"Cause I'm hot like that

Every girl, everywhere

Just gives me mad attention

Like I'm under inspection

I always get a ten

'Cause I'm built like that

I go through girls like

Money flying out the hands

They try to change me

But they realize they can't

And every tomorrow is a day I never plan

If you're gonna be my woman understand

I can't be tamed"

"That was 'The Saviors' new song "Can't Be Tamed", fixing to come out on their new "This is Me" album next week. This is why you are going on your world tour, is this correct?" Sydney Glass, the host of the late-night talk show "The Mirror" questioned.

"Yeah" Emma blushed and nodded.

"How is it, we've been doing this for 5 years and you still blush" Killian teases her and playfully nudges her shoulder, causing the audience to laugh

"She'll never get used to it," Ruby smiled as they were sandwiched on the love seat, Emma between them.

"Now if I got it right, its Emma who comes up with the music?"

"Yeah absolutely." Killian beams like a proud parent

"How does that work exactly? No jealousy that she sings, can play any instrument and creates?" Sydney leans back in his chair.

"No, it's always been like that and we've been best friends our whole lives. We knew this is how it was going to be. Not only with the fact that she taught us how to play our instruments, but how to switch between them while being on stage to hype up the energy. You know, one minute she's doing a long note on the guitar or singing her lungs out, to doing a drum solo, there's a reason why everyone, not only us, has fun at our concerts. It's never the same thing every time we play. She is the soul of this band. Without her, there would be no band. She's who got us started. This was her idea. This band is her baby. She is what makes us "The Saviors" But the amazing thing about her is that if I and Killian suggest a song about something, she'll create something right there, no matter how stupid our suggestion is. And every one of them is amazing." Ruby explains

"Is that what the "Fucking around" album was about? All the songs that were random?"

"Yeah, we just went for it. That's why we had it come out right after "In your heart". We recorded them at the same time. It's still music, but this way it's putting a smile on people's faces with how stupid some of the lyrics may be." Emma laughs.

"So who came up with "Earth"?" Sydney laughs

Ruby and Emma started laughing and looked to Killian who started blushing.

"That one was me." he groans

"Has everyone heard that one?" Sydney asks the audience, the majority nods but Sydney laughs, "For those who haven't, this is "Earth" from their "Fucking around" album from 2015

"We love the Earth, it is our home

Hi, I'm a baboon

I'm like a man, just less advanced and my anus is huge

Hey, I'm a zebra

No one knows what I do, but I look pretty cool

Am I white or black?

I'm a lion cub, and I'm always getting licked (Meow!)

How's it going? I'm a cow (Moo!)

You drink milk from my tits (Moo)"

The audience laughs while Emma and Ruby chuckle at the mans blushing face.

"In my defense, we were drunk most of this recording session and that song was written in like 10 minutes." Killian tries but still everyone laughs

"So all joking aside, who does"Can't be Tamed" come from?"

Killian and Ruby both pointed at Emma

" I had guessed it came from Emma, especially with the fact, you don't settle down and from what we've heard, you're a bit of the bachelorette?" he wiggles his eyebrows

"A bit yeah" she smiles, finally easing into it

"Why is that? Why can't you be tamed?"

"I'm just a free spirit I guess. It's why I have my lion tattoo, I'm not something you can cage or contain. I'm not something you can settle down." she winks at the camera.

"What about Regina?" Sydney leans forward and her best friends tense beside her as she drinks her water.

"What about her?" she swallows her drink

"She was one that could actually tame the beast, You were high school sweethearts, together for two years after high school. But in total, you were together for almost 4 years?"

She slowly nods, "yeah. Well, that just shows you why I can't be tamed by any other woman then."

"What do you mean by that?"

