I decided to upload all the finished one-shots I had in my folders in gratitude for being such great friends and reviewers while I go on a (possibly very long hiatus).

Anonymous Asked You: Henry is becoming increasingly annoyed that all these guys keep trying to woo Emma so he hatches a plan with Regina to have Emma and Regina fake a relationship so that Hook, Neal, August and Jefferson will leave Emma alone.

AN: I added Graham for funsies. Hope you enjoy!

"So you see mom. Not only would it benefit me, but Emma would be way less annoyed by them and annoying to you, and you, since you'd seemingly be in a stable, healthy relationship in which the two of you are raising your son together, you'd get the town back and your mayor-ship would never be questioned because it's not only a relationship and you're happy, but it's the savior that made you happy." Henry said as he pointed with his laser pointer that he stole from his mother's study to the little diagram he made on his giant dry-erase board. He turned to his brunette mother as he turned the pointer off, "Any questions?"

Regina sat there a moment taking everything in. Her seventeen-year-old told her that he had something very important to discuss with her, and when she saw the dry-erase board set up in front of the TV, she just knew that it was going to be the "Can I please get a dog?" conversation again. The one time it wasn't, she wished it were. She sighed as she sat forward, "Honey…. I—"

"I asked for questions, not doubts, Mom." Henry said pointedly as he sat on the coffee table in front of his mother.

Regina couldn't help the smirk that grew on her face as she took her very serious, very determined son in. She sobered as she spoke though, "You want me to convince Emma to have a fake relationship so that the three of us can live a little easier. No, I understand exactly what you're asking."

"So…? Will you talk to her? Or, I can talk to her then you guys can talk to each other… Come on, Mom. You've seen the way the penis parade follows her around…"

"Henry." Regina scolded, though the smile that broke during her son's alliterative dig at August, Hook, Neal, Jefferson and Graham (who had been found wandering with a wolf pack, very much alive during 'the lost year' when Henry and Emma were in New York and everyone else was in the Enchanted Forest) did not go unnoticed by her son.

"What? Come on… None of them are subtle. They might as well punch each other."

Regina looked around as she muttered, "I think a few of them have."

"Yeah… And then there's your guy who just…" Henry stood angry and walked a few feet pacing before look back to his mom, "I'm sorry all that went down…"

"It's neither here nor there anymore. It's been three years." Regina shrugged.

"Which is why it's time to get back on the saddle!" Henry said in a fake excited tone, "The fake saddle!"

Regina stared at her boy, her little man who was all grown up and not-so-subtly trying to get his mothers together. Yes, she did see through his genius plan to have them agree to 'pretend' to be together. She knew how much her son believed in true love, and she knew how he secretly wished upon stars that she and Emma would wind up together. She learned that one night as she was going to tell him goodnight, but heard him talking and her curious side got the better of her, so she eavesdropped.

She was going to tell him that it wasn't the best idea, and that it would raise more questions than solve all their problems. She was going to tell him 'no'. But a resounding, "I'll talk to Emma about it." came out of her mouth.

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma walked out of the diner, not paying attention, just as Regina was walking in paying attention solely to her phone as she crafted the perfect "we need to talk message."

They ran smack into each other.

"Oh damn it!" Emma said by way of apology as she managed to narrowly save her to-go mug from falling on the ground.

"Watch where you're—Emma…" Regina's thumb spread on her phone and she hit send.

"Regina." Emma sidestepped the mayor as she looked around quickly. She saw one of the five men that seemed to always be on her ass, "Sorry, I need to…" She poofed away, knowing that Hook had seen her.

"Right…" Regina shook her head as she moved to the diner counter and looked at her phone. She saw that she'd accidentally hit send before her text was finished, "Shit." She muttered as she read the text message, Henry wants us to be together. He thinks it will make the three of us happy in the long run. I'm not going to tell him 'no' without discussing it first. I think he's made valid points.

She'd been trying to construct a great text that would at first scare the sheriff then come off as witty as hell as per her usual. This was not that text message. This was a text that no doubt added to the sheriff's problems.

"Would you like your usual, Madam Mayor?"

Regina looked up to see Ruby, "Please. And make it to go."

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma avoided Regina like the plague for the next three weeks. It wasn't until the monthly town meeting that she was able to call upon the sheriff in public and have her walk with her to her office while everyone in Town Hall watched on and wondered what the Sheriff had done now.

Regina flicked her wrist as she magically shut and locked the door. She turned after reaching the front of her desk and leaned against it.

