Chapter 4

| Friday - Training Field at FH |

Everyone is sitting at the bleachers chatting amongst themselves as they wait for Gold.

Snow pulls out some black arrows, "Look what David made me." She hands an arrow to Emma. The craftsmanship was incredible. The arrow is sharp and deadly, and the stem has these sort of swirled spikes coming out from the sides.

"Wow these are fantastic, I can't believe he made these!" Emma turns the arrow in her hands a couple more times and gives it back to Snow.

"I know, he's pretty amazing isn't he?" She blushes.

Emma smiles, "Yes. You guys are so cute."

Snow giggles as Gold approaches and clears his throat.

"Settle down everyone. We are done fighting dummies. Today we are going to fight fake vampires." He smirks and swirls his hand in the air. Three figures with red eyes form behind him.

"These vamps can hurt you like a real vampire, so fight well. The only things they can't do are bite you and kill you. If you are struggling, which you better not be, but if you are, they will stop fighting automatically. Don't let me see you fail because if you can't fight them, how will you fight ones who can actually kill you?"

Everyone seems quite pleased with this new method of training. Why hadn't Gold thought of this years ago?

"Snow, Ruby, and Tink, you three are up first."

They make their way to the field as the vampires draw back to the opposite end. Gold waves his hand and the vampires start charging forward.

Snow stays back and climbs a tree, drawing an arrow and waiting for the perfect moment. Ruby's hood has fallen to her feet and her transformation is now complete. Tink pulls out her dagger which has her wand inside of it so that she can use her magic at the same time.

The vamps are fast so Snow can't get a direct hit through the heart, she fires an arrow which sinks into one of their thighs. The vampire hisses in pain and slows down, Tink takes this opportunity to try and stab the vampire in the chest but is thrown back by another vampire. Emma and others around her get tense. She groans from the pain but gets back up quickly.

Ruby charges at the vampire who has an arrow in it's leg and tears an arm off. Then she goes for more limbs until the vampire is dead. Everyone at the bleachers cheers.

The vampire that attacked Tink is now up in the air, by the power of her wand. She roughly slams the vamp to the ground and it cries out in pain. As it's trying to catch its breath, Tink plunges her dagger into its heart. More cheering is heard from the audience.

The third vampire is nowhere to be found. The three look around but it's out of sight. Snow has a strange feeling and her eyes slowly move upwards. Staring back down at her is the third vamp. As soon as they make eye contact, it rushes downward. Snow yelps and fires an arrow up randomly, which hits it in the shoulder. Ruby and Tink turn to the sound of Snow's voice and end up seeing a vampire fall out of the tree. They both run as fast as they can only to stop suddenly when an arrow emerges from the tree right into its heart.

Tink smiles and pats Ruby's head. Snow hops out and pulls the arrows out of the vamp's body. Tink then puts the hood back over Ruby.

The three women high five each other and make their way back to Gold.

"Excellent job, and even better you each got a kill."

"That seemed...easier than I expected." Ruby admits.

"Oh trust me, it will get harder. That was just the first level. You really thought that was it?"

Ruby blushes, "Of course not."

"You three can stay out here or go get some food inside, it's up to you. Now, who's next?"

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| Saturday |

"Cereal or eggs today?" Emma asks Henry.

Henry looks up in thought, "Eggs!"

She smiles, "You got it kid."

She cooks the eggs as Henry sips on some orange juice at the table. "So you get to meet someone new today. How does that sound?"

"Are they nice?"

"So far, yes she's very nice. I think you'll like her."

"Okay, cool." He simply says. Emma takes that as a good sign. He finally stopped asking about Lily. Not that she could really blame him, Lily was involved in most of Henry's life. It was probably sad for him to have her go. It was sad for Emma too.

She finishes the eggs and dumps them onto two plates, licking her lips. Henry pours way too much syrup on his which causes Emma to cringe.

"You're nuts."

"Like you!" He sticks his tongue out at her.

