I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Week 10

I'm not gonna stop
I like the view from the top (Yeah)

**

She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene
I said don't mind, but what do you mean I am the one
Who will dance on the floor in the round
She said I am the one who will dance on the floor in the round

**

Again they have to wait until Tuesday night to find out who makes it to the finals, but Emma and Regina are in battle mode, ready to go on Tuesday morning.

"So, the dances for the finals are an improved dance and our freestyle. Let's tackle the improved dance first." Regina says as they sit at the breakfast table, eating the incredible omelets that Regina made.

If Henry has any questions about why Emma is there for breakfast with them, he certainly hasn't voiced them. He'd just sat down next to her and asked her to pass the bacon like it was a common occurrence to find her at their breakfast table.

"The Foxtrot." Emma and Henry say at the same time and she looks at him incredulously. "How'd you know that, kid?"

"You felt like you messed it up. All the other dances, even the ones where you got lower scores, you enjoyed and were happy with. You need a chance at redemption with the foxtrot."

"I agree," Regina smiles. "We will go back to work on the foxtrot today. We'll pull up a video of it and go through it to see where we can make improvements."

"You want to wait on the freestyle until after we see if we make it to the finals." Emma surmises, crunching on her bacon.

"I have no doubts that we will make it to the finals."

"But..." Emma drawls.

"However," Regina smirks, "I think we should wait just to be on the safe side."

Emma nods. "Agreed. But I've already got an idea."

"You do?"

"Don't look so surprised! My idea for the trio turned out great."

"I never said otherwise, dear. I'm just surprised you've been thinking about this."

Emma shrugs. "Well, I have."

"Alright. But first things first... the foxtrot."

**

They go to the rehearsal studio and bring up the video there on Regina's laptop. It's hard for Emma to get through watching it the first time, but by the second and third time, she's able to look at it objectively and see all the places she messed up.

"You didn't mess up." Regina keeps insisting, but Emma knows better. "You just got caught up in the emotion. We want that emotion. We just want it a little bit more controlled this time."

Emma looks at Regina sitting next to her and the image of her and Regina dancing together on the screen and she nods. "Yeah. I can do that."

**

Mary Margaret and David are the first to be told they'll be going to the finals.

Ruby and Peter are the second.

She and Regina are left standing with Jim and Kathryn, waiting for Sidney to finally just say the damn words to tell them who the final couple is.

"I'm so stressed out." She whispers to Regina, just wanting to know.

"The couple with the lowest total of viewer votes and judges points and therefore leaving us right now, one week shy of the finals is... Jim and Kathryn."