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anonymous requested favorite love quotes + swan queen  (and what better love quotes than disney love songs am i right)

1x13 & 2x06 parallels

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• (part 1) rearranging the disalligned - when emma tries to find where henry got adopted regina finds a way to bind emma to her curse. by marrying her. (deals with the non consent)
• (part 2) last bright routes - this is the sequel. regina wants to have her family back and emma’s just trying to cope. 
• (part 1) chief of state -  regina and emma, two students in the tiny college town of storybrook, forge a bond despite their political differences.
• (part 2) checks and balances -  date night for senator mills and her wife runs up against a stumbling block. 

• the landing spot -  emma can’t control her magic; every night it brings her to regina. “magic understands what your heart wants, even when your mind doesn’t.”
• operation wings -  there’s only one way for tinkerbell to earn back her wings: complete the task of finding regina’s soul mate. post-neverland.

• Insanity - set after s2 when emma disappears in a portal. regina is frantically trying to get her back. 

• I Tie No Weights - regina loses her memory and emma becomes her friend.
• How The Stone Heart Melted - set in an alternative universe where emma breaks a curse over the evil queen and sets her free. to repay her, she kidnaps her. 
• Among the Wolves of the North (Incomplete) - set in an alternative universe where emma is raised with her parents in the enchanted forest but still a drifter. regina is quite fond of her. 

• Curse You and Your Dinner - set after regina absorbs the death curse. emma sticks around and helps her out.

• Just One Week - a character study of regina. really interesting.
• A Choice Denied - halloween fic, mostly, its set in season 1 and regina is an idiot with feelings.
• A Game of Risk - a cute little one shot where emma, regina and henry play a board game.

• The Rescue Blues - this is set after the curse breaks. regina is wounded and emma takes her out of town to figure out what to do next. rated M. 

• Counting the Days - everyone in town takes a portal to go back to the enchanted Forest, leaving regina behind. regina starts counting the days until they all start coming back (it doesn’t take long and regina isn’t surprised)

• This Warm Prison - emma and regina are going steady but they’re not entirely expecting a pregnancy. 

• is this called living (or something else) - regina doesn’t come back for longer than the last time, and emma forces herself not to worry. just like her attempts at feeling whole, it fails.“ [1/3] incomplete
• dragonflies can sting the hearts like darts - college au. regina is not okay and emma doesn’t want to care. they still fuck.
• to weep a loss that turns their light to shade - character study of regina with side sq 

• Sounds Like Something Breaking - cora survives and comes to live with regina. side sq and really emotional
• there’s all this love if you need it - 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
• emma swan is fucked – “It was (probably) the morning emma decided to jog for the first time in six months where it all started.
• We’re Miles Apart (And Inch by Inch) – height charts and time passing. regina + henry centric.
• you must see life to see decay - regina dies and tries to give messages to her family as a ghost 

• in three-quarter time, wishing you and yours - It’s their first christmas together. emma isn’t ready, and regina isn’t sure.
• these old back roads where no one lives (and no one goes) - regina’s isolated once again. and so she smokes. 
• I’m Your Dead Sea - regina and emma through a series of sexual encounters. It’s how they know how to communicate. 

• take this sinking boat and point it home - after regina is tortured, she and emma begin to bond trying to figure out to live normally again.