Emma shrugs, "Touché."

He frowns, "What does that mean?"

"It means good point, I agree with what you said even though you meant it as an insult." She gives him a playful glare.

"Touché, touché, touché." Henry liked the way the word sounded and couldn't stop saying it which makes Emma laugh.

After dishes, she goes to her room to get dressed. She goes with a brown chiffon shirt, dark jeans, a brown belt and boots, and her blue leather jacket. She leaves in her natural curls and applies her usual makeup - very light.

She then heads to Henry's room to see how he's doing. He picked out a long-sleeved green shirt, light jeans, and he favorite tennis shoes.

He gives her a thumbs up in question to which she replies: "Mission complete soldier. We are ready to depart."

"Sir yes sir!" He tries to act as serious as Emma but fails when he gives her a salute. She pats his back and they head to Granny's diner to meet with Regina.

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Regina sits at the bar when she hears another person enter the diner, she turns around and sees it's Emma. But she isn't alone.

Emma smiles "Hello, uh I hope you don't mind but I brought my son."

"I don't mind at all." Regina says nonchalantly.

Emma turns around and faces Henry, bending slightly to talk to him. Regina's eyes slowly drift down and stop at her ass. She licks her lips subconsciously, those jeans hug her curves in all the right places.

"This is Regina, you want to tell her your name?" Henry gives her a small nod and walks right in front of Regina.

"I'm Henry! I'm four!" He says proudly.

Regina couldn't help but grin at the boy, he was so adorable. "Hi, Henry. It's very nice to meet you."

"You too! You're very pretty." He says seriously.

Regina's smile grows, "Why thank you Henry, that's so sweet of you to say."

Then she turns to Emma, "You taught him very well manners."

"He's a smart kid and he just says what's true." She winks at the brunette and grabs Henry's hand. Regina freezes, did she imply what I think she implied? Her cheeks get warm.

She feels a little hand grab her own, "Come on!" She looks down at Henry's hand and tightens her own around it with happiness all over her face.

"So first, I think-" Emma starts.

"Swing me! Swing me!" Henry interrupts.

Emma looks to Regina who gives her a shrug. Then they both start swinging Henry as they walk which causes loud laughter to escape from the boy's mouth.

After several minutes, Emma says, "Alright kid, give us a break for a sec okay?"

He pouts, "Oh okay." She hands him her phone to play some games so that he wouldn't stay upset.

They walk in silence for a bit, Regina clears her throat, "What were you trying to say earlier?"

"Oh yeah. Well I was going to say that I think we should start with the main and best parts of Storybrooke. Then for the last place, we can do something that you specifically would enjoy. So, what do you like to do, or eat, or just anything?"

Regina is amazed at how considerate Emma is. She wasn't used to people being that way towards her, before and after the change. It really warmed her heart.

"I…" She couldn't tell her about her eating habits but she could tell her about the one thing she really loves doing. "I love to draw. I've loved it for as long as I can remember, it brings me comfort when I'm not feeling so...comfortable."

"Drawing, huh? I would love to see some of your work, if that's okay."

"I'd be happy to show you some." She smiles and it's real. She really did want to share her work with Emma. Something about her...she just thinks the blonde would actually care. And that's a nice feeling.

Emma returns her smile, "Cool, I'm looking forward to it. Now we don't really have a drawing class thing but Storybrooke does have a small art gallery."

"That sounds like a lovely idea." And so they were off.

Emma was a pretty good tour guide. Regina learned everything she needed to know about the town - the basic necessity stores, fun hangouts like bowling and skating, the library, the vintage coffee shop, the hospital (not that Regina would actually need that), and a place to go drinking called The Rabbit Hole.

Regina finds herself wondering what it would be like to drink with Emma. Alcohol doesn't affect vampires like it affects humans. That means that Regina cannot get drunk. So basically she would just watch Emma get drunk. It would be interesting, to say the least.

