A/N: I wasn't planning on doing this so soon, but an idea hit me for a short fluffy Valentine's Day piece. So, I've officially published the sequel to Home for the Holidays! It's called Moments in Time (Home for the Holidays Verse). I've posted a little teaser of it below, and then the rest can be found in the new fic.

1. A Belated Valentine's Day Surprise

Friday, February 16. 7:30pm.

I wish I was dead, she thinks.

Regina Mills is old enough that she should know that surprises rarely, if ever, go the way they're planned. She should know by now that it's better to forget about the excitement of mystery and the romance of spontaneity, and instead go the safe route. Safe is always better. It may be boring, but it's less likely to lead to awkward situations, like the one in which she currently finds herself.

She and Emma have only been married a few months, and it's not like they have lost any of the passionate spark in those few months of wedded bliss, so she shouldn't have felt the need to try to spice things up with an unplanned surprise. She should have just told her wife her intentions. If she had, she wouldn't be in her current humiliating predicament.

Please, God, just let me have a massive myocardial infarction right now…or an aneurism. I'm not picky. Something quick and relatively painless. Anything would better than this, she silently prays. But, God doesn't smite her down in that moment. No, she's going to have to deal with this.

She glares at her wife across the room, whose cheeks are as equally as pink in embarrassment as she sends an apologetic look back to the brunette...

to be continued...

A/N: If you'd like to find out what happened, click on my username to go to my profile, and then click on the new story Moments in Time. The rest of this chapter (and all subsequent chapters) will be posted in that fic (I like to keep fics and their sequels separate, so they don't get unwieldily). I hope you'll follow along!