• a house is not a home -  peter pan managed to cast his curse on storybrook during going home. six months later, the swan-mills family breaks the curse and discovers that they’d never been a family at all; that emma and regina had never fallen in love; and that they can’t quite let go of the lie that had been their happy ending.
•  prism -  soulmate au where you see the world in black-and-white until you meet your soulmate. 
• post tenebras lux - emma is the dark one and still just wants regina to be happy
• send up a signal (that everything is fine) - emma swan is catapulted into stardom, the newest lead actress on a sanitized show featuring modern fairytales. regina mills is a long-undermined star with a chip on her shoulder and a thousand reasons why she’s invested. naturally, they loathe each other on sight. their characters’ fanbases, however, have other ideas.
• soulmates and sisters and emma swan in the passenger seat - regina and emma go to new york to stop zelena. they’re all just trying to figure it out along the way 
• awkward idiots series - set after 3b in a peaceful storybrooke where regina is with robin and emma’s fallen into a relationship with hook. shame about all that subtext that’s rapidly threatening to become text.
• even superman coordinates his primary colors (but your legs sure look good in those tights) -  She is not going to swoon. She’s the mayor of Storybrooke City and she’ll be damned if Superman Lite gets anything from her…
• whirling in the wind -  [regina goes undercover with the QoD, and emma meets her every night for a debriefing in the woods- up until the day she disappears.]
• beyond the walls (i see a prince) - set after the mid season finale where henry doesn’t remember his mother but his mother remembers him
• freefall - emma is slipping off the deep end and only regina knows how to pull her back.
• someone has already claimed that username -  emma meme-ifies regina, so regina hoards her urls. swan queen, as told through far too many memes and a whole lot of tumblr text posts. canon-compliant through 4a.
• swan hood series:  during an ambush gone wrong for outlaw emma swan, she meets a young regina, on her way to an arranged marriage to the king. a friendship blossoms between them even as regina begins to fall to dark magic and both are forced to make choices about who they’re going to be- to each other and to themselves- and where they can possibly go from there.

• shuffle me a ninth life - in which regina says no and then changes her mind, emma is in love with regina like it’s a full-time job, and henry really likes snapchat. twelve months. 
• sweet as a punch - in which emma is a mess and in love with regina and regina is trying to figure out why emma has so many bags under her eyes

• not here to make (girl)friends - true love’s kiss’ is a network cash cow and regina mills is an excellent producer and emma swan is the contestant. or the one where emma’s not here to make girlfriends, but regina sort of is.
• when swanprincess met evilqueen101 - youtube au!
• do you ship your teachers? - it all starts when emma swan forgets that the projector screen is on. or perhaps it started a long time before that. at any rate, the rumours that miss swan and ms mills are totally, madly in love spread quickly. probably emma should give her grade nines more homework.
• 5 times emma swan slept in the gustroom (mostly) -  when henry goes to college, emma starts popping by for visits more regularly and there are just so many reasons why she shouldn’t be driving or walking home, not when regina has a perfectly serviceable guest bedroom.
• down the rabbit hole -   it’s pure good fortune that leads emma swan to get a job at the rabbit hole, a specialist children’s bookstore in new york city, on her very first day in the city. it’s certainly not good fortune, however, that her path crosses with R. C. Mills, the reclusive author of the extremely popular ‘Marisol Mendez’ series.

• The Kiss That Counted -  One kiss starts it all follows emma swan and all the kisses she shares with regina mills.

• the gusts came around –  set five years in the future, in a peaceful storybrooke where regina is still mayor, henry is looking at college prospectuses, and emma and hook are expecting a baby. everyone’s got their happy ending; haven’t they?
• like we are fools - about a month after they get home, things start getting weird. (Or, Five Times Regina Mills Thinks Emma Swan Might Be Having a Bit of a Meltdown.)

• somehow i’ll see it through -  emma and regina are secret high school friends. it goes exactly as well as you’d expect.

• tonight i saw the magic in your eyes -   the greek goddess au you never knew you needed

• cutting through the twilight -  regina reads and reads, and rips tears in the walls between dimensions. not portals, not really—nothing could cross through—but windows, ways for regina to rifle through worlds looking for any trace of emma. she always comes up empty, and as she stitches the threads of reality back together, her stomach twists, pain low and dull.
• hand in hand down in the park  - …and then Regina starts combing her fingers through Emma’s hair, and Emma can’t think about anything else.
• Who Needs Angels Anyway - emma stays and regina talks and they all have a little too much wine

• changing seasons -  that night, her first step as newly elected sheriff is to break into regina’s office and steal her wireless mouse dongle.

• send it farther on -  mary margaret notices rather quickly that it is emma regina has been staring at.

