Love? Maybe.

The Break.

Two days later
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His tumors were shrinking.

   That's all that mattered to the mother of the sickly four year old boy. "So...this treatment won't make him sick right?" She looked at whale with a pointed look, and gripped on to Henry's hand. "It may but not nearly as bad as regular treatments because it's hitting directly at the cause..."

"Regina, do we really care as long as his tumors are shrinking?" Emma bit her cheek and swayed back and forth a little bit, smiling down at Henry.

"Yes Emma! Of course we care! Of course because Henry is my baby boy, if he's hurting..that's the worst possible thing. I don't want him to be in pain." Regina said with a small bite and leaned down kissing Henry's head, running his hair back.

Emma raised an eyebrow at her and held her tongue, she understood Regina was just emotional..they found a cure for her son! That's the reason she was snapping easy today. Emma sighed and took an easy breath, looking back and forth between Dr. Whale and Regina as they were talking. "Okay so...how many more of these treatments?" Regina bit the inside of her cheek.

"We will have to see how these tumors do by tomorrow morning...if they are completely gone which..we've only see happen in one other case, usually it takes some time for them to shrink, sometimes even a few days to a week..then we will know how many more of these treatments he needs." Whale smiled and nodded. Regina growled and fisted her hands in his lab coat, "my boy has three weeks! Now how do you expect us to just wait around days!" She cried, holding on to his lab coat and getting directly in his face.

"Woah...woah! That's um..that's exactly the point. We have seen that the treatment works on Henry!" He stuttered and bit his lip, "so we will shrink the brain tumor tomorrow.." He held his hands up in surrender.

"Woah! Regina calm down! This man just found a cure for your son-"

"Don't tell me how to react about MY son!" She knew the words were a mistake the second they left her mouth, she didn't mean for it to sound that way...she didn't mean for it to sound bad!

Emma scoffed, had enough. Regina could get emotional but she couldn't be outright rude to the people trying to help her, comfort her! "You know what- you're right." Emma growled, grabbing her coat.

"No, Emma wait-"

"Your son...I don't have a say, so...you know yell at doctors and..be rude to me and..you can leave me out of it, I'm glad Henry will be okay Regina..I truly am."

"What no! Emma-"

"No! Regina because even the past few nights you've been rude to me. You've been short tempered and mean and..you're constantly reminding me that I am not Henry's mother! Well news flash...I know that! But...you know it sort of felt like we were a little family in some way but..that was only a one sided feeling I guess." Emma whispered and shook her head, "bye..call please and tell me how Henry is? Or- only if you want to..you are his mom." Emma walked out of the room without so much as another word, she was extremely fed up with how Regina was acting..and yeah Emma understood it, and she could be sympathetic..she was sympathetic! Maybe Regina just wasn't ready for a committed relationship with all this one her plate...But she has been here for Regina and for Henry for months now, by their side and helping them..she deserved some curtesy and not..a rude attitude. And what was even worse was that..it was almost like Regina was using her for the comfort and as soon as they found Henry a cure, she began to shove Emma away..that's just how Emma was feeling, maybe it wasn't true, but it felt that way to her.

"Wait! Emma! Please..." Regina sighed sadly as Emma just walked away, not looking back. She didn't know what to say or how to make it better...she had been so stressed out the past couple of days, making plans with Dr. Whale for upcoming surgeries, she just sort of...put hers and Emma relationship on hold, not on purpose and not to just forget it...she just had so many different things on her mind right now, so many that a relationship was just..not in the front of her brain. She still loved Emma, very very much so.