We Can Love Again

Now or Never

Here's our first official #OutlawQueenBaby chapter! So excited to get the drama started!

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There was a pounding at her door. Emma glanced at her clock- it was nine o'clock on a Saturday morning. Completely unacceptable. But the pounding didn't stop, so the blonde grudgingly rolled out of bed and started for the door.

When she opened it, Emma couldn't say she was surprised.

"What do you want Regina? It's early."

The woman on the other side of the door looked flustered, her mind in four different places at once. It took her a moment to respond. She took a breath, clenched her fists, and gave her a straightway glance.

"I'm pregnant."

Before Emma could say anything, Regina pushed past her and walked into the apartment.

"You're... Wow." Emma scowled, trying to process the information. Regina paced up and down the hallways.

"Let's sit down. You're making me nervous just looking at you."

Regina eventually sat down next to the blonde; the stress was eating her alive.

"What did Robin say when he found out?"

"I... I never got to tell him." She sighed, "it kind of happened when everything was getting crazy."

"Oh," Emma said, "well how far along are you?"

"Um, five weeks, maybe? I'm not really sure."

"Well you need to know. Have you been to a doctor yet?"

Regina simply shook her head. "I don't know what to do Emma! I really don't!"

"I was pregnant twelve years ago, but I still remember how it felt. So here's what you have to do- tell Roland and Henry first, then call Doctor Whale and set up an appointment. Have you been sick at all?"

"Not really... But I've only been back for three days."

"Well I remember what my doctor told me- he said stress is really bad for the baby."

"The past two weeks of my life have been nothing but stress!" Regina sighed, ready to pull her hair out. "How am I supposed to tell a four year old that I'm pregnant?"

"You just have to do it," Emma shrugged, "it's not like you can hide it forever. Regina, I'll be honest- pregnancy is a bitch. You always feel fat, everything pisses you off, and you puke a lot. But you get a baby out of it in the end, so in retrospect it isn't that bad."

"I guess it just doesn't seem real," Regina muttered, "the fact that Robbin's baby is inside of me. Kind of freaks me out actually."

"Well imagine how I felt," Emma said dryly. "But really Regina, you're going to be okay. In all honesty, I'm pretty jealous of you. You got one hell of a guy who loves you, Henry- well half of Henry- Roland, and now this baby. That sounds pretty good to me."

Regina managed a small smile. "Yeah, but you don't have to worry about if he's safe or not." She thought for a moment before going on. "His... His Merry Men all turned on him and handed him over to Rumplestiltskin. He tried to execute me in front of my own people, and then he forced us through a portal- Robin proposed, too. It all happened so fast..."

Her eyes soon filled with tears as the emotions raged inside of her. The terror came back despite how hard she tried to shove it down.

Emma couldn't believe what she was hearing. She rubbed her back to try and comfort her.