"Yes! I knew it was Regina!" Ruby crowed when she walked into the Charming's apartment and saw Kathryn sitting on the couch with Snow. "Belle owes me 10 bucks."

"What do you mean?" Snow asked, feigning ignorance.

"Please. You two might not hate each other, but the only reason for you to call me over the day Emma gets a blue rose on her doorstep is that Regina finally grew a pair and acted on her feelings." Snow sighed. She could protest, but what would be the point?

"Yes, it was Regina." Snow admitted. "I tried to talk to her about it, but she just teleported away."

"Are you surprised?" Ruby asked, raising an eyebrow. "I've tried talking to her about Emma, but when it comes to love Regina just runs away."

"Maybe if we got Emma to get a lion tattoo?" Kathryn mused.

"Uh, no. Bad idea." Ruby said quickly. "Even if it weren't for the Marian mess, bad idea. That whole snafu with Robin is half the reason she always runs."

"What do you mean?" Snow asked.

"Think about it. A fairy comes and uses freaking pixie dust, the most powerful magical substance there is, to find her soulmate and what does she get? A married man. For heavens sake, Robin Hood and Maid Marian is one of the most famous love stories out there. There was no way that was going to end well. And before that she had Daniel...which did not end well. Every time Regina loves someone the rug gets yanked out from under her feet." Snow looked at her suspiciously.

"That's way to deep for you." Ruby blushed.

"Belle might have explained it to me." She admitted.

"So...what do we do?" Snow asked. Ruby frowned.

"We need to make it so that Emma, well, we need to get her to admit she feels the same way."

"Does she feel the same way?" Kathryn asked, worried.

"...Yes and no." Ruby said slowly. "Yes, she likes Regina, but I think it's more subconscious than conscious. The attraction's there, I'm just not sure Emma knows she's attracted to Regina in ways beside 'oh, that's a sexy pantsuit' or 'Regina in leather pants!'" Snow blinked.

"Emma's seen one of Regina's 'Evil Queen outfits'?" She asked.

"Two of the more conservative ones." Ruby said with a shrug. Her eyes lit up. "Hey! If we got Regina to walk around in one of her more...revealing gowns I bet Emma would take her on the counter at Granny's!" Snow sighed and Kathryn glared at Ruby's big grin.

"No." Kathryn said shortly.

"Oh come on! I can smell how turned on Emma gets when Regina shows even a little cleavage, and how much Regina loves Emma in skinny jeans and a wife beater. If we get them both turned on at the same time their hormones will impregnate passing by birds." Snow groaned and Kathryn turned to glare at her.

"I believe it was your idea to talk to her about this." Snow rubbed her temples.

"Ruby, first of all, please stop talking about my daughter like that. Second of all, we are trying to get them into a real relationship, not Whale's idea of one."

"Well...we could try a truth serum." Ruby suggested. "I could spike Regina's drink and then..."

"Ruby, stop. Just...stop." Snow said, exasperated. Kathryn stood up.

"Let's go talk to Belle."

"Look, we're talking about getting the two most stubborn people on the planet, if not the whole universe, to admit that they have feelings for each other. As I see it, we have four options. Get them to jump each other and hope it turns into something more, truth serum, lock them in a small isolated cabin together, or hope a new crisis pops up that'll drive them closer together." Ruby argued. Snow looked up at Kathryn.

"She has a point."

"Fine, but we're not spiking anybody's drinks with truth serum." The blonde sighed, sitting down.

"Alright...how are we getting them in a cabin?"

"What about that website Belle was working on?" Snow suggested.

"Singlebrooke?" Ruby asked, struggling to keep a straight face. "I don't think we'll be able to get either of them to sign up. Emma, maybe if Henry signs her up, but Regina? The pun alone will drive her away. And I really don't think Emma's going to look at a woman's profile, she's still two thirds in the closet."

"...What if we got Henry to sign Emma up, and I signed Regina up without telling her..." Kathryn started slowly. "And then we got Belle to set up some way to get them an all expense paid blind date?"

"Why would Regina agree to go on this date?" Snow asked.

"Well if you keep trying to pester her about Emma eventually she'll go on the date just to shut you up." Kathryn said with a shrug.

"So, just to be clear, we're going to irritate Regina into going on a date with Emma?" Ruby asked.

"Essentially."

"Awesome."