A/N So here is one of the competition winner's one-shots (though I will more than likely making this a two or three part fic)
Quindecim 'Mulan, Aurora, and Phillip are all in Storybrooke; Mulan hasn't exactly had the greatest time always running into Philip and Aurora being a couple around town. Emma notices how down Mulan seems and befriends the woman. They get along wonderfully and eventually Mulan decides to ask Emma on a date thinking she is ready to move past her feelings for Aurora. Emma is in love with Regina, but thinks she will never return her feelings and although surprised by Mulan's offer decides to accept hoping she can get past her "crush. Jealous Aurora and Jealous Regina follows soon after.'
'We Need To Get Over It'
"Well you look depressed," Emma chuckled as she slid into the booth opposite Mulan.
The warrior simply grunted her agreement and downed another shot of clear liquid that Emma was sure couldn't possibly be water.
"Because you're such a cheerful person."
Emma raised her eyebrow, and pulled the next shot away from her, "I can be cheerful," she defended unconvincingly.
The bell to the diner rang out, and Mulan's point was proven as a certain mayor walked in followed by 'the man with the lion tattoo." And look there's Henry, our son, Emma thought bitterly as the boy walked over to talk to Ruby. Within seconds, Emma grabbed the vodka and downed it.
As the liquid burned down her throat, she scowled, "okay, you have a point. I think we both need to just move on."
Mulan tilted her head at her friend. The pair had surprisingly bonded over their unrequited crushes, becoming almost best friends over the past couple of months.
"So what brought this on?" Emma asked once her throat had stopped burning.
Mulan shrugged, "they were holding hands."
"They do that all the time," Emma laughed.
"And I do this a lot."
Emma rolled her eyes, and replied, "we really need to find a more healthy way to deal with this."
Mulan looked over to a booth at the other end of the diner, where Aurora was feeding her baby, and offered her a short wave in reply to the smile, before she quickly looked back at Emma. "We need to move on," she said, throwing the blonde's words back at her.
Emma raised her eyebrows, she had suggested this many times, but it always seemed like Mulan refused to hear it, "with who?"
"Each other," she answered triumphantly, "you know, why not?"
"Oh, why not? How romantic," Emma chuckled.
"I'm serious Emma," the warrior smiled, like she had the best idea in the world.
"So you what...want to go on a date?"
"It would certainly help us move on, I mean we like each other right?" she said.
Emma frowned for a moment, she knew for a fact that she didn't like Mulan that way, but then again her crush on a certain mayor had taken over her life, maybe we have been overlooking something.
"Okay," she began sceptically, "are you sure?"
"We could do a lot worse."
"Charming," Emma smirked.
"Will you just say yes!" Mulan scowled.
"Well if you're going to always be this romantic, then you can pick me up at eight tomorrow," Emma replied with an eye roll. Standing from the booth, with one final exasperated look, she made her way over to the counter where Henry was sitting.
Emma lay on the couch listlessly watching TV in her PJ's, only to be interrupted by a knock at the door.
She continued to stare until her mother walked past with her brother on her hip, "don't bother getting up, I got it," she said sardonically.
"Thanks mom," Emma replied, which actually caused the woman to smile broadly through her irritation.
"What the hell?" Mulan asked.
Emma looked over the back of the couch, "Mulan?"
"You said eight," she scowled.
Emma looked between the angry Mulan and her amused mother.
"I thought you were kidding," she blushed as she inspected the woman's overly tight jeans, I have definitely been overlooking her, she thought with an audible gulp.
Snow asked, "kidding about what?"
"She agreed to go out with me."
"You better get ready then," Snow laughed, as she took the remote off her, "I'll look after this for you."
Emma nodded, looking somewhat shocked, "I'll be ten minutes."
The blonde quickly raced up the stairs, and Mulan turned cautiously back to her date's mother, "you're okay with this?" She didn't even know that Emma had come out to her parents.
"Of course I am," Snow replied with a furrowed brow, before she quickly added, "though I'm not sure that you two make the best couple."
"Why?" Mulan swallowed hard.
