I made a comment over on twitter, that Regina and Emma should share a whiskey after Hood and Hook are bye-bye and the idea did not leave. Eating a late lunch with my pad and pen, I sketched this very short rendering of Emma and Regina conversing over a couple whiskeys:
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"He was a nice guy."
"He smelled."
"Cute kid, though."
"True. But that's how I got in trouble last time."
"Touche." Glasses clicked.
"I heard you were… hooked for a while."
Sigh. "He smelled too."
"He could wash."
"He hasn't yet."
A soft chuckle, another click of glasses. "Touche."
Across the rims of two whiskey tumblers, green gazed into brown. The tumblers slowly lowered from before reluctant lips. "Um, you okay?"
A delicate swallow preceded a soft, "Yes, I'll be fine." A fingertip slid through condensation then brown lifted once more. "You?"
"Got another quest."
"You do? You're leaving? What is it?"
"Giving Henry his memories back."
"But — You resisted all this time."
"Until I realized something."
"What is that?"
"Henry's happy ending." Emma glances down at her glass; the swirling eddies of amber bringing her gaze back up to candlelit brown. "Is you."
On the table between them, Emma's hand reached out, fingertips slipping over the backs of Regina's on the polished wood. "And so is mine."
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