"Miss Lucas, a word." Regina said as she marched into the diner the next morning. She continued her path towards the back room, not even sparing a glance behind her to ensure she was being followed.

Ruby rolled her eyes once Regina was past her and followed her into the back. "Something I can help you with Madam Mayor?"

"What did you smell?" Regina asked, not taking any time for pleasantries.

Ruby groaned at her own stupidity, of course Regina would know what she had been doing. She shut her eyes for a moment, her brain scrambling for a way out of this mess. She vowed then and there to never help Snow with another thing ever again. "What do you mean?" Ruby asked sheepishly, opting to try and play stupid.

Regina closed the gap between them quickly, coming within inches of Ruby's face. "What exactly did you smell on my wife yesterday?"

Sometimes Ruby cursed her werewolf tendencies and the moment Regina stepped into her personal space and she automatically sniffed, she knew she was going to regret it.

"Ruby!" Regina growled out through clenched teeth. "Did you just sniff me?"

"Maybe." Ruby waited a beat to see what exactly the Mayor was going to do before she said anymore.

"Well?" Regina asked, the aggression melting away instantly.

"I don't know! I don't know, okay?" Ruby said, frustrated at her nose. "You smell funny. Something I've never smelled before."

"Funny?" Regina asked, needing a little more clarification.

"Yes, funny. But I think you already know that don't you Regina? Otherwise you wouldn't be busting in here demanding answers." Ruby shot back.

"Fine. Yes, I think something is going on but it's to early to tell anything. We only tried a week ago. I was hoping that maybe you would be able to provide some answers. I'm not known for my patience." Regina smirked at Ruby, hoping to add some levity to the situation. She knew she shouldn't have come bursting in here like she did this morning, but she'd stewed about it all night and getting an answer was all she could think about.

"You don't say." Ruby rolled her eyes and leaned up against the wall casually, the intensity of the moment behind them.

"Shut up." Regina mimicked Ruby pose and took a moment to gather herself. "So you can't tell?" She asked again, still hoping to quell some of the anxiousness gripping her insides.

"No, I can't. Not that I would tell you anyway. You two need to find out together."

"Oh, but you're willing to tell the loving Grandma first?"

"Hindsight and all that. Besides, Snow has a way of making you crazy if she doesn't get her way." Ruby said, laughing.

"You don't say?" Regina said, sarcasm dripping from her tone, as she straightened herself up from the wall. "If you're committed to not telling us then I want to take this opportunity to tell you to quit sniffing around my wife. I mean that literally. She doesn't know that werwolves have this particular skill so when she came home last night I simply told her you were more than likely acting a bit off because of the approaching full moon. Do I make myself clear?"

Ruby nodded her head in agreement and Regina gave one last parting smile to Ruby before she started making her way out of the back room.

"I'm happy for you guys, Regina. I mean that." Ruby called after her. Regina didn't turn back around, she just waved her hand in acknowledgement and continued on her way.

Ruby shook her head as she watched Regina walk out of the diner as if nothing was out of the ordinary. She wondered how easily she was going to be able to keep up that facade once the truth came out, because Ruby had a feeling it was going to happen sooner than any of them thought.

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Emma grabbed at her office phone when it rang, gladly pushing aside the paperwork she was trying to trudge through. "Sheriff's office…"

"I'm late." Regina cut her off before she could even finish her greeting.

"Late where?" Emma asked, confused about why Regina was calling her if she was late somewhere. When she could practically hear her wife's teeth grinding through the phone though, she decided it was apparently not the right thing to say.

"Late. As in my period. I'm late."

"Oh. OOHH! Oh shit!" Emma stood up and started for the door, realizing too late that she was on her office phone. It clattered to the ground, knocking her abandoned paperwork to the floor with it. Luckily it didn't disconnect the call.

"What the hell are you doing?" Regina screeched.

"I tried to leave. Sorry. Ok, so you're late. We just tried a couple of weeks ago. Isn't it a little early?" Emma asked, a little panicked.

"I don't know. It's not like I've done this before. I checked my calendar this morning and I should have started several days ago."

"You put that on your calendar?"

"Well of course. We're trying to have a baby remember? That's kind of an important piece. You should be tracking your's too."

"So weird. Ok, so what do we do? Go to the doctor?"

"I believe they sell something at the drug store for this sort of situation?" Regina ground out.

"Right. Of course, gimme 10 minutes. I'll run over there and bring it to you. You need anything else?"

"Yes dear, why don't you pick up some diapers while you're there? OF COURSE NOT! GET OVER HERE."

Click.

Emma stood in her wrecked office staring at the phone, the dial tone oddly soothing at the moment. Shaking herself out of the trance she hung up the phone on the floor, grabbed her keys, and headed out the door.

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"Why are there so many of these? How the hell am I supposed to pick the right one?" Emma grumbled to herself. There were early test ones, ones that came with a cup, electronic ones-way too many choices.

"Can I help you Emma?" Sneezy asked from the counter. The Sheriff had looked a little dazed when she walked in and she had spent an inordinate amount of time just staring at the shelf of various testing items he carried.

"Uh, no I got it. Thanks though." Emma answered, grabbing the first one she could get her hands on and proceeding to throw numerous other items she didn't need into the basket, hoping to disguise the fact she was buying a pregnancy test.

