Saturday morning.
"Morning ma" Henry said from the sofa as Emma came walking out of her room yawning.
"Late night?" Henry then asked with a smile.
"Yeah you could say that" Emma replied and headed to the kitchen to make herself a drink.
"When did Regina leave?" Henry then asked.
"Um, just before twelve I think" she smirked at the memory of Regina moaning at how late it was but not motioning to leave.
"Did you tell her you like her?" Henry then asked and Emma sighed.
"It's to early for this Henry and no I did not"
Henry frowned.
"She likes you too, you know" he then said.
"Yeah as a friend you know this"
Henry slumped back into the sofa and huffed.
Meanwhile Regina had arrived at the office, to find her mother waiting for her.
"Mother?" Regina said seriously and paused at the door, seeing her mother sitting in her chair looking bored.
"Regina dear. You look tired" she said.
Regina rolled her eyes. "I wasn't expecting to see you here today" she said, as she stepped forward.
"Yes well, I had a very interesting conversation last night with Fiona and wanted to talk to you about it" she tapped her fingers on the desk.
"Oh? you could o phoned me" Regina replied tiredly and put her bag down on her desk.
"I wanted to speak with you face to face dear. As she tells me she saw you had the cinema last night, with a blonde woman and a child"
Regina held a blank expression, even though she was slightly freaking inside.
"So what if I was mother" she replied coldly.
"This is unusual behavior. You haven't been to the cinema since Daniel and then there was this laser thing you went to last weekend, what is going on?"
"I was asked mother, It was polite for me to accept"
"I see. And was it this blonde woman that invited you? I assume it is your personal assistant Emma?"
"In fact it was her son that invited me"
Cora leaned back in the chair and studied her daughter, who had crossed her arms and was looking to the desk.
"I hope your not getting to invested dear" her mother warned.
"Emma is my friend"
"As long as that's all it is dear" she raised an eyebrow at Regina.
Regina sighed her answer and walked over to her filling cabinet and opened it. She thought, my mother never will accept my bisexuality and she frowned.
"Also I would like you at the house this evening. We shall we having guests and I told them you shall be there"
"Mother...Do I have to? I've had a long week"
"It will do you good dear" she stood up and straightened her black jacket.
"What time?"
"Six"
"Fine"
"Good, I better get going got a lot to do before tonight. Make sure you wear something nice dear" she smiled and walked out of the office. Leaving Regina to walk to her chair and put her head on the table and groan.
Two hours later, Regina was still in her office and there was a knock on the door.
"Come in" she replied firmly and looked up to see Emma and Henry with goofy smiles on their faces.
"Miss Swan?" Regina gaped.
"Hey, Me and Henry were going to the shops and thought we would see if you were here"
Henry nodded and added "Yeah, I also wanted to see your work" He grinned mischievously.
Regina just starred.
"Um Regina?" Emma said, holding Henry's shoulders as he stood in front of her.
"Yes! Oh sorry I am just surprised to see you both here"
"If it's a problem were be going" Emma replied.
"Of course not. It is a lovely surprise and maybe I can have some lunch with you both. If your not busy" she smiled.
"Lunch really?" Henry said happily.
"Yes, my treat of course" she looked to Emma for an answer.
"Sure...yeah great" Emma replied and looked to Henry, who was smiling like an idiot.
"Good, I shall just put this in the filling cabinet and then we can go" she stood up and walked over to put the papers away, whilst thinking my day has just got much better and she smiled, before grabbing her coat and bag and they all left for lunch.
"This is so cool of you to bring us to my favorite place" Henry said happily, as they walked into the busy Diner, that they had eaten in on his birthday.
"I am glad your happy" Regina said softly as she watched him go and grab a free table.
"You really are thoughtful" Emma blurted out.
"Thank you" she ducked her head with a small smile as they reached the table and sat down.
"Ma tells me you have a horse, will you be going riding this weekend?" Henry suddenly asked, as he leaned on the grey table.
Regina shook her head.
"Not this weekend, however I do have horse and his name is Ro I am very fond of him"
"What color is he?" he tapped his hands on the table lightly.
"Brown"
"Cool, What will you be doing the rest of this weekend?" he then asked and Emma said "Don't be so nosy kid"
Regina chuckled lightly and waved her hand, as if it was okay.
"Well Henry, I have to go to my mother's dinner party this evening. I don't particularly want to go, but don't tell her I said that" she winked at him.
Henry laughed.