Emma looked beyond uncomfortable. "Listen, Regina… I don't—I don't like you in that way… I don't like anyone in that way right now. I mean, if I had to pick between you and all my other suitors, I would hope it'd be obvious—"

"Emma!" Regina waved her hands frantically trying to get the blonde to shut up. "Stop! Don't—don't say anything more. I don't like you like that either…" She trailed off making sure that Emma would let her speak this time. Emma looked perplexed, "That text was the beginning draft of what was supposed to be a witty by the by, but when we bumped into each other at the diner, my thumb was hovering over 'send' apparently and it sent… I've been trying to tell you it was a joke. The Henry having points part, not his notion of pretending to date…"

"Pretending to date?" Emma crossed her arms in thought before giving a throaty, "Hm."

"What? Of course. That's what I told you…"

"You..did..not actually." Emma had to think about each word before she said it as she was getting worked up.

"Yes—"

"NO! You said that the kid wanted us to be together and you thought he made valid points!"

Regina glared at Emma as she pulled out her phone. She looked and re-read her initial text message. With a purse of her lips, she put the phone away. "Very well."

Emma gave a pithy laugh, "'Very well'? That's it?"

The mayor walked around her desk and sat in her chair, "Yes. What more do you want?"

Emma opened her mouth about to say something witty as hell, but stopped short with her finger in the air as if she was going to make a point. "As…" She started, still thinking over what she wanted to say, "As an apology for the text, saving your ass countless times, letting you care for our son and threatening the kid's dad when he tried to argue, and being your friend in general, I would like to hear and agree with the valid points that Henry made. And I would like this fake relationship to start." She crossed her arms, "As soon as possible."

"Are you fuc—"

"Madam Mayor?" Regina's secretary walked in.

"WHAT?!"

The secretary, Neela, a fairy in her own right (a rejected fairy that could never handle magic properly, and always seemed child-like even though she'd been around since before the curse), cowered away never having been on the receiving end of Regina's anger even if by interruption, "Uhm…" Her voice quivered, "I'm sorry…"

Regina put up her hand, "No, I'm sorry, Neela. What is it?" Regina's voice was instantly free of anger.

Neela perked immediately, "Well… Emma's boyfriends are all waiting for her… They asked how much longer she'd be…?"

Emma turned, "Tell Emma's boyfriends that Emma's girlfriend is keeping her detained and they should all just go on about their days."

Regina put a hand over her face in embarrassment as Neela nodded once, not questioning Emma's words and walked out of the office once more. "Did you have to do that? You know she takes everything at face value…"

"That's why we love her, though. She's funny and cute…and not entirely there." Emma turned back to the brunette, "Also, solidifies the fact that we are now officially fake-dating." The sheriff gave a winning, closed-mouth grin and raised and lowered her brows once for effect.

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma walked into a near empty diner the next morning. She sat in her usual booth and was looking over the Daily Mirror when the door to the kitchen swung open.

"OH MY GOD! I THOUGHT I SMELLED YOU!" Ruby ran over and sat across from the blonde, "Spill!"

Emma knit her brows, "Spill what?"

Ruby looked offended, "The Mayor?! You're banging her? I want the gory details."

Emma sat, staring at the werewolf, "I'm not telling you about anything I may or may not have done with the mayor… We're friends." The sheriff didn't want to admit that her conversation with Regina led her nowhere eventually and Regina basically guaranteed that she would be hounded by the guys for the rest of her days. Regina always seemed to turn it around on her.

"With benefits."

"With a kid."

Ruby gave her a bored look, "You and Nealfire are friends with a kid too…"

Emma rolled her eyes at the notion and went back to her paper. Ruby stood, knowing Emma wasn't going to give her anything, "Thing is, when I mention the idea of you and Neal you don't blush or get riled up like you do when I mention Regina…" She caught the sheriff's eye before walking off to fulfill her duties as waitress elsewhere.

Hook was the first one there that morning. "Swan." He said as he sat down, "What's this I hear about you falling for a certain…fiery brunette?"

Emma groaned, "Oh my god…" She rolled her eyes, "I don't want to give false hope, but Regina and I are just friends…"

"Who said anything about Regina? I was referring to myself."

Emma stared at the man before her. She was going to respond with more witty repartee, but she was cut off, "Emma Swan. Mother of my child." Neal came in, pushing Hook into the booth, so the focus would be on him.

