"how long have you been together?" and there it is. the always question.

i may only have fragments but i know this. here, there is a chosen one, an evil queen, and a little prince. and they love each other.

"It's the holidays, as you so expertly pointed out, So. How about you," her lips form around the word and she points to Emma, then herself, "Gift me with the miracle of peace and quiet." (In which Emma and Regina meet in an airport on Christmas Eve, and might like each other after all.)

"wait, are you trying to run away? is that what's happening right now?" regina drums her fingertips on the wheel. "no," she says. petulantly if regina mills was ever in all of her lifetimes, petulant. "are you coming or not?" (emma and regina after the split queen situation (more or less) resolves. they're terrible at avoiding each other.)

In which Emma and Regina are seniors in college, are bad at this, and have wonderfully well-meaning, meddlesome friends.

"She can't die." Regina can't stop looking at Emma, who's not looking back. "You can't die, you hear me." (In which Regina is in denial about the prophecy, and Emma was in denial about another thing.)

"even though they can never become the kind of friends who can walk to class together, it's enough. that laughter. at beside the lake, in the astronomy tower, at the edge of the forbidden forest." eleven snapshots of swan queen in the hp universe (again).

He waves her off, kindly, but he does. "It's the best place for him, Minerva. The only place for him." He apparates away. Minerva does not. (In this world, Minerva McGonagall watches the Dursleys more and does not like what she sees. It turns out parenthood did not pass her by after-all.) (McGonagall/Pomfrey.)

"There is only one moon. Somehow, she still expects there to be two." Coping takes time, linear now. Pricefield.

Vidia stays on the Quidditch Pitch after practice, and a certain menace comes to see if she's alright. (Tink/Vidia, HP AU.)

Olivia before, during, and after Alex gets shot. Cabenson.

the woman's hands are calloused, but not rough. they hold, surely, but they do not grab. she smiles, and stops running. "yes, i danced with the prince." (this is how a story changes.)

Sam has to take her yearly exam to stay with the Alliance, and Ashley offers her assistance. Which would be totally fine, wonderful actually, if Sam could keep her cool around her for about five seconds. (Ashley/Sam.)

Shepard makes sure that Tali wakes up comfortably after that night of drinking, and they have a needed talk. (FemShep/Tali.)

two and a half years after the second wizarding war ends, ginny plants a garden in her balcony. (tw/cw for nightmares, mentions of past trauma)

"ms. swan." she says, hoping the professional moniker catches any emotion in her throat. "i heard you were back in town." (swan queen in the hp universe, meeting ten years after last seeing each other during the first wizarding war.)

"It happens slowly. It does. (But maybe all at once, all the time, in the spaces between good and morning, good and night.)" Emma and Regina throughout the four seasons.

"The ground is steady, sturdy, tangible, and so she sits on a bench with her feet on the cement, watching, waiting for a picture." Time and place in snapshots, and two girls holding hands.

Amethyst blurts that she's in love with Pearl, then leaves before she can form a response, expecting rejection. Pearl bakes pies.

"regina mills is thirty-eight years old, twenty-nine years removed. twenty-eight of those, no, eighteen of those years, were still. every morning she put on a pea coat, smiled like a glint off a sword, and set out for the day." regina centric introspective thoughts, swan queen.

"It was (probably) the morning Emma decided to jog for the first time in six months where it all started." Or Emma Swan and the ketchup bottle effect: slowly, then all at once. Swan Queen.

Or alternatively, the many times Emma and Regina say "I love you" without actually saying it.

Wherein Zelena doesn't die, moves into Regina's house and is isolating herself there, and how this change shifts relationships all across the board. Pre-Swan Queen.

Emma Swan is down on her luck. She's lost her job, and hasn't decided on her next move yet. Her best friend decides that a night out at her local lesbian bar is just what she needs, but it looks like Emma's bad luck hasn't run out just yet when she steps outside for some air and witnesses a murder. Then she meets the mysterious and very irritated Detective Regina Mills.

"emma looks down. she breathes, once, twice. she probably thinks this is some turning moment for them. where they become allies instead of enemies. does she think this will end up the clinking of glasses? in bed with lips attached and sweat building? emma swan knows nothing." Season 1 Swan Queen.

