Emma sighed as she looked at Henry sleeping on the couch. He just wanted Regina, but Regina was off helping her mother. Emma knew why, but Henry didn't understand how she could betray them all.

Emma didn't see it as betrayal. She saw it as Regina wanting to regain a relationship with her mother. The woman who had made her childhood a living hell. There was a piece of Emma that wished that she could just summon Cora to her and kill her, but Regina would know that it was Emma who had done it.

"So deep in thought that you don't even notice the enemy coming right into your home," a voice taunted.

Emma looked up quickly before standing in front of Henry. "What do you want?"

"Relax, I'm not here to kill either of you," Cora said. "If I wanted to, I would have already."

"What do you want?" Emma repeated. "I suggest you start talking before I bring my parents here. They would love to see you."

"Oh how scary," Cora said sarcastically. "Are you done threatening me now? Because I actually do need your help."

"You need my help?" Emma asked in surprise.

Cora rolled her eyes. "Yes, I need your help. Desperate times call for desperate measures. It's about Regina and her happy ending."

"Okay," Emma said skeptically. "You know, the last time you had someone help get Regina's happy ending, she ended up drinking a potion to prevent her from ever getting pregnant."

"She told you about that?" Cora asked. She was surprised. Regina didn't share stories of her past with very many people. Then again, that could prove her point.

"She tells me a lot of things," Emma said. "Most of them about you and the horrible things that you did to her as a child."

Cora smiled. "This is just perfect. You really can help me."

"What?" Emma asked.

"You are her happy ending," Cora said. "That is why she has told you these things. When you love someone, you tell them everything about you. She has told you everything."

"That's also what you do when you're friends with someone," Emma said. "Regina and I are just friends."

"And yet you love her," Cora said. She smiled as she saw the conflict flash behind Emma's eyes. "Relax, you don't need to admit it out loud. Not to me anyway."

"I'm not admitting it to anyone," Emma said. "Least of all Regina if that's what you're suggesting."

"Of course that's what I'm suggesting," Cora said. "She loves you too, Emma. And as much as we've disagreed and I've ruined her happiness for my own gain, I finally want her to be happy. You make her happy, and can for a very long time."

Emma bit her lip as she thought about the possibilities. Was Cora to even be trusted, or was this a trap? "How do I know that you're telling the truth?"

"You don't," Cora said. "But I've been told that you have a superpower for being able to tell when people are lying. Use it."

Emma sighed. She didn't have any bad feelings about anything that Cora was saying, which meant that she was telling the complete truth. "Fine. I'll tell her."

"Mother, please tell me you didn't capture Miss Swan," Regina said, crossing her arms. "Of all people to capture."

"I didn't capture her," Cora said. "I can't believe you think so little of me."

"Yes because you never give me the opportunity to," Regina said sarcastically.

Emma looked back and forth between Regina and Cora. "Like mother like daughter. You both have overwhelming amounts of sarcasm."

Regina rolled her eyes. "Well if you didn't force her to come here, why is she here?"

"That is for the two of you to talk about," Cora said, stepping towards the door. "Enjoy your little chat."

"What is she talking about?" Regina asked. "What do we need to talk about?"

"Your mother came to me and said that she wanted you to find your happy ending after she had ruined it for you plenty of times," Emma said.

"Okay," Regina said. "So what does that have to do with you?"

Emma sighed. This is what she had been afraid of. Regina didn't feel the same, and now she was going to look like an idiot. "I have no idea."

"Yes you do," Regina said, stepping closer to Emma. "Otherwise my mother wouldn't have been able to convince you to come. You're too untrusting of people to do that."

Emma mentally cursed how well Regina knew her. "Fine. She told me how I factor into this all. But I can't tell you."

"Why not?" Regina asked. "Did she threaten you? I swear if she did-"

"No, she didn't," Emma said quickly. "I came here willingly. It's just, there's a person that she wants you to start seeing, but I'm not sure they know if you feel the same way or not."

"And who is this person?" Regina asked.

"I can't say," Emma said, shrugging. "It, um, is just something that you have to figure out by yourself based on how the person acts around you."

"I see," Regina said. "So, would this person be protective of me? Do anything to see me happy? Make every effort to get close to me even though I've pushed them away time after time? Does that sound like something someone who loves me would do?"

Without even thinking, Emma nodded. "Sounds exactly what you do when you love someone."

Regina smiled and chuckled. "So, and this is just an assumption I'm making based on the previous criteria, that it's you?"

Emma's eyes widened. "How did you-"

Regina cut her off with a kiss. "Because I know you," she said once they had broken apart. "And I can recognize the signs of love when I see it. Our magic wouldn't work together if it wasn't meant to be. For once, I'm actually thankful for my mother."

"Me too," Emma said, pulling Regina in for another kiss. "Me too."