Disclaimer: This is a fanfiction – I don't own "Once upon a time" or any of the characters. "Once upon a time" and all its content belong to Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis and ABC.
I know...I know.
Everyone is waiting for updates for Wonderland & Co.
It's in the works, really. But I'm doing a lot of volunteer work in the animal protection field lately and well, what can I say...it can be really sad to see how careless humans are.
So I needed something to cheer myself up and that's what my crazy brain came up with xD
It will be little snippets of Regina's journey - it's going to be a bit of a trial and error kind of thing.
Brace yourselves, it's going to be a bit funny at times (thought it wouldn't hurt to write something without major drama for once) ;)
I want to dedicate this little sorta fairytale to my awesome friend Ana 'cause she has such a wicked sense of humour - plus she is a rockstar altogether!
About the story...it's set in our beloved Storybrooke. It's slightly AU.
It's going to be...surprise...SQ :P
Imagine this...Henry, Emma and Regina sitting at the diner, having dinner...and what happens next is this:
HOW TO DATE THE SAVIOR
by raven
Prolog
"Maybe you should ask Ruby out."
Henry's statement came out of nowhere.
Needless to say that neither Emma, nor Regina were prepared for it.
But while Regina almost choked on her water, anger sparkling in her eyes, Emma could barely suppress her laughter.
What was her son up to this time?
But when she met his eyes and recognized the conspiratorial look on his face Emma knew exactly what he was trying to do and her lips turned upwards into an amused smirk.
Oh, Henry was good!
Not that it would surprise her. Not anymore.
Regina and her had been friends for a while now and somewhere down the road their fighting had turned more into...well, flirting.
And for weeks Regina had been circling around her like a predator did with its prey, but the usually so sassy and self-confident woman had not dared to make a move.
Or ask her out for that matter.
But Emma had a feeling that she had wanted to.
Even Henry had pointed out at some point that Regina was acting weird and that he thought something was going on between the two of them.
And if Emma would not be so scared of making a fool out of herself or getting slapped right in the face she would have asked Regina out herself.
Then again she had no death wish either and there was still a fat chance that she had read too much into the situation, that she had misunderstood Regina's signals.
Maybe the brunette was just toying with her – as usual.
Henry clearly had decided it was time to figure out his mother's intentions though and Emma could barely keep herself from patting his shoulder proudly.
That kid was quite something.
"Now why would Miss Swan do that?" Regina rasped out through gritted teeth and interrupted Emma's thought process all of a sudden.
"Because Ruby is hot. Duh."
Henry answered matter-of-factly, eyeing his mother expectantly and Emma wondered where he had gotten the nerve to act so bravely.
"Henry!"
Regina seemed to be quite appalled by her son's revelation, but there was that anger shining in her eyes still, causing Emma to hide her face and smile behind the menu.
Emma's little triumph should not last long though because Henry turned to face her only a moment later, "So, are you going to ask her out or what?"
She started to squirm in her seat uncomfortably because she was well aware that Regina might fireball her or something if she gave the wrong answer, "Yeah, no. No, I don't think I'll ask Ruby out."
She managed to reply without stuttering and Emma considered it a success, but of course Henry would not let it go that easily.
Lucky as always.
"Why not? Don't you like Ruby?"
Emma put the menu back onto the table and looked straight at her questioning son, "I do. I do like Ruby. Just not like that. Besides..."
"Yes?" Henry and Regina asked in unison, but while her son hung on her lips Regina dropped her gaze to stare at the table, her cheeks flushing different shades of pink.
"Well, you know..." Emma started and cursed herself. She had not thought this through.
What was she going to say?
I have no interest in Ruby 'cause I have a thing for your mother, but I'm too much of a chicken to admit it?
Probably not.
She took a deep breath when an idea hit her all of a sudden and one of her trademark lopsided smiles appeared on her face, "I've always fallen for the wrong people, kid. I've always given my heart to people who weren't good for me. I don't regret having you though, but...you know. I was always on the run...more or less. But I have you in my life now...and Storybrooke has become my home. Despite all the crazy shit that is going on here from time to time...I kinda like it here. And I want to make sure that I date the right person...that I spend my time with someone who deserves it...who is worth it. And who is serious about being with me...I don't want to get hurt again...fall in love and have my heart broken...again. Do you...do you understand that?"
Henry nodded eagerly, all the while stealing glances at his other mother to see that Regina was paying attention to every single word.
"So, how do you make sure you are finding that person? The right one I mean..." Henry asked quickly to keep the conversation going because he had some sort of a feeling that there was more to come.
Emma shrugged nonchalantly, "Well, I guess being the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming has its perks after all. If someone were really interested in dating me they had to go through them...you know...ask for my parents permission and all."
Henry raised his hand to high five Emma, congratulating her on her brilliant idea while Regina closed her eyes and counted to ten, biting her tongue in an attempt not to curse out loud.
Of course Emma would come up with something utterly idiotic – she did not have a doubt about that.
But never would she have thought that Emma would come up with something as idiotic as this.
No way in hell she would go and ask David for permission to date his daughter.
No way in hell at all.
Hell would freeze over before that happened in fact.
This was ridiculous.
She might have a bit of a crush on Emma.
God only knows how that had happened in the first place.
But it was nothing, just the tiniest of crushes.
Right?
But when she opened her eyes again and caught sight of the bright and happy smile on Emma's face it dawned on Regina that she might be doomed.