"anything. anything is a small word but it has big meanings. anything is everything and everything crawls under kira's skin like spiders because she wants to know and understand everything." Character Study.

Prompt from bonestrewn on tumblr: "Aurora gets sick. Maleficent must play nursemaid. 'This was so much easier when I just had to kiss you awake." (Platonic Maleficent/Aurora)

"Apologies don't mean anything in the end, really." Emma finally says. "I still screwed her over. It's not going to change." Swan Queen. Post 3B. Part 1 of a group of oneshots concerning Emma and Regina looking for happy endings and finding them in each other. Really. Really slowly.

"This is what she gets for skipping four seminars. And not doing the reading for the last three weeks. She possibly regrets her entire existence. Emma stands up, rubs her eyes and jumps up and down a few times, willing life itself back into her weary limbs. Hot cocoa. She needs hot cocoa. She might also put vodka in the hot cocoa." The gang goes (suffers) through finals.

It was supposed to be just lunch but well, famous last words. Swan Queen.(Straight up office sex. Well, not straight. But you know. Also some plot.)

"Regina?" She laughs again. "You sneak into my ball and then you have the audacity to address me so informally?" Her lips curls and she leans her head in, lips mere breaths from Emma's own. "Tell me why I shouldn't get my guards right this moment." The dance scene rewritten.

Regina wants to pick apples. Zelena wants to read. Some disagreements don't end with being flung into the clock tower.

"SPOTTED: S and C in a tiff outside the illustrious The Rabbit Hole. Seems like C got a little too rambunctiously rowdy with some of S's pint-sized pals. You know you love me, Storybrooke Sleuth." Someone's been watching too much Gossip Girl. And someone started a shitty knock off blog. And thus Storybrooke Sleuth was born. Co-Written by me and Hoovahhoopah.

Height charts and time passing. Regina and Henry centric. hints of Swan Queen.

Emma brings in her first perp to the NYPD Special Victims Unit, and she meets Detective Benson. Olivia/Emma. Tiny trace of Swan Queen.

"For Regina, there's always been a kind of exhilaration in exploring the edges of freedom. Tiny ones, only to be noticed and kept and held by her alone amidst a life where it seems like every moment is a tightened corset with little room for breathing." Swan Queen, FtL AU

"Cordelia is no stranger to kisses, she supposes." Foxxay. Something of a character study of Cordelia.

"Misty Day couldn't bring herself to kill living creatures, so she waited for the dead things to find her." Misty-centric, character study with a bit of Foxxay.

"She could laugh at the irony, she could, but all she knows is that death is even more a cage than life, and wasn't death supposed to set you free?" Swan Queen. Major Character Death. No Curse Reboot.

"She looked right at me, her eyes piercing through mine, and I gasped. She smiled. It would have been friendly, if not for her eyes." Years ago Queen Regina was wronged, and Queen Emma has come for him to pay the price. A young girl watches. Swan Queen. Evil!Emma.

Emma is late for a dinner date, but the night isn't totally ruined. Swan Queen. Some time past Neverland, no curse reboot.

"Regina can feel it begin. It's not the curse itself, not really." Swan Queen. Slight AU end of 3x11.

"The trigger, Emma. We were both going through extreme emotion, and this was the way our combined magic chose to respond. Magic-" She laughs, dry and sardonic. "-can be very unpredictable at the least expected of times, no matter how adept one is at controlling it, focussing it." Swan Queen.

Storybrooke High is putting on a production of "Hamlet." That is, if David can learn his lines, Archie can suddenly know how to direct, and if things can stop breaking backstage. Like, relationships. Dreams. And skulls. (Already dead ones. Maybe.) Swan Queen.

Ficlets from that time Emma Swan and Regina Mills get accidentally turned into five year olds. Pre/Little kid!Swan Queen

"Her forehead was warm, still warm, underneath his lips. He waited for it, the burst of light and color and hope that would make everything right again. But this was Neverland, where time doesn't pass, and hope dies in it's treacherous waters." Henry-centric, implied Swan Queen.

"There are days when Cora is stifled by the wretched They trap her and repel her with their mourning, like her daughter already knows her life isn't hers." Character Study of Cora.

Facing deportation, Regina Mills finds a simple solution: Marry Emma Swan, her long-suffering assistant, and then divorce her before anyone's the wiser. But nothing's ever that simple, is it? Based off the movie, "The Proposal." Swan Queen.

