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"What do you mean, Miss Swan ? There is no possible way that you are the person I am wait- Oh god, no." groaned Regina, suddenly realizing what Emma was doing on her porch. "You are ... You are the baby-sitter who is supposed to keep my son tonight, right ?"

"I think so, yes. But if you don't want me to, well, I would understand. You probably don't even want me in your house so, I can imagine you won't allow me anywhere near your son." chuckled Emma, staring at Regina's home behind the brunette and trying to not look at her.

To be honest, Regina wanted to slam the door in her infuriating student's face and call Kathryn to tell her that she could not come. But she was scared of Kathryn's reaction. She had already disappointed her best friend once and she didn't want to do it again. She, once again, did not have much of a choice, and, after all, she knew Emma and as much as she hated her, she knew she would never harm a child. If Ariel could trust Emma, Regina could probably do it too, for a short amount of time at least.

"Follow me and close the door behind you, please."

Regina walked into the house and left a confused Emma on her porch. "Miss Swan, now or never." shouted Regina from her kitchen. It made Emma come back to her senses and she quickly entered the house, accidently slaming the door when she tried to close it with her foot.

She cringed and went to the room she saw Regina previously walk in. She sat at the kitchen island and stared at the brunette who was turned towards the fridge, searching for something. Emma realized what Regina was wearing only at this moment, she had not even looked at her attire when she had opened the door.

The silk emerald robe she was wearing did not hide much of what Regina wore underneath it. And she really did not wear that much things. Emma swalowed loudly when she saw the edge of what she assumed was a thong. When Regina finally turned towards Emma with a bottle of fresh water in her hands and a crystal glass, Emma practically fainted. Her robe was slightly opened and Emma's gaze was instantly draw to her cleavage, imprisoned by a red lacy bra.

"-needs to be in bed before 8 pm and he has to be asleep by 9. Miss Swan, Are you listening to me? I would like for you to stop staring at my body like a horny teenager."

Emma realized that Regina had been talking to her while she was checking her out. She looked up at the brunette's face and bit her lips at the sight. Regina's cheeks were flushed and her hands were desperatly trying to pull her robe more tightly against her body.

Emma's cheeks quickly had the same color as Regina's when she realized that she had been caught staring. She thought about what she had done in her shower not too long ago and she blushed even more. Emma thought about apologizing but decided against it. After all, Regina was a beautiful woman and she was only admiring that fact. It was not the first time that Emma had done this anyway, she sometimes spent hours staring at the brunette.

"As I was saying, there are leftovers in the fridge and I trust you to give them to Henry for diner. You can, of course, eat with him. I always cook to much for the both of us, anyway." said Regina with a sad smile. Even after Daniel's death, Regina had not stop cooking for 3 persons. It was sort of a ritual. A ritual she did not want to stop. As if it made her husband's death less real. The family diners they had were always full of joy and, those moments, Regina would never forget.

"He already took a bath but he will, of course, need to brush his teeth. He also may need you to read him a story but it will depend of his state, I think he may be too tired but I will let you judge this by yourself."

"Yes, of course Ms. Mills. Is there anything else I need to know?"

Regina seemed to think about it, scared that she would forget something . "Oh yes, I almost forgot. You will be keeping my son and I need to know if there is something wrong with him or even with you. I am going to need your phone number." said Regina, walking out of the kitchen to what Emma assumed was the living-room. "I need to get my purse, come with me, Miss Swan."

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After exchanging their phone numbers, Emma and Regina went upstairs, searching for Henry who was probably still in his bedroom. Regina had insisted for Emma to walk in front of her. She did not want the girl to take advantage of the stairs to openly stare at her like she had done in the kitchen. Regina had found interesting and pleasurable the fact that she was still considered a desirable woman. Not that she had many doubts ...

She entered her son's bedroom, followed by Emma. Henry was laying on his stomack on his bed, reading a book or, at least, looking at the picture inside of it. He looked like a really calm child and Emma was more than happy about this. She used to be the baby-sitter of a wealthy family and their children were real nightmares. Always running in the house and breaking expensive things. Two of them even had a fight with plates. But they were paying her more than well, probably because no one but Emma wanted to spend time with the little monsters, so she continued to keep them once or twice a week.

"Henry ? The woman you are staying with tonight has arrived. It is time for you to meet her."

