Disclaimer: Same thing, I don't own Once Upon a Time... Yet!

She was on the road to redemption. This was a good thing because doing the 'good stuff' and could make Henry proud for once and in the other hand occupy her free time as she had nothing to do with it. She just hoped to not lose all her hard owned respect during this. Henry's sake was all she had to think about to finally put together some strength and get out of her bed. Happy thoughts! That's what she needed to stand the whole day working at Granny's Diner.

The diner opened early 'cause the townsfolk went to there so they could grab some caffeine and star their day. And that was why Regina had to get up early... Like the earliest she had got up in years, it was five in the morning and the former mayor started to prepare herself for the day. The one good thing about working on that place was that she could wear her 'normal' clothes, one of her dress would do it so she grabbed a grey one, simple and classy.

With all her glory Regina managed to get out of her house and get to Granny's. In the parking lot where she'd park her Mercedes was a truck that seemed to be finishing discharging some food supplies, nothing out off the ordinary. She got to the entrance direction of her new 'work' place when suddenly all she heard was a big noise. In the meantime the man that was discharging got out of balance and couldn't do anything to avoid the milk bags he was holding in a box to fall and burst into the black Mercedes hood making it a bit whiter than it should be.

Regina stood there for a moment trying the 'happy thought' thing as she turned to take a look at what happened and well... It was a fiasco.

"MY CAR! MY. BEAUTIFUL. CLEANED. CAR." The screams echoed in the streets of the town and some few people that were walking through the nearby stopped staring at what just happened while Ruby and Granny ran off the doors of the diner.

One minute the former queen was staring at the... Incident? Yeah, let's call it that... The other she was grabbing the man who seemed responsible for ruining her car. And what was leftover of her mood.

"You have ten seconds to give me a reason not to put you into eternal sleep right now." Her voice was contained but her eyes said how furious she really was. The poor man didn't knew what to do. Like most of town he feared the witch even if rumor had that she was powerless. All he could feel in that moment beside the fear for the woman was the hot liquid going through between his legs.

"Regina, just calm down. Geez... You're gonna kill him with your death glare." Ruby tried to stop her from doing anything that would make her pay later and not to laugh at the man's condition but Regina seemed not to give a damn for anything, the only thing she did was press more the man's shirt in her hands. Ruby got to her serious being as the situation seemed to request. "Come on! You don't want to do anything you'll regret later, so let him go. He'll stay and... Uhm... Clean the car while we are inside the diner... Right?" Ruby asked waiting for the man to confirm and all she got was a nervous node.

"You better clean and make it shine as new, do you understand?" The former witch said in a calming voice that only made the man more afraid. Releasing him Regina walked to the diner with Ruby following her and dispersing the curious people that stopped to watch the scene. The poor guy just stood with his wet pants in the middle of the parking lot trying to put himself together. Only trying.

Inside the dinner the Lucas women tried not to talk about the incident outside as they had to put everything in order to open for the busy Monday morning. Ruby explained the other brunette what she'd be doing for the day.

"Well let me tell you how this is going to work... Granny said very specifically to not let you into anything related to cooking-" Ruby was interrupted by Regina's annoyed face. "Don't make that face you know why... Anyways... So that makes you our new attendant. You don't have to go attend the tables just stay here at the counter passing me the orders when they're ready, making the changes and eventually taking the orders of the people who sit here." The look on the former mayor's face and a node said that she understood her tasks so Ruby went inside a door which she deduced was their kitchen and when she came back she had a beyond ridiculous pink waist apron in her hands and a look that pretty much said 'yes-you're-wearing-it'. The other brunette tried to say how ridiculously out of question this was but Ruby didn't seem to care and all the former witch had left to do was take the apron with her 'I-am-disgusted' face and tie it to her waist.

Was about nine in the morning and Regina was in an argument with Leroy. He sat at the balcony and she was attending there, as she served his order of coffee it all began because his distrust being so big he wanted her to drink before him. Their fight was getting worse when Emma entered the place. She looked at the obvious angry glares from both Leroy and Regina and made her 'what-the-hell' face to Ruby. As she saw Emma the waitress went at her direction and explained the situation.

So the blonde decided to walk closer to the fight and all she hard was the ending of Leroy's sentence. "... I'll not drink it if you won't! How will I know you didn't poisoned it?!" Regina was ready to respond when the sheriff made her presence known.

"Then I'll drink it if you won't..." With that she just took the cup and drank. "Oh, and you're paying? Thanks for the coffee buddy." She said with a smile looking at a annoyed Leroy who simply went out to sit at one of the tables. When Emma stared at Regina the brunette a look as annoyed as Leroy's. "What?"

"For someone not comfortable being the hero you seem to step into many fights that do not concern you, Miss Swan. I had it over control and I did not need your help." Regina made her disapproval explicit but Emma didn't regret anything.

