Life carried on as normal over the next few weeks. Robin seemed to keep coming home a little later and reeking of alcohol. It bothered Regina a lot in the beginning, but by now she had stopped caring. She was only worried about Henry seeing his father like that, but seen as he was never home, Henry didn't get to really see his father at all.

Emma and Regina had fallen into a nice routine, once dinner was done they would move to the lounge and spend time with Henry, whether it was playing video games, board games or just settling in to watch a movie.

Regina knew that it had not been for Emma, Robin staying out late and getting drunk most nights would have bothered her more. But now she did have a distraction, which made it easier for her to stop caring.

The conversation that took place after Emma's date, played itself over and over in the Mayor's head. Emma had stated she had feelings for someone else… But over the past few weeks, Emma had not seen anybody other than the Mills family and Ruby now and then.

Regina was not the most patient person, but she was trying to push down the obvious questions she wanted to so badly ask the blonde, but thought it was not her space to pry. She would often get the feeling that it was her in fact the blonde was talking about, but to her surprise Emma never made any moves to validate the idea.

Perhaps it was someone from Emma's home town, that would make sense? Regina had put on her mask once again, and thrown herself into work.

Today had been a difficult day, and finally after packing up her office the Mayor headed home, almost an hour late. She was surprised to see Robins car parked outside, it was a lot earlier than he had been coming home. She opened the front door to a quiet house, which felt suspicious.

As soon as she turned the corner she saw Robin passed out on the couch, she walked over quietly to take a closer look, the smell of alcohol was the first thing she picked up before rounding the couch, he was passed out, with a blue, swollen eye.

She could feel her body trembling as the anger set in. She walked up the stairs and into Henry's room which was empty, and panic started to overwhelm the anger. She noticed that Emma's door was closed and decided against knocking, opening the door slowly and was taken back by what she saw.

Henry was lying curled up in Emma's arms, both fast asleep. She could see the dried tear tracks down his little cheek and the wet mark on the blondes shirt under his head. Before she got any closer, Emma stirred and opened her eyes to see Regina in the door way. She rubbed her eyes and looked down at the little boy curled up into her side. She slowly moved him over, and stood up from the bed.

Regina the whole time just starring at the situation, she was pulled out of her own thoughts when the blonde walked up to her, and with her eyes showing the Mayor to leave the room. Once they were standing in the hallway, Emma gently closed her bedroom room, and turned to face Regina.

"We need to talk"

Regina could see that Emma was nervous, and for the first time ushered Emma into her own bedroom before closing the door.

"Emma, what happened, I see that…" she was interrupted by the blonde.

"I think you should take a seat, and I will start from the beginning."

Emma was indeed nervous to tell the Mayor what had happened, she shuffled from one foot to the next before moving towards the bed and taking a seat, her hands fidgeting.

Emma and Regina had sat on the edge of the Mayors bed, the blonde explained how her and Henry were downstairs playing when Robin got home, beyond drunk. He had been in a fight, and was thrown out of the pub. Regina listened to every detail with a very straight face. Anger dancing behind her big brown eyes.

Emma then explained how Henry was worried about his dad, and tried to comfort him and ask him what happened, when Robin pushed Henry aside, harder than expected and started shouting at him.

"There were a lot of hurtful things said Regina…" taking a deep breath and meeting Regina's gaze.

Regina nodded which pushed Emma to continue.

"Robin said that before Henry everything was going well between you two, and after Henry was born things changed. That now everything was about Henry, and your job and you never made time for him, which led him to seek out other…." Emma now looking down at her hands.

"Anyway, Henry started crying, and that's when I stepped in, I told Robin he needed to stop, and this conversation was over. I picked Henry up and took him to my room, and tried to calm him down, he cried himself to sleep."

The fact that Regina had not said a word, her eyes burning holes into the blonde meant she was beyond angry. She shook her head and the first thing she said, with a sad tone was "Why did you not call me Miss Swan?"

"I didn't call because I knew you would be home shortly, I know you have been stressed out with work and decided rather let things calm down. I wanted to wait for you, and have this conversation face to face."

Regina stood up immediately and smoothed out her pencil skirt. "Thank you Miss Swan."

Back to formalities Emma thought but didn't say a word.

"Robin has crossed a line, and I will not accept this." She said anger bubbling up again. Regina walked over to the closet and pulled out a suit case. She started packing all of Robin's clothes into it. In almost a whisper the Mayor said "I have tried and tried to work things out, I have stayed and taken this abuse for as long as I can, in order to protect Henry… But now that Henry is being hurt, I cant sit back and watch this happen.

She sounded heartbroken. Emma sat silently watching the scene playing out before her.

"Now I would appreciate it, if you could please bring Henry into my room and sit with him while I deal with Robin. Please put on a movie for him and turn the volume up." Regina marched out of the room with the fully packed suit case, Emma followed without a sound and slipped back into her bedroom picking Henry up and moving him to the main bedroom. He stirred a little but as soon as he was on his parents bed he drifted back to sleep. Regina was back at the bedroom door, she gave a weak smile to the blonde and mouthed "Thank you" before closing the door and headed down stairs.

Emma was scared, not for herself but for what was about to take place. She was disgusted that Robin could blame their problems on their son. She could see how Regina had been seething and knew that the evening was far from over.

When Henry woke up, he asked where his mom was and Emma explained she was talking to his dad, and they had to wait in the room while the adults spoke. He didn't ask any questions and starred at the TV that now had transformers playing.

It was an hour and a half before the bedroom door opened, revealing the Mayor who looked exhausted.

Henry didn't say a word either as silence filled the room. She walked over to the side of the bed that Henry was occupying and climbed on taking her son into her arms. Both mother and son now had tears streaming down their cheeks. Emma got up, thinking it was her time to leave the 2 to talk, before Regina's voice stopped her. "Please stay Emma, you will need to hear this" with her hand patting the part of the duvet she had just been occupying.