Author's Note: PLEASE READ! What Henry does at the end of this chapter is from a comedian, it is not my joke. But it fit so well I couldn't help but use it.

Cora had half a smile on her face as she continued to bask in the warmth of her granddaughter.

It had been so long since she had emotions other than hate or anger.

For the first time in so long...since ever...Cora allowed herself to feel love for her grandchild.

As she held Sarah she found it hard not to laugh once more at the overwhelming feeling.

Cora wanted to laugh at the moment but knew it would disturb Sarah, so she just played with Sarah's hair.

Closing her eyes she let herself soak it all in.

"Hypnotizing isn't it?" Snow said from the doorway.

Cora at first was startled by the voice but soon relaxed as she recognized who it was.

Snow smiled at Cora as she watched Sarah sleep soundly in the arms of a woman that had tried to kill them not hours ago.

"She breathes so quietly when she sleeps. Sarah's been that way since she was a baby. Always...so quiet when she sleeps." Snow smiled as she reminisced about all those years ago.

Regina stayed behind Snow, wanting to hear about her daughter as much as possible.

"I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday. I...I remember sneaking into her nursery that first night." Snow said the words with a happy smirk on her face.

Regina's stomach tightened in fear by the words, but soon the knot loosened completely at Snow's words.

"All it took was that first look at her...and I fell in love with her." Snow said as she looked over Sarah as she continued to sleep peacefully.

Regina's heart swelled at Snow's words. Gratitude and longing almost overwhelming her in that moment. Not having experienced the joy of her daughter being born, but having to hear from Snow what it would have been like.

Snow closed her eyes then.

"I remember the room being dark when I went up to the crib. She was...she was soo beautiful. And I could barely hear her breathing...so I stood there in the dark...just as quiet as I could. And I listened to her breathe."

Cora smiled the lump in her own throat at the words as she herself listened to Sarah breathing against her.

Snow opened her eyes and looked at her sister, placing her head against the door frame.

"Grandpa Henry walked in and found me just staring down at her. And then he said something that has stayed with me to this day." Snow said with a smile on her face.

Hearing her father's name Regina waited with interest to know what her father had said to Snow.

"He said...'in this life...you'll have no greater responsibility then protecting your sister.' I was only twelve then but I knew what he was telling me was serious. He wasn't ever really a man to say things uselessly. So I knew what he was telling me was important."

Regina couldn't stop her tears in that moment even if she wanted to...nothing could have.

"He said one day I would be queen...but no matter what I did...from that moment on I was going to be a big sister. That no matter what we had to protect each other. He said people would try to divide us...or turn us against each other...but I couldn't let them. Because from that moment on Sarah would look up to me. That she was mine as much as she was mother's." Snow said the last words with tears in her own eyes.

Moments passed in silence after Snow's speech. No one quite knowing what to say.

All of them lost in their own little thoughts when the front door opened.

"MOM...what's going...on?" Henry asked haltingly as he saw Snow standing close to his mother and another woman he had never seen sitting on a couch with a person sleeping on her.

"Henry! Wait!" Emma yelled as she followed Henry through the door, grabbing Henry's shirt.

Of course the yelling caused Sarah to jerk suddenly, but Cora immediately knew what to do.

Cora started to hum a melody and bring Sarah's head back down, and almost immediately she settled back down against her grandmother. Snow was not staring at them though. Instead she was staring at Emma, noticing how much older her daughter was here.

Emma suddenly let go of Henry's shirt and stood rigid as she heard the melody.

"Where'd you hear that?" Emma asked in a strange voice.

"Hear what?" Cora said softly as not to disturb Sarah, not looking up at Emma.

It was strange in that moment how something so small could trigger such a huge memory for Emma.

The melody that Cora had been humming...Emma remembered it.

When she was still little and scared of her new surroundings, it was a tune she would hear in her mind. It had comforted her and lulled her to sleep more times then she could count.

Strange how Cora just now hummed it to Sarah.