"She was and is, the only woman that I gave my heart to. She will always be the only one that can tame me, but that won't happen considering me and her have recently talked everything out and are on good ground with each other now. Practically best friends again, but she is happily getting married to her boyfriend at the end of the year." she smiles sadly

"So you believe there no chance left for you to find something again with someone else or for her to change her mind and tame you again?" he hints

Emma shakes her head, "I wouldn't ruin the happiness I see in her now. I put her through too much to take that away from her. But no, no can beat Regina so I know no one will ever really tame me. But hey maybe if they give me food, I'll sit prettily for a bit." she winks and the audience and Sidney laugh, missing the comforting hand Ruby and Killian place on her back.

Regina sighs as she sits on her couch, watching the show that Sunday night, dreading the morning when Emma and her friends would leave her for half a year for their world tour.

"Regina, baby, you coming to bed tonight?" Daniel wraps his arms around her shoulders and starts kissing her neck.

"I got some work to catch on but go ahead and go to sleep, I am going to be a while." She maneuvers away to look at him and give him an encouraging smile.

"Okay. Don't work too hard. I love you" he kisses her head and goes back into the room.

Regina watches the TV for a couple more minutes, seeing them just talk about tour dates before she turns it off to go to her office and fire up her computer.

Her home screen is a picture of her and Daniel, his arms wrapped around her waist as they smile at the camera.

She shakes her head. After Emma had left, Daniel kept trying to get intimate, saying exactly what Emma told her why she was leaving to her own apartment that Saturday night. "I've been gone for two weeks! You're not even a little bit in the mood?" Daniel had whined. But he had instantly backed off when she lied about it being her time of the month.

She had barely gotten any sleep last night and couldn't find it in her tonight to turn her brain off of all the racing thoughts in her head.

Shaking herself out of her stupor, wipes her face and goes to her hidden file, that takes a passcode to get into and in it were all her pictures and videos of her and Emma.

She smiled and clicked on one video in particular that she knew would make her laugh, back when she and Emma had just moved in together at eighteen, straight out of high school.

"Hey, Regina?" Emma asked from across the apartment

Ruby had been the one videoing just after Regina told her and Katherine a prank she pulled on Emma

"Yes love?" she called back

Emma comes into the living room carrying a plant, a little miniature tree.

"Babe I don't know what's wrong. I keep watering this thing every day but it doesn't get any bigger. Isn't this supposed to be an apple tree?" She asks staring at the tree in her hand and missing the snickering coming from her friends and girlfriend.

"No apple or anything?" Regina questions, feigning worry.

"Nothing. Like I looked it up online and it says apple trees instantly start growing at least one apple even if its tiny like this. But nothing!" Emma sighs and then finally looks up to see Regina covering her mouth with the back of her hand, Katherine and Ruby smiling.

She furrowed her eyebrows. "What? Why are you guys laughing? This is serious."

"Emma." Regina smiles behind her hand.

"Babe for real, what am I doing wrong with this thing?" she looks at it again

"Honey I love you" she laughs,

"I love you too but how is this funny?" she looks up again

"It's fake."

"What no it's not." Emma scoffs.

"Babe look under the mulch of it."

Emma rolls her eyes but does as shes told. "It's not fake, I've been wateri-"

She stops, seeing the price tag and labels underneath, 'faux plant decorations.'

She looked up again with her mouth wide open. "What?"

"Emma I got that to decorate the apartment. It was supposed to be a mess-free floral arrangement." Regina chuckles

"So you're telling me you watched me for four months, watering a fake plant?"

"Yes" Regina smiled

Belle walked in and sat down next to Ruby, and everyone except Emma, who was standing there with her mouth open and staring at her girlfriend, said hello and were about to start up a conversation when Emma finally spoke again.

"Four months!" she yelled

Belle looked confused to everyone what was going on as the three women laughed at Emma, "what is she yelling about?"

"Emmas mad because she couldn't realize a plant was fake and watered it for four months when Regina knew it was fake but just let her keep watering it," Kathryn explained

Belle started laughing and Emma stomped her foot, "It's not funny!"

Regina chuckled and got up and walked over to her pouting blonde. "I'm sorry love. It was just too hard to pass up and see how long you would keep doing it. Forgive me?"

