I have overcome my writers block! Hopefully I will update regularly again. I apologize for the extended wait time! This is sort of preliminary chapter to show myself I can keep going. I am working on the next already! If you are still with me, thank you! If you just found me, thank you! Let me know what you think! As usual, I do not own OUaT blah blah blah…

Chapter 37

Friday, which is usually a good day. It's the end of the week, here comes the weekend. Except, this Friday is the last day before a coronation, which means Emma is stressed out and cannot make her mother stop calling her. This could be the reason Regina just found a cell phone ringing continuously at the bottom of a clothes hamper. As she picked the phone out, she answered it and simply said "hello…" before she held the device at arms length as the voice of Snow White came screeching out of it.

Emma walked into the laundry room with a donut hanging out of her mouth and very casually took the cell phone from a bewildered looking Regina, hit the end button and then dropped it in the washing machine, closing the lid. She then walked out of the room leaving Regina to look at the washing machine warily before following her to the kitchen.

"Emma… I hate to question your sanity so early in the day, but what was all that about?" Regina sat at the kitchen island and and waited for a reply.

Emma finished her doughnut, very casually, before answering. "Snow. She won't stop calling. So I stopped answering."

Rubbing her temples for a moment before trying again, Regina asked "and our solution is to hide the phone? Do we not think perhaps muting it, or maybe turning it off would be better?"

Emma frowned a little before heading out of the kitchen, fetching her phone. She returned to sip her coffee and set her now turned off phone on the counter. "You're right. Much better, thank you."

Regina couldn't help but giggle at her very own lovely Emma Swan. "She will eventually hunt you down instead you know. Your mother is a very skilled tracker."

Emma shrugged, "yeah well, I am a very skilled hider. Besides, it's not hard to outrun a woman pushing a stroller." Emma smiled broadly as she wrapped her arms around her fiance. She went for a kiss but Regina pulled away abruptly shaking her head.

"No. Absolutely no kisses until you wash your entire face. Last time I let you near me after a doughnut I became covered in glaze." Regina shot at her before quickly examining her clothing for any sugary residues.

Emma shrugged and backed up a few steps, "okay. But if I remember correctly, you weren't mad very long. In fact I distinctly remember you losing all your anger about two minutes into the shower you insisted you needed to get the glaze off yourself…"

Blushing slightly Regina let her eyes travel up and down Emma while answering her, "well, I imagine I would have been able to retain my anger if a certain blonde woman hadn't insisted upon coming with me to help make sure every trace of sugar was gone."

As the two smiled at one another, preparing a repeat performance, they were interrupted by a loud banging at the front door. Emma groaned loudly and actually fell to the floor. Regina jumped up to check on her, actually concerned, but then she saw Emma was squeezing her eyes tightly shut and had her tongue hanging out. "Emma, really. It's got to be your mother. Get up!" Emma didn't move. "Emma!" Regina kicked her lightly in the leg. Finally, as the banging at the door continued, Regina sighed heavily and went to answer it.

When the door finally swung open, Snow shouted immediately, "where is she?! She has been ignoring my calls all morning Regina! You know how important this is! Where is she?!"

Regina stared blankly at her until she was quiet. "She's dead."

"Excuse me?"

With a gesture towards the kitchen Regina repeated, "She's dead. It was very sudden. The funeral will be on Sunday, I imagine. Of course you're invited." Regina made to close the door but Snow bolted past her and marched like a storm trooper straight to the kitchen. Shrugging with amusement, Regina grabbed her keys and purse and headed to her car to go to work.

Snow walked straight to Emma who was still sprawled on the floor, tongue hanging out. "Emma, you get up and stop playing dead. You will help me and you will cooperate or so help me I will find something to trade to Regina to make her turn you into a child again."

Emma pulled her tongue back in and peeped at her mother with one eye, "you wouldn't". Snow raised a brow and put on a 'try me' face. Deciding not to push her luck, Emma sighed heavily and got to her feet, sitting on a stool and dropping her head to the counter top. "Fine. What?"

After the most torturous two hours of her life, Emma managed to get her mother to leave and she headed to work, quite late. Fortunately, no big bad monsters showed up in town that she had missed. There was, however David on the phone at the station, looking uncomfortable at best. He hung up and looked at Emma with pleading eyes. "Hey, would you mind heading over to Grannys and maybe getting Leroy to put his clothes back on?"

Eyes wide with shock Emma said, "What? It's like ten a.m." David held his hands up in agreement. "Ugh, fine. Not like my morning could get any worse." She put her jacket right back on and headed out.

…..