"That song. Where did you hear that song?" Emma's voice going up as it often did when she was afraid.

It was then that Cora looked up with a confused look on her face.

"My mother sang it to me when I was little. A lullaby she made for me on nights when I couldn't sleep." Cora answered honestly. No need to lie about something so trivial.

Emma didn't know what shocked her more. Cora singing a lullaby that she would hear in her head as a child, or the fact that she realized that Cora herself had had a sweet mother that would sing her a lullaby to help her sleep.

Emma shook her head and refocused herself to what was going on.

Now was not the time to dwell on those things.

Henry stepped closer to Cora and stared at the woman with hesitance.

"Are...are you Cora?" Henry asked nervously.

Cora smiled at the young boy. Knowing full well who he was. "I am. And...you're Henry. My daughter's son."

Henry smiled a little shyly at the words. But Henry's curiosity of the other woman made him continue to question Cora.

"Who is she? Is she your daughter?" Henry asked motioning toward Sarah.

Snow, Regina, and Cora laughed at the question, knowing just how weird the answer would sound to Henry.

"No. This apparently is my granddaughter. Your sister." Cora answered with a small smile of amusement at the shock on Henry's face.

Henry turned and stared at Regina for a few seconds in complete shock. "You have a daughter?"

Regina tried to answer. She really did. But the ache in her heart that told her that Sarah really wasn't HER daughter, but another version of her, hurt too much to voice out loud.

But Snow saved Regina from such pain as she moved towards Henry with a huge smile on her face.

"Well technically she has two daughters...but I bet you call me grandma here." Snow said as she placed her hand on Henry's face.

Henry scrunched up his eyebrows before it hit him. "Oh yeah...I guess technically you are my sister. Which just makes our family soo much more complicated."

The joke made everyone laugh slightly.

Henry tilted his head at Snow as he became aware of what exactly Snow had said.

"Wait...what do you mean here? Mary Margret you haven't forgotten who you are again have you?" Henry asked with worry.

Snow's smile slid off her face for a second at the name but replaced it at the worried question.

"No I'm...I'm not Mary Margret. I'm Snow White...just...not your Snow White." Snow explained with pauses as she herself tried to work out the explanation.

Henry's curious stare forced Snow to continue.

"I'm from a different dimension. One where...well...your mother doesn't hate me." Snow said with a half shrug.

That's when Emma's eyes widened comically as they did when she was extremely shocked.

"You're...you're...wait what?" Emma asked in bafflement.

Regina and Snow laughed. Snow moved towards her daughter and just stared at the grown woman in front of her. Raising her hands she brushed aside Emma's hair and stared at her daughter.

"My God! You're a grown woman!" Snow said as tears formed in her eyes.

And it was like all those weeks ago when Emma had learned who her parents really were.

Feeling the tightness in her chest she allowed Snow to once more hold her in a hug.

"Soo..." Henry attempted once more to find out what was going on, "why are you here? I mean...mom didn't bring you here to..."

A chorus of 'no's' rang out from Regina, Cora and Snow. All of them realizing where Henry's thoughts were going.

"No. Sarah and I were running from danger when we suddenly found ourselves here." Snow explained.

It was the wording and lack of doubt that raised flags for Regina.

Snow was hiding something. Exactly what she didn't know, but something in the way she said the words with such surety...Regina believed that Snow and Sarah either had figured out how they had arrived here, or they knew from the beginning how they had made their way into Storybrooke.

Henry looked back at the woman he now knew to be called Sarah and studied her.

"She wasn't in my book." Henry said as he tried to figure out who Sarah could be.

Snow of course furrowed her brow. "What book?"

Emma feeling the need to keep 'the book' a secret from Snow quickly tried to change the subject.

"Have you figured out a way to get back home?" Emma asked Snow and then looked to Regina to see if any attempt at all had been made.

But what happened next shocked Emma too much to ask another question.

Snow laughed and walked back to Regina and hugged her. "It may not be my real home, but this is home." Snow said as she once more felt the comfort of her mother's hold.

