Holdouttrout

Title: Menu Planning
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Pairing: Emma/Regina (Swan Queen)
Summary: Emma has a secret that she's kept for years. She's gotten very good at deflecting certain questions from being asked, but her luck is about to run out. The anti-lasagna fic only a few people asked for.
Notes: You know how every SQ fic has Emma swooning over Regina's lasagna? This is the anti-lasagna fic. Because sometimes fandom is weird. Also, evergrove wanted to read this fic, which my brain interpreted as them wanting me to write it.

Menu planning.

Two seemingly innocuous words that struck terror into Emma's heart. They required all of the things Emma liked least in the world: preparation, subtlety, and undivided attention.

Still, she'd been doing very well. They had gone months, now, without an Incident. She'd become so good at this game that she almost felt it was second-nature. She went so far as to relax, a little, make a couple of jokes--not great jokes, but Regina had rolled her eyes at one and smothered a smile at another, so… win.

Her confidence was her undoing.

Her pride wenteth before the falleth.

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