Lorelei hadn't slept as well as she wished. Ruby on the other hand was not in the mood to be awake based on the way she shoved the siren off the bed when she attempted to wake her. So Lorelei paced around the room for a while before finally reaching for another cigarette only to find the pack empty. Groaning at such an atrocious inconvenience, she dressed and headed out to get more. It was an ungodly hour, probably nine a.m. and she was less than enthusiastic about having to leave. She went to the small store and (as usual) handed the man a pile of cash and let him sort out how much he needed. He was a quirky, twitchy man, Ruby had said his name but between how twitchy he was, and all his sneezing, she couldn't be bothered to remember it. He pushed the rest of the cash back to her and she stuffed it into her pocket, taking her smokes and leaving. She was just about to leave when the grouchy man who sang the Cher song called out for her to stop. She sighed and turned to look at him, "what is it, Cher killer?"

Leroy paid no attention to her name calling and instead asked her, "what happened in the convent the other day?"

Squinting at him, Lorelei tried to decide what precisely he wanted, but really didn't understand. "I have no idea as I was not there. Go away." She turned to leave and he had the audacity to grab her arm. Before anyone could have known what was happening, Leroy was sprawled on the floor of the shop and Lorelei was standing over him. "You know what's funny, little man? I don't need magic to teach someone to keep their hands to themselves." Sneezy was so scared by the interaction he was hiding behind the counter, so Lorelei grabbed Leroy by his ankle and dragged him back to the pharmacy area, intending to make him rather sorry about grabbing ahold of her.

….

When Emma walked into the diner, there were only three people there. Granny who was standing behind the counter with her arms crossed, looking thoroughly displeased, Leroy who was simply standing, very calmly in the middle of the diner, entirely nude, and Lorelei who was sitting in a chair with her feet propped up on the table with her eyes closed. Sighing heavily, Emma approached Leroy. "Leroy, why are you naked?"

Leroy looked at her with slightly glazed eyes and smiled, "oh, hello Emma. I'm just learning something."

Frowning, Emma looked at Granny with questions in her eyes, but Granny just stood there, looking a bit more mad every second. "Uhm, ok, but what could you learn by being naked at the diner?"

With the same glassy eyed smile he said, "I'm learning that no one wants to touch me, so I shouldn't touch other people."

"Get dressed."

"I can't yet."

"When can you?"

"When someone touches me."

Emma took about half a second to think before kicking the legs of the chair out from Lorelei. The siren hit the floor and immediately rolled over clutching her head. Calmly, Emma reached down and grabbed her by the arm and physically threw her at Leroy. They collided and all the expected violence occurred. Emma pulled her phone out and sent a text, waiting just a few seconds before a reply came and then put it away again. Leroy and Lorelei were actively trying to choke each other as Emma waved her hand and the siren vanished in a cloud of white smoke. Leroy jumped up, attempted to cover himself with a napkin and ran out the back door of the diner.

Nodding in approval, Granny uncrossed her arms and promptly got a to go cup of coffee ready for Emma. "Good news," Granny said as she poured the cup, "Lorelei can cook up a sort of mind control potion using modern medications."

"Awesome." Emma replied as she took her coffee cup. She nodded her thanks to Granny before heading back to the station. When she opened the door to the station, she could hear Lorelei yelling, presumably at David.

"This is ridiculous! I did nothing wrong! I know why she did this, it's because Regina is in love with me and this isn't right! It's an abuse of power!" As Emma turned the corner, Lorelei was calling out to David while shaking the jail bars vigorously. Upon seeing Emma she promptly stopped, cocked a brow at her and sat on the tiny cot in the cell.

David uncovered his ears and looked at Emma, "do we have to keep her?"

Emma nodded, sipping her coffee. "She created a potion, naturally, and made Leroy stand naked in the diner until someone touched him."

David frowned in confusion but Lorelei piped up, "He deserved it. He grabbed ahold of me, aggressively. It frightened me so…" The siren sighed in a very 'damsel in distress' manner. "I simply wanted to show him that no one wished to be touched by him, and then this blonde bohemian interrupted."

David shook his head, dismissing it all. "Well I'm glad I got your text to lock both cells tightly. They were wide open beforehand."

Emma sat at her desk, propping her feet up in a leisurely way. "I figure, controlling someone using a potion warrants a few nights in jail."

"A few nights? Are you entirely serious?" Lorelei was standing at the bars again, clearly angry. "I have work to do, in case you've forgotten."

"And we have a coronation to attend to, without your interruptions." Emma smiled at the prisoner sweetly while David chuckled. Emma pulled her phone out, sending a text.

Emma: Hey there, I got a present for you.

Regina: Oh do you now?

Emma: Yep. One siren, locked up in a jail cell.

Regina: For how long?

Emma: I'd like to say a few days, but in all reality, until she finds a way out.

Regina: Well, without her magic, I don't think she will find it too easy to escape.

It was then that Emma felt a slight chill as she felt Regina's magic wrap around the building and settle on the jail cell. Lorelei noticed too and made a loud and exaggerated groan as she flopped onto the cot.

Emma: I love when your magic washes over me ;)

Regina: Really? Imagine what it would feel like inside of you…

Emma gulped and tried to hide her red face from her father who was shaking his head and pretending he hadn't noticed. She decided to put her phone away before she made an unscheduled visit to the mayors office.