A/N: Okay so here it is - the final part. I'm still feeling bad for the angst of Part 6, so this is pretty much a big pile of fluff to finish off with. I mean that - fluff fluff fluff. Thank you so much to everyone who's favourited and followed. Special thank yous to everyone who's reviewed, especially those of you who persuaded me to continue past the two shot, because I had fun writing the rest. So I hope you all enjoy it and it lives up to expectations :)

Disclaimer: And it's still not mine

When they returned Regina seemed to have managed to calm Henry down considerably, though there was still a hint of worry in his eyes. Ruby and Snow turned up a little while later, accompanied by the doctor - who confirmed happily that the Mayor was no longer in any danger of immediate expiry. With this medical confirmation, Henry reluctantly agreed to accompany Ruby back to Granny's for brunch and Snow and Charming decided to go with him whilst Regina - now in a better state than Emma herself - took the Sheriff home.

'This feels wrong,' Emma protested as Regina helped her through the door into her apartment 'I should be helping you - you're the one who got toasted,'

'I'm also the one who got healed,' the other woman rolled her eyes 'I also happen to not be drugged up to the eyeballs,'

'Yeah yeah yeah,' Emma grumbled as she was lowered onto the couch. They had given her another strong dose of painkillers before she left the hospital, but she didn't feel as out of it as the Mayor was making out she was. She just felt kinda…happy.

'Do we have ice cream?' she asked, burrowing her head under a cushion

'How should I know? It's your apartment,'

'You could look,' Emma re-emerged just long enough to give the other woman her best puppy-dog eyes

She sighed, but got up and headed to the freezer anyway 'Sure, not like I nearly died this morning or anything,'

Emma wasn't listening, she was too enthralled by a coin she'd found under the cushion. It was amazing how shiny coins were - like they'd been enchanted so they couldn't get dirty. She wondered if anyone had ever thought that before

'Here,' Regina was back holding a pot of Cookie Dough and a spoon 'I figured you're the eat it out of the pot type,' she added with a hint of sarcasm as she sat back down

Emma took the spoon and started shoveling ice cream eagerly into her mouth before stopping abruptly and spitting it back into the pot 'S'too cold!' she whinged 'Hurtsh my mouf,'

'And what do you propose I do about that?' Regina seemed to be working very hard to keep a straight face

'Heat it up for me,'

'Heat it up?

She nodded, scraping at her tongue with her fingers

'You want warm ice cream?' she was biting her lip

'Yes,'

'Ice cream that's warm?'

'Yes,'

'Okay,' she took the pot and retreated to the kitchen again, emerging a minute or so later with a bowl full of steaming non-ice cream soup

'There you go,' she handed it to the Sheriff, taking the small coin from her fingers just as she tried to put it in her mouth 'Warm ice cream,'

Emma grinned and took the bowl, this idea was even better than the penny theory. She was on a roll. She took the spoon and began to eat happily before stopping and spitting it back out again

'That'sh dishgushting,' she mumbled, swiping aggressively at her tongue again 'Who's idea was that?'

'Yours,' Regina replied, smirking

'Impossible,' she shoved the bowl back at the Mayor 'I'd never come up with something that stupid - must have been you,' she added through a yawn, her eyes fluttering closed

'Of course, dear,' Regina rolled her eyes again but smiled, leaning back into the couch and pulling Emma's feet onto her lap as the Sheriff's breathing began to slowly even out

'So what did you do to him?' they were all sitting around in the town hall. Emma, Regina, Snow, Charming, Ruby, Granny, Archie, the Dwarves, Blue - even Henry was there, though he was sitting in the corner not among the circle of adults.

'We pushed him over the town line,' Snow shrugged

'You what?'

'Pushed him over the town line - now he really thinks he's Dr. Whale again and he doesn't know he wants to kill Regina. He's back working at the hospital,' Emma didn't miss Regina's tiny flinch at this piece of information

'Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean it's not like we can ask the entire town to shut up about magic around him - what if he remembers again?'

'He won't,' Regina said firmly, as if trying to convince herself 'It'd take a hell of a lot to get him to,' she turned to Grumpy 'You still haven't got your one back have you?'

'Sneezy,' he replied, a hint of annoyance in his tone 'And no, we haven't,'

'See - it'll be fine,' she gave Emma a reassuring smile and she felt her heart ease a little

'What about the others?' she asked her father 'What did you do with them?'

