the stairs to shower.

When Regina got out of the shower she heard the angry cry of her fiancée's little brother. She chuckled to herself as she dried her body before she pulled her short dark hair into it and wrapped it. She reached for her robe and made her way towards the cry.

As she reached the bottom of the staircase she saw her son frantically trying to calm the infant child. The second Henry saw his mother he handed DJ over. "I didn't do anything wrong." He exclaimed over the cry.

Regina nodded her head, fighting a laugh. "I know, honey. He's probably just hungry." She told him before taking the baby and rocking him in her arms, wiping his tears as she walked to the fridge where she assumed Emma had put the bottled breast milk.

"How can you tell?" Henry wondered as he followed her.

The mayor grabbed a bottle with her one free hand and popped it in the microwave for fifteen seconds. As she waited she patted the infant's back as he cried. Her body was calm, so his screaming wasn't as loud as when a tense Henry was holding him. "He's telling us with his cry that something is wrong, dear. Babies don't cry for nothing. His diaper is dry and I just bathed him. He wants to eat and go to sleep." The microwave beeped and Regina pulled the bottle out and shook it. "Hold your hand out."

Henry did as he was instructed and his adoptive mother squirted some of the milk on his wrist. "It's warm." He noted.

Baby DJ saw the bottle being waved around and his cries turned into whimpers as he stared at it. "Do you want to feed him?" The mayor asked.

The boy nodded. "Yeah."

Regina smiled and handed him the baby first. She gave him time to adjust his uncle and then handed him the bottle. "Make sure you tilt the bottle for him." She reminded him.

As the woman watched her son feed the little baby she felt her heart warm at the sight. She reached a hand up to fiddle with Henry's hair lovingly. "Are you going to be this helpful with your brother or sister?" She wondered.

The kid grinned. "Yeah. Hopefully by then I'll be a little better with babies."

"You're doing fine." The former queen assured him. "You're growing into a wonderful young man, sweetheart. I appreciate your help."

"Thanks, mom." Henry said and started walking away. "I'm going to bring him into the living room."

The front door opened and in came Chief and Boss, making a beeline for their water bowl in the kitchen just as Regina was leaving. Her eyes widened slightly at startling sight before she shook her head and saw her fiancée walking towards her with bags of food. "Need any help?" She chuckled softly.

"Nah." Emma shook her head over the bags she was carrying and went into the dinning room before setting it on the table. "Where's the baby?" She asked as she started taking the food out.

Regina pointed in the direction of the family room. "Henry is feeding him."

The blonde gave an impressed look. "He better do that shit when our baby is born." She said and received a playful slap to her arm. With a smirk she observed her lover's robe clad body. "I love post shower Regina."

"You better love all kinds of Regina." The mayor smirked and pulled the savior into her arms and kissed her.

"Pst!" Henry called from the doorway of the dinning room. The couple reluctantly broke their kiss and looked at him and to the sleeping baby in her arms.

Emma grinned. "I got him." She offered and walked over to steal the sleeping baby from her son's arm.

"Put him in our bed, baby." Regina instructed. "Henry, go get some plates and glasses to set the table."

Regina just turned the knob of the dishwasher to turn it on when she felt greedy hands cop a feel of her ass. She huffed a laugh and felt butterflies in her stomach when those hands slide up and around her stomach. "Is DJ gone?"

The blonde pressed herself up against the back the older woman and kissed her shoulder. "Yep. My mom told me to tell you thanks for watching him."

"It's good practice for you." The mayor teased as she relaxed against her true love.

Emma stroked up and down her fiancée's barely protruding belly and breathed deeply. "We're halfway there." She smirked proudly.

Regina beamed. "Technically we have two more days until we're halfway through and that's only if the baby decides to come on-" She gasped and both women ripped away from the embrace and faced each other.

"Was that-"

"A kick." The brunette cut off her lover and looked at her in disbelief.

Emma felt her face nearly split in half when she grinned. Her hands automatically went to the woman's belly again, but there was no kick. "That's so crazy, baby! Is that the first time it's done that?"

Regina nodded happily and felt her emotions getting the best of her. "Yeah."

The savior saw a tear fall from Regina's eyes and she wiped them away before she grabbed her face. "I love you." She told her emphatically.

"I love you too." The former queen spoke and kissed her future wife. "It seems our second child loves you as well."

Emma chuckled. "Either it loves me or it got pissed off I was waking it up. It really is like you if the latter is true."

Brown eyes rolled playfully. "I hope we can find out the gender of our baby on Thursday so I can stop hearing you call him or her 'it'."

A small thud perked the Sheriff's ears. She broke eye contact with the woman in front of her and listened out. "Did you hear that?"