Emma and Henry stood slack jawed as Regina...the Evil Queen...wrapped her arms around Snow and smiled softly at Snow's words.

Emma tried to get words out...her mouth moved but nothing came out. Henry though was able to say the one thing Emma couldn't seem to form.

"Your dimension must be REALLY different from ours."

Snow and Regina giggled slightly as they both had come to that conclusion back at the pawn shop.

Emma was still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that Regina wasn't trying to kill her mother. In fact it looked as if Regina was lovingly holding her. Which Emma tried to find some evil plan that Regina could be plotting to do something like that without looking ready to murder.

Because in that second Regina had a soft look on her face. The one's she would get when she talked or mentioned Henry.

That look was on her face at the moment as she held Snow.

When Regina looked up towards Emma though, her eyes darkened. Emma furrowed her brow until she felt Mary Margret step up next to her.

Snow felt the instant her mother stiffened, and knew without looking who had just walked into the home.

Pulling away from Regina, Snow turns and address her other self.

"Hello Mary. Trying to kill my Grandmother again soo soon?" Snow says as she crosses her arms in a perfect imitation of Regina.

Noticing Mary Margret's tear filled eyes did nothing to stop the anger Snow felt towards her.

Closing her eyes Mary Margret again tried to apologize. "I'm soo sor..."

"Save it!" Both Regina and Snow raised there voices angrily at the same time.

Again Sarah jerked and looked up with a yawn to see what was going on.

"Oh...well...that explains why Snow's angry." Sarah said tiredly continuing to yawn as her body began to rouse itself from the little sleep it had received.

Finally with her eyes completely open she saw the boy standing not soo far from her.

Seconds passed, then Sarah's eyes widened.

Jumping up from her grandmother's hold she pointed at him. "OH MY GOD YOU'RE HENRY! You look soo much like Bae!" Sarah exclaimed and then rushed to Henry.

"Look at you! You're gonna grow up to be a knight by the looks of it! I bet you're fast like Uncle David." Sarah exclaimed as she moved Henry like he was a doll. Inspecting him with such exuberance that no one even thought to stop her.

Henry was just too shocked to protest.

Spinning him around to take a good look at Henry's face Sarah smiled mischievously.

"Where I come from you're my great nephew! But here you're my brother! Which means as your older sister it is my obligation to corrupt you and make you into a man!"

"SARAH!" It seemed as if everyone yelled at her for the words...but Henry smiled back with amusement and maybe...just maybe some happiness.

Sarah rolled her eyes.

Henry let out a little laugh at the action.

"Yeah...I guess...I guess you are my sister." Henry said with a real smile. One that lit up his eyes.

Neither Emma or Regina had witnessed that particular smile until that moment.

"Come on! Right now YOU have to teach ME about this place. I want to know as much as possible! Everything and anything Henry!"

With the way Sarah spoke so enthusiastically to Henry that it seemed that Henry was caught in Sarah's enthusiasm and nodded his head as Sarah put her arm over Henry's shoulder and began to walk passed Mary and Emma and out the door.

Regina felt a smile tug at her lips at the sight of them, despite what Sarah had said about corrupting Henry.

For the first time in a long time Henry actually looked genuinely happy.

And for the first time her heart didn't twist...because he generally looked happy when he was with Emma.

"Mom! Henry's taking me to the diner to show me what a hamburger is! Is that alright?!" Sarah yelled from the doorway.

Vivid memories of the last time Sarah was in the diner suddenly sprang to her mind.

"Sarah...DO NOT GET RUBY GOING..." Regina had begun to yell in her 'mom' voice when Sarah popped her head back in the open doorway with a huge smile on her face.

"But mom that's what I live for!" Sarah said and then bounced her eyebrows at Regina.

Snow covered her mouth to hide the laugh that burst from her.

Even Mary Margret had to stifle a giggle as she too remembered the incident at the diner.

With that Sarah and Henry left with a laugh.

