YAY! I actually completed a whole chapter so I am still three ahead of you all! I am excited. So sorry my chapters are so short, but they just seem natural stopping points I hope you enjoy this chapter. After this chapter, I start pouring in some back stories for Zelena and Dorothy and stuff like that so we can get a little b roll in our lives LOL. Til next time, Much Love! ~S.K.


4-Life Skills Partners


Mary was so proud of her students, all of them had gotten through the interview process amazingly. And through their Social App, there had been great progress. In which it began populating Lab partners for her students.

Emma as the Admin had been monitoring the partner rankings as well, and already knew who was compatible with her. She sauntered into the classroom and sat next to Regina. "Morning,"

"It's the afternoon dear…" Regina said not bothering to look up from her calculous homework which was due next period. She had been too distracted and consumed with the girl next to her to do it at home, and now the pressure was on.

"Who do you think the Program will pick as your partner?" Emma asked to gauge a reaction.

"Hopefully someone more mature than you. Certainly, anyone would be better than you." Regina continued working out the problem at hand.

Emma feigned offense and chuckled. Then Ruby came into the room and plopped down in Emma's lap and kissed her. "I just know we're gonna be lab partners Ems. So why don't you come to the back of the class with me."

"Rubes, it is set on an Algorithm," Emma said Ruby shrugged she didn't have much understanding.

Regina winced at the sight of Emma and Ruby so closely intertwined with Emma and so sure she would have her best friend as a lab partner. "And the algorithm is based on compatibility, and no one is more compatible with me in this classroom than you."

"What if your moronic assessment is incorrect," Regina said to the slutty brunette sitting on her secret crush's lap. "And our resident lesbian is more accurately paired with say…" She looked around the room and picked the vilest creature she could think of. "Jones over there."

Emma looked over at him and tilted her head. "Eh… Not bad," she said… "If you like peen… I like that bad boy vibe."

Regina gives the blonde a death glare. "You are vile." Then she turned away from the pair to focus on finding something in her bag.

Emma and Ruby looked at each other meaningfully and chuckled. 'She likes you.' was mouthed by the brunette. Emma blushed and ducked her head. "Ruby get off me."

"Fine… See ya later wifey." Ruby said then glanced at Regina with a wink.

"You really should pick your friends better Ms. Swan." Regina groused.

Emma's inside fluttered at the way Regina said her name. No one called her that but the principal. She liked it coming from the stunner next to her. "Like who? You?"

"Hardly," Regina retorted and began to focus on Mrs. Nolan who was writing the words Life Skills Partners.

"Today the algorithm will choose your partners based on compatibility with your Social Media usage." Mrs. Nolan said. "So I hope you have been using the app often the past few weeks."

Emma opened her admin interface on her phone and looked at who was paired with who. Regina was paired with Ruby. She nearly laughed out loud, that would be a comical pairing. She looked at her own Pairing. She was still in the Rankings with Lance... He's cool. She sighed hoping to have been paired with a girl. It would be more realistic for her. What would have been better is if she had Ruby's lab partner. She looked back at her friend who was engaged in a deep flirtation with Lance herself. She bit her lip and looked at the app and wondered if she should…

She looked up at the board as her sister had pulled up the ap. It was moving slow. Probably because Emma was messing with it as an Admin. "Wait… something is off… Let me restart the app it isn't working for me." She looked at Emma for help. "Anyone know Coding?"

Emma sighed, pressed a few things on her end, turned off admin mode and walked over to the Teacher. "I got it, Mrs. Nolan."

Soon Emma had the Results displayed on the smart board. "There you go."

"Thank you so much, Emma," Mary said to her sister. Emma nodded and went back to sit at her chair. "Look up at the board find your partner and make this fun. You are gonna have your first date today where you will learn about each other. We will talk about this at the end of the block."

She didn't look at her neighbor. Regina glared at the board. The serious conflict she displayed as she stared at it. "Mother will kill me," she said a little too loudly.

"It's a school assignment," Emma said. Her face pink and guilt clearly written all over her face.

"It makes no difference." She hissed putting her books in her bag. "Mrs. Nolan, May I please be excused."

