Day Two
Shovel
Regina sighed when she saw the pile of snow on her car. She was half tempted to declare the town closed for the day, knowing that Henry would be home from school. She was the mayor and once evil queen, after all. Instead she put on her gloves, and went towards her garage for a shovel, her mind going back to one of the last times she was in there. She smirked at the caught look on Emma Swan's face as she found what she was looking for and got to work. She would be a little late, but she was sure everyone would understand. She wouldn't have been surprised if most of her staff stayed home, nor would she blame them, but she had nothing else to do, and after Neverland, there wasn't much else to do.
Regina had finished shoveling the street next to the driver's side, where the plow trucks had piled up a lot of the snow, when she heard the sound of a car. She ignored it, thinking to herself that she would have to have a talk with Baby Bear later about that, though she knew he was just doing his job. "Need a hand?" Regina didn't look up.
"You know your way around my home and garage by now, Sheriff. At least now you'll make yourself useful instead of destructive," Regina said with a grunt as she heaved another large shovel full of snow and tossed it aside. There was no bite to her words this time, despite the history between them in that regard. Emma watched the mayor work, musing to herself that the sight of the mayor hefting such a heavy shovel and doing such a laborious task was too surreal, but she had seen what this woman could do. She did parked the Sheriff car in the middle of the street, knowing that there were no other cars coming either way for a while. She grabbed another shovel, a smaller one she suspected was only used in the garden, and then back to the squad car, where her well used window scraper was on the passenger seat.
Together the two women worked, Emma scraping off the windows and sweeping snow onto parts of the sidewalk Regina hadn't shoveled yet, and within twenty minutes, the task was done. Emma took both shovels as Regina turned on her Mercedes and let it warm up.
"Thank you," Regina said.
"I'll go put these away."
"Thank you," Regina said again. "I'm already late, so make sure the garage is locked after you. I don't have anything in there worth stealing, but there are still critters." Emma nodded and watched as Regina maneuvered the Mercedes past the squad car and towards town hall.
When Regina returned home after a quiet day at the office, catching up on all that she had missed when she was away and the idiots ran the town, she came home to find that the entire sidewalk around and leading up to her porch was clear of snow. Her face softened, and though none of the snow melted that night, her heart did, slightly.