"Okay, Emma's plan wasn't precisely to bang her history professor against the wall during office hours, but if she and her pants were being honest, she was definitely thinking about it." Swan Queen. Mostly PWP.

"Imagine your OTP having a huge argument over whose turn it is to do the dishes. The dispute is only settled when they decide to do them together, and play-fight with the soap suds." Swan Queen. Also cuddling. And grumpy teenage Henry.

Cosima has an idea of who her monitor is. And the answer? More than slightly terrifying. Cosima Niehaus/Regina Mills. Orphan Black/Once Upon a Time.

"Regina feels something solid and paper-like hit her back, and she suddenly regrets ever deciding AP US History was a good idea." Swan Queen. Highschool AU.

"You're in love with HG Wells." (Post "Instinct," Bering and Wells, Pyka friendship, title is from an E.E. Cummings poem of the same name)

A sixteen year old Regina looks in the mirror, and contemplates the lies she's unintentionally told. A short character study.

Emma and Regina have a night to themselves on a rooftop, underneath the stars.

"You need operatives." She said, chin tilted up. "You've read my file by now. My mother engineered me to have no flaws. To automatically choose power and duty over love." OUAT in the Mass Effect universe. Stable Queen. Hint of Swan Queen. (Ultimate Swan Queen endgame in any future stories in this verse).

Regina turns around, and her eyes are intense and red-rimmed. The only evidence of her makeup was a few black smudges that she probably couldn't hide away. She looks different in the rain. Like a water-logged lost puppy. That was terrible. Emma Swan, you are terrible at metaphors. Okay, like a water-logged slightly murderous puppy. Better. Pre-Swan Queen.

The Doctor keeps leaving Regina at the Planet of Coffee Shops and she's getting justifiably irritated. Regina as the Doctor's companion. Mention of Swan Queen. Two-Shot. Second of the "The Doctor and the Queen" series.

Two lonely women who once wanted to destroy the world meet in a diner. Regina/Helena. Implied Swan Queen. Implied Bering and Wells.

Just another friendly quidditch match between the seekers: Emma Swan and Regina Mills. Swan Queen/HP Crossover AU.

Just before Emma tells Henry about Archie's death, she spots a familiar car parked across the street. Pre-Swan Queen. AU for "The Cricket Game."

Emma Swan is going through magic puberty, and Regina is her only slightly unwilling tutor. There's a lot more emotions involved than either of them like. Swan Queen. AU Mid-Cricket Game.

"Henry. Such a cursed name. Always meant to pay for all of her own sins, misdeeds. The elegant script on the blade is mocking." Henry as the Dark One!AU

"Regina has a mother who loves her now, and she doesn't know how to handle the ramifications." An AU after "The Miller's Daughter" where Cora gets her heart back and lives. Glimpses into the year afterward.

Regina vanishes one day, and Emma is left at an incredible lost. Swan Queen. ouat/Doctor Who crossover. First of "the Doctor and the Queen" series.

"You love her so, the thoughts tumble in and out, You love her in every state of your mind." Swan Queen

"Terrorizing and controlling were her domain, being called her own given name in a tone of such longing and tenderness was so foreign that she stood rooted on the sidewalk as that flash of red materialized in front of her." from Imagine your OTP: Imagine your OTP being separated for months, and Person A thinks Person B is dead, only to run into them on the street where they can do

"Regina Mills and Emma Swan were seekers on opposite sides of the Hogwarts's quidditch teams." Swan Queen, Harry Potter Crossover AU

"She liked being an unweighted bag, she was free to wander with no ties. Free to figure out who she was. Then one day, a clear day with a lot of sun, Regina Mills." Swan Queen, Highschool AU drabbles.

"Out of all the things that were to be expected from taking a midnight run to take a leek away from one's traveling companions and mother, falling into a just-opened portal was not one of them." Swan Queen, AU, PostCurse

Thoughts before and after Regina smashes the mirror.

