About 25 minutes later at the cabin.

Belle was quietly taking out her frustrations of the day by chopping wood. Emma after returning from the doctor's decided to join the deputy out back and hopefully alleviate some of her own stress and frustrations as well.

"Hey" the blonde said while approaching Belle who was surrounded by pile of chopped wood and was reaching for another piece.

"Hey, how's your arm?" Belle said finally looking up at the blonde.

"Oh, it's nothing;" Emma said trying to play it cool and act all tuff "I only went to the doctor's because Regina was so worried."

Belle looked at her skeptically, knowing full well what Emma was trying to do. Silence then filled the air. "Can I…um help you with that?" Emma said trying to be useful.

"Yeah, sure if you're feeling up to it."

"Yeah no problem." Emma said while picking up the other ax which laid beside the brunette's newly formed pile. She then mimicked Belle and grabbed a piece of wood to chop. She gave a big swing and the ax struck the wood hard. Emma then tried to split it/ take the ax back out, but she had swung so hard that it got stuck. She watched as Belle did with ease what she was trying to do. Emma was really struggling.

"So, I really just wanted to… um apologize for trouble we may have caused you guys. I know there is a lot of screaming and shouting." Emma then placed the wood on the ground and tried to use her foot to somehow remove the ax; she was failing at it.

"Oh, that's okay. I know what it's like, me and Ruby had some real big ones." Belle said as she continued to add to the ever growing pile of wood while Emma was still on her first one.

Slightly shocked by the brunette's admission she decides being the cop she is, to dig a little deeper. "Really?! That's actually really great… um not great because you know… it's comforting to hear because you two seem so happy." Emma said internally hoping her and Regina could get to that point.

"Well, we are happy, but that doesn't mean we haven't almost killed each other a few times." Belle said while splitting yet another piece of wood while Emma had dedicated her attention to the conversation and was more focus on the brunette in front of her rather than the log that the ax was still lodged into it.

"Really?" the blonde said curiously because since they arrived, she hadn't seen the couple even bicker once. "How did you two fix things…if you don't mind me asking?"

Belle paused her chopping so she could concentrate on the conversation. "Well, um she bought me a new Remington with Belle engraved on it. She also got my favorite author to sign a copy and it has a little dedication to me in it."

Emma knew that she couldn't copy Ruby and give Regina a gun because she didn't like that sort of stuff, I have to find a different way, and I'm not giving up she thought to herself. "Oh…yeah."

"Yeah, there was this one time we were really going at it; it something about her mother, it's not important, but it got to the point where we were hardly even taking to each other. And um… She asked me out on a date." Belle said while smiling at the memory before returning to her task of chopping. A light bulb went off inside Emma's head That's perfect, she'll love it. "A date?" Emma said slightly grinning at her new found idea.

"Yup, just like two love sick teenagers. She asked me out, we went out to dinner and we talked; it worked like magic."

"Interesting…Well speaking of work, I think we are done here," Emma said while placing the ax and the log attached back where she originally found the ax. She gave up trying to separate it. "I'll um catch you later." Emma said as she started to walk back towards the cabin. She had to start planning what to do on her date.

Across town at Jefferson's mother's house

Regina and Jefferson were taking to a lovely little family about the house.

"As you can see the whole railing is new; that's thanks to Jefferson here…" Regina said while flashing a genuine smile. She was doing what she loved to do.

Emma noticed just how relax and happy her wife was when she was walking up towards the house; she was going to follow what Belle had told her. Emma loved to see how her wife was finally opening up. It was like the incident never happened; she just wished she was like this always.

"Okay well you can on inside and take a look." Regina said motioning for the family to enter the quaint little home and explore a little more. The family had a little girl; she stayed beside Regina while the rest of the group went inside.

"I'm going to stay with you!" The little said to Regina as the little blonde sat on the grass.

"You're going to stay with me?" Regina said warmly while flashing the young girl a real genuine smile that took Emma's breath away every time she saw it. Regina crouched down next to the girl while playing with her. Emma saw how content her wife was with the little girl. Emma looked at her wife with so much love in that moment.

"Hey before we go and take your boots off, why don't you go explore the house." Regina said while turning slightly to motion towards the house and that's when she saw Emma. "I'll be right back" she said flashing the girl another breathtaking smile. Once the girl had gone and rejoined her family, Regina started to make her way over to her wife who had her hands shoved into her front pockets while slightly biting her bottom lip. Seeing her wife starting to walk over, Emma decided to meet her halfway. Once they came to a stop in front of each other, Emma noticed that there was still a little bit of a smile left on Regina's gorgeous face.

"Hey, what's up?" Regina said while wondering what Emma was doing here.

"This might sound a little weird…"

"Hmmm"

"But…um…Would like to go on a date with me?" Emma asked hopefully.

"You know that does sound strange." Regina said a little taken back by the question. A date? she thought to herself.

"Well, it's kind of been awhile since we went out together for dinner…" Emma started to explain when Regina decided to butt in.

"Well, we just had dinner in New York?" Regina said

"And I thought that went well right up until the murder." Emma said trying to make a joke.

At that moment Jefferson stepped out onto the porch of the house, wondering what was taking Regina so long. "Hey Regina, are you coming?"

"Regina then turned to the man "Yeah, I'll be there in a sec." The man then turned and went back into the house. "Sorry…" Regina said

"Um, shall we say 7:30 at Granny's; I was told that it was the only place to eat in town, literally. It will be…um a chance to talk like we used to before the infidelity and the separation; I will pay." Emma said trying to convince her wife as best she could.

"Well if you're going to pay." Regina said while flashing a genuine smile. I'm actually excited she thought to herself.

Both women then went there separate ways, both looking forward to this evening. Little did they know that this date was indeed going to help fix things between them.