"Hello?" Emma asks.
"Hello, Miss Swan. I was calling to see if you would like to join Henry and me for dinner tonight. I'm making my famous lasagna." Regina says.
Very delighted by this offer Emma quickly accepts.
As preparations for tonight's dinner is being taken care of Regina is thinking of Emma and how the night might proceed.
"Hello, my darling." A voice says from behind Regina.
Startled by the voice Regina flinches and turns around quickly unknowingly creating a fireball in her hand.
"Geez, mother! I could have killed you." Regina shouts.
"What is that delicious smell?" Cora asks.
"It's lasagna. For dinner tonight." Regina says.
"I didn't know you cooked, Regina." Cora says.
"It's a different time, Mother." Regina says.
Regina hears a noise coming from the front of the house. Realizing its Emma dropping Henry off from school she quickly becomes agitated.
"Mother! You have to go. Henry or Emma or really anyone can't know you're here. Remember?" Regina says frantically.
"Hey, Mom!" Henry shouts from the front door.
Regina walks to the front door to greet her son. As she gives Henry a hug she sees Emma sitting in her yellow bug and gives her a slight wave and a small smile.
"Hey, Henry. Why don't you get started on your homework now so when Emma gets here you can spend as much time with her as you want." Regina says.
"Okay!" Henry says excitedly.
As Henry starts up the stairs towards his room Regina walks towards Emma in her car.
"Hey. Thanks for picking up Henry today." Regina says.
"Oh, yeah. It's no problem. I like spending time with the kid." Emma says.
Both Regina and Emma went silent. Not knowing what to say next it became very awkward.
Regina finally broke the awkward silence by saying, "well, I must be going. Don't want to burn the lasagna."
"Yeah. Okay. See you in a few hours then." Emma replies.
As Regina heads back to her house she feels something she hasn't felt really ever. She feels like a normal person with a normal life. She smiles to herself.
Emma pulls away from the house headed towards Mary-Margaret's place.
Cora had been lurking in the shadows the whole time and knew that this was her chance to fix the problem.
Emma is driving back to get ready when out of no where she slams on her breaks and hits something.
Emma becomes very frantic when she gets out of the car and realizes she's hit a person. When Emma bends down to see if the woman is alive Cora gets up and poofs both Emma and herself in the basement of the library.
Emma wakes up groggy and unaware of her surroundings.
"Ugh. Where, where am I?" Emma stutters.
"You're where no one will find you or hear your screams, my dear." A voice says out of nowhere.
Trying to get up, but to no avail because she is bound to something and her legs are tied together.
"Who are you?! What do you want with me?!" Emma yells.
"Oh, my dear. There's no need for loud talking. I'm the only one who can hear you. Let's talk civilly if you please." Cora says.
Emma suddenly gets the realization that when she doesn't show up tonight at Regina's that Regina will think she's been played by Emma. Emma fears that Regina will turn on her and join forces with this woman to punish her.
Emma hated herself for not being able to be there tonight for dinner, especially since she was so looking forward to spending time with her son and the woman she liked very much. Almost like a little family dinner of sorts.
"What do you want with me? What have I done to deserve this?" Emma begs.
"You've messed with the wrong family. You will only bring death and misery to my daughter. You are the enemy. You aren't supposed to be in love with the enemy now are you, Miss Swan?" Cora says.
"Your daughter?" Emma says in a questioning tone.
All of a sudden something inside her brain clicks.
"Oh, my god! You're Regina's mother!" Emma shouts.
"Now you've got it. You aren't fit to be with my daughter. Regina of course doesn't know that so I'll just have to show her." Cora says.
"Show her? How will you..." Emma stops talking suddenly realizing what Cora means.
Cora seeing that Emma has finally understood what is going to befall her starts towards her with her hands raised about to conjure magic.