"Giiiiinaaaa," The lanky waitress/Wolf whined, resting her head on her girlfriends shoulder. "Is it time yet?" Ruby asked.
"No, Dear, and if you keep asking, you can just stay here and I'll go out by myself." Regina playfully threatened and checked her watch. "Five more minutes until Henry gets out of school then we can go, okay?"
"Fiiiine," Ruby huffed and looked around, "Can I at least transform?"
"Promise you won't pounce on me this time?" Regina rose an eyebrow and smirked.
"I was happy to see you," she whimpered, even in her human form Ruby looked like a kicked puppy.
"You can change, Ruby, you don't have to ask," Regina said as she gave her girlfriend a quick kiss on the lips before stepping away, watching with curiosity as Ruby became a wolf in front it her, it always peaked her interest when it came to Ruby changing to and from wolf.
Five minutes later, Ruby, in wolf form, and Regina, were walking down towards the diner, the wolf protectively keeping an eye out, times had changed, yes, but Regina was still a target to some people.
Ruby and Regina had bonded in the underworld, after Snow successfully got back to Storybrooke, she worked with the fairies to get everyone back there, somehow, the spell went array and ended up bringing Mulan, Ruby and Dorothy to Storybrooke as well as Charming, Regina, Emma, Henry, The Constipated Forest Fart, The Alcoholic Butt-Pirate, and her child, Rumple and Belle.
The night was celebrated by all at the diner as per usual after a "mission"
Ruby was so happy to be with her family and loved ones, and everyone loved Dorothy.
But later that night, Regina had caught Robin with her and her blood boiled. Ruby wolfed out, growling and snapping her jaws at the pair.
Robin looked helpless, and he just looked to everyone in hopes of being saved.
Regina set her hand between Ruby's shoulder blades, calming the wolf slightly. "Be gone with you," was all she said as she composed herself like the evil queen she once was, and it out a shiver down everyone's spine, Henry looked up at the commotion having been showing Roland a game on this iPod so they both had an earphone in to distract them.
When that was all over and done with, Robin made the decision to leave, Dorothy deciding to do so too.
Regina met them in the town square with her sister by her side, the baby in Robin's arms, it looked as if he wasn't about to leave without a fight, Regina made quick work of freezing him handing the baby to her sister, Zelena was more then thankful as her powers still weren't like they used to be before the underworld trip.
They both worked together to send Roland, Robin and Dorothy to Oz.
Ruby shook out of the memory and huffed before bumping her nose against Regina's hand, making the mayor smile down and pet her Wolfy girlfriend.
"Hey, mum, Ruby." Henry said as he met them at the entrance to the diner.
Ruby just licked her lips and pounced on Henry playfully, licking all up the side of his cheek, Regina covered her mouth to stop from laughing too loud, as she made quick work of stopping Henry's head from cracking on the concrete with a wave of her hand.
Ruby jumped off the teen and slowly transformed back to her human form, holding a hand out to help him up as he laughed with a look of disgust due to being licked. "Gee, someone missed me he playfully teased."
"Your mother was busy at the office all day and I was home alone, so I had no one to annoy." Ruby grinned putting her arm over Henry's shoulder as the trio headed into the diner.
"Hey guys," Emma said catching their attention, as she saw them.
"Hey, Ma," Henry smiled, sliding into the booth beside her, setting his back-pack at his feet, reaching into it to pull his folder out full of homework and a pen from the front slip of the folder.
Henry looked up at Regina as she and Ruby slid into the other side of the booth, it wasn't long before Ruby actually had to start her shift so she usually sat with them on the days she started later.
Snatching a few of Emma's fries, Henry dipped them into the ketchup popping them into his mouth, before beginning on his homework, phasing out the conversation the women started discussing which was either about him or about their jobs.
Finding Henry deep into his homework when Regina went to ask him what he'd like to order she just looked to Ruby. "I'll just get him his usual, if he doesn't want it, I'll take it back." Ruby said and kissed her girlfriends cheek before getting up, bumping her fist with Emma's who was about to leave also to work night shift at the station.
"Hey, Regina, do you think you and I can have a private talk, later?" Emma asked as she finished off her fries.
"I think that would be do-able." Regina nodded and smiled at Emma softly. "How's Neal doing?" She asked, knowing Snow was a little sleep deprived due to her son needing to be with her a lot.
"Still screaming the house down, you don't think he's figured out that if he see's Belle and Blue he knows to go in total melt down, right? Cause I was taking him for a walk, and all of a sudden, he was screaming, all because Blue was walking towards us."
"I think he puts them in the column of 'My family is about to leave without me again.' And he's figuring out life, Henry wouldn't stop crying at one stage and I asked Snow to hold him, and he just stopped.. I think, even then he knew about everything."
"Yes well, we do have a very smart son." Emma chuckled and took a sip of her milkshake.
