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Regina sighed in annoyance in response to the blonde who stood before her. Out of ever magical mishap or mistake she'd managed to involve herself into this one seemed to be the biggest.

"Regina say something. How bad is it?" Emma asked with a nervous lilt to her voice.

"Honestly. I'm not sure if I want you in my house until your house broken" Regina said sarcastically.

"Not funny Regina" Emma grunted out.

Regina who had been trying to take Emma seriously this whole time just couldn't find it in her anymore to continue. The blonde's expression was funny and reluctantly Regina would admit adorable.

"How did you get yourself into this one Emma?" Regina asked.

"Well you see" Emma began.

FLASHBACK

Emma had been messing around with some of Regina's magic stuff. The magic stuff that she'd been told time and time again to leave alone. Magic stuff that she had obviously touch.

"Dominaneous Stranium? What's that?" Emma mumbled to herself as she read the label on the glass jar with the funky blue powder. Suddenly her personal cell phone rang. "Hello? David… Pongo again… yeah I've got it. Later"

Standing up with a stretch Emma cursed as the jar tipped over spilling the blue content all over her.

"Just great."

There was nothing she could do about it now. She closed the jar up with the rest of it's contents before dusting herself off. Grabbing her keys she headed out of the door.

Tracking down Pongo wasn't hard. Or it wasn't hard because he'd always end up in similar areas. Places with water. So a creak in the woods, the water fall, duck pond. With a lucky guess it would seem Emma found Pongo barking at a couple of ducks at the pond and tackled him to the ground before he could get away.

"Hey there Pongo. Good to see you out and enjoying the weather" Emma joked as she accepted the dog jumping up on her and licking her in the face. She was confused and just a bit disgusted when he sneezed directly in her face and even worse, her mouth.

"Thanks Pongo" she grumbled as she wiped her mouth against her sleeve. She noticed the left behind blue residue as well but decided that there was nothing wrong with it.

END FLASHBACK

Obviously ignoring it was the wrong thing to do Emma thought if her current situation was anything to go by.

"Serves you right" Regina mumbled with a laugh.

"Regina come on please! You must know a way to change me back!" Emma said desperately.

"Afraid not Emma. That was a DNA altering dust that you were playing with. You're lucky that you've only gotten stuck with this minor change" Regina said with a shrug before Emma growled in frustration.

"MINOR! Regina I have dog ears, and a tail!" Emma exclaimed.

"Fluffy dog ears and a tail. I don't know what you want me to do Emma"

"Fix me"

"I'll schedule an appointment with the vet" Regina remarked.

"Please Regina. Stop the jokes. Is there any way to fix this?" Emma asked lowly.

"Emma as far as I know there is no way to reverse this. I will look but I don't want to get your hopes up. At the very least expect to be stuck like this." Regina told her.

All in all Emma didn't look too bad. Her hair was glowing and was thicker in appearance. From her ears and tails she seemed to be a golden retriever German Sheppard mix. Her ears were pinned back and her tail hung loosely behind her letting Regina on to what mood Emma was in.

"Come Emma how about I treat you to a meal at Granny's. It might cheer you up" Regina offered. She and Emma were kind of friends now. They were also kind of something else.

"I can get whatever I want?"

"Anything. Come"

"Okay but please. No more dog jokes?"

"I'll try my best. Hopefully people won't disturb us and just think we're out on a walk" Regina told her before pausing. "This might be harder than I thought."

"Right" Emma groaned before following Regina out of the door.

Making it to Granny's in record time Regina and Emma allowed the stares and whispers to persist. It was nothing new.

"Hi there Emma, Regina what can I get…" Ruby started as she walked up to their table with pen and pad but froze as she inspected her friend. "Emma what happened to you?"

"Nothing. I'll explain later" Emma groaned in annoyance. She just wanted to eat.

"You might want to come up with something now. Seems your parents aren't too far away" Ruby told her before taking their orders and rushing off. Suddenly the diner was filled with the scent of peppermint and white chocolate.

"What's wrong with you?" Regina asked.

"That smell" Emma answered as she tried to figure out just where it was coming from.

"Those are your parents." Ruby offered before placing their food down in front of them.

"What do they smell like?" Regina asked as she twirled her forks, knife, and spoon inside of the cup of hot water.

"Like peppermint and white chocolate" Emma mumbled.

"What do I smell like?"

Emma took a moment to actually focus on Regina's scent. She smelled like apple pie at first, but then she smelled like a pine forest, sunlight, and like unfallen rain. Before she got the chance to answer a high pitched voice interrupted them.

"EMMA WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?" her mother Mary Margaret asked in shock.

"Mom it's fine. I had a little magic accident" Emma told her with both hands raised in an attempt to calm her down.

"A magic accident. Are you sure it was an accident Emma?" Mary Margaret asked as she shot a small suspicious glare Regina's way. Even though Emma and Regina were friends, and Henry was back living with his mother (Regina) Mary Margaret still didn't trust Regina. At the best times she was civil but at the worst she was down right hostile. What was surprising was the fact that Regina never rose to her taunts.

"Mom Regina wasn't even with me when this happened. I touched some stuff that she specifically told me not to and this is what happened" Emma defended.

"How do you know that wasn't a part of Regina plan Emma? We all know that to you no doesn't matter" Mary Margret said without any thought and Emma found herself insulted.

"Yeah sure thanks mom. I'm going to leave now" Emma grumbled as she stood and headed towards the door. She could hear Regina saying goodbye to her parents and placing her money down before catching up to her.

"Well that could have been worse" she said with a smile.

"Always could have been worse. Could have not happened at all as well" Emma told her with a shrug.

Suddenly Emma's newly sensitive nose was hit with the smell of dirt, cotton candy, and dust. Soon enough when a small body slammed into her and Regina she realized who it was.

"Henry" Regina said happily hugging her son.

"Hey there kid" Emma said as she reached out and ruffled his hair.

"Hey mom, hey Emma" he said before finally getting a good look at his blond haired mother. Were those ears and was that a tail.

"Henry are you okay?"

"Ma you know when I suggested you talk mom into getting me a puppy I didn't mean turn yourself into one" Henry told her so seriously that Regina couldn't help but laugh at the face that Emma pulled.

"I think you could call her more of a stray" Regina said between laughing.

"It's not funny!" Emma snapped.

"Hey mom can we keep her?" Henry asked joining in with his brunette mother to tease the blond.

"I don't like either of you right now" Emma snapped but grinned at their laughing faces after her back was turned. She didn't realize that they could tell she was happy because of the rapid movement of her tail.

She had a lot to learn about her new body.

A/N: Hey everyone so I've decided that this is the story that I will post after the conclusion of Sacrifice? Also for those of you who follow Catty Imprint that will be update by Thursday. Thanks for the support everyone.