"In the end, the tree house had been a really good decision for all parties involved." Swan Queen, post curse-breaking

"She was wicked, she hurt too many to be saved. A mantra he started, made himself believe. He remembers a song. She used to sing to him, once a upon a time a go. Hum, mostly. He was comforted in her arms, the safest place in the world back then." AU past 2x03

"It's then that Pete speaks, looking up from under his blankets and from a laptop. "Why aren't you affected?" He asks. It's only spoken with morbid curiosity, only that. Helena, the woman who refuses to let go of this world no matter how much it has hurt her, still hasn't received her newest death sentence. She feels guilt gnawing at her from the inside out." Post 4x10.

A very young Leena neutralizes her first Artifact, and an older Leena knows that is not an option now. Spoilers for 4x09.

"They had gone from one war to the next, but the effects, the traditions of grief were nearly the same. A part of her wanted to put Billy up there, a signal to wherever he was that they had all made it, and with another push they would all be safe. She would make sure of it." A BSG/Mass Effect crossover

"The person inside was dear to all of them in some way or another. She had bandaged them all up, had made sure they wouldn't die. Physically and in spirit. She was the last person who should have made the casualty board." Post ME3.

"The memorial wall had two new additions now. Two additions who should be sitting with them, maybe playing poker with the abandoned cards on the table. They both had excellent poker faces, if one more than the other." The crew of the Normandy tries to make sense of final events of the war. Post Destroy ending. Ensemble fic. Femshep/Liara, Joker/EDI

"She shrieked and shrieked as the witch lady pulled her heart right from her chest. It didn't hurt. It didn't hurt a bit. She should feel something, right? A pain…somewhere? But nothing. Nothing at all." Cora's origin.

In which Merrill decides to go to the worst possible place for her pilgrimage, and Marian Hawke wonders just exactly she is doing. Dragon Age/Mass Effect crossover AU. F!Hawke/Isabela.

"Maura, I don't see why I have to be Xena." "I already told you earlier, in terms of height, your stature is much better in terms of accurately portraying the characters." Jane and Maura are going to a Halloween party. Rizzles. Crackfic.

"The ones who did nothing to earn their heroism, were just good by default. The evil one never had a reason, the evil one was just was. And so the Evil Queen didn't get love, whether it be the love of a child or a love of a lover, because they just were."

"The past will always be there, Xena. Didn't you say that when you threw that stone in the water? Someday I hope you will truly let it go, let me help you let it go." X/G

"The first time I saw her smile was perhaps a few weeks after we began traveling together. The day was a pleasant one without much in the way of world-saving happening." Gabrielle remembers first traveling with Xena. X/G

Gabrielle's thoughts when she woke up from her nightmare in "One Against an Army". X/G

"Flames dance around a cool night, and Xena is looking at her." X/G

Quinn doesn't like history projects. She especially doesn't like the fact that she's being forced to do one with Rachel Berry. However, when Quinn begins to hear voices, and they end up traveling with Xena and Gabrielle, things take a turn for the wacky.

"When Santana met Brittany, she was running away."

A poetic view on Nessa, as she changes and withers between acts and during the second one.

A poetic musing on Elphaba's many names. Bookverse.

A lost girl wanders around a broken city in the dead of night, wondering how she will be able to make it through. Post-Opera

"Replacing humanity with surgery was okay, because who really needed humanity anyway?" Post-Opera, drabble-poem

Life is done in steps. Sometimes you have to focus on a few of those steps. Or one hundred in this case. Not Wicked100, but the same idea.

In which Pfannee reveals her thoughts and inner-most feelings and such. Oneshot.

While Melena is at home with a four year old Elphaba, she is blissfully unaware that Elphaba can probably understand everything she is saying. Bookverse, pointless oneshots galore!

As it fades. Poem-fic. Bookverse. Takes place when Elphaba leaves Glinda in the city. Read and review! Some implied Gelphie, but could be taken as a gelphie-friendship.

My attempt at a Wicked Parody. Please Read and Review! Note: Title may change

Wicked/Glee Crossover! In the world of Fanfiction, magic has taken the Wicked characters to some pretty strange places. What happens when a spell lands them up at McKinley High? Fiyeraba, Will/Emma

Most of Elphaba's birthdays were just a blur of everyday events. Until her tenth birthday. drabble-ish

While watching the Lurlinemas celebration from the top of the stairs young Elphaba falls asleep, and dreams of a lost memory of getting her first and last Lurlinemas present. That memory also being one of the last encounters with her mother.