Chapter 7: Decisions in a Ridiculous Town

Emma, Regina, and Henry walked into the Charming's apartment to complete silence.

"Mom? Dad? You guys here?" Emma turned to the two brunettes and muttered, "It still feels weird to call them that sometimes." Both brunettes nodded in understanding.

David entered into the kitchen followed by Snow. "Oh, hey Emma. Oh and Regina and Henry! What brings you two by?"

Snow walked to embrace Emma into a hug. "Oh Emma! It's been such a hard morning. I couldn't pick up Neal! But thankfully it's over now. I thought it was a side-effect of the shrinking. I called Whale but he insists that I'm not shrinking. But look at these pants Emma! It looks like I'm wearing David's pants! But I'm still the same height so I don't understand what's happening! And then I-"

"Woah! Calm down, take a deep breath. I barely heard anything you said. You were talking so fast. I'm sure everything's okay with you." Emma suppressed a smile, knowing she was the cause of these hysterics. "Anywho, Regina and Henry are here because we have something to tell you."

The five of them sat down at the table before Emma started.

"Now, please don't overreact." Emma looked pointedly at her mother, and took a deep breath. "Yesterday, Regina and I found out that we had certain feelings towards each other. We're in love with each other and last night we went on a date, and Regina looked beautiful and it was beyond great and she makes me super happy and I know it seems super backwards because it is, but that's how it happened, so now we're together."

Silence.

Emma, Regina, and Henry waited for a response. Emma and Henry slowly panicking and Regina waiting to celebrate the explosion that was about to happen.

"Did you happen to tell Ruby about you two?" Snow asked skeptically. Emma nodded. Snow hit David's arm. "That's why Ruby changed her bet yesterday! She already knew! I'm not paying her a dime."

David nodded in agreement. "Yeah but at least we were closer this month. Only a week off."

Regina spoke up. "What exactly is going on?"

"There's been a betting pool on when you and Ma would get together. It's been going on for years." Henry stated.

Regina and Emma's eyes widened. "So you're not surprised by this?" Emma asked.

Her parents rolled their eyes. "Honestly sweetheart, this is way overdue. I'm surprised it took you two this long with all the longing eye glances and junk. Really Emma, I don't even look at David like that." Snow stated as if it was obvious.

More silence.

"So when's the wedding? Emma did you propose? Are you going to move in with them? There are boxes at the station if you-"

"Woah! Okay David chill. We JUST got together; we're not getting married yet." Emma said.

"But Ma, you are gonna move in right?" Henry asked, with a hopefully look in his eyes.

All eyes in the room were on Emma, including her girlfriend's. "Regina! Why are you looking at me?!...Wait...do you want me to move in?"

Regina raised her eyebrows. "Do you want to?"

Once again all eyes were on the blonde.

"I…wh…how…I mean yeah, of course I do. I wanna spend the rest of my life with you Gina, but don't you think all think that's moving way too fast?"

Regina smirked at Emma, "Of course, I think that's moving too fast. I just wanted to see what you wanted. I think we should take our time."

Emma smiled and rolled her eyes at Regina as she pulled her in for a kiss. "So what if I had just said yes? You would have let me move in?"

Regina smiled. "I knew you wouldn't have "just said yes", but if you would have I would have been elated. I want to spend my life with you too. I don't care how we do it. As long as we're together."

The two women leaned in to kiss again, both of them smiling into the kiss.

"Are you kidding me?!" Henry exclaimed.

Both women turned to see David, Snow, and Henry looking at them with annoyed, irritated, and disgusted expressions.

"What?" They both asked.

Snow stood up and starting pacing. "What?! Are you two serious right now? "Oh I love you. I wanna spend the rest of my life with you" "Oh I love you too, anywhere you are, is where I wanna be." Muah muah muah, kissy-face kissy-face! Those were basically wedding vows!" Snow mocked.

"Yeah! If a priest would have been here you two would be married! This is ridiculous. "Move slow" As if." David scoffed.

"True that! Look Moms, we've been waiting years for this. And this taking it slow thing sucks. You've been taking it slow for years! Put it in gear; put your foot on the gas, and GO!"

Henry, David, and Snow were now all standing and looking at the two women.

Emma stared at the three. "Look guys, we just-"

Mary Margaret raised her hand, cutting Emma off. "We don't want to hear it. Do what you have to do. Just speed this crap up. Let's go you guys. I can't take this right now. I want a milkshake." She went to pick up Neal, and David and Henry hummed in agreement as the four of them exited the apartment and headed to Granny's.

Emma turned to Regina slowly. "What's wrong with our family?"

Regina shook her head and smiled. "Too much. But when we do decide to live together, I don't think we should tell them ahead of time. I'm guessing there's probably a betting pool on that as well."

Emma smirked and shook her head. "I can't believe this town. Betting on our relationship? Are people in this town THAT nosey?!"

Both looked at each other and nodded.

"Yeah."

"Most definitely."

There was a moment of silence. A pregnant silence. Both women lost in their own thoughts.

Look at her…She's so beautiful. I would love to wake up to her every morning. But we JUST got together. It's too soon to move in…isn't it? I just don't wanna be apart from her unless I absolutely have to…ugh…Swan get it together! Just ask her!