Emma huffed but nodded nonetheless and tapped her lips with her index finger of her free hand, silently saying that was her payment for forgiveness, which Regina gave happily. Even upset though by getting fooled, Emma smiled dreamily at her with nothing but love in her eyes Even with two seconds later flipping Ruby off when the girl's arm came into view making the whip motion and sound.

Regina laughed and looked through the rest of her folder, remembering that the next day after that video, Emma and Killian came into the living room with squirt guns and soaked her, Ruby, Belle, and Kathryn as payback.

She clicked on another, slightly forgetting which one it was but as soon as it started, she chuckled, figuring which one it was

"What are you going to do?" Killian asked the camera focused on Emma as she smiled nervously, chewing on her thumbnail and her left hand in her back pocket as she paced the living room.

"I'll figure something out" she laughed

"You're so fucked," Ruby said from the couch

Regina sounded from the kitchen, "Guys dinners ready, set the table!"

Ruby and Killian started snickering as Emma paled but rushed to the dining room and wrapped her arms around her girlfriend behind as she put her meal in the middle of the table.

"You know what would be sexy?" Emma whispered in her ear, but everyone could hear it. Killian and Ruby looked at each other, the camera showing Ruby furrowing her eyebrows in confusion before he sent it back to focus on the couple.

"Hmm?" Regina smiled and leaned into her

"Eating the food off each other's bodies…" she nipped at her earlobe but when Regina started chuckling, Emma knew Regina figured out her reasoning

"You didn't do the dishes before I got home, did you?" it was more of a statement than a question

"...Not a single plate." Emma smiled sheepishly as her girlfriend turned around to look at her

"Emma…" Regina placed her hands on her hips

"We have forks though, just sit in the living room and we could just share it from the platter?" she tried

Regina rolled her eyes and went back to the kitchen.

Emma looked back to her friends for support when a towel flew from the doorway and hit her face.

"Come on chica! I'll wash and you'll dry so we have what we need to eat but after dinner, you're doing all the dishes!"

Emma yelped but ran in to help with a "yes ma'am"

"And Emma can't be tamed." she laughed thinking back to tonight's talk show,

"she said only you were the one to ever be able to do that. The only one ever." her brain told her.

She sighed and closed her computer. She passed the living room and glared her tv as if it was mocking her. She shook her head and went around shutting everything off, finally going to her bedroom.

She slides into bed and Daniel instantly slid over and wrapped his arms around her.

"I love you" he whispered and kissed her shoulder, falling back asleep instantly after.

Regina sighed and closed her eyes, hoping tonight she could actually get the sleep she needed to escape her chaotic thoughts for at least a few hours.

"The plane doesn't leave until two. You sure you still wanna take us there?" Emma texted her

"Of course I'm still taking you. I'll see you at noon. We can have lunch beforehand." ~R

"See you then love :)" ~E

She smiled as she put her phone down and went to her cup of coffee cup, gazing out her windows to the sunrise over the city, twisting her engagement ring unconsciously as she was lost in thought.

"Babe, babe, do the thing" Emma nudged her at the lunch table when they were seventeen.

"Whats 'the thing'?" Zelena asked as she went to take a bite of her food

Regina looked over at Emma and smiled at her adorable expectant look

"Oh my God…" Emma said breathlessly and leaned her head on her hand, continuing to stare at the brunette

"That's 'the thing'?" Zelena asked, "just Regina flashing you a smile? You guys make me nauseous"

Their friends chuckled and Regina laughed along with them, but Emma simply ignored them, choosing to dreamily stare at her instead with a content smile on her face.

She was startled out of the memory when Daniel kissed her cheek and sat down next to her with his own coffee

"You okay love?" Regina winced at the term of endearment and at his questioning gaze she simple replied with

"Cramps"

He just nodded in understanding

"So you're going to hate me" he starts the conversation

She doesn't reply, just raises her eyebrow while she drank from her mug

"I have to go back to Japan. Something happened with our imports deal and they want to increase it and advance it to more countries around that area."

