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"From the other side of the reception station, a nurse who has apparently been eavesdropping pipes up. “Well, she is engaged, though.”
“Auntie Zelena isn’t engaged.”
The nurse blinks. “Yes, she is.” She points, suddenly, over at Emma. “Her fiancé is right over there.” "
Emma Swan saves a woman's life, is wrongly identified as her fiancé, accidentally falls in love with her sister, and finds herself a home.
A 'While You Were Sleeping' AU that messes pretty heavily with the movie. Because who doesn't love a late nineties rom com au?
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14 Nov 2016
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After 521. They won't even make eye contact in the daylight anymore; but under the cover of darkness, they whisper the truths they've never said.
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12 Nov 2016
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What the show should've done, in every sense. Gorgeous story.
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“you hire me to be the worst date possible to your sister’s wedding to aggravate your mother and keep her from meddling in your love life” AU
"My sister, Zelena," she spits out the name like it's poison, "Is getting married this weekend in California. My mother is potentially the biggest pain in the ass when it comes to who I take in as lovers. I need someone who will aggravate her to no end and keep her from meddling in the future."
Emma blinks. "Why me?"
"My mother hates blondes."
"Oh," Emma says slowly, and god. She gets the feeling she's signed herself up for one fucked up family reunion. "Cool."
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23 Oct 2016
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“Well, let’s see…” Regina trails off in thought, even though she knows exactly what she wants, lungs and blood and foolish heart all yearning for the one thing she hasn’t quite managed to obtain for herself. “I think your firstborn child should be adequate payment.”
Her customer’s brow furrows. “My firstborn child?”
Regina inclines her head slightly. “That’s what I said.”
Emma splutters like an old car unwilling to start. “But - I mean - look, lady, I don’t even have a boyfriend -”
“I can wait,” Regina says lightly. It’s true. She’s waited a long time and a couple of years (or decades, as the case may be; Regina isn’t sure Miss Swan is quite the type to settle down with the first man she sets her eyes on) aren’t going to make a huge amount of difference.
or, the one where Regina desperately wants a kid but also ends up desperately wanting Emma Swan but she can't have both because, well, it's really quite complex.
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Beauty and the Beast, a retelling: Emma Swan saves a boy and winds up trapped in a castle that has kept its inhabitants imprisoned for twenty-eight years. A rose wilts in the tallest tower of the west wing and a nearby town flourishes, but only one knows the truth...and only one can break her spell.
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16 Oct 2016
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Make sure you've got time... Wonderful story, sweet and adventurous like only a true fairytale can be. Grab some cinnamon cocoa and enjoy this one like a warm blanket. I did!
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It's been several months since Emma sacrificed her life so Regina can have her happy ending, and weeks since the effects of being the Dark One were reversed. Regina's still not happy. Emma wants to know why the hell not. Post 4B. Swan Queen
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02 Oct 2016
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28 Mar 2016
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6 years after defeating Pan together, a spell created by a coven of teenagers goes wrong and Regina switches place with the heartbroken Regina that just witnessed Robin and Marian’s reunion. As Regina tries to find a way home, she attempts to hide important truths about her world including her relationship with Emma, but Emma can't help but be curious and finds herself drawn to a Regina that doesn't hate her.
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- Part 1 of It Makes All The Difference
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17 Mar 2016
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People who grow up in Winlock (pop. 2,194) don't ever leave, but that doesn't mean Regina Mills isn't trying. Her coffeeshop is her ticket out of this hellhole—until in marches newcomer Emma Swan with her own grand plans, and Regina's world will never be predictable again. Coffee, gossip, grief, politics, parental influence, and a long rough journey to love.
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- 8/8
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17 Mar 2016
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They talk for hours, spending the rest of the night in the same position, seated opposite other on the floor.
Or, rather, Henry talks. Regina mostly listens, only occasionally interjecting to ask him a question which invariably eggs him on, teases out some part of his story that he hadn't thought to vocalise. And it's nice, it's great to have someone who just listens like this, but—
“What about you? Don't you have any stories?”
“I'm a dream person, Henry. You haven't forgotten, have you?” Regina reminds him, and he wonders whether dream people are meant to be snarky. He likes it, though.
[3x13/Missing Year AU: In a darkened room, surrounded by flames, a boy named Henry makes a friend.]
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- Part 1 of do dream people like apples?
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16 Mar 2016
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New to Chicago Emma, a professional cellist, is shocked to find that a beautiful deaf woman is her new president of the board. As their friendship grows Emma begins to wonder, what does it look like when a world of sound and a world of silence meet somewhere in the middle? SwanQueen AU
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16 Mar 2016
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Emma Swan never expected her vlog to take off like it did, but she likes the community and occasionally getting drunk and ranting into a camera is a decent way to make a bit of cash. Regina Mills films a rather higher class of vlog, a chance to be creative after days working analysing bacteria samples in a lab and to discuss day-to-day life as a single mom. When Regina has a bad day and posts a video she immediately regrets, she doesn’t expect for it to become as notorious as it does, and she vows to destroy the person who popularised her deeply embarrassing rant, some idiot known as 'swanprincess'.
But when rumours spread about sexual harassment in the Boston YouTube community, the pair may be forced to put aside their differences and work together.
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29 Feb 2016
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Regina has a secret admirer. Unknown to her, this mystery person has been standing right before her eyes all along.
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08 Feb 2016
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Starts immediately after the 4A finale and was inspired by a tweet by my friend Queue who wrote "Busy head canoning all of the ways that this retcon of Robin Fraud could be to #SwanQueen's advantage....*strokes chin*"
Sort of a "what could have been" hiatus fic either before the Queens Of Darkness arrive or instead of.
What if our stories of Robin Hood were all wrong.. what if Robin wasn't who we thought? The truth comes out late one night, and it sets in motion a chain of events that helps old wounds to heal and new friendships to blossom... and then some. But can Snow White keep an important secret this time around?
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03 Feb 2016
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Emma’s lazy morning brain conspires with her magic and Regina ends up in bed with her. Snow popping in doesn’t help anything. My late entry for Day One, Awkward Situations, of Swan Queen Week Summer 2014.
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24 Jan 2016
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Will put a smile on your face the whole time. Cute, funny, sexy in one perfect story :)
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24 Jan 2016
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Regina Mills, a reclusive pianist, moves from Boston to Storybrooke, Maine with her newly adopted son, Henry, to escape an abusive past and pick up the pieces of her life. There, she finds herself falling for a painfully shy, ruggedly beautiful handyman with a past of her own who shows her that sometimes second chances are the most beautiful chances of all and ‘perfect’ doesn’t always mean flawless.
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01 Dec 2015
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The five stages of grief as a love story.
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- 5/5
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25 Nov 2015
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Awesome concept, believable story, angst, sexytimes AND fluff, what more do you need:)
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a dissertation on the merits of hating your hot roommate by goon
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
30 Oct 2015
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You’re a pain in my ass, Emma almost says, and thinks better of it. Of the two hundred or so days she’s to spend cooped up with Regina Mills, at least one or two might be spent civilly and conjointly ignoring each other.
(AU: Emma Swan goes to college and gets a roommate).
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Bookmarked by patsybailey
24 Nov 2015
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Funny, sweet but not too fluffy. Well rounded characters, I even like Neal. A bit disjointed overall but it really doesn't matter bc it's just so wonderfully written and it doesn't really take you out of the story. Lovely fic!
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12 Nov 2015