Henry rubbed his eyes and yawned. His grandma had woken him up too early – it was Sunday, after all, and he hadn't gotten that much sleep on Saturday night because of the movie marathon. He was happy he had gone, though. They had watched four Marvel movies, and everyone had been really great. He could hardly believe that he had friends now, because the situation had been so different for years when they had been cursed. He smiled. Things were looking up. If only he could make his current operation successful...

He was making his way up the stairs to wake up Emma. Past experience told him that getting Emma up could be difficult, but Snow had asked him to try, and since this gave him an excellent opportunity to make some inquiries for Operation Happy, he wasn't too opposed to the idea. He opened the bedroom door quietly, expecting to find his birth mother in a dormant state.

"Ma, Grandma wants to know..." he started as he walked in, but was stopped by the sight that waited him in Emma's bed. "Mom?!"

Henry couldn't believe his eyes… or his luck, for that matter. Both of his mothers were in Emma's bed, fast asleep. Or they had been just a second ago. His voice had apparently awakened his older mother in an inexplainable speed, her head shooting up from the pillow. Emma was soon waking up too, her movements slower and her expression confused.

"Henry…" his Mom mouthed, but no sound came out. This time she just might've been caught so off guard that she didn't know what to say. She was clutching the white sheet, seemingly unable to form any sort of coherent sentence, or any audible word for that matter. Emma was a little dumbstruck, but regained her speaking abilities faster.

"Hi, Kid, there's something we should talk about, probably," Emma said as her gaze went from his Mom to him.

"Yes, I knew it!" he exclaimed, unable to hold in the excitement that followed the shock anymore. His mothers had realized their feelings, and could be true loves, even. He felt like Christmas had come early.

"Wait, what?" Emma asked and furrowed her brow.

"I knew you were together," he said. "Well, sort of. Or more like hoped…"

This seemed to give his Mom her speaking abilities back.

"You did? And you're okay with this?" she said incredulously, her voice higher than in a normal conversation. Emma brought one of her hands tentatively on his other mother's shoulder and gave it a pat that made his Mom calm down slightly.

"Of course. I just want both of you to be happy, and now we can all be a family. This is so great!" He was so excited. He didn't have to put that much effort into Operation Happy, because his mothers seemed to have figured out a lot of it themselves.

Now both of them were sitting silently on the bed, though, still holding the bed sheet, neither knowing how to respond. His Mom's expression was still shocked, albeit not as surprised as before, and Emma was starting to look a bit amused at the whole situation, a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.

"Oh, and it sounds like Grandma's coming here soon. She's probably wondering why you aren't up. She sent me here," Henry informed when he heard someone coming up the stairs.

"Well, I must go then," his Mom reasoned and poofed away just before Snow appeared in the doorway.

"Emma, good morning!" Snow said, completely unaware of what had just happened. Henry wondered how she would've reacted if she had been the one to wake Emma up. "You're awake. Did Henry wake you up? It's ten AM soon and you said you'd go to work at eleven," she continued as she walked to the window to open the curtains. "I thought you went to bed early. How were you still sleeping?"

Henry saw Emma shrug awkwardly when Snow opened the window. She shot him a silencing glance when Snow's back was turned. Not that he would've said anything in the first place.

"I don't know," Emma muttered.

"Okay, well, get ready for breakfast. I need to go check up on Neal," Snow said and left the room.

"So, when are you gonna tell Grandma and Gramps?" Henry asked after he was sure Snow wouldn't hear them anymore.

"Henry…" his mother started, obviously trying to pick the right words. "I know you want this to work, and trust me, I want this to work, too, but real life doesn't work like your book. We need to see how everything goes."

"But you really like Mom, right?" Henry wanted to make sure. Emma had to, though. It was obvious to basically everyone.

"Yeah," Emma said and grinned. "I do. That's probably an understatement."

"Could you be true loves?" Henry asked. He decided to test his theory.

"Kid…" Emma's expression turned serious. "It doesn't really matter to me what term you want to use or what love is called in the Enchanted Forest… What I know for sure is that spending time with you and your mom makes me want to stop wanting to run away from things more than anything else, even though that's what I've done all my life," Emma stopped for a moment and smiled at him. "And I hope your mom feels the same way about me, but you can never be sure because adult relationships are really complicated, not like in your book. No matter what happens between us, though, we both love you, okay?"

Henry thought about what Emma had just said and nodded. She made the whole thing seem overly complicated, as adults usually did with most things.

"I love you both too, and I really want you to be happy," he said and saw Emma's small smile widen. "I'll go get some breakfast, see you there!" he said and left the room. He really wanted to talk to Ruby and Tink now.


"So, how did it go?" Regina's voice asked at the other end of the phone line. Emma wondered how she would summarize what had happened before breakfast. She turned in her chair and made sure that no one was near her office. She had gotten to work after 11AM, only to find out no one had needed the Sheriff anyway. It was a calm boring Sunday as usual, which gave her time to call Regina.

