"Good morning, what can I get for you?" The waitress asked standing by their table.

"He will have pancakes with maple syrup, and a latte."

"And she'll have a sesame seed bagel with scrambled egg and a caramel latte." They both looked at each other lovingly and chuckled; they order this way every time they go to granny's and they always have the exact same thing. "Oh and she'll need extra tomato sauce."

The waitress smiled "that's adorable." She gushed, "the two of you are so sweet."

"Oh you are tragic." Conrad shook his head "You order each other's breakfast."

"No it's cute, I better go place this order." The woman reaffirmed.

Regina smiled at the waitress before glaring at Robin's brother.

"Seriously the two of you are so cheesy."

Robin administered a sharp kick to his shin under the table. "Keep your jealousy to yourself would you."

"Jealousy?"

"Yes jealousy."

"Alright, we need to talk about Zelena." Regina stated breaking up the petty squabble. "Robin this was your plan, how exactly were you intending to get Zelena to agree to this?"

"I hadn't though that far ahead, I was just hoping that he'd work that apparent charm he's so proud of."

She turned her gaze to Conrad "Well?"

"It shouldn't be hard if she's as desperate as you say she is."

"Oh don't worry about that, she is." Robin shook his head.

Conrad stood up only to revive strange looks from the two "I don't wish to be a third wheel in the middle of this date, which hotel did she stay he was saying at?" He asked Regina, who knew because she had told her the day before when she had been disguised as Emma.

"I told her I'd meet her back at the bar at 11."

"Right, well then, It seems I have a date."

"She may be disguised as Emma, if she is this will be her." She showed him a picture of her and Emma on her phone. "If she hasn't bother to disguise herself, this is Zelena." She showed him a picture taken at Christmas.

"Right, well they are both hot."

Regina rolled her eyes as they watched him walk out. Robin rounded the table to sit opposite her taking her hands in his. "Do you think he'll be able to do it?" She asked biting her lip due to nerves, her foot tapping on the tiled floor.

"I think that he will definitely try his best." She nodded and the waitress returned with their food, thanking her they began to eat. "So what do you want to do today?" He asked.

"We need to concentrate on Zelena."

"No we don't, Cons taking care of it. We're in New York, take your pick of things to do." He wanted her to calm down and just relax, when she was tense she couldn't just have fun.

"Well there is one thing that Henry told me about." She grinned.


"Have you spoken to Regina this morning?" David asked Emma as she tipped herself a cup of coffee.

"Not yet, she'll ring me if she needs to. How are the boys?" She asked glancing over at Henry and Roland who were sat in the living room reading the story book.

"They seem fine, Henry knows what's going on and he's managed to persuade Roland."

Emma nodded as she leant against the kitchen island simply watching them.

"When are Daddy and Gina coming back? Henry when can we go home? I want to go home." He moped, Henry knew that allowing him to talk to his mom would probably make him even more upset and not comfort him. He wanted to know how the plan was going, he couldn't believe that she hadn't even told him about it before she left.

"Ro they're coming back in a couple of days, they've just gone on a little trip that's all and I bet they bring us back loads of presents."

"Presents?"

"Yeah, don't worry Roland they'll be just fine."


"Zelena, I presume." He stated walking over to the table where she was undercover as Emma.

"So my little sister isn't as stupid as I thought." She chuckled dropping her disguise in the middle of the deserted bar.

"She's dating my brother so obviously she must be a little stupid"

Zelena grinned and leaned back in her seat, placing her arms along the top of it. "So then…"

"Conrad."

"Conrad, what brings you here at…" She glanced up at the clock "Eleven thirty. Alcoholic?"

"Not exactly." He sat down next to her. "You're much sexier than your sister." He complimented.

"You're hotter than your outlaw of a brother." She threw back moving one of her hands down to rest on his thigh. "I never liked that smart arse goody goody."

"Good is tediously boring."

"I could probably just about have been civil with my sister if she were still evil. But she insists on becoming a hero, on redemption." She rolled her eyes.

