A Week later, Emma is feeling much better, she sends imtheboss a message.

"I have thought about this and I think we should meet."

A while after that, Regina replies

"We should meet. And we will meet. But I'm in the middle of a project that needs tweaking" a look on calculation appears on her face, she clicks send, gets up and heads off to work.

it's coming up to 1pm and Emma finds herself wandering into the local authorities offices and slowly walks around, its a bright place, everything is so white and clean. She see's a leaflet on law enforcement, she picks it up and starts to read.

While she's reading, Regina comes out from a room, behind Emma, She spots her standing there, wearing her red jacket, tight trousers, boots and a white roll neck jumper.

Regina stands there, watching her and a slight smirk appears on her face.

Emma suddenly looks round, Regina waves at her, pretending surprise at seeing her.

Emma lets out a slight laugh and walks the short distance, over to her.

"What are you doing here, Em-ma?"

"I don't really know" she tilts her head.

"Do you want to go get a drink, with me?"

"Sure"

They walk outside, down a few steps, and into a café round the corner. hardly no one is in there. they order two hot chocolates and sit down, at a table for two.

"How's it going with your online friend?"

"Good, She said she needed to do, some tweaking"

"Sounds like she's married" Regina smirks.

"That's a terrible thing to say. It's not possible." shaking her head.

"Have you asked her, if she's married? Have you said, Are you married?"

"NO"

Regina looks at her and shrugs.

Later that night, Emma is typing a message

"I know this is probably a little late to be asking, but are you married?"

She gets a reply

"Am I married? What kind of a question is that? How can you ask me that? Don't you know me at all? Oh wait, I get it. Your friends are telling you the reason we haven't met is that I'm married. Am I right?


The next day, Emma finds herself having lunch with Regina.

"So she didn't exactly answer." she scoffed, while finishing her sandwich.

"No"

"What's her username?" she mutters.

Emma shakes her head.

"Your worried i'll message her?"

"No...Its imtheboss"

Regina then proceeds to start taking the mick out of the name.

"Imtheboss of nothing..." she sarcastically jokes.

Emma narrows her eyes.

"The only thing I really care about besides the married thing... and the jail thing... is the political thing." she says suspiciously.

"The political thing?

"I could never be with someone in a high political standing"

"Oh" the brunette sighs

"So that clenches it. We'll never be together. I'll take care of these." she gets up and goes to pay for the hot chocolates.

Emma watches her, deep in thought.


A few days later, It's the Boston carnival weekend, luckily the weather is pleasant, so Emma takes Henry, as their walking through the various stalls of breads, she hears a voice behind her.

"Hey...Em-ma"

She turns, there standing in front of her, is Regina.

Emma eyes the brunette from head to toe, she is wearing her purple blazer, a low buttoned shirt, black trousers and boots, her hair immaculate and her eyes as brown as chocolate.

"Hi" she awkwardly says.

"I knew you would be here" the biggest smile creeps onto the brunettes face and puts her hands together.

"Really?"

"Gut feeling"

Henry appears, standing next to Emma.

"Hey, you're the food store woman"

"And You must be Henry" she smiles at him.

"Can she join us mom?"

Emma looks at him, then back to Regina.

"Well, if she hasn't got any other plans..."

"I haven't" she quickly replies.

"Great"

They started to walk slowly along the various stalls, they came to a win a prize stall.

"I remember these" Regina mutters.

"Are you good at it?" Henry asks.

"Sure"

"Prove it" the blonde smirked.

"Okay I will"

She paid the man $5 and took the three hoops, the first one missed the wooden numbered stumps, Henry laughed, she threw the second, she nearly got it

"Well, it looks like you've lost your touch" Emma joked crossing her arms.

This made Regina more determined, she threw the last hoop, it fell around stump number eight, she turned to Henry and Emma.

"you did it" Henry shouted.

"I've still got that magic touch" she says sarcastically.

"Alright, Alright, what have you won" the blonde remarked, uncrossing her arms.

The guy handed her a dark red, heart-shaped ornament, that had splashes of lighter red and a few scattered darker patterns, it fitted in her hand perfectly.

"Aw, that's sweet" the blonde remarked, reaching out her hand to touch it, Regina could tell the blonde liked it

Henry watched both of them, their eyes met and they pulled away.

They continued walking, Regina put the heart in her blazer pocket.

They watched children with painted faces, dancing to the band that was playing. A few tourists with maps and a young couple seemingly having an argument before suddenly kissing each other. Both Regina and Emma looked momentarily confused, but then glanced sideways at each other and smiled.

They came to a bench.

"Lets sit down, my feet are killing me " the blonde moaned.

Henry sat himself in the middle of the two women, eating his candy floss.

A minute later, Emma saw Ruby in the crowd.

"I'll be right back" she told Henry and Regina and walked off towards Ruby.

"Ruby"

"Emma"

"How are you"

"Good, this is my new boyfriend, I met him at the diner, where I work"

"Hi" Emma had a grin on her face.

"What you doing here?"

"I'm here with Henry and Regina, they're sitting over there" she points.

"Oh my god, your friends with the mayor, how did that happen?"

Emma laughs.

"Long story"

Ruby looks at Regina, who is talking to Henry.

"Hm" Ruby raises an eyebrow.

"What?"

"Nothing, Nothing" she laughs.

Emma looks over to the bench, Henry is looking straight at her.

"My mom, likes you" he says to Regina.

She smiles at him.

"She's staring at you now, in a goofy way" Regina pulls her head up, to look at Emma.

Emma see's her look at her and looks away.

"You looked at her, like that earlier" he says scoffing the candy floss.

"Oh, Really" a blush appearing on her cheeks.

"Yeah, I've never seen someone look at her like that" he says wiping his mouth.

She doesn't respond.

Emma walks back over.

"Sorry, I saw my friend Ruby, who I haven't seen in ages, I had to say hi"

"No worries" she gets up, which makes Henry get up and they start wondering off.

Henry walks slightly ahead.

"Have you thought of what you want to do, career wise?"

"No, I was thinking something to do with the law, maybe the police"

"Sounds great"

they stop on the street corner.

"Right, I better get back home, Neal is coming to see Henry"

Regina nods.

"Meet me Saturday, at that café, say 1pm?" she points across the road.

They stand there staring for a moment.

"Sure"

"See you later" Emma mutters while walking away.

"Wait"

Emma turns and walks back, confused, while Regina reaches for her blazer pocket, taking out what she had won earlier.

"Here, I want you to have this" she puts it into the blondes hand, looking slightly nervous but with a smile.

Emma looks down, it's the heart ornament.

Both Henry and Emma smile.

"I can't take this, its yours"

"I saw that you liked it, its my gift to you"

Emma holds it in her hands, staring at it.

"Thank-you"

"Your welcome, you better go" she says, slightly sad that the blonde has to go

Emma nods with a smile and hesitantly goes to leave.

"Bye"

"Bye"


Thank-you all again for your faves/follows and nice reviews, there will be one more chapter, can't believe I'm coming to the end.