Regina nodded her head, "how long do you think you'll be gone?"

He shook his head, "I'm not certain at this point, it could take months for all I know."

"Okay." she nodded again

"You're okay with that?" he furrowed his eyebrows

"Why wouldn't I be ?"

"Because I am going to be gone for months," he said slowly as if she didn't understand him the first time.

"And I understand that it's your job. You go where the company takes you." she enunciated the words as he did.

"Okay then. I should go pack, I gotta be at the airport by nine." he nodded and got up, kissing her on the head and then went to the room.

"Oh nuh-uh what are you doing here?" her boss stopped her as soon as she stepped through the elevator doors leading to the pediatrics floor. A woman who she had grown close within the past year after graduating college and who everyone called Granny because of her way of acting like a grandmother to all who met her,

Regina looked around her to see who Granny was talking to. When she saw no one else and the woman keeping eye contact with her, confused she answered, "To work?"

"Tell me, Regina, did you get any summer off or have any vacation since you started and finished school?"

"Well no, even during the summer I was doing internships at hospitals and studying," she said after a beat, having to actually think about it.

"Exactly." the woman smiled

"Ma'am?" Regina questioned

Granny smiled, "Regina dear. You have a guaranteed job here, I handpicked you myself with your expertise and knowledge. But you have to do my one favor." she raised one finger between them

Regina looked to the finger and then back into the blue eyes across from her.

"You are friends with your ex Emma again correct?"

"Yes, but I'm not seeing what that has to do with anything." She tilted her head

"You once told me that you had a chance to travel the world at one point, but because of school you never did. It was because Emma was going to take you am I right?" The older woman started smiling more, slightly creeping Regina out.

"Granny yes but I'm still not seeing the connection." She huffed

"Regina. You only get to be young once. You're twenty-two years old. You have your whole life with this pediatrician career. But you won't get the wonderful memories you can look back on if you never did anything but work and school. So I want you to go on that world tour with Emma." The woman smiled, taking Regina by the shoulders to get her point across.

"But that's six months! I can't be gone that long-"

"Regina darling, like I said, you will still have your job here to come back to. But I want you to live a little before you're married and working."

Regina was speechless, she opened and closed her mouth a couple times before finally getting the words out. "I don't know what to say except Thank you" she smiled

Granny chuckled, "you can thank me by getting your ass in gear and going back to pack and taking your friends and yourself to that plane. And also send me pictures."

Regina nodded and hugged her.

"Go on" Granny pulled back and pushed her towards the elevator with a gentle smile

She did as she was told and raced home to pack. Smiling the whole time.

Regina told Ruby what she was doing as they loaded up her car and spent a few minutes squealing together, before picking up Killian and Emma from the blonde's apartment.

When asked what the extra bags were, Ruby passes them off as her own since they still had two hours before the flight and Regina wanted to surprise the woman once the arrived at the airport.

Emma and Killian shrugged, thinking nothing of it. While they carried a backpack and one suitcase each, Ruby was known for carrying more than she needed, claiming it was for emergencies.

Ruby and Regina shooting a knowing look to each other as they walked into a cafe for lunch.

The lunch they had laughed and had a good time but the ride all together to the airport, Emma had gone silent.

Ruby had ridden upfront with Regina, (a joke Ruby and Regina stated at the cafe, of girls in the front, boys in the back.) They sang Kesha's song 'woman', laughing as that specific line came up and they both used their thumbs points to the backseat as they danced. Killian had his eyes closed, and his head thrown back to sleep, so Emma was left to her own on the passenger side of the backseat, letting her be silent while the girls thought she was asleep as well.

She used this advantage to look at Regina. In her mind, she wasn't going to see her six months after just getting her back. She felt like she was leaving her all over again. She smiled as she watched the brunette dance and smile.

When they had stopped at a red light, Regina still dancing but turned and looked at Emma and smiled. And at that moment, this mornings memory popped in her mind as she saw Emma smiling the same smile and her heart skipped a beat.