When she made it up to the counter she tossed in a few candy bars for good measure. Sneezy dutifully starting ringing the items up and she tried to look like she was really into the magazine covers next to the register so that she didn't have to make eye contact with him while he rang the test up. After what seemed like an eternity Sneezy finally finished his task.

"That will be $57.52 Sheriff." Sneezy said politely.

"What? Jesus, are they made of gold?" She grumbled to herself again as she dug around for another twenty in her wallet. "Here. Keep the change." She grabbed her bags and made a quick exit before he could say anything else to her.

When she pulled up in front of Regina's office she realized she couldn't just waltz in there with a pregnancy test box so she scanned the directions quickly on the back, tore the box open, and just shoved one of the testing sticks in her jacket pocket before heading inside.

She knocked lightly on Regina's door before going in and she found the brunette pacing back and forth in front of her desk.

"It took you long enough." Regina stalked towards the blonde with her hand out. "Where is it?"

"Geez, I rushed over here. Have a little patience." She pulled the stick out of her jacket and handed it over. "There's no reason to be nervous. We wanted this remember?"

"I'm not pacing because I'm nervous, I'm pacing because I have to pee. Where are the instructions?" Regina snapped.

"In the car, I didn't want to bring the whole box in in case someone saw me. Just pee on the end and wait. It's pretty simple."

Regina started towards the bathroom before turning back around to face her wife. "I'm a little nervous."

Emma walked over and pulled Regina into a hug and kissed her hair. "I am too, but a good nervous."

Regina pulled out of the embrace and made the last few steps into the bathroom. "I'll just be a minute. Then I guess we just stare at it?"

"Yep. That's pretty much how it goes. It's electronic so it'll just say pregnant or not pregnant." Emma answered with a smile. When she heard the lock click on the bathroom door, she began her own pacing around the room wondering if they really were going to be lucky enough to have gotten pregnant on their first try. Moments later she heard the door open again and Regina called out softly to her, "You can come in now."

The stick was sitting on the edge of the sink and Emma stepped beside Regina, both of them staring down at it. Emma took Regina's hand in hers and gave it a reassuring squeeze. "I'll set my timer on my phone for three minutes and then we'll look?" Emma said finally to break the silence. Regina only nodded her head in agreement and Emma pulled her phone out setting it on the other side of the sink. They stood there staring at the timer, neither willing to chance a glance at the stick, until it counted down to zero. They both still jumped a little when the buzzer sounded and after a deep breath Regina picked up the stick for a closer look.

"Oh."

"Oh what? Oh we're pregnant? Or Oh we're not?"

"O. As in it says O. What the hell does that mean?" Regain shoved the stick in Emma's face, showing her the readout did in fact just say O.

"I have no idea."

"You have no idea!? You said you looked at the instructions!" Regina began her pacing again, stick still in hand.

"Let me just run down and grab them. I'll be right back." Emma started for the door.

"No, don't leave. Can't you just google it or something. I…I don't want you to leave." Regina looked at her with pleading eyes and Emma just nodded her head in agreement.

"Come here, let's sit down." Emma pulled Regina's free hand towards the couch, both of them falling onto it. Emma pulled her phone out and quickly typed 'What does O mean on a pregnancy test?' into the search box. She scanned the answers that popped up, groaning at what she was reading.

"What?"

"You're going to kill me."

"What. Is. It." Regina said through clenched teeth.

"Um…it says that…oh man…um…I bought the wrong test. I must have accidentally grabbed an ovulation test instead of a pregnancy test."

"So if it says O does that mean I'm ovulating and that I'm not pregnant? And I am going to kill you, just later after I get answers."

"I'm not sure. It says here that some women actually do this on accident and they go to the doctor and they are pregnant…Something about the test picking up trace amounts of HCG just like pregnancy tests do." Emma kept her eyes on the phone, afraid that if she looked up at her wife she might get incinerated instantly with the glare she could feel coming from her.

"So what do we do?" Regina asked, trying to breathe deeply and resist the urge to strangle her wife.

"I'll just run back there and buy a new one. Don't worry it'll only take me a minute." Emma was already up off the couch and grabbing her keys before Regina could answer.

"Wait, just wait a minute." She stood and joined her by the door. "What if we waited? Just a few more days and then tried again. I don't think I can go through this again today and possibly end up disappointed." Regina's shoulders slumped at her confession and just took the last step towards Emma, closing the gap between them fully. When Emma's arms wrapped around her she sighed contently and soaked in the embrace.

"We can do that. Are you sure you can wait?" Emma pulled Regina back a little so she could look into her eyes when she answered.

"I want to try. That way if I just start my period in the next few days we'll go on. I think that would be easier than taking the test and getting a negative." Regina answered.

"Okay, if that's what you want to do I understand. Sorry I bought the wrong one…" Emma smiled at her wife, hoping her puppy dog eyes would get her out of trouble.

"You're still in trouble. I just needed a hug more than I needed to strangle you." Regina laughed and was glad that some of the heaviness of the moment was gone. "It's really okay Emma. It may even be for the best. A few days late doesn't necessarily mean anything. Speaking of that, when should you start?"

"I have no idea. Not really something I've kept track of…I guess we're usually around the same time?" Emma said, her mind clearly trying to remember when she'd had her last one.

"So maybe we'll both take a test in a few days?" Regina said, laughing at the way Emma went a little pale at the suggestion.

She smiled though and kissed Regina solidly. "At least I won't be alone in my jail cell this time…"

"Very true dear."