"Why don't you want to go?" Emma asked curiously and Regina put a hand through her hair.
"Mother's dinner parties, are mainly all talk about work and sometimes I think, she arranges these dinners to try and set me up with an legible bachelor" she rolled her eyes.
"Oh" Emma frowned. "Do you think she is going to set you up with someone tonight?" her lips curled downwards and she leaned on the table.
Regina glanced to her left sadly and starred off into the distance where a couple were laughing with one another and she replied "I got that feeling, yes"
"Just tell her, you have already found someone you like" Henry blurted out and they both looked to him with slightly raised eyebrows.
"It is not that simple" Emma said seriously.
"Sure it is. Why can't adults just tell the truth and be with who they want to be with" he asked seriously.
"I am sure you will learn why, when your older" Regina replied softly and then the waitress appeared to take their orders.
An hour later.
"When will I see you again?" Henry asked Regina, whilst rubbing his arm, anxiously.
Regina looked at him sweetly.
"That depends Henry" she smiled.
"On what?" he asked.
"Your mother" she smirked and now looked to Emma, who was gaping at her.
"Oh, um maybe next weekend" she stuttered.
"Have you forgotten the benefit ball next weekend dear?" Regina said with a smug smile and Emma's eyes widened.
"Crap, I need to ask my parents to babysit"
"You do" Regina agreed with a nod and Emma chuckled lightly.
"Can't I come?" Henry asked.
"It's for adults only" Emma replied seriously and then said ,"Right we better be going and you better be going to prepare for tonight" she motioned to get up from her seat.
Regina sighed.
"Sorry, I know your not looking forward to it" Emma frowned.
Regina got up.
"Lets just say, I am looking forward to tomorrow" she smirked and Emma nodded her head in understanding.
"I shall go and pay" Regina then said and motioned to walk to the counter, but Emma touched her arm and she stopped.
"You sure, I would be more than happy to pay or go half" Emma asked.
"Don't worry about it Miss Swan"
"Next time I'm paying then" Emma said with a smile and gazed into brown eyes, That made brunette unable to reply and all she could do in that moment was nod her answer.
That evening, Regina arrived at her parents house with a bad feeling. She didn't know what to expect but she just hoped it wouldn't be awkward.
She entered the house and heard talking in the living room and proceeded to go there, but paused just before entering at took a deep breath.
"Regina dear is that you?" Her mother called and Regina propelled forward and put up a smile on her face and said "Yes mother"
She then saw her father sitting in his tall red and gold chair smiling at her and then saw Katheryn who she had known since childhood and Frederick her husband and she thought thank god she's not trying to set me up.
"Hello Regina" Katheryn said happily and she brushed her long blonde hair back behind her ears.
"Hello dear" Regina smiled and went to sit next to her.
"You should of said our guests were Katheryn and Frederick" Regina said to her mother who just smirked and moments later a dark haired gentlemen came through the doorway, at having used the bathroom.
Regina starred at the man she had never seen before. He was Late thirties, slightly overweight and wore a checked shirt and black trousers.
"This is Friedrick's work friend, James" Cora told Regina with a smug smile.
"Hello" he said politely.
"Hello" Regina replied back and looked to her father, who held a blank expression.
"James is a manager and lives not far from here" Cora said, whilst looking at Regina.
Regina nodded and swallowed, as she started fiddling with the hem of her black dress.
Katheryn looked sideways and frowned.
"I will just go and check on dinner" Cora then said and got up. causing James and Frederick to start jabbering on about their cars and Katheryn turned to Regina and said "Your mother won't give up, until she has you married off again"
Regina sighed.
"She will have a long wait"
"Do you ever think, you can be in a relationship again?" Katheryn then asked curiously.
She tilted her head at Katheryn and thought of Emma, a smile started to appear upon on face.
"Possibly" she answered.
Henry smiled widely, knowing what his daughter was thinking and said "I think my daughter is quite fond of a certain blonde" and this made Frederick and James stop talking and look to Regina. Who ducked her head, she felt like a teenager.
"Oooo do tell" Katheryn said excitedly as she cupped her hands on her lap and waited for Regina to tell.
"I can't" Regina replied, shaking her head.
"Why not?"
"I just..." she bit her lip.
"Is it a woman?" Frederick said simply and everyone gaped at him "What? we all know Regina is into women too" he then added, as if it was the simplest thing in the world.
"I didn't" James said, with a smile.
"Okay apart from you" Frederick huffed.