Just ask her to move in. I'm sure she'd say yes…No, no, no we just talked moving too fast. But I just want to be with her at all moments of the day. Look at her idiotic, gorgeous face. And that blonde hair! I would love to bury my face in that every morning and night. How is her hair even that blonde? She better not be a bottle blonde. Regina sighed. I don't want to wait months before she moves in!

"So you wanna just do it?"

"Move in."

They spoke simultaneously.

"Wait what?"

"Huh?"

Emma looked at Regina. "I was asking if you wanna go for it. Ya know…living together." Emma asked shyly.

Regina smiled. "Well I was saying that you should move in. I know we literally just said that it would be moving too fast but I just feel like…" Regina trailed off. "I just have this feeling."

Emma tilted her head as she looked at Regina.

"You feel it too?"

Regina looked at Emma with a questioning expression.

"I have this feeling. It could only be explained as a pull towards you. And it's so strong it almost kind makes me feel sick to even think about being away from you." Emma explained.

Regina nodded in agreement. "Oh well yes. I do feel it too. Ever since that kiss last night, I've felt it intensely. Being with you makes it go away, but even thinking about being away from you makes the pull come back tenfold. I've never felt like this before."

Emma pulled Regina to sit on her lap. "Yeah me either. Maybe it's our magic or something." Emma sat up and looked around the room. "Do you hear that Regina?"

They were quiet for a moment. "No, dear I don't hear anything. What did you hear?"

Emma shook her head. "Nevermind. So, what now?"

Regina got up, pulling her girlfriend with her. "Well now we spend the day packing up your stuff, and then you move in." She pulled the blonde in for a kiss, but soon pulled back after hearing shouts of what sounded like…celebration? Talking? Mumbling?

"Okay I heard that. What is that?"

Both women looked around the room looking for the source of the noise. Both sets of eyes landed on the baby monitor. They both moved closer to it in order to get a better listen. They soon heard a familiar voice.

"It's about time, am I right sister?!" -Leroy

"Honestly, those two take longer than anyone to do anything. I'm surprised it didn't take them another 5 years. It was a genius idea bringing this monitor so we could listen in Snow!" -Granny

"I wonder how long it'll take them to Marvin Gaye and get it on…" -Ruby

"Woah! Okay! Those are my moms you're talking about. I don't wanna think about them like that." -Henry

*squeals* "I'm going to have magic grandbabies!" –Mary Margaret

"Yeah yeah yeah, true love sex and babies, we get it. Now everyone cough up the cash. I was the only one that took the bet that they'd decide to move in together the day after they got together. And you all thought I was crazy. Cough it up."-Zelena

Everyone was grumbling and complaining.

"Thank you very much darlings. It truly is a pleasure doing business with you all." –Zelena

"Blah blah, so what's the next bet? I say we lay out our guesses of when they'll get engaged." –Ruby

"Sounds good, but let's make that bet a 2 part. When they'll get engaged and which one of them will pop the question." –Henry

"Ohhh yeah, that's a good one Hen."-David

"Alright, let's start off by placing bets on who'll pop the question first, and then we'll move on to when." –Granny

They were all so busy chattering and placing bets that they didn't notice the two women of topic appear in a poof of purple smoke. They both took in the seen in front of them. Among the people that they already knew were there, stood Maleficent, Belle, Gold, the Blue fairy, and a few of other Storybrooke citizens.

"Ya know if you're gonna eavesdrop on two people using a baby monitor, you should probably set it going one way." Emma said holding up the baby monitor, while Regina fixed everyone with a glare.

Everyone turned to look at the women that appeared out of nowhere. Their faces turned different shades of red and the group turned to look at Snow.

"I just grabbed it and left! I didn't have time to check for technical difficulties! You all should be thanking me. Without me, we wouldn't have even known what was going on!" Snow said in defense.

The rest of the group agreed with nodded heads and mumbles.

"Well, since you people have enough energy to gossip and bet on our personal lives, then I'm sure you have enough energy to help us pack and move Emma's things today." Regina stated.

Everyone groaned and sighed, Leroy being the loudest. "Fine sister, but only because I'm ready for you two to tie the knot already. I'll round up the rest of the dwarves."

Emma clapped her hands together and smiled. "Great! Let's get going!"

Before anyone could move, Archie ran in the diner, followed by Tinkerbell, Mulan, Lily, August, and Whale. None of them noticing the two women standing there.

"Hey, we got Ruby's text about the new betting pool. I put $50 on Emma asking first!" Archie said, slightly out of breath.

"No way! Regina totally has more balls than Emma! She'll definitely be the one to ask!" Whale countered.

Both Emma and Regina cleared their throats, making the new arrivals aware of their presence.

"I swear this town is ridiculous." Emma said under her breath.

Regina smirked and put her head on Emma's shoulder. "Agreed dear. Agreed."

A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it took so long to get this out! Finals suck, am I right?! I really hope you guys like it! Please review! I'm also starting to take prompts for one shots, or stories in general, so message me to send in your prompts, ideas, or just to chat! (Tumblr: onyxeuphoria) I'm looking forward to hearing from you all! :)