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Both Emma and Regina had made sure to keep busy on the days leading up to their lunch 'date'. Regina had spent the time burying herself in paperwork that wasn't due to be done until the end of the month, whereas Emma spent her time both avoiding Hook and spending time with her newly acquainted parents and her son. Emma had been looking forward to having lunch with Regina, especially after the dream she had while passed out on the mayor's sofa. The dream in question had been replying over and over again in the sheriff's mind, it was no secret to anyone that Emma knew before Henry showed up on her doorstep, that Emma was interested in both men and women, however since coming to Storybrooke she had decided to keep her sexuality on the down low. Emma was afraid of how people would react to her coming out, especially her parents. Emma wasn't even sure that the Enchanted Forest had lesbians and if they did it wasn't likely that anyone knew about them. Emma's Tuesday morning had started off surprisingly pleasant, that was until she walked in to find Hook sitting at her desk.

"Hear me out, love…" Hook said while standing up as soon he saw the blonde sheriff walk into the office.

"Why should I? So you can try and feed me some stupid excuse as to why you thought that getting drunk and then showing up late to our date, a date that you begged for might I add, was the right thing to do!" Emma shouted while slamming her fist onto the desk.

"Swan, I was stupid, is that what you want to hear? I messed up on something that, could have ended up being the best thing to ever happen to me…but I've accepted that I'm only here to say sorry Swan, I'll leave you to get on with your work." Hook confessed, before nodding sadly at the sheriff and exiting the station, leaving the blonde speechless and slightly confused at the way the pirate is acting. She had expected him to blow Saturday night off and ask her out once again, only to do the exact same thing all over again.


Regina had spent her weekend stressing about her lunch with Miss Swan, she knew that the younger woman couldn't possibly have any interest in her. Emma Swan is the savior after all and Regina is the Evil Queen who tore her away from her parents and forced her to become an orphan her whole life, how could someone possibly want to be with the monster that did that.

"Hey, mom! Are you home?" Regina was startled when she heard her son's voice fill the house.

"Henry? Why aren't you at school?" Regina said as she walked out of her study to see Henry fully dressed in his school uniform.

"I was on my way, but I had to come and see you when ma told me that you two were having lunch today! Why didn't you tell me that Operation Octopus was a go!" Henry said excitedly before pulling his mom into a near bone-crushing hug.

"Henry, it's only lunch…I don't want you getting your hopes up, it's only a work lunch." Regina explained to her son who's face slowly started to sadden.

"But you're going to tell her how you feel, right?" Henry asked, once again getting his hopes up about his two mothers getting together so that they could all be one happy family.

"I'm not sure that's a good idea, Henry, I don't even know if Miss Swan likes me in that way, or women in general," Regina explained, before letting out a huff of frustration.

"But, what if you don't and then she goes on another date with Hook and you lose her forever!" Henry nearly shouted.

"Henry, if that happens then it happens. I can't force Emma to like me the way I like her, I can only try and see if this could work. But I'm not ready for that to happen just yet, do you understand?" Regina asked in a gentler tone this time as she could see the boy was starting to get himself worked up over all of this.

"Mom, please…just tell her for me" The boy begged, while giving his mom the puppy dog face.

"Okay, fine. But if things go badly…I'm grounding you for a week!" Regina fake threatened her son, who simply laughed and threw his arms around his mother once again.

"Things won't go bad, I promise!"


Regina had been the first one to show up to Granny's Diner this time. She had been so nervous about telling Miss Swan that she has feeling for her, she had never done that before and didn't even know how to approach the topic. Sure she had both men and women confess their undying love for her when she was the Evil Queen, but she knew that they were only saying those things out of fear, not out of love.

"Can I take your order, Mayor Mills?" Red asked as she approached the booth Regina was sitting in.

"No thank you, I'm waiting for someone," Regina said, trying to sound as normal as possible.

"Oh, you're on a date?! I get it, I'll leave you be until your date arrives." Red near enough shouted all over the diner.

"No, it's not a…date" Before Regina could even utter the last word the waitress had skipped off to take someone else's order.

"So…you're on a date then?" Regina nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard the voice of the sheriff behind her.

"Well, if memory serves me right, you did say it's a date…am I wrong?" It was as if all her fears about talking to the woman had vanished and she, at last, knew exactly what she needed to say and how she was going to bring it up, the only question was…how would Emma Swan react?