'They had the living daylights scared out of them by what we did to Whale,' he smiled a little smugly 'they won't be getting out of hand anytime soon,'

'And if they do they know that I'll be the one to take it up with them,' Ruby flashed a grin and Emma couldn't miss the flash of gold in her eyes - she wondered if she should maybe start to pay her friend just a little extra for babysitting.

'I'll join you,' Regina added, smirking with a hint of her old evil self. It made Emma grin.

'So it's all sorted then, right? Everything's gonna be okay?' she hardly dared to hope as she pulled the Mayor's hand into her own

'Hopefully,' her father replied and something lightened in her stomach 'People aren't still hugely happy about the fact that Regina's back - but even the stupidest among us-' his eyes drifted to Dopey and the dwarf grumbled in response '-have realized that she's changed - or changing - whatever. We know she's not a threat anymore,'

'Everyone's agreed to leave her alone,' Snow added 'As long as she doesn't give them a reason not to,'

'We even voted to keep her in as mayor,' Ruby grinned - she seemed to have come around to the idea of Emma and Regina as a couple much quicker than the rest of them had - almost like she'd expected it. In fact, she hadn't even seemed shocked at all by the strange turn of events. Emma's mind drifted back to before the curse broke and the various encounters she'd had with Regina at Granny's - to which Ruby always seemed to have been a witness. Besides Mary Margaret, Ruby had been Emma's best friend in Storybrooke and - now she thought about it - she did seem to recall ranting to the girl about the Mayor on several occasions. It seemed Ruby had seen what everyone else had been blind to - she wondered if that was a wolf sense thing too.

'Wait,' Regina shook her head 'You want me as mayor?'

'Well,' her father coughed looking a little uncomfortable 'You did do…I mean it's not like you were…it's not an easy…'

'You actually ran the town pretty well - is what he's trying to say,' Snow added quietly 'When you look past the whole curse thing…'

'Thank you for your confidence,' Regina smirked at Charming, voice dripping sarcasm 'Nice to know I made such an impression,'

'Oh you made an impression alright,' he grumbled under his breath

'Hey she was a good mayor!' Emma protested 'A little on the dictator side of things but-'

'The dictator side of things?' the other woman turned on her, eyebrows raised

She shrugged 'Yeah well, come on, you were a little…'

'A little what?' she was smiling, dangerously

'…bit country?' Emma laughed nervously in response

'Watch it, Ms Swan, I'm not beyond withholding certain luxuries,' Regina smirked

'Okay, that's quite enough of that,' her father stood up and looked like he was about to go and physically separate the women, before Snow tugged him back down into his chair again

'Oh for goodness sake, Charming,' she mumbled 'the point is that we all-'

'Not all of us,'

'Charming'

'Sorry,'

'Most of us agreed that since Regina has had twenty eight years' experience of running this place we might as well let her carry on - she's the most qualified,'

'Plus no one else has a clue about politics,' Ruby muttered, smirking, and Granny elbowed her in the ribs

'You won't be in charge,' Charming clarified quickly 'I mean you won't have complete control - Snow and I are still King and Queen,'

Regina scoffed and Emma bit on her lip to keep from laughing at the other woman's reaction

'We're in control,' her father continued, huffing 'But you keep things running,'

A thought suddenly occurred to Emma 'Wait am I still Sheriff?' she asked, looking around

'Why wouldn't you be?' Snow asked gently

'Oh…well,' she sighed in relief 'I thought you guys might not trust me after…you know,'

'We're not happy that you went behind our backs, Emma,' Archie replied 'But we still trust you - and you're a better sheriff than any of the rest of us would make,'

She was really beginning to see that whole Jiminy Cricket thing that Henry had been so insistent about - Archie was so calm and logical about everything - even if he wasn't actually a cricket anymore. She'd heard Henry ask Regina about that - if Archie would turn back into a cricket, but the woman had just shrugged and told him to ask Blue and the man himself.

At that moment, Henry jumped up from his seat in the corner and wandered over to her 'So okay - to sum up - Mom's still mayor, Emma's still sheriff, the evil guy's been defeated, if his minions get out of line then Ruby'll rip their heads off and everything's basically back to normal. So, erm, can we go eat now?'