Graham came in soon after, "Morning, Sheriff. If you want to go back to the office, I can get your breakfast for you…" It wasn't so much the sentence itself, so much as it was the dreamy look in Graham's eyes. She wasn't sure if he wanted to kiss her or kill her.

By the time Regina walked in for her morning coffee, Emma was surrounded by Hook, Neal, Graham, August and Jefferson. The blonde was on the booth's edge and could theoretically leave, but Regina knew that that wouldn't stop the men from following her.

When Emma caught her eyes, she gave a pathetic excuse for a smile before going back to looking at her hands.

Regina sighed after getting her coffee. She got up from her stool and walked over to the table with the five men and Emma Swan. She glared at them all, all of them quieting with a single look before her eyes turned to the blonde. "Sheriff, may I speak with you outside a moment?" She offered the blonde her hand.

Emma stared at it, she scrutinized it for a split second before looking up at the Mayor and taking the hand, following her just outside and just to the side of the door so as not to block anyone's path.

"Does this mean that you're—OW! What the hell?!" Emma glared as she felt the sting of Regina's hand on her face.

"It's all for show." Regina kept her stare on Emma as she flourished her arm out straight, pointing to the men in the diner, having the decency to look offended.

"What is happening right now?" Emma asked confused.

"We're bickering like couples do." Regina looked down playing up an almost sweet vulnerable side.

Emma smiled, "Really?!" she asked hopeful.

"Really." Regina nodded, "This is just because you're my only friend. I mean, obviously because of all of your other reasons, but I'm going to be as convincing as possible and make everyone believe it without magic because you're my friend." She looked into Emma's eyes before leaning in and kissing the blonde soundly.

The feeling that came over both of them as they felt themselves be watched was unlike anything either of them had ever felt. They liked putting on a show. But Regina kept the kiss short. She glared into the diner before leaving for her office.

Emma smirked, watching her leave before a full-fledged smile graced her face.

This was going to be fun.

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma didn't walk back inside for her paper or the rest of her cocoa that morning. She actually avoided the diner the rest of the day, opting to go home for lunch that afternoon and staying in for dinner.

The next morning, after a long talk with Regina on the phone about boundaries or whatever the crap that Emma had no cares over, the sheriff found herself almost accosted by everyone's favorite waitress.

"What the hell?!" Emma yelped as she was brought to the back room by her ear. After Ruby let go, she rubbed the cartilage, "Really? My ear?"

"Well… My ear's always bent for you, so…" Ruby crossed her arms defiantly.

"So..?" Emma waited a moment studying her, "You do know that that means that the person's whose ear is bent is going to give advice, right?" At Ruby's look she nodded once, "And you don't want advice—What is your damage, Heather?"

Ruby merely cocked a brow, "You're still not gonna share? Even after she macked on you yesterday in front of the diner where all could see?!"

Emma stared at the brunette before you, "Rubes… You need to get laid." She said before walking to the door, "You can have…any of my male suitors…"

Ruby gave the sheriff a disgusted look, "I can get my own thank you. I have my own thank you. I don't need your mourning, sloppy seconds."

"Then get your own. You are entirely too fixated on my love life."

"Well!" Ruby started after her, "You! Are in love! With the Mayor! I can't help but be fascinated!"

Emma turned back quickly, giving the best hair flip in history. "I'm not in love with her." She almost growled out.

Ruby raised her brows in surprise and confusion as she watched the blonde walk back to the front of the diner, "Could have fooled me…"

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma walked out to find Henry and Regina sitting the booth the blonde usually nabbed for herself.

No one else was up front, so Emma wouldn't get in complete and total trouble later for doing what she did next. She sauntered up to the booth, slid in next to Regina, wrapping an arm around her and peck her cheek with a big, slobbery kiss that would make anyone pull from the giver and give them a disgusted look, "Morning, Baby-Honey."

Henry just about rolled out of his side of the booth as he ducked forward to keep his amusement from his brunette mother, who yes, was currently wiping her cheek.

"Really?" Regina gave the woman a raised brow.

"Now, mom…" Henry sat up straight, and looked as if the last thing he had just been doing mere milliseconds before was laughing. "You and Emma are in a relationship. Pet names are a must."

Regina glared forward and blinked a few times, "I'll call you 'darling,' 'dear,' 'honey' or the usual 'Sheriff' or 'Emma'. I'll answer to 'darling,' 'dear,' 'honey' or 'Madam Mayor' or 'Regina.' Though, you don't seem the type to say 'darling,' and you seem the type that would say 'babe' and 'baby,' so I'll allow those. No hyphenated double names, no…" Regina turned, showing slight amusement but more disgust, "'Baby-Honey.' Okay?"

