Henry left Emma in the capable hands of his mother. He knew that she would take care of her, even if her injury was her own fault. Henry knew that his mother could have easily healed her hand with magic but, with Olivia here she didn't. Plus he was sure that she wanted Emma to suffer a little.
When he and Olivia arrived at the town square Henry was in complete shock. The square looked beautiful. Marco and August were finishing up the final pieces of the dance floor they had laid out. He looked up from the dance floor and saw a beautiful wooden table that sat up risers for his mothers to sit on. There were tables all surrounding the dance floor. They all had beautiful crystal vases in the middle filled with gorgeous purple orchids, which were Regina's favorite and sky blue lilies which were Emma's favorite. All of these vases were also wrapped in white fairy lights. Mary Margaret and Ruby were busy setting these up.
"Why don't you go over and help Mary Margaret and Ruby?" Henry said to Olivia. "I'm gonna see if Marco needs any help."
"Okay" Olivia said nervously.
"You'll be fine" Henry laughed. "If you can handle my moms, Mary Margaret and Ruby will be a cake walk."
"Okay" she said and smiled at him, giving him a small peck before she headed over towards them.
Henry looked around and couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't believe that this little town that once held so much contempt for his mother was now spending and entire day setting up and planning a party for her. He broke himself out of his daze and saw Marco struggling to get the table up onto the risers.
Henry ran over to the pair.
"Hey Marco let me get that" Henry said and grabbed the table end from Marco.
"Henry my boy, thank you" Marco said and patted Henry on the back. They got the table on the risers and August walked over to Henry and gave him a hug.
"Hey kid! How you doing" August said and released him.
"Doing pretty good thanks!" Henry said and smiled.
"Saw that girl you came with. She's pretty, eh?" Marco said and nudged Henry.
"Yea that's my girlfriend Olivia" Henry said and blushed.
All three men shared a laugh.
"Well treat her right Henry" Marco said and smiled at August.
"Did you guys need any help?" Henry asked.
"Actually we're pretty much done" August said. "But I think your grandfather might need some help."
Henry looked over and saw his grandfather standing on a ladder stringing lights across the dance floor, attaching them to the telephone pole. He walked over to help.
Olivia was a very outgoing person. So why was she having such a hard time getting up the courage to talk to the people in this town. That's when she realized that her feelings for Henry were deeper than she thought. Watching Henry interact with his mothers and these people she realized how much all of them meant to Henry. She didn't want to mess up anything with any of them, that's where her nerves come from. But Henry said it; if she could handle his mothers she could handle these two women.
She walked up the pixie haired woman that she remembered from earlier that morning.
"Hi" she said and drew attention to herself.
"Hey Olivia" Mary Margaret said and wrapped her into a big hug. Olivia giggled.
"This is Ruby" Mary Margaret said and gestured to Ruby.
"Oh yea I met you the other day at the diner" Olivia said and smiled at the woman.
"Oh yea! Henry's girl" Ruby said and embraced her.
"I like the sound of that" Olivia said and Mary Margaret put her hand on her heart, already in love with this beautiful girl.
"I came over to see if I could help" Olivia said.
"Oh that would be great" Mary Margaret said. "Most of the center pieces are already there, we just need to add the lights and the flowers to the table. We just have to make sure they all light up and that they're not tangled."
"Okay" Olivia said and grabbed a string of lights with Mary Margaret.
"So how long have you and Henry been together?" Mary Margaret asked Olivia as they strung the lights on the table.
"Almost 4 months" Olivia said and blushed.
"Aww young love" Ruby said as she arranged the flowers in the vases.
Olivia blushed. "I really like Henry and just seeing him here among all of you makes me like him more. He's just such a kind person, to everyone."
"Well everyone in town just adores Henry" Ruby said.
"We all watched him grow up. So I guess we all feel kind of responsible for the way he turned out" Mary Margaret said and smiled at Olivia.
"Well at least your relationship with Henry is starting out better than his first did" Ruby said and Mary Margaret laughed.
Olivia laughed. "What happened?"
"When Henry had a crush on his first girlfriend Grace he was about what 13?" Mary Margaret asked and continued after Ruby nodded her head.
