AN: Okay, as I said in "They Can Date Each Other," this is going to be Ellie-centric, but I will gladly write another segment about each of the kiddos being born or picking up right where the epilogue left off in "If They Can't Have Each Other Then They Will Never Be Happy." But I need to know that that is what you want! Hope you enjoy!

As the years went by, Ruby watched everyone grow a little older. She watched her friends get a little grey around the edges, and a little crow's feet around the eyes. But she stayed the same. Life of a fae, she guessed. She was going to get to live on and on. It was a little sad. She was going to stay young; a common wish for people and she possesses it. But what's the fun of staying young if there's no one to stay young with?

She watched the twins and Hunter and Billie grow. She watched Regina and Emma love and adore their children, if not embarrass them at every opportunity. She watched them as they raised five amazing kids.

Henry graduated and got that big-person job he'd feared at the newly instated Storybrooke University. He was one of the 'favorite' professors in his department and taught some of the cooler classes, like "Magic and the Human" or "Differences Between the Dark and Light: There Are None" things of that nature. Ruby also saw him fall in love, and saw his moms fall in love with his love and the rest of the kids immediately accept Brendon into their home. She got to officiate their wedding and everything; she was proud about that one.

She watched Billie grow from a happy baby to a preteen with the wit and strength of both her mothers, the grace and elegance of her brunette mother and the natural charisma of her blonde mother. She watched as Billie fell in love with dancing and became well versed in all forms she could possibly learn.

She watched Hunter grow to look like a carbon copy of Reid—ergo his brunette mother. She watched him fall in love with music, and like his older sisters, school. She watched him turn into quite the guitarist, giving youtube sensation Sungha Jung a run for his money. At fourteen, with his looks and guitar-playing ability, she knew that he should have a new girlfriend a week, but he was a very shy young man. And she found that even cuter, though she said nothing knowing it would embarrass him.

She watched Daisy and Ellie grow. She watched them gain magical ability and have to learn how to use it when they turned 18. And she watched them become brilliant young witches in a small span of time before heading off to college. The twins were 20 now. Both in college, Daisy went to the Enchanted Forest, Eastern U, for culture and freedom, and Ellie opted for Storybrooke U.

Daisy had long, flowing, golden hair like her blonde mother. She was going to graduate a year early with a degree in fashion design and open her own business down the street from the music shop. She wanted to cater to each and every type of style, like for instance, her sister's style, or men that wore dresses. She wanted people to be able to come in and buy whatever the hell they wanted and have the stuff they buy actually fit to their body. She had also, apparently found love. Though she's refused to let him come to Storybrooke in fear that her mothers will embarrass her and him both. Or scare him off.

Then there was Ellie. Ellie had a pixie-cut like her grandmother, but it was much more choppy and spunky. She stayed in town to help out. With everything. She helped at the music shop when Hunter was sick or in a writing music mode and didn't leave his room. She worked mainly at the station with her blonde mother, helping in any way she could to make Emma's paper work a little more readable and organized so her grandfather wouldn't have to rag on her. She helped at the diner at every possible moment too—especially during their peak seasons. She was double majoring in Biology and Criminal Justice. She knew that she should logically just opt for Criminal Justice, but something inside of her wanted to become a doctor. On top of the double major, she minored in Business, giving a bunch of tips to Ruby and Granny for the diner and inn—though if asked, she didn't take the courses just to help with them, she took the courses so she could know the ins and outs of a business.

Ruby secretly observed Ellie grow into the woman she was today. She was beautiful, but she would never tell anyone that because it felt icky. Watching your best friend's daughter grow up and think she's hot? It just sounds icky even if she was now said daughter's age instead of the parents. She knew that Ellie had had a crush on her growing up; it was hard not to know considering the girl used to adapt her wardrobe into a variation of the person she was dating at the time. She actually had one boyfriend or girlfriend a year for the last twelve years due to encouragement from her friends and Granny, and Ellie changed herself every time. Though over the last year, Ellie had completely rejected adapting to her boyfriend, Mason, and was dressing much like she did before Ruby started dating again.

Mason was when Ruby assumed that Ellie's crush finally resolved itself. Ellie didn't talk a lot after Mason came about and she never stayed late except to clean up when she helped at the diner and inn. Ruby had assumed that Ellie was over her.