Emma stared worriedly at the open door and turned to Regina pointing at the door.

"Do I need to worry..." Emma tried to sound less concerned about Sarah with her son than she really was.

Oddly it wasn't Snow or Regina who defended Sarah...but Mary Margret.

"No. Sarah just has a tendency to cause mischief around Red." Mary said with a small smirk.

Emma nodded her head and said nothing to that.

Cora stood up from the couch, and both Emma and Mary Margret instantly were on alert.

"Grandma why don't you go lie down. I can only imagine how drained you are right now." Snow walked over to her grandmother before anyone could say anything.

Snow had laced her fingers through Cora's.

Cora looked down at both of their hands and knew in that moment that this girl loved her.

"I envy her." Cora said as she held onto Snow's hand a little tighter.

"Envy who?" Snow asked with her classic confused look.

Cora looked up into Snow's eyes.

Reading in them what she had read in Sarah's.

Love.

Pure and unwavering.

"Your grandmother. I mean," Cora smiled at herself, "your grandmother from your dimension."

Snow smiled widely.

"But you are her. Things may have been different here. But your heart proves that you are both one and the same."

The words resounded in the room.

All of them reflecting on those words.

Questioning for the first time if that were true...why had so much bad happened to them in their own dimension?

"THIS IS AMAZING!" Sarah yelled loudly as the music played in her ears.

Henry's smile was huge as he held the mp3 player his mother had given him as Sarah held the headphones in her ears.

"IS THIS MAGIC TOO?" Sarah yelled her question.

Henry saw how many people were looking at them and lowered the volume on the player.

"It's science. It's like a small computer that stores music." Henry tried to explain.

Sarah furrowed her brow. "What's a computer?"

Henry let out a long sigh.

The next hour proved to be very fun for Henry as he showed Sarah what a computer was, the internet, and television. Sarah fell in LOVE with television.

"Do you have any idea how lucky you are?! I mean...where I come from I get into a bunch of trouble just to have something to do! But here...here you have all of these things that could keep you entertained for a lifetime!" Sarah exclaimed as she watched the movie that Henry had chosen to show her.

"Yeah...but after a while, you want to talk with real people." Henry said in a semi sad way.

It caught Sarah's attention immediately.

Closing the laptop that Ruby had lent them, after Sarah had made another few jokes at, Sarah looked across the booth at Henry.

"Henry...is something wrong? I...I know you may not know me but...you are my family. You can tell me anything." Sarah said with concern.

Henry shook his head, not even able to explain what he was feeling or how to start to explain what he had been going through.

Sarah waited a few seconds.

"Is it about mom?"

Henry fiddled with the strap on his book bag and nodded his head slightly.

Ruby couldn't help but listen in on the conversation as her supernatural hearing overheard what they were discussing. Discreetly she looked up at the pair in the booth in the corner of the cafe, but quickly looked back at her task, not wanting either of the two to know she was listening in.

"She made people think I was crazy. Because of the curse, no one knew they were in one. Everytime I tried to tell people about who they really were...everyoone thought I was crazy!" Henry suddenly said with anger and moisture in his eyes.

Sarah sat with a saddened look on her face as she understood exactly what Henry meant.

"You mean you don't have any friends?" Sarah asked in a small voice.

Henry shook his head no.

Sarah's usual good mood slipped away at this tidbit of information.

"I'm sorry Henry." Sarah said sincerely.

"It's her fault. If she wasn't the Evil Queen and cursed everyone, then everyone would still be in fairy tale land, and everyone would have been happy." Henry said with a little heat.

Out of everything though, Sarah was caught on the fact that Henry had called their mother evil.

"Henry...you really don't know what evil is...trust me."

Henry looked up from the table top at Sarah at the comment.

Sarah took one deep breathe before she looked at Henry once more.

"I read your book."

Henry smiled.

"It's why I knew about the curse." Henry said with a little victorious smile.

But Sarah didn't smile back.

What she had read in the book making her sad beyond anything in her life. And that was saying something for Sarah.

