A/N: Enjoy!

Earlier...

The moment Prince Henry left Regina's palace a soft whoosh was heard and Rumple appeared next to the lifeless bodies of Queen Snow and King David. He put his fingertips together repeatedly and couldn't help but giggle, one of his evil squeaky giggles. When he told other Regina, as he called her in his head, that every savior needed a villain he hadn't expected her to actually kill anybody. This was beyond his wildest hopes.

Somehow he thought that his little hint might have opened other Regina's eyes about the true nature of her connection with Emma, clearly the brunette hadn't been that quick to apprehend or was it that she was too far in denial about her true feelings... Rumple didn't know and decided instantly that he didn't care. He was a free man and more importantly Emma, the savior, wasn't going to cause any troubles.

He waved his hands over the Charmings casting a preserving spell, he didn't want their bodies to decay any more than they had already done, which wasn't much fortunately. Rumple was happy, they were part of his plan. One he now had, thanks to other Regina. Although he pretended to not really care, he thought about this intriguing woman again and all the potential she had. He wondered again why she hadn't broken the spell Emma was under the traditional way, by kissing her, when there was clearly something going on between them. Why else would someone risk their life to save somebody, only when you loved or at least cared deeply for that person would you be willing to do that.

Kiss or no kiss, the result was satisfying. Since Regina was defeated and his son had died, he had lost all purpose until other Regina showed up. She was important he knew, she would accomplish something. What exactly was still unclear but it was something powerful! He had even started to think about resurrecting Neal. He knew magic couldn't bring back the dead, but since he had been successful at bottling True Love, another thing that was said to be something that couldn't be achieved by magic, he had hope. There were still a lot of things he didn't know about magic and all its potential. Maybe he could manage to time travel or visit a parallel universe and retrieve his son from that one... Either way there were a lot of things he could try and since he now possessed the very vessels of True Love the possibilities were endless.

Not wanting to waste another minute he magicked all of them back to his castle and started working on his new plans.

~~~oOo~~~

After successfully dropping off both women at the cabin, Robin was back at his camp which, he was glad to see, hadn't been destroyed by Prince Henry, yet. The angry young man was still looking through tents, scaring people in the process. Robin sighed, this was the very reason he didn't submit to any crown. They were all nice and good to you when you paid them taxes, certainly when you paid a lot of them but the moment things went awry they were breathing down your neck, treating you like a piece of shit.

He carefully made his way over to Prince Henry and addressed the young knight, "Prince Henry, maybe I can help you?" he said.

Henry turned gladly towards Robin and smiled tentatively, "You know where the Evil Queen is?"

"Well, no..." Robin began and Henry's smile faltered, "I don't believe the woman you are searching for is indeed the Evil Queen."

"What are you trying to say?" Prince Henry's voice was firm, all pleasantness was swiftly disappearing. Was this man for real, he had seen with his own eyes how the Evil Queen had threatened his family and killed his grandparents. Okay, maybe he hadn't literally seen her kill them but he had seen the result of her threats.

"Regina, the woman you refer to as Evil Queen, might not be the woman you take her for." Robin explained, though he didn't really know what was making him say this. He had talked to both woman and they hadn't really given him any reason to think of them as trustworthy. On the contrary... yet he was defending the brunette as if he knew her personally. "I briefly talked to her and she seemed kind and ..."

He was cut off when Henry erupted in loud, obnoxious laughter. It was clear the boy was forcing the sound out in a mocking way. "Kind! Ha ha ha haaa!" Instantly he stopped laughing and added in a very serious tone, "Don't make me laugh! You honestly want me to believe that that ... person had any kindness in her. You must be very dim!"

"I'm not... I just took the time to talk to her and from what I've seen your mother didn't seem to think she was evil either."

The words had barely left Robin's mouth when the back of Henry's hand connected with his cheek, hard! "That woman has abducted my mother! She would never willingly go with the killer of her parents! Don't ever try to tell me my mom chooses that over her own parents. Ever!"

Fire was shooting from his eyes by the end of his statement and Robin didn't dare to contradict the boy's words for fear of him hurting everyone else as well. Instead he rubbed his cheek defiantly and said, "Whatever you say, Prince Henry. You know her best after all."

"Damn right I do! Now, the fact that you spoke with her tells me you might know where she went and what she wanted."

"All she wanted was to go home... wherever home might be. For all I know she already got there."

"Home?" Henry was confused, he wondered what she could have meant because she had been home. She had killed his grandparents at her home...

"Home." Robin confirmed and shrugged.

But before they could say or do anything else, the earth began trembling and everyone tried to grab something or someone in their neighborhood in order to keep standing. Some succeeded, some ended on their hands and knees on the shaking ground. As soon as the trembling had come, it was gone again, leaving everyone a little dazed.

"That's new." Henry said, "I don't think we ever had an earthquake before."

"I wouldn't really know, but I haven't experienced any since I came here." Robin concurred.

They looked at each other questioningly a little longer before Henry decided to leave. To make sure he wouldn't happen upon the cabin by accident Robin steered Henry and his troops in the opposite direction.