She reached back to the girl and squeezed her knee, winking at her before she turned back as the light turned green.

Ten minutes later they arrived at the airport to their private plane and the smile on Emma's face looked painful as she tried to maintain a small one, no matter how she felt.

Regina helped them with their bags and when they finished up, Emma went up to her and hugged her tight.

On the side, Ruby whispered into Killian's ear when he was about to do the same. Instead, they both went into the plane to wait but secretly looking a window for Emma's reaction.

"Emma honey what's wrong?" Regina asked, hugging her back, ready for the reveal.

"I'm going to be gone for half a year after I just got you back. As a friend I mean," she stuttered into the woman's neck, "I'm going to miss you."

"Oh dear, I would miss you too. If you were actually leaving me, that is." She pulled back, picking up the last backpack in the trunk and handed off her keys to a valet that came out. She smiled at Emma and started walking to the plane.

"Wait what?" Emma gaped

"Oh yeah, I have a surprise for you. I'm coming with you on the world tour." She smirked. Stopping halfway to the stairs

"But what about work or the dipshit fiance?" Emma stammered

"It was my boss's idea and gave me full permission. Stating she wanted me to experience life. All I have to do is take pictures for her. As for the fiance, he's currently on another business trip and doesn't know when he'll be back." She shrugged

"What about the apartment?" Emma started slowly walking towards her, a smile slowly growing

"Kathryn and my mother are going to look after it. Oh and don't worry, they will make sure to water your apple tree." She teased

"Oh, you're going to regret that" Emma bolted and picked her up. Making Regina laugh as she had to Koala herself around the blonde when she walked with her up the stairs.

They walked inside the plane and met a cocky Killian and Ruby.

"I'm guessing the surprise went well?" Ruby smirked

"Well addressing the koala in the room, I believe it went well" Killian handed Ruby a beer and they clinked their bottles

Regina laughed and tried getting down but when Emma wouldn't let her go, she gave her that smile again.

"Thank you." the blonde whispered, walking them to the couch behind their friends and set her down gently.

She walked to the fridge and came back with a bottle of wine and glasses.

They waited till the plane went in the air before they filled their glasses and clinked as well.

"You can finally fulfill your promise of "showing me the world." Regina smiled

"You still remember that" Emma beamed

"Of course," Regina smirked

Emma scooted closer and wrapped her arm around the brunette's shoulders "Well my Queen, let us go and "Show you the world" she sang, making them both laugh and continue singing the song together.

"Whole new world!"

"Guys shut up!" Killian and Ruby shouted but only caused all of them to burst out in laughter.

"Hello, my loves" Henry beamed as he answered the group video chat with his daughter and ex-wife. Regina and the band had just landed and were currently in the managers' car going to the hotel. Cora though had answered and could be heard saying hello, wasn't in the picture just yet.

"Have you arrived safely, Regina?" Cora finally popped into the picture.

"Cora dear, what the hell is on your face?" He laughed

Regina started laughing and Emma came into view and started laughing as well

Cora sat with a green face, her hair wrapped in a white towel and in a robe

"What?" She questioned, confused why they were laughing

"You look like the wicked witch" Emma answered, wrapping her arm around Regina's shoulders to stay in the screen.

"Hello, Emma." Henry and Cora smiled,

"Hey ma, hey pa" she waved

"Zelena took me and the girls to the spa for a girls trip." she then sipped something from a straw

Henry laughed, "Girls, how do you take a picture of this?"

"Don't you dare!" Cora scolded.

"Too late, Emma already screen capped it when she saw it" Regina giggled.

"Ugh" Cora huffed.

"Christmas card everyone" Henry teased.

"Well, where are you old man?" Cora teased back, even though they were the same age, he actually looked his age while she looked younger.

He rolled his eyes playfully, smiling when he heard the girls giggle. "I'm on my way to Leo's. A poker game and a view of his new apartment. Which creepily enough, is closer to Regina's complex." he whispered the last part as he entered the empty elevator

"Why are you hanging out with him pa?" Emma questioned.

