Okay, so that break was a little longer than expected! Just been finishing the first draft of my novel.

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Charming let out a squeak as a column of purple smoke suddenly appeared in the middle of the apartment.

"Very manly there Charming," Regina smirked, as the last of the smoke was dissipating. The prince just frowned at the brunette, refusing to comment.

"Regina! Emma!" called Snow.

The two women in question both took a moment to ponder why she always managed to seem so cheerful. Regina mentally suggested drugs but then scoffed at the idea of the woman doing anything remotely 'bad', instead settling on how it must be so nice to be off in your own little world the entire time. Emma's mind took her on a different track and the moment it mentioned her father she quickly shook her head vigorously.

"What did you find out?" Snow asked them, bringing them back to the present. "Do you know who cast it? How do we undo it?"

"Unfortunately we do not know who caused this," Regina started. "We did however, learn that the fairies experienced an incredible magical surge last night which drained a lot of their magic. They have determined that it was a wish but not who made it."

"And she said it's a very powerful wish," Emma added.

"But who would want to wish this?" the pregnant woman asked. "And how do we undo it?"

"Wishes are notoriously difficult to undo," the Mayor replied. "The focus of the wish, is the focus of the breaking of the wish. As to how they actually do that? It depends, on the type of wish as well as the strength of it. Blue said that this wish had very strong emotions behind it, so I suspect that it will be harder to undo."

"But everyone in town is affected by this," Charming noted.

"Exactly," Snow joined in, nodding in her husband's direction. "So how is everyone supposed to break the wish?"

"While it may be affecting everyone," Regina explained, "there still is most likely a focus. One person, or perhaps and small group of people, who were directly in the person's mind when they made the wish."

"And everyone just gets caught up in it?" Emma asked.

"Sort of," the Mayor answered. "I believe that someone made the wish to affect the whole town, but they were thinking of a select few. Maybe it's because of those few that they made the wish."

"So how do we find them then?" the blonde asked.

"I don't know," Regina admitted and let out a long, deep sigh.

"I need a drink," Emma said, mirroring her partner's sigh and sitting down at the breakfast counter.

"Hot chocolate?" Snow asked, already getting up to put the kettle on.

"Please," the blonde hummed.

"Regina?" the little woman asked, turning to the Mayor.

"Coffee," Regina answered. "Please."

The brunette joined the blonde at the counter, letting out a huff as she sat.

"We'll figure this out," Emma said gently, laying a hand on the other woman's thigh.

Regina looked at the hand, then covered it with her own and gave it a squeeze. She looked up and gave the sheriff a tired smile.

Just then, they heard footsteps on the stairs and they looked up to see Henry appear.

"Hey guys," he said, trying to sound chipper.

"Hello Henry," Regina said, smiling gently, just before Emma said "hey Kid."

"Are you feeling better Mum?" he asked, looking at his brunette mother with concern.

"Sorry Henry," the Mayor said, "we just haven't been able to fix everything yet."

"But we'll get there," Emma piped in, trying to reassure the boy.

"Of course we will," Regina said, nodding and smiling a little. "We've done it before. What's one more curse to break?"

"Curse?" Henry asked frowning. "I thought it was a wish?"

"How do you know that?" Regina asked, zeroing on her son.

"I was sitting at the top of the stairs," the body muttered.

"I see," the Mayor said, raising an eyebrow. She didn't comment about it further, but Henry did get the feeling he would be getting a long talking to later about listening in on other people's conversations.

"Anyway," Emma said, interrupting their rather awkward moment. "Henry, this so called 'wish' is magical and it's causing people harm. Fairly sure that counts as a curse."

"But how can telling the truth hurt?" the boy asked. Both his mothers could feel that there was something more to his questions but neither was quite sure what so didn't say anything yet.

"There's a big difference between lying and just not telling everything. This curse is making people tell everything, including things that people might want to keep hidden," Regina answered.

"But keeping secrets is bad," Henry argued.

"What if it's to try and not hurt someone's feelings?" Regina countered.

"Wouldn't they rather know the truth now, than finding it out later? Especially if they would then know you've lied to them?" the boy returned.

"But you wouldn't want to hurt the person would you Henry?" Emma joined in. "And what if you're trying to make sure that someone else doesn't get hurt? Lies can hurt Henry, but sometimes so can telling the truth."

There was silence in the apartment as the boy tried to take in and consider what his mothers were trying to say.

"I just wanted people to stop lying to me," Henry said, quietly enough that the others in the apartment weren't even sure they'd heard him correctly.

"Henry?"

"I made a wish last night, when I saw the shooting star. I didn't even know it would work, but I had to try. I was just so sick of you guys lying to me, and everybody always lying to everybody else. I didn't want anyone to get hurt, honestly, I just wanted you to tell me the truth."

The apartment was stunned into silence at the boy's outburst.

"Oh Henry," Regina said, her voice managing to break slightly even in just the two words.

The two women stood up and made their way over to their son, bringing him in and enveloping him in a hug.

"I'm sorry," the boy muttered.

"No Henry," Emma said as they pulled apart, "we're sorry. We're sorry that we lied to you. We're sorry if we made you feel like we didn't trust you, or didn't care enough to tell you the truth. Yes, part of the reason we lied was to protect ourselves, but we also needed to try and protect you. Henry, you're our son and we would do anything to protect you."