~~~oOo~~~

Rumple was standing between a magically floating Snow and a magically floating David taking samples from their bodies, along with any piece of jewelry he encountered. He put everything in a little gold cauldron in which they seemed to melt together. Although melting wasn't really what they were doing, more like absorbing each other's energy and becoming more powerful. Whatever was going on it seemed to please Rumple as he squeaked louder with each newfound item on the bodies.

He had already tried a couple of things that would help him resurrect his son but he hadn't been successful, yet. He didn't despair though, he was only trying for a day and half which wasn't that long considering how long ago he had lost Bae. And even if he wouldn't be successful in his resurrection attempts the bodies before gave him plenty of other options for powerful potions and spells. Rumple was a happy man when suddenly the very ground on which he stood began trembling like it had never done before!

It only lasted for a moment, Rumple looked around him trying to figure out what could have made the earth tremble... Was it something he had done wrong? Because he was dealing with two powerful vessels, maybe he had been careless in his handling... Maybe he had been too focused on the wrong things... He quickly checked everything he had done so far and concluded he wasn't the cause. In fact nothing within this room could have been the cause. Which was strange to say the least because the only thing powerful enough to cause the trembling was... True Love!

Immediately he knew what had happened, other Regina had finally succeeded in kissing Emma. And whatever had kept them from doing just that was now broken, they might not realize it but they had inadvertently changed something! Foolish women! This was way too soon, he focused on the origin of the trembling and magicked himself to the very place.

~~~oOo~~~

Rumple had come and gone and both Regina and Emma were stupefied, neither woman had the slightest idea what the evil imp was on about. All they had done was share a kiss. True, they both had to admit it was probably the best kiss they had ever experienced no matter how insignificant it had seemed. It felt different, it felt like everything was right, it felt like... love.

Emma looked at Regina and raised her shoulders silently telling her she had no clue what had just happened or what they could have done. Regina reacted in an equal manner.

"Is it me... or is this version of Rumple even crazier than ours?" the blonde asked and chuckled a bit.

Regina couldn't help but chuckle also, the thought had crossed her mind more than once as well. "Definitely."

"What was he on about?"

"Hell if I know..." the brunette replied. "I don't think we were doing anything wrong."

"No, we definitely weren't." Emma absentmindedly answered before the reality of their situation caught up with her and she hastily tried to rectify her slip up. "I mean... we were... it was... I..."

Regina chuckled even more, the blonde might not realize it but she was damn cute! The brunette shook her head and said, "I know, Emma, but you can't deny it felt right."

Emma's only answer was a smile before she pulled the brunette flush against her and brought their lips together again. Regina whimpered when she felt the blonde's lips on hers. When she felt Emma's warm tongue trace her bottom lip she let out a groan and willingly allowed the blonde entrance. Their first kiss might have been all sweet but this kiss was a lot more...

Hands slowly roamed in new places, tongues dueling for dominance. Regina's thigh slipped between Emma's, pressing against her throbbing core forcing a moan past the blonde's lips. They both realized that if they didn't stop this soon things would get out of hand. Reluctantly they broke apart, resting their foreheads against each other, smiling.

"I want you..." the blonde whispered, trembling. "But..."

Regina placed a chaste kiss against Emma's lips before replying, "I know and I want you too."

As if they didn't have a care in the world, they just stood there embracing each other, smiling happily.

~~~oOo~~~

The earthquake had happened throughout all the land, also on the beach where the bean portal had been.

Ripples like water were created on the very spot and as if time ran backwards the portal opened again, the vortex running counterclockwise until the bean which had created it appeared on the beach again.