Regina's decision
Regina had decided to stay, but it seems that she was angry about it. She was angry at Emma for her decision to stay. She got to work late and was generally cold to Emma. It was as if she were trying to detach. Of course that was the last thing Emma wanted, she became increasingly interested in the spy.
When they went to the marina, investigating counterfeit bills Emma had flashed on, they found none.
Regina complained that Emma was a liability to the mission and dropped Emma from the next visit to the Marina.
Emma showed up because Ruby had called her, stating that Dorothy's parents had brought them to a boat, and had seen some man rubbing Regina's shoulders out on the water.
Emma rushed to the stakeout and flashed on the cargo they were carrying, and Mal made an erroneous attempt for arrest.
Emma knew she wasn't going to get away without hearing about her mistake. So that night she waited. Kathryn and Fred were at work, and Regina was knocking at her door. "Kathryn or Awesome home? "
Emma closed the door behind the rampaging woman. "No. They're at work. And hello to you, too."
" What the hell happened today?" Regina rounded on Emma.
" I-I don't know. I don't get it. I had a flash."
Regina scoffed. " Right when I went below deck with Kirk. It's pretty convenient timing, I would say."
Emma furrowed her brows. " What are you talking about?"
" Just when you thought that I was getting intimate with Kirk, you decided to have a flash. " She accused.
"What exactly are you implying?" Emma said closer to her. "That I faked the flash? That I'm a flash faker? "
"You know, I think we need to discuss the fact that you let your emotions get in the way today. "
"My emotions? " Emma said incredulously.
"Things have been a little off since the incident, Emma."
"Really?" Emma stated her posture changing to that of attacK "And what incident are you referring to, Agent Mills, huh? Could it be the incident where you planted a kiss on me right before a bomb was supposed to go off, ending our lives? That same kiss right before your boyfriend, Daniel, came back from the dead, that kiss?"
"Stop saying kiss. It happened. Okay?" Regina shouted back wanting that whole mistake to go away. " What's done is done. Can we just not talk about it, please?"
" Okay, fine," Emma said with a nod. " Absolutely, of course. Just answer me one little thing."
"Emma…"
" Did you kiss me that night because you thought we were going to die, and mine were the most convenient lips around, or was it actually about me?" Emma shouted back.
Regina breathes and calms her emotion of anger now." What happened was a mistake. One I won't make again." Then she left Emma's apartment. Emma sighed, sorry to have made the mistake.
The next day Emma was redeemed because Ruby sent her a picture and on them, she spotted the items she had flashed on before. She tried to tell Mal, but she wasn't receptive, so she headed for the cheesecake factory to talk to Regina.
'Look, I need to talk to you.' Emma said pulling Regina aside.
" Emma, please, not now," Regina said annoyed.
" Regina, these are the same crates that I flashed on yesterday, right here on a boat with the Taiwanese attaché. The one you saw arguing with Kirk. He's getting away with the plates."
Regina paused and looked at the picture. She looked up at the blonde. "You think Kirk put the plates on Rashan's boat?"
Yes. Look, I know that your orders are to stay away from this, but you have to believe me. The plates are on that boat, possibly with Ruby and Dorothy." Regina took her apron off and started walking away. "Look, trust me, I wouldn't even be here right now if I wasn't 100% sure. What... What are you... ?"
"Let's go," Regina said and she was out of the door.
The two women ran toward the boat. Ruby had extended an invitation, and they were taking the opportunity. As they got out of the car they heard. "Emma! Regina!"
Regina turned and spotted Mal brandishing her gun behind her Crown Vic. "Blaize, what are you doing here?"
"Someone needs to protect the Intersect, huh?" Mal stated.
"Well, that's very thoughtful. Thank you very much, I guess." Emma said.
"Plus, I didn't want to miss any gunplay. Come on." She finished up. It figured.
They ran toward the docks. The boat had already pulled off. Emma flashed on the boat and realized there was a GPS tracking device on it. They were going to blow up the boat that had Ruby and Dorothy on it. Blaize spotted the launcher on Kirk's boat and so they devise a plan to save the people in the Taiwanese attache's boat.
They reset the target and ended up blowing up the crown Vic.
Regina came to the Apple store's Christmas party, and Emma was surprised to see her there. They needed to talk. They decided to be friends and made up.
It meant they would be able to work together. On their next mission, They crashed a Russian party there were lots of arms dealers. And Mal's ex-girlfriend. Emma flashed on her fiancee and none of it was good. But their connection became greater. Still, Emma wondered about Daniel and what it meant for Regina to stay.
The weight of Regina's decision sat on Emma's heart. She knew Regina had given up a lot for Bryce, but really she didn't know where she stood with the woman except for her sense of duty.
