This is my first time trying to write for Swan Queen. so i hope you all like it and let me know what you think and if you have any thoughts or ideas don't be afraid to voice them :)

i do not own any of this.

Emma wakes up to a screaming Neal. "Ugh" she moans and swings her legs off the bed. She gets up, heads down stairs and walks into the kitchen to pour herself a cup of coffee. It's too early in the morning for her and she is barely awake.

"Morning, Emma." Snow calls from the living room feeding, a cranky Neal.

"Morning mom." she says kind of drowsy, before she starts working on downing her coffee. She never was a morning person. She has been woken up a lot lately because of Neal. Things have been kind of stressful with the baby and the apartment being crowded. Emma has been thinking about getting a place of her own.

"I'm going to go take a shower then head off to work." she says over her shoulder at Snow. She goes to get her things from her room and heads to the bathroom.

Across town, Regina is up and moving around in her kitchen, getting Henry's breakfast ready while he is in the shower. She takes the pancakes off the stove to make up a plate and sets it on the island counter as Henry comes into the kitchen.

"Pancakes for breakfast?" Henry looks at his mother with his eyebrow raised.

"If you don't want them I can throw them out." Regina says in a playful tone.

"No. I do!" Henry smiles at his mother. "I just wasn't expecting them is all" He says as he pours syrup on them.

"Well I figured I would surprise you with them." she smiles and kisses his head. "I'm going up to get ready for work while you finish up your breakfast then I'll drive you to school" she says then heads up to her room.

Henry finishes up and puts his dishes in the sink and gets his stuff ready to leave for school.

Regina walks down the stairs. "You all ready to go?" she asks.

"Yep!" he replies with a smile.

"Alright let's head out before you're late." They head out of the house.

Emma is sitting at her desk at the station working on some overdue paper work. She knew that if she put it off any longer then she would have an even more upset Regina on her hands. She worked for a few more hours before she decides it's about time to take a lunch break.

David walks into the station around lunch time. "Hey Emma, you about ready for you break? I can take over for a while." He says, walking to his desk.

"Yes! I'm starving and need to get out of here for a bit. Paper work is kicking my ass today. Thanks a lot, I'll see you later." Emma smiles, gathers her things and walks out of the station.

It's nice outside today, so she decides to walks down to granny's for lunch. The bell rings as Emma walks through the door and heads to the counter.

"Hey Ruby, I'll have the usual." Emma says to Ruby, who is standing in front of her.

"Sure thing, Ems." Ruby walks off to place the order.

Emma takes a seat at the booth to her left and smiles as Ruby walks over to her with her drink.

"You look like you're not getting a lot of sleep." Ruby states as she takes the seat across from her after she looks around to make sure no one needs anything.

"Yeah well, with the baby it's hard to get a lot of sleep at home." Emma says, leaning back against the booth.

"Have you thought about getting a place of your own?" Ruby asks the blonde in front of her.

Emma nods "Yeah I have but I haven't started looking just yet. I don't really like going to look on my own."

Granny yells at Ruby from the kitchen to let her know the food is ready.

"Food's done!" Ruby smiles and gets up to walk back behind the counter.

She picks up Emma's order and sets its in front of her. "Maybe I could come with you and help you look for a place so it won't be so boring." Rudy says smiling down at Emma.

Emma looks up at her smiling friend and thinks about it for a short time and smiles back. "That would be nice. I get off around three. We could look around then if that's fine with you." she says and looks up at her friend.

"That's perfect! I'll be off by then. I'll meet you out front of the dinner." Ruby grins and walks off to help another table.

Emma smiles and laughs softly to herself at the fact that Ruby was way too excited about apartment shopping. Emma finishes her lunch and heads back to the station to finish the rest of her shift.

Regina is in her office and looks at her clock to see that it's already 2pm. Emma has yet to turn in the late paper work. Regina pulls out her cell phone and sends a text to Emma.

"Miss Swan, I believe you have paper work that is due and I don't see it on my desk yet"

A few moments later Regina's phone buzzes on her desk. She reaches over and picks it up to flip it open.

"Don't worry your majesty. It will be there shortly."

Regina rolls her eyes and replies to her "I really wish you would stop calling me that, Princess." Regina smirks as she hits send.

There's a knock at the door a few minutes later and in comes Emma herself. "You know I hate being called Princess." Emma says, an annoyed look on her face.

Regina smirks at the blonde as she sets the paper work on her desk. "Well maybe next time you won't keep calling me 'your majesty', now will you?" Regina moves the papers to the side of her desk. Emma stands there with a sudden nervous look on her face.

"Is there anything else I can do for you, Sheriff?" Regina looks up at the blonde woman in front of her.

"How have you been?" Emma asks as she looks up at the brunette.

"Fine." she says without looking up from her work.

"Come on Regina I'm trying here. I want us to get back to where we were before. Why don't you come out with me and Ruby to help me look for an apartment?" Emma asks with a smile on her face.

Regina's head snaps up at this and looks at the blonde with a raised eyebrow. "You and Ruby are looking for a place?" she asks in a shocked voice.

"She is just helping me find a place of my own, though now that I think about it, I'm sure Rubes would like to get out from under granny and she would make a cool roomy..." Emma says with a big smile on her face.

Regina, on the other hand, just glares at Emma with a hateful look. Yet there is a flash of hurt or disappointment in her eyes. "What happened to Hook dear? He cool with all this?" she asks with an annoyed tone.

"We aren't together and won't be. I told him that it wouldn't work out and that I just liked him as a friend and that's all." Emma says like its no big deal.

"Well I'm sure you and Ruby will make a great pair." Regina says sarcastically.

Emma raises her eyebrow at what the brunette in front of her just said. Emma could have sworn she saw what looked like hurt run across the other girl's face but figured it was just her lack of sleep.

"I would really like it if we could be friends again, and if not for us, we should do it for our son. I think it would make him happy if we were getting along better again." Emma said with a hopeful, yet sad tone.

Regina sighs and looks up at the blonde. She couldn't help it when a small smile crossed her lips. Emma was trying so hard and she knew it. "Alright Miss Swan. How about you join henry and me for dinner tonight at my house. Say around 7pm?"

There was a huge smile across Emma's face. "I would love that! I won't be late I promise!" Emma turns to leave but stops at the door, then turns around. "Thank you." she says before leaving the room, shutting the door behind her.

Regina lets out a slow breath and decides to stop for the day so she can get ready to go pick up Henry from school. She also needs to stop at the store before heading home. "It's going to be a long night." she says to herself as she leaves her office.