"So, you need your second assistant?" Emma asked from the fashion queen.
"I need her to do her job!"
"Maybe more?" Emma smirked.
"No, absolutely no." The older woman's eyes were filled with poison.
"Liar," Emma sipped her coffee. "You see, my super power is to know when people lie and you lady, are lying."
"And what if I am? I need her here to do her job! But your..cunt of a Mayor stole her from me!" Miranda studied the younger woman with interest.
"Hey, you don't have right to call her that!" It was too late for Emma to cover her reaction.
"Sore spot, Sheriff?" Miranda smirked. "It seems we both have something to hide."
The diner was empty for their luck. The photo shoot was still on and most of the town's people were there to stare. Including Red, whom would have flipped on the news. Granny was there leaning on the counter and Emma knew she had heard every word they had talked. Goddamn super hearing. Emma thought, but when Granny looked at her. The older woman smiled at her. Made a motion she was going to keep it to herself.
"Okay, I like the Mayor." She hissed.
"You like or like like her?"
"Like you like your Andy!" Emma gave Miranda a sharp look.
"So, we both have established that we like our ladies whom seems to like each other." Miranda sipped her coffee. "What are we going to do about that?"
"You know. I have heard Regina say Rea before, that she was sorry about something. It wasn't meant for me to hear but I did hear it."
"Eavesdropping, really Sheriff?" Miranda raised her eyebrow.
"I was going to go and see her and talk about Henry. Our son."
"You two have a son together?" Miranda was surprised.
"It's a long story." Seeing Miranda's questioning look. "Okay, long story short. I got pregnant and had a boy. At the time I was in jail and I had to give him up for adoption. Regina was the one who adopted him and ten years later the boy looked me up and came to see me in Boston. So I took him home and stayed here ever since."
"Oh my. This is more interesting than any soap opera."
"Don't tell me you watch them?" Emma smirked.
"No, I don't. My life is more interesting than those boring series." Miranda laughed.
"I bet." They enjoyed the quiet harmony together. "So, how do they know each other?"
"They must have met somewhere."
That could just be true but No-one could leave Storybrooke. Not even the Evil Queen.
"Yeah, it could be."
"But?"
"Regina has never left this town." Emma studied her nails.
"Really? Hard to believe."
"Just believe me. We would know."
"Is she really that bad to earn the name of a Evil Queen?" Miranda studied Emma with interest. The girl took a moment to think.
"Yeah, she has been. Now, she is trying to be good person for her son. She loves him to no end and I do know she would do anything to get him trust her again."
"What has she done?"
"Well, that I can't tell you." Emma huffed air out of her lungs.
"Town's secret?"
"You have no idea..." Emma smirked at her.
"Well, if I am not going to get my Andrea back. You need to take her place then."
"Look, lady. I am not an assistant and you wont be looking at my behind all day long!"
"Oh, dear. Don't worry about your behind. Not my taste Anyways. If you wont get my assistant here then you may as well do her job then!"
"I am the Sheriff of this town..."
"Who has nothing else to do than take an old lady for a coffee and talk to her about love interests." Miranda got up form the booth.
"I'll call Regina."
"You do that." Before Miranda opened the door. "That's all." she said and left the diner.
About ten minutes later Miranda noticed Emma standing next to her.
"So, I am not going to get my Andrea back?"
"Nope."
"What did she say?"
"Do you want to hear the accurate words she used?" Emma asked for not knowing of the rule never ask anything from Miranda.
"Pleasure me."
"She told me to tell to you, the devil's shit that Andy is needed there." Emma tried to hide her smile but couldn't and they both had the pleasure to laugh out loud like there was no tomorrow. Miranda's laughter had halted the whole set and every model and photographer had stopped on their tracks. Not wanting to get in trouble. They all felt like shitting themselves...and might as say..some did.
The light of the day had gone so they were backing things off for the day and heading back to the Inn. Miranda had tried yet again call her assistant, but yet again it went to voicemail. She was worried about her. That's a lie. She was worried about herself. What if this mayor would take her Andrea away from her and she would have to let the girl go. It hurt her. Allot.
