Today at work, I got to thinking. What if our favorite OUAT characters were friends? Then I took it a step further. What if they were Friends? I couldn't let the idea go, so I'm sharing this with you. Before we get started, here are our characters:

Regina Mills- the bossy, smart, cynical chef who is horrible at dating (Monica)

Emma Swan-the sarcastic, dorky one with parent issues (Chandler)

David Nolan- the spoiled, though adorable, type who's on his own for the first time (Rachel)

Mary Margaret Mills- the intelligent, emotional, hopeless romantic, divorced professor (Ross)

Killian Jones- the smug, womanzing, but loveable, actor (Joey)

That being said, the ships for this story will be Swan Queen and Snowing. I've really been struggling to cast Phoebe, so for the time being, she will be left out.

"There's nothing to tell! He's just some guy I work with!" Regina exclaimed.

It was a crisp fall day, and Regina had mistakenly thought she would enjoy having coffee with her friends, Emma and Killian, before work. Instead, the pair were grilling her on the guy she was not going on a date with tonight. She should have known better than to bring it up. Her friends ruined all of her relationships, even the only potential ones. They were worse than her mother.

"You're going out with the bloke- there has to be something wrong with him!" Killian insisted.

"Does he wear fedoras? Fedoras and tights?" Emma interjected.

Regina rolled her eyes. "Relax! This is not even a date! Two people going to dinner and not having sex is not a date!"

"Sounds like a date to me," Emma muttered. Her love life was not exactly active, but she didn't let that keep her down; in fact it was the source of some of her best jokes. Besides, she didn't need a girlfriend. That was way too much work. She had a laptop, PlayStation, and womanizing best friend. What else could a girl need?

Whatever mood the three friends were in instantly changed when Regina's sister, Mary Margaret walked in. She had just found out that her husband was gay and was not taking the divorce well. "Hi," she muttered, in that depressed tone she'd been using for months.

"Are you okay, dear?" Regina asked, as her pixie haired sister made her way to the couch.

"I feel like someone found the story of my life, got to the point where is said 'And they all lived happily ever after,' and wrote 'just kidding' underneath it," she sighed, sitting between Regina and Emma.

"Cookie?" Emma offered.

"Frank moved all his stuff out today," Regina explained to the group. "I'll get you some coffee."

Mary Margaret didn't like the fact that everyone was making a fuss of her. She was supposed to be the stable one of the group. She had a doctorate in British Literature! She was a professor! She was until very recently married… "I'll be fine, really. I hope that he'll be very happy."

"No, you don't," Regina snorted, handing her sister a mug of coffee.

"No, I don't," Mary Margaret admitted. "To hell with him! He left me!"

"I can't believe you didn't know he was gay," Killian murmured. He was not always the most helpful of friends.

"HE DIDN'T KNOW! HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO?" Mary Margaret shouted.

"Being gay is the best," Emma muttered. All attention shifted to her, since she was definitely not helping, and probably worsening the situation. "Whatever, it's true."

"Alright, M&M, you're feeling down right now. You're mad. You're depressed. I get it. I can get a few male strippers down here in an hour and make you feel like new! Embrace being single!" Killian suggested.

"I don't want to be single! I just… I just want my Prince Charming!" the brunette exclaimed.

And as if summoned by fate, a tall blonde man walked into Central Perk wearing a tuxedo. Emma could not believe Mary Margaret's luck. "And I just want a million dollars!" She was not as lucky.

"David?" Regina asked, getting the dressed-up stranger's attention.

"Regina! I went up to your building but you weren't there. The manager said you might be here, and here you are!" he explained.

"Guys, this is David, another Storybrooke High survivor," Regina says, introducing everyone. After introductions had been made, all attention was on David, waiting for an explanation. "So, are you going to tell us what happened? Or are we waiting for your groomsmen?" Regina sassed to her friend.

"Oh God... well, it started when I was waiting at the altar. I was standing up there, looking at our friends and family, when all of a sudden I got really freaked out. I just had to get out of there and I started wondering 'Why am I doing this, and who am I doing this for?'" David explained. "I'm sorry, I just didn't know where to go, and I know that you and I have drifted apart, but you're the only person I knew who lived here in the city."

Regina decided to let go of the fact that she hadn't been invited to the wedding and smiled at her old friend. She suggested that they head upstairs so he could call his parents and tell them he was okay. The brunette did not think that the phone call would lead to David getting cut off and living with her, but she didn't have time to worry for it. She had a not-a-date date with Robin!

After awkward introductions and barely making it out the door, Regina was on her date with Robin, the non-profit guy who'd been coming into her restaurant frequently after his divorce. She had a feeling about the guy, a fortunate teller had prophesized that she'd be spending more time with "the one," this month. She found him charming and despite her normal standards, took him home that night.

The next morning, David was up bright and early, optimistic about his new life in the city.

"This has already been so good for me! I made coffee for the first time in my life this morning!"

"That's great," Emma, turned off by his early morning joy, snidely responded.