Emma slumped in her chair.

"You are supposed to be on your date Regina."

"I cannot be placed in a same-sex pairing."

"Is it a religious thing?" The teacher asked.

"What? No!" Regina burst out.

"Then, there is no choice… I am not asking you to marry her in real life. This is what you get. Have a seat." The teacher said and headed toward a timer. "Your dates begin now."

Regina's shoulders slumped and headed toward her partner. "Is this seat taken?" She said not waiting for the other girl to say yes or no before she turned it to face her date and sat gingerly upon it.

"It is now…" Her date responded. The girl smiled as she sat up extending her hand. "Emma Swan."

"Regina Mills," the brunette responded secretly thrilled that this was how it had turned out after all.


Ruby Caught up to Emma at lunch and sat by her friend with a conspiratory grin. "So you got the Evil Queen."

Emma smirked. "Did you want to get stuck with her?"

"Ugh, No…" Ruby turned to Emma in shock. "What?"

"I hacked the system and saw that you… were paired with her and re-scrambled it."

"You are a fucking genius," Ruby said with a smile digging into a lunch that she brought from Grannies. "Too bad, you're stuck with her."

"Our date wasn't so bad," Emma said reaching into Ruby's bag. She always brought extra and she knew it was just for her. "She has a sister, and Her mom's the Mayor and really strict and her dad is really nice and is a horse breeder. She is into horses and Is going to go to Law school. She is waiting for acceptance at Yale but she is hoping to get as far away from her mom as she can so she had applied to Stanford…"

"Whoa, Swan… Did she learn anything about you?" Emma shrugged.

"Some, I listened mostly. I guess we will do a little more talking tonight at Granny's we have to come up with our proposal story… My sister is a freaking Sap. She will eat the whole whirlwind romance thing."

"I still can't believe you tried to Hide that Mrs. Nolan is your sister," Ruby said having found out about this fact merely because she had gotten to stay over at Emma's on occasion.

"You are still the only one that knows," Emma said looking around to make sure no one heard them.

"So Lance and I are also meeting up at Granny's wanna make it a double date?"

"I gotta text my girl and find out…" Emma said with a smirk and pulled out her phone to text her on the social app.

E. Swan: Lance and Ruby want to make it a group date tonight. Are you down?

She looked up toward the table where Regina usually sat. Her eyes fixed on the phone. She looked perturbed. But then she looked towards Emma and Ruby catching the blonde's eye a nodded then turned back to her chattering blonde friend.

Emma looked around for the boyfriend. She hadn't seen him around for a few days. "Did you hear she broke up with Robin?" Ruby broke into her thoughts.

"What?" Emma said finally looking back at her friend.

"Yep… He's an asshole anyway. He has hooked up with the entire cheer squad except for Kathryn. Regina thought that he had hooked up with me once… I didn't I don't break up relationships. When she came up to me I was already with Dorothy. She was part of their group before she graduated. I told her I was with Dorothy and didn't need her man. Then she really hated me."

"Why?" Emma asked.

Ruby laughed, "Regina is a huge closet case if I ever saw one. She had a thing for Dot." Then the red-streaked brunette shrugged. "I still took what was hers without even knowing. I think she is just waiting to leave so that she can be herself."

Emma sighed then looked at the girl across the room that looked to be typing something into her phone. "That explains a lot."

Ruby nodded just as Emma got the notification.

R: I have no interest in interrupting your date with your girlfriend, but I rely on this grade to graduate, so if you would be so kind to accompany me to practice this afternoon and we can spend some time in breaks and just after to come up with the perfect proposal.

E: We decided to just be friends. Ruby is not my girlfriend. She still loves Dot.

As Regina read the message, Her gaze popped up to meet Emma. Then she nodded again and typed.

R: See you tonight at Granny's


Regina had spent her entire day berating herself for going on a nervous ramble during her date with Emma in the classroom. She had told her everything about herself, and she still didn't know much about the blonde, and she just sat there listening to everything the brunette had to say.

She decided that for their group tonight, she would get to know a little more about the blonde that she fantasized about in the middle of the night. That meant she would have to come up with the best marriage proposal so that they didn't have to do much but make some very easy decisions.

