Miranda could kick herself for forgetting the proofs from the Cannes photo shoot, but she's still out so she returns to Runway before all is lost. She knows at least some of her staff will be there, but she doesn't expect anyone to be singing, least of all Andrea.
Andy comes home from chasing a lead quite literally all over the City so very tired to her family. She's ready for a quiet dinner and a good night's sleep, but when the twins start asking her questions about her piercings she knows that might be a little too much to ask. Especially when afterwards Miranda drags her upstairs with a mischievous glint in her eyes.
The September issue is three days away from print and the only time Andy and the girls are going to get to see Miranda in that three days is at dinner. Caroline, though, is still holed up in the bathroom and Andy goes to get her. When she hears a crash from behind the door she's not quite ready for what she finds nor the memories from her past that it brings back.
Miranda loves her daughters, but this new independent streak has dragged her into a Hot Topic and she's having to fight down her normal reaction to such places. While she's wandering around the store, she stumbles upon a pair of winged barbells that she knows Andrea would love. Unfortunately buying them in the presence of her girls leads to some questions she'd rather not answer.
Emma knew she made a mistake from the moment she brought Regina to the Moors. What was she thinking, casting a curse on such a pure soul? Now she races to the palace, Daniel in tow, hoping that he can save Regina as she has failed the girl in every way possible.
Andy's annoyed that a knock on their door interrupts the family day they were having, especially since no one knows who could be at the door. When Andy answers it she surprised by a person she'd never thought she'd see: the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was fourteen. The same daughter that she never told her family about.
After a weekend of rather strenuous love making Miranda has her fair share of bruises, all hidden of course save one, an imprint of the ring that Andrea wears every day. Now Miranda has to hide the evidence and keep their relationship even further under wraps, but things keeps getting in the way.
H.G. is not a morning person, but she can't really begrudge waking up just as the sun is rising on a Saturday morning when it's her daughter that's waking her up.
A week after Cassidy's hospitalization for alcohol poisoning Miranda stops Andrea outside the door to the dining room after hearing the girl's voices. What the two of them overhear offer insight into Cassidy's drinking problem and it tears Miranda apart, but nothing hurts so much as the idea that her baby could ever think she would hate her.
"My whole life I've been struggling with body image problems. It's funny, more ironic than anything really, that Miranda Priestly of all people, the woman who causes half the world to have such issues, has them herself. I never found that quite as amusing as everyone else would." Miranda finally comes to a point where she has to tell Andrea her most well kept secret.
Once a year on the anniversary of the first issue of Runway Miranda throws a party for the staff and it's the highlight of everyone's year. Except Andy wants nothing to do with it. She wants to be at home in her pjs with Chinese food and away from anything resembling a party. Things get worse when a toast happens and Miranda notices she's the only one in the room who doesn't drink.
The twins are back on break from college and Andy is happy that the townhouse is filled again. Until Caroline knocks on her door, looking nervous enough to jump straight out of her skin and Andy knows that something is wrong.
Miranda thinks of Andrea as a wholesome Midwestern girl, innocent as the day is long and pure as newly fallen snow. Andrea proves her wrong one hidden piercing and tattoo at a time.
The only reason Emma agreed to meet Regina at the Rabbit Hole was for the good alcohol, not the blaring music. She wants to talk to Regina, but she can't even hear herself think. Luckily Regina knows a secret hidey-hole where the music isn't so loud, secluded from the rest of the bar. Maybe a little too secluded when they lose themselves in each other and get surprised by Ruby.
When Andy gets a call at three A.M. she knows it can't mean anything good, not when Miranda is upstairs asleep and her journalist contacts aren't suicidal, but she forces herself to pick up anyway.
Regina is fond of her job as a knight and guard of the White palace. That is, until she gets assigned to the royal brat of a princess while she's entertaining insipid suitors. Between the mindless drivel the men are spewing and the Princess running off at every other moment she might just go insane.
Emma's panicking, pacing the apartment. She's marrying Regina tomorrow after four years. She just knows she's going to screw something up but everything needs to be perfect for Regina. She's going to have a heart attack before this is all over, she just knows it. Part 3 of the Falling series.
Emma comes home after a rather cold shift of being Sheriff and all she wants to do is warm up and feel her toes again. She goes looking for Regina, hoping that the other woman's made soup. But when she finds Regina dancing in nothing more than her underwear thoughts of food are quickly forgotten.
When Emma wakes up and has to go help her father with a domestic dispute at the Gingerbread Man's house for a second day in a row coupled with the fact that no one seems to remember that this happened the exact same way the day before and she's a little frustrated. Until she realizes, she's stuck in a crappy Groundhog Day remake and the only other person who's aware is Regina.
Sequel to It's Not the Fall That Kills You. Three years after that fateful day in the hospital Emma Swan doesn't think she could have it any better. She finally has the family she's wanted her entire life and things are going smoothly. She's head over heels in love with Regina. Henry is a good kid. There isn't anything she could do to make it better. Until she realizes there is.