"I just always saw you with someone else I guess, but why don't you prove me wrong."
Mulan nodded, and fell onto the couch. She promptly took Neal out of Snow's arms and began to make faces at the toddler, and Snow let out a sigh of relief as she fell back into the couch for at least a few minutes.
"Okay...so..." Emma began awkwardly after Ruby had walked away with a smirk. Emma was sure that the whole town would know by morning now, why did we have to come to the diner? She internally sighed.
Mulan nodded, though she didn't say anything.
"You look really good," Emma blurted out, which caused the other woman to laugh.
Mulan inspected the blonde's usual combination of skinny jeans and leather jacket, though she had thrown on a necklace for the occasion, "you don't look too bad yourself."
Emma blushed, the bell once again announcing the arrival of Regina and Henry, though this time they seemed to be unaccompanied by the thief.
Regina seemed to lock onto the blushing sheriff instantly, and she felt an unexplained urge to discover just why she looked flustered by the woman sitting across from her. Without explanation to her son, she walked straight over to their booth.
"Miss Swan, I thought you were on the night shift?" she said, just about thinking of something to say.
Emma looked up at the former-queen, and she felt guilt for a moment before realising that she was being irrational, Regina isn't my girlfriend.
The blonde shook her head, and politely replied, "that would be tomorrow, your majesty."
Regina nodded, and remained standing there for a moment, until the werewolf waitress interrupted, "two cheeseburgers and fries," she smiled.
Once she had placed the plates on the table, she looked up to the mayor. Henry had frequently told her that he wished his mother would just forget about Robin, and just realise how she felt about Emma. She had highly doubted his theory and even had to stop him from starting operation SwanQueen. Now as she watched the clearly jealous mayor, she knew that Henry may have been right, so she decided to do a further test.
"Come now, madam mayor, can't you even allow the sheriff time to enjoy her date?"
"Ruby!" Emma scowled, she could never understand the woman's need to broadcast everyone's personal life.
No one but Henry noticed his mother's jaw clench, before she nodded, and said, "of course, enjoy your night Miss Swan." The mayor promptly dragged Henry to as far away a booth as possible, though Ruby noted that it still had a clear view of the potential couple.
-Two weeks later-
Emma and Mulan walked hand in hand down the street each holding an ice cream cone. Though they had both admitted that they still harboured their crushes, they were able to enjoy spending time with each, though nothing beyond kissing had happened just yet, they believed that they could eventually get over themselves and just be a full on couple.
"You've got ice cream on your nose," Emma chuckled.
The warrior instantly frowned and tried to get her hand back to wipe it away, but the blonde wouldn't let her, "Emma," she laughed.
"It looks cute," she pouted.
Emma pulled her closer and bumped their noses together, "now we both have it."
"Is this what I get for dating a Charming?" Mulan chuckled as she finally managed to wipe it off, along with the blonde's.
"You brought this on yourself," Emma smirked, as she placed a soft kiss on her lips.
The couple were interrupted by a small squeak.
They each turned to see Sleeping Beauty had dropped a shopping bag.
Mulan handed her cone to Emma and ran forward to help her pick everything up, "what happened?" she asked.
Aurora looked between the two of them, before finally answering, "slippy fingers, so you two..."
Mulan nodded with a furrowed brow, "I thought Ruby would have told everyone by now," Emma chuckled as she came over to the pair.
"I haven't really got much time to be involved in the rumour mill."
"If you want to like go out with Phillip, me and Mulan could look after little Phillip," Emma offered as she offered Mulan her ice cream. Mulan blanched at her for a moment, only to be met with a nod of encouragement, and she just shrugged.
"We would be happy to help," she said through clenched teeth.
Aurora didn't seem to notice her reluctance, she hadn't really spent much time with Phillip since coming to Storybrooke. She was sure that this burning jealousy would dim if she simply reconnected with her husband.
"I'll probably take you up on that."
A/N Hope you guys enjoyed XD
Reviews would be much appreciated and I'll try and update as soon as possible though this will be quite low on my to do list until I manage to finish some other things :)