"Congrats. Since you're on a roll, why don't you give omelets a try?" Killian added, sipping his coffee. As his face turned sour, he turned towards Emma and saw the same look on her face. They poured their coffee into the wilted plant on the table and canceled their breakfast orders.

Regina came out of her room wearing a grey silk robe and a dopey grin. Robin followed behind her, heading towards the door. Killian, Emma, and David exchange looks, preparing to give their friend a hard time about her not date.

"If that wasn't a real date, then what the hell do you do on one?" Killian asked.

"Shut up!" Regina dismissed, the smile still plastered on her face. She was not going to let her friends ruin this.

Emma looked down at her watch, and rolled her eyes after seeing the time. "I'd better get to work. If I don't input those numbers… Well nothing really. But I should go."

"So you guys all work?" David asked.

Regina snorted, "Yes. That's how we buy things, dear."

"I'm an actor," Killian boasted.

"I don't think I've seen any of your work," David responded.

"You didn't catch the off-off Broadway production of Peter Pan?" Regina sarcastically asked.

"Killian was a riveting Captain Hook, aye mate!" Emma teased.

"I will not take this abuse!" Killian exclaimed, storming out of the apartment. Emma followed, loudly singing a song about a mean crocodile.

"How are you? Did you talk to Katherine? I can't stop smiling."

"It looks like you slept with a hanger in your mouth," David noted. "I'm fine. Really. I think this will be good for me. I've been living off my parents for much too long. So wish me luck! Today I'm going to find one of those job things."

Regina smiled and went to her room to get ready for work. She couldn't believe how well her date went. Maybe the psychic was right! She was excited to see Ruby, her work friend today. She'd been out all week on vacation in Alaska and didn't know about the developments with Robin.

"You had sex!" Ruby immediately declared upon seeing Regina's ear to ear smile. "Who was it?"

"You know Robin?"

"Robin, the non-profit guy? Oh yeah, I know Robin."

Regina didn't like the tone her friend was using. "You know Robin like I know Robin?"

When Regina explained the situation at Central Perk later that day, she was not met with the sympathy she desired.

"Of course it was a line!" Killian laughed.

"Why would he do that?" Regina groaned.

"I assume you want a better answer than to have sex with you?" Mary Margaret joked. At least someone was in a good mood.

Regina couldn't believe her luck. Here she thought she'd found this great guy. He ran a non-profit for God's sake! But he turned out just like the losers she'd recently gone out with. New York was a big city full of big assholes. Regina had the privilege of being burned by both men and women all over Manhattan. She wanted to give up.

"I just thought he was nice," she admitted in defeat.

Her pity party didn't last long. David pushed the café to his newfound friends, hands full of shopping bags. "Good news everyone!"

"You got a job?" Regina asked.

"Not a chance. I have no skills. I was laughed out of all my interviews," David said.

"Way to stay upbeat?" Emma responded.

"You would be to if you found this leather jacket for fifty percent off!"

"You know me so well. Actually, let me see that," Emma asked.

Regina couldn't believe David. He was supposed to be finding his independence, not shopping for new clothes. She was not going to live with a deadbeat roommate. David was used to get things with his charm and smile, but things wouldn't be that easy in the city. He would have to pull his weight.

"David, we need to get rid of your credit cards," she simply stated.

Later, when they headed back up to the apartment, she grabbed a pair of scissors while David fanned out the cards in front of him. He took a deep breath while his friends chanted "cut" around him. He was scared as he cut off the financial ties to his family, but he knew he had to let them go.

"Welcome to the real world! It sucks. You're gonna love it," Regina told him once the cards were decimated.

That night, the gang watched a bad old movie and ate junk food. Killian and Emma headed out shortly after the movie ended, leaving Regina, Mary Margaret, and David in the apartment. Regina told the two goodnight, and let her sister know that it was okay for her to crash on the couch if she wanted.

Absentmindedly, both Mary Margaret and David reach for the last cookie on the table. When their fingers brush, Mary Margaret quickly retreats. "Sorry, you take it."

"Don't be silly, you can have it," David insists with a small smile.

"Split it?" Mary Margaret suggests. David nods and she carefully breaks the cookie in half. "You probably didn't know this, but back in high school I had a huge crush on you," Mary Margaret admits.

"I knew," David responds. Mary Margaret is taken back, unsure what to do with the information.

"Oh. I just always figured you thought of me as Regina's nerdy sister."

David merely smiled, not wanting to embarrass the woman in front of him.

Mary Margaret didn't like to admit it, but she was a huge believer in fate. As horrible as her divorce was, maybe it had happened for a reason. After all, her unrequited crush from high school showed up in a tux after she declared that she wanted to be married again. That has to mean something right! She decided to do something before she lost her nerve. "Do you think that maybe we could go out sometime?"

"Maybe."

She knew, she just knew, that this would someday mean yes.

And there we have the pilot. Let me know what you all think. I'm prepared to continue if that's what you want! Leave your thoughts, comments, and concerns in the review box. For this "episode," I really wanted to establish the characters in the Friends universe, but I hope to let their personalities shine as the episodes go on.