Emma continued to stir her hot chocolate staring off into space. Ruby walked by her seat at the diner and lightly nudged her.

"Careful, you don't want people to think our sheriff isn't constantly on watch," Ruby said, smiling at her friend before walking away.

Emma straightened up in her seat and took a sip of her drink, trying not to look over the rim of the cup at Regina who was sitting at the counter with Henry.

She had been thinking about the mayor when Ruby interrupted her. In her daydream she had been sitting an empty diner with her hot chocolate when Regina had walked in wearing one of her power skirts with a button up blouse that always drew more attention to her breasts. Regina walked over to where Emma was sitting and sat down across from her, leaning over the table a bit so Emma had the perfect view.

"Regina," Emma said feeling exposed under Regina's piercing eyes.

"Sheriff Swan," Regina said. Her very voice exuded sex to Emma's ears. "I was wondering if you might assist me with something."

"W… what?"

"I've been reading a lot about the magic of this world. Tricks really, but I was interested in seeing how they work."

"And you need my help with that?"

"Why of course sheriff, you do after all have handcuffs don't you."

"Um," Emma gulped. "Yes."

"Very good. Why don't you come to my place tonight after Henry is in bed?"

"Ok." Emma wasn't sure her brain was able to do anything at this point but agree to whatever Regina wanted.

"I will see you then," Regina said standing up. She was about to walk away when Emma stopped her.

"Just out of curiosity um are you going to be in the handcuffs? Like trying to escape from them Houdini style?"

Regina laughed. She moved so she was standing beside Emma and she leaned over and whispered. "Of course not. You will be the one in the handcuffs. The idea will be to see if you want to escape from them, not if you can. And believe me sheriff; I can be quite captivating when I want to be."

Emma snapped out of her stupor once again and realized the real Regina and Henry were getting up to leave. They had to pass by her to get to the door and Henry said goodbye to her.

"Have a good day kid. You too Madame Mayor."

"Thank you sheriff," Regina said. "By the way I was wondering if we could talk later. I have a project I thought you might be able to assist me with."

Emma openly stared at her. "Um what would that be?"

"I was hoping you could get me a breakdown of the crime over the past six months so I can discuss with the public safety committee if we need to reallocate resources."

"Oh," Emma said. "Of course."

"Just get it to me when you can."

"Will do."

They left and Emma felt like a complete idiot. For a moment there she thought Regina might have been able to read her rather dirty mind.

She finished up her drink and went to work. When she was done for the day she went out to her car. As she got in she noticed something sitting on her passenger side seat. It was a book. She picked it up. It was a book about magic tricks. There was a bookmark in it and where she opened it, there was a write up about Houdini and one of his handcuff tricks.

"No way," she said. She put the book back on the seat and that is when she noticed what had been lying under the book – a pair of handcuffs.

She started the car, wondering how late it would be before Henry went to bed.