A/N: Hello, If I didn't respond to your review I am so sorry, but for some reason they aren't letting me reply. So it's been difficult. However, thank you SO much for all the reviews. The woman who makes sure I don't give up writing has kindly taken pity on you and tried to catch all of my mistakes. I really hope the second chapter lives up to your expectations, and without further ado, you may proceed to what you actually wish to be reading.

During the dinner Emma had simply pushed shit around her plate. Not really wanting to be there, but having no choice. Her eyes watching everyone's interactions, watching the children, who ranged from the age of two to about twelve in Alexandra's case, eat and chatter amongst their parents.

"Alex, Lonnie, there are a bunch of toys and gadgets upstairs in the playroom. Why don't you wrangle up all the other kids? I am sure you are as bored as I am down here with this boring adults talk" Chuckled the younger wolf.

Underneath the table Emma clenched her fists. Ruby had spoken as if it were her house, as if she owned it. As if she were the one that payed the bills, as if she held claim over everything inside number 108 mifflin drive. Emma had to keep herself from shooting the wolf a glare. She had been planning on sending the children away herself.

Together Regina and Snow had decided to throw a dinner party for Emma's big forty. A bunch of people were there. So many so that they had been moved to the much larger dining room. The one with the gigantic, but admittedly magnificent antique thirty seater table. The two women, alongside Granny, had made a delicious and enormous meal. That Emma had taken maybe two full bites of.

At the head of the table sat Regina. With Emma all the way at the other end. Emma felt that the seating arrangement proved once more how little Regina cared for her. As Ruby was sitting directly on Regina's left side, and Henry on her right. Children and adults filled every space between the two women.

Generally whenever Regina threw a dinner party at the house, which was often she had become quite the hostess, the children had usually been sent to the kids table but every once in awhile Snow would convince her to use the larger table. It reminded all the royals of the ones they had at the castle. So, for once, they'd filled the seats with the kids. Who Alexandra and Lonnie had rounded up and taken upstairs. Henry had stayed behind, sipping his wine. Always subtly pointing out he was twenty-two.

"Now is as good as time as any" Emma said after she cleared her throat. She had covertly swallowed the pill while Regina was rolling her eyes at her son. "Perhaps the best time in fact. I would like a divorce, as soon as possible" Her wife choked on her drink.

All side conversations came to an abrupt halt, many mouths still in the process of forming words that would not come. Slowly all eyes widened and jaws dropped as every single person left at the table turned to stare in shock at their savior and Sheriff. Emma adjusted the tie she was wearing before swallowing.

"Excuse me?" The woman was visibly shaking as she put her wine glass down. Fear pumping through her system that somehow, after all these years, the woman that Regina loved full heartedly had found out about her longstanding side affair with the wolf. Something she had tried to end since before the curse ended but had never fully managed to do.

"As I stated I, actually, I would not like a divorce. I demand a divorce. Over the past few months I have been paying a woman to meet my physical needs. Along the way I have fallen in love with her. So. I would like to marry her, and to do that I need a divorce. Tonight I will pack my belongings and leave. I want nothing, I will cross the barrier and I will mail back the papers as needed" Emma's face betrayed no emotion.

No one moved, no one so much as breathed. Wind did not pass over the house, and the air did not move. Flies did not buzz. It was as if time itself had stopped as everyone stared at Emma who stared forward, an unreadable expression painted on her. A mask that none could see through.

"You. You fucking worthless whore" Roared Ruby as she jumped to her feet. This was not on Emma's plan. This was not how she saw things going. Ruby slammed her fist into the table like a gavel. "You cheated on someone like Regina? What gave you the fucking right you horrible bitch!"

Before Emma could so much as blink, let alone process the wolf's words the woman had her hands around her collar, lifting her from her chair. Which fell against the floor with a loud thwack. Ruby was screaming at her and shaking her, her feet dangling slightly from the floor. Emma blinked.

Without thinking something inside of Emma just shattered. She pulled back her arm and formed the perfect fist and slammed it right into Ruby's temple. The force caused the darker haired woman to stumble backwards and fall into the table. Emma on top of her.

Quickly Emma had jumped to her feet, but hadn't managed to regain her balance before Ruby had her hands back around her shirt collar and had her slammed against the wall. Knocking the air of her lungs. It was clear as day that Ruby was beyond livid.

"How could you do this?" Demanded Henry angrily. Knocking over his own chair as he stood up and placed his hands against the table. "How could you do such a thing to my mom? Cheaters are as bad as murderers!" At this comment David slumped in his chair, ashamed.

Of course his wife, Snow, rubbed his arm lovingly nodding at him. Like it was okay that he had cheated on Kathryn when they had been married. Even though it hadn't been, David was rightly ashamed but he was of course always deluding himself that it had been okay. And right now as he watched what was going on the delusion had broken.

"Ruby's right!" David was pulled from his thoughts on his delusions by his grandsons voice. "You are a dirty filthy whore! You are a bitch and I wish I had never found you! You were supposed to be the good guy, and you're not. You are the Evil One!" Emma grinned at his words.

Her smile had spread just a millisecond before Ruby's fist landed against her jaw. Emma brought up her knee into the woman's abdomen and then they were on the floor. Punching each other, kicking, scratching, and even biting. Ruby had gotten a nice bite right into Emma's leg. Something that had Granny pissed off, it was around wolves time and magical beings could become wolves by getting the bite of a true born wolf. It was a fifty fifty shot, and even then it could take years to manifest.

