PREVIOUSLY

"I wish we could go see her, without hurting her." Emma whispers quietly pulling me gently against her, holding onto me desperately.

"We'll figure this out, I know we will." I whisper back.

A few days later…

Emma POV

"Regina?" I questioned looking shocked while following the direction of my frantically moving…girlfriend… as she threw books carelessly around, furiously attempting to find something. Expertly dodging the flying items only to be to have a huge book collide with my stomach.

"Ahhh!" staggering backwards with the weight of the impressively sized book.

"REGINA! WOULD YOU STO- OOMMPF!" falling down as another much larger book hit me, knocking me to the ground.

Glaring angrily up at Regina beginning to yell at her for her apparent blindness of her surroundings while she's searching for god knows what only to be cut off by her triumphant shout.

"Yes! I found it!" Regina shouted completely bypassing my bruising form.

Rubbing my stomach softly to ease the pain away I mumbled my complaints as I watched Regina hurriedly flip the book open in her arms and hurriedly begins reading.

"What did you fin- Courting a Werewolf? What are you reading? Will this help with Ruby!?"

Getting excited, I bound over to her forgetting about her recent book abuse, wrapping my arms around her waist and resting my chin on her shoulder so I can read whatever she finds out, when she finds it out.

Several hours later…

"We have a week…" Regina breathes out in shock. Jumping up from my place on the couch and removing my glasses from where they're falling off my face before rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and looking at her questioningly.

"A week for what?"

Sighing she rubs her face tiredly, " Let me get Mal on the phone so I don't have to go over this more than I have to."

"Hey Mal!" Regina calls out with a hint of excitement in her voice.

"Regina?" she replies through the speaker on Regina's desk.

"Yes, but Mal, we found something. Something that will help Ruby…" Regina stops as Maleficent gasps sharply before calmly stating.

"I'll be there in 4 minutes." The dial tone echoing out through Regina's Study.

"Well that went well." I chuckle as Regina glares at me.

"Werewolf mating is much like wolves with very little difference. According to this she is dispersing her pheromones to attract potential mates and she does so naturally a week before the full moon, except she already has a mate…or well two. So when her body… reacts to us, it's in essence, proving her worth as a mating partner and further mother of our unborn children. However even though you've already given her your mark as a mate you have yet to fully complete it… we have yet to complete it. She has to wear my mark, a bite, and we have to… ahem… mate." Regina pauses momentarily steadying herself and letting us absorb the information, but my eyes glaze over as I think of Ruby and Regina together, Regina and I together with Ruby watching, Ruby and me together, Regina, Ruby and me. Shaking my head as Regina begins speaking again, "And as I mentioned werewolf mating is similar to actually wolves to we have to court her. We have the week of the full moon to court her and establish a bond, like wolves. The next part varies a little. With wolves the sleep close together, touch each other frequently, making whining sounds around each other, nuzzles each other's noses, walk pressed together and in some cases sleep together. However since she'll be human during the day I think it's similar we would touch frequently like, brushing each other's hands, hold hands, Eskimo kisses, and at night she needs to sleep together in her wolf form. During this week her pheromones aren't released as strongly so we should be able to be near her without causing her harm. And um…. Well she's going to be overly protective of us and scare of other females and males who get too close to us. Once we…mate…she shouldn't have pheromones problems again…if we keep mating or…or… if she were to become pregnant."

A little Ruby… a little boy or girl…a tiny human made from us. Smiling softly and holding Regina closer to me and using the magic Regina's taught me to push my happiness and desire for a baby onto her. Causing Regina to look sharply in my direction a small unsure smile on her face her eyes filled with hope.

Maleficent seems to have similar thoughts as me as she breathes out shakily.

"A baby? Is…can she…is that possible?"

Breaking out of our little world Regina straightens up and responds to Maleficent.

