Emma is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and after being a freelance auror, all she wants in a little peace and quiet. Between the potions master, Regina, and a strange phenomenon causing some of the students to fall asleep and never wake up again, she's not going to get a break.
Life as a spy infiltrating the CIA is rather boring for Regina Mills. She misses the excitement of being in the field and doing something, that is until Emma White walks in. Emma just hopes that she can find mole at the CIA quickly and get back out to where they'll send her next, being in the US again has too many memories. It seems like an easy job until Regina Mills struts in.
A week ago Emma decided that she was going to marry Regina even if everyone else wasn't on board. She thought they would come around, but it doesn't seem like that's coming anytime soon. With threats both inside and outside of the kingdom threatening, Emma has to hold the kingdom together with the help of her knight and hope that whatever moves they make won't get them killed.
Miranda knows there's something wrong with Andrea, just as she knows everything that goes on within the walls of Runway. She hasn't quite figured out just what yet, but she knows when she does she wants to help the girl. It's only because she's only of the best assistants she's had of course. Nothing more. Right?
After returning from her mission Andy only wants three things, a hot bath, a meal, and to see her Queen, not necessarily in that order. Under the cover of night, she gets her wish.
When the twins bother her about wanting a tumblr, Miranda investigates by making a tumblr of herself. She finds that it's a good way to pass the time and continues to long on. Until she comes across a photo that isn't from one of her authorized shoots and follows if back to a blog where there are more. She goes on a mission to find who runs this blog, and the answer surprises her.
Going into her junior year Regina is excited about learning new things, especially in her AP chemistry class. Science has always provided her with answers when other things have not. When she walks in, she finds not the old man who has been teaching chemistry at Storybrooke forever, but a young blonde who attracts her interest in ways she hasn't quite learned how to describe yet.
It was just supposed to be an easy trip to get a horse from another stables for Emma. Except her boss's directions sucked and now she's lost on the way to Storybrooke, Maine and not even her GPS can tell her where to go. When she finally does get there, she finds a stable manager that might make the whole trip worthwhile.
For as long as she's had it, Emma's TiMER has been at zero. After more than a few false starts she's trying to accept that fact, that she has to live for herself instead of some soulmate or other. Except then the kid she gave up for adoption ten years ago is on her doorstep and it leads her to Storybrooke, Maine, where suddenly her TiMER isn't at zero anymore.
The book never told Regina how much being a good guy can hurt. When Milah comes to her, speaking of something missing in her relationship with Emma, she knows that she could have everything she wanted, a chance at Emma, with just a few words. But that isn't her anymore and so she gives Milah what advice she can. She just never thought it would lead to this.
Emma's parents have kept a great deal from her about the war that happened twenty years prior. Until her sixteenth birthday they hid the fact that she was betrothed to the heir of the opposing kingdom. and even then they did not tell her which kingdom. As her nineteenth birthday rapidly approaches, they finally inform her and Emma feels like she's been dropped into a pit of snakes.
Emma doesn't know how she ended up at Yale, but it happened. The only small snag is that she forgot to fill out her roommate matching form in the flurry of financial aid worries and now she desperately hopes that she doesn't have a horrible person to live with. On first impression, Regina Mills may just be exactly the opposite of what she hoped for.
Emma didn't know what she'd be doing in New York when she set out, but playing for tips while her fingers freeze off wasn't it. When she's packing up for lunch, however, she runs into a brunette woman and finds that maybe playing for tips might not have been all bad after all.
Miranda's personally picked out a dress for Andy to wear to the next gala they're attending, but Andy can't accept without delving into a past she doesn't want to remember.
Andy's been contemplating a new tattoo for a while ever since watercolor tattoos had first caught her eye, but she hadn't found the right design until she walked past one of the many tattoo parlors in the city and it was sitting right in the window.
Confined to bed with a rather painful case of cramps, Andy makes Miranda stay in bed with her all day, cuddled up to her so she can leech Miranda's warmth and watch movies to distract her.
Miranda is used to things going wrong at shoots. She is after all a perfectionist and only the slightest thing can mess up everything. However, she's used to models or photographers being the problem, not a bird, and especially not on her shoulder.
The twins convince Miranda to attend New York City Comic Con with them and even convince her to dress up as the Evil Queen no less. Miranda indulges them, if only to make them happy. There she sees someone she didn't expect, someone she hasn't seen in the three years since she walked away in Paris, Andrea Sachs.
Emma's used to things being weird in Storybrooke, but somehow she's pretty sure she's pregnant and she hasn't had sex in six months. This is a completely new height in weird and she hopes to god she's wrong because she really, really doesn't want to be the next Virgin Mary or anything even remotely like it.
There are many things in the world that Miranda hates, freesias, uninspired designs, and most of all people flirting with her wife and having the audacity to touch her as if they were worthy of Andrea's perfection.