"Flashback Time!"

"We are standing by a wishing well make a wish into the well, that's all you have to do." sung an animated Snow White from the Swan-Mills living room.

Regina groaned at having to watch this, in her opinion, god awful movie. Emma and Henry laughed at this, enjoy Regina's spiteful comments about how the movie wasn't correct or how the Evil Queen looked nothing like her.

Both Emma and Regina cringed at Graham, the Huntsman, but continued to watch the movie anyway.

Emma and Henry, who had been sitting on the floor in front of Regina, who had been sitting on the couch, were getting captivated by the T.V. had jumped when they heard a high-pitched screech come from Regina.

Emma turned around quickly and inspected the damage. "Babe what's wrong?" she's asked her wife who looked as if she had seen a ghost.

"..W-what was-s t-that..?" Regina said in a shaky voice.

"What was what?"

Before Regina could describe the creature, it scurred across the floor once more, causing Henry to jump back and Emma to scream.

"Ma? Is that what I think it is?" said Henry, who was looking a the creature cowering in the corner of the room.

Emma looked to where Henry was focused, and gasped, recognizing the young beast from her favorite childhood books.

"It's..it's A BLAST-ENDED SKREWT! OHMYGOSH." screamed Emma like a 5 year old.

"Ma? Ma. Why is he cowering?"

Henry's question distracted Emma from her childhood dream-come true, "Uh I don't know. They don't usually get scared of people not threatening them..." She followed to where the beast's wide eyes were staring: Regina. She was surpris she saw: her wife, standing stock-still, fireball in hand, aimed at the blast-ended skrewt.

Before Emma could tell Regina to put the fireball away, Henry yelled:

"Mom! Don't hurt Fredrick!"

"Who the hell is Fredrick?" said Regina as she extinguished the fireball.

"It is the name I gave that creature, just now." Henry said bashfully.

"Hmm. Fredrick." Emma tested the name on her tongue, "I like it. Fredrick it is."

"You don't truly believe you're keeping that thing do you?" said Regina with her usual hint of sass.

"...Yeus?"

Regina gave Emma a "Are you kidding me?" look.

"Come on, pwease Gina?" Emma pouted.

"Pretty pwease, with a cherry on top, Mom?"

Regina stared at her son and wife, both wearing matching puppy-dog pouts.

"...Ugh. Fine, but if he steps a toe out of line he's gone."

"What defines out of line?" Emma asked

"I'll be the judge of that." said Regina with her evil-queen smirk, as she walked out of the room.

Emma and Henry were silent for a moment before Henry said to Fredrick,

"You'd better be good."

*PAUSE FLASHBACK*

Henry and Emma were brought out of flashback mode by everyone snoring in unison. The only two people who were listening were Aurora and Mulan. Emma brought out her police pistol and shot two bullets in the air. The sleepers snapped back into attention as Henry started to continue the story.

"Wait, hold up Henry; Emma, honey did you just shoot a pistol into our fucking ceiling." said Regina as she stared at the hole and the crumbling plaster.

"Maybe." Emma said sassily.

"You're fixing that, Emma." Regina replied.

"Ugh fine," said Emma as she waved her hand and fixed the ceiling. "Happy?" she asked sarcastically.

"Very much so dear," said Regina with a smirk. "Henry you may continue."

"Okay so."

*CONTINUE FLASHBACK*

Emma and Henry had awesome times with Fredrick, but Regina did not understand their new pet. She had no idea what to feed the thing, so one time she fed it part of an apple from her tree; the blast-ended skrewt didn't like it at first, but Regina, thinking apples were not to be turned down by some simple insect, forced the thing to like them, which worked. The blast-ended skrewt then slipped out of the house one day and ate all the apples. Regina was rightfully pissed, but not to the breaking point yet.

The event that would almost lead to Fredrick's demise went like this: he was startled by one of Snow's woodland creatures, causing sparks to shoot out of his legs causing the apple tree to alight. Regina saw this and ran to the tree, fire extinguisher in hand. She took a whole twenty minutes to figure out how to work the thing and snuff the fire out. Regina went directly after the insect-like creature with the fire extinguisher as her weapon of choice. Henry and Emma walked by and in an act of protection Emma tackled Regina down on the lawn.

"EMMA GET THE HELL OFF ME."

"No!"

"I am gonna murder that thing!"

"Why?" asked Emma attempting to distract her wife.

"He almost burnt down my apple tree," shouted Regina, "Now get off!"

"Babe you have magic." stated Emma.

"..."

"Ugh…" said Regina as Emma let her up.

"I'm not dealing with this right now." said Regina as she walked back into the house.

"At least she didn't kill him." said Henry.

"Yeah, but just in case we should keep him away from her for a while."

*END FLASHBACK*

"And now you're caught up on Fredrick." finished Henry.

Emma and Henry looked up to see everyone beside Aurora asleep. Lacey, during the flashback, had turned into Belle and was curled up with Ruby on the floor. Cora had passed out a while ago and Hook was nowhere to be found. Mulan had fallen asleep on Aurora's lap and Regina on Emma's shoulder.

"Are you kidding me right now." said Emma with annoyance evident in her tone.

"Let's just stay here, I don't want to wake them up." said Aurora.

Emma sighed and huffed out a, "Fine." and snuggled into Regina's side.