"He's a part of my counseling committee and soon to be in-laws. Gotta be nice to them, even if you don't like them (or their sons), " he coughed the last part, laughing along with the other women as Regina playfully glared.

"Just be careful dear, he's worrisome." Cora frowned

"Hey if he messes with the family, give a picture and the word and I will mess him up for you guys" Emma smiled

"Noted" Cora smiled

The elevator dinged and he looked back to the camera. "Alright my beautiful ladies, I have to go, text message me when you get to the hotel, and Cora, don't go near water. You might melt." he smiled

"At least I don't say text message, its just text you old mule." she teased

"Love you girls" he laughed and hung up after the chorus of ' i love you too'

He walked down the hall and knocked on the door. A few seconds later opening up to his co-worker

"Henry, glad you could make it." the man smiled

"Leo, old boy. This new place of yours is nice" Henry compliments as he walks through the door.

"Why thank you. Best in the area. And closer to your daughter and my son to keep an eye on them" he winks

Henry internally cringes but claps him on the back, " you make it seem as if they are not the responsible adults they were raised to be"

"Can't be too careful" Leo said seriously

Henry clears his throat and nods, "well I hate to ask this so early, but where is that new bathroom you had raved about?"

"Just down the hall two doors on the right" Leo smiles

Henry smiles and claps him on the shoulder again as he passed by, leaving him to meet with the rest of the men in their group.

But as he reached the hall, he went one door to far and opened it.

Within it was an office. He was about to close the door back up when something Upon its walls caught his eyes.

Pictures of his family. Specifically his daughter. Her friends, Cora, and Emma. Much of Emma and her whereabouts and recently dated pictures of her with Regina.

Henry looked down the hall to check that Leo was still occupied before he ventured in further, closing the door behind him.

"Dear Gods" he whispered to himself

There were sticky notes next to some of them, stating different facts like, "still staying away at a distance. Pity, just keeping an eye on Regina" to the new ones next recent pictures "just friends still, getting closer, pay closer attention"

The one that made his breath catch was the picture of Leo's son Daniel, and what looks like him introducing himself to Regina, a box in his arms. The day he moved across the hall. Henry remembered his daughter telling him about that day.

"Daniel moving in, success."

And the one before that, "contract signed, deal accomplished, Plan set in motion" and it was next to the picture of the news review of when Emma left with the girl from the bar when she and Regina were still together.

Henry felt the anger rise inside him. He and his daughter had the relationship they had always wanted, better than when she was his little princess and being a daddies girl. Back then she had still kept a distance around him with the secret she had. Now they were closer than ever and it had taken so much work. He loved Emma, especially for his daughter. He saw how happy she was with Emma when the girl had brought him to his family. Regina had brightened up just at the sight of Emma, just as the girl did whenever Regina was just mentioned.

When she started dating Daniel, he was surprised and confused but he accepted it, trusting her decisions even if was against them. Even if he didn't think Daniel was right for her. It shocked him when he heard Emma cheated, he knew she'd never do that and always knew it had to be something else then her free will of doing it. He saw then and still saw now, how much his daughter and the blonde loved each other. Just like Cora, Henry considered Emma his other daughter.

After the whole fallout when Regina had first come out and he had lashed out, causing his family to leave him, he cleaned up his act. He had believed that it would've brought down his company, that his reputation would be ruined. But when they left he soon realized that whatever clients he had, weren't worth it if they were against his pride and joy. He gave up his old ways and accepted his daughter. His family was more important. A year after they had moved, he went to apologize, gain the trust of his family back. He had met Emma when he went and had talked to her first when he had arrived in town. He had gone into a bar to ask for directions and saw a girl sitting there, smiling at her phone

"Boyfriend?" he had asked as he approached her

She smiled brighter at a new person, always ready to meet new people. "No sir, girlfriend actually."

"Oh a teenager with manners, very rare." he smiled. "Looks like she makes you happy."

