A/N: This is a short chapter but I hope you enjoy it!
One Month Later
Regina, Emma, and Henry were sitting at the table in Snow and David's apartment. They had come over for a family dinner but also to give the couple some news. Dessert had been finished and the dinner had been awkward at best, but neither Charming wanted to draw attention to the strange behavior being displayed by the Swan-Mills crew. However, Snow eventually couldn't take it anymore and decided to bite the bullet.
"Okay so what's going on? Emma, you've barely eaten anything, Regina you've eaten everything, and Henry you haven't said a word since you've gotten here. What's wrong?" Snow asked.
Emma sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "Nothing, Mom, we're fine."
David frowned, looking at his daughter's behavior and the way Regina rolled her eyes at the statement, which was obviously a lie. "No…something's wrong. What happened?"
"Nothing is the matter." Regina grumbled.
Henry sighed and put down his fork. "You guys might as well tell them. They'll find out eventually anyway." He spat, causing his mothers to flinch. The four adults watched as Henry angrily got up and stomped up the stairs.
"What the hell is going on?!" Snow asked in a demanding tone.
Emma shrugged again. "Henry's right, we might as well just tell you. Regina and I aren't getting married anymore. We called off the engagement."
Snow and David blinked. For the first time of the evening, they noticed how neither one of the women were wearing their rings.
"Maybe I didn't hear you correctly, but it sounds like you said that you called off the engagement." David said slowly.
Regina rolled her eyes. "Yes, you heard correctly. We called it off. Miss Swan and I are no longer together anymore. It is not that hard of a concept to grasp."
"Wh-what-how-when-WHY?!" Snow sputtered.
Emma let out an annoyed huff. "Look, it doesn't matter why, okay? Sometimes things just don't work out. That's life. You get over it and you move on." Emma said in a nonchalant voice.
"Emma, sweetie you don't mean that. What about true love? What about your happy ending? You both know that you're each other's happy ending. If you know that, you can make it through anything!" Snow said, her expression pleading.
"Snow, please spare us the hope speech. We are adults here. Everything isn't always rainbows and flowers." Regina said with an eye roll.
There was a pause before David decided to speak again. "So what does this mean? Emma, are you moving out? What about Henry? How does he feel about this?"
"Yeah Dad, I'll be moving out. And I think by Henry's reaction, you can tell that he's not too happy about it." Emma responded.
David let out a long breath and rubbed Snow's back as she looked at him with a defeated face. "We just don't understand what caused this. Was this a sudden thing or was it gradual?"
"It was gradual." Regina whispered. "You don't just walk away from something all at once. There are little things that build up. You wake up one morning and you just realize that something's different. Just like falling in love, it was gradual and the little things added up." Regina stood from the table and headed to the front door. "Miss Swan, I'm sure you won't mind returning Henry home." She said, before exiting the apartment.
Snow and David turned to Emma who was left looking at the front door longingly. She cleared her throat and stood up from the table as well. "Well then, now that that's over, I'm going upstairs to see about Henry."
Snow and David watched as Emma headed upstairs. They looked at each other, both with confused and bewildered faces. "What the hell is happening?" David mumbled.
"I have no idea! Have noticed anything different about them in the past few months or so?" Snow asked.
David shook his head. "No, I would have mentioned it. I just…it seems so sudden, ya know?"
Snow sighed as she leaned against her husband. "I don't know David, but we have to do something! There's no way they can just call off the wedding like that!"
"Snow, I think this is more than just the wedding. They're not together anymore! How are we supposed to fix that?!" David half-yelled, his frustration getting the best of him. He had been so happy to be getting another daughter. Emma and Regina being happy had really made him smile, even on his worst days. And now his daughters weren't together anymore? What the actually hell?!
"Calm down, Charming. We'll get down to the bottom of this. We'll get them back together, even if we have to get the entire town involved." Snow said with a determined glare.
A Week Earlier
"Emma…"
"Yes, my love?"
"I'm bored."
"Same. Watcha wanna do?"
Regina placed her book down and took her glasses off. "I'm not sure. Where's Henry?"
"Hanging with Nick."
"Chance?"
"With Hen."
Regina let out a sigh. Even the dog was out having a good time. She looked over at her clock and rolled her eyes. It was 7:32pm on a Saturday and this is how she and Emma had spent their day? Sitting in the bed reading and playing games on their phones? Pathetic.
"Wanna make fun of Hallmark movies again?" Emma asked, not looking up from her phone.
"Not really"
"Me neither."
"Ugh, Em when did we get so utterly boring?I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually miss Ruby and Zelena being here. At least when they were here we had a little chaos. Now everything is just boring." " Regina whined.
"What?! Gina, we're not boring! We're just….domesticated." Emma defended, putting down her phone.
"You make us down like cats…or the eldery."
"Well, based on your age…"
Regina flicked her wrist and with a gust of wind, Emma was pushed off of the bed, causing Regina to smile when she heard the satisfying thud.
"Ouch! Rude." Emma groaned as she got up slowly.
"You deserved it."
Emma grunted in response and got back in the bed. "I have an idea."
"If it has anything to do with my age, you're getting a fireball to your butt."
"Pfft. You're still on that? That happened ages ago. No pun intended. But here me out. We haven't pulled a prank on my Mom in a while so…" Emma drifted off knowing Regina would catch it.