"He snuck into Mr. French's backyard. Mr. French is the town florist" she said to Olivia to clear up. "He had asked Emma for dating advice and she told him that flowers were always a nice thing to get girls. So he decided that he wanted to get Grace some flowers. So he climbed the fence behind Mr. French's shop and started picking flowers. But then he remembered how much Regina liked cherry blossoms and figured that Grace would too. So he climbed the cherry blossom tree looking for the best ones. Well he lost his footing and fell out of the tree. Well the way he landed on his arm he broke it, pretty badly too. I remember the bone was sticking out. He started crying and finally Mr. French's daughter Belle heard him crying and called his mothers" Mary Margaret laughed at this part and looked over to Ruby.
"Well the shit hit the fan after that" Ruby said.
"See they were newly married at this point, so they were still in the honeymoon portion of the marriage" Mary Margaret said.
"You mean they were mushier than they are now?" Olivia said in disbelief.
"Umm I don't know if mushier is the word for it" Ruby said and laughed out loud at Mary Margaret's blush.
"I don't want to say mushier, cause that's not the word for it….it's umm… I don't know how to say it" Mary Margaret said.
"They fucked all the time" Ruby blurted out.
"RUBY!" Mary Margaret yelled and Olivia laughed.
"It's true! They couldn't keep their hands off each other! If Emma wasn't the sheriff she would have arrested herself for public indecency at least 10 times!" Ruby said.
"We would find them in alleyways making out. At the sheriff station in the cell, in the mayor's office. I caught them behind the diner at least twice" Ruby finished.
Olivia just laughed out loud, knowing this information would have killed her boyfriend.
"Alright I am done talking about Regina and Emma's sex life. I want to get back to my story" Mary Margaret said giving a very pointed look at Ruby. Ruby just giggled.
"Anyway, Regina got there first and couldn't deal with her little boy on the ground with his arm bone sticking out so she just started crying. When Emma got there shortly after she saw Regina just crying and went to hug her until she saw Henry" Mary Margaret said.
"And of course Emma being Emma; the first words out of her mouth when she saw Henry were 'holy shit that's gross'" Ruby said and laughed.
"Which of course infuriated Regina" Mary Margaret said. "She yelled at Emma and told her to take care of their son. So Emma leaned down and saw Henry's arm and asked him why he climbed the tree. And then Henry said he was just taking her advice and getting flowers for Grace" Mary Margaret said.
"And that made Regina more mad" Ruby interjected.
"So Regina yelled at Emma for telling Henry to climb the tree, and Emma said she just told him to get flowers not climb a tree and they ended up fighting behind Mr. French's shop. They fought until Emma got so mad she scooped up Henry and stormed off to the hospital with Henry in her arms, and left Regina behind" Mary Margaret said and laughed.
Ruby was laughing now too. "Regina had walked to Mr. French's shop from her office but Emma drove. So since they had driven to work together that day, Regina had to walk to the hospital, which is nowhere near the flower shop" Ruby stated and they both were in hysterics.
"And then it started raining!" Mary Margaret said. "Regina got to the hospital soaked to the bone and mad as a hornet!"
"Victor came home that night and I had never seen him more terrified" Ruby said between laughs.
"Let's just say the honeymoon phase went on hiatus after that" Mary Margaret said.
"Emma slept on the couch for about a week and a half after that stunt" Ruby said. "She would come into the diner every morning and crack her back and the most disgusting sounds came out of it because of that damn couch."
Ruby continued, "The morning she came in and didn't crack her back was a good day. She had this huge shit eating grin on her face, you've probably seen it" Ruby said and smiled at Olivia. Olivia nodded.
"Henry's looks just like hers" Olivia said.
"Like mother, like son" Mary Margaret said.
"But that was the morning I knew it was over and Emma would stop being a major buzzkill. You know when those two are fighting because they both totally suck when they aren't getting any" Ruby said.
"I need to walk away from you" Mary Margaret said and walked away from the two women laughing hysterically.
"M&M come on!" Ruby yelled. "Come back!" Olivia continued just laughing at the antics of the two women.