"It went as well as it could," she started.

"Did you talk to Henry?"

"Yeah, we talked a little bit after Snow left the room. I didn't know how to respond when he started asking about true loves and telling my parents." Emma paused because having a conversation like this was when she usually wanted to run. Not that she had had parents to tell about her romantic life before, but mostly loving someone and not being loved back had definitely happened, her first experiences being her foster homes. Emma shook her head. Why was she thinking about this now? "So, anyway, I told him that spending time with both of you makes me happy, and I hope you feel the same way. Oh, and I also said that real life isn't like his book, and that it's more complicated than that."

"I do quite enjoy spending time with you as well."

Regina sounded like she was smiling, which brushed Emma's negative thoughts aside momentarily. She couldn't hold back a grin, and she was very happy no one was in the office right now, because her facial expressions would've made anyone suspicious.

"Are you going to Granny's on your coffee break? I could accidentally show up there at the same time."

"Yeah, I was thinking about it," Emma responded.

"It's a date, then," Emma heard Regina's confident voice and smiled.

"I'm not sure if my boss appreciates me having dates in the middle of working."

"I'm sure your boss, starting from tomorrow, would very much appreciate occasional extra-curricular activities on your breaks. And after you finish working, too, for that matter."

Emma let out a small laugh. "Madam Mayor, you've changed." She could hear Regina laugh at the end of the line too. She loved how carefree their talks had become. "So, I'll see you at two?"


Ruby was carrying tea cups from the kitchen to the diner when she saw Henry sitting on one of the barstools. The boy was quite possibly wearing the biggest smug grin she had ever seen. She expected the teenager to burst soon for whatever reason, probably something to do with his mothers.

She was amused how she had become Henry's confidant. She was, after all, Snow's (who Henry probably didn't want to know anything yet) best friend, but Henry had decided to trust her anyway without a second thought. She had realized that she had very recently avoided talking with Snow so she could keep her life away from any potential drama concerning Emma and Regina for as long as possible. She didn't feel particularly keen on breaking Henry's trust, but she didn't want to lead Snow astray, either… Although, she figured David must have talked to Snow already, so maybe this was a secret only to Emma and Regina. Ruby had come to the conclusion that anyone with eyes could tell something was going on between Henry's two mothers.

"Hi, Henry. What's up?" she asked nonchalantly.

"Ruby, Operation Happy has been a success!" he obviously tried to hiss but ended up being loud anyway. Ruby couldn't help raising her eyebrows. Had something happened already? Or more like finally, she corrected herself.

"Really? What happened?" she asked as she approached Henry. She didn't want him to yell whatever it was that had happened to the entire diner.

"Well, I went to wake up Ma this morning because Grandma told me to," Henry started in a low voice, "and guess who I found sleeping in her bed?"

Oh my God. What had Henry seen? "Regina?"

"That's right. Mom didn't say much because she was so shocked, but after she and Grandma left, I talked with Ma, and she said spending time with me and Mom makes her happy… Then she also said that I shouldn't expect all the true love stuff because relationships are complicated. I'm pretty sure adults just make them complicated themselves."

Ruby smiled. It seemed that Emma had handled the situation as well as possible. Wait… "Did you say after your Mom and Grandma left? Does everyone know now?" And more importantly, could she finally talk to Snow?

"Oh, Grandma doesn't know. She's kind of clueless, I think. Mom left just in time," Henry shrugged and had a sip of the cocoa Ruby had just placed in front of him automatically.

Did this mean that Emma and Regina had no idea that David knew? But David would've surely told Snow, wouldn't he? Maybe Snow knew but just hadn't told Regina and Emma that she did, and the two women had no idea that anyone else than their son knew. Ruby shook her head. This reminded her of that one episode of Friends.

"So, what's your next move concerning Operation Happy?" Ruby asked after she came to the conclusion that it was smart to change the topic a bit.

Henry showed a pensive face before answering. "Quality time together. They'll probably realize they're in love and maybe true loves if they spend time together. I'm gonna ask to spend time with both of them, and then just leave after some time, but at the same time they'll see what a great family we would be."

Ruby smiled. Henry's idea didn't sound bad, really, and she actually hoped everything would work out just as the boy had described.

"Oh, and I'll try to get Emma to move in with us, maybe."

"What was that?" Ruby asked. She had heard what Henry had said, of course, but the idea had just escalated pretty fast.

"She's looking for a new apartment, so why not move in with us? It would make perfect sense."

"Okay, well," she tried to choose her words wisely again. She didn't want Henry to have false hope or him to push things with Emma and Regina, even though it seemed quite obvious that the two weren't just having a one-night stand. She hoped to see the two women interact soon, because honestly, she was getting curious. "You need to let your moms make that kind of decision and wait because it's important that they figure things out by themselves, okay?"

"Yeah, okay," Henry replied after some hesitation and finished his cocoa. "So what's new here?"


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