Emma pulled away as Regina gasped awake. "It worked," Emma whispered. "I can't believe that it really worked."

"Neither can I," Regina said. "My True Love according to Tink has a lion tattoo on their arm. Which I'm pretty sure you don't."

"Sometimes True Love finds a different way," Henry said, holding up a new page to the storybook. It showed all that had happened recently; from the pricking of Regina's finger to where they all were now.

"Well thank goodness it turned out this way," Emma said. "I can't imagine if that hadn't worked."

Henry nodded. "Which kind of leads to my question. What are you going to say to Snow and David?"

"Oh I have plenty of things to say to them," Emma said.

Regina reached out and grabbed her hand. "They were just doing what they thought was the best for you. That's all."

"You could have been stuck in that sleeping curse forever," Emma argued. "There is no way that I would have been able to even look at them if my kiss hadn't woken you up. What if that had happened?"

"But it didn't," Regina said. "I'm awake and I'm fine."

"That's not the point," Emma said. "They put you into a sleeping curse without your permission, and for what? To make us realize that we were True Love's?"

"You might want to talk about that too," Henry pointed out.

Regina slowly sat up. "You make a good point, but now is not the time for that conversation. I think what we need to do right now is have a conversation with Snow and David over what happened."

"There is no way that I am talking to them," Emma said.

Regina squeezed her hand gently. "Emma-"

"I don't want to talk to them," Emma interrupted. "I just need a bit of time to cool off. No use in talking to them when I'm angry, right?"

Regina sighed and then nodded. "Fine. You don't have to talk to them now. But you will have to eventually."

It had been a month since the sleeping curse incident, and Emma still hadn't spoken a word to Snow or David. It proved difficult at work, since she worked with David, but somehow she made it work.

They had tried to talk to her on multiple occasions, but Emma had just walked past them and went about her day. Nothing that they did now could fix what had been done.

Regina, however, had tried to get Emma to talk to her parents. Just as Emma was finally starting to cave, Regina woke up from one of the burning room nightmares. Night after night of nightmares led to Emma not liking her parents any more than she had previously.

Regina's mission now was to finally get Emma to talk to her parents. The nightmares had stopped, but Emma still remained stubborn on the fact that she was not going to talk to Snow and David anyway. She sure could hold grudges.

"We need to talk," Regina said, sitting next to Emma on the couch.

"Is this about my parents again?" Emma asked.

Regina nodded. "It's been a month. You can't just ignore them forever. I'm the one who was put under the curse, and I forgave them."

"For reasons I don't understand," Emma scoffed. "They need to understand that what they did was wrong."

"And a month of the silent treatment didn't do that already?" Regina asked.

Emma sighed. "Fine. I'll talk to them."

Regina leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. "Thank you."

"Thank you for finally talking to us," Snow said. "We appreciate it."

"I'm not doing it for you," Emma said simply, holding tightly to Regina's hand.

David nodded. "We know. But it's nice to hear your voice again."

"I just came to tell you that I still don't like what you did," Emma said. "But if Regina is willing to forgive you, then I guess I can try."

David and Snow smiled. "Thank you."

Emma shrugged. "You gave Regina a second chance. I suppose you deserve one too."

"Thank you," Snow said. "But we really did do it for your own good."

"And you ruined it," Regina mumbled.

"My own good?" Emma said. "Just like the wardrobe was for my own good? Somehow, I don't think doing things for my own good is working out very well for you."

"We just wanted you to be happy," David said.

Emma shook her head. "What if she hadn't woken up?"

"But she did," Snow said weakly.

"And what if she hadn't?" Emma asked. "What if she hadn't woken up? Then what? Would you all have celebrated? The Evil Queen is finally gone?"

"Emma," Regina said gently, squeezing her hand. Emma took a deep breath and leaned back in her chair.

"That's not at all what we were doing," Snow said. "I swear. We just wanted the two of you to realize that you were True Loves. You both have been through so much, and we just wanted to help your happy ending along."

"I think I can speak for both of us when I say that while we appreciate it, it probably wasn't the best idea," Regina said.

"Yeah, we realized that after the fact," David said, smiling guiltily. "We really are sorry that we went about it that way. And I hope that someday you'll be able to forgive us."

Emma bit her lip before nodding. "Someday I will. I just have a hard time with forgiving stuff where someone I love is put into danger."

"We know," Snow said. "Just don't take too long. You are our daughter after all."

"I am," Emma agreed. She stood up, pulling Regina with her. "But that doesn't mean that you know what's for my own good."

It took several months, but Emma finally seemed to forgive Snow and David. It had been rough on all of them, but they eventually had come to an agreement that Emma would forgive them if they kept out of her love life.

Regina was happy that things were finally back to normal. She herself had just repaired her relationship with Snow, and wanted to keep it that way.

The doorbell rang, and Regina walked quickly to answer it. "Snow," she said in surprise.

"Is Emma home?" Snow asked.

Regina shook her head. "She and Henry went to the woods. Something about learning to sword-fight."

Snow laughed. "That sounds like them."

"Did you need her for something?" Regina asked.

Snow shook her head. "I came for you actually."

"You did?" Regina asked. "What for?"

Snow stepped forward and wrapped her arms around Regina. "For this. What I did to you was no different than you forcing me to eat that apple so long ago."

"It really is fine," Regina said. "Emma is over it, so I am as well."

Snow smiled. "You really have changed."

"Well I'm glad that someone has finally noticed," Regina teased.

Snow laughed. "I really did do it for your own good."

Regina smiled. "I know. And I appreciate it."