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1. All These Small Steps You Take by NegativeBlue

   Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   14 Aug 2013

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan
   • Emma Swan
   • Evil Queen | Regina Mills
   • Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time)
   • Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard
   • Prince "Charming" James | David Nolan
   • Some graphical depictions of child abuse apply mid-story
   • Character Study
   • this will take a while
   • Veers away from canon around
   • the queen is dead
   • and the millers daughter

   Summary

   Emma recognized the signs of someone crying their heart out, even when muffled, from miles away. The soft shaking of the woman's hunched shoulders just confirmed it. She had taken one step, and another, and then she had just stopped. Her head caught up with her heart that ached to comfort the woman, no matter who she was, what she represented.

   The evil queen, the person that had almost doomed her entire family, again.

   Language:

   English

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   109,164

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   32/32

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