Wow! Okay, so apparently I am continuing the story. Thank you so much for your reads and reviews.

Here's the next chapter. Hope you enjoy. x

The diner was silent as the last rings of the bell above the door petered out. Almost as one, every patron turned to look at the four centred around the counter. Snow looked slightly green, Ruby a blushed red and Charming almost as white as his wife's namesake.

Regina, however, was just standing there frowning. It wasn't that Emma had outed them. Well, it wasn't just that Emma had outed them, she was definitely annoyed that the blonde had done that. What had her rooted to the spot thinking, instead of charging off after the other woman and beating her about the head with some rather choice words, was the distinct feeling that something was off. The blonde had had such a look of horror on her face when she had spoken, as if she truly hadn't wanted, or expected, to say what she had. There was also her comment to Snow. Something about not having a choice?

"Snow?" she asked the small brunette, still staring into the space in front of her.

"What?" Snow replied, though her voice was a little shaky.

"What were you and Charming arguing about when you came in?"

"Seriously?" Charming exclaimed. "You just want to pretend like nothing happened?"

Regina rolled her eyes at him, trust the idiot not to notice that something was going on, even when it concerned his own daughter.

"No, Charming, I am not pretending like nothing happened," she replied, her tone crisp and portraying to the man just what her opinion of his level of intelligence was. "Something made Emma say what she did, and it wasn't just to see the looks on your faces. Although that was quite enjoyable."

A grin made its way across her face at the memory of it and she took a moment to relive it in her mind.

"Regina?" Snow asked, shaking the Mayor out of her reverie. "What do you mean something made Emma?"

"Exactly what I said, Snow," Regina replied, trying, and failing not to roll her eyes. "Emma clearly did not want to answer you with the truth but she was forced to."

"The truth?" Snow's voice was again, a little shaky.

"Yes, Snow," the Mayor replied, almost business like now. After having to deal with the two idiots as much as she did, she had decided that acting as professionally as possible was the best way to get anything done, and getting it done without her fireballing one, or both, of them. Unfortunately, as she was just about to find out, she seemed to be under the same effects as the blonde Sheriff. "Your daughter and I have been dating and yes, we have slept together. Several times in fact."

Dammit. She closed her eyes and tried to calm herself down. So much for professional.

When she opened her eyes again it was to see Snow and Charming staring, eyes wide open, at her with identical looks on their faces. She wasn't sure what the look was, it seemed to be a mixture of shock, queasiness, and perhaps a little anger, but whatever it was Regina felt it was almost worth her bout of truth-spewing. One corner of her mouth rose slightly, she just couldn't help it, she was thinking she might actually be seeing an upside to the situation.

Unfortunately Charming saw the slight grin and made to lunge forward only stopping at a hand from Snow. Regina just rolled her eyes at him.

"What have you done to my daughter?" Charming hissed, anger marring his features.

"Quite lot," Regina started, "I have kissed her, obviously. Then about a month and a half ago we had a nice dinner at mine and then we – "

"Okay!" Snow said loudly, cutting Regina off mid-sentence. "Charming, why would you ask that? We've just established that something seems to have made Emma speak the truth and we don't know yet whether it's just affecting Emma."

All of the colour seemed to drain from the prince's face as he tried not think about how Regina might have finished that sentence.

Snow gave him a gentle pat on his chest and after a moment he slowly took a step back. She then reached forward and picked up Emma's abandoned cup. Bringing it up to her nose, she began sniffing at it, much to the bewilderment and amusement of the Mayor. Ruby also raised an eyebrow at her best friend's antics, and briefly wondered whether she looked that bizarre when she used her wolf sense to sniff at things.

"What on earth are you doing?" Regina asked.

"I was smelling it to see whether someone had put something in Emma's drink," Snow replied as if it was obvious.

"Firstly," Regina started, rolling her eyes yet again and let a breath out in frustration, "it is most definitely something magical so I doubt, as a non-magic user you would be able to smell anything other than the chocolate and cinnamon of the drink, and secondly, in case you haven't noticed Snow, I seem to be in the same predicament as our beloved Sheriff and I haven't had a drop."

"I can smell milk too," Snow said weakly, moving the cup away from her face.

"Beloved?" Charming asked, his voice just as weak. Perhaps luckily for Regina, he had said it so quietly that she hadn't heard him, otherwise she might have been forced to answer, and no-one was ready just yet for whatever her reply might be.

The Mayor sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, her eyes closed.

The small group was silent for a moment, before Snow spoke up.

"Hats," the pixie-haired woman suddenly said.

Regina eyes flew open and she looked at her as if she was insane. Snow was usually a few sandwiches short of a picnic in Regina's opinion, but this was definitely weird, even for her.