"Do you...do you remember the part where Snow has her love for David removed?" Sarah asked.

Henry nodded his head, as Ruby tried to move dishes quietly to hear what Sarah was saying.

"Well...I learned not so long ago that Mom...your mom...was in love with someone."

Henry's brow furrowed suddenly.

"I think he died...and I think mom blamed Snow for his death."

Henry shook his head. "That's not in the book."

Sarah shook her head, "No, but Mom and Snow made me leave the room when Mom said something."

Henry and Ruby both seemed to hold their breaths at that.

"I...I think she was her one true love. That she didn't really love my father the king. I think that's why she hates your grandmother." Sarah confided to Henry.

Henry slowly let what Sarah was saying sink in. Ruby was even trying to wrap her mind around it.

"Remember the way Snow acted...when she didn't love David anymore. What if...what if that's why mom's acting the way she is? What if instead of wanting to stop loving him...that him being gone created this huge hole in her heart? And ever since then...revenge and anger have been the only thing keeping her going? I read in your book that's how Snow acted when she couldn't feel love for David anymore. She wasn't her anymore...she was a shadow of herself."

Henry's young mind tried to wrap around the idea. That his mother could possibly be suffering like Snow had.

It was a lot for Henry to take in.

Ruby though understood immediately what Sarah was trying to say, and couldn't help but feel sick to her stomach.

"All I know Henry is the woman I know loves Snow with everything in her. And my sister is proving that your mom is more than capable of loving her too."

The words drifted in the air.

"But she's still capable of bad things! She could have changed! She didn't! She won't leave my mom alone until she has me to herself." Henry said as he remembered the last few weeks.

Sarah looked down at the table top and then back up at Henry.

"Henry. You are the only one here that ever loved her back. If she thinks that someone can take away your love for her...she's going to do everything in her power to stop it."

"But if she wants to prove to me that she's changing..." Henry tried to explain his reasoning.

"Henry! Don't you understand that she thinks YOU don't love her anymore! She thinks you choose Emma. Henry...she thinks she's lost everything. And with losing you she has nothing else to lose. And that makes a person extremely dangerous! Good or bad a person is capable of doing horrible things when they THINK they've lost everything." Sarah couldn't tell Henry just exactly how she knew all of this. All she could do was hope that Henry was old enough to understand the implications of her words.

Henry looked like he was lost in thought, while Ruby at the counter realized just how foolish and perilous they had been about taking Henry from Regina.

Ruby knew immediately that Sarah was right. Regina had felt instantly threatened by Emma taking Henry. Emma breaking the curse had almost seemed less important to her then losing Henry. Maybe they really had gone about things all wrong.

"I just don't want you to look at her like she's pure evil Henry...because I can guarantee you one thing. You really don't know what true evil is." Sarah could barely say the last sentence.

Henry saw the tears form in Sarah's eyes, and didn't understand why Sarah would cry after those words.

Sarah regained control of herself, shaking away memories and thoughts to come back to what she really wanted to ask Henry.

"Because you're my brother here, and because family for me is more important than anything...I wanted to ask for your help. I..I have a plan...and I was wondering if you would help me with it?" Sarah looked up with a small smile at Henry.

Henry smiled back as he realized what this could mean.

"Like a secret mission?" Henry asked with no restraint in excitement.

Sarah laughed. "Yep! But you must make an oath with me about the mission! This is very serious business Henry!" Sarah bounced her eyebrows up and down making Henry smile widely.

Sarah got out of the booth and extended her arm out.

"An oath of brotherhood and sisterhood! Let us both swear to cause mischief and make those we love laugh and forget themselves! To be as silly and childish as sisters and brothers should! Make this oath with me today and from this day forward we shall change our family for the better...by making them laugh and be generally annoyed with us!" Sarah again bounced her eyebrows up and down making Henry laugh and giggle as he too jumped out of the booth and placed his hand on top of Sarah's.

