Triple + One (FINISHED)

The Price We Pay

Hey guys! Another chapter is up!

I know I destroyed a lot of your hearts in the last chapter and I have no doubt that I will break it just as much in this chapter, maybe even more. But again. I know you guys will love this chapter. I just know it.

Thank you! I love you all! Again. Thank you so much for your support!
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2 months later

Rooney woke up to a leg slamming into her stomach and she groaned out as she looked down at her son next to her. He was getting so big and almost too old for this. She groaned and turned to see the time on the clock. Only three more hours till she needed to get up. She groaned and got out of bed, putting her hand to her head. She went to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. Her scars were still there. Both by her lip and across her face.

Crying was heard and she knew her son was feeling her absence. How he did that was beyond her. For the past two months, she had never been able to leave him alone for a second, because he just knows she isn't there. Asleep or not. He knows it anyway. The screaming continued and she quickly walked over to him, stopping his screaming so he wouldn't wake the whole house. "Shh shh shh, I'm right here", she whispered and the boy immediately calmed down opening his small eyes, meeting his mother's little darker brown eyes.

"Rooney? Everything okay?", Emma's voice was heard and Rooney sighed and walked over to the door opening it.

"Yeah we're good. He just doesn't want me to leave him I guess", she whispered and Emma smiled nodding. The boy buried his face in his mother's neck and Rooney sighed deep.

"Tell me if you need a break okay?"

Rooney nodded and received a kiss to her cheek before watching her mother walk back to her bedroom. Rooney sighed and turned to her son who looked up at her. "You're such a troublemaker", she said and the boy smiled staring up at her in wonder.
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"Is everything okay?", Regina asked once Emma walked back into their bedroom.

"Yeah, Wes just doesn't want Rooney to leave. I think the week we were away put a scar on his mind", she said and Rooney nodded in understanding. Wes had become quite attached to his mother. More than what babies usually should be.

"Yeah maybe"

Emma sighed and nodded getting back in bed. "But he isn't the only one. We have our own little monkey right here", Emma said looking down at their youngest as he slept peacefully in between them. Regina chuckled nodding.

"Indeed we have"

They laid in silence as they watched their son sleeping peacefully and Regina couldn't stop the tear from falling, Emma noticing immediately. "Gina? What's wrong?", she whispered, drying the tear away.

"I just... I can't believe I have this life. You, the kids. You've all made me so happy and I... I just never imagined myself here", she said and Emma smiled caressing her wife's cheek.

"Neither did I. Being in the foster system and not being adopted for thirteen years gives you the believes of never having a future. Never having a soulmate. Never having kids. Never having you", she whispered and Regina smiled at her.

"But you did", she whispered and Emma smiled wide nodding.

"We both did"
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Emmett stood in front of his mirror as he looked at his clothes. Was it good enough? Maybe he should ask his brother. "Emmett?", his mother's voice called him out and Emmett turned to see his blonde mother walking inside.