So, this is a short one, but consider it a bonus chapter since you all helped me hit 200 reviews! Which I SO appreciate! I love each and every review I read (even the less than positive ones.) Chapter 25 guys! I think this is only going to go to about 30 chapters or so... anyway, enjoy! By the way, this is almost purely fluff!

"Regina," Snow hesitated. "Um…may I speak with you a moment?"

"Come in," Regina offered, stepping aside to allow her mother-in-law in, but was surprised when Snow shook her head.

"Would you mind coming out here? I kind of want to speak with you alone." Regina looked to Emma, who nodded, and she grabbed her coat, pulling it on as she pulled the door shut behind her, now standing on the porch with Snow. They stood in silence for several moments; Snow thinking of where to start and Regina waiting for the other woman to speak. The older brunette turned when she heard a car door slam and she watched as David and Henry walked up the path. David eyed Snow, then Regina and gave a questioning look to both women. Snow gave a tight smile and Regina offered a slight nod. She brushed her son's hair as he walked by.

"I'll be right in, dear. Your ma is making dinner, so you should help her set the table, alright?"

"Yeah mom, I'll see you inside in a few."

"Snow, I don't mean to be rude, but it is dinnertime, so I need you to tell me what this is about."

"I…I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for calling you a trollop and for not believing that you didn't cheat on Emma, and for treating you so poorly since I found out about you and David."

"Very well."

"It's just…imagine if it had been the other way around, Regina. It was really hard to hear about."

"I understand where you're coming from. Even if I didn't necessarily then…I do now. We should have you told you, and I apologize for my part in that we didn't. I also am sorry for seducing him while he was under the curse. That wasn't my finest moment and while I am happy with the friendship that David and I now hold, I deeply regret the pain that my sleeping with him has caused you and Emma."

"Thank you…for that." She paused for a moment in an attempt to prepare herself for the next thing she was going to say to her daughter-in-law. "Regina…I need to ask you how you are willing to help me redeem myself for Emma and Henry."

"Very well. It won't be right now…I need to go inside for dinner, but would you like to meet for lunch tomorrow?" Snow nodded.

"What time?"

"Would one work for you? We get up later on the weekends around here."

"One works." Regina nodded and stepped toward the front door. "Regina…" Snow called, and waited until the older woman turned around. "Th-thank you."

Regina gave her a tight-lipped smile and a curt nod, then she turned and went into the house to join the others for dinner.

After they had finished dinner, the four made desserts together around the kitchen island, even though Henry kept complaining that baking with his moms and his grandpa made him feel like a loser. After a couple of hours, Henry left to stay at a friend's for the night since it was now the weekend. The two women had watched a movie with David before they all passed out on the couch together.

When Regina woke up, the DVD menu was on its repeat cycle and the lamp in the corner was still on. She rubbed her eyes and looked over at her wife and David. Emma was on the far end of the couch from her, her legs tangled in Regina's own across David's lap, the blonde head resting on the arm of the couch. David's chin was touching his chest, his feet propped up on a pillow on the coffee table in front of him. Regina tried to stand without waking them, but Emma woke once Regina untangled their legs. The blonde hurried to stand and walk over to Regina, offering her a hand to help her stand up.

"He looks so cute," Emma whispered, staring at her dad.

"Should we just lay him down?"

"Yeah. I don't want to wake him up. I don't think he's been sleeping well."

"No…I mean…he's been staying at the inn alone. Even if he's here at dinner and in the morning…he's not around his true love and the pain that has to be causing him…" she trailed off, shaking her head.

"I know. You grab his head, I'll grab his feet." Regina picked up one of the couch pillows they had thrown earlier and put it at her end of the couch, and Emma pulled his shoes off. Regina hooked her arms under his, almost as though she was hugging him, and she pulled his upper body down onto the couch, causing him to stir slightly. Her wife then pulled his legs up onto the couch, and when she was finished she wrapped her arm around Regina's waist and kissed her cheek.

"Let's go to bed."

"That sounds really, really good, babe."

"We're not having sex tonight."

"Why not Regina?" Emma whined.

"Because after all the sex we've had in the last two days, my body is sore and I worked out muscles I haven't worked out in far too long, and I'm achy."

"I could massage you first," Emma offered, raising her eyebrows. She led Regina up the stairs with her hand on the small of her wife's back.

"Mmmm, tomorrow," Regina whispered, turning to face Emma once they were at their bedroom door. "How about tomorrow…I'll have you for breakfast?"

Emma groaned and pushed their bedroom door open. "Fine. I can wait. Do I get to hold you?"

"Of course, darling."