She searched for a ring online during study hall. And found a beautiful ring in white and rose gold. The ring-shaped like a blossom blooms to hold the center princess cut diamond the main body of the ring is rose gold and the leaves are made of the white gold. She downloaded the picture and searched for the venues to do the proposal in Storybrooke.

She was completely prepared for when she walked through the diner door that evening. Her breath caught as she caught a glimpse of her crush. She was dressed femininely in a skirt and a v cut sweater. Her blonde hair going down her back in ringlets and her face covered in a light dusting of makeup. As if this were truly a date. She wasn't in Heels this time, though she was in a pair of boots that just worked with the entire ensemble. Emma Swan was more fashionable than the lesbian stereotypes.

Resolute, Regina walked up to the group. Ruby scooted away from Emma as if to say she wasn't moving in on her partner, and Regina acknowledged the gesture with a smile and sat next to her. "Hi," Emma said softly.

"Hi," Regina said, then cleared her throat, "Um, I did a little thinking about this thing at study hall."

Emma blinked, "Yeah, Okay, so I figured I'd take you over by the docks and propose…"

"Why would you get to propose?" Regina asked.

"Well, I guess, I'm the butch one, so I didn't think you'd want-"

"Doesn't that seem a little cliche? Why would the butch one be the one to propose all the time" Regina asked then looked down at herself, "If that's the case, I look more butch than you in my slacks and sweater."

Emma looked down at herself and blushed. "Fine… you proposed!" Emma said raising her hands.

"Great," Regina said blushing a little. "I would probably take you to eat, seeing as how you seem to enjoy food."

"I would enjoy that yes," Emma said.

"What is your favorite food?" Regina asked.

"Bear claws," Emma answered. Regina furrowed her brow.

"Okay, Here it is," Regina said and looked around at the rest of the group. "You strike me as a person of simple creature comfort. "You're an FBI agent, so how about I drop in with lunch at your job. With a bear claw within it, I tuck this…" She said pulling out her phone and showing her the picture she had downloaded that afternoon. "This ring inside of it here is hoping you chew your pastry and don't inhale it," Regina said noting how Emma was eating the burger sitting in front of her. "The cost of it is only fifteen hundred dollars. That seems reasonable, though I know it would be much more had my mother insisted."

"Whoa… I don't like the whole bear claw thing." Emma said imagining swallowing the thing just as Regina had suggested. "Can't it just be simple? You said you liked to cook. Just cook for me at your place. You know, candlelit dinner, wine… I like simple things."

"Would you like for me to get down on my knee as well?" Regina scoffed.

Emma shrugged. "Well seeing as how I thought I would be the one proposing… I would have done it for you."

Just then Regina noticed the silence at the other half of the table and clammed up. She wanted to do it now. Act it out now. She only nodded. Emma pulled out her laptop just then which made Regina blink. "What is this?"

"I am typing this paper now. So no one has to go home to do anything." Emma said. Regina had hoped to speak to her fiance and actually get to know her now. Like a real date. But apparently, Emma took her grade in this class more seriously than she thought.

"Right… shall we finish the whole week's assignment then?" Regina asked and Ruby Groaned.

"What you don't want to hang with the rest of us Regina. This would take 20 minutes to write, and then we could just go play some pool in the back room… I guess that's just too much for you huh." Ruby said.

"Ruby, We can hang out the rest of the week if we get this done tonight," Emma said as her fingers flew over the keys. Writing the proposal out.

Regina smiled as the blonde took up for her. "Alright, where do we start…"

"Where are we getting married?" Emma asked. "I know you have thought about this. There is no way you haven't been groomed to think these things through."

Regina sighed. "Destination wedding?" Regina asked. "I mean are there no budgetary restrictions?"

"Hah! Weddings are brides gifts… and we have two brides… each of us gets 50 grand. We're solid."

"NOT Fair!" Ruby said, "You get to throw the perfect Hundred grand wedding!"

"We can do a lot with the 50 we got," Lance said.

