"You're a mystery to me," Emma said to Regina.

"Why?" Regina asked, turning her head in surprise at Emma's words.

"I don't know," Emma shrugged. "You just seem so... you were just a stranger a couple of days ago and now you defended my son." Regina shrugged.

"I did what anyone would've done," She told Emma. "It was nothing."

"No it wasn't," Emma said, taking Regina's hand and squeezing it softly. "You know Henry thought that you were like a superhero from one of his comics after you stopped that guy yesterday."

"I'm really not a hero," Regina reassured her. "I just... if I had a kid, I'd like to think someone would have done the same."

"If only the world was full of people like you," Emma sighed. "When Henry was younger, he was walking home from school and someone mugged him. All he was doing was walking home from school. It was the first time I let him walk home by himself. He wasn't even down a dodgy alleyway or anything. Street full of people. Not one of them even tried to help him."

"That's awful," Regina gasped, not believing that anyone could be so horrible as to not help out a little kid that was being mugged. "What happened?"

"He was lucky," Emma shrugged. "Only got punched once. It was enough for Henry to do the smart thing and chuck his bag at them and ran."

"Who would punch a kid?" Regina wrinkled her nose in disgust.

"I don't know," Emma shrugged. "Even when I was on the streets and had to steal to survive, I only ever went for the rich ones. I would never have gone for a kid."

"A thief with honour," Regina smirked.

"Former thief," Emma reminded her and Regina laughed slightly. "Bes-" But Regina interrupted Emma.

"Emma can I ask you something?" She asked, plucking up the courage to do what she had wanted to know since the moment she had set eyes on her on the plane after nearly dropping her case on top of her.

"Sure," Emma shrugged. She didn't know why, but she trusted this women. Though they had only known each other for a few days, she felt like they had known each other for a lifetime.

"Do you like women?" Regina asked and Emma who stared at Regina intensely, wondering if Regina was talking about what she thought she was talking about.

"Why, do you?" She asked.

"I asked first," Regina arched her eyebrow.

"I've never been with a woman, but I guess I'll just have to see if I like it," Emma smirked at Regina and cupped her cheek before leaning in to kiss her. Emma's soft lips brushed against Regina's, softly at first but it grew more passionate before they broke off.

"So, do you like women?" Regina asked again, smiling at Emma's mischievous grin.

"I'm not sure," Emma shrugged. "I think I need another kiss to decide for certain."

"Of course," Regina laughed. "One kiss really isn't much to go on." She leaned in and their lips touched again. Henry, who was sitting with David across the beach, stared across at them.

"Are they kissing?" He asked, and David looked up and followed his gaze.

"I think so," He sounded slightly surprised.

"I knew it," Henry smiled triumphantly. "I knew they liked each other."

"How?" David asked. He knew that he didn't know Emma that well, but certainly hadn't been expecting this.

"No one else has ever made her smile as much as Regina," Henry shrugged, as if was stating the obvious.

"Has she ever been with anyone?" David asked curiously. He probably shouldn't be asking his grandson of all people, but he was just surprised. From what he had seen from Emma so far, she didn't seem like a particularly open person and Emma and Regina had only known each other for a few days.

"I don't think so," Henry wrinkled his nose thinking. "Maybe once, but he didn't want me around so they never got halfway through their first date."

"We did it!" An excited shout woke Henry from his sleep the next morning. He was about to tap his mum awake, when Regina grabbed his arm and put her finger to his lip. She quickly pulled him away from the sleeping woman.

"What's going on?" He asked, confused and Regina smiled evilly at him.

"They've fixed the radio," She told him. "And they've sent a message. We're going to be rescued." A beam broke across Henry's face.

"So why can't I wake mum?" He asked, wondering how the two things related.

"Oh you can," Regina shrugged. "I just thought that it'd be funny if we got some seaweed and covered her in it." Henry grinned mischievously up at her before offering her his hand. She took it smiling, happy that he seemed happy about her and Emma. She wasn't sure how any of it was going to work when they got back to the normalcy of their everyday lives, but she knew she wanted it to work. She had never wanted anything more in her life. She led him down the beach, laughing as they reached the sea shore and he kicked up some sea water at her.

"Argh!" Emma jerked awake at the smell and feel of seaweed on her face. "What the-" She began whilst Henry and Regina cracked up at her reaction. She sat up, seaweed sliding down her body. Henry high-fived Regina as Emma glared at the two of them. "Did you do this?" She asked, already knowing the answer.

"Yep," Henry laughed. "But guess what mum?" He said excitedly.

"What?" Emma smiled, pulling a piece of seaweed from her hair.

"We're going home!" He grinned. "The radio's working." A happy smile spread across Emma's face and she pulled Henry in for a hug.

Sorry it's been a while since I updated, I've got exams on at the moment so I'm really busy. My exams won't finish until the end of June, so the next one will probably be a while too, but after that I should be able to update more regularly.