Changes (Swanqueen Au)

Chapter 17 (Losing my friend)

*Time Lapse 1 week later.*

"Do you need anything?" Emma asked timidly. I turned !y head to the side. "No." I said, my voice croaking. She nodded and sat with me. "Regina?" She asked, I smiled, my lips were cracked and dry. "Is this the end?" She asked. I smiled again then nodded. "For me, yes, but for you, it is just the beginning. There is a whole world besides me." Tears began flowing down her pale face. Weakly I leant forward and wiped them away with my thumb. "Look after Henry. Tell him I love him everyday. Emma Swan, when you met me I was ill. I-" I began to say before I was cut off by Emma. "What are you doing?" She asked. I smiled. "I was in a bad place, with my health, my son and my husband. But then I held the doors for the crazy - not so crazy - blonde woman. That is where our journey began. You then met my son, and it was love at first sight. The relationship that bloomed was nothing to do with my cancer, like it would be to some. A few months ago you told me that you loved me. And I said "I love you from here." You didn't understand, but now you should. I love you from there to here. This church, this ring, your dress, all of it. I Regina Mills take Emma Swan to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, I do." I couldn't hide the tears streaming down my face. "Were...Were they your vows?" She asked me, but I couldn't respond. I closed my eyes for the last time.

*Time lapse to two years after the funeral.* 
Emma's POV
"Regina hurry up!" I shouted up the stairs. "Coming momma!" She shouted back down the stairs. I smiled and grabbed my name change certificate before leaving the house with Regina and Henry. "All ready?" I ask, they both nod and I get into the drivers side. I put the radio on and drive. "Nothing's gonna change my love for you..." I sang slowly, smiling slightly at the photo of Regina and me, a small tear slipped down my face. I wiped it away, before Henry saw it. He can't handle it when I cry. He begins to howl and scream for Regina, and it takes me hours to soothe him.

After a longer journey we arrive in New Jersey and I drop Regina and Henry off at their new school before driving to the Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH). "Name?" The receptionist asked. I smiled and ruffled my dyed brown hair. "Alison Cameron." I stated. A man with a walking stick walked up to me. "Ah, newbie. My name's House, Gregory House. Welcome to the team." I smiled and shook his hand.

*After work*

I began to unpack, I reach Regina's box and take the photo frame off the top. Underneath, there was a photo album, she had packed all of this before she died. I open it to the first page and see her curly writing.

"Dear Emma,
                    I hope that you're okay. I am. I'm watching over you and Henry in heaven. I wish I could be with you, and Henry, but I can't. Anyway, this is my wedding gift to you. Enjoy it, and take care. And when you fall asleep at night remember that we are still underneath the same stars, no matter how far away. And just remember that of I had a star for every time you made me smile, I'd hold the universe in my hand.

Regina.
P.S Nothings gonna change my love for you, you aught to know by now how much I love you."

I read her words twice before turning the page. Her appointment card. From her first appointment.
The second page had a quote, something that I had said to her.
"You shouldn't have to live like this, nobody should, but especially not you."
                                            ~The love of my life
I smiled. "She heard that?" I whisper, whilst turning the page. A very crinkled 20 dollar bill and on the page opposite, a smudged note I left her. I turned the page again to see a piece of stained glass from the broken table stuck to the page.   The three pages had the DVDs of Heathers, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Phantom of the opera taped onto the pages.
The next page had another note on in her handwriting.
"I promise that for the rest of my life, I will never stop loving you, they way I do today because I don't think I'll ever be truly happy without you by my side."
                                                ~My One True Love

I turned the page. There was another note. "Finish the story."