Regina hadn't heard anything but the worry in the blonde's tone. "No." Before she could react, Emma had walked away from her and towards the 'noise' she heard. "What did you hear?" She demanded to know, going into Evil Queen mode. "If it's an intruder-"

The savior huffed a quiet laugh and whispered, "Relax Your Majesty," as she headed for the stairs, "I think it was Henry."

"Oh, you think?" Scoffed Regina as she followed her insane lover. "That makes me feel so safe."

"Shh!" Emma halted suddenly halfway up the stair and extended her arm out to stop the mayor as well. "Did you hear that?" She whispered.

Regina shook her head firmly. "No." The blonde held up a finger at her as she listened out for whatever ghost she was hearing. "Your hearing must be amazing, dear." When Emma turned to her with a certain smirk on her face, the mayor couldn't help but ask, "What?"

"I think Henry snuck a girl in through his window. "

At those words she recognized the smirk that was residing on Emma's face: Pride. Regina's jaw dropped. "No. Nope. This is not happening." She shook her head and stormed past the woman in her way. "He's twelve."

Emma was laughing as she followed the lead of her fiancée. "He's nearly thirteen." She pointed out. "He likes Grace." The gossip fell from her lips.

The mayor gasped just as she was opening the door to their son's room, her lover hot on her heels. In it, she spotted Henry jumping away from his opened window. "What're you doing?" She asked with accusation already in her tone.

"Uh-" The boy dragged out while trying to think of any believable lie possible. He saw Emma walk in and just raise an amused eyebrow at him.

Regina rushed over to glance out of his window and saw a blonde girl running out her yard while both of her dogs just watched her leave. 'Some guard dogs we have.' She thought to herself before turning to look at her son again. "Why are you sneaking girls into your room, young man?"

The sheriff cleared her throat to get attention. "Who'd you see?" She asked the brunette.

"Who knows?" Regina shrugged irritably. "I mean, how many blonde girls his age are in town? It could be any of them." She gave a stern look of disapproval to her pre-teen.

"It was just Grace. She needed notes from school today." Henry told the room and moved to sit on his bed.

The mayor let out an exasperated scoff. "Please. If she needed the notes then why not just knock on the door like anybody with commonsense?"

Emma took a step towards their son and plopped down on his bed next to him. "Do you like her?" She wondered and waved her fiancée over to lounge with her on the double bed.

"She's my friend." Henry defended himself.

"Do you like like her?" The sheriff clarified herself.

Heat flooded in the boy's cheek and he looked in his lap. "I don't- maybe." He shook his head. "No."

Emma was looked at her fiancée with barely contained excitement. Their son's first crush!

Regina, however, was not excited. Her baby had changed enough lately! His voice was already starting to change into a throatier tone, he was losing some of the baby fat in his cheeks and he rode his bike to and from school. He'd grown up enough for a little while.

"You know wanna know when I first knew I liked your mom?" The savior questioned her son, turning to him again. He was playing with his sock as he sat Indian style on the bed.

She could still hear the words of Killian- drunk- behind the cell bars at the station, "You've got a thing for the Evil Queen, love." He told her.

The mayor's attention definitely perked at the rhetorical question her lover asked. It wasn't meant for her but she answered anyways. "Yes."

Emma chuckled and kept her eyes on the kid as she revealed, "Killian pointed it out to me."

Henry lifted his head and looked at his blonde mother. "Hook knew before you did?"

The sheriff nodded. "Yep. Sure did."

Regina stayed quiet as she watched Henry struggle for the words for whatever he was going to say.

"How'd he tell you?" The boy asked.

Emma thought back to it. "Well at first he blurted it out and of course I denied it because I thought surely if I liked The Evil Queen I would know about it." Green eyes momentarily gazed at her true love and she received an eye roll from her at the nickname. "But Hook was right. I thought about your mom and I got this weird fluttery feeling in the pit of my stomach and my throat would get dry whenever I was around her because she made me nervous."

Henry cracked a small smile. "She made you nervous?"

"Completely. I was a total wreck."

Regina nodded. "She was. You should have seen her the night she found out I was her true love."

The savior laughed. "See? I was a complete disaster. I liked her and I didn't know what to do about it."

"But you told her and now you're getting married and having a baby." Henry smiled at them.

"We are and one day you'll do the same thing." Emma grinned back at the boy before she patted his knee.

"Not any time soon though." Regina clarified and stood from the bed, straightening her dress out the best she could.

The blonde licked her lips. "Look, kid. You're growing up fast these days and the rules around here are already starting to loosen up for you, but sneaking girls into your isn't the way to show us that you're a responsible guy. Next time Grace wants to come over, tell her to use the front door or your mothers will ground you until you're sixteen." She stood up from his bed and ruffled his hair. "We love you."

"You're also grounded for a week." Regina added. "Consider that your warning."

"But-" Henry started.

Emma cut her off. "You heard her, kid. This isn't negotiable."