"Oh, how far the great will fall."

"She has fallen from power in that sense, but she still had everything. She's mayor, has two kids, a boyfriend who loves her and then there's those horrendous heroes"

"I have to say that my brother did look rather besotted with her."

"I had tried to steal my sister's man." She sated smirking at him. "But maybe outlaws are overrated."

"I have to say that evil queens aren't exactly to my taste either, wicked is so much more fun."

"Of course it is darling, wicked is wonderful, evil on the other hand, well, evil is just sad and boring."

"Oh speaking of boring my brother and your little sister are having a romantic breakfast in Brooklyn, they even ordered for each other."

She rolled her eyes again "Do you think that's there's anyway for you to take my mind of that sop?" She asked her hand coming into contact with the bare skin on his upper arm and causing a zapping sensation, a pleasant one but it was enough to make her withdraw her hand.

"What was that?" he asked having felt it too.

"I have no idea, there is no magic this side of the town line, except this necklace." She took it off and laid it down on the table. Carefully she moved her hand to the same spot, resulting in the same reaction. Her eyes grew wide as she tilted her head to look at him "Well, that's odd." Leaning in she touched her lips to his and pulled back immediately feeling the same thing. "What the hell is going on?"

"Maybe it's a sign." He smirked "A sign that you can have your happy ending just like your sister."

"Ha, wishful thinking, she's not getting her happy ending." She stood up and was about to leave when he stopped her.

"When can I see you again?"

"Why would you want to see me again?" She sneered.

"I felt something and I know you did too."

"My sister is setting me up, I'm not stupid, I know that they sent you."

"Yeah they did, but they didn't make me feel that."

She rolled her eyes and straightened her black hat "See you around Conrad, if you could kill your brother for me before then it would be much appreciated."

"You don't want to kill him." He stated smugly.

"What are you talking about, he dies my sister suffers."

"He's my brother, and I love him, deep down you love Regina."

"Ha, Regina? I do not love my sister."

"Why?"

"She had everything, I had nothing."

"I felt like that with my brother, that my parents loved him more than they loved me. Do you know how I tried to get back at him?"

"How?" She scoffed leaning against the bar.

"I had one of my men try to make his life a living hell."

"I'm assuming that didn't work."

"No, but then I came to realise that, I was wasting my life, trying to get my own on him was stopping me from doing things that I deep down wanted to do." He slowly made his way over to her. "Drop any idea you have of gaining revenge on Regina and start living, properly."

"Let me guess, that starts with you right?"

"Why not?" He shrugged.


"Come on Robin, it's not much further." She smiled as she dragged him along behind her.

"You're really not going to tell me what it is?"

"Nope, you'll have to wait."

"It's freezing." He complained as he placed his arm around her.

"There, that must be it."

"What exactly am I looking at here?" he asked staring at the large park a confused look adorning his face. "Central park?"

"Henry said that there was an apple tree that looked like mine here."

"An apple tree? It's the middle of winter, there aren't even any leaves on that tree never mind apples." He chuckled squeezing her side lovingly.

"I know that, I'm an expert when it comes to apples remember. I just wanted to tell him that we'd seen it that's all." She smirked as they began to wonder through the park, which was rather empty. She rested her head on his shoulder and glanced up at him "How do you think the boys are?" She asked as he took her right hand in his left, his right still across her shoulder, her left around his waist.

"I think that they are just fine and that Emma is probably stuffing them full of sweets and sugar."

"Well, if they go hyper on her, she the one having to deal with it."

"Too right." He chuckled. She went quiet and sighed, "Regina, is there something else?"

"I don't know; I just have a million things swirling around in my head. I'm fine Robin." She replied.

"Are you sure."

"Yes, I'm sure." She smiled in return her eyes falling to the floor.

"Do you know what?" He asked taking his arm from around her and casting her a smirk. "You can't come to New York and not try the pizza."

"Oh yes the famous pizza, Henry wouldn't shut up about that either. Anyone would think we were in Italy."

