A/N- It's date night! Hope you all enjoy :)

P.S. That's 6 in a row!

Once the car disappeared around the corner, Kathryn closed the door and tracked the little boy back inside where he was already rolling cars around on the hardwood.

"So Henry, what do you want to do?"

"Play!" He said as though it were obvious.

The babysitter dropped down onto the floor of the hallway next to him, grabbing a car and rolling it around, "Yeah? What's your favorite game to play?"

"I like rassling."

Kathryn raised an eyebrow, trying to decipher his five year old lisp before realising that his favorite game was wrestling, "Who do you rassle with?"

"Momma. She's really good at rassling."

"Really?"

"Yeah, she can even pin Mommy."

"No way!" Kathryn was quite adept at talking with kids, and from experience she knew the easiest way was just to keep them going.

"Yes way! Sometimes they practice rassling in bed, but I'm not allowed to play too." He pouted, and Kathryn had to bit her lip to keep from exploding with her laughter. Though one of the last things she wanted to imagine was her literature professor and her dean in bed together, the thought that they told Henry that they were 'practicing rassling' was too much for her to handle.

The rest of the evening passed quickly, Kathryn and Henry played 'Cars and Dinosaurs', a game which highly resembled Godzilla's attack on Tokyo. And then they watched a little bit of an educational show Regina had left in the DVD player for Henry which was all about Australia which the boy seemed to have already watched multiple times over as he could recite most of the facts along with the cartoon kangaroo who narrates the show. The only resistance was at bedtime, Henry refused to brush his teeth. In the end, Kathryn wound up squirting a dab of the bright blue kids' toothpaste on her finger and scrubbing her own teeth to get Henry to wash his. She got him changed into his pajamas and he then conned her into reading him two bedtime stories before he finally gave in to the inevitable and fell victim to sleep.

Once Henry was down for the night, Kathryn still had two and a half hours before his parents were due home. She passed the time doing some (completely innocent) snooping.

A cursory examination confirmed Kathryn's suspicions that the couple had insanely good (and expensive) taste in clothing. The kitchen was stocked with mainly healthy snacks which wasn't surprising in the least. What was a bit surprising was that when she wandered down the hallway on the main floor, she found just one study, featuring a large dark wood desk and matching wood paneled bookcases. There was also a white leather couch against the wall adjacent to the desk in front of a large coffee table. On the table were various stacks of paperwork, Kathryn found she recognized the titles on various folders and her brow scrunched in thought, There's only one home office so Doctor Mills uses the desk, and Professor Swan just grades everything from the couch?

It seemed odd, but then again, she had no difficulty picturing the two in here with the fireplace lit working side by side on a cool Connecticut evening. It was an intimidating image, and she quickly expelled it from her mind, preferring not to think of all the papers she had and would receive from the two women scattered with red ink.

With just under two hours left, Kathryn settled in for the evening. She took up residence on one of the ridiculously comfortable couches in the living room and pulled out the assigned reading for Professor Swan's class.

She made it through about twenty pages before deciding she deserved a reward and went hunting for the 'candy drawer' that Doctor Mills had mentioned before she left.

In her search, she found just about everything else in the kitchen. She found a surprising amount of take out containers, a wilting grapefruit, and a box of red wine wedged behind some leftover spaghetti. Kathryn wondered which of the two women that belonged to. Eventually, she did find the candy drawer which was stocked with primarily kit-kats, snickers, and - to Kathryn's pleasure- Almond Joys.

The rest of her evening passed quickly, and before she knew it the front door was opening quietly and she could hear the echo of voices floating through the entryway. Checking her watch, she saw that it was 9:58, they were just on time.

"I've missed date night." Emma half pouted. Kathryn could hear the sound of the door being drawn shut and keys being deposited into the bowl on the sideboard.

"Mmm, I did as well." Regina agreed indulgently. The babysitter was gathering her things to make a swift exit when she heard the unmistakable sound of lips sucking against skin followed by a deep moan.

That sound stopped, and she heard the voice of her literature professor, lower than she'd heard it before, "I've also missed you."

Out of shock, and in an attempt to remind the two women that she was still there, Kathryn dropped the book she had been sliding into her bag, hoping the noise would prompt a response. She was thankful when she heard a light slap of what must have been Doctor Mills gently smacking her wife for her earlier admission with Kathryn still in the house.

"Hang up my coat?" Regina asked her wife, and at that point, Kathryn deemed it safe to venture out of the living room and towards the doorway.

Kathryn smiled in greeting at the women, and tried very hard not to notice the way that Emma had the distinct red of Regina's lipstick smudged around her lips.

"How was Henry tonight?" Regina asked, hunting through her purse for some money to pay the babysitter.

"Great. He had half an orange as a snack, and he didn't even argue his bedtime."

Emma raised her eyebrow in surprise, "That's a first."

"Yeah, he's a great kid."

She waited, shuffling awkwardly for the dean to pull out the cash.

Emma finished stowing the coat in the hall closet and had turned now, wrapping an arm around Regina and drawing idle patterns on her hip over her dress. Kathryn saw the harried expression melt off of Regina's face to be replaced by one of pure and unobstructed bliss.

Kathryn could count on one hand the amount of times she had seen someone look as happy as Regina did now.

It was all that she wanted to find for herself, it was the hope for that which first led to Kathryn going against her father, and it was moments like this which reaffirmed her decision.

There was so much love here in this home, and Kathryn found herself thankful to just be a part of it.

A/N- Thanks for keeping up with this, and following/ reviewing and all that lovely stuff!

Love, Ms. Informed13