All The Right Pieces
Swan Queen Week Summer 2017
Day 1: Sharing A(other) Child
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Summary: Regina is drawn into Emma's life again following the illness and death of Hook. Then she keeps slipping farther and farther in.
The weather was just turning cold the day that Regina learned about the baby. Emma’s baby. She had just gotten out the storage boxes with her sweaters, which she had carefully packed away the previous spring. When she had placed the sweaters in the boxes, Henry was still at home. Now he was off at college. She knew that this little tradition of changing out her out of season clothing was somewhat silly at this point, given the vast amount of space in her house. But this was what she always did, every spring and fall, and Archie always said that there was value in maintaining habits and rituals during periods of change in one’s life.
She wondered if Henry would ever live with her again. She thought not. But maybe if he ended up trying to make it as a novelist – maybe he’d end up at least “crashing with her” for a while at some point.
As if conjured by her thoughts, the phone rang and Henry’s voice was on the other end when she answered it. He wanted to know if she had heard Emma’s news. She hadn’t, but she knew what it was before he put it into words. Emma was pregnant.