"Do you Henry Mills make this oath with me?!" Sarah asked with a huge smile.

Henry nodded his head firmly.

"I do."

Cora had gone to the guest bedroom not shortly after Snow suggested.

Emma could do nothing but watch in almost horror as Snow kissed Cora on the cheek before leaving Cora to come back into the living room.

Mary Margret felt like her heart wouldn't stop constricting at the sight of a living Cora. She had thought for sure she had killed the woman. The woman that had killed her mother.

Revenge for her mother's death had been the only thing truly motivating her to strike out against Cora. And after Cora had killed Johanna it had sealed Mary Margret's decision to do the unthinkable.

Closing her eyes she let a tear fall as she thanked whatever had brought Sarah and Snow here to stop Cora's death. Because if Cora had died...Mary Margret knew there would have been no coming back from it.

Somehow...someway the other her either did not know Cora was responsible for her mother's death...or...or...well...she couldn't think of any good reasoning of how she could have forgiven Cora.

Snow stood beside her mother and reached her hand over and held it firmly in her hand.

Regina couldn't explain why she allowed it. Hell she didn't know why she reciprocated the action. All she knew was that this Snow was hers. This one that held her hand and held tight to her as if she was a lifeline, this one loved her despite all of the horrors she had done.

But something in Regina knew that if Snow loved her in this other dimension, she had not become the Evil Queen Rumpelstiltskin had wanted.

Emma couldn't help but feel awkward at the sight of Snow holding onto Regina's hand as if she was a little girl.

"So...alot happened while we were gone huh?" Emma tried to relieve the tension with a joke, but as usual Regina was in no mood.

A disgusted laugh left Regina. "Yes. Your mother almost had me kill mine for her. Of course I should have known better. The last time I trusted her with anything I lost the one thing that meant more to me than anything."

Snow tightened her grip on her mother's hand as a lump of regret lodged in her throat.

Regina didn't know why she squeezed Snow's hand back. It may have been as reassurance to her, or because the Snow White holding her hand seemed more than just remorseful. Maybe growing up with the knowledge that she had killed her sister's father had changed her. Maybe keeping the secret itself had eaten away at her.

Mary Margret couldn't help but feel her heart constrict at the sight of Regina and Snow holding hands.

It shouldn't have meant so much.

Them holding hands in that particular moment though...It made Mary Margret know immediately.

She knew how Regina felt for Snow.

Bile in her throat rose as a sudden anger in the pit of her stomach expanded up to her chest.

"Um...ok. Since you killed her father, and the woman that just went to bed in your guest bedroom killed her mother...I'm not exactly feeling sorry for you." Emma said in response to Regina's words.

Snow's mouth dropped open.

"Excuse me?! Don't talk to your grandmother like that!" Snow said automatically going into 'mom' mode as she realized how different her daughter was in this dimension.

Emma's mouth hung open for a second at the use of grandmother connected to Regina. "Ok. Now that's disturbing. Please never refer to her as that again."

Regina also felt weird at the word, but Snow let go of her hand at that point and walked up to Emma.

"Now you listen here young lady. You will show your grandmother respect with or with out me present. No matter what's happened in the past, she is and will always be my mother."

Emma said nothing as Snow reprimanded her.

"No one gets to choose their parents Emma. But I did." Snow admitted to Emma.

Those words though caused both Regina and Mary Margret to lock eyes.

Mary Margret felt the blush on her neck and cheeks.

It was one of the few things that she had never told anyone.

That she was the one to tell her father that she wished Regina could be her new mother.

Regina saw the blush and her heart stopped. Had Snow been the one to suggest to the king to marry her?

It was as though Snow read her thoughts as she continued with Emma.

"I told my father that if he had been searching for a mother for me that I had found her." Snow said with a little smile.

"That she was the fairest in all the land. A beauty inside her with a heart as big as the moon itself. I knew the second she held me in her arms that she was suppose to be my mother." Snow was saying the words with urgency. Seeing the doubt in Emma's eyes, as if she had never heard the story before.