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Ellie was far from over Ruby. It's just that Mason was a dick. He was a jackass-douche-bag-bitch-face that didn't deserve Ruby; and Ellie knew she had no place to barge into Ruby's love life and tell him to go away. So, she went away. She couldn't stand seeing him be the ultra-douche he was to Ruby and cause ruckus and always gain peoples attention when he yelled. There was a difference between what he did and what her mother's did when they fought; her mother's fought about what was for dinner, he would tell Ruby that she looked like a slut and when she dared to cover the thing he was harping on, the next time, he'd ask her if she was moving to a convent. Everyone was in agreement on Mason being a jackass and no one knew why Ruby stayed with him.

Ruby wasn't even sure half the time. He was just the closest that ever came to making her feel loved—of course it was when it was just the two of them and he was being a sad drunk apologizing for how he acted, but he was still the only one. He never touched her, or threatened her; but he was not a good person and he didn't know how to treat a lady.

Ellie had gone to the station to let Tiny and Leroy out—they'd had a little too much fun at the beanstalk the night before. After giving them some aspirin, she sent them on their way and headed for the diner for brunch with Daisy, Billie, Hunter and her moms. It was the first full day of Daisy being home for summer vacation and the moms wanted to make it special.

She took in a deep breath as she saw Jackass McGee walk up the steps to the diner. And she sighed it out when she saw Ruby walk out with a towel and tray to clean the porch tables. She was at an impasse. She knew that she could magic her way into the diner and avoid them completely, but something told her to stick to her human side and trudge forth.

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Billie was the first to see Mason walking up the steps and Ruby walk outside.

"Oh, brother." She shook her head.

"What?" Hunter looked at her and after receiving a point for an answer, he turned to find what everyone else at the table was now staring at, "Oh, brother." He repeated before turning back to the women in the family, "How long will it take Ellie to release Tiny and Leroy?"

"Not to long…" Daisy said.

"How do you know? You don't know the new procedures they have to go through. Ellie's learned that they can't just release them, there's paperwork and stuff now too…"

"Well, I know because she's walking across the street…" Daisy looked at her brother.

Hunter turned and looked out the window to see his other sister and back to the table, "Oh."

"They're gonna get in a fight." Billie commented, still staring at the couple rather than her sister.

"Who?" Granny came and filled coffee mugs and set cocoas down.

"Your granddaughter and her boyfriend…" Regina answered.

"I don't like him." Granny grunted before walking to the back of the kitchen.

"What is the count for the week?" A random person in the diner asked as no one masked where their attention was.

"I think it's four for four." Snow's voice came through.

Emma, Regina and the clan turned to see the voice of the schoolteacher, "Mom, Dad…" Emma started as her parents got up and walked over to hug their grandchildren, "Why didn't you tell me you were here? Why are you not sitting with us?"

"Your father and I thought we'd give you this time with the family alone and we'd come by for dinner like planned, but we wanted to come say 'hi'…"

"Hi." The family said collectively before they were interrupted by the show outside.

Ruby slapped Mason's face, "FINE! LEAVE! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I DO! WE'RE OVER! I HATE YOU!"

Mason laughed at her and grabbed her roughly, pulling her in for what would be a mind-numbing kiss between Emma and Regina, but was obviously forced and kind of gross between the younger two.

Billie grabbed her grandmother's hand on her shoulder and her sister's arm as a knee-jerk reaction, "What's Ellie gonna do?"

"I don't know." Daisy shook her head.

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Ellie heard the degrading things he said about Ruby to her face and it took everything inside her to stand there and not do anything. But as she watched him catch-22 her into kissing him and as she heard his words when he pulled away, she couldn't handle it anymore.

"No one kisses back if they truly hate someone. Even sluts like you." That was all he could get in before he was interrupted by getting tapped on the shoulder. "What?!" He turned around annoyed with whoever had the gall to interrupt him, but instead of getting an answer, he received Ellie's fist in his mouth. He, with his overdramatic jackassery, waited a moment or two as he touched his lip and saw crimson on his finger after pulling it away. He looked up to find the little bitch that everyone seemed to adore and followed Ruby around like a puppy. "You little twerp!" He didn't hesitate to punch back. She started it after all.