"I beg your pardon?" she asked.

"We were arguing about my hats," Snow replied. "Charming said he didn't like my hats just before we came into the diner."

"The idiot voiced an opinion of his own? Something must definitely be wrong," Regina smirked.

"Hey!" the man in question defended.

"She's right, Charming, you don't disagree with me, ever," Snow said, looking up at her husband. Seeing the slight frown on his face she realised what she said and gave a little gasp. "Oh Charming, I'm so sorry."

"It's all right, Snow," the blond hair man replied, looking down at his wife with love in his eyes. "I always love how strong you are, both physically and with your opinions. Why would I ever want to disagree with you?"

The two of them stared into each other's eyes, both smiling gently, seemingly oblivious to the rest of the world around them.

"Sometimes I wish I had what you two have," came Regina's voice suddenly. The pair spun their heads around quickly to see the brunette Mayor looking like she was going to be sick, and probably wishing that a portal would open and pull her through.

Once again the group was plunged into an uneasy silence, each one trying to figure out how to continue after Regina's confession. And, once again, it was Snow who sought to break it.

"So, what do you think Regina?" the pixie-haired woman asked.

"As I said, I think that it is obviously a magical effect," the older brunette answered. "We need to determine who is affected, what we all have in common, and to what degree we are affected. We might be able to determine a motive or perhaps the epicentre for the attack."

"You think this was an attack?" Charming piped up, his hand already reaching for where his sword used to sit.

"I don't see any other reason for it," Regina said. "What better way to turn this town into chaos, than have its leaders, or perhaps everyone even, telling the truth. It might be a revenge attack, an isolated incident to plunge us all into anarchy, or it might be the opening move for something larger. We don't know, which is why we need to gather more information."

"It could just be an accident," Snow countered, hoping to reassure but just gaining a withering look for the Mayor.

"Really Snow?" she drawled.

The pregnant woman just shrugged leading to another eye roll from Regina.

"I'll keep my ear to the ground see if anything comes up," Ruby piped in, "and tonight I can take a run around, maybe see if anyone's somewhere they shouldn't be?"

"Thank you, Miss Lucas," Regina nodded, "that would be very helpful."

Ruby nodded in reply and the two of them turned and looked at Snow and Charming, expectant looks on their faces.

"Oh," Snow started, after finally realising what was going on. "I can ask about town, see if anyone knows anything?"

"And I've got patrol so I'll keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary," Charming added.

"Good," the Mayor said, giving another nod. "Just be careful, this town is full of secrets and I don't think things will remain calm for very long once they start coming out."

"Speaking of coming out, that reminds me," Snow said looking Regina straight in the eye. "We have not forgotten about you and Emma and we will be discussing it."

Regina looked back at the small brunette. Snow would make sure that they had that talk, she was certain of it, and she was definitely not looking forward to it. She was also very certain that she did not want to still be under the affects of whatever spell this was when they did have the talk.

"I know," she said coldly, making sure that the pixie-haired woman knew she wasn't about to have that conversation right now, and turned to leave. She needed to find Emma, and soon. They needed to figure out what the hell was going on, both with this truth spell and with whatever was going on between the two of them.

Just as she was about to reach the door, it opened and Henry came waltzing in.

"Hi Mom," he smiled, as he noticed his brunette mother standing in front of him.

"Hello, Henry dear," Regina replied, giving him a small smile. "I'm sorry, Henry I have to go and find your mother."

Without any more of an explanation the brunette gave him a gentle squeeze on the shoulder then brushed passed him and exited the diner in search of the Saviour.

Henry walked up to the counter and hopped up onto a stool.

"So, what's going on?" He started, looking straight at his grandparents before continuing. "My mum seemed kind of upset."

"It seems that there are some of us that are being forced to tell the truth," Snow said, and Henry tried to control his expression hoping not to give anything away.

"Regina, thinks that maybe it's some sort of spell," Charming continued, "and she has gone to find Emma so that they can try and find a way to fix it."

"She also said some things which I don't think she wanted to say. They both did," Snow said. She frowned slightly, but then shook it off, smiled gently at Henry and laid a hand on his arm giving it a squeeze. "That may be a part of why she seemed upset."

"Oh," the boy said, turning towards the hot chocolate that Ruby had just placed in front of him. He thanked the waitress and started to drink, deep in thought. Clearly the wish had worked which was great. Sure, his brunette mother hadn't seemed happy, but this was just the beginning. Once everything was out in the open, they would all be happy and everything would be perfect. Right?

So, there you go. :) I hope to get the next chapter out in a couple of days, where we shall see lots more confessions and have a bit more fun with our charming, and rather secretive, characters. x