She knocked on Andrea's door but there was no answer so she had the woman called Granny open the door for her. It seemed that Andrea hadn't been there the whole day. She hadn't taken any personal hygiene things with her. So she must come back here at some point. Miranda sat on the bed and waited. Waited some more and finally she had drifted off to sleep.
Rea woke up early like always. Her inner clock was set to do so. Gia was still sleeping next to her when she got up to take a shower. When she got out of the bathroom her sister was getting some clothes out of her closet.
"Here. I think these would look good on you." Her sister smirked.
"Thanks, sis."She took the lingerie in her hand. "The bathroom is all yours."
"Thank you, Rea."
Rea went to make some coffee and used her wand to do so. She also made break fast for them with a flicker of her wand. When Gia got there she was surprised.
"You really use magic like this?"
"Yeah, it makes my mornings different and allot easier when I don't have to hide it form anyone." She smiled.
"You mean Nate?"
"Yeah, I really couldn't tell him. I just..well."
"You didn't trust him." Gia sat next to her and took her cup of coffee. "Anyways.. I might have ripped his heart out and fed it to him."
"Gia!"
"Sorry, It's the evil in me." Gia smiled.
"Anyways... thanks." Rea squeezed her sister's hand. She loved Gia no matter what.
"By the way. How is it that you look so young, but I know for sure that you are 51?"
"That is something I love about magic! We do age differently... allot and I do mean ALOT slower!" Rea giggled.
"Oh, I need to learn how!"
"In time.. I will teach you." Rea got up and kissed her cheek. "Now, I need to get going." She took her wand and hid it in her strap on her leg.
"You are going to walk?"
"No silly! I am going to apparate myself." She closed her eyes and like poof she was gone.
Andy arrived to her room and was surprised to see Miranda there. Sleeping on her bed. She looked so peaceful and oh, so beautiful. She must be pissed off at her to be there. Andy couldn't make herself wake the beauty so she covered the small fragile body with a blanket. She wanted to stay and just look at the woman but she was too scared to find out what would come out form that sweet but poisonous mouth of her boss' so she left the room to get her second cup of coffee for the day.
Why had Miranda been in her room? She was thinking when she ran into the Sheriff.
"Hey Emma!" She said.
"Well, hello to you too! You know you left me in shitty position!" Emma was pissed at her.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I..I.." Andy really didn't know what to say.
"Sheriff! Leave her alone!" The voice of a mayors boomed in the diner. Regina stood next her. "Hello, dear."
"Hello, Gia." Andy smiled at her sister.
"You have no right to harass her Sheriff. She hasn't done anything to you."
"Oh no? Really. She left me stuck with her boss!" Emma was flushed red with anger.
"You could have left." The mayor was about to leave when she remembered: "and remember. Six clock tonight. Do not be late." She pulled Andy out of the diner.
"Thanks, Gia."
"No problem, dear. You know I will always have your back. Just let me know if Ms. Swan gives you more trouble."
"Gia, you like her..like, like like her." Andy winked at her sister.
"Really, let it go. Please."
"Okay. I will." They walked for a while to get to the next set. "So what happens at six?"
"Well, Ms. Swan will bring Henry to have dinner with me." Regina stopped walking. "Would you.. I mean..would you like to join us? I would really like you to meet him?"
"Yeah, I would love to. Well, if I get away from Miranda. You know.. she was sleeping in my room when I arrived there."
"She was?" Regina looked surprised.
"Yeah, she must really be after my blood."
"Or she likes you." Her sister winked at her like a goofy schoolgirl. Andy slapped her sister.
"Oh, stop it! She does not!"
When the two sisters were bickering with each other they didn't notice two other women looking at them.
"Do they really need to touch each other like that?" Emma asked.
"No, do they really have to smile like that to each other?" Miranda asked.
"No, do they really have to walk so close to each other?" Emma asked.
"No," Miranda glanced at the blonde. "What are we going to do?"
"I have no idea." Emma glanced at white haired woman.
"We need to do something."
"I know. If this keeps going on. We both lose."
"That we will and I really don't take losing easily. More to say. I never lose." Miranda stated.
"You need to keep Andy away from Regina."
"I will. What will you do to keep Regina away from Andrea?"
"I figure something out." Emma sipped from her take-away cup and left her partner in crime.