Emma pondered this for a good minute, nodding ever so slowly. Neither woman realized that Emma kept her arm around the brunette until the blonde's hand unconsciously stroked the back of Regina's hair and neck to get her attention.

Henry did notice. Though he said nothing.

Emma played it off and opened her mouth, "Fine. I'll agree to that. But uh… No 'dear' from you. You call everyone 'dear.' I feel like if you do, I'll get offended."

"Why would you get offended?"

Emma gave the brunette a serious look, "Because! We're in a relationship! If you call me dear, I'm bound to think that you're belittling me! Which usually when you call me 'dear' you are!"

"Yes, that's how it goes with everyone… Lest I'm talking to Henry, calling him 'dear'.."

Henry interjected, not missing a beat, "Sometimes even when she's talking to me." When he got the 'Atta kid' look from his blonde mother and an offended look from his brunette mother, he gave a half chuckle, "What? Mom, it's true. It's just how it is. Hey, I'm seventeen. I understand. I'm not a kid, but I'm not quite an adult…" he shrugged, "I need to get belittled sometimes."

Emma's amusement came in the form of a snort.

Regina would have commented, but the door chimed, alerting that there were more patrons entering the diner.

Ruby walked out a split second later ready to pour coffee for all. When she got to the Swan-Mills table she chanced a glance to Emma before looking at Regina and Henry, "So, what I can I get you all? Usual?"

"Please." Regina said for the trio.

Ruby nodded and, with her wolf-like ninja skills, she looked the couple over, studied how couple-y they were. And honestly, they looked pretty damn couple-y. Regina, in the time she'd been standing there, turned into Emma's side, the both of them blushed and Emma wrapped her arm around Regina's shoulders as if placating the mayor's fears, then they both looked to their smirking son.

There was something about Emma's statement earlier that was going to bug her. She knew she didn't know the whole story, and trying to figure it out was now going to be her pastime. She turned from the table quickly and put in their order.

After getting the morning rush taken care of, Ruby leaned against the counter, a smirk on her face as she watched the door. She'd been waiting for this all morning.

Graham, Hook, August and Neal practically pushed their way into the diner. When they saw Emma and Regina the four men stopped.

Jefferson walked around the wall of men with Grace. He indicated she sit next to Henry and pulled a seat up to the booth, sitting in it backwards.

"Morning, Emma."

Emma stared at him, "Jefferson." She looked to Grace, "Hi, Gracie."

"Hi, Emma."

The other four men sat at the table that Jefferson's chair belonged to and watched on.

"Emma…" Jefferson tried to get her attention.

"Yes?" Emma turned from Regina to the man that made himself comfy at their table.

"Would you like to go out tonight?"

"She can't." Regina spoke up.

Jefferson knit his brows, "I'm sorry, Regina, I wasn't aware you were her keeper."

Regina pursed her lips, smirking. She leaned forward intimidatingly, "You need to pay better attention then, Hatter." She glowered, "The sheriff is busy, and she will stay busy. Don't bother her anymore." She looked behind Jefferson, "That goes for the rest of you as well."

Regina pushed Emma, silently asking her to let her out of the booth. Once the two of them were standing, Regina pecked the blonde and picked at imaginary fuzzies on Emma's jacket.

"Well, darling." Regina's eyes lit up as she looked into Emma's. She kept her hands on the blonde's shoulders and puckered her lips, leaning in for another swift peck. "I think I've 'peed on my territory' as you put it."

Emma wrapped her arms around the mayor, "Yes you did." She relished in the attention the entire town was seemingly giving them.

"I'll talk with you later." Regina had the decency to look around the diner with a blush and pull from Emma's hold.

"Yeah. I'll bring you lunch." Emma walked Regina out of the diner. "Where do you think you're going so fast. This is a full blown relationship, remember?" She asked as she pulled Regina into her hold and kissed her hard. She grinned as she pulled away, "You're a damn fine kisser, Madam Mayor."

"Of course." Regina played the compliment off before giving the blonde a wink and walking to her car.

Henry and Grace ran passed Emma, pulling her eyes from Regina's car as it made it's way down the street.

"Sorry, Emma. We're running late for school!" Henry said as he bumped into his mother.

"You guys want a lift?"

"Nah, we're good." Henry waved her off as he and his best friend made their way in the direction of the school.