Both women were fully intent on killing the other. Then suddenly the people were no longer frozen, they dove into action. Mulan and Frederick were pulling a snarling Ruby off of Emma, while David and Eric were holding Emma back as Tink and Rumple put up a barrier so that they couldn't get at each other any longer.

"I don't care how long it takes. I will destroy you, slut" Ruby growled as she ripped herself out of Mulan's arms. Both women were free, but there was no way to cross the line. They could not attack each other. "You'll beg me for release before I'm done"

Laughing maniacally Emma pressed her hands against the barrier. Ruby bared her teeth. Blood dripped down Emma's lip, and from the cut above her eyebrow. Ruby wiped the blood from her own mouth. Both were pretty beat up already. Ruby was ninety percent sure her wrist was broken, but that wouldn't stop her from attacking given the chance. Never before had she been so angry.

"Aunt Regina, Aunt Regina!" Lonnie shouted as she raced down the stairs, each step sounding like thunder. Aurora and Mulan both faced their daughter with apprehension, not wanting the nine year old anywhere near this situation. "Fox was playing with this and I think you need to read it right now!" She shoved the letter in Regina's hand.

Mulan quickly sent her daughter back up the stairs as Regina looked at her name at the top of the letter then at her wife. A confused expression on her face, she knew Emma's handwriting anywhere. Emma finally noticed what she was holding and as Regina looked back at the letter anger flooded her body.

"NO. NOT YET" Roared Emma as she beat down on the barrier. Anger apparent on her face. The barrier actually looked like it was going to crack. "it's too late! it's too late. None of you can do anything" Was screamed out as she finally gave up fighting the barrier.

No. Tonight had not gone to plan. Emma had assumed that they'd send the kids upstairs. Everyone would yell at her a little bit, but Regina would accept everything. Then she'd have her 'heart attack'. That it would be done and over with. That was not to be, and now as Regina glanced up from the letter with a sob Emma knew she knew.

Everything was going on. But with the letter in hand. Regina could only feel three emotions. Self-hatred, guilt, and fear she could not save the person she loved most in the world. Hatred because she was too weak, to afraid to break things off with Ruby. Guilty that she could do such a thing to cause her wife, her partner, her everything to reach this point. Fear. So much fear pumping inside of her.

"Hold her down!" Regina demanded, pulling herself together rather than fall to the floor and cry like she wanted to. "Lower the barrier immediately, we need to get this down her throat now" A glass appeared in her hand. "It's water and salt, it will induce vomiting." Everyone did as they were told and soon Emma was being held down.

As the stronger of the people launched themselves at Emma, as they fought and more blood was spilled. As they were all forcing her to the ground and trying to save her, without even knowing what really was going on. All they knew was tonight sucked balls. While all that was going down Belle had the good sense to dial the hospital.

It took five people to hold Emma down. Mulan was holding her head steady, while Frederick and Eric were flat on their stomachs doing there best to keep her arms down, while David was over her legs. Ruby was straddling her stomach. Grinning evilly at her as she wrenched her jaw open.

Before Emma could bite the offending fingers, Ruby's to be exact, Regina had dumped the liquid down her throat. Ruby had snapped her mouth shut firmly, and Regina held her nose. Emma glared up at the wolf as she did her best not to swallow. She didn't want to, she wanted to hold her breath forever.

Even though she didn't want to, even though she was fighting as hard as she could her body made her swallow the liquid sludge that was the salt concoction. She got in four breaths of air before another giant mouthful was being shoved down her throat. Almost immediately after she swallowed that time around she was puking her guts out.

The tiny contents of her stomach spilling out onto the floor, they had twisted her to her side in time. They shoved her back on her back after she was done heaving, and Regina wiped her mouth before administering more of the liquid. Once more she vomited. And then they stared at her as she breathed heavily. Still being held down.

"It doesn't matter" She croaked out. "All it needed was two minutes. The capsule was already dissolved. All this was for nothing. Too late. I told you. Too la-" Was all she managed to get out before her whole body shook and her eyes fluttered shut, and then her body finally relaxed.

Just as Regina began to panic, checking for a pulse, Whale came racing in with the only two paramedics in town. They knocked everyone out of their way. They ripped open her shirt and placed paddles to her chest. Everyone was silent as they watched them work. The first jolt did nothing. The second jolt had Regina silently crying as she held her wife's head. The third jolt got them a slow pulse.

"Get her into the bus, we need to hurry." Whale shouted at the shorter man. He nodded and helped Whale get onto a big board, and just as they were finishing that up the taller guy rushed back in with the stretcher. "What did she take?" He demanded.

"I don't know" Regina admitted. "I don't know" She wiped at her eyes. "Just save her, please. You have to save her." She was begging. He nodded and helped hoist the board onto the stretcher. "Save her, don't let her die"

There were very few people Whale liked. Emma just happened to be one of them. He was already a brilliant doctor, even if he was a little bit mad, Regina knew that if anyone could save her medically at least it was Whale. She sobbed as she watched the three man team roll the stretcher away.

A/N: Chapter three will be finished and posted on next friday. As always I love all your thoughts, concerns, likes, dislikes, desperate need for cookies.