Anonymous asked you: Red loved Snow before the curse, Ruby loved Emma during the curse, what will happen once the curse is broken?
AN: I hope you enjoy! Though I will tell you chose a secret third option for Ruby… I couldn't help but think about F.R.I.E.N.D.S after I read this one, so this is definitely a play off of "The One with Chandler in a Box" and I am so sorry if you were wanting something dramatic… It's very much a crack fic and meant for funsies.
"No one can know about us, Red." Snow said as she curled next to the woman, "I have a husband. We just learnt I'm carrying his child; I shouldn't… I shouldn't be here with you."
"I know." Red kissed the raven black hair of Snow's head and pulled her closer. "I just wish there was a way."
"Me too."
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"Hey Regina, thanks for coming." Emma said as she opened the door further to let the mayor inside, "If you just want to put everything on the counter for now, we can start cooking after Belle gets here; she wanted to help." She smiled politely.
"I have a few more things in the car, do you mind helping? Or, are you just going to avoid anything of the sort all day long?" She asked with a smirk on her face, knowing her friend would get riled at her statement.
"Of course I will come help you unload the car, Regina. What kind of savior do you take me for?" She gave the brunette a playful look as she reminded the woman just who she was dealing with.
Emma and Regina had come to an understanding after the curse broke. They had this thing that let them understand each other, and that is exactly why Emma invited her to their big Thanksgiving-esque dinner… granted it was January, everyone just wanted to do something that brought them all around the family table.
The blonde left the apartment she now lived alone in and went to the car while Regina set her first load of food on the counter. The former evil queen heard two distinct voices from the bedroom. One of which was Emma's lover.
"But don't you see how…. It is?! She's my daughter, Red! My daughter!"
"I can help who I fall in love with about as much as you can! Just… let it go, Snow!"
"I can't let it go! We were in love! And now… you're with my daughter? Because I chose to stay with the man I married? Because I chose the man I love over the woman I love, you decided to corrupt my daughter?!"
"I've hardly corrupted your daughter. If anything she's corrupted me."
Regina then heard a slap and a grunt from Ruby.
"Don't talk about her like that."
"Fine. But she'll be the first to admit that she taught me a few things. She'll also be the first to admit that she loves me as much as I loved you. And I do love her. It's already done. We… Emma and I broke the curse. It was true love's kiss. So… You know what? You're welcome."
Regina didn't have time to pretend as though she wasn't eavesdropping. Before Ruby came out of the room.
"How much did you hear?" her voice was low and threatening.
"Too much." Regina gave her friendly acquaintance a disgusted look.
Emma walked back into the apartment, "You know, if you wanted me to just get the rest, you could have said so…" the blonde huffed as she walked over to the counter with the grocery bags.
"Sorry, I got sidetracked…" Regina said and she gave a glare to her former enemy as she walked out of the room after knowing more people were there.
The door, still open, revealed Belle with a pie in her hands, "Hello everyone." She smiled and looked around. "Where are all the men and Astrid?"
"Oh, they're playing basketball across the street." Snow gestured to the window.
Outside were Charming, Henry, Grumpy, Graham, Rumple and Astrid. But Rumple and Astrid were standing off to the side, Rumple twirling his cane and Astrid cheering Grumpy on.
Regina pulled Ruby aside once the cooking started, "I assume Emma doesn't know…?"
"Why are you butting in where you don't belong?"
"Because Emma is my friend. She is my only friend. She is the only person that has stuck up for me, so I am damn well going to do the same for her." She gave the brunette a glare, "So, I'm going to ask you once more: Does Emma know about you and Snow?"
Ruby looked down and shook her head.
"She deserves to know." Regina started to walk away, "And if you don't tell her, I will."
A few hours later, after the men came back to sit around and do stuff only when called upon, and after a whole lot of nothing happened between Ruby and Emma, the witch took the werewolf aside once more, "You're not seriously going to do this… Not now that you remember? Not when you haven't told her…"
"Regina, can you just… back off?" She asked before she pulled away from the witch once more.