The two shoved and turned each other, knocking over chairs and tables as they tried to dominate the fight.

"STOP! MASON! STOP!" Ruby yelled frozen to her spot as she watched Ellie throw him on the ground, "ELLIE! PLEASE! LEAVE HIM ALONE!"

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"That does it." Charming slammed his coffee mug on the table and made to move outside after the brawl started.

"Dad! Don't you even think about going out there." Emma gave him a stern look.

"Are you gonna stop 'em?" He asked.

Emma took Regina's hand, "Yes, dad, we're all over it." She rolled her eyes as if a teenager before her wife poofed them outside.

~0~0~0~0~0~

As Emma pulled her gun from her belt, Mason gained dominance and was about to start wailing on Ellie, who was giving as good as she got. Emma held the gun a moment and let Regina wave magic over it before she aimed and shot the young man in the back, causing him to immediately freeze.

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"She just shot him!" Snow said.

"It doesn't hurt, Grandma." Hunter looked to the pixie-cut woman.

"And how do you know?"

"Because Mom and Momma were trying it on each other then on us before deciding it would be safe to use in moments like this…"

"It gives you a funny feeling all over while your frozen." Billie said with a giggle. As she looked up at her shocked and dismayed grandparents, "I wanted to know what it felt like… Momma's not that good at explaining… And they didn't use the actual gun on us. They used Hunter's old nerf guns. Same thing."

Daisy leaned to her sister, "Yeah… maybe we shouldn't ever talk to our grandparents and the people that run this town about our moms and how they shoot at us with anything gun related… Just consider that for next time." She also looked pointedly to her brother.

Billie gave her older sister a look before relenting and nodding. Hunter just gave the blonde a cheeky, apologetic smile.

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Regina flicked her wrist as soon as Ellie squirmed from beneath the brute and a shield went up around him preventing her daughter from hurting him.

Ellie at first did not see the shield. She began kicking and punching before she realized she wasn't actually coming in contact with his body. She looked up to her mothers. "Take the shield down, Mom!" She yelled.

"Ellie." Regina's tone was soft, a tear forming in her eye as she surveyed her broken-hearted, over-protective daughter.

"TAKE it down! I'll take down myself!" Ellie threatened and lightning soon began to crackle between her fingers.

"No, my love." She quickly barreled the steps down to her daughter.

Emma moved to Ruby and placed a protective, friendly hand on her non-aging best friend's shoulder.

Ellie could no longer control her emotions; in this moment, she was crying, angry, huffing, puffing. Regina took her face and they stared at each other. "Take it down…" Ellie tried, "Take it down…" She looked over to Ruby, who was all kinds of shocked and confused and many other emotions that she took as dismayed and disgusted, "Take… Take…Take me home." She whispered to her mother.

Regina held her daughter close; she didn't hesitate and poofed the two of them back home.

Emma walked down to the man and clapped his shoulder, unfreezing him, before quickly cuffing him, "Let's take a stroll to the station. You can stay there the rest of the day."

"You can't just do that!"

"Who's gonna stop me? I'm the Sheriff, dim wit, and that was my kid you just fought with and my best friend you just fucked with. We'll put it under disturbing the peace." She shrugged as she walked with him, but turned around, "Daisy!"

Daisy ran outside, "Yes, Momma?"

"Can you help Ruby out the rest of the day? Maybe Grams and Gramps can take your brother and sister home after everything calms down…?" she looked inside to see them both nod telling her they would.

"Okay, Momma." Daisy flicked her wrist and was sporting an apron. She walked down and escorted Ruby back inside while Emma escorted Mason across the street.

Ruby sat down next to Billie, taking Daisy's seat. Snow and Charming took their daughter and daughter-in-law's places and Daisy gave the patrons all a glare that could rival her brunette mother's telling them to turn back to their places. She began mulling about, taking orders and refilling drinks like she was an old pro.

Ruby sat and stared out the window. She was looking where Ellie stood with Regina before they poofed. Finally, after playing the whole event over for the umpteenth time, she sighed and said, "What the hell was that?"

AN: Thoughts and feels?