The room laughed and Henry sighed dramatically, but everyone began to move anyway

'I'm not sure about food,' Emma answered, stretching 'but I could definitely do with a drink,'

'I'll join you on that one,' Ruby replied 'Or…not,' she added as she saw Regina's look of disapproval. Emma turned to see what had prompted her change of mind

'What?' she asked the Mayor innocently

'Alcohol, Ms Swan, really? It's barely midday,'

'Exactly,' she grinned 'Bout time for a good stiff drink,'

'Then how would you like to explain the beer you had with breakfast?' she lifted an eyebrow

'That was nearly a week ago…and I was still all drugged up,' she protested

'Well clearly - unless beer on cereal is something they invented while I was asleep,'

Ruby laughed

'Oh shut up you,' Emma grumbled 'What's your point, Regina?' she asked sulkily

'My point is maybe you should keep the alcohol to a minimum when our son is around - unless you want him to see you singing "Ba Ba Blacksheep" to a couch cushion,' Emma could see her biting her lip to keep from laughing - Ruby wasn't even trying

'She did what?' the girl asked

'Oh yes it was quite a performance - only topped by her rendition of Disney's best numbers, during which she seemed to find herself particularly hilarious. Especially during all the songs from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' she smirked

Emma tried to hide behind her hands. They weren't big enough.

'What were you doing, Emma?' Oh great, her mother

'She was singing songs about Disney you!' Ruby screeched, laughing harder 'Aw man I wish I'd seen that,'

'Erm, why were you doing that?' Snow asked, frowning

'She was drunk,' Ruby mumbled trying to calm her breathing

'You were drunk? Emma!' she chided and Emma began to wonder if there was a way to reverse the curse so her parents would stop being so goddamned…parenty.

'Drugged-I was drugged, okay? I was on some really strong painkillers - it's not my fault,'

'Of course not, dear,' Regina patted her arm

'Thank you,'

'You're still not drinking around Henry until we're sure your head's back to normal - if it ever even was in the first place,'

'And I love you too,' she muttered turning away moodily but Regina pulled her back by the waist so they were standing practically nose to nose

'You know I love you more than anything,' she looked deep into the Sheriff's eyes, her own gentle and earnest 'But you're still not drinking for at least another week,' and with that she turned and followed everyone else out towards Granny's

Emma just stood there sulking whilst Snow and Ruby tried and failed to withhold their laughter

'Henry Mills get down here right now!'

'What is it?' Henry's head appeared between the railings on the landing, his face a mask of innocence

'What the hell is this Henry?' Emma demanded, waving the book at him

'You found it!' he cried, bounding down the stairs to retrieve it from her 'I've been looking for it everywhere!'

'Oh really?' Emma raised an eyebrow 'Well before I give it back-' she held it high enough that the boy couldn't reach '-you wanna maybe explain this?' she flipped the book open and pointed to the brand new last pages

'You like it?' Henry beamed 'I got August to do it, well I helped actually - it's cool huh?'

Emma just stared at him in horror

'What?' his brow creased 'Don't you like it?'

'I don't get it,' she handed him the book and folded her arms across her chest 'Explain,'

'Well,' he turned the book in his hands so Emma could read it 'This is you,' he pointed to the yellow haired woman in a red - apparently leather - jacket 'This is me,' he moved his finger to the brown-haired child by her side 'and this is Mom,' he pointed to the other woman in the smart, belted dress

'I get that, Henry,' she said through her teeth 'What I want to know is what we are all doing in the goddamned Fairytale Book,'

'Hey!' he protested 'Don't dis the book - we'd be right back where we started without this book. You'd probably still be in Boston,' well that much was true - maybe the book wasn't so bad - but that still didn't change the fact that she wanted to know what the hell she was doing in it.

'Okay, so the book's alright, but what am I doing in it?'

'You were already in it,' Henry shrugged 'I don't see the big deal,'

'I was a baby, kid, I wasn't exactly recognizable,'

'You're not recognizable now - none of the pictures have faces,' he countered

She still thought that was a little creepy actually - but that was a point for another time 'You can still tell it's me,'

'Really?' he asked innocently and she could positively see the halo glowing

'I'm wearing a red leather jacket, Henry,'

'Oh…yeah…well lots of people wear leather jackets,' he smiled

'Red ones?'

'Sure,' he shrugged

'But it's still me,' she continued

'Well duh…that's kind of the point,'

'But what is the point?' she asked, getting increasingly exasperated

'The point is to finish the story,' he said as if it was incredibly obvious

'By putting me into it?'

