This chapter is for Lanafan7151977 (I just realized that the numbers in your username are Lana's birthday. Clever!) with the prompt: "Regina is teaching Emma magic and Emma accidentally turns her into an animal of some kind."

"What are we going to do today?" Emma asked, plopping next to Regina on the couch. "My parents kidnapped Henry for the day, so we are completely free."

"You could do some reading," Regina suggested, pointing to the pile of books on the coffee table. "I do believe that I gave you some reading to do. Which you haven't completed yet."

Emma rolled her eyes. "Why would I want to read books on magic when I can just do it?"

"You can just do it?" Regina asked. "Okay. Then let's see a demonstration. I was going to have you read on transformations, but I guess since you can just do it, you shouldn't need the book instructions."

"What am I transforming?" Emma asked. Surely Regina wouldn't pick anything too difficult. After all, Emma was just starting to get better at controlling her magic. Turns out, there was more to magic than just ripping out hearts, poofing, and defeating villains.

Regina pointed to a vase across the room. "Turn it into a cat."

"Turn a vase into the living animal?" Emma asked. "Can I even do that?"

"Maybe if you did the reading, you would know," Regina said, smirking.

Emma stuck her tongue out at Regina before walking over and standing in front of the vase. You couldn't just transform something non-living into something living, could you? Then again, this was magic.

"Staring at it won't make it transform," Regina teased, watching Emma with amusement. She knew that the spell would be unsuccessful, but this was her way of teaching Emma a lesson. If she wanted to learn magic, she had to do the unfun parts first. Like reading the books.

It was true that you couldn't make something non-living become living, which was why the spell would be unsuccessful. Then again, Emma was the Savior and could sometimes do things that others could not. Her magic was just that strong.

Taking a deep breath, Emma concentrated her magic towards the vase, visualizing it becoming a little black kitten. Emma smiled to herself. Regina could almost certainly be a black kitten. That might honestly be cute.

Focusing her magic, Emma let the spell go towards the vase. Only it did the most unusual thing. Instead of changing the vase into a kitten like Emma wanted it to, it changed something else into a kitten. Or really, someONE.

Emma looked over at the little black kitten glaring at her from the couch. As she walked over, the little kitten hissed. Emma bit the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing. Kitten-Regina probably wouldn't like that.

"We should probably go see Gold," Emma said, delicately picking up Regina. "I may have just screwed up big time."

"Well this is certainly interesting," Gold said, looking at the kitten sitting on his counter. "I must say, I'm quite impressed. For your first transformation, you actually managed to completely transform her without any missing limbs. Quite an accomplishment, Miss Swan."

"Uh, thanks," Emma said. "Look, how do I change her back? That's what I really came here for."

"What exactly happened?" Gold asked.

"I was supposed to be turning a vase into a cat, but the spell changed Regina instead," Emma said. "How did that even happen?"

"What were you thinking about when you cast the spell?" Gold asked.

"How cute that Regina would be as a kitten," Emma said. "But my magic was aimed at the vase."

"Doesn't matter," Gold said, batting away Regina as she tried to bite his fingers. "If your mind was on Regina, that was where your magic went. Not to mention that you can't turn a vase into a cat. Something non-living can't just be turned into something living."

Emma looked in shock at the kitten. "You were trying to teach me a lesson for not reading the book!"

Regina nodded. Emma rolled her eyes before picking her up. "I know what I need to do. Thanks for your help."

Emma walked quickly back to her bug, trying to shelter Regina from the cold. "Guess teaching me a lesson didn't work out so well for you, now did it?"

"Emma, are you talking to yourself?" Snow asked. Emma turned around to see Snow, David, and Henry all standing behind her.

"Uh yeah," Emma said. "Just tend to do that sometimes."

"Why is your hand tucked in your jacket?" David asked. "You're not hurt, are you?"

"No," Emma said quickly. "You guys just snuck up on me, and I had to quickly hide my surprise for Henry. Wouldn't want to spoil his gift."

"You bought me a present?" Henry asked. "But it's not my birthday."

"I know," Emma said. "Just saw it and thought of you."

"Where's Regina?" Snow asked. "You two are hardly ever apart. At least not for very long anyway."

"She's back at home," Emma said. "So I should probably get going before she starts to worry and calls me." She quickly got into her bug, trying her best to get her seat-belt on with one arm in her jacket, still hiding the kitten from the view of her parents and Henry.

"We need to change you back right away," Emma mumbled as she drove off. The only response she got was a little mew.

Emma gently put the kitten on the couch before focusing her magic. She thought of Regina again in her human form, and let her magic go.

"Well thank goodness that worked," Regina said, looking happily at her hands. "I was starting to get the urge to clean myself."

"You were a pretty cute kitten," Emma sat, sitting next to her.

"So I'm not cute in human form?" Regina teased. "I get it. So that's how this is going to be."

"Oh shut up," Emma said, kissing her gently. "You know that's not what I meant. I'm glad that you're back to your regular self."

Regina smiled. "Me too."

"So now what do we do?" Emma asked. "And don't you dare suggest reading those books."

Regina laughed. "Well I do believe that you told our son that you have a surprise for him. You might want to get working on that."

Emma just smiled. "Want to help me turn Archie into a kitten?"