Happy National Dog Day everyone! I don't have a dog, but my cat is pretty dog-like. Sort of counts.

"They really do have a movie for everyone don't they," Regina chuckled, looking at all of the Disney movies. When Emma had moved in, she had insisted that Regina and Henry be educated on the world of Disney.

So far, they had both enjoyed it. Henry more than Regina, but Regina still enjoyed seeing all of the errors in every Disney movie. The only movie that she had refused to watch was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Emma hadn't gotten her to watch that yet.

"Define everyone," Emma said, plopping down onto the couch.

Regina held up a red movie box with several dalmatians on the cover. "Even Pongo is featured in a movie. Pongo."

Emma laughed. "Come on, talking dogs are cute."

"Pongo can't talk," Regina said, setting the movie back onto the shelf. "So there's the first inaccuracy. Probably of many."

"Still cute," Emma said.

"What are we watching?" Henry asked, walking into the room with a large bowl of popcorn. He sat down next to Emma, sharing the popcorn with her.

Regina made a face. "Does there have to be popcorn?"

Emma smirked before grabbing a handful of the tasty snack. "Just because you find it unhealthy and gross doesn't mean that the rest of us do."

"Everyone knows that popcorn is unhealthy," Regina countered. "The gross is just me."

Henry snorted before eating another handful. "So what are we watching?"

Emma shrugged. "I vote for-"

"If you say 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', I will fireball you," Regina interrupted, glaring at her.

Henry burst out laughing. "Guess that's a no then."

"Fine," Emma grumbled. "What about '101 Dalmatians'? It has cute puppies in it."

"And Cruella," Henry added. "She loses at the end. It would kinda give me pleasure to see her get defeated by a bunch of dogs."

Regina rolled her eyes before chuckling and pulling the movie back off of the shelf. "By all means, let's watch Cruella get beaten by a bunch of spotted dogs."


"How could someone want to kill so many innocent puppies?" Regina asked. "At least I went for someone that wasn't innocent. Or cute."

Emma bit her lip to keep from laughing. "Guess she just has a thing for fur."

"I'll say," Regina scoffed. "Killing puppies. That's just awful."

"Evil even?" Henry asked, smirking.

Regina pushed him playfully. "Just because you kill things, doesn't mean that you're evil. Truly being evil is making thousands suffer first. What made Cruella evil was that she kidnapped the children of two loving parents, making the parents and the human family suffer."

She looked over and saw Henry and Emma staring at her with wide eyes. "What? I know a thing or two about being evil. Obviously."

"Yeah but, you just totally went in depth about why Cruella is the way she is," Henry said in awe. "Everyone should hear you explain villainy!"

Regina rolled her eyes. "I doubt that people want to hear the difference between psychopathic tendencies and being evil. Not exactly a happy conversation."

"Interesting though," Emma said. "Oh look, Cruella is back. Her guys didn't get the job done."

"Well at least they got that right," Regina said.

"Got what right?" Emma asked.

"Cruella can't kill," Regina said. "So she's using two others to do it for her."

Emma's jaw dropped. "Oh my god. How did I never notice that? I've watched this movie literally a thousand times."

"Literally a thousand?" Regina teased.

Emma rolled her eyes. "Whatever. My point is, my mind has been blown."

Henry chuckled. "I'm pretty sure you also never thought that you would meet Cruella anyway. How could you have known that she couldn't kill? Or that fairytale people were real."

"Good point," Emma said. She pointed to the screen. "It's also true that she looks nothing like that."

Regina burst out laughing. "She is a lot better looking than this movie version of her."

"How would you know how good looking she is?" Emma asked.

Regina just smirked. "Jealous?"

Emma blushed. "No. I don't get jealous."

"Uh huh," Regina said. "Right."

Emma stuck her tongue out at Regina before turning back to the TV to watch the movie. Regina just laughed.

"Do you think that Pongo knows that he's in a movie?" Henry asked.

"He's a dog," Regina said. "Of course he doesn't."

Emma leaned over to Henry. "I bet he does," she whispered in his ear.

Regina rolled her eyes. "What happened to all of the puppies?"

"What do you mean?" Emma asked.

"After the movie," Regina said. "What the heck did they do with all of those puppies? Did they move to a different house? Clearly their one now isn't going to be able to fit 101 dalmatians."

"You're way overthinking," Henry said. "That's just where the movie ends. Happy ending, the end."

"That's so unrealistic!" Regina argued. "No one ever gets happy endings like that!"

"No?" Emma asked. Regina looked at her, and did a double take. Happy endings did happen like that, and the proof was right in front of her.

"I take it back," Regina said, smiling.

Emma smiled back. "That's what I thought."

"And I'm out," Henry said, getting up from the couch. "You two are about to get all sappy, and I really don't want to be here for that."

Regina and Emma just laughed.

I had the same mind blown moment as Emma. I was thinking about the movie, and then I made the connection that she has the guys do it because she can't kill. Mind. Blown.