"Until it comes to math." Henry said as he slid his folder towards Regina and scooted around the booth, giving Regina a chance to look at the equations.
"Ah, you'll pick it back up, Henry, you did amazing in New York, maybe us taking you on missions is bad for your schooling." Emma joked and Henry just playfully glared at her.
"Like you lot could try and stop me going." He laughed softly. "Maybe you leaving me here would be bad, remember Wendy's brothers? What if I was here for that and they hurt me or something?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, but you wouldn't of been here anyway because Greg and Tamara kidnapped you." Ruby pointed out and poked her tongue at the teen who looked up as Ruby sat Regina's and Henry's food on the table.
"Thanks Ruby." Henry chuckled and leaned up, playfully scratching Ruby behind the ear, making the waitress happily sigh at the movement before she registered what was happening and she batted his hand away with a playful scowl at him. Henry returned to watch Regina helping him with his homework after Regina also thanked her girlfriend for the meal.
"Anyway, Regina, I'll visit you for lunch tomorrow for the talk?" Emma asked as she stood and finished her milkshake.
"Yes, Dear. Have a nice quiet evening." Regina smiled up at the blonde before turning her head to explain an equation to Henry.
The next day, Emma had messaged Regina a few minutes before lunch time and told her she'd be there soon, also apologizing for waking up later due to the night shift.
It was no more then half an hour later that Emma had knocked onto her office door and popped her head in, a bag from Granny's in one hand a drinks tray in the other. Emma thanked the brunette's assistant for letting her in before she shut the door with her boot.
"Emma, how are you feeling?" Regina asked concerned, seeing the bag's under Emma's eyes.
"I got to the apartment this morning cause I was too exhausted to drive home, I didn't want to crash the car or something, and my magic has been on the fritz because I'm so tired, like, I sneezed in the shower and fucking burnt myself with the water.. I have cold showers in summer!" Emma huffed and sat on the lounge toeing her boots off.
"I'm sorry, Dear. Would you like me to put the cuff on to stop your magic?"
"Maybe just something else in case I need it in case of an emergency?" Emma chuckled and leaned back against the back of the lounge. "Ruby said that there's dessert for us too in the bags." Emma sat forward, picking up a bag that was hidden behind the other.
"Oh, she said that Granny was working on a new apple pie recipe and that Granny wanted me to be the first to try it, I guess. I'm looking forward to it, also."
"Yes, anyway." Emma nodded slowly. "I need your help."
"What is it, Dear?" Regina asked as she pulled a Styrofoam container from the bag, pulling out a fork also, popping the container open, taking a mouthful of the pie, she started to eat, almost moaning at the taste, she grabbed her phone, quickly texting Ruby to let her know the pie was delicious before turning her attention back to Emma.
"I-I'm pregnant, and when I told Hook, he fucking took off!" She mumbled but Regina heard her quite clearly.
"Well, that's his loss, how far along are you, Dear?" Regina asked as she stood and walked over to her desk, setting her phone on it so they wouldn't get interrupted.
"Eighteen and a half weeks, nineteen on Monday." Emma said as she pulled an ultrasound picture from her pocket to show it to Regina as the brunette sat down
"Oh, that's so precious." Regina said softly and smiled, looking at Emma with tears of happiness in her eyes.
"I don't know what I'm going to do, Regina." Emma said as she forked through her fries.
"Well, do your parents know?"
"No, they have no idea, Please, Regina. You can't tell them."
"I won't tell them, but you'll have to." Regina said and placed a hand on Emma's forearm.
"Not just yet, I want to hide it for a while, but with David and I both working at the station it'll be hard. I need your help somehow."
"Come on, I'll take you to the hospital and I'll make them prescribe you something to help with morning sickness and get them to give you something to say you need time off work."
"Regina what if I just.. Go out of town for the rest of the time, and come back saying I was doing something for the police in another state.." Emma said as she started to panic, her breathing getting quicker.
"Now, Emma, I'm sure that's good in your mind, but you can't just go away and make this go away too, you want this, or you wouldn't of told me.. You want Henry to be a big brother, don't you?"
"Yeah, well, I do, but I never though it would be me getting pregnant off that fucking twat, Killian." Emma growled.
"Emma, that's not very good language." Ruby said as she came over to the couple with a few cardboard tray of to-go coffee's.
"Yeah, well, what're you gonna do about it?" Emma huffed.
"Nothing, but can you just not use as much of that language here in the diner? I know you're pissed, but this is a family place, how about we all go back to Regina's and we can talk about what Whale said." Ruby smiled softly and rubbed Emma's shoulder.
"Yeah, okay," Emma sighed and stood, her senses heightened, she caught a smell of some food and took off towards the bathrooms.
Ruby went to set the coffee's down, but Regina shook her head. "I'll go, you take those home, dear, I'll be there soon," Regina kissed Ruby's cheek and went after Emma
Written for my beautiful girlfriend, unedited, rush job to get it posted for her. Lemme know what you think