"Come on, I know that Italian is your favourite food."

"Yes of course it is." He took her hand and she squeezed his "But do you know what I don't like?"

"What's that?" He asked.

"Burnt garlic bread." She snickered.

"Oh I am never going to live that down am I?" he moaned in mock frustration

She shook her head "Nope. I can't believe we came here to get rid of Zelena and we're going out for pizza, it just seems rather weird."

"Yeah well." He shrugged bringing her closer to him as they found the nearest exit out of the park, that was when his phone rang. "Hello?"

"Who is it?" She asked.

"Unknown number." He mouthed.

"Robin." His brother's voice came from the other end of the line.

"Hey, how did it go?" He asked as Regina pestered him to put it on speaker phone. They sat down on a bench and he tapped the speaker button.

"What happened?" She asked tapping her feet on the ground nervously.

"Well your sister really is something."

Regina rolled her eyes "Seriously though, how did it go?"

"She asked me to kill Robin." He stated blandly.

Regina's mouth dropped open as she turned to look at her boyfriend "You cannot be serious!" She scolded.

"Oh I am, I said no by the way, just in case you were worrying."

"You better have done." Robin shook his head.

"Anyway, after that I told her that the only way for her to be happy was to drop this stupid vendetta she has towards you."

"And?" Regina narrowed her eyes as she looked towards the phone, waiting for his answer.

"I think; I'll be able to work this out for you."

"Good."

"She kissed me."

"Why does that not surprise me?" Regina shook her head; from what she had seen of her sister she jumped on anything that moved.

"It was weird, there was a spark."

"What kind of spark? She doesn't have magic here." Robin stated as Regina looked up at him worriedly.

"No, it wasn't magic, it was something else, it was like a magnet."

Regina's mouth dropped open in shock "A spark? When she touched you?"

"When we touched, yeah."

"Oh my god, Robin, you know what that spark is. We have that same thing."

"Our spark, but, our sparks true love… Oh my god." Robin's eyes widened in realisation "It couldn't be, could it?"

"My half-sister and your brother, are seemingly soul mates."

"Well, that I didn't see coming." He stated running his hand through his hair.

"Guys, what's going on?" Conrad asked from the other end of the phone. "What's all this talk about true love and soul mates?"

"Con, Regina and I have a spark, it's this indescribable feeling, more powerful than magic."

"Yeah and?"

"From what you've just told us, you have that same spark with Zelena." Regina added.

"You're kidding right?"

"No, seems you found your true love, good luck with that." She smirked. "If you thought the Evil Queen was crazy, then you're certainly in for a shock."

"Right, we'll see you later." Robin stated before cutting him off, he turned to look at Regina. "Well that I hadn't expected."

"Me neither, I can certainly say that I am completely and utterly shocked." She just looked at him wide eyed before bursting into laughter.

"What is that all about?"

"I have literally no idea, I can't quite believe it, what was the likelihood of my sister's true love being my true love's brother?" she pulled a weird face at the tongue twister.

"Well stranger things happen."

"You got that right." She chuckled standing up and placing her hands on her hips "What about that pizza you promised me?"

"Come on, I think I know a place." He stood and placed his arm around her yet again. She leant her head on his shoulder and lent up to place a kiss on his jaw bone, this resulted in him dropping a kiss into her hair. Grinning they wandered out of the park to find the place he had be talking about.


Conrad walked down the sidewalk sliding his phone into his pocket, he'd had quite the morning, could it be true what they were saying. Yes, he had never felt anything quite like that, but was it truly so easy to fall in love with someone, especially someone who is known for being wicked. She was so different yet so similar to her sister, her hair and eyes were different, but they evidently had glimmers of the same personality, they were both fiery and powerful. How on earth was this going to work, he had told them that he would be able to pursue her, but he hadn't really bargained on falling in love. He didn't know if he were quite ready for that, ready for the commitment. But Robin, love clearly agreed with him, and Regina; the two of them were quite obviously besotted with one another. The idea that he could have a relationship like the one they had was an exciting concept, but also a scary one.

