Hi, Hi! So after seeing the last 5 minutes of the season premiere I couldn't get Dark Swan out of my head. But my sister said "When Emma said 'you have to be punished', she looked directly at Regina. What if Regina was the reason she went completely dark?" So I kinda ran away with that. (I've been working on this since the day after the premiere lol)
So basically Regina goes to track Emma down after she comes into Granny's and scares the shit out of them but things don't go as planned and Emma gets the upper hand.
Enjoy (if not blame my sister for giving me the idea lol)
Darkness
They arrived back into Storybrooke in the middle of the night and everyone was exhausted and confused. The dwarves were down to six, Hook was useless, Robin was doing whatever it is he does and Snow and David had just met their daughter in full on Dark One mode so they were in no position to help with this. As usual it was up to Regina. She had to track down the Swan, find out what the hell was going on and get to the bottom of this. One thing Regina hated was being in the dark and the idiotic Swan had stolen her memories so now she had no idea what had gone on in the last six weeks. What the hell caused Emma to come in there and terrorize them, scare their son and turn sneezy to stone? What the hell happened to her Emma?
She couldn't get the look the blonde gave her out of her head. It was a knowing look, as if they were in on an inside joke or shared some kind of secret but Regina was clueless as to the punchline or what the secret was exactly. She looked over at the pirate to see if he would go after her but he just stood there staring at the place where Emma had last stood before disappearing in a cloud of dark smoke. He was going to be completely useless, that was clear. Without a word she magicked herself into more comfortable clothes, she reached out for Henry and pulled him into a tight hug then headed for the front door of Granny's but a hand on her arm stopped her, she turned to see Robin's pleading eyes. She pried his hand off of her with a quick "I'll be careful" then she turned to the Charmings who looked like someone had kicked their puppy, well, cursed their daughter to an eternity of darkness. "Hey." She said earning their attention. Two pitiful faces looked up at her. "I'm going to fix this. We're going to find out just what hell happened back there." Her eyes met with Snow's watery ones. "We'll get her back." Both Charmings nodded.
"And what if we don't? Will you destroy her like she asked?" Came the pirate's voice from behind her.
Regina turned to him. Scowl present at his stupidity, his uselessness and him asking that in front of her son. "If I have to, yes." Which she knew was a lie. She couldn't kill Emma, regardless of what she's become. She couldn't hurt the mother of her son, her friend, her...
"It won't come to..." Henry tried but Hook cut him off.
"Well I won't let you." Hook shouted indignantly.
Regina threw her arms up into the air. "Why don't you people understand that Emma did not turn into a fairy?" She brought her hands down to settle on her hips. "She is the Dark One. She could kill us all."
"But she wouldn't." Snow interjected.
"Um..." Grumpy cut in bringing all of their attention back to him. He gestured to Sneezy's frozen form. "I think we just saw what she's capable of doing."
Regina rolled her eyes. "The munchkin has a point."
"He's a dwarf." Zelena corrected in a mocking tone. Regina growled.
"No one asked you." Regina snapped.
Zelena threw her sister an innocent smile. "I was just being helpful, dear sister."
Regina rolled her eyes again so hard they almost popped out of her head and rolled back to Camelot.
"Regina, maybe I should go with you." David offered.
"No Charming." She shook her head. "No. I need to do this alone." She turned her attention to Snow. "And definitely not you. I don't need you two getting emotional and riling her up even more. You all stay put." She pointed at her son, cocking a brow. "Especially you." He nodded. "I don't want you... any of you... near Emma."
"I'm going to try to save her. She's my happy ending." Hook protested.
Regina whirled on him. "Is that so?" She growled. "You're going to upset her and she'll tear your heart out and crush it. Now, I don't exactly care about you but Emma... It'll darken her heart further. I will not let you destroy her."
"She wouldn't hurt me."
"Shut up." She snapped. "Go drown your sorrows in a bottle of rum and let the adults handle this."
"Regina..." her eyes snapped up to see Robin standing there with the same pleading look on his face. They stared at each other for a while and he saw the determination in her dark eyes and he knew he wasn't going to be able to talk her out of it. He nodded more so to himself. "I'll look after the boys."
