once upon a secret santa

Fandom: Once Upon a Time Pairing: Regina Mills/Emma Swan Rating: PG-13 Word Count: ~4000 Note: For @theforgottenpromises for @onceuponasecretsanta. Sorry this is late! It’s rather lengthy, so I’m going to post it in chapters.  I hope you like it! <3 Happy (belated) Holiday and New Years!

Summary:

The forest is motionless—no creatures, no wind. The leaves beneath your feet make no sound, and you can barely breathe for the stillness. Clouds crackle with lighting and smoke but no rain falls. It’s days and days.

Your mother remains positive: She’s changed, she says. She’s strong, she says. She’ll be alright, she says. You aren’t sure if it’s for you or herself that she keeps repeating, and repeating, and repeating.

The trees thin out and you come to a village.

Maybe she’s been through here, your mother says. Maybe we can—

But the village is full of bones, burnt bodies and half-houses and one man left alive, just barely. He lives long enough to look you in the eye.

She’s back, he whispers, she’s back. Please, god help us. She’s back.

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Merry Christmas @belletheoutsider I am your OUASS! I’m sorry this took so long! With having vacation and the holidays and work it has been hard finding time to write this! I tried to make it longer than it originally was going to be because I owe it to you since it is late! I hope you enjoy it!

Summary: It’s Christmas morning and Belle and Rumple are spending it with their two children. Belle is heavily pregnant with baby #3. Unbeknownst to them, Belle and Rumple are in for a big surprise!

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(There are some slight differences between the version here and the version published on the sites above. Differences include improved wording and grammar)

Christmas Special Delivery

           The morning sun streamed through the windows of Belle and Rumplestiltskin’s bedroom. Rumple was awake first, as usual. He looked over to his beautiful wife sleeping peacefully and smiled at her. He liked watching her sleep. Her face was free of any tension and she had a cute smile on her face. He took the back of his fingers and lightly stroked her cheek. This made Belle giggle and open her eyes. “Good morning, handsome.” She crooned, her voice still thick with sleep. Rumple leaned over and kissed her.

           “Merry Christmas.” He rubbed her cheek with his thumb.

           “Merry Christmas.” Belle smiled and kissed him again. “What time is it?” Rumple looked behind Belle’s shoulder at the alarm clock on her nightstand. “It’s 7:30.”

Merry belated Christmas and happy belated New Year, @reanncee! I was your terribly late Santa! I really am sorry about the tardiness. The holidays got to me in real life and I’m just now beginning to recover and get back to normal.

When we first started talking, you said that you wanted to see Regina and the Flash team up and save Storybrooke. I’m not all too familiar with the Flash - an additional dark mark on me - but after I saw a couple gifsets from Arrow about Thea and Roy, I was inspired. I hope you like your present and, again, I AM SO SORRY FOR BEING SUCH A BAD SANTA.

“I don’t think Lena has her head on straight. You? A manager?”

Regina scoffs and savors the last sip of her coffee before chucking it in a trash bin. That time allows her to collect herself and calmly respond to her friend. “Thanks for having so much faith in me, Emma.”

Her friend rolls her eyes and chuckles. “C’mon, Regina, be real.”

“I am being real,” Regina whines, all but stomping her foot on the city sidewalk.

Emma rolls her eyes again, solidifying the weird friendship between the two of them.

“It’s not that I don’t think you’ll be a good manager,” Emma tells her. “I just didn’t see that coming. I thought you didn’t like the club.”

Shrugging, Regina adjusts the straps of her trusty bag over her shoulder. “I never said I didn’t like it,” she qualifies. “I just said I didn’t like how Lena was running it.”

“So she handed you the reins because she got angry.”

Regina nods. “Pretty much.”

Their relationship is complicated, to say the least: Emma and her half-sister Zelena were frenemies in school, always paired together for school projects and such because they ‘had common abilities.’ How those common abilities translated into Emma becoming a cop and Lena becoming a club owner, no one will ever know.

But with the amount of times Emma came over to the Mills Mansion during school, she and Regina bonded as well and to this day, grab coffee on the off chance that they’re both (a) awake and (b) coherent enough to hold a conversation.

“Well, you’ll have to tell me when you make your first night is,” Emma says, heading across the street. “I want to be there to make your life hell.”

Laughing, Regina responds, “Because you don’t already. Shouldn’t you be keeping an eye out for delinquents like yourself? You know, being an officer of the law?”

Emma flips her hair over her shoulder, saying, “Gotta let loose every once in a while, right?”