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma knocked twice before waltzing into the mayor's office. She tossed a to-go bag on the desk, narrowly avoiding the papers Regina was trying to sign, and started dealing out their meal, "Chicken Caesar wrap with fresh fruit and a lemonade for the lady." She winked before getting her own burger and fries and fruit punch for herself.

Regina stared on disgustedly as Emma's face became sodden with grease. "You realize that at the rate you eat the greasiest stuff at Granny's that we won't be playing this little game for long?"

Emma genuinely laughed with a mouth full of food. "Because I'm gonna have a heart attack?"

"Precisely."

"Can't let you off that easy…" Emma sat back, "Maybe you should start ordering for me. Make me eat healthier for that very reason. I'll bet relationship-Emma-and-Regina would settle on that."

"Oh you do?"

Emma nodded, "Also… I should probably start eating over at the mansion, hanging around most evenings. I don't know why relationship-Emma-and-Regina wouldn't agree to that either…"

"Emma…" Regina shook her head.

"What? I'm serious. Think about it… How many people watch our every move? An entire town? They're going to suspect if they notice we don't spend time together…"

Regina was suspicious. "I suppose."

"So… See you tonight?"

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma had been over practically every night for the last four months. Regina and Emma had been on fake dates, and they always made their way back to the mansion.

Ruby found it odd that they never smelled of each other like Mary Margaret and David—or really any other couple in Storybrooke. Mary Margaret and David were coping with the idea of Regina becoming part of their family… again. And the non-familial men of Emma's life had settled their differences and started looking at other women of the town.

Henry just knew that his mothers were falling for each other.

And his mothers just knew that the other would run and hide the moment that their true feelings—their true feelings that seemed to come from nowhere—slipped out. They did their damndest to keep quite.

Emma rang the bell. They'd decided on a movie night, Emma's choice.

Henry answered and, with a backpack over his shoulder, he bolted passed his mother, "Hi Emma, bye Emma." He ran down the sidewalk.

"Was it something I said?" Emma asked as she stood in the doorway.

"He's spending the night at a friend's." Regina's voice came from behind her.

Emma turned, a smile growing on her face, "Just the two of us? Oh how the town will talk of how we're definitely sleeping together now." She waggled her brows as she pushed her way inside.

"You're so funny." Regina spoke softly, yet sarcastically.

"Call me Fanny Brice." Emma smirked.

Regina shook her head, "What did you bring for us tonight?"

"You're gonna laugh."

"I promise I'll try not to." Regina pursed her lips as she led the blonde to the kitchen.

Emma set the five movies down on the counter and waited.

Regina looked them over, "Huh…"

"Go on. I guess I'll let you laugh."

"No, no, it's just… they're all so different."

"Yes they are."

"I mean… I get Fried Green Tomatoes. I've seen the novel lying around your apartment and office."

Emma blushed, but said nothing. Regina went about looking at the movies.

"I get Victor Victoria. You have a weird thing for Julie Andrews, I've noticed."

Again, Emma blushed, but said nothing. And again, Regina stared at the movies noticing nothing.

"But In Time, Miss Congeniality and The Lion King?"

Emma shrugged, playing Regina's insight/knowledge into her person off. "I wanted you to have options."

Regina nodded once before moving to the wine bottle at the other end of the counter, "Wine? Or… You're Green Apple Smirnoff is in the fridge."

Emma smirked as she saw the woman's disgusted snarl when she opted for the fridge, "You know that if they made red apple, I'd like that better." She placated the brunette.

"Green apples are grotesque."

"Only because of your sister." Emma said as she popped open her bottle. She stared at it a moment and grinned when she watched the flavor change before her eyes. She, at first, asked Regina to start buying them as a joke, but when she conceited, she felt obligated to drink them. She had to admit, that green apples always left her stomach sore, so since the first time she drank, she'd been magicking the bottles for a candy apple flavor with a red design and keeping it hidden from Regina.

"Do I need a better reason?"

"Just try it." Emma stuck the neck of the bottle in the brunette's face.

"No! I'll stick with my wine, thank you."

Emma stared at the bottle a moment before setting it on the counter. "Fine, which movie do you want me to put in?"

"Candy Apple?"

Emma turned not-so-confused, "That's not a movie."

Regina held up the bottle, "This isn't a flavor…"

Emma merely shrugged, looked down, and rubbed the back of her neck, "I know."

"Fried Green Tomatoes." Regina said as she took a sip from Emma's drink.

Emma nodded and put the movie on.