He felt lucky that there was no magic this side of the border, at least that placed them on an even playing field, in this world they were simply a man and a woman, without the added complications magic brought. Shaking his head, he looked down at his feet, it was all a bit too much for him to even begin to process, he had only met her for a mere ten minutes, that wasn't anything to base his whole future on. Was it? If Regina was right about those sparks though, maybe it was worth taking the chance, he wanted to be happy, he wanted what his brother had and most of all he wanted that happy ending that he never thought would be possible.

He was deep in thought when he bumped directly into someone, his hands instantly going up to grab them, in attempt to stop them falling. As soon as his fingers came into contact with her, the same spark he had felt that morning ran through his fingertips. He looked up and grinned "Well, well, fancy seeing you again so soon."

She looked up and cast him a smirk "Hello."

"How are you since the…" He looked down at his watch "21 minutes and 34 seconds we last saw each other."

"Ooh so precise, missing me already?" She asked.

"Still wanting to kill my brother?"

"Oh no, I've come up with a much better plan." She shook her head grinning wickedly.

"Really, do tell."

"Well your brother clearly has the ability to recognise Regina's kisses."

"Where's this going?"

"If I use my locket to change into Regina and he caught me kissing another man, let's say for instance, his brother, how's he to know that I'm not in fact Regina?"

He nodded "Well, that would work, but there's one problem."

"What?" She asked as they began to walk together down the sidewalk.

"Then my brother would not only hate Regina, he'd hate me too and another problem has just come to mind, the two of them are inseparable, how are you ever going to get him to believe you're Regina when Regina's with him?"

"You think too much, my head is spinning, repeat only slower." She shook her head.

He chuckled "First problem, my brother would hate me."

"So what darling, who needs siblings, next?"

"Right okay, second why would Regina be kissing me?"

"Oh, I've kissed Robin trust me, she probably wants to spice things up a little."

"You've kissed Robin?"

"Yes, when I was disguised as his ex-wife, although to be honest he was in love with Regina at the time, so that might account for something."

"Marian?"

"Yes Marian, did you know her?"

"Yes, I did as a matter of fact."

"Anyway who cares about her, she's quite dead. What was your last problem?"

"Getting Regina away from Robin long enough to make him think that you're her."

"Well, that's simple, she has no magic, I'll just tie her up somewhere. Oh wait, a better idea has just come to me."

"What?"

"We tie Robin up and you disguise yourself as him, then she can catch you with me."

"You are messed up." He shook his head as he chuckled at her.

"Thank you, I do try."

"Something tells me we'll be able to tie Regina up easier than we will Robin."

"Yes, you're right. So are you in?"

"Um, as much as I'd like to help you with your, wicked plot, what's in it for me?"

"Well, me of course." She smirked raising her eyebrows. "I know you felt the spark too."

"What spark?"

"Really Conrad, I heard your whole conversation with my sister on the phone."

"You did." He answered, no hint of surprise in his voice.

"What exactly is it that you're working out for them?" she asked straightening her skirt.

"Your sister wanted me to give you your happy ending." He stated bluntly.

Her smile fell as she narrowed her eyes, her sister wanted her to have a happy ending? Why? Why would she want that for her after everything she's done to them? It made no sense, her sister should want her dead, she should want her to suffer, she most certainly shouldn't want her to find love, find her happy ending. "What?"

"When I told her of the spark, she said that maybe you could find your happy ending too, just like she had and that she wanted you to be happy."

"I don't believe you, why, why would she want that? I've done nothing but make her life miserable." She stated beginning to feel emotion coming from somewhere she hadn't expected.

"Seemingly she's telling the truth when she says she's not the evil queen anymore."

"I know that, but why after everything I've done to her, everything I'm still trying to do to her."

"Love has blocked out her need for vengeance." He quipped simply.

"How is that possible?" she asked as he touched her arm and the tingles started.

"Why don't we find out?"


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