"HENRY!"

Regina's jaw dropped as she stared down at her shirt, now covered in spots of cocoa. Henry's face was beginning to morph from shock to horror. The diner was silent until a small laugh echoed before getting cut off. Regina whirled round to glare at Emma who was slowly turning red at her attempt not to laugh.

Emma stared at her. Her open mouth forming into a wide grin. Regina pointed at her with the most powerful glare she could muster.

"Don't." She hissed in the silent diner. Emma slapped her palm across her mouth, though the shaking shoulders said enough in her silence.

"I'm so sorry." Henry whispered. Regina turned to his now pale face and the shaking hand holding out a bunch of napkins. Regina cautiously took the napkins and began dabbing at the spots, knowing it was useless but needing to do something.

She glanced up at the feeling of someone standing before them both. A comment about invasion of personal space on the tip her tongue died out when she met David's even stare.

"You'll need to change that." He said nodding to her shirt. "We should get you home. I think we all need to talk."

Regina nodded subtly as David turned back to his daughter. He sighed as he saw her head buried in her arms upon the table, and her shoulders heaving in silent laughter.

"You take Henry. I'll bring her round when she calms." He said with a thin smile, nodding to his pale grandson and moving across the diner to Emma.

Regina sighed turning back to her son. "Henry, I-"

"I'm so sorry!" He blurted out again.

"I know."

"I-I didn't- It... you just... married?" Regina bit her lip to stop smiling at the crack in voice on the final word.

"We'll talk about it at home. I'd hoped you'd be less inclined to create a spectacle in a public setting but I was mistaken. Apparently it's genetic."

Regina made her way upstairs quickly leaving Henry to sit in the lounge and process exactly what she'd told him. She heard the door open again, David and Emma were talking before they quietened down.

Slipping on another blouse, she threw her cocoa covered shirt in to the hamper and made her way down the stairs. Shouting reached her ears. Henry obviously wasn't happy with Emma. She had hoped he might have taken it a bit better.

Though, in hindsight, blurting it out in the diner was probably a poor choice of setting. Emma seemed to be rubbing her off.

Off on her. Rubbing off on her! Not rubbing her off. Christ. Regina shook her head at her wayward thoughts. Entering the lounge she paused at the sight.

Henry was hitting Emma with a couch cushion as she tried valiantly to fight him off

"What. Did. You. Do?" He asked, punctuating each word with a hit.

"Ow. Kid! It was an accident!" Emma yelled grabbing the cushion and ripping it form his grip. "Relax, kid. Nothing bad is gonna happen."

"How do you know that? You don't. Bad things happen all the time. And something bad is gonna happen now cause you just jinxed it!" Henry yelled back, his shoulders heaving as he glared at the blonde stepping out of his reach.

Deciding now was a good a point as any to intervene Regina cleared her throat. "Mind tell me what's going on here?' She asked glancing between Emma and Henry and their matching looks of contrition.

"He started it." Emma said. Regina saw David biting his lip to stop from smiling as Henry grabbed a cushion from the armchair and proceeded to attack Emma again. "Hey! Stop it!"

"You. Married. My. Mom!" Henry yelled.

Emma grappled the pillow from his grasp and whacked him over the head with it. "I am your mom!"

"Children, be calm. There is obviously some explaining Emma and I have to do." She sighed sitting in the cushion less chair. David moved to the opposite chair and sat heavily.

"So what happened?" He asked calmly watching everyone's face carefully for any sign of impending attack.

"I accidentally put bracelets on our wrists that have a magical tie to each other. They were predominantly used in the Enchanted Forest for couples of arranged marriages. We can't remove them and we're looking for alternative solutions." Emma stated. Her eyes locked on the cushion in her grasp missing the looks of surprise until she looked up. "What? I pay attention." She grumbled sinking further into the couch.

"Well, that is... actually a very succinct description of what's happened." Regina's brow furrowed as she tried to think of anything else to add that wouldn't cause Henry to panic.

"So, it was an accident?" Henry asked quietly.

"Yeah, kid. I screwed up again. But we're gonna fix this. Get the bracelets off and then go on our merry ways." Regina watched Emma as she spoke. Her displeasure was obvious with her last statement.

David seemed to notice as well as he watched his daughter closely. "Well, when I said you two should get along better I didn't think you'd take it this seriously."

"Oh, shut up." Emma said hurling the cushion at David smiling at his judgement free face. "You won't tell Snow though, will you?"

David shook his head. "No, you can do that." They laughed at Emma's groan as she hid her face in one of the cushions. "Although, depending on how long you're... married, you might want to tell her soon."

"Ugh. We're finding it hard to get them removed. So we don't know." Emma sighed. "She's gonna hear about the diner incident, isn't she?"

David shuffled in his seat, pulling out his vibrating cellphone. "I think she already has. I'll distract her. Make something up about – Hang on. Would it be totally far-fetched for me to say you're moving in here, Emma?"

Emma and Regina shared a silent conversation in a few seconds before Regina spoke. "I believe that would be best, as Emma will be staying here, indefinitely."

"Alright. I'll tell her but Emma, she's gonna want to talk to you." David said pointedly as he got up and answered the phone. He moved out of the study as Emma made to follow.

"Emma's gonna stay? Indefinitely?" Henry asked sitting up with a grin on his face. Regina smiled back. It was infectious and so similar to Emma's she couldn't stop looking for similarities as she answered.

"Yes, a side effect of the bracelets means we are unable to bear being far from each other."

"Oh. Does it hurt if you're away?"

"Just a headache." It wasn't a lie, merely an omission. She didn't want Henry to find out how painful the headache could be, hopefully he never would.

Emma came back into the lounge looking more frustrated than when she left.

"Well, she's not exactly jumping for joy but she understands it."

"I'm surprised." Regina said truthfully.

"You shouldn't be. I told them I was planning on moving out, just never expected it to be here."

"Well, I'm glad you're here!" Henry said bouncing on the couch. "I won't have to keep running between two places, and my clothes will all be in one place."

"He's totally your kid, Regina. Thinking about how it will benefit him." Emma said pushing Henry over to the other side of the couch.

"I don't know. He didn't get the habit of looking on the bright side from me."

"He's the best of both of us." Emma smiled brightly to Regina as she turned back to Henry pushing him away playfully as he grabbed another cushion.

As Regina watched them hit each other with the cushions she realized Emma's presence in her home might not be such a horrible things.

She hadn't heard Henry laugh this much since before Emma had turned up in Storybrooke.

Maybe, just maybe, Emma Swan breaking her curse was a good thing.