The women were settled in bed, Emma was asleep and Regina was tossing and turning. Finally, after being restless for so long, she pushed herself up on her elbows and licked her lips.

"Emma," she stage whispered. "Emma!" She pushed lightly on one pale shoulder, watching as blonde tresses fell over her wife's slender neck. She still wasn't receiving a response, so she pushed the strands of hair away from her neck and leaned in, sucking gently on Emma's pulse point. Her wife stirred and looked up at her.

"Hey babe, you ok?" Emma said in a groggy voice. She pushed herself up on one elbow.

"I need ice cream."

"We have some rocky road in the freezer, babe. Do you want me to go get it?"

Regina looked at her guiltily. "No, I really want cotton candy flavor."

Emma laughed. "I'm sorry… you want what?"

"Cotton candy ice cream. And…a package of those King's Hawaiian bread rolls…ooh, with sweet cream butter. Can you go get them for me?"

"Regina…the store isn't open at night."

"Emma…please? Get my skeleton keys out of my office and leave some money on the counter with a list of what you took. Please?"

"Argh…fine," Emma answered, climbing out of the bed to pull on her clothes. "What's your office security code?"

"It's 2-2-8-3."

Emma looked taken aback. "My birthday?"

"Of course, dear. Now, go. I'm starving." Emma snorted and left to go run her errands.

When she got back home just over half an hour later, Regina was passed out on the bed diagonally. Her bottom half was on her side and her top half was strewn across Emma's pillows. Emma took the ice cream back downstairs and put it in the freezer and finally she put away the bread and butter as well. Climbing back up the stairs, she smiled to herself at how much she liked Regina needing her to do things again—it felt good to be wanted, to be needed, she had missed that.

She crawled into bed behind her wife, wrapping herself around her and pulled her tiny wife's back against her chest, squeezing her tightly.

"I love you, Regina," she whispered into the brunette's ear.

"Mmm, you too," was the almost inaudible reply that came from plump lips. Emma smiled and fell back to sleep.

The next morning, Emma woke up alone. She didn't see Regina anywhere in their bedroom so she descended the stairs to find her wife. She heard laughter coming from the kitchen and headed in there to see what was so funny. She leaned against the doorframe where she watched her wife and father picking rolls up off a cooking sheet and spreading them in the sweet butter she bought last night. There was one spoon in the carton of cotton candy ice cream, and it appeared that the two were taking turns eating it. Emma shook her head and pushed off the doorframe, walking to the island to join her family.

"Healthy breakfast, guys."

Regina blushed. "Well, I fell asleep before I could eat it last night."

"And…I…uh, well I didn't want her to feel bad for not wanting to make two separate breakfasts."

"Hey! You know I had no problem with making you something else!"

"I know…shut up. I'm making excuses to my daughter, here." All Emma did was pull the spoon out of the ice cream and took a bite. And then digging more ice cream onto her spoon, she put the spoon at her wife's mouth, watching as Regina parted her full lips, but at the last minute she pulled the spoon away and placed a kiss on Regina's mouth. After she pulled away from the kiss, she fed Regina the ice cream with a smile on her face.

"Have you guys talked about names for her yet?" David asked.

"Actually, yeah, we talked about it yesterday, actually," Emma answered.

"Amara, Sawyer and Carter were the three names we came up with," Regina offered.

"Those are pretty…but I'm surprised."

"At what?"

"I…um, I don't want to overstep."

"No, David, what did you want to say?"

"Well, I know it's a fairly common name, but I always expected you would name one of your children after Daniel…so Danielle?"

"I…I hadn't thought of Danielle for a girl. I mean…I had considered Daniel if I ever had another boy…"

"We should, Regina," Emma offered.

"Yeah…we'll consider that, certainly. Thank you for the thought, David," Regina answered, smiling at the two other people in the room. "David…would you be able to retrieve Henry from his friend's house? I'm meeting Snow for lunch at one and I have a few things I need to do to get ready first."

"Yeah, actually I was going to see if Henry wanted to go fishing with me today, anyway. Maybe cornering him will make him agree."

"Good method, dad."

"Yeah, yeah. I'll leave you to it. I'll see you guys later."

After David left, Emma dug the spoon into the ice cream, taking another bite and swallowing before looking at Regina and smirking. "You have three hours until one, why did you get rid of dad so early?"

Regina moved around the counter and leaned her back against the edge of the island next to where Emma was leaning. She lowered her mouth to Emma's ear and licked the shell of it lightly. "I told you that I was going to have you for breakfast today…and you can blame it on the hormones or on how much I love you and how attractive you are to me…but if you aren't upstairs with me in five minutes, you're going to miss out," Regina whispered as she watched Emma's eyes brighten in excitement.