Regina made them a homemade pizza; they'd pigged out during Fried Green Tomatoes and decided on dessert during the next movie, which turned out to be The Lion King. Neither noticed—okay they noticed, but neither commented on how close they came to cuddle during either feature.

Emma leaned forward and set the stems of Regina's and her chocolate covered strawberries on a plate as she recited Timon's lines just before "Can You Feel The Love Tonight?"

"I tell ya Pumbaa. This stinks."

Regina turned her head from the animated characters on her screen and stared at the blonde as she settled back into the couch, back next to her, back with the blonde's arm wrapped around her lower back in the space between her body and the corner of the couch where the back and seat meet, back with blonde hair all over her shoulder. She hoped that her gulp was not audible.

"Not you! Them! Him. Her. Alone…" Emma chuckled at her own impression before she started singing, "I can see what's happening. And they don't have a clue. They'll fall in love, and here's the bottom line: Our trio's down to two. Ze sweet caress of twilight. There's magic everywhere." She looked up at Regina with a twinkle in her eye as she continued, "And with all this romantic atmosphere…" She trailed off for the last line of Timon's solo.

They stared at each other as the chorus played through.

Can you feel the love tonight?

The peace the evening brings?

Our world for once, in perfect harmony

With all its living things

"Regina?" Emma whispered out.

"What?"

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Like what?"

"Like you're scared we're about to cross a line we can't uncross?"

"Because we're about to cross it…"

"Do you want to?"

"Do you?"

Emma smiled a soft smile, the corners of her mouth barely moving up. She leaned in and kissed the woman. There was no thrill of performance. This was just for them. And it was the best damn kiss either woman had ever had.

~0~0~0~0~0~

Emma walked into the diner the next morning with a lazy smile on her face. Ruby was on her like stink on cheese.

"You guys had sex." Ruby whispered knowingly as she set a cup of cocoa in front of the sheriff.

Emma's smile only grew to a grin before she took a sip of her cocoa.

Ruby slapped the table happily, "EMMA!" She laughed, causing the few people in the diner's attention, "Sorry. Got excited." She waved them off. After making sure they turned back to whatever they were doing, she leaned forward, "So…?"

Emma shook her head, that lazy grin still on her face, "Have you…" She stopped, "Have you ever seen Regina naked?"

Ruby tried not to laugh at the question, "You know Sheriff, I can't say I have."

"You're missing out…" Emma sighed before regaining herself, "I mean… Good. That you haven't, but… Seriously, just the sight of her naked is life-altering, let alone…" She trailed off again.

Ruby bit her lips a moment, "So… Is it safe to say that you might love your girlfriend now?"

Emma merely smiled again and took another sip of her cocoa.

"Good. That's good." Ruby exhaled dramatically, "I'm glad the Savior has finally found her true love. We can all get in trouble and things can happen again and it's okay because neither of the two most powerful women will die."

"Oh, I'm sorry, is a quiet life too boring for you?"

Ruby sighed, nodding, "I need another lemur, Emma."

"Tell Belle how you feel about her." Emma said without missing a beat.

"Can't say that'll happen. Ever." With that, the werewolf stood and left the table. After playfully glaring back at the Sheriff, she moved about the diner.

Regina walked in a few minutes later.

No one in town had ever seen the goofy grin of a woman in love on the Mayor's face before that day.

Over time, the town came to know that face well. Both the Sheriff and the Mayor wore it.

When Henry found out that his plan worked, he was more than thrilled, but as time went on, and he had to witness his mothers making out every day, he started spending more time at his dad's. Though that seemed to fail too because after his dad and the other guys that were always chasing after his mom knew that there was never going to be a chance for them to get together, they found love elsewhere. Jefferson found Ariel, August found a former she-puppet named Truly Scrumptious, Nealfire found Tink and Hook and Graham found each other. It seemed everywhere he went people were making out. Even in the diner, Belle and Ruby would go at it—they'd found each other too. His grandparents really needed to stop talking about how they always find each other because the entire town was going to end up splitting in two and needing to find each other again by the next magical evil being they'd have to face.

But… He was happy. And his moms were happy. And his dad was happy too, which was a bonus (he'd be lying if he said that his plan included his dad's happiness—it was assumed that if he could get over Emma that he'd be ready for a real relationship, but really, Henry was focused on his mothers who really needed his help).

And his mothers were grateful for his plan, and they were grateful that their not-so-fake relationship turned into an obviously-we're-spending-the-rest-of-our-lives-together kind of relationship.