"It most certainly is, dear, however we're getting ahead of ourselves, Ruby may not want a baby and even if she does we have a lot to get through before we can think of a baby. We don't know if Ruby is attracted to women-" hearing a scoff come from Maleficent. Regina stops and raises one of her perfect eyebrows in a questioning fashion.

"Ruby most certainly is attracted to women; that is definitely not an issue. However breaking up her best friend from Storybrooke which she has a crush on and a woman she's admired and desired for in both worlds most certain-…shit…forget I said that! Erase that from your memories." Maleficent looks positively sheepish and worried.

"Ruby… Ruby liked…likes me?" Regina says looking more lost than I've ever seen her.

"NO!...um no she wants to be your…friend yeah! Friends yeah…look I have to go…I'll tell Ruby about what you've found out and hey the Full moon's in… 2 days so you two better get on you plans on wooing and courting Ruby… yeah I'm leaving now…" Maleficent leaves laughing nervously before leaving hurriedly out the door.

Maleficent's POV

"Ruby! I have good news and bad news…I umm…I may have fucked up…" I whisper. Sitting next to her on the couch, nervously fiddling my thumbs as she lays her head down on my lap looking up at me her eyes sparkling with curiosity.

"What do you mean you 'may have fucked up'? No wait! Tell me later, I want to hear the good news first!" Ruby says looking at me curiously.

"So good news, Regina and Emma found a way to help you! They're going to court you!" Seeing her confused yet relieved happy smile I elaborated.

"The week during the full moon they can be near you without causing you…pain. And during that time they'll court you…I guess you've only been with other wolves for a short time so you don't know about the courting… but you'll find out and I know this is a huge rush, but at the end of the week to the next moon cycle is the time you have to decide if you wish to…mate with them. Or the pain will continue whenever you're near them, more so with Emma as she's bitten you, and you'll have to repeat the courting process. But I know you like them so… that isn't a problem?" Smirking as Ruby's face matches her name and she looks away shyly.

"No, that's not a problem." Blushing more fiercely she quickly changes topics.

"So then what's the bad news? How did you 'may have fucked up'?" looking away from her questioning gaze I mumble loud enough for her to easily hear.

"Well…Regina has to bite you in a way…similar to how Emma bite you so you can begin the bonding process with her… but that's not really an issue I don't think." Glancing quickly over at her to see her reaction. Her blush which was fading was back again, but she's caught on to my stalling.

"No it's not, Fee you can talk to me what happened?" she asks encouragingly placing a hand atop of mine. Taking a deep breath and quickly rushing out the words.

"ImayhavetoldReginayou'vehadfeelingsforherinbothwo rldsandthatyouhadacrushonEmma."

Finishing with a swallow of air to see Ruby staring at me slightly confused before her eyes widen and she starts wildly swinging her arms at me.

"WHAT THE HELL FEE! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!OH GOD! THEY HATE ME OH GOD OH GOD!" Ruby says hyperventilating slightly.

"Ruby! No, no they don't they're going to court you after all, I know Emma likes you, she definitely likes you. And Regina, she was so flustered after I told her so I think it's safe to say she likes you as well. It's going to be alright. Shh calm down, you don't want to pass out do you." I soothe, attempting to calm my distraught friend down. Seeing as she begins breathing more easily I exhale smiling.

"See you're all going to be together and it's going to all work out."

She smiles slightly embarrassed before her eyes widen and she starts hyperventilating again.

"WHAT AM I GOING TO TELL HENRY? 'Hey kid, sorry I kind of have the hots for both your mom's so surprise! You're going to have 3 moms!' Fee, I can't…" Ruby's eyes rolls back as her head weightlessly falls backward on my lap, effectively passing out.

A/N: Oh my lovely friends! Thank you for the reviews it certainly helped. Okay sooo I need to know more or less Maleficent, because some people are happy go lucky for her, others are not. But she's Ruby's best friend so she's going to be in there anyway just.. less or more, Johnny shore?

Oh! And babies in the future yes, no, maybe so? Let me know! :p

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