"I know."
"I still think you should take someone with you." Came Belle's voice. Honestly Regina had forgotten she was even standing there. "The Dark One... well... they can be dangerous even when they don't mean to be. And they most certainly cannot be trusted. They're extremely sneaky and manipulative."
"I know about the Dark One, Belle. You forget that I've known Rumple longer than you have. I can handle Emma."
"And what if you can't?" David asked.
"I can and if I can't I'll teleport out of there." She took a glance around the room. "Trust me."
After she saw everyone in the room nod including the dwarves she poofed herself out of the diner in search of the Swan. She was tired of the whole conversation before it even began. She was already pissed that her memory was taken from her again. This was becoming an annual thing for her and she's over it. To think Emma Swan was the cause of it this time just pissed her off even more. She was going to wring her neck when she found her. What unsettled her the most was Emma's words about them failing her. Regina knew what it was like to be let down by people she cared for and to think that she did the same to Emma hurt her physically. She needed to understand what happened so she can fix it, save Emma and bring her back. Back to her family and back to her...
She reappeared at the bridge where she gave Emma her first official magic lessons. Deciding not to meet at the vault or the mansion because she didn't want to be closed in with her just in case. She let out a long, tired sigh as she turned her attention to the sky up above. A crescent moon hung high with sprinkles of stars surrounding it. The bridge looked like a completely different place at night, it looked almost magical with the fireflies flying about and the faint sound of crickets. It almost reminded Regina of home in the Enchanted Forest and it made her skin crawl. When her eyes fell on the bridge memories returned to her; the memories of Emma dangling on the bridge and the fear and heartache she felt when Emma lost her grip and she thought she had fallen to her death. She thought she had lost her, then the relief and the feeling of something resembling joy she felt when she saw the blonde levitating on some pieces of broken wood. Returning to her safe and sound. Returning to her. The potential for great power she saw in the woman just drew her closer to her.
To think she was standing on this bridge again and she could very well lose Emma again. For good. It scared her, the fear caused bile to rise up in her throat but she pushed it away. Never being one to dwell on her emotions she cleared her throat. Regina Mills doesn't do scared.
She pushed all of it aside and summoned Emma like she had Rumple for the first time when she was just a girl by simply saying her name. After nothing happened she tried again and by the third time she growled. It's not working. Emma is being stubborn and she can't make her show up because she doesn't have the dagger.
"Emma, if you don't get your ass over here right now I will -"
A cloud of dark smoke appeared and a shiver ran through Regina but it had nothing to do with the night air. She watched as the smoke disappeared and the new Dark One appeared in its place. Her jaw dropped as she took in the woman's appearance. Her skin was even paler than usual and she noticed that her hair was no longer the beautiful golden blonde that she had fallen in love with. It was white and pulled back into a serious bun. Regina's eyes traveled the length of the black jacket. She froze thinking that Emma had turned into a full on villain. Her chest began to ache again. Guilt that she couldn't prevent this from happening overwhelming her.
A smirk appeared on the Dark One's face and Regina felt unnerved. "You'll what, your majesty? Punish me?" She stepped closer to the brunette. "I'm the one doing the punishing here, remember?"
Regina felt another chill run through her at the almost flirtation in the blonde's voice. She looked at the shadows cast over the blonde's pale skin which made her look more menacing than ever. "I'm not afraid of you, Emma."
"Oh?" The blonde purred. "I don't want you to be afraid, Regina. In fact I was hoping for an entirely different... emotion, actually." She stepped closer causing the brunette to take a step back.
"And what's that? Anger? exhaustion? frustration? wariness?"
A dark chuckle escaped the blonde. "Always the queen even when someone else has the upper hand." The smirk reappeared. "I must say, terror looks good on you."
"I'm not afraid of you, Emma, I think we've already established that." Regina snapped, backing up when the blonde stepped closer.
"Yes, I believe we have. Although your actions are saying otherwise."
Regina scoffed. "Please. Spare me your Dark One observations. I've been there with Rumple and all it does is make people dislike you even more, especially me." She leaned closer to the blonde and spoke in a low challenging tone, "And trust me, you don't want me as an enemy."
