Author's Note: This was one of the sillier #SQ1T tweet-stories I have done. I'm pretty sure nearly everyone is completely out of character, but anyway... Enjoy a smile.
Rating: T
Entry 9: Henry Spills the Beans
(A/N: No, not those beans)
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"They are SO married," Ruby whispered. Henry's moms were again arguing. The entire diner, which was a substantial portion of the Storybrooke population as a whole, had turned to watch the mayor and sheriff's fiery display.
"Ruby!" two voices retorted, each woman turning a glare on the waitress. Ruby subsided.
"Yeah, last week," Henry said. His deadpan response made Ruby blink. This she had not known.
"Really?" Ruby turned to the boy.
Regina and Emma froze, staring at Henry, uncharacteristic pleading in their eyes.
He smiled blithely and continued, "Yeah, one of the papers I found on Mom's desk in the study."
"Kid," Emma sighed. "Regina may have gotten the paper, but if you hadn't noticed, I hadn't signed it yet."
"You're going to though, right?"
"Why are we having this conversation in the middle of the diner?" Regina asked, her ingrained sense of privacy rearing its head.
"Because our son is a nosy Ned."
"And I wanna be the ring bearer," he added cheekily.
"We wouldn't choose anyone else, darling." Regina crossed the floor to wrap her arms around Henry. He hugged her back, which made her smile widen. "Now, can we go talk to your parents?" she turned back to Emma.
"Too late." Emma turned away and pointed at a back corner table. Regina groaned. Sitting in the booth, with matching looks of shock on their faces, were Snow and David, gazes darting between the two women.
Emma smiled as Regina's face heated up. The blonde mercifully took her girlfriend in her arms. "Maybe it's better this way. You were getting too anxious about the whole thing."
"But it's proper!"
"When have you ever known me to care about proper?" Emma kissed Regina on the cheek, the most PDA the prickly, private brunette ever allowed though they had been dating for a year since returning from Neverland.
"But it's why I waited a whole year," Regina replied, brushing Henry's hair with one hand while she held onto Emma's arm around her waist.
Snow, followed closely by David, approached. "Regina."
"Snow," Regina replied warily.
"Welcome to my family. Again. It will be better this time." Snow added, "I promise."
Regina looked away from Snow's tiny, hesitant smile. Promises broken were where all this had begun. Taking in the whole of the diner then Henry's beaming face still pressed into her side, Regina finally caught her breath under Emma's patient, understanding gaze. Snow's last promise had devastated her life and her heart. However, from the fierce protectiveness shining in her lover's green eyes, Regina could only draw hope. Hope that this time would be different.
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