Prompt: How do they deal with Henry dating?
As the movie played in the dark theater, Emma's focus stayed on the screen. Every so often, she looked over at Regina and it always cracked her up because the brunette's eyes were never on the movie.
"Stare any harder and I swear you'll burn a hole in the back of that sweet girl's head," Emma whispered to her with a large smile on her face.
"I can do a lot of things, but not that," Regina quietly replied.
"You know what I mean," she said. "Stop worrying so much. He's fine."
"If she does anything to hurt him, I swear—"
"Regina," she said with a firm tone and placed a hand on the other woman's knee. Finally, the brunette looked away from the kids and then locked eyes with her. "If he gets hurt, we'll be there for him. But you have to stop thinking the worst is gonna happen. Just let them be. We shouldn't even be here."
"Well, if you think that then why are you here?"
"To keep you from doing something rash," Emma answered.
Someone nearby shushed them. Regina didn't pay them any attention as she looked back at Henry and his date, but Emma looked around through the dark and squinted at whoever had tried to shut her up.
"He's my little prince," Regina explained. "I just want him to be safe."
"And happy?"
Regina looked at her again before she agreed. "And happy."
"Look at him," Emma said then and motioned to Henry where he sat several rows ahead of them. "I'd say he's happy. And so far nothing bad has happened to him. He's just sitting here watching a movie with a pretty girl he likes. Like I am."
Regina whipped her head to the side to look at her, her eyes wide and shock evident on her face.
Emma beamed at her and quietly laughed as she leaned closer to the other woman. "Just sit back and enjoy this overly cheesy romantic comedy with me."
"Is this a- a date," Regina asked. "Did you hijack our son's date to have a first one with me?"
"I didn't really hijack anything," Emma said before she looked down at Henry.
She felt Regina shift beside her, and out of the corner of her eye she noticed Regina was looking at him as well.
"I asked him if it would be okay," Emma added.
"You did?"
"Yeah," Emma replied just before Henry turned around and looked toward the back of the theater.
"And…what did she say?"
After a few seconds, Henry finally spotted them and smiled. He waved at them and Emma smiled and waved back. A moment later, Henry turned back around and said something to his date before he pulled out his phone and started to type.
Emma looked at Regina and continued to smile. Before she could answer the brunette's question, her phone vibrated and she retracted the hand she had on Regina's knee. She apologized as she pulled the phone out of her pocket, but smiled again when she read the text she'd just received from Henry.
"Take a look for yourself," Emma said and handed her phone to Regina.
Regina squinted at the screen, but relaxed a little once she seemed able to read the message, which asked, "How's it going up there?"
"Regina?"
Regina started to type out a reply to Henry and then handed the phone back while she responded, "Shh. I'm trying to enjoy a movie with a pretty girl," Regina finally responded.
Emma bit her lip as she smiled yet again and then looked down at the messages displayed on her phone.
How's it going up there?
Call it another successful operation.
Emma put her phone away and leaned in toward Regina again. That time she draped an arm around the brunette's shoulder and pulled her a little closer. "For our next date maybe you can teach me how to cook," she suggested.
"Maybe I'll just cook for you. I don't trust your listening skills, Miss Swan. You'll burn down my entire kitchen before you can even so much as crack an egg."
"You taught me magic, didn't you," Emma rhetorically asked. "I can be a good student when I want to be."
"Can you?"
"Mhmm."
"Prove it."
"How?"
Regina smirked at her and said, "Kiss me."
Emma's expression brightened once more before she moved in and did exactly what she was told.