Belle walked over to the brown-eyed woman, "What's going on with the two of you?"
"Nothing." Regina grit her teeth.
"Well, it sure seems like something. And I know Emma and Snow and Grumpy are too kind to say anything—"
"Emma is not too kind to say anything."
Belle smiled, "I'll give you that one, but I think she's worried that the two of you are sleeping together."
Regina gave the other woman a disgusted look, "I am not sleeping with Ruby! I just found something out and I need her to tell Emma about it because I don't want to have to. But she's my friend and I will do it if I need to because she deserves to know."
"Know what exactly? I mean. Is it really so bad?" Belle asked.
Regina sighed and looked around making sure no one was paying them any attention, "She and Snow were… together in the other world."
Belle knit her brows, "But Ruby's with Emma…"
"Right, and any other person would be fine for Ruby to be with, but it was Snow and Snow's Emma's mother."
"Ewwwwwwww! Ew! Ew! Ew!" Graham pointed at them as he spoke. He had been walking by from going to the bathroom heard the last part of the conversation.
Belle's face only showed the icky she felt from the knowledge.
Rumple walked over, "What are we discussing over here?"
"Darling, did you know that Ruby…" She whispered the next part, "and Snow…?"
Rumple understood now what was so icky, "Yes, and now she's with Emma."
"Ew!" Graham said once more.
"Graham!" Regina gave him a look, "Control yourself. Conduct yourself properly."
"I'm sorry! But… Ew!"
"Why does Graham keep saying 'ew'? Henry asked as he walked over to the group with punch in his hand."
"Ruby's been with both Snow and Emma! And their mother and daughter!" Graham said.
Regina started to lunge at Graham; this caught Grumpy's and Astrid's attention across the room, but they saw Rumple stop her, still curious they walked over, "I'll do it." Rumple offered.
"Thank you."
"My pleasure." Rumple slapped the scruffy man on the back of the head, "Think about who you're speaking to." He said, "He is Emma's son. You just told the son about the fact that his mother and grandmother have been with the same person."
"Oh my Ew!" Grumpy said as he joined the group.
"Oh… Ew." Astrid's face was the picture of how the group collectively felt about the situation.
At the same time, "Eww!" came from Henry as he looked at his formerly wicked mother. Then moved to her front when she offered him a hug. He'd just heard the icky twice in a row.
"She doesn't know, Henry. Emma has no idea." Regina spoke softly as she kissed her son's head, comforting him.
"Well… someone should tell her! She's my mom she deserves to know! And what about Grampa?! Does he know?!"
"Know what?" Charming asked. He'd gotten up to see what the big stink formed in the corner of the apartment was.
"Uh… It's not our place to say." Belle said. The rest of the group said nothing.
He looked at Henry in Regina's arms, "Come on, kid… You know you want to tell me." Henry shook his head and turned into Regina. So, he moved on, "Graham? You look like you've got something to say." Regina reached forward and pinched his neck, which made him yelp them do nothing but stare. "No? Grumpy?" When Grumpy just looked away, he sighed, "Alright, fine. Don't share." He walked into the kitchen area, "Do any of you now what all the 'ew'ing is over in the corner?" He asked as he placed a loving hand on his wife's back and kissed her cheek.
Ruby turned around to see everyone staring at her. "I'll go see if I can find out." She wiped her hands and walked over to them, "Is there something I can help you with?"
"You have to tell my mom!" Henry pleaded.
"Yeah, we all think you need to tell her…" Belle said for everyone else.
"Tell me what?" Emma had walked over there as well; she had sway with three of the people in the group.
"Emma…" Ruby turned around to the blonde. She wanted more than anything to not be there, but she was now forced into this conversation. "Let's go talk in your bedroom." She led the woman upstairs.
"Hey, hey! You two don't be up there too long! We'll all know what's going on and you don't really want your parents to know about that, do you?" Charming chuckled as he saw them head for her room. When he saw everyone's stares, "What? I thought it was funny… I'll admit I've had a few today, but… it was funny."