The three of them finally arrive at the last stop: Immerse.

They were all looking at this painting of a ballerina dancing in a flower field when Regina says, "Thank you for paying. You didn't have to do that, though."

"Oh it's no problem at all! Besides my job pays well, so I love spoiling people."

Regina chuckles but then remembers the initial purpose of all this. "So where do you work? Maybe I want to spoil people too."

Henry grabs their hands and pulls them to the next painting while saying, "Over here!"

Emma has been asked this many times, so she knows how to respond. The first couple times though, she was pretty nervous. "I work at FH, it's run by the government." She hopes the brunette would stop at that. She doesn't.

"So what exactly do you do?"

Emma fiddles with her ring. She decided that since the Shadow Bloods are so strong, she would want to be on her guard at all times. Especially since they haven't attacked yet. She couldn't understand why they were taking things so slow. So because of that, she kept the ring on. Maybe some would be roaming the town, then she could follow them and see what they're up to. So far though, she hasn't seen any.

"Uh we...well actually this is awkward but we aren't really suppose to say. It's kind of classified. Sorry." She says sincerely.

Damn it, I shouldn't have asked so soon. She doesn't trust me yet, Regina thinks to herself. Obviously she wasn't going to flat out tell a "mortal" that she hunt vampires. But she was hoping at least for a little bit of anything. She plasters a smile on her face, "That's quite alright, I understand."

They continue on to a sculpture, and Henry laughs at it's mad facial expression. "She looks like you, momma!"

Emma glares, "Hey! I don't look like that!"

Regina stifles a laugh. "You do right now!" Regina's response cause Henry to giggle even more.

"Rude! Why did you guys decide to pick me to gang up on?" She pouts.

Regina holds her hands up, "Hey I was just following the kid. And now, I'm glad I did." She taps Emma's bottom lip with her finger and pulls Henry to another painting. Emma blushes and follows them.

They are finally at the last piece of work which is right up Regina's ally. It's a sketch instead of a painting that shows the four seasons. Regina is deeply concentrated as she looks at all the delicate details so when she reaches for Henry's hand, she actually grabs Emma's. She thought the boy was still between them. But of course, he is on the other side of Emma.

She quickly pulls her hand away with a blush creeping on her cheeks, "Oh, sorry…"

Emma smiles and grabs her hand, "No, it's alright."

Regina wasn't sure what was going on, all she knew was that she didn't want to stop holding the blonde's hand. She oddly felt comfort from Emma. Which was absolutely ludicrous considering Emma hunts her kind. Oh god, what was she thinking? Why was she going along with this? She's suppose to hate her yet she just couldn't.

The thought scared her and eventually, she couldn't take it anymore. Halfway back to Granny's she finally released her hand and dug around in her purse for chapstick. Luckily, the blonde didn't think anything of it.

They stop outside the diner doors. By this time, Henry has fallen asleep in Emma's arms.

Regina starts, "Well thank for the adventurous day. It was more fun than I expected."

Emma acts offended, "Did you think I, Emma Swan, would make this boring?" Ah so that's her last name. The brunette thinks, and then remembers Emma asked her a question.

"No!" She answer too frantically and then clears her throat, "No, it's just I'm not much of a people person honestly."

Emma's brows raise. "Really? You were a delight today, and Henry would agree too. He took quite a liking to you." Emma grins because if Henry likes her, then she knows this is someone who she could maybe trust...eventually.

"Yeah? That's...good to know. Normally I'm not so open but with you guys, it was easy." She frowns slightly. "I'm not sure why."

"Probably the kid, he has this way of doing that to people. He's just so full of energy and life, so how could you not, you know?"

Regina lets out a soft chuckle, "Oh I do for sure. Well Emma, I must be going now. Thank you again, I really enjoyed myself."

"Of course. Goodnight Regina."

"Goodnight." She says with a smile. The two women part ways, feeling things they both knew they shouldn't be feeling.

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