"Very much so. We've been together a year. Shes just so beautiful sir. Her hair is so soft and her smile is just gahh" she breathed and she held her heart, leaning on the table in awe

He chuckled at the blonde girl, "You love her. She's lucky to have someone like you."

"I do. So much. But I'm the lucky one to have her. I'm not perfect and to have someone as perfect as her to choose me is an honor and miracle" she nodded

"I like you kid. Henry Mills" he smiled and held his hand out

She gaped and stood up to shake his hand. "Mills?"

"Yes?" he nodded

"Are you the father of Regina Mills?" she released his hand

"Yes, I'm actually on my way to see my family but I only heard that they moved here. Not their particular address." he scratched the back of his neck

"While it is an honor to meet you, sir, I have to ask. Why are you looking for them?" she stood back and cross her arms

He furrowed his eyebrows at the change in her tone and taking on a defensive stance

"I believe you know them?"

"Yes sir, You are looking at Regina girlfriend," she spoke and lifted her chin up in pride

She expected him to lash out like Cora and Regina had said he did when she came out, but instead, he smiled gently and let out a breath of relief.

"Well dear, I am very happy my daughter, has you. I'm here to apologize and make up for my mistakes. I want my family back. Nothing is worth losing my family forever." nodded, hoping she saw his sincerity

She eased out of her stance and stared at him. Her lie detector didn't go off and she could see the shame in his eyes. He knew, she knew what he did and he was glad she was protective of them. She smiled and clapped his shoulder, taking him by surprise.

"Then let's go, old man, say can I call you pa?" she joked, wrapping her arm around his shoulder, being the same height and lead him out of the bar to her car to take him to his family. He laughed with her after letting out another breath of relief and wrapped an arm around her waist.

Emma had been the glue that pulled the family back together. He was forever grateful and would always consider his daughter. She brought his family back to him, they trusted him because she did. He was best friends with his ex-wife, they just played like they hated each other in the companies presence so that no one thought the only reason their two companies were together was because of relations, strictly business. He and Cora also relished in the way everyone tensed up and walked on eggshells around them. They'd joke about it for days.

His anger grew the more he traced the room, and boiled over when he looked on top of one of the bookcases to see a contract labeled, "Emma Swan". And as he read it, he felt the bile rise in his throat. Disgusted at the fact, the man he let 9 years ago enter the Mills law firm, had him around his family, was stalking and interfering with his family. Caused his daughters heartbreak, breaking the miracle of the woman that was the glue to his family. Causing a girl he had already considered a second daughter, heartache and guilt with this deal she was forced to sign.

He heard Leo announce to go to the poker table and hurried to take pictures of everything, the contract, the sticky notes, and the pictures. And texted his ex-wife.

"We have an issue. Meet me tomorrow at 8 am. Call your secretary in the morning and tell her you're not coming in, meet me at my apartment, I'll make us breakfast."

He went to the bathroom real quick and as he walked towards the poker table, he got his confirmation from Cora and played his best politician persona for a good two hours before he went home and printed everything out from his phone for extra examination

I know that took forever to update. I want to apologize for that. I have work and I had school so not much writing was being done. Thought with being on summer break and just working, I am hoping to finish this story before I have to go back to school. But to answer the review questions here you go:

1. Sorry about the repost. The only thing I had changed was the line where it said about doing a double feature to prove Ruby's point about being Amazons. Before it had said, "Everyone had voted on doing a Wonder Woman and Avengers double feature night to prove Ruby's statement true or not." I changed it to it's the correct way now instead of Avengers, it is now Justice League. First time posting it I had not caught that and I couldn't ignore it when I was reading over the story to get back on track to write more chapters.

2. SwanQueen is endgame. I promise you that.

3. Its a slow burn, agonizing I know

Those memories, the few in this chapter were actually encouraged by incorrect swanqueen on Tumblr. So if you got Tumblr, go look at their posts, theyre hilarious.

Any more questions and comments, let me know. Until next time.