"I guess not."
"Just because you're the Dark One doesn't mean you're invincible. I've bested Rumple multiple times and he's had centuries to your... what? few weeks?"
The smirk reappeared. "You're right, your majesty. Forgive me." She said with a dramatic bow. When she straightened up again the smirk was still present.
"Don't mock me." The brunette snapped.
"Oh, I'm not." Emma replied in an overly innocent tone.
"Whatever." Regina scoffed, crossing her arms.
"Don't get angry." Emma said stepping closer again. "As I said I wasn't looking for any of those negative emotions." Regina stepped back as the blonde advanced closer until she felt her back hit the bark of a tree. She let out a little 'omf' on impact. She looked up to see the blonde watching her closely. When their eyes met a grin formed on the Dark One's face. "What are you feeling right now?"
"Honestly?" She asked. The Dark One gave a tight nod. "Pissed."
That dark cackle stretched across the night as the Dark One leaned closer. "Good. Anger fuels passion. Are you sure you aren't feeling anything else?"
"No." Regina said, steadily meeting Emma's gaze. "Just annoyed and frustrated."
"Well... I could alleviate some of that... frustration..." Emma leaned in closer. Regina could feel her breath on her lips. "If you'll stop fighting it."
"Stop fighting what?"
"Why, your desires and impulses of course." Emma replied bringing a hand up and letting her fingers stroke a soft cheek.
"Wha-what-" Regina stopped and took a deep breath. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Going after what I want, Regina. Please keep up." Emma snorted. "And you say I'm the idiot." She cupped the woman's cheek.
Regina caught her wrist. "Emma..."
"Don't be like that. I know that you want this. You think I don't see the way you look at me? Like you want to devour me, and the feeling is mutual so why don't we... have a little fun?"
"Thi-this- this is not fun." She stammered as Emma leaned closer until their lips were almost touching.
"Ah but it can be. Just relax." She dipped her head and barely brushed her lips along the warm skin of an olive toned neck. Feeling the brunette's breath hitch she continued her journey up to the woman's ear where she stopped. "Breathe." She whispered.
As if on cue Regina released the breath she didn't even realize she had been holding. "We shouldn't be doing this."
"Why not?" Emma asked placing her hands on either side of the tree, boxing her in.
"Because it's wrong." Regina breathed as she felt the closeness of Emma's body, she tried to fight the arousal she felt tugging at her her lower abdomen.
"How so?" Emma asked calmly as a button on Regina's blouse mysteriously popped followed by another.
"Because we-we shouldn't be doing this." Regina stammered as she felt Emma's soft lips back on her neck. She hated herself for how good it felt and how much she wanted Emma to touch her at this point.
Emma chuckled sending delicious vibrations straight down to Regina's core. "You already said that."
"I know." Regina sighed, she had to bite her lip to hold back the moan as a tongue glided over her pulse point. "Emma..."
"Yes?" When nothing came Emma added. "If you want me to stop just say so." She nipped the flesh and grinned when that received a whimper. "But I don't think you want me to." She pressed her body firmly against the other woman.
"I know what you're doing." Regina growled, tired of the blonde taking control of her and making her body feel those things. When the Dark One just hummed acknowledging her voice she continued, "You're trying to distract me from finding out what the hell happened to you."
"Maybe, but honestly I just don't want to tell you." Emma said simply.
"So you're not going to tell me?"
Emma brought her face back up so that she was facing the woman. Green locked on brown. They just stared at each other for a while. Regina noted that that was the only thing about the other woman that remained the same after her transformation. Her eyes. Although there was still something different about them. "No." Emma said finally.
"Fine." Regina snapped trying to wiggle out of Emma's grasp. But the blonde dropped a hand to the woman's hip squeezing, keeping her in place.
"Running away won't get you what you want, Regina."
"I came here to get answers and you aren't giving them to me so I'm leaving. I have other ways of getting what I need."
Emma nodded thoughtfully. "So you don't want to play anymore?"
Regina rolled her eyes. "Get. Off. Of. Me." She spelled the words out slowly.
