This prompt was posted on Facebook. This was my reply. I like getting prompted to write. Something that tickles my inspiration. I like writing and using my imagination, though it may not have gone as far as readers would have liked, I am always grateful for the inspiration and where it takes me, imagination wise.
Haha, for just a split second I thought this was happening in Storybrooke universe and NOT AU. I saw Mary Margaret being all excited and David being just as eager because she was all a buzz. Henry’s excited too because, hey, the kid loves a good mystery to crack but Emma’s like, “I have the night off to relax and you guys take me to a MURDER MYSTERY DINNER and make me WORK? ARE YOU NUTS?”
Regina, sitting next to Emma, says, “This is ridiculous. I enjoy reading a good mystery novel under a warm blanket with a hot cup of tea, but traipsing around from room to room after drinking runny shrimp bisque, trying to solve a crime sounds a little too close to home for me.”
“Don’t be silly, Regina. When do you ever eat runny shrimp bisque?” Mary Margaret pins her with a look.
“The food you serve at dinner can be equally distasteful,” the mayor quips to her former enemy turned friend.
“HA-HA.” Mary Margaret shot a humorous smile back.
“Still… Someone is going to…” Regjna did the quote-unquote gesture with her fingers, “… DIE and you KNOW who everyone will suspect first.” She pointed to herself. “…the formal Evil Queen.”
Emma frowned and said, “How do you know they won’t think it’s the former Dark One?”
“You mean the former Dark One who turned one dwarf into stone and another into a tree?” Regina teased, “Ooooh.”
“I did other things if you recall.”
“Yes… But when you’ve terrorized millions and conquered realms get back to me about your evil self.”
Mary Margaret murmurs to her husband, “Are they actually comparing evil streaks?”
David shrugs, “You know, this shrimp bisque is actually pretty good.”
“Come on, Moms. It’ll be fun and no one really gets hurt.”
Suddenly the room is plunged into darkness amongst some screams and a tortured stolen breath is heard at their table. When the lights come back on Emma and Regina are bemused to discover that they are holding hands.
Another shocking discovery is made when everyone at the table sees that 15-year old Henry is lying over the table with a knife stuck in his back.
“Henry’s the dead guy?” Emma is shocked staring as fake blood is oozing from her son’s back. “Jesus, that looks pretty convincing.”
The floor beneath them begins to rumble and more distressed calls sound at the beginning of a massive earthquake.
“Uh…” Emma glances to her left and sees Regina with a murderous look in her face. “Regina… Snap out of it. It’s all fake, remember?”
“Who would be dumb enough to kill the child of the Evil Queen and the Savior-turned-Dark One-turned-Savior again?”
“Former. FORMER Evil Queen. Now stop. You’re scaring people.” Emma puts her arm around Regina’s shoulder, takes her hand in her lap and leans in because she finds that she likes being this close to the woman. “Now let’s do what we do best. Find our son’s murderer and make them PAY.” She whispers it in Regina’s ear. Why? She doesn’t know but it doesn’t escape her attention that the last bit sounds a little… Flirty.
The shaking in the room subsides much to everyone’s relief and Regina slowly turns her head to face Emma. And their eyes connect. And their lips are close. And there is a moment, a baffling moment where the possibilities seem endless.
Regina gives the blonde’s face a thorough once over and leans even closer and smiles alluringly, “Let’s.”
And Emma decides that she very much likes the smell of runny shrimp bisque on Regina’s breath and she releases Regina’s hand because she thinks she feels sparks shooting between their fingers.
All of a sudden Emma is glad that they were taken for dinner here and while she wonders if she and Regina might get locked in a closet somewhere, she thinks she sees a ghost of a smile on Henry’s “dead” face.
I took it in another direction with Henry pretend-dying. I thought it’d make a much better story. Also I love thinking about Swan Queen working together.
This prompt is thanks to Crystal Coulter.
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