But she had.

At least Snow's Emma had.

Her Emma loved her grandmother almost more than she loved her own mother.

Regina couldn't move her eyes away from Mary Margret's as Snow spoke. The confirmation of the words visible in Mary's eyes. The look of panic and shame telling Regina everything she needed to know.

"And you...you should love her."

Emma jerked at those words.

"Not only did she raise me, but she raised your son. Which no one yet has told me why he was raised by her and not by you. But she's raised him as her son, and from the looks of it he has turned into an incredible young man. So no matter what you think...if she had been as evil as everyone says she is, Henry wouldn't be such a great person." Snow slowly reached up and held Emma's chin with two fingers.

Emma swallowed at the words.

They were true.

Emma's eyes finally locked with Snow's.

"I know all about Cora being the one to kill my mother."

Those words caused both Mary Margret and Regina to jerk their heads to look at her.

"And if it wasn't for her, you have no idea..." Snow said as tears formed in her eyes and slowly fell down her cheeks.

"Regina and Cora saved me from a fate worse then death. And Cora told me everything after they had. She swore to me that she would always protect me, always be my grandmother. The life she took she replaced with her own. And that was more than enough for me." Snow said with a few small nods as she continued to cry.

The words caused a deep worry in Regina.

Regina had thought being brought here and being so close yet so far from her one true love was worse than death. But something had obviously happened when Snow was young. Regina tried to think of something that would make both her and her mother save Snow.

Nothing came to mind.

Mary Margret though...suddenly knew all to well what Snow was talking about.

And in that one moment Snow turned eyes on her, as if to confirm all she had said.

Snow was doing just that, when she saw the look of pure panic on Mary Margret's face.

An unspoken conversation passed between them then. In a few seconds Snow realized what had truly been different between the two dimensions. The one thing that had caused such a huge difference in their worlds.

Strangely it wasn't Sarah, though Snow knew that Sarah had changed many things.

It was her.

Snow White...Mary Margret.

She was the reason everything was different.

"We should go see what Sarah and Henry are up to." Mary Margret said as she immediately turned and almost ran towards the front door.

Regina had watched the two the whole time.

It was a certainty that Mary Margret was keeping something from her.

"I think that's a good idea." Emma said as she moved away from Snow, still trying to come to terms with the fact that somehow Cora and Regina in another place loved and cared for her mother...and her.

She couldn't deal with that at the moment.

Sarah was whispering in Henry's ear.

Ruby couldn't hear a thing that she was saying and for some reason became anxious.

Sarah was up to something. And after hearing the 'oath' she was suspicious enough to want to know what they were up to.

Henry would get this wide eyed panic look and turn and shake his head violently in a no manner at Sarah.

Sarah though smiled and nodded her head at him every time. Then she would go back to whispering in Henry's ear.

Ruby kept on glancing their way when Bae walked into the diner.

He hadn't been looking for Henry, knowing that he had been with Emma. But when Bae saw his son with a grown woman in a booth by himself, he quickly walked towards them.

"Hey Henry, who's your friend?" Bae asked as he sat himself down.

"Ha Ha Bae! Very funny!" Sarah said dully, and then went back to whispering in Henry's ear.

Bae's confusion was visible to Henry, but Henry said nothing as he listened to Sarah's 'plan.'

By then Mary Margret and the other's were walking through the door.

Snow grabbed Mary Margret at that point and stopped her.

"We need to talk!"

"Not now." Mary Margret tried to dismiss her, when Emma tried to intervene.

"Why don't you leave her alone right now."

Of course it began a verbal fight, one which Regina herself fell into at the way she talked to Snow.

Everyone around watched as the verbal sparring began, but Sarah only glanced at them and knew the opportunity for her 'plan' to take effect was happening at that moment.

Turning she placed her hands on Henry's shoulders.

"Ok Henry! Operation Hyena is a go!"

Henry's eyes went as wide as saucers, the look nearly identical to his mother's.

