Emma had flowers delivered to Regina's home on Saturday as an apology. When she arrived Sunday night to drop Henry off, she found those flowers sitting on the porch. When Regina answered the door, she let Henry in and then promptly shut the door as Emma tried to apologize.
On Monday, it was more flowers delivered to Regina's office. By the afternoon they were sent to the sheriff's office – the card had been untouched.
On Tuesday Emma waited outside of Regina's office for an hour trying to get in to talk to her, but she finally left out of frustration.
On Wednesday she picked Henry up after school so they could spend a few hours together. He said his mother had been quiet most of the week although he heard her talking somewhat loudly on the phone with Will earlier in the week. Emma knew about that as Will had called her. Apparently Regina wasn't happy that Will was now backing away from dating her because he believed that Emma was telling the truth about the whole soul mate thing.
It told Emma that Regina clearly didn't believe her.
When she dropped Henry off that night, she again went to the door but had it shut in her face once more.
On Thursday, Emma had a public safety committee meeting to attend where she hoped to speak to Regina afterward. But Regina excused herself near the end of the meeting telling everyone she had to leave early for personal reasons. Emma almost followed her out.
This was not a weekend for Emma to have Henry but on Friday night she showed up on Regina's doorstep once more. Henry answered it.
"Is your mom here?"
"Yeah, but she already said I am not supposed to let you in here."
"Well lucky for me, I am bigger than you," she said coming inside anyway. "Where is she?"
"Kitchen."
"Thanks."
She headed into the kitchen where Regina was leaning with her back against the counter with a glass of wine in her hand.
"Miss Swan!"
"Before you go all ballistic on me, this isn't how I wanted to do this, but since you have been ignoring every other attempt you didn't leave me any choice."
"I am going to ask you nicely this once to leave."
"I am not leaving until you talk to me."
"We have nothing to say to each other."
"I disagree," Emma said.
"Too bad."
"Look, I get it, I messed up, but does that mean you should just ignore me or discount the idea that you and I might be good together?"
"Like I said we have nothing to talk about. Please leave," Regina said drinking down the rest of her wine and then turning her back to Emma and rinsing it out in the sink.
Emma stood there a moment wondering if she should leave.
"Is it really so crazy to think that I might want to go on a date with you?" she asked.
Regina turned to look at her. "Why? Because you are under some delusion that we are soul mates?"
"Fine, you don't believe we are soul mates; that's ok. Even if we aren't, why won't you go out on a date with me?"
"This conversation is ridiculous," Regina said headed toward the doorway. Emma blocked her.
"Answer the question and I will leave. Why won't you go out on a date with me?"
"Because I don't want to go on a date with you. There I answered your question."
"Yeah, I guess you did," Emma said turning and leaving.
Regina waited a moment before leaving the kitchen. She went to the front door and locked it, looking out a window to make sure Emma had indeed left.
"Are you still mad at her?"
She turned to see Henry standing there.
"It's complicated," she replied.
"She messed up, didn't she?"
"That would be putting it mildly."
"If she hadn't though, would you have gone out with her?"
Regina sighed, "I don't know. I am afraid your other mother presumes too much."
"I don't understand. She said you are her soul mate, isn't that supposed to mean something?"
"Firstly, I wish she hadn't told you that. Secondly, her problem is putting faith in that concept of a soul mate and then presuming I would go along with it. She can't simply show up here and expect I am going to date her because she thinks we should because one night she decided to indulge in some fairy dust. It's insulting."
"I don't think it's insulting. I think it's kind of cool."
"You do?"
"Yeah. I mean you are both my moms so it would be cool if you two were together."
"I am afraid I don't see that happening," Regina replied. "It would require your mother to have something she lacks – tact."
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Emma got up early Monday morning to go to work and then worked a 10-hour shift. She needed to keep her mind off of Regina, something she had been unsuccessful in doing throughout the weekend.
She didn't think Regina would be this resistant to the idea of them going out together. They had been getting along fairly well as of late, which Emma thought Regina should take as a good sign. Not to mention the whole soul mate thing.
Once she left work she went to The Knave. She was beginning to feel like a regular – not exactly a good thing. She sat at the bar where Will was tending it.
"Still a no go with Regina?" he asked putting a beer down in front of her.
"I haven't tried since Friday." They had spoken after that debacle.
"She will come around."
"What makes you think that?"
"I am an optimist."
"I'm not. In fact I am beginning to think I shouldn't have ever have messed with that fairy dust."
"You wanted to know who your soul mate was, nothing wrong with that," Will said. "Too bad for you it just happened to be the most stubborn woman in the world."
Emma gave him a small smile. Will was beginning to grow on her and she felt like he was the only one she could talk to about this.
"If she could just see that I am her soul mate too then I think it would go a long way toward fixing this situation," she said.
"Then that is your answer," he responded. "Get her to see that you are her soul mate."
"Sure, I will just go see Tink, get some more fairy dust and douse Regina with it."
"Sounds like a plan," Will said smiling.