"No." Emma said simply. "Not until you admit you want this."
Regina shook her head. "Well, we'll be here all night because I'm not ... feeding into this. Whatever the hell this is." She knew deep down that if she told the blonde how she really felt... how she cared for her it would only complicate things further so she kept her mouth shut.
Emma nodded again. "Well, this, Regina, is me taking what I want after being told my whole life that I couldn't have nice things." Her eyes dropped to full red lips and hummed in appreciation when they dropped to the now very exposed cleavage behind a black lace bra. "You weren't kidding when you said black is your color."
"Flattery will get you nowhere, Dark One." Regina shot back.
Emma let her fingers trace a tanned jaw softly. Regina flinched when the cold fingers met with her warm flesh again but it wasn't unpleasant. She jerked her face away. "Awww, don't be like that, your majesty." Emma grabbed the woman's face and forced her to look at her. "I understand that you're good now... and I also understand that I need to take some responsibility for that but if I knew then what I know now I would've just left you alone."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"This whole 'being evil' thing it's nice. I've never felt this free in my whole life. All these years of trying to do the right thing with nothing to show for it. Now, I can do whatever I want and that in itself is..." she leaned in a little closer. "...invigorating... exciting..." her eyes dropped to the woman's cleavage and with a tilt of her head she added "...enticing." she shrugged in a sharp movement. "But you already know that. It's nice to give in to your... temptations."
"I bet the pirate would just love to see this side of you." Regina snapped. Growing angrier with each ounce of power she was losing in this encounter. "You two could be a villainous power couple. Wreak havoc on the town then mount your black steed and ride off straight... into the pits of hell."
The Dark One let out another dark chuckle but there was no humor in it, her grip on the brunette's jaw tightened. "Dont you see? I don't want him. I don't want that. I want you..." she smirked at the brunette's gasp. "...to do those things with me. We can ride a horse into the sunset. Just us. Screw the thief, screw the pirate." The smirk turned into a full grin. "Regina 'Evil Queen' Mills, will you help me strike fear into this town?"
Now it was Regina's turn to let out a humorless laugh. She pulled her face out of the Dark One's grasp. "After how far I've come to get here? To get people to not hate me? Including our son?" She rolled her eyes. "I finally can live in peace without having fear of someone sneaking into my bedroom and dragging me out to town square and hanging me or burning me alive. I'm not going back to that."
Emma sighed and Regina tried to hide the shiver she felt when the Dark One's breath landed on her lips. "None of that would happen. We'll put enough fear into them. Enough fear that they'll be afraid to even think about hurting us."
"What about Henry?" Regina cut in, knowing that would get through to the woman behind the darkness. "What is he going to do when both of his mothers are evil villains?"
She saw pain flit across the Dark One's features then it was gone. "He's a tough kid, he'll get over it."
Regina scoffed. "Losing your parents to darkness isn't like falling off of your bike and scraping your knee. You can't just walk it off."
"He'll be fine." Emma leaned in closer. "Anyway, this is about you and me." She smirked when their lips almost touched and the brunette's breath hitched. "So what do you say? come to the darkside. We can hand out poisoned apples like candy."
"No." Regina breathed as her eyes slipped closed. Her heart racing as the ex savior's body pressed closer to hers. She felt the wetness pooling in the meeting of her thighs, she squeezed her thighs tighter together.
"No?" Emma chuckled. "It's funny because last time we were here you said something about me having so much potential and I was just wasting it. Who's wasting their potential now?"
"Still you."
"Wow. And why do you think that?"
"Instead of telling me what I've done wrong so I can help you you put on this parade, make a show of trying to seduce me and play with my emotions when we both know that you want the pirate."
"As I said before you're being punished so you're not getting your memories back until I feel you've earned them and let me tell you, you're off to a terrible start."
"Fine. Move away from me Emma." Regina growled. "I'm tired of playing games."
"No." Emma said shaking her head. "You like playing your kind of games. The ones that you always win at. You don't like when you're losing."
"No one likes losing and I don't have to play anyone's games but my own!"
