strange and beautiful (I'll put a spell on you)

Chapter Three

STORYBROOKE, Maine

"How was your date with Whale?" Rebekah asked, sitting at the kitchen in Mary-Margaret's apartment with her friend. Regina had given her the morning off, but she worked in the afternoon. So, she decided to wake up early and bring her friend coffee and pastries (mostly so she could pester Mary-Margaret for details about her date last night with Storybrookes resident doctor.)

"Ah-ha!" Mary-Margaret said as she set down her cup of coffee, "-I knew you were just trying to sugar me up!" Rebekah shrugged innocently and her friend laughed. "It was...not good." She frowned.

"Why?" Rebekah frowned too. She was the one who told Mary-Margaret to ask the handsome doctor out. He always flirted with her while she was volunteering, how did it turn out bad? "What happened? Did you start telling him that you want kids?"

"No!" Mary-Margaret said, voice going high.

"Liar!" Rebekah laughed, "Your voice always changes when you are lying."

"-I didn't!" Her voice went higher. She narrowed her eyes and Rebekah when she started laughing again and then sighed, "It may have come up – he thought I said I wanted fifteen kids."

"Wow."

"Thought I said. He wasn't paying attention because Ruby was bussing tables." Mary-Margaret said causing Rebekah to wince, ahhh, she understood now. The uniform Ruby wore was not exactly modest. And it certainly distracted all the men who were in the diner. "I told him that I had fifteen kids in my class.... but then I told him that of course I wanted kids of my own," Rebekah shook her head as she chuckled and Mary-Margaret made a face as she continued on, "-and I might have said I wanted...marriage...true love."

"Mary-Margaret!" Rebekah laughed.

"I know." She groaned. "I basically laid out everything I wanted on the table and when I looked to see his reaction he was yet again staring at Ruby."

Rebekah frowned, "I'm sorry you had such a horrible night." She apologized.

Mary-Margaret simply shrugged, "I ran into Emma." She said, changing the subject. "She's living in her car."

Rebekah's eyes widened, "-Wait, does that mean she's staying?" Mary-Margaret nodded her head with a smile that Rebekah matched. "Henry is going to be so happy!"

"Regina won't be." Mary-Margaret said with a little amused smile.

"When has Regina ever been happy about anything?" Rebekah shot back and Mary-Margaret raised her cup in the air, touché, "-I swear, it's like Regina doesn't want any one to be happy. The minute she sees someone so much as smile she has to butt-in and ruin it!"

Mary-Margaret raised her brow at Rebekah, "Care to elaborate?"

She shook her head and sighed, "It's nothing...just Regina being her usual controlling self."

Rebekah was still upset about Regina telling her to stay away from Jefferson, threatening Rebekah with not being able to see Henry if she let Jefferson be in her life. What was she supposed to do now if she saw him around town? Run in the other direction? Pretend she didn't see him? Maybe she should just become a hermit and never leave her own house.

"I ran into Jefferson at the movies yesterday and when Regina saw us talking outside she just went absolutely crazy. Yelled at me telling me to get in the car and then yelled at Jefferson – who she says is 'trouble'," Rebekah used air quotes. "-And then threatened to keep me from seeing Henry if I ever spoke to Jefferson again."

Mary-Margaret made a face, shaking her head in anger. "That woman is...awful!" She said in a huff. "Who is she to decide who is allowed to have a happy ending?"