Emma hummed to herself as she walked into Regina's study at home. Since she was getting better at magic, she wanted to expand her horizons. Which, unfortunately for her, included reading spell books.

There were a ton of spell books in Regina's vault, but Emma had never been a huge fan of that place. The beating hearts were a little two creepy for her liking.

After browsing through all of the books on the shelves, Emma realized that there weren't any there that she could read. They were all in some kind of weird language that Regina hadn't taught her yet.

Turning around, Emma skimmed her eyes over Regina's desk. Maybe she had a book hidden somewhere that was in a normal language. Like English.

Seeing a book under a stack of papers, Emma went to move them when one caught her eye. And what the title was made Emma freeze, eyes wide. Grabbing it tightly in her hand, Emma quickly ran out of the study and to her bug. She and Regina needed to talk.


"What is this?" Emma demanded, storming into Regina's office. Regina's secretary was trailing closely behind her, trying to grab her arm and take her out.

"Can't you see we're in the middle of something?" Granny asked irritably. "Wait your turn."

"This is more important," Emma said, holding up the papers for Regina to see. "Is there something that you need to tell me?"

Regina sighed. "Emma, please calm down. Mary, please take her back out to the waiting area so that I can finish my current appointment."

"No way," Emma said. "I am not leaving until we talk about this."

"We will," Regina said. "You just have to wait a couple more minutes while I finish up with Granny and then I'll talk to you."

Emma stood there for several seconds before finally moving out of Regina's office. Mary quickly left and closed the door behind her.

"What was that all about?" Granny asked. "She looked like she had something that she had found. And she didn't seem happy."

"She just doesn't know the situation," Regina said. "We'll talk when I'm done with you. Now then, you were saying about Leroy?"


Finally, Regina finished with Granny. She opened the door, politely saying goodbye to Granny before beckoning Emma into her office. Emma shot out of her chair and quickly entered Regina's office, spinning to face her as soon as the door shut.

"Would you care to explain this?" Emma asked. "Why are you writing your will? Do you plan to depart anytime soon? Because I think that's something that you should tell me before just making a will."

Regina reached out and grabbed Emma's shoulders. "Take a deep breath and calm down. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, okay?"

"Then why do you have a will made up?" Emma asked.

"Just in case something happens to me unexpectedly," Regina said, gently taking the papers from Emma's hands and putting them on the desk. "You don't have any legal rights to Henry, so I made sure that if anything happens to me, custody of Henry would go to you."

"And that's it?" Emma asked. "You're not hiding a terminal disease or anything from me, right?"

Regina laughed before kissing Emma. "No, I'm not hiding a disease or anything. I just like planning ahead."

"I swear if I come home and you're planning your funeral, you're a dead woman," Emma said. "Not even joking. Don't scare me like that ever again."

Smiling, Regina wrapped her arms around Emma and hugged her tightly. "I won't."