"Your mother is going to freak" Katheryn then said and shook her head in amusement.
Regina put her head in her hands.
"So who is this blonde?" Frederick asked.
"Yeah who is she?" Katheryn added.
"I don't want to talk about it" Regina said firmly and Henry chuckled and told them "She's currently Regina's assistant and she has a kid"
"So she's straight?" Katheryn asked with a frown.
"Yes" Regina replied.
Henry shook his head.
"I don't think she is"
Regina gaped at him.
"Regina sweetheart, I saw the way she was with you, defiantly not straight" he chuckled.
Cora then entered the room, holding her hands together and then paused.
"What is defiantly not straight?" she asked, whilst Regina blushed.
"The pictures on the wall" Henry replied quickly and Cora looked to the pictures of the family and narrowed her eyes.
"They are straight dear, I think you need glasses" she rolled her eyes.
Regina internally groaned and thought, God help me and rubbed her forehead with her hand.
After the meal, which had been pleasant enough, they retired back to the lounge where Regina ended up sitting next to James to Cora's delight and as Cora spoke with Katheryn, she kept an eye on Regina.
"I think your mother wants us to get along" James muttered, as he leaned slightly towards her on the sofa.
"Yes, it seems so"
"Don't worry, I'm not looking to take advantage or anything. I have a thing for this girl I met two weeks ago"
Regina smiled at him.
"Why haven't you asked her out?"
He chuckled "the same reason why you won't ask yours"
"My mother?" Regina joked.
"No…fear of rejection and what comes with it"
"Oh" Regina replied sadly, she knew she couldn't bare to lose Emma's friendship and she had become rather fond of Henry too.
"What is she like?" James suddenly asked and Regina beamed, as she talked about her quietly to him "she has these green bright eyes, long golden blonde hair, her dress sense is casual I mean really casual but she still..." she went all dreamy and Cora read it entirely wrong thinking Regina liked him.
"Does the child like you?" James asked politely.
"I believe so, yes he does" she started fiddling with her hands in her lap.
"then your half way there, you should go for it"
Regina sighed and thought if only it was that simple.
An hour later, everyone started to make their way home.
"Thanks for inviting us" Frederick shouted, as he headed out the door.
"Good luck" James shouted to Regina as she followed Frederick out and she replied "You too"
"Phone me okay?" Katheryn then told Regina.
"I will" she smiled and Katheryn gave her a quick hug.
"Good" she smirked and quickly headed out the door and once it was closed, Cora asked "Why did James say good luck?"
"It was to do with work"
"I see, shall you not be seeing one another soon?" she tilted her head and watched Regina walk off, to retrieve her Coat.
"No mother"
"You were getting on well" she frowned, still stood near the front door.
"That doesn't mean I want to date the guy" Regina snapped, coming back to the door.
"I only want you to settle down and be happy" Cora huffed.
"Then why can't I choose who I date?" Regina snapped.
"You can, don't be ridiculous" Cora snapped back, crossing her arms.
"Yeah, only if it's a man"
Henry gaped at his daughters outburst from the doorway of the lounge and Cora clenched her jaw and starred at Regina, who glared back.
"Do you Remember that time at university mother?"
"Not this again" Cora muttered.
"I got close to girl in my year and then when you came to visit, she began to ignore me and never spoke to me again, what did you do? warn her off?" Regina snapped.
"Regina please" Her father said. "Your mother wouldn't do that"
"Oh yeah?" she fake laughed "What about that lawyer, when I arrived here from university. I went on a date with her and a week later she was gone, disappeared. And a few days later, there were rumors at work, that she received a rather big payment, was it you?" she glared at her mother.
Her mother held the gaze momentarily, before looking to Henry.
"They were rumors, nothing more" she defended.
Regina slumped her shoulders.
"Why are you against me dating a woman mother?" Regina asked tentatively, thinking of Emma and her anger subsided.
"Clients may be put off by you dating a woman" she replied seriously.
"I shall resign then" she blurted out, surprising herself but not willing to take her words back and she put her coat on.
"WHAT! You can't do that" Cora snapped, as she stepped slightly forward and looked flustered, which was unusual for her.
"Why not? If I can't be me, then what's the point" She replied sarcastically and stepped towards her father, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Regina please" Cora pleaded.
"No mother, I want to be happy just let me live my life"
She walked to the door, where she opened it and walked out not turning back. Feeling proud of herself, for finally making a stand.
Thanks for continuing to read everyone, there will probably be three more chapters.