'Yeah…you and Mom. I wanted to write down your happy ending, well, our happy ending since we're all a family. I asked August because I knew he'd put his own story in it before and he'd do it properly,'

Oh. Well crap that was…really sweet.

'Wow, Henry, that's…' she didn't know what to say

'I know. You don't have to thank me. We're doing everyone else's as well - writing up the finished versions of people's stories. Well I mean they're not finished finished, but there's a lot of stuff to add now the curse is broken and people are getting their happy ending's back,'

'You're doing that?' she asked, shocked

'Well August's the one writing them up and stuff - I'm just going out and finding them and then reporting back to him. We're kinda like a team,' he shrugged

'Henry…'

'I know I know, I shouldn't go poking around in peoples' lives and stuff, but I just wanted to-'

'Henry,' she cut him off 'that's actually kinda sweet,' she smiled at him and retrieved the book from his hands

'What're you doing?' he asked warily

'I wanna show your Mom,' she replied 'I'll give it back, kid - don't worry,'

'Okay good - because August's nearly done with the bit about you getting high and singing Disney songs,' he grinned, before scampering back up the stairs

Emma nearly fell over in shock. Man, August was a dead man - puppet - whatever.

'So they've filled in the book with bits about us?' Regina asked, running her fingers through Emma's long hair absently

'Yup,' she hummed, a little distracted by the Mayor's hands on her head 'everything from the curse breaking to now apparently,'

'You seem surprisingly un-freaked out by this - I thought you didn't like the idea of being a Fairytale character,' she smirked

'Hmm,' she shrugged against the pillow 'If it means I get my queen then I'm not so sure I don't mind it,'

Regina laughed quietly and dropped a warm kiss to Emma's ear 'Well that's good then,'

'Yup,' she answered, now too distracted by the feel of the other woman's lips at her hairline

'So then,' she breathed, still using her lips to caress the edges of Emma's face 'Round two?'

'What the hell are you doing?!' Emma screeched as she walked into the kitchen, her heart stuttering at the sight

'Well I was eating,' Regina deadpanned, unmoving, as the Sheriff knocked the apple from her hand and it bounced across the floor

'No apples,' she replied, trying to control her breathing.

It had taken Emma a while to relax again after everything that had happened. For the first week or so she'd hardly let the Mayor out of her sight - it had made going to work increasingly difficult - until Regina had snapped and told her to stop being such a baby. Well what she'd actually said was to stop being such a Charming, but the meaning was pretty much the same. Emma had also insisted that Doc go and work at the hospital to keep a careful eye on the still blissfully cursed Dr. Whale. Grumpy hadn't been happy about losing one of his workers at the mine, but he'd lightened up when Regina had had the sense to point out to him that Astrid was now neither a nun nor a proper fairy - and that romance between them was therefore no longer prohibited.

Despite all of that though, Emma still felt queasy around apples. It had been with very great skill in persuasion - and the promise of various unspeakable things - that Regina had convinced her not to chop down every apple tree in Storybrooke. She was also having trouble with anything hot and metal - they'd been eating at Granny's practically every meal for the entirety of the eight weeks since the encounter with Whale. Regina found it frustrating, which Ruby was finding hilarious, and Henry - who everyone had agreed should by absolutely no means find out exactly what had been done to his mother - found it incredibly confusing.

'You can't keep me off apples for the rest of our lives you know,' Regina sighed, rolling her eyes and picking the apple up off the floor - only to have it promptly knocked back there again

'Watch me,'

'You're also going to have to let me cook at some point too,'

Like hell she was

'You are,' Regina added as if she'd heard her thoughts

It was amazing how well the woman seemed to know her - she still wasn't going to let her cook though

'You keep thinking that, dear,' the other woman walked round the table to kiss her soundly on the lips 'Good morning, by the way,' she smiled before picking up her bag and heading out to work.

God, it was seriously like the woman could read her mind

'I can,' Regina called from the front door, just before shutting it behind her

Emma didn't even try to stop the smile that blossomed across her face.

Hope you liked it - let me know what you thought :)

I'm writing a oneshot at the moment so look out for that over the next few days. I don't know what I'm going to do after that so if anyone has any suggestions then feel free, leave them in a review, PM me or submit me a prompt on tumblr. I'm open to ideas :)