What he didn't catch was the fact that they were looking passed him to Snow. Snow automatically knew that she needed to tell her husband why they were staring, and she knew exactly what they were staring at her for. She took his hand and walked to the bathroom with him.
"EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" They heard Emma from the bedroom first.
"EEEEEWWWW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW!" Came from Charming in the bathroom a split second later.
"I can't… I can't handle this right now. Today." Emma came from the bedroom and stormed down the steps. She pushed passed everyone and stalked outside.
Ruby was at the railing at the top of the stairs watching her when Charming and Snow came out of their room. Charming saw her and pointed, "EW!"
"Alright fine! Judge all you want to! But, loves two people equally at once in Fairytale World," she pointed to Snow, then to Regina, "Only ever wants revenge, even when everything is good in the alternate world you created," She pointed to Graham, "Never loved anyone! What is that?" She pointed Rumple and Belle, "I can't hardly get started on you two, but in love with the lord of darkness, and in love with a literal ray of sunshine," She looked to Grumpy, "In love with a fricken' fairy-nun, no offense, Astrid."
"None taken." The not-so-nun-like nun said as she took Grumpy's hand.
"And you! In love with a dwarf?" Ruby turned back to Charming, "Never had a clue that Snow loved me too!" She turned back and pointed at Henry, "And you! You have nothing wrong with you except you're a little annoying sometimes, but that's normal you're eleven." She turned around, ran back to Emma's room and slammed the door.
They all looked at each other before finally Regina broke the silence, "I'll just go find Emma…" She grabbed her coat and went outside.
She found Emma across the street sitting on the benches at the basketball court. She climbed them all because, of course, Emma would sit on the top. She didn't say anything as she sat down, but that didn't stop Emma, "I don't want to talk now…"
"Okay." Regina nodded and breathed out a puff of cold air.
Emma chuckled darkly, "I was actually getting pissed at you because I thought you were sleeping with her… But it was my mother."
"It was your mother in another world…" Regina said in an attempt to have the angry blonde realize that this was no one's fault, or a little bit of everyone's but there was no actual one person to blame.
"But Ruby still went on like it was nothing! I mean… the curse has been broken a while now… she should have told me…"
"I found out this morning… that's why I was taking her aside. I messed up in this world with Kathryn, and I told myself if I ever had another friend I would tell them… Or I'd damn well get the person that did the bad thing to tell them…"
"Thanks." Emma bumped Regina's shoulder with her own.
Regina stared at her, "So you think you're going to stay with her?"
"No… that's… no… I mean, I still want to hang out and stuff, but I don't think I can ever be with her…"
The witch smiled a friendly smile, "It's all for the better…"
"How so? You want to be with me?"
"Good gods no!" Regina bumped her shoulder to Emma's, "It's better for me to be alone. To not mix lust and love in with the only good friendship I have." She smiled before she said, "It's all for the better… You not being with Ruby because… No one should be in a relationship where any party would be able to use the phrase, 'That's not how your mom used to do it.'"
"Ew! Oh, you made it worse…" Emma gave the other woman a playful glare.
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Ruby had been single for well over a year. She was still good friends with Snow and Emma, but they never spoke of what was dubbed 'The Ew!'
A few short weeks after Ruby made her 'darkness and sunshine' comment to Rumple and Belle, they decided to end things because that had been the one day they got along since the curse broke.
Belle would come to the diner and flirt unconsciously with Ruby.
One day, as Emma and Snow were eating lunch, they saw this and told Ruby that she needed to do something about the pretty, pretty librarian that wasn't afraid of the big bad icky wolf.
Ruby took her former lovers' advice and found her happily ever after.
AN: I might be inclined to add another chapter filled with Swan Queen and Red Beauty goodness… if you all want because I personally couldn't decide if I wanted to add SQ or RB officially—obviously made the ultimate decision for RB at the end here. But like I said, your guys' decision! Read & Review!