Regina wiped her freshly minted mouth and turned off the light in the master bathroom as she made her way to her bed. She slept on the side closest to the window, which was closer to the washroom. Just as she pulled back the lilac comforter she spotted a yellow post-it taped to her pillow.

She was embarrassed of how big her smile was at the sight of recognizable chicken scratch. She plucked the note from the cotton fabric and brought it to her, reading.

'Thank you for everything you do, baby. If you need some examples, like making our bed every morning and loving me in general.'

Regina tucked her hair behind her ear and let out an airy laugh. She looked around the room and bit her lip. No sign of the savior, but their room door was open. "Honey?"

"Yeah?" She heard from down the hallway.

The mayor crawled into bed after she placed the yellow note in her bedside table drawer. "What are you doing?" She asked casually.

"Putting the clothes in the dryer." Emma revealed nonchalantly.

Regina licked her lips. "Well get your hot ass in here." She smirked. "Quit drying things and come do the opposite with me."

Green eyes widened comically as she laughed. Henry had just gone to bed an hour ago. He could very well still be awake. "Way to scar our son forever, baby."

"Your parents already did that, dear." The former queen said smugly. "I saw your note. Come here."

Emma shut the dryer and turned it on. "Which one?" She smirked while she walked to her room. Her shoulder leaned against the doorframe as she spied her seductive looking fiancée lying flat on her back; robe open and body exposed to the room. Her voice caught in her throat at the sight.

Regina rubbed one of her erect nipples with her hand and licked her lips with a small moan. "Shut the door, Emma."

A throaty whimper flew from the blonde's mouth as stepped into the room and practically slammed the door shut before locking it- thankful that the dogs were sleeping with Henry tonight. "Couldn't wait for me, huh?" She teased in a sultry voice as she crawled over her on the bed and replaced the brunette's hand with her own, twisting the nipple harshly.

"Oh!" Regina gasped before the sheriff leaned down and covered her mouth. She shoved her tongue down her throat and abused the dark nipples.

Emma smirked as she pulled away to shed kissed over her lover's neck. "I know how like it, my queen."

Brown eyes rolled, but she couldn't find it inside her to be bothered by the cockiness. After all, it was true. "Shut-up, Swan."

"Mm." The younger woman moaned as she slid kisses down until she engulfed a perky nipple in her mouth, sucking.

Regina hissed and dug her nails into the clothed back of her true love. "Not too rough, dear. They're sore."

The savior released the dark areola and moved to flick her tongue swiftly over the other one. "You better appreciate this while you can, baby." She reminded. "I can't do this when you breast feed."

"You can't fuck me after I have the baby either so why don't you help me appreciate that?" The mayor growled as her legs spread wider.

Emma chuckled and peppered kissed all the way down to her panty line, giving a few extra kisses to the small bump of her lover's stomach. "Oh, I'll have plenty of time to make you appreciate my fine skills." She smirked and rolled the former queen's panties down her legs enough so she could swipe her tongue over the swollen clit.

Regina shivered and twitched. "Mm. That's it, Emma."

"Yeah?" The savior teased and continually flicked her tongue up and down the nub as she moved her hand to tease her hole. She felt the empty slit clench in desperation.

The brunette whimpered. "Fuck me already, baby." She demanded. At the words, Emma slid two fingers into her lover's cunt and Regina arched her back. "Fuck!" She cried.

It was Thursday and Regina was lying on the exam table in her hospital gown while her and Emma waited for Dr. Whale to see them. Her fiancée was rubbing her stomach over the fabric of the gown and talking to the baby.

"We really need you to be in a good position today, kid." The blonde spoke. "We need your help so we can pick out a name for you."

The former queen huffed a laugh. "Like knowing the gender is going to make it any easier to pick a name. We haven't agreed on a single one."

Blonde hair shook as she looked up at her fiancée. "That's not true. You said you liked the name Charlie."

"For a boy." Regina pointed out. "You only like the name for a girl."

"It's cute!" The sheriff defended.

Brown eyes rolled. "I won't name my daughter Charlie. I like the name Gabrielle."

Emma scoffed. "That's not happening."

"Why ever not?" The older woman questioned.

The blonde shook her head. "You don't want to know why."

Regina glared at her. "Tell me."

"I dated a girl name Gabby."

The mayor huffed. "Of course you did. Are there any female names available that don't belong to any of the women you screwed?"

Both women turned their heads when they heard the door shut and saw Dr. Whale standing there with an awkward smile, not doubt having heard the mayor's words. "So… who's ready to find out if you're having a boy or a girl?"

Mostly Swan Queen & Swan-Mills fluff in this chapter but next one will have other people in it, I promise! I need your help deciding on the gender of the baby they have. I keep going back & forth so I think I'll just leave it up to you. :) So let me know!

Also, there will be several time jumps in this story. Just fair warning! Next chapter will be posted on Saturday! Love you all :*