Helping Hand

Chapter One

I do not own OUAT, any of it's cast or characters or plots. However, I am a faithful watcher and I am very interested to see how season 7 will go. This is just a prompt thing that I found online but then as I wrote it morphed into something entirely different! I figured I would try it out and see how it goes. I hope you enjoy because you all rather seemed to like the love potion one.

Helping Hand

3rd Person

With a sigh, Emma places her mug down at her desk; staring at her phone at the recent photo of baby Leo that Mary Margaret has just sent her. The little boy is only four months old and is always smiling, in the photo he has a giant grin on his face as David kisses his cheek, and Emma can't help but feel happy for them.

Also slightly envious, but only one tiny percentage of her is jealous, I mean that's hardly anything. She loves her little nephew and loves all of the photo's Mary Margaret sends her, but she's jealous. Okay, she's two percent jealous. Three maybe, but that's not a lot. Three percent of her being jealous is hardly-

It's more like twenty percent if she's being totally honest.

She walks to the printer to grab some papers she'd sent to it a few minutes ago before she had her coffee, musing on her thoughts when Gideon comes up next to her. "Emma, can I talk to you?" He asks softly, curiously more than anything else, and she nods as she watches her papers print. "I heard something earlier."

"What else is new?" She asks sarcastically, laughing a little at her own wit.

"With you and Killian. I heard you two in his office, I saw you through the window, you were crying." He states simply, eyeing her. "Are you okay? I heard the word...baby a lot, maybe I'm wrong, but-"

"You're not wrong," Emma admits, thinking back on her conversation with Killian earlier, and her stomach twinges a little from pain, the lovely reminder she's being given about her period that started that morning.

She sighs, putting her phone down and walking into his office. "Killian, are you busy?" She asks softly, making him look up at her so she has his full attention. "I just thought you might want to know...I got my period this morning." She says miserably.

He sighs softly, standing and walking up to her so he can hug her. "I'm sorry, Swan." He whispers into her hair.

They've had two insemination tries so far, both unsuccessful. That's two months of no news, no positives, nothing that even hinted they were having a baby, and she was miserable. She was scared too because after the third try they would have to be tested again and then have the awkward questions again, which took weeks to process.

They didn't want to have to do it all again, they really thought the second time would work. First tries never usually work so she didn't expect anything then, but the second time she was really hopeful. However, that morning she got her period, which officially crushed her dreams.

"I really thought I was pregnant," Emma whispers softly, sighing into his neck, sniffling. "I just...I felt pregnant. I...I really thought that maybe I could be, I felt sick all the time and I was sore and dizzy and all of the things I should be, but...maybe I must have just been sick."

"Swan, I promise, you will get pregnant." He whispers into her hair. "I promise you, okay?"

"Okay."

Gideon raises an eyebrow at her, frowning a little. "I'm not wrong, I was really expecting I would be." He chuckles softly. "Are you pregnant?"

"No." She sighs, frowning. "Killian...I've asked him to be my donor, he said yes but I'm not pregnant yet." She shrugs, feeling a bit like a failure. "We're doing artificial insemination and we've tried twice, in two weeks we have our next try, apparently that's when my stupid ovulation calculator says I'm ovulating so..."