It was 5pm and Regina and Emma were in the kitchen just finishing the children dinner when Emma came behind Regina and wiped her arms around her "thank you again for doing this Regina" Emma said before kissing her on the cheek
"anything for you darling" Regina said smiling, just then there were a knock on the door
"that will be Catherine with the children" Emma said pulling away from Regina and going to the door, to open it "hello you three" Emma said smiling at them
"Hi Emma" Henry and Lily both said with smile's on their faces
"Henry while don't you and Lily go and wash up for dinner" Emma said to him
"Okay mum, come on Lily" He said before they went upstairs.
"Did they have fun?" Emma asked Catherine after Catherine had come in
"yes they did" Catherine said following Emma into the kitchen "Hello Regina, I got you some wine, I hope you like it" Catherine said handing Regina the wine
"thank you Catherine, but I don't drink wine but thank you for the thought" Regina said sending her a smile
"Oh, well you will have to let me know what you drink so I can get it for next time" Catherine Said smiling at Regina there is not going to be a next time Regina thought to herself
"Of course" Regina said smiling back at Catherine
"is there anything I can help you with ?" Catherine asked Regina
"no everything is done, it just need to cook" Regina said as the Children walked into the Kitchen
"Alright you two let me see your hands" Catherine said to them and they show her they hands "looks clear to me" Catherine said smiling at the children.
"Go sit at the table you two" Emma said to the children and then when to made them a drink, Catherine Helped Regina take the food to the table for the children
"after you have your dinner you can watch a film before you go to bed" Regina told them before all the adults went back to the kitchen to have a drink and to talk a little, it was very hard for Regina to sit there and made small talk with Catherine, but she did it, Regina was glad when the children said they have finish their dinner, Emma took them into the living room so they could pick a film, which left Regina with Catherine to clear the table, Regina did the washing up and Catherine did the drying "you know Catherine you really don't need to help me, you are a guest" Regina said
"no I want to help" Catherine said to Regina
"Cath, Regina is right, you are a guest so why don't you go and watch the film with the children and I help Regina" Emma Said knowing Regina was trying her best with Catherine but also knowing it going to take some more time than the one dinner before they were friends and Emma didn't want Catherine to push Regina to make things between them alright.
"Fine" Catherine said before heading out of the kitchen, but as she was leaving Emma grab her arm and put her mouth to Catherine ear "give her time and let her come to you" Emma said so that Regina could not heard her, Catherine just nodded before leaving the Kitchen.
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Katherine and Ruby turned up at 6:30pm to see if they could help with anything but there was nothing to do apart from putting the Children to bed, which Regina and Emma did so that left Catherine, Katherine and Ruby to talk. By 7:00pm everyone was there so by 7:10pm they were all having dinner, talking and laughing, and Regina find herself having fun, she could not remember the last time she have this much fun "can I get you another drink Mary Margaret ?" Regina asked seeing her finishing her drink
"yes please Regina, thank you" Mary Margaret Said
"would anyone else like a drink?" Regina asked knowing everyone else was okay with their drinks, Regina took a hold of Mary Margaret glass from the button as to not get her fingerprints on it, when Regina was in the kitchen, she put Mary Margaret glass in a sandwich bag, Regina put the glass where she knew no one would find it before getting Mary Margaret a new glass and pouring her a drink before returning to the table.
By 10:45pm everyone had left "Emma darling why don't you help Catherine up to bed and I will get her some water" Regina said to Emma
"alright" Emma said before kissing Regina and going over to Catherine "come on you!" Emma said while pulling Catherine up out of her seat, she had a lot to drink tonight just like Regina have planned, all Regina had to do was keep filling up her glass and sometime Regina would do it without Catherine knowing, it was a lot easier to get Catherine drunk then she thought it would be.
Regina broken up some sleeping pills and mixed them into Catherine water, Regina cleaned up after herself before taking the water to Catherine.
"Here Catherine drink this" Regina Said handing Catherine the water "Drink it all it will help with the hangover" Regina said knowing that after she had one to many herself, she always would drink water and the hangover was never really that bad the next day.
"good girl" Regina said smiling "help me get her under the covers" Regina said to Emma taking the glass of Catherine once she was done, it did not take long for Catherine to fall asleep "come on darling lets go to bed we both have work in the morning, but you may want to think about letting Catherine use your car tomorrow as I don't think she will be awake by the time we have to leave" Regina said taking Emma hand in her
"thank you for tonight I had fun and yeah I think your right about letting Catherine use my car tomorrow but that means you are going to have to take me to work tomorrow" Emma Said smiling as they walked out of the guest room and going into their bedroom "yes it was fun dear and of course I will be more than happy to take you to work tomorrow and one of us may need to take Lily to work" Regina said not wanting anything to happen to that little girl, as Regina did care for the little girl.
It was 12.00am in the morning and Regina was still wake, Regina was tired and wanted to sleep but knew she could not because this was it, "Emma honey are you a wake ?" Regina asked the sleeping woman next to her, slowly moving Emma arm from her Regina got out of bed, Regina took out some gloves from her drawer, careful not to wake Emma up, Regina then when down to the kitchen and gone the glass from where she put it along with a knife and then carefully taking the glass out of the sandwich bag and holding it up to the light, turning it around until she found Mary Margaret fingerprint and smiled to herself, Regina knew that watching so much CSI would pay off one day, she put some taper over the fingerprint and then pull it back, seeing the fingerprint was now on the taper, putting the taper down Regina put on her gloves before picking up Emma's car keys and going to Emma's car and popping the hood, before pulling out the knife and putting it under the break line, ready to cut it...