Hi Ma. Do you wanna go to Granny's with us?

Yes, I would like that kid. Did you ask your mom already?

Yeah I asked her and she told me to ask you if you wanna come

Henry Mills was sitting in a booth at Granny's. He was there with his mom, waiting for his other mother to join them. It made him so happy that the two seemed to be… friends now and that he could spend time with both of them. That's why he had asked his mom if Emma could eat with them that day.

After he had made Emma sure that it was okay for her to come, Emma had agreed to join the two of them for dinner again. Henry saw his birth mother open the door of Granny's, and he and his mom greeted her. Henry noticed that his brunette mom's smile widened a bit when the blonde one entered the diner. Emma walked to them and was quickly followed by Ruby who handed her the menu.

The three of them ordered some food and Henry was overjoyed because his moms kept getting along so well. A few times he felt like he had really missed something important because they kept joking the way they never had before, and… wait. Was his mom blushing?

They were halfway through dessert when he decided to do an experiment and asked his mom if he could go to the bathroom. On the way there, he ran into Ruby.

"Hi, Henry. Everything alright?" the waitress asked as she tried to keep a pile of plates from falling down.

"Yeah, all good, just going to the bathroom," Henry answered. He couldn't get a thought out of his head.


Henry left, and Ruby furrowed her brow. She turned around to look at the former Queen and the Sheriff who were still talking in the booth, took a rag as an excuse to move around the restaurant, and made use of her wolf hearing.

"Come on, taste it!" Emma said as Regina shook her head and laughed. "Come on!"

Emma was holding a spoonful of ice cream in front of Regina. Regina rolled her eyes.

"Fine," she said finally, opened her mouth and brought her face closer to the spoon hovering in front of her.

Ruby couldn't believe her eyes. She had never seen the Queen like this. But there she was, licking the spoon Emma was holding. Wait, licking?

Ruby wasn't sure why she was so surprised in the first place. She had seen Emma obsess over Regina ever since she first came to Storybrooke, and Ruby could've sworn the obsession had gone both ways. But to see those two actually, well, flirting (that was probably the correct term for what was happening right in front of her), was another thing.

And now Emma was taking a piece of Regina's cake from her plate, and the brunette seemed to completely allow it and just kept smiling at Emma. Emma put the piece in her mouth and gave Regina a smug grin. The other woman laughed and shook her head.

Ruby moved to another table closer to the kitchen and saw Henry coming out of the bathroom, looking at his mothers. Ruby sighed. The situation must have been confusing for Henry. One day his mothers weren't talking, and the next they were playing romantic comedy right in front of him.

She moved behind the counter again, and instead of going back to his table, Henry sat on one of the stools. Ruby could feel he was going to ask something, and not too many seconds later, the boy opened his mouth.

"My moms act like grandma and grandpa," Henry said pensively.

Ruby couldn't hold back a laugh. "Don't let Regina hear that. I don't think your mom would like to be compared to Snow and David."

Henry's expression changed from thoughtful to surprised. "So wait, you think so too?" he exclaimed.

Ruby wasn't sure what was the appropriate thing to say to Henry. After a short quiet moment she decided to be as honest as she could with the kid.

"Yeah, it kinda looks like it, Henry."

Henry turned his head to see over his shoulder, and Ruby turned her gaze to the booth as well. Regina was smiling in a way one couldn't see all that often.

"Do you think my moms could be true loves?" Henry asked. Ruby stopped moving the plates and pondered her next answer.

"I'm not sure if I'd go that far, Henry. This world is different and true love doesn't exactly grow on trees."

"But you don't think it's impossible?" Henry asked, excitement now clear on his face. Ruby broke their eye contact and turned her gaze back to the booth where Regina was listening to Emma with a smile on her face.

"I don't see why it would be impossible," she said.

"That would be perfect," Henry said, grin breaking over his lips. Ruby smiled back at him and hoped she wasn't wrong. "Emma is the Savior, and the Queen should be saved by her as well! They completely balance each other out, Ruby! It could be from the book! It makes perfect sense."

"It would seem to…" Ruby tried to choose the next words carefully. She tried to be responsible and not give the boy too much hope, just in case things wouldn't work out. "Don't get too excited, though. True love is rare and we don't know anything for certain. Let your moms figure it out themselves."

Henry sighed. "Yeah, okay. Thanks, Ruby!" he said and hopped off the barstool. Ruby shook her head as she watched Henry walk back to the booth. Despite the possible thunderous reaction that could be expected from more than a few townspeople, she hoped he was right.


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