A Whole New World
Mary Margaret and Archie were the ones to take Cora and Hook to the Sheriff’s station. Mary Margaret saying something about how she had to make sure that Cora wasn’t going anywhere.
Everyone else had followed Dorothy back to her house on the edge of town and were spilling from their cars. Zelena, Maleficent, and Martha had borrowed a car, Ruby had driven Granny, Belle, and Henry. While Regina and Emma had taken Emma’s bug. Regina didn’t move from the passenger seat.
“I know that riding in this car isn’t always a good experience for everyone, but…”
Regina shook her head, “No, it’s just… I think I may know who will be in there.”
“Who?”
“My mother wanted to hurt Mary Margaret, Snow, as much as she could. Everyone assumed he was dead…”
“David.”
Regina nodded, “David.”
Emma stared out her front window, “Now I’m not sure I want to go in there either. He… he’s my father apparently. Well, unless true love means something different in the Enchanted Forest.”
“Snow White is your mother?”
“You didn’t know?” Emma turned in her seat to face Regina, “I thought…”
“I knew she was pregnant, the whole kingdom did, the perfect couple were going to have the perfect child.”
Emma snorted a half a laugh, “I don’t think that worked out too well for ‘em.”
Regina pulled Emma closer, “You are who you are, and if your mother…” Regina trailed off.
“What? Your face just went all weird.” Emma smoothed out a wrinkle on Regina’s forehead, “Where did your brain go?”
“So, Henry is Snow’s son and grandson?”
Emma let out a laugh, “I’m trying very hard not to think about any of that. I just… we should go in, make sure that this guy is okay, then we’ll get out of here so we can really talk. Okay?”
Regina nodded and they both got out. Mary Margaret pulled up and they waited for her. Regina spoke, “Mary Margaret, Snow, you should prepare yourself.”
Mary Margaret frowned, “For a naked man? I’ve seen those.” She powered through the front door and Emma and Regina followed after her.
Regina and Emma got to the bedroom where the man had landed just in time to hear Mary Margaret gasp. “David?” She rushed to the bed side and put a hand on David’s chest. “David? My love? You… you’re a Dragon, when, how…” She shot up, “His heart stopped. I could feel it beating, and now it isn’t.”
Emma whipped out her phone, then changed her mind. “Regina, take his legs, I’ll get his head, we’ll take him in my Bug.”
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“You take orders well.”
Regina raised an eyebrow, “Oh?”
Emma blushed, “That came out…” She laughed, “Sorta wrong, but sorta right? Uh, just for the record. I’m terrified you know. The last time that I had any sort of feelings like this was with Henry’s father Neal, and he, well, he screwed me over royally. I don’t know if I can do this.”
Regina twined her fingers with Emma’s, “I’ve felt like this once before. My mother killed him. So… I think that we both have some issues to bring to this relationship. Should we rescue Dr. Whale from Mary Margaret’s incessant questions?”
Emma shrugged, “Nah. Let’s see, according to the book, he’s, what. Dr. Frankenstein? Yeah, not my favorite literary guy.”
“You’re avoiding your mother.”
“So are you.”
Regina narrowed her eyes, then leaned in and kissed Emma.
After a minute one throat cleared, and another person chuckled. Belle and Ruby stood in front of them. “Guess you’re really glad that I waved Dorothy off now huh?”
Emma rolled her eyes, “Oh, stuff it Sheriff.”
Belle spoke before Ruby could again, “We’re going home, or, well, Ruby’s going home and I…”
Ruby interrupted Belle, “Since Snow is here with David and you two are here too I was going to pick up Henry from Granny’s.”
Emma and Regina answered at the same time.
“That’s okay, we’ll…”
“Thank you.” They looked at each other and Regina explained, “I know that you’re not comfortable with her being your mother yet, but, if you don’t stay now…”
Emma stared down at their intertwined hands, “So fucking complicated.”
Ruby glanced over at Belle, “Welcome to Storybrooke.”
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“No Moms, I’m staying okay. I’m not a child anymore, and…”
Maleficent interrupted Martha, “Should we be glad or distressed that one of our daughters is gay or distressed?”
“I’m not gay.”
Maleficent tilted her head to one side, “I’m going to be glad, and whatever you want to call it, I know the look you were giving Dorothy. Still, we…”
“No. Just… okay, no. I’m never going to be the Queen…” she put up a hand, forestalling any words from either of her Moms, “…and I never wanted to be. I love you, I love Lily, I even love the soon to be Prince LJ, I just… I need to find my place. And that’s here I think.” She looked down for a moment, and then back up, “Can you understand that?”
Zelena cupped her daughter’s cheek, “More than you know little one. Alright. We’ll let you stay here while we go back. But… we’re going to find a permanent and faster way to get from the Enchanted Forest to here too, to traverse all the realms.”
Martha engulfed Zelena in a hug, “Thank you, thank you.” Maleficent put her arms around both the women. “Thank you both.”
She let go and both women watched as she walked to where Dorothy was standing in her yard looking up at her totally destroyed roof. They watched as Martha put an arm around Dorothy’s waist.
Maleficent chuckled, “Like mother like daughter.”
Zelena narrowed her eyes at her wife, “Excuse me? I can turn you into a frog you know.”
Maleficent kissed the tip of Zelena’s nose, “I mean it only in the best way of course.”
Zelena rolled her eyes, “Good save, my Dragon.”
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Emma sat straight up as a scream came from David’s room. “What… what’s going on, what happened?”
Regina put a restraining hand on Emma. “I think that it was a good yell.”
Mary Margaret stepped halfway out of the door. “Would… Emma, would you come in here for a moment?”
“I don’t know, I…” She looked at Regina, “Come with me, please.”
Both Regina and Mary Margaret shook their heads, “Your Mom wants to introduce you to your father, it’s personal, it’s…”
Emma stood and pulled Regina up, “You and Henry. You’re the only family I’m totally sure of right now okay? So, I know that it will be weird and uncomfortable, but, please? For me?”
Regina touched her head to Emma’s and whispered, “Did you know that I would probably do anything if you said please?”
Emma smirked, “I’ll try not to take advantage of that too much.”