Regina watched the bickering and began to feel comfortable with her classmates as they discussed the wedding and reception typed up their invitations and priced that up. Found their wedding cake planned their menu Picked the people to stand with them as they were married since this was different. They looked on the internet together to pick what they would wear and decided on a week-long honeymoon exhausting their budget of 100K.

By the time they were done, they were the only two left at the Diner, as Lance and ruby had gone up. Emma had called Mary to let her know that she was working on the project and she would get a ride back with Regina, and Regina didn't believe her mother would bother with the fact that it was midnight and her daughter had not yet returned home.

Regina did not want to go home. She wanted to be with Emma. she was exhausted and vulnerable. She just wanted so much from the blonde. Regina took the exhausted blonde home that night and walked her to the loft. "Thanks for working with me tonight," Regina said softly.

Emma reached out and touched the brunette's hand. "It was fun, I hope I get to do that with the woman I love one day."

Regina looked down at her feet and nodded. Then she looked back up at the blonde who was just an inch taller than her. She could do nothing but stare into the pools of green. Then suddenly her lips were on soft pink. The startled young blonde stiffened, and Regina pulled back and turned. "Good night, Emma"

Emma watched her go startled, "night…" she whispered then entered the loft to a waiting and irritated older sister.


Regina rushed to her bedroom. Her heart pounding from what she'd done. How could he have been so stupid? For the next several days, Regina did not speak or pay attention to Emma. Not that Emma pushed it She'd had a feeling that what Regina had done, would haunt her. She knew that Regina wanted to stay in her closet. Ruby told her so and it wasn't her place to coax her out of it.

Except she was. Regina was having a hard time controlling herself whenever Emma was around so she chose to completely ignore the girl and the situation.

One of the days Mrs. Nolan passed out a Permission slip for a Camping weekend. It was to be a partners retreat. It was supposed to serve as a Honeymoon of sorts for the partners. Except the girls would live in separate cabins from the boys. Sheriff Nolan was going to be one of the chaperones as well and any other parent that wanted to come was welcome.

Both of Emma's parental units were going to be there, which was seriously uncool. How was she supposed to put on the swagger when they were watching her every move.

Emma sat on the bleachers one afternoon. She was watching the Cheerleading squad practice. It was the day before the Partners were supposed to be married. So Emma had to confer with Regina.

She watched as the other girl talked with her friends on the court trying to ignore Emma as best she could. Emma smirked at her fiance's determination to distance herself from all things queer.

On one of the breaks, before she could even begin to approach Regina, a brown haired girl came up to her. "Hey," She said.

Emma smiled and shifted in her seat. "'Sup?"

"There have been some rumors going around, but I like hearing it from the source, and I was wondered if you could dispel some of them?" The girl said taking a seat straddling the bleachers in her short, short skirt

"What's your name?" Emma asked.

"Lily," She retorted then leaned forward letting her perky breasts cleave from the top of her cheer top. They really needed to reevaluate those uniforms. Emma licked at her bottom lip and waited for Lily to speak. "I hear you like girls."

Emma tilted her head, "Why? Are you offering to show me a good time?" She folded her arms in front of her chest and watched as the brunette came closer and placed her hand on Emma's thigh.

"Of course I am," Lily cooed. "I'm the only freaking lesbian in the squad anymore what with Dorothy gone."

Emma snorted. "What about your captain?"

Lily rolled her eyes and laughed. "She has got a stick up her ass, Give me your phone number, I'll take you out." Lily insisted.

Emma handed her the phone and caught Regina's angry glare from the other side of the gym. She was stalking over to them when Lily kissed Emma's cheek and said, "Call you later."

"Lily Page, " Regina commanded, "Practice was not dismissed."

"I'm going!" Lily said and headed back rolling her eyes.

Regina rounded on Emma. "What? Don't you have anything better to do than stalk me at my practice?"

"I came because I needed to know what to wear to our wedding tomorrow. You seem like the type that cares. Didn't hurt that I got a girlfriend out of waiting around for you like an idiot for the past hour."

Regina gasped. "Girlfriend?"

"Yeah, She's cute too. Thanks, Regina."

Regina was livid because of course, it was her fault that Emma had been waiting for her. "I don't care what you wear, Just make it presentable."

Emma shrugged "Fine, I'll surprise you."