That rain check was cashed in sometime in early March. The girls had been dating for two months, and though they spent just about all of their free time together, there was still no formal 'meet the parents' from either girl. Anne was the first to insist.

Regina and Emma were passing the afternoon in Emma's room. The brunette lying down on the bed, skimming over the assigned reading for their lit class while Emma was playing trash can basketball.

One wild shot landed right in Regina's book and she sighed in mild annoyance, "Honestly Emma, don't you have anything else to do?"

"I can think of a few things." The blonde winked before crumpling another paper to shoot.

"You're incorrigible." Regina said, dropping the paper out of her way and continuing her reading.

Before she could get very far though, her book was stolen and she was trapped by Emma sitting across her hips.

"Take it back!" The blonde demanded with a smile.

"I'm not taking it back, you know it's true." Regina insisted, "Get off me!"

"Not until you take it back!" Emma sing songed. She began running her fingers up Regina's sides in a move she knew would get the brunette squirming in seconds.

She was right and Regina managed to roll herself over so she could glare properly at the blonde straddling her, "Emma!"

"Just say I'm not incorrigible!"

"But you are!"

"Then I guess I can't move!" Emma smiled, tickling her girlfriend some more.

Regina tried to fight back, but Emma easily captured her hands, holding bother her wrists over her head, the taller girl still had one free hand to torment Regina.

"Baby! Stop it!" Regina practically begged through gasps of air because of the intense tickling.

Once the words tumbled past her lips though, Emma froze, "What was that?"

"I told you to knock it off." Regina replied with her brows knitting together.

"No, you called me 'baby'." Emma said with a smile tugging the corners of her lips.

"It just slipped out, is that alright?" Regina worried.

"Yeah, it's perfect."

The blonde's face cracked into a full fledged grin as she finally gave up her tickling for good.

"You're perfect." Emma continued, leaning down to press a soft kiss to her girlfriend's lips.

That was when Anne walked in, having heard the two girls horsing around from the kitchen, she had planned on going upstairs to do some (completely innocent) investigating when she found them in their current position. Emma straddling Regina on her bed, kissing her while holding her hands up above her head.

She interrupted in the way that only parents truly can, knocking lightly on the frame of Emma's barely cracked open door. The blonde jumped up as though she had been burned, rolling off of Regina and attempting to sit nonchalantly on the edge of the bed. Regina did the same, winding up in an awkward crisscross.

Anne shook her head internally, at least Emma had kept the door open (slightly).

"I'm just starting on dinner. Regina, you'll be staying, right?"

Phrased like that, the brunette had no choice but to accept, "If it's not an inconvenience to you."

"Nonsense. We'd love to have you." Anne smiled, opening Emma's door as wide as it would go before she turned and retreated down the stairs again.

Shortly after, the five of them settled in around the Swan's table. Emma and Regina next to each other, Neil across from them, Adam and Anne at each end.

Neil had a vague smirk on his face. The teen had walked in on his older sister and Regina a number of times by this point and he had practically made a sport out of sneaking upstairs and catching the girls with the door closed. Anne had instituted a strict open door policy which Emma had occasional (constant) trouble following.

"So, Regina, how is your senior year going?" Anne asked, breaking the ice.

"Quite well. The courses I'm taking are all quite engaging." Regina smiled, ever the politician's daughter. She wasn't truly nervous about the dinner especially since Emma's parents were so kind and open.

"How about your college applications?" Adam asked, knowing what a struggle it had been to get Emma to take the process seriously.

"I've been accepted to a few places, now I've just got to narrow it down." Regina shrugged casually. There was a rumor that the brunette had been accepted to three Ivy leagues, but everyone knew that it was mainly just the small town rumor mill running full force, "How are things at the hospital?"

Both Adam and Anne worked at Storybrooke General Hospital, they were literally the only doctors for miles around.

"Great, we finally got some new MRI equipment that we've been needing." Adam said, enthusiastically launching into a discussion of all of the features of the new machine.

Emma dropped her left hand from the table, resting it lightly on Regina's thigh. It was an innocent enough touch, and one that Emma frequently did during long, boring lectures in their Lit class, but it was not unnoticed by Neil.

He smirked at his sister, "Did you drop something, Ems?"

"No, Neil. How was that Chem test you took yesterday?" She shot back, knowing for a fact that he barely eked out a C.

He scowled at her and dropped his gaze to his plate. Adam shook his head at his children's antics, Anne was not so entertained.

"You really ought to study more." She lectured, "I'm sure your sister wouldn't mind helping you out."

"Ma-"

"I don't need it-"

Both kids quickly interjected, overlapping each other. They shared a look before Emma tried again, "I haven't taken a chemistry class in four years. I doubt I would be much help."

Regina, for her part, just smiled at the first time she saw Emma and Neil get along, "I'm in AP Chemistry right now, if you need help Neil, I can tutor you."

The boy blushed slightly and suddenly became quite interested in his brussel sprouts. Even though she was dating his sister, and even though she was four years older than him, Neil had the most adorable crush on Regina. And it was abundantly clear to everyone.

"There we go, problem solved!" Adam smiled.

Indeed, the problem was solved, for about five seconds the next day. Neil came home with his Chemistry problems, saw Regina and Emma settled on the couch doing homework. Regina saw him pause in the entryway.

"Neil, do you need some tutoring today?"

Emma shot him a death glare, but their parents had just arrived home as well so there was nothing she could do as he dropped onto the couch on Regina's other side, much too close for Emma's comfort.

"Yeah, I just don't understand any of this." He said, pulling out his notebook.

In an attempt to deter her brother, Emma dropped her hand onto her girlfriend's thigh possessively. Adam watched the interaction from the entryway with a smile, poor Neil was way out of his depth. Anne was less amused as Emma kept glaring her brother down.

"Emma, stop bothering them and come help me in the kitchen." She called.

"I'm not bothering them!"

"Emma."

"Fine." The blonde relented, lightly grasping Regina's chin to turn her head before pressing a deep kiss to her lips. Regina was clearly caught off guard, and when Emma pulled back, she was still dazed.

"I'll be right back, baby."

Emma shot her brother one final smug smile before practically skipping down the hall.

A/N- Alright, so there will be the tiniest bit of angst coming up, but just the TINIEST.

Also, I'm proud to say that my skin has finally regrown enough to cover the part that was sliced! #achievement of the week