So this idea came to me on my ride back from my parents for Easter. I decided it was a Power Ballads playlist kind of drive. The song "Miles Away" by Winger came on and I started picturing a scene between Regina and Emma (with Regina being difficult of course). So basically there's this device in Gold's shop that when touched by someone will play a song that represents what a person is feeling/about who they love. (It plays the lyrics from the song that best describe how the person feels)
"Ok, so what's the big emergency Ruby?" Emma panted sliding to a halt in front of the diner. Her hands drop to her knees and she bends forward trying to catch her breath.
"Ahhhh what took you so long? Nevermind! You're never going to guess what Belle found working in Gold's shop today!" Ruby was practically bursting with excitement, glee etched on her face. Which Emma completely misses still bending over in an attempt to convince her lungs not to give up on her.
"What? Is it dangerous? It's not another curse is it? I really can't handle having to break another curse. We barely survived the last one, I was stuck in the Enchanted Forest for weeks without a proper toilet or shower. And despite what Regina thinks I do like to bath and change my clothes once in awhile. Damn woman never gives it a rest. It's always Sheriff do this, Sheriff do that, it's her turn to break a damn curse…" Emma spat out between breaths. Her stomach flipping at her mention of Regina, thankfully she was too tired to blush at the moment.
"What? No, there's no curse. Emma you're babbling about Regina agai-, you know what nevermind, deal with that later." Ruby said, waving her hand in a dismissal. "No, Belle found this really cool machine, and it plays music!" Emma's head jerks up.
"Seriously Ruby, you called me for a music player? It's called a CD player here, or computer, iPod, depending. What am I saying you don't know what an iPod—Ruby I sprinted here from the Sheriff's station because Dav-Dad has my cruiser." The color was starting to rush to Emma's face. Ruby noticing this moves to intercept.
"Emma, I know what an iPod is, I'm not Granny." She deadpanned.
"I heard that." Granny snaps stepping around the corner.
"You hear everything old wolf." Ruby snapping back. Granny narrowed her eyes then openes the door to the diner looking inside.
"Ruby get your furry ass in here right now, Leroy is attempting to pour himself a drink, and if he succeeds you will work Saturdays for two months straight I swear it!" Granny bellows. Ruby winces hard.
"Sorry Emma, gotta go! Meet me at Belle's at—"she glanced down at her watch, "oh 8 or so? We're having a girl's night, so invite Snow and Regina will ya? I'll get a hold of Tink. Thanks gotta go!" Ruby turns to head inside, not at all wanting to test the theory of whether or not Granny would in fact make her work every Saturday between now and June.
"Wait! Ruby, you still haven't told me what you found!" Emma calls after her. "Wait, did you say invite Regina and Snow? Are you nuts?" Emma's stomach flips again at the mention of Regina. Ruby's head pops back out the door to the diner.
"I'll explain later! And yes invite both, they're getting along much better these days, it'll be fine! And Snow's oblivious to it anyways so you'll be fine!" Ruby finishes with a wink.
"Oblivious to what?" Confusion all over face. Ruby chuckles.
"Your crush!" With those words the door snaps shut and Ruby is gone, leaving a flabbergasted Emma in her wake.
"My crush? My crush? What the hell is she talking about?" Emma mutters out loud. Knowing full well what she was talking about, "Nope we are not going there! You have work to do…and a two mile walk back to the station. Crap!" Emma sighs heavily turning in the direction of the Sheriff's station.
An hour later Emma arrives back at the station, she'd been held up briefly because she caught some of the Neverland boys trying to spray paint Game of Thorns. After hauling them inside the shop she set up a community service detail for the offending trio that started with cleaning the shops floor and windows. Noticing her cruiser in the parking lot, she hurries inside, she want to get David's opinion on Snow and Regina being in the same house, and to see if he'd take over the night shift.
"Hey Davi-Dad, sorry." Emma said, wincing slightly.
"It's ok, call me what is comfortable to you. I'm not offended. Now you're mother on the other hand." David said a slight chuckle obvious in his voice.
"Yeah, I know. Hey, I just got back from talking to Ruby. She wants to have a girl's night, and wants me to invite Snow and Regina. Is that a good idea even?" Emma said, dropping ungracefully into her chair, managing to bang her elbow on the desk beside her. Nursing her elbow, she looked up at David.
"Yeah, sure. Regina is actually behaving so I don't see a problem." David says, shifting the papers on his desk, searching for something.
"Regina doesn't behave, she restrains." Emma said, rolling her eyes, "nice to see she's trying though." Emma purses her lips, narrowing her eyes and stares out the window. She heard David laugh again, though she wasn't really paying attention anymore, her mind clearly on a certain brunette. David looks up from the desk at Emma, his eyes narrowing thoughtfully at his daughter. Shaking his head after a few seconds, he looks down at the desk again.
"So do you want me to take the night shift then? I know we're short a volunteer deputy tonight." David said, sounding very nonchalant. He looks up at Emma again.
"Hmm…what? Oh yeah, the night shift. Yes, I was actually going to ask you that next. Would that be ok with you?" Emma turns away from the window, shaking her head in an effort to clear her thoughts.
"Yeah, it's fine with me." David looking over at the clock on the wall it was almost 3, "How about I go home now and get a few hours sleep? I might need it if I get called to break up a house party tonight." David laughs and ducks under the paper ball sailing towards him after the statement.
"Haha, very funny. Yes, go home. Tell Mary Margaret I'll be there for dinner at six thirty, oh and about tonight, would ya?" Emma straightens in her chair as David gets up to grab his coat.
"Will do, see you then." David said walking out the door.