Memories

Chapter 1

The Mayor of Storybrooke was typing a mile a minute at her desk. It was the first Friday of the month meaning that her ex wife and Sheriff of Storybrooke had their son for the weekend as per their custody agreement. Regina couldn't wait to kick back with her new girlfriend Ruby without the watchful and unapproving eye of her son Henry. It wasn't that he didn't like Ruby, in fact the two had been rather close most of his life, until it came to her starting a relationship with his mother. Henry was a firm believer that his mother only has one true love and it wasn't Ruby, or any other woman. The only person Henry wanted to see his mother with was his other mom, Emma, just like most children of broken homes he longed for the day when they would sit him down and tell him that they're back together, or that it was all one big sick induced dream, that the divorce never happened at all, but deep down even the truest of all the believers didn't see that happening anytime soon.

The end of Emma and Regina's marriage came as a surprise to the town of Storybrooke, but for Emma and Regina it was the right move. For a long time Emma was the love of Regina's life, but after a while things began to change and the two eventually grew apart long before they split up. In all honesty they were only staying together for Henry's sake, until they both agreed that enough was enough and that they deserved better. Mary Margaret cried when Emma broke the news that she would be moving back into her old room in the small loft. The citizens of Storybrooke half expected a war to break out between the two women when word broke out that the Sheriff had moved out of the mansion and it came to a surprise to every onlooker when they saw the two women actually being civil towards one another. There was never any real hatred between the town woman, but that didn't mean that the two women never faced any conflict since the split. Their main source of conflict being Henry. Regina believed that Henry should stay in his own house and not with his blonde mother, Emma of course disagreed to the highest degree, but after months of fighting and walkouts they came to a liveable agreement, that both them and Henry were somewhat happy with. Monday-Wednesday Henry stayed with Emma in the loft, Regina then had Henry the rest of the week, apart from the first Friday of every month, when Henry would spend part of the weekend with Emma. The agreement worked, for the most part at least, Regina always kept up her side of the agreement and followed it to a tee. Emma on the other hand, often arrived late for pick up and often didn't keep up with when it was her weekend with Henry. This is what annoyed Regina the most about the blonde as of late, she knew that Emma was a great mother, she had witnessed it first hand.

Regina was almost finished when her phone started to flash from its place behind the computer screen. Without looking at the contact name, she answered placing the phone on loudspeaker.

"Hello?" She questioned absentmindedly, while reading over her report.

"Hey, have a caught you at a bad time?" Regina voice at the sound of the blondes voice, it was often that she and Emma spoke over the phone. Truthfully it had actually been a while since the two women had spoken at all, aside from the short texts and emails that were exchanged because of work and Henry.

"I'm just finishing off a few things...what can I do for you Sheriff?" Regina asked, trying to keep things as professional as possible.

"I've lost the babysitter's number again, could you call her and tell her that I'm gonna be a little late." Emma explained, anger started to bubble up in Regina, quickly she grabbed the phone and pushed down hard on the speakerphone button, the last thing she needed was her nosey assistant hearing more than she should.

"Seriously Emma! This is the fourth month in a row! When are you going to start taking raising our son seriously?!" Regina scolded the blonde Sheriff.

"That's not fair Regina! I'm doing my best balancing Henry and work, especially since the barrier to the real world was taken down! Do you know how many bars I've had to drag Leroy out of?" Emma snapped back.