Mary Margaret walked into the diner and saw Ruby with her phone in hand. Ruby quickly made eye contact with Mary Margaret and started laughing before looking back down at her phone with her fingers rapidly moving over it.
"Hey Rubes." MM said and sat down in front of Ruby at who lifted up her phone and took a quick picture. MM strangely looked at her friend wondered what that was about.
"Hey, Mary Margaret, you want a hot chocolate?" Ruby asked with a smile still plastered to her face.
"No, how about a margarita instead, it's been a rough day." MM said and let out a long sigh.
"Coming right up!" Ruby said; immediately started making the drink. MM noticed she was receiving several strange looks from the other customers in the diner. Heard them laughing at her and whispering. MM knew it was about her. Ruby still had a big smile on her face and Mary Margaret wondered why everyone was acting so strange. It was so distracting and obvious that MM spoke up.
"Ok! What is g…"
"Mary Margaret who gave you a sharpie facial?" Granny walked out from the kitchen and immediately stopped in her tracks as she saw MM's face. She and the other customers in the diner chuckled a bit louder. Ruby finished making the drink and sat it in front of MM.
"What? What are you talking about?" MM asked putting her hands on her face as in trying to feel whatever was on it. Ruby looked at Granny with a 'what the hell' facial expression, and got out her phone, took another picture to show Mary Margaret. MM let out a large gasp as she looked at the picture that Ruby just took.
"Oh my god! Why didn't any of you tell me!? How in the hell did this happen?" MM exclaimed her face red with fury and embarrassment. Ruby's laughter sobered up a bit as she tried to explain.
"Emma sent me a text message that this was your payback. She warned me not to say anything."
"Payback for what? Did you take Emma's last beer or something?" Granny asked still laughing as she walked up the counter next to Ruby and in front of MM.
"Umm, I kinda sorta tried to kill Regina."
"And Emma did that to you, why would she care what you did to Regina?" Granny asked.
Ruby spoke up, "No, Emma didn't do that, Regina did." Ruby explained and everyone looked at her like she had developed a third eye. She noticed the confusion and huffed before continuing on. "Emma said in her text it was either this or Regina ripping your heart out."
"It's kind of funny. I didn't know the Mayor had a sense of humor." Granny admired.
MM immediately followed. "What is funny about this!? I'm completely humiliated!"
"You're alive though." Granny said she had enough excitement and walked back to the kitchen. Ruby shrugged as in agreement with her grandmother.
"Not very long ago she would have just been more than happy to kill you, might want to remember that." Ruby said as she walked around the counter to help more customers that just walked in. Mary Margaret of course knew that Ruby was right, but that still didn't make it any less embarrassing. She decided to accept her fate and just enjoy her drink for now; she would come up with a plan to get Emma back later. MM also knew that this was going to be hell trying to scrub off; she let out a long exhausting sigh. Might as well get drunk. She thought and lifted her drink.
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Mary Margaret walked into her apartment that she now shared with David at about 8 o'clock that night. She was taking off her jacket and announced that she was home.
"David, I'm home." She almost slurred out, she was slightly intoxicated from the four margaritas that Ruby fixed her at the diner. David had just gotten out of the shower when he heard the door close and MM say his name. Her voice sounded a little different than it usually did. He hadn't heard from MM all day which was quite unusual. He quickly wrapped a towel around his waist and made it out the door.
"Hey honey, is everything ok? I haven't heard from you today." He was still making his way towards MM when she turned around to face him. "Snow! What happened to your face… I mean… is everything alright, you have…"
"I know! I know." Mary Margaret said a bit quieter and looked at David with tears in her eyes. He rushed forward and held her in his arms; she burst into tears as soon as his strong arms embraced her.
"Shhh, it's ok. You want to tell me what happened? Why do you have the facial hair of a gnome?" David teased trying to make Mary Margaret smile. Mary Margaret let out a mixture of a laugh/sob.
"You're not supposed to make fun." She said moving out of his arms and wiping her tears away. He continued to gently stroke her arm. She attempted a smile and led him over to the sofa. Once they were seated, he put his arm behind her neck and Mary Margaret laid her head on his shoulder. She let out an exasperated sigh before she went to tell the story of what had happened today.
"I got home from school today and Emma had all of her stuff packed up by the door."
"Wait! Is she moving? Is that why she isn't home tonight? I thought she was just doing some night patrol." David sat up on the couch and turned to Mary Margaret.
"Yes, David, she told me that she's moving to give us our own space at first. But… that wasn't the real reason."
"What's the real reason?" David questioned, aggravated at the information. He, as much as Mary Margaret, wanted them to finally be a family. MM hesitated before she continued, knowing he was going to be upset and probably rush out of the house and over to Regina's. So she thought before she told him she may want to try and get rid of her sharpie eyebrows and beard. The last thing she wanted was for Regina to see her like this again.
"I'll tell you, but first I've got to try and scrub some of this marker off. It's starting to itch." MM lied about the itching, thinking that would pacify him and it did. He nodded and watched Mary Margaret as she walked to the bathroom.
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About an hour later at 108 Mifflin St aka the Mayoral Mansion…
Regina was just making her way downstairs to join Emma, who was aimlessly flipping through the channels on the television. They had tucked Henry in a few minutes ago and he seemed like he was on cloud nine. He was so excited that Emma was officially moved in. He and Emma had moved all of her boxes to her new room when she arrived at the house earlier in the evening. Emma and Regina didn't really get a chance to speak a word at dinner. Henry was rambling on about his day, his video games and comics, and about how excited he was that they were all finally living together. Both of his mothers just smiled and listened as he went on, both happy to see their son like that.
Regina was attempting to read a magazine but was having a hard time focusing because of the TV that continued to change channels. She huffed finally having enough.
"Would you find something already, Miss Swan, that's annoying the hell out of me?"
Emma finally put the remote down after switching it to an old episode of Law and Order: SVU (which always seems to be on some channel.)
"I'm sorry, I was trying to look to see when 'Rizzoli and Isles' came back on. I can't remember what channel it's on, and I know the new season premiered this month."
"What kind of show is 'Rizzoli and Piles', is it?" Regina questioned and rolled her eyes when Emma gasped.
"First of all it's 'Rizzoli and Isles'. And second of all, how do you not know who 'Rizzoli and Isles' are? You Fairytale characters have so much to learn about TV. I have so much to teach you, Regina" Emma huffed and got to her feet.
"Where are you going? I thought you were going to teach me about this 'Rizzoli and Isles' thing." Regina asked when she saw Emma was headed for the stairs.
"Oh, I am, but you need to start at the beginning. I am going to get my laptop to look up my Netflix username and password, I never can remember it. Then I'll download Netflix to Henry's game console so we can start at the first season." Emma said and ran up the stairs leaving Regina as confused as ever. What is a Netflix and what do video games have to do with watching a TV show?