One slow afternoon, which doesn't happen often, Emma stood at the Genius bar. Captain Awesome walked in. he looked Hella nervous. Ema smiled at her sister's boyfriend. "Hey, Emma?" He said nervously. "Uh, can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Awesome…" she said her nickname to him, then corrected herself. "to see you, Fred. So, what's on your mind?"
"Emma, I was, I was hoping to talk to you about Kathryn." Emma's expression turned to concern. Fred's expression was serious, and this was about her sister.
"Yeah?" She questioned, "Yeah, yeah, of course."
"Well, you know, ever since, um, ever since we've been dating, I've come to think of you as that little Sister I never had."
"Don't you have two younger sisters?"
"Indeed. Indeed." Emma realized then that Fred was not really listening and decided to actively listen." But you seem like someone who can offer sage wisdom in confusing times, and this is one of those times I am really confused, bro…" As she listened, her eyes spotted a transmitter. "I don't know how to put this into words, really."
Her flash had completely taken her out of the conversation that she blurted. "That's a bug.
" Fred jumped looking for the bug. freaked out by the thought of being around a spider. Emma reached for the transmitter while he was distracted.
"Oh, no. I think, uh, no, you got him." She stated. "He was like... and then poof! Gone…Can you excuse me for just one second? I think I just saw a kid punch an iPad."
"Emma!" Fred protested. "Emma, I need you to drop some knowledge, bro."
Emma walked away to the back room and as she walked she spotted Aladin and Killian doing gods knew what. "Keep moving, Swan. Nothing to see here."
Eshe paused to look, but shook her head and kept it moving. "Not even if I had the time." she found just the woman she had been looking for uploading Macs. "You're getting sloppy, Blaize. I understand that you have some perverse desire to listen to everybody, but you really need to be more careful when hiding your bugs."
"What are you lip-smacking about, Swan?"
"I just found this," The blonde said holding up the bug to show Mal. "on one of our product displays, and not very well hidden, I might add. Normally, I'm a fan of your craftsmanship, if not your methods. Look, all I'm saying is that something like this discovered by someone less in the know than me could spell trouble."
Maleficent took the transmitter from the irate blonde and studied it. "You worry about that supercomputer in your brain. Let me worry about the spy stuff, huh?" then she paused to look at Emma. "Don't you have a hard drive you can go fix?" Then she walked out of the back room.
"There's the best buddy of mine," Ruby said as Emma walked out of the room.
"Yeah. What's up?" Emma stated.
"Can I borrow the keys to your bug? I wanna take Dorothy out tonight."
Emma sighed and reached into her pocket. "Fine, I'll take the Apple mobile home. Please be careful with my baby. She's old and deserves respect." Then she looked around. "Have you seen Awesome?
"Over by the Home home pods." Emma nodded and headed to that area of the store. "So, uh, what, uh, what's going on?"
"This is one of those rare moments when things are not kosher, Emma." He took a deep breath. "Oh, man. This is harder than I thought."
"Uh-huh. Go... Go on. I'm listening." she encouraged
"Right. Well…" he started "I've been thinking a lot about the way things are between me and your sister. And you're Kathryn's family, so I was wondering… Can I have your permission…" he pulled out a ring box. "Can I marry Kathryn?"
Emma was shocked and only stared at the humongous rock. "Wow. That-That's quite... quite a rock you got there."
"Is that a yes? Dude…" Fred asked
"Yes!" she answered excitedly. "Yes! Sorry! I just… You kind of- waah! You know, you pulled the blang just right in... a girl can only take so much... Yes, you have my blessing."
Awesome breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you. Thank you. I mean, it's been in my family for years." he looked at the ring. This meant so much to him. "This was my great-grandmother's. Ah, you think she'll like it?"
"Like it?" Emma exhaled "She'll, she'll love it. I, um, I'm just not sure she'll be able to lift her hand anymore."
"Oh, one other thing," Fred said closing the ring box. "Kathryn is a bloodhound when it comes to these kinds of things. If I keep this in the apartment, she will smell diamonds. Can you hold onto this, just for a day or so? I mean, just till I figure out how to pop the question?"
Emma blanched, this was way too much responsibility. "I don't think it's actually a good idea... " she said shaking her head.
"Oh, thank you!" Fred stated not listening and pushing the ring into Emma's hands. "Thank you so much, bro." he hugged her. "Hey, pretty soon, I'm going to mean that literally. There you go. "
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be more like a sis… but...All right…" Emma said a little rattled. The best place for Emma to keep the ring was her locker at the Apple store. So she hid it in there and locked it.