"Oh, yeah! That's right. You didn't need me 'cause you're the powerful Evil Queen- Oh wait there, you don't have powers, kingdom and are trying to redeem yourself... I wonder where that put us..." Emma said with sarcasm. "Why do you always have to make a fuss about someone trying to help?"

"Because I didn't need any help, so next time you jump into someone else's business just try to know if they require your assistance, dear." Regina said and gave her politician false smile in the end. With that Emma went away to sit somewhere.

Ruby saw when the blonde took a sit and went to her table. They hadn't spoken about the Saturday subject yet so there was her chance. "Hello." She said as someone that just intended to say 'hi'.

As Emma looked at her she already knew what was coming. "Uhm... Hi."

"So... How's everything going?" The brunette said as she joined the other woman and sat. Emma laughed at the waitress attempt to begin a conversation politely before she asked the juicy. She always did that.

"It's fine... But I think would be better if you just ask your question. Just saying..."

"Okay!" Ruby said anxious and thinking about how she could formulate her question. "So... Is there something I should know about you and Regina?" She said in a low voice so that only Emma could hear.

"No... I think you already know pretty much all there's to be known. We can't stand each other most of the time and we share a son..."

"'You can't stand each other'? Ok, so you and Regina happened to be laughing together Saturday because you 'can't stand each other'?"

"And that's why I said 'most of the time'." Emma said as if she was explaining something to a child.

"That doesn't apply to the 'happy laughing' you had going on Saturday AND she was wearing your clothes."

"We had a mud issue -I trust you heard of it- and I lent her some clothes of mine I had at the station... And... The laughing thing, well Henr-"

"We both know that this is not about Henry." Ruby said cutting her. "I'll just spare you from make that excuse. I want you to know that I'm here whenever you need me to talk or anything." In the end of her sentence Ruby stood and left not allowing the sheriff to speak. Emma stayed there for some minutes more trying to figure out what her friend meant but she couldn't so she simply decided to leave and get some work done.

At her break Regina went to check her car status and as she hoped her Mercedes Beauty was bright as always and her ego was renewed for the knowledge that she still capable of making grown-up people pee in fear. Till the end of their day Ruby tried many times to start a conversation with Regina but the attempts failed as they changed a couple of sentences and ran out of things to say or Ruby had a monologue and Regina rudely interrupted her saying 'Miss Lucas, we're not here to engage on any kind of friendly relation'. All the time the former queen had Emma's words in her mind, she tried to pretend that she didn't care but she knew it was bullshit.

Regina did everything she could to make a good job helping at the diner even Granny had to admit it.

It was past three and they just had a couple of clients to attend. The Lucas widow had left to some grocery shopping leaving the two brunettes alone in charge of the establishment. Regina's shift was about to end and Ruby was just sitting by the balcony waiting to be called when they heard someone coming at the door and both women turned to look.

Emma went to get Henry on the bus stop and once more he complained saying he could go home alone.

So she just replied before he started making his points to why she should let him do it. "Good 'cause we're not going home. I'm taking you to grab a snack at Granny's before... And put some sugar in our systems!" Henry was immediately happy and they high-fived before making their way heading to the diner.

When mother and son walked in two pairs of eyes looked at each other with surprise. Henry turned to Emma with a questioning expression. "The community service thing." That was everything the sheriff said and the boy understood why his other mother was here.

Regina didn't expect her son to come and before she could speak something he was heading to the counter with a smile. "Hi, mom! I didn't know you were going to be here." He said obviously happy to see his mom. He really missed her, after all she took care of him for ten years and it would require a long amount of time to get used to not having her most of the time and even if he got used someday he'd still miss her.

"Hello, sweetie. I wasn't expecting you to come" She said smiling her true smile that only he could get from her.

"Emma said we could have some sugar in our systems." When the boy's words were out Emma was ready to die but when she had the courage to look at the brunette her glare said nothing but 'okay' which was weird as hell. As the sheriff liked very much to be alive and healthy she didn't said anything about it.

"What should I get you two beyond sugar?" Regina said surprisingly politely. Beside the good mood of the former mayor Emma knew she did not forgot about their early quick argument.

When they were going to start ordering Ruby interrupted their conversation. "Regina, your shift's going to be over in like fifteen minutes, so why don't you go off already and take a snack with them?" She said politely.

Looking at Henry's eyes she found him pleading her so she took the chance. "I suppose that's okay. Thank you, Miss Lucas." With the work day over she went to take off the apron as Emma faces the item in the brunette's waist she could not handle her laugh. She was on point of cry when Regina had already take the damn thing off and stood by her side. When the blonde noticed she stopped laughing right away and heard words that said she'd regret her actions. "I'll make you pay for it." The voice Regina used was so calm it made her almost panic but then she noticed that the woman was really close to her as she whispered her threat words in her ear. Emma just took a breath of relief while the other woman walked out heading to table where Henry was sitting and Ruby giggled of the scene.