• what we talk about when -  after she tells henry about neal, emma spends a night on regina’s couch. (Spoilers for 3x15)

• i wanna dance with someone (who loves me) -  emma swan doesn’t consider herself a star, but she finds herself thrust into the spotlight and competing as a celebrity dancer on dancing with the stars. over the course of ten weeks, she’ll struggle to learn to dance with her professional partner - regina mills - and may just end up dancing with somebody who loves her
• i’m gonna teach you (all about love) - au, no curse. miss swan is henry’s teacher and regina mills’ biggest ally.

• it takes two to tango, and other dance cliches –  in which regina signs up for ballroom dance lessons and emma turns out to not be the worst possible thing to happen to her. not that she would ever say such a thing out loud.
• sharing is caring (it can be fun) - “just tell me something I don’t know. like your favorite color.”written for SQW 5. set a year after the season 4 finale.
• deliver me -  bike messenger au, in which regina is a ceo that enjoys messing with emma, and emma does not back down. for the sake of her job, of course, and not because of the way regina eyes light up when she’s angry.

• cops and robbers - "where you go, we go.” here is a way to build a family.[splits from canon at an unspecified point, post-S2.]
• catching on series -  nobody knows anything. until they do, of course.
• when the time is right series -  there are so many things that separate regina from cora—and how could she forget, how could she forget—but it’s the littlest things that emma values most. [Post 2x11: emma apologizes.]
• the light in autumn series -  it starts with: regina dreams of cocoa, pine trees and poetry.
• who needs shelter -  two years post-S2 Finale. storybrooke has settled back into the routines of small town life and no one is really willing to shatter the illusion that everything is just fine.
• well, this is awkward - emma wakes up to a dream. or the inevitable letdown of reality. or maybe a nightmare.

• ill fitting pieces -  emma can’t stand it, because she’s only been trying to take care of the both of them. To be fair, not really, and to be fair, not well.in which emma tries to make things fit. in the wrong way.

• the fatal plunge -  “The curse. It didn’t break right, so how do I fix it?”
• somewhere, someone must know the ending -  [AU; here, ‘fairy tale land’ is merely a product of Henry’s imagination during a difficult time.]

• in the right place -  a “while you were sleeping’ au that messes pretty heavily with the movie. because who doesn’t love a late nineties rom com au?

•  Right There All The Time - henry keeps a journal and his moms are in love

• Phases of the Moon -  the blue moon was located some ways outside of town, but still within the city limits. definitely within the boundary that protected the place from outsiders. well, most outsiders that weren’t annoying blonde women with atrocious tastes in leather jackets.
• you and me (we wanted it all) -  it takes them a month to bring emma back from the darkness. It’s not a horrendously long amount of time, but long enough. too many things can happen in a month.

• imagine me and you -  after they return from neverland, Henry decides to set a parent trap for emma and regina. by the time emma realizes what he’s up to, she’s already half in love with regina and it’s pretty much too late to do anything about it.
• we’ll make our home on the water-  for some reason, emma thought they’d pass through the portal and end up right at neverland. Instead, they spend weeks aboard the jolly roger, sailing the vast blue-green oceans with no land in sight, the water seeming to stretch on forever all around them.
• our hearts will make a fire -  of course emma would end up trapped in rumpelstiltskin’s enchanted log cabin with the evil queen. because that’s just how her life is these days.

• sick day -  yeah, so maybe emma should get sick more often, because she’s kind of enjoying it. minus the gallons of tea regina’s pouring down her throat, of course

•  do dream people like apples?  (series)  [3x13/Missing Year AU: In a darkened room, surrounded by flames, a boy named henry makes a friend.]
• and we all went to heaven in a little rowboat -  [S5 rewrite; in which emma and regina find themselves stuck in the enchanted forest together, struggling to not succumb to powers they barely understand, much less control, and trying not to find out just how far they’re willing to go to be reunited with their son.]
• as the tides erase their lining -  [5x05 continuation: in which the dark one runs away, her family finds her, and they learn how to live.]