The three of them exchanged looks and smiled at each other.

"I can't promise to always tell the truth Henry," Regina said, "but I think that we can all promise that we will trust each other to tell each other the big things."

The boy nodded and the little group was silent once more.

A cough from behind them interrupted their moment and reminded them of the presence of Snow and Charming.

"So," Snow said, "does this mean that we can undo the wish?"

"I don't know," Regina answered. She turned to her son, "Henry, do you think you could try?"

"How?" the boy asked, but ready to help any way he could.

"To be honest Henry I don't know," his brunette mother said, frowning slightly.

"Okay, this might sound stupid," Emma cut in, "but he wished the wish, can't he just unwish the wish? Or wish that everything goes back to normal?"

"It's hardly the best plan in the world," Regina said, "but unfortunately, it's the best that we've got. Okay Henry, you heard your mother."

Everyone in the apartment turned to face the boy, waiting expectantly.

Henry squared his shoulders, took a few deep breaths and closed his eyes.

I wish my last wish would stop, he thought to himself, concentrating with all his might. I wish my last wish would stop.

A few tense moments later and Henry opened his eyes.

"Did it work?" he asked, looking at the adults.

"I don't know," Regina replied. "I didn't feel anything."

"Oh," Henry said, disappointed that he'd failed.

"Maybe we could test it?" Snow piped up. The others all looked at her. She turned her attention on Regina, who glared back at the pixy-haired woman. "Regina, what do you think of my hats?"

The Mayor growled and it looked like she was fighting hard not to answer, and just as hard not to throttle the little woman.

"I like them and I envy how well they suit you," Regina eventually had to grumble out. The others burst out laughing, Emma quickly stopping at a glare from her partner.

"I'm sorry Henry," the brunette continued once the laughing had died down, "but it seems that it didn't work."

"Oh," the boy said again. Although this time he was less disappointed and more distracted. He was thinking hard, surely there had to be something. His mothers had said it was a curse. And what can break a curse?

"True love's kiss!" he suddenly shouted, startling the others.

"Henry," Regina chided.

"Sorry," the boy replied, more quietly and looking sheepish. "True love's kiss. It can break any curse."

"Of course!" Charming said, just as excited as his grandson.

"Charming," Snow said, mirroring Regina's chastising tone from before.

"Sorry," the man muttered, also looking sheepish.

"It could work though couldn't it Regina?" Snow asked.

"Theoretically," the Mayor answered slowly.

"But?" Emma asked, knowing her partner well enough to know that there was something else.

"But," Regina answered, "like I said, only the focus of the wish can break the wish."

"So," the pixy-cut woman continued, "we just get all of the true loves in the town to kiss and one of them will break it."

"That's a stupid idea," Regina said bluntly, and Emma got the impression that she would have said the same thing even without the spell on them. She didn't comment however, as she watched her parents reign in their reactions.

"Well," Snow said, a little more tense than she had been before, "what do you suggest?"

"Henry," Regina said, turning to her son, "who were you thinking about when you made the wish?"

The boy was silent for a moment, starting to blush.

"It's okay Henry," his brunette mother soothed.

"You guys," he finally answered, looking down at the ground.

"But we're true loves," Charming said. "We've been kissing all day and the curse is still holding."

A round of "eww"s erupted from Emma and Henry, and a disgusted face from Regina, as they three tried to shake the image from their mind.

"I meant you two," Henry said, trying to at least move everyone's attention on from that, and looking at his mothers.

"Us?" Regina asked.

"Yea," the boy replied sheepishly. "After you lying about the curse Mum, and Ma, you lying about Neil, I was getting so angry with you guys lying to me. And then with you keeping your relationship from me –"

"You knew?" Emma asked, stunned.

"Of course I knew," Henry replied, rolling his eyes. A gesture the blonde was sure he'd learned from his other mother. "You're not exactly subtle."

Emma's face went a deep shade of red, while Regina's paled several tones.

"Then that would mean you two are the focus," Snow stated from behind them.

"I mean," Emma said, clearing her throat, "we could try."

"I suppose you have done it before," Regina nodded.

They moved forward again.

"You ready?" Regina asked.

"I guess so," Emma replied.

Together, they closed their eyes, then reached down and kissed Henry on the top of his head.

Nothing happened.

"It didn't work," Emma said, disheartened.

"No, it didn't," Regina affirmed.

The brunette was about to say something reassuring to Henry but when she looked down at him he was giving them a weird look.

"What?" she asked.

"Seriously?" he countered blankly, then crossed his arms. Another trait Emma could no doubt thank Regina for.

"What?" Emma joined in.

"I meant the two of you," Snow said from behind them. "As in, you know, you two and true love's kiss."

The two women stared at the pregnant woman their mouths opening and closing, not really sure what to say.

"I beg your pardon?" Regina finally managed to ask, although her voice was quivering slightly.

"Well, it's not exactly how I would have imagined it all those years ago," Snow replied, "but I did always want to have Regina back in the family."

"Sorry, what?" said brunette asked.

"You think we're –?" Emma started to ask, but she couldn't quite finish her sentence.

Unfortunately Regina must have only heard the hesitation in Emma's voice not the hope or excitement, as she suddenly disappeared in a puff of purple smoke.

I couldn't resist!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this next part. Reviews always appreciated :)