Regina laughs even harder, coming to a halt on the edge of the sidewalk as she bends in half with her mirth. Of all the people she’s ever met, Emma Swan is the only person who wouldn’t let her occupational oath keep her from having a good time.

sure she sits with him for a while after he’s put henry to bed following a late stakeout and sure she invites him over to make dinner more often than she doesn’t but that’s their usual. it isn’t because she likes him, likes him.  (no one tell henry he agreed to this silly masquerade because he likes, likes her, okay?)

word count: 2,442

for the wonderful @shady-swan-jones! it is i, your once upon a time secret santa. thank you so much, again, for all of your patience while my muse got itself together. a very special thanks to @thereqinamills and @swankkat for all their idea help and read-through help, too!

without further ado, please enjoy!

“Are you sure you’re okay to watch him?”

Killian nods as he stands by her front door, watching as she slips on her boots then reaches for her jacket.

“As I’ve told you countless times, Swan, what good is it for you to pay a babysitter when I’m next door?”

Emma shrugs. “I don’t know. It’s just…weird. You drop everything you’re doing just to look after Henry whenever I get a call and you won’t even let me pay you.”

Killian smiles as he grabs the beanie from the table and slips it on her head. “I can assure you, I had no other plans tonight but to watch the game, something I can easily do with your television.”

She grumbles something under her breath, something that sounds like an, if you say so, before she grabs her keys from the bowl and slips them into her pocket.

“Just make sure he’s in bed by ten and no sweets after dinner,” she tells him, zipping up her jacket.

“Aye, aye, Captain.”

Emma meeting her family for the first time

Dear @the-roseknight it was so fun being your OUATSS. Sorry I couldn’t message much, I’ve been very busy with exams and different trials. Nonetheless, here is your gift! Hope you like! I grouped some songs together based off of different characters from the show. I won’t name any, so try to guess! :)

⋆ happy holidays @reginasevilpanda​ from your ouat secret santa ⋆

Hi @reginayeshomomills My story ran away with me again, as they tend to do so that one shot grew into a multi chapter fic without my permission. The first chapter is up and next chapters will be follow soon as well. You can also find a preview under the cut. Title: Fireworks Mean Everything Summary: Regina and Emma find their way home but can they pick up their normal lives after their time in the Enchanted Forest, the late night conversations and the unexpected encounter with a supposedly dead soulmate? Throw in a couple of holidays that demand celebrating and see what happens. — picks up right where 6x10 ended Rating: T Read on AO3 or FFnet

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading their pack. (x)

Once Upon A Time + Underappreciated Relationships (2/??)

>>Cricket Queen

Ho Ho Ho!  Merry Christmas!  Happy New Year!  This is for the lovely @believingispowerfulmagic whom I was lucky enough to be chosen to give a gift to for the OUAT Secret Santa!  You told me you thought that Christmas in the Enchanted Forest might be a little angsty, I personally think these babies need a little fluffy cavity causing sugar, but there is a little angst here with a happy ending I guess?  I hope that you love it as much as I loved writing it for you!  This is my first fic where OQ is the main couple.  I hope I’ve captured Regina’s voice for you - it’s the one I worry about most when I’m writing OUAT fics.  I hope I’ve captured at least a small part of the emotional wealth that Lana brings to the role.

Christmas time means that Snow White is having a ball (because of course she is!) and what does that mean for Regina?  Will she give in to the teasing of her former step daughter and take a chance on the former thief or will she let sorrow destroy the potential for happiness?  A Missing Year Christmas fic.

Read it here or on AO3.

She had been back in the Enchanted Forest for what felt like all of three minutes when they met.  Freaking flying monkeys!  Attacking from out of nowhere, trying to fly off into the air with her attached to it and he’d fired at it.  Then further down the road, they were there again.  Damned flying monkeys attacking that sweet little boy with the beautiful chestnut curls and she couldn’t control the slight contraction of her heart.  She missed Henry, her heart breaking and bleeding for her son.  

The father of said boy (an adorable little angel with the most precious dimples when he smiled) was a ruggedly handsome specimen and when faced with the nosy, albeit comforting, pestering from Snow she could only thing of one thing to say about him.

“He smells like forest!”

Yes, he did smell like the forest, but it wasn’t the kind of smell she had been expecting.  The fragrance was something all his own, and Robin of Locksley, aka Robin Hood, aka someone she was certain there had been wanted posters for during her reign as he’d stolen from not only the neighbouring kingdom of Sherwood but also from her wealthy travelers, although, looking into his eyes Regina couldn’t seem to care. 

   Happy Belated Holidays, @saviorskillian!!

Happy New Year @bleachblondfrankenstein ( @madwhaleistruelove)! I’m your @onceuponasecretsanta Secret Santa. Sorry for taking so long to finish this.

hello @witchpieceoftoast, ‘tis I, your rather slow secret santa writer. I had you for @onceuponasecretsanta, and I really enjoyed getting to work with the prompts you gave me. 

I present “In Unusual Company” - a tale of Marian, Mulan, Regina, Maleficent, Henry and Roland’s New Year celebration. Total family fluff with moments of romance and friendship. 

Thanks for being okay with slightly sick Regina, it made my idea work better. 

No warnings apply.