Emma could not believe what she was seeing. Regina Mills could be a real softie. The second they had stepped in the room, the frown she kept on her face every time she was in Emma's presence disappeared and a radiant smile replaced it. Emma felt warmth rush throught her at the sight of the small family. Wow, Swan, you're getting as soft as your mother, stop that, said Emma's inner voice.

"I will leave you two together, I need to get ready or I am going to be late."

Once Regina had leaved the room, Emma sat on the edge of Henry's bed. They stared at each other for a few minutes in a comfortable silence until Henry finally decided to speak.

"I'm Henry. What's your name ?" said the boy with a wide smile.

"I'm Emma but you can call me Ems if you prefer, I don't mind. What are you reading exactly ?" Emma took Henry's book out of his hands and laughed when she saw the dinosaurs. She remembered him playing with similar figures on the picture in Regina's office. "Are you a fan of those ? I love dinosaurs too you know." winked Emma at Henry.

"Yes ! I love dinosaurs. Mommy loves them too and she plays with me a lot. She reads this book to me sometimes and there are a lot of big dinosaurs in it. Will you read it for me too, Emma ?"

"Yeah sure, come there." said Emma, taking Henry and putting him on her laps with the book now in his hands.

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When Regina was finally ready, she came out of the bathroom and headedto her son's bedroom, at the end of the corridor. She still had trouble believing she had let Emma Swan enter her home and even let her near her son, the most precious thing in her life. She could not wait to arrive at the restaurant so she could talk about what had just happened with her friend.

She was about to enter the bedroom when she heard a really familiar laugh coming from it. She stayed outside of Henry's room and discretly looked inside. Emma had two dinosaurs Henry love so much in her hands and she was pretending to be attacking him. Her son was laughing loudly at the noises Emma was making when she tried to imitate the creatures. Therefore, Emma started laughing too and her eyes adverted towards the entrance where Regina was standing, arms crossed with a wide smile on her face.

Emma liked Regina's smile. No, she actually loved it. It was perfect and could probably brighten anyone's day. She realized that Henry had a really similar smile, something he had inherited from his beautiful mother. Get a grip Swan, you're staring and she already caught you once, you do not want this to happen again anytime soon.

"Is it time for you to go already ?"

Regina looked taken aback by Emma's voice. She was so caught up in the scene she was witnessing she nearly forgot what she had to do in the first place.

"Oh ... Yes, I guess I have to now." Emma laughed softly at Regina's reply. It almost sounded like she wanted to stay with Henry and even more surprisingly with Emma.

"Ok. Well, have a good evening. When do you think you're gonna come back ?"

"I do not know. I would say 11 p.m or more, it will depend of Kathryn's mood and most importantly of mine." Regina headed towards the stairs before adding. "Oh and Miss Swan, if anything happens to my son, I will destroy you. Do not forget that and, please, call me if anything bad happens. We won't be really far from there, anyway."

"Sure Ms. Mills. I will take great care of Henry and feed him of ... whatever healthy things you told me you have already prepared."

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"I've never eatenanything like this before. Thank you so much Emma, this is way better than the food mommy wants me to eat !"

"Wait ... you mean your mom has never let you eat a pizza ? Oh god, I can't believe this."

Emma and Henry were now sitting on the big couch in Regina's vast living-room. Two boxes of pizza were on the floor and a bottle of coke was on the small table. They had decided to eat in front of the TV even if it was one of Regina's rule that Henry never watch TV after 8 p.m. At least, that's what the little boy told her, because she was not really listening to her teacher when she was telling her about the "rules of the house".

Emma had spent 30 minutes trying to figure out what she had to cook for Henry. It's not that she was dumb, it's just that they were so many things in the fridge, Emma did not know what to choose. She also wanted to eat something that did not start with a "v" and end with "egetables". And not so surprisingly, vegetables were the only things she could find. This and a bottle of coke she first thought she had imagined.

She had asked Henry about what his favorite meal was and he replied that his mother's lasagna were the best thing in the world but there was no way Emma was cooking that so she decided to simply order pizzas.

Regina had now been gone for a good hour what meant that Henry will soon have to go to bed. Even if Emma did not respect his food habits, she intented on Henry being asleep before 9 p.m like Regina had requested. She gasped when she looked at her phone and realized that it already was 8:30 p.m and that Henry should be getting ready for bed.

The problem is that when Emma was about to tell Henry that it was time to get prepared, she realized that he had fallen asleep on the couch, the rest of a slice of pizza in his hand. Emma decided that she would cary him upstairs in his bed and let him sleep. After all, Regina probably wouldn't find out that her son had not brushed his teeth.