"Right now?!" His voice almost screeching in fear.

"Come on Henry! Don't you see it's the perfect opportunity to stop the fighting!" With that Sarah pushed Henry out of the booth and towards the counter.

Henry looked between Sarah, Ruby, and the rest of his family that were fighting at the moment with just words. Which he was incredibly thankful for.

Sarah kept motioning for him to go forward almost desperately, as she too knew it was only a matter of time before someone used magic.

Regina couldn't believe how Emma wasn't willing to let Snow talk with Mary Margret. As far as Emma was concerned Snow was just like Mary Margret. Obviously Snow being more supportive of 'the evil queen' was too much for Emma.

"I find it hard to understand Miss Swan how you could be so judgmental!"

Henry glanced again at Sarah looking extremely nervous.

Sarah though was staring at her mother's hands. Clenched in a way that Sarah had seen a few times to know that something bad was about to happen.

Turning desperate eyes on Henry, Henry saw the fear in them.

Swallowing down his fear, Henry approached the counter where Ruby stood.

Ruby was about to enter the 'fight' when Henry stepped up to her.

Of course Ruby was dressed in her slightly provocative clothing. Oddly her clothes had gone from extremely provocative to bordering on average. But Ruby still had that edge to her. She always had and always would.

At the moment she was torn between defending Mary Margret, but was oddly conflicted about defending her from...well...herself.

That's when she noticed Henry come up to her.

"Hey Ruby." Henry said with a nervous smile.

Ruby thought he was nervous because of the fighting. She smiled back at him with a half smirk.

"Hey Henry. You ok?"

Henry gathered his courage, knowing that he was about to do something he had never done and hoping to God that Ruby didn't kill him.

"Yeah. I...I just wanted to tell you something." Henry swallowed the lump of fear in his throat.

Going up against his mother hadn't been nearly this frightening.

Ruby of course furrowed her brow out of curiousness. What could Henry have to say to her?

"I just wanted to let you know...that seeing you dressed like that..." Henry motioned to Ruby's clothes.

Ruby looked down at herself, and noticed how from Henry's vantage point as she leaned over the counter she had unknowingly exposed her chest to him.

"It makes me feel like a werewolf inside!"

Bae and Sarah tried to stop the laugh that bubbled up in them, both covering their mouths to stop the laughing but failing miserably, especially at the sight of a red faced Ruby.

Of course the words had been said loud enough to cause all of the woman in Henry's life to stop fighting and turn and look at Henry with dropped mouths.

It took a few minutes but finally both Regina and Emma recovered.

"HENRY!" Both yelling out at the same time.

Henry had a smile plastered to his face as Ruby blushed furiously and covered herself with her arm, almost hugging herself, and backed away from Henry.

Of course Bae and Sarah were still trying to keep their laughter from being heard, but it was Henry's next actions that caused Sarah to laugh out right.

Henry turned and looked at a shocked Regina and Emma.

"Mom's...I'm a man!" Henry exclaimed with arms spread out in a 'what?!' gesture.

Sarah's laughter finally broke through as Bae doubled over trying not to laugh.

Ruby finally gathered herself enough to realize that this was Sarah's doing.

It had been soo long since Regina had actually laughed in true delight. But the sight of her daughter laughing, along with the very idea of Henry doing what he did, made Regina try and suppress the laughter that wanted to bubble out.

Emma also found the situation too surreal, and was trying not to laugh at what her son had said to Ruby.

Both Regina and Emma were failing miserably not to laugh at Henry's antics, but as Sarah's laugh filled the cafe, both happened to look over to see a ticked off Ruby.

Sarah was almost on the floor with how much she was laughing, not paying attention to Ruby at all.

That was until a sudden growl filled the diner.

Sarah stopped laughing almost immediately after the sound filled the diner.

"Oh crap."

Author's Note: Ok...let's try for FIVE NEW REVIEWS! After that addition to this story...I think I deserve it! FIVE PEOPLE! No Reviews...no update! :P

I did say I was evil!