"Oooo, I love it when you talk dirty to me." Regina purred.
"Alright, Jason Derulo., calm down. We have to come up with a plan first."
They brainstormed for a while, both throwing out ideas here and there. After a while, Emma snapped her fingers, breaking Regina and out of her thoughts.
"I have an idea!"
"Well, please share with the class, my dearest."
"You're not going to like it though…." Emma warned.
Regina let out a sigh and braced herself. "Go ahead."
"I wanna convince her that we've called off the engagement." Emma suggested, biting her lip.
Regina chuckled. "That's gloriously evil, dear. I love it, why wouldn't I?"
"Because in order to convince her, we'll have to convince everyone else. And to convince everyone…"
Regina sighed, catching on to what Emma was saying. "We have to really act the part. Meaning we'll have to avoid each other and spend less time together and ugh you're right, I don't like it."
Emma hopped up and straddled Regina's lap. "Come on, Gi! It'll be so fun! We can fake argue! It'll be just like when I first moved here and we can get all up in each other's faces again! Think of it as foreplay."
"Foreplay huh? I do like the sound of that." Regina mumbled, her thoughts going to how sexy Emma looked anytime she was upset. Fake arguing would definitely be some great foreplay.
"See? We can sneak around and find different ways to see each other! It's gonna be fun!" Emma said, wiggling her eyebrows.
"We have to tell Henry though. I don't want him negatively affected by this."
Emma nodded. "Of course, sweetheart, that's a given. He's gonna get a kick out of it!" Emma said excitedly, grinning from ear to ear.
Regina grinned feeling the excitement radiating from Emma and thinking about the look on Snow's face when they finally told her the news. She leaned over to her nightstand and pulled out a journal from the drawer. She grabbed the pen and opened it up to a clean page. "Okay, so why'd we call off the engagement?"
Emma's eyebrows scrunched together as she tried to come up with a reason, Regina doing the same. After a few minutes, Emma gave up and shrugged. "I'm sorry, babe, but I can't think of any logical reason why I would ever walk away from you." She said seriously, leaning in to place a soft kiss on Regina's lips.
"Always the charmer." Regina whispered, pulling Emma in for another short kiss. "But I agree. I can't come up with anything remotely logical."
"What if we just don't give any specific details? We can be really vague and act like it's too personal." Emma offered.
Regina nodded. "Yeah that'll work. I say, we tell the family together. They'll at least deserve that much. We won't have to worry about telling anyone else. Once we tell your parents, word will get around."
Emma shook her head and chuckled. "I love the fact that you threw that in there. Okay, so we'll act all distant and stuff. Ya know, avoid each other, a glance here and there, but nothing major. Then we'll have a run in at Granny's and have it out."
Regina hummed as she wrote down a few bullet points. "We have to pull the 'my son' card! We absolutely have to!" Regina raved.
"Oh hell yeah! You know what? What if w-"
"Ma! Mom! I'm home!"
Regina grinned when she heard Henry's voice. "We're in our room!"
Emma looked at her fiancée with amusement. "I thought we weren't supposed to yell in the house."
Regina rolled her eyes. "Yes well, I suppose I got caught up in the excitement of informing Henry of the plan."
Emma snorted, leaning down to kiss Regina's nose. "Sure baby."
Hearing the clearing of a throat, Emma turned to see their son standing in the doorway with a fruit roll-up hanging out of his mouth. "Didn't expect to see you in this position when I came up here. If you want a few more minutes I can wait." Henry joked with a smirk.
Emma rolled her eyes and snorted. "Trust me kid, I'd need more than a few minutes."
"Ugh!"
"Emma!" Regina chided. "Come here, Henry, we have some exciting news!" Regina said, patting the space next to her.
Henry took off his shoes and slid onto the bed and was joined by Chance seconds later, who soon attacked Emma and Regina's faces with wet kisses.
"So what's the news? Another vacation? Pregnant?!" Henry excitedly guessed.
"Good guesses but not exactly. It's more of an operation." Emma said, scratching Chance's belly.
"Operation? For what?"
"Well, it's more of a prank actually. We were bored today and realized that it's been a while since we've pulled a prank on Snow and we've decided on the perfect one."
A smile crept over Henry's face as he sat up fully. "So, what's the plan?"
Regina had just walked into the house when a poof of white smoke appeared, revealing Emma and Henry.
"So, how did the rest of it go after I left?" Regina asked, leaning in to kiss Emma and Henry on the cheeks, before heading to the kitchen.
"Um, Mom, we may have made a miscalculation in this prank." Henry said.
Regina looked up from the coffee maker and frowned. "What do you mean?"
"So, when you left, I immediately got up to go 'check on Henry' but I was really just sitting on the steps listening in on their conversation. And one thing we didn't consider is the fact that my mom is going to attempt to get us back together, by any means necessary." Emma said with a rolled of her eyes.
"Even if it takes the whole town. And those are her words, not mine." Henry added, taking a seat at the island. "I'm guessing she's gonna come up with quite a few schemes and plots in order to get you two back together."
Regina took a moment to take all of the information in. "So what you're saying is, we're going to have a lot more fun with this than we thought?"
Emma and Henry nodded enthusiastically. "A hell of a lot more fun."
A/N: I hope you're ready for the next few chapters because things are about to get intense!
How do you think the prank will turn out? How will the town respond to it?
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