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When Regina arrived at her friend's house, she was happy to realize that she was not too late. Kathryn had texted her brunette friend to ask her to take her in her car. She didn't see why they had to go there with two cars when they could do the road together. Regina had immediatly agreed and driven to her best friend's place, still slightly worried because of her son and more precisely of his blonde baby-sitter.

The two friends walked into the restaurant after spending less than 20 minutes on the road. Regina was happy to see that she could probably go back to her house in 10 minutes if she drove fast enough, in case of an emergency.

Once they had found a table and were comfortably sitted, they ordered their meal and a bottle of red wine and talked for a bit.

"How is Henry doing by the way ? I haven't seen his angelic face in a really long time. You two should come have diner maybe ... It won't be possible next week because David and I are supposed to spend a romantic week-end together, but I guess it could be possible after that."

"I already told you we would come but right now is not the moment. I am extremely busy with work and Henry, you know, being a single mom is not as easy as I thought it would be."

"Oh yes, you told me about your problem last week about finding a baby-sitter. Is the girl Ariel decided to send you worth keeping your precious son for 4 hours ?" said Kathryn with a smug smirk.

"You make me sound like a bitch, stop that." laughed Regina, hitting Kathryn playfully on the arm. Regina knew that her friend was right, she always had to be in control of everything and leaving her son with someone she barely knew was a thing she thought would never happen. Yet, she had been ready to do that before realizing who the baby-sitter Ariel had sent her was.

"Actually, you kind of are a bitch." winked Kathryn.

Regina rolled her eyes. "If I am really that horrible, why did you invite me to have diner with you ? I mean, if you want I can still go." She had tried to seem serious but her playfultone gave her away.

"Aww, don't say that. You know I love you. But don't try to get away from the question, Regina. How is she ? Or how is he ?"

"Well ... She is ... Emma Swan."

Kathryn laughed thinking that Regina was making a joke but she immediatly stopped when she saw the serious look on the brunette's face.

"Oh. And, you don't mind her staying with your son ?"

"I can not say I don't but I did not have much of a choice Kathryn. I was about to call you to cancell at the minute I saw her but then I thought about you and I realized that it could have been ... well, it could have been worse, trust me."

A waiter finally arrived at their tables with two warm plates in his hands and another one with a bottle of expensive red wine. He served them meanwhile the waiter was giving each woman their meals before leaving the two of them alone.

Kathryn was still in shock at what Regina had just told her. She sometimes really didn't understand her best friend. Not less than 3 days ago she was telling Kathryn about how much she hated Emma Swan and now, she suddenly was trust-worthy. If Regina had called and told her this she would have understood but, weirdly, she had decided to let Emma Swan enter in her house.

Even if Kathryn had nothing against Emma, at least not anymore, Regina could not stand the girl.

"I am ... I must admit I am confused." She stared at her friend with a look of disbelief in the eyes. "Aren't you worried ? Because if you are then you're damn good at hiding it."

"Of course I am, Kathryn. But not as much as if she was some random girl who knew Ariel. I have seen Emma with Henry and they seemed to really like each other. To my surprise, Emma was really comfortable around him. I think Henry likes her even more than Ariel, do you not remember the first time he met her ? He cried, Kathryn, he cried. If Ariel and Henry can trust Emma, so do I."

Regina breathed deeply. "Anyway, I want to talk about something different. I am trying to enjoy diner with my friend and I can not do that if I am spending my time thinking about what could possibly happen to my son."

"Ok, I see. I won't say anything tonight, but trust me, that is not the end of this discussion."

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"Open the door, please ! I can't ... my keys. Are you there ?"

Emma jumped when she heard the voice of a woman coming from what she assumed was the front door. She could not recognize the voice but she did not think it was Regina. Henry was asleep and Regina would not be shouting from outside when she knew she could wake him up by doing so. She looked brieflyat the clock and yawned when she saw that it was already midnight.

The person behind the door now decided to knock on it and after a while, she heard the doorbell. She groaned loudly and walked to the entrance.

She searched for keys and found them on a shelve but they were so many keys it took her 5 minutes to finally be able to open the door.

At the second the door got unlocked, a woman entered the house, stumbling and nearly falling on the floor but by chance, Emma caught her before she hit the ground.

When the brunette who was in her arms looked up at her, she gasped. She could smell a mix of wine and what she assumed was vodka in the woman's breath.

"Ms. Mills ?! Are you drunk ?!"