This... this is my thinly veiled excuse to write crack pairings - and that's really all that it is. Well, crack pairings and a speed-writing exercise. But, hey, enjoy! P.S. Because of the premise, or whatever you want to call it, I may actually come back and write more drabbles onto the completed project, but we'll see.

Chapter 1

The plan went wrong again at the last minute – of course it did – and Mary Margaret was back under a sleeping curse because of it. Emma was pacing nervously beside her mother's bed, muttering to herself as she watched over the other woman.

"Where is Dad?" she grumbled.

Henry, who had been ordered to stay with his mother in the relative safety of their apartment, answered calmly, "He'll be here. As soon as Dad finds him, Gramps will come. He'll give Gram true love's kiss, and everything will go back to normal and be fine… until the next villain comes along, anyway."

"Oh, don't say that," Emma groaned. "We just got back from the godforsaken underworld, kid; I think we all deserve a break."

"Deserving one doesn't mean we'll get it."

"Think positive," Emma snapped, still pacing and eyeing her mother as she muttered again, "Where is he?"

"On his way," Henry repeated.

Emma threw back her head and groaned impatiently. "Why is true love's kiss the only way we can wake her up this time?!"

"Because it's true love's kiss; it's the most powerful sort of magic ever. You know that."

"Well, I know," Emma drawled irrationally. "That this would be easier if we could all just have a few true loves at a time, that way our families wouldn't have to wait for that one person to come in so we could wake up!"

Henry narrowed his eyes at his mom. He knew she was just blowing off steam, but still… that was an interesting thought. "Can you do that?" he asked curiously. "Have more than one true love at a time?"

Emma looked at him in surprise as she finally stopped her pacing. "Yeah, of course. How else do you think I managed to bring back Neal from the underworld along with Killian?"

"Luck?" Henry shrugged, even though he already knew he didn't believe in any such thing. "And you're going to have to start calling Dad 'Baelfire', you know. He said it was okay, just so that we don't mix my dad, Neal, up with my baby uncle, Neal."

"Right," Emma nodded, repeating to herself, "Baelfire."

"What are you going to do about that anyway?" Henry asked, making an attempt at getting her to stop her anxious pacing.

"About what?"

"The whole "Killian vs. Baelfire" thing."

Emma put her head in her hands and groaned again, and Henry realized he'd only managed to stress her out even further when she requested, "Can we please not have this conversation right now?"

"Sure," Henry answered a little uneasily, looking towards the door as his gramps ran in with Baelfire at his side.

Henry's conversation with his mom ended as Gramps skidded to a stop at the end of his bed, looking down at Gran for a second before he moved to sit down beside her, leaning over to give her the necessary kiss. The kiss worked – of course it did – and they had a party at Granny's that night to celebrate their safe return… but Henry still didn't forget what his mom had said.

Because, really, the way they lived? Having more than one true love at a time might be a very good idea – even on a wholly practical level.

Eventually the party at Granny's dwindled down until there was only fifteen – counting Roland and the babies – which was a small group when it came to partygoers in this town. So after mulling it over for most of the day Henry dared to ask the question, "Is it wrong to be in love with two people at once?"

Sitting across from him in the booth, Gramps asked, "What?"

So Henry explained, looking at his mom sitting beside him as he did so. "Earlier, you said it would be convenient for someone to have more than one true love at the same time, and you said it was possible… so I guess what I'm actually asking is…" he hesitated, but thinking of its practicality again, he charged on. "Is it wrong to actively pursue more than one person at the same time?"

"As in having two girlfriends at the same time?" Killian enquired curiously, stepping up to the table.

Baelfire came with him, asking Henry with upraised eyebrows, "I still say you've got your eye on the Mad Hatter's daughter, but is there somebody else too or something? Because it's perfectly normal to think that more than just one girl is pretty."

"But is it okay to date more than one person at the same time?" Henry repeated, finally adding, "Because, to be honest, when it comes to the idea of having more than one person to break a curse with true love's kiss, I think it makes a lot of sense."

"Falling in love for a practical reason?" Killian muttered.

Bae snorted quietly. "I have to admit, that's an interesting idea, bud, about the kiss thing."

"I'm sure some of us could get the idea to work for us," Killian declared, shooting a suggestive grin in the direction of Ruby, who had been quietly listening in on the conversation.

The waitress took that as her invitation to give her two cents, adding, "But if you haven't noticed, true love tends to have to be a very hands-on, consistent relationship to work out. You'd be talking about openly, daily living polyamory here, Henry."

Henry shrugged. "I just thought it was an interesting idea."

"It would certainly be an interesting insurance policy," Rumplestiltskin spoke up from the booth behind where Henry was sitting.

He had been almost entirely quiet throughout the evening, silently coming to terms with the fact that he had been talked into giving over the Dark Curse to a hell-demon and leaving it in the underworld. Rumplestiltskin was once again an ordinary man, and Henry was glad. At this point, though, he was equally glad to see his grandfather just participate again.

"Maybe we should try it," Hook suggested, grinning, at least half-teasing as he did his best to slide into the booth beside Emma.

Emma scooted as close to Henry as she could, glancing between the pirate and Bae standing at the head of the table. Then she looked hesitantly around at the others, eyes thoughtful, before her gaze swung back to Bae and Killian and she said boldly, "Maybe we should."