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  1. Someone Like You by for pearsonasnic

    Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)  

    07 Oct 2018

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    “Every bit of this happiness…it’s an illusion,” Emma finally admits more to herself than to him. “It was never what I really wanted, I just convinced myself it was.”

    “And what do you believe it is that you truly wanted, Emma?” Archie asks patiently.

    She thinks of Henry between his mothers as they held each other in a group hug. She remembers warm smiles and deep, brown eyes that she so willingly drowned in as they bore into hers. She thinks of laughter—warm and shared. She thinks of promised happy endings, pacts to beat fate, sensations of magic joining together, and family dinners with Regina and Henry that she never wanted to end. She thinks of happiness. Acceptance. Understanding. True family. Unconditional love.

    Her chest clenches and her stomach twists.

    And she wonders if there ever was anyone else.

    If there could ever truly be anyone else.

    Because even when she’s a world away, every bit of her reaches out to Regina, looks for her, hopes for her.

    There isn’t a moment when she doesn’t miss her; when she doesn’t feel like one of the biggest pieces of herself is missing.

    Season 7 canon-divergence.

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