AN: Sorry it has taken me so long to update, personal issues have meant i have been less than inspired to write and then when the bug hit it turned into a monster chapter. So in light of this i have split this chapter in half. Everything before the line break is present and after is memory then the next chapter will continue in memory and after line break be present, but i will remind you of this next chapter anyway!

For those following Eventide, don't panic, i haven't forgotten about the story i am just a little lost on where i want it to go as it has taken a completely different path than what i originally intended so please just bare with me...

I hope you enjoy this new installment, until next time x

Emma stepped up the 4 shallow steps until she was stood in the main entrance hall. She glanced towards the door of the kitchen knowing that that was where Regina was, but she walked past the door and headed into the dining room heading around the left hand side of the table.

When she got about half way she turned and faced the wall, looking up at the framed picture that hung on the wall. It was one of Emma's most favourite pictures, excluding one that was currently hanging in their bedroom. It wasn't a fancy picture, they were not all dressed up in their smartest clothes, but it was the look that was being shared between the two women and the big happy care free smile on their sons face which Emma loved to look upon. She smiled as she stared up at it, memories of that day swirling around her mind.

Emma glanced up from the sofa where she was currently lounging and looked over her shoulder at Regina who was currently sat behind her home office desk, black framed glasses perched on her nose and a look of utter concentration masked across her face as she stared at all the paperwork that was laid out before her.

Emma got up and walked over to stand behind the brunette, leaning down and wrapping her strong arms around the petite frame of Regina. As Emma wrapped her arms around her she placed a sweet gentle kiss onto Regina's cheek. Regina sighed as she leaned into Emma's touch, her eyes fluttering closed for a few seconds. Emma released her and stood back up straight and walked out of the office without a second look back.

She walked into the kitchen and started pulling different things from the cupboards and the fridge and piling them up on the counter top before bending to reach into one of the bottom cupboards and pulling out a picnic basket. She walked into to the hall and opened the cupboard where the coats were and pulled out the thick blanket they kept there before walking back into the kitchen.

After placing everything she needed into the basket and laying the blanket on top to make it easier to carry she slipped out the back door and went and placed the blanket and basket into the bug. Walking back into the house she headed for the stairs and headed towards Henry's bedroom door.

She knocked lightly on the wooden door before pushing it open to find Henry leisurely sprawled across his bed with a comic book in his hands, catching up on the latest super hero adventures. He looked up as Emma walked in and scrambled to sit up to give her room to perch on his bed.

"Hey kid," she started as she sat down, "fancy coming with me and your mom for a picnic in the park? It's such a nice day it seems such a shame to waste it." She smoothed her hand over her jeans as she waited for Henry's response.

"But mom is working, she won't want to come with us, she will just say she is too busy." He replied sounding slightly disappointed at the thought.

"No she will come with us, because we won't be giving her a choice." Emma said with a slightly playful gleam shining in her green eyes. Henry tilted his head to one side as he considered what Emma was suggesting and a second later a bright smiled spread across his face.

"What do you have in mind?" He asked his blonde mother, tossing his comic book onto his bed side table.

"We are going to kidnap her, sort of." Emma replied as she stood up from the bed and walked over to Henry's door where she took his grey and red striped scarf off of a hook and held it in her hand. Henry jumped up off the bed and stood in front of her with a determined look on his face.

"What do you need me to do?" he asked her as she tucked the scarf under her arm and under her jacket so that Regina would not be able to see it.

"Well," replied Emma "this is what I have so far…"

A few minutes later Emma came back down the stairs and moved back into the office and over to the couch where she had been previously sitting, she avoided Regina's gaze knowing that if she looked at the brunette she would be able to read the mischievous look in Emma's eyes.

After a few second Henry came into the office and called his Mom trying to get her attention, he slipped down the opposite side of the desk and just as Emma had predicted she took her glasses off, set them on the desk and turned her chair to focus solely on their son. Henry started to explain some maths problem that he was having and when Emma felt she was properly immersed in the conversation she crept off the sofa, crept up behind Regina and took the scarf from inside her jacket out and quickly wrapped it round Regina's eyes, plunging her vision into darkness.

Just as Emma had been expecting, Regina started to reach up to remove the scarf but Emma moved her hand from the ends of the scarf where she finished tying a knot and reached over Regina's shoulders and took both of the brunettes in her own.

"Hey, relax," Emma reassured and immediately she felt Regina relax a little but she could still feel that Regina was a little wound up at being ambushed by her family, "we are taking you out for the afternoon because you have been working for hours and deserve a break, especially as it's a Saturday," Emma said she then released Regina and walked back round the desk "and you wont get the knot undone so don't even think about trying, I did it up tight on purpose."

"But Emma, I don't have time to take a break, I have all these budgets to look through and then three planning proposals. After that I need to…" Emma nodded to Henry who took both of Regina's hands and guided her out of the office, gingerly down the stairs and out to the bug, both of them ignoring the excuses coming from the regal woman.

Emma opened up the passenger door to the bug and tipped the passenger seat forwards so that Henry could climb in the back and then put the seat back into the correct position. She gently guided Regina into the passenger seat who was not being overly cooperative and then walked round the car and slid into the driver's seat.

Emma glanced back at Henry and gave him a wink who just smiled in silent response and then she turned her attention to Regina. She reached a hand across and intertwined their fingers, even though Regina had their make shift blind fold on she still turned in Emma's direction and sent a glare towards the blonde that seemed to burn through the scarf.

"Come of Regina, please, just a few hours and then you can work when we get home… I promise you will have a great time" Emma ended her sentence with a smile even though her partner couldn't see it. With the smallest nod from her blindfolded girlfriend Emma fired up the bug and headed out towards the woods that surrounded the town.

TBC…