Henry looked over to where Olivia was and saw the huge grin across her face. Ruby leaned down to say something to her which only made her laugh harder. Mary Margaret finally walked back over to the two women and they all shared a laugh. Bringing Olivia here was a good idea. She fit in perfectly in his little story book town. He knew after this trip there is no way he was ever letting this girl go.
Back at the manor Emma and Regina were sitting out in the garden on the giant lounge. Regina's head was rested on Emma's chest, her head tucked neatly under Emma's chin. Emma was running her fingers through Regina's hair with her good hand, while Regina traced circles on Emma's bare stomach where her tank top had ridden up.
"I wish we could help with the set up" Emma said.
"Me too. I feel useless, but your mother forbade us to go into the town square" Regina said and leaned up on her forearm to look at her wife.
"I know" Emma said and cupped her wife's cheek in her good hand. "I can't believe it's been 10 years."
"I know" Regina said and leaned into Emma's touch and kissed her palm.
"I can tell you one thing though" Emma said and Regina laughed, giving Emma that smile that she knew was reserved just for her.
"I love you as much, if not more than I did 10 years ago" Emma said and smiled at her wife.
"I love you too Em. So much sometimes I feel like I don't deserve you" Regina said and linked her hand with Emma's and placed it on Emma's stomach.
"Everyone has demons Regina. Those demons made you who you are and brought us together and you know what babe, I wouldn't want any other life. I love everything about you. Nothing will ever change that" Emma said and pulled her wife to her.
"You're incredible Emma Swan- Mills" Regina whispered against her wife's lips.
"Yea my wife tells me that all the time" Emma said and laughed closing the distance between their mouths.
Regina quickly deepened the kiss, moving to straddle Emma's hips and pulled her up into a sitting position so they could be even closer. She cupped Emma's face and nipped at her bottom lip. Emma ran her hands up Regina's bare thighs and Regina giggled.
"What?" Emma asked breathlessly.
"The material of your cast tickled my leg" she said against Emma's mouth.
Emma just laughed and closed the distance between their mouths again. Emma wrapped her arms around Regina's waist and then ran them up her back as Regina moved her hands down to grip Emma's biceps.
Emma brought her hands up to cup Regina's face but forgetting about her cast she totally clocked Regina in the face.
Regina fell off Emma's lap, her hand flying up to her face.
"Oh my God baby! I'm so sorry I forgot about this stupid fucking cast" Emma said collecting Regina into her arms and situating her back into her original position across her lap so Emma could look at the damage.
"Dear God! What the fuck is that thing made of? Cinder block? Dammit!" Regina said.
It took a couple of minutes for Regina to calm down enough to channel her magic to heal herself.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to" Emma said and kissed the spot right beside Regina's eye which would have had a horrible black and blue mark had she not healed it.
"I know. Can you just be a little gentler next time?" Regina asked and Emma nodded.
"I wish you could have just healed my hand" Emma said sad.
"I do too, but we can't freak out Olivia. She heard me yell at you for punching the wall so she would have known something was up when you didn't have a scratch on you" Regina said.
"I know" Emma said and pouted. "Still sucks."
Regina couldn't handle Emma's pout. It was still the cutest thing she had ever seen in the world. She leaned down and sucked Emma's protruding lip into her mouth. Then pulled back and placed their foreheads together.
"When Olivia leaves I'll heal your hand okay baby?" Regina said and ran her hand through Emma's long blonde hair.
"Okay" Emma said and looked at her hand. "I like her" she said and looked up at Regina.
"I like her too" Regina said and smiled at Emma. "She seems like a good girl for Henry."
"She reminds me of you" Emma said.
"What?" Regina said.
"Yea" Emma continued, "She's polite and really poised like you. I think that's why Henry likes her" Emma said.
Regina smiled.
"He loves you so much that he wanted a woman like his mother. Can't blame him really, she's gorgeous like you too" Emma said.
"Oh really?" Regina said and raised her eyebrow.
"Yea, but nothing beats the original babe" Emma said and wrapped her arms around Regina's waist and flipped them over so she was on top.
The only thing that could be heard for the rest of the afternoon from the Swan-Mills back yard was laughing and the occasional outburst of pain when Emma hit either Regina or herself with her cast.