"Right. You're the queen. I tend to forget when you're spending so much time with a forest dwelling thief. Since then some people would even question if you've gone soft..."
"I have not gone soft." Regina hissed. Done with the taunting. "I cast the curse to end all curses and I have brought entire realms to their knees. I am the Queen In this realm and every other. I could even conquer this realm if I wanted to. Do. Not. Question. The darkness inside of me because you'll be very sorry. You have no idea what I'm still capable of."
"There it is." Emma said softly. "All you had to do..." she trailed off as she let her lips brush against the other woman's. "Lets take this realm together. Let's bring them to their knees." She muttered against the woman's lips. "Let's make them all pay for what they've done."
Regina's eyes slipped closed as the Dark One brushed her lips against hers again. She waited for a kiss that never came. She opened her eyes to see that Emma had pulled back and was watching her curiously. "What?" She snapped, feeling slightly embarrassed that she wanted that kiss so desperately.
Emma shook her head. "Nothing." She leaned in again, tilting her head slightly, she inched closer and could feel the brunette's breath on her lips coming out in heavy puffs. Hands on her chest stopped her advance. She pulled back brows furrowed in confusion.
"I'm not doing this." The finality in the brunette's voice set Emma off.
"So you're denying me again?" Emma growled.
"Denying? Again?" Regina was confused. Was this a hint from what happened in Camelot?
"You... it's just a kiss, Regina. You want this just as badly as I do." Emma explained in a low dangerous tone. "This is the second time I tried to show you... I wanted you to show me... and you pushed me away. Why can't you just let it happen?"
"Emma, are you insinuating that you and I... in Camelot?" Regina asked as her lips turned down in confusion. Did they? were they together? Did she hurt her? Is that why Emma cast this curse? It wouldn't surprise her. A broken heart caused her to cast Rumple's curse. Pain makes you do terrible, unmentionable things. But how did she hurt her? What happened between them?
"Regina... yes. Whatever is going on in that pretty little head of yours. Yes." Emma sighed.
"But you don't think that's something I would want to remember?"
"You don't deserve it. You don't deserve to remember those moments before you ruined it all." Emma's eyes were boring into hers. Dark and angry.
"What the hell happened?!" Regina growled. "I want to know what happened and I want to know right this instant."
Emma pushed off the tree and Regina almost cried at the loss. The blonde began backing up. "Not happening."
"Emma, I will wring your neck."
The Dark One smirked. She reached out a hand and laid it over the queen's chest right above her heart. "Threatening the Dark One..." she put pressure on it hearing the woman gasp. "I thought you were smarter than that."
Regina returned the smirk and added a raised brow. "You wouldn't take my heart."
Emma nodded thoughtfully. "True. But I've already stolen it, I've held it in my two hands without even having to remove it from your chest."
Regina let out a gasp. "What do..."
Emma removed her hand. "When you're done pretending feel free to summon me." And just like that she disappeared in a cloud of smoke leaving Regina Mills in a haze of confusion and unanswered questions, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
She also had to admit she felt slightly tempted by the darkness inside of her, the evil that Emma helped bring back to the surface. It was pushing at her heart. Emma seemed stronger, more sure of herself and took control. She wanted to kick herself for letting the idiot blonde fluster her like that. Regina Mills does not get flustered. Simple as that. She couldn't help but think that the Evil Queen wouldn't have allowed that to happen and in that moment she missed her other persona. She quickly chased that thought away with thoughts of her son. He needed her, the good her. That was enough to bring her back. Her love for her son had no bounds and could conquer all darkness.
She raised her eyes back to the sky searching for a star. A star to wish on. She wasn't exactly the wishing type but in this moment she would try anything, she didn't even know if she would wish the darkness out of Emma, her own evil away or even for her memories, the memories of her and Emma, the ones that the blonde was referring to. She wanted to remember it. All of it. She needed to know how she hurt her. She wanted to know what happened between them that lead up that. The moments that Emma felt was a punishment to take from her. If they were that special and precious she wanted them. She needed them.
She wanted to know if she was the one who caused her to accept the darkness. She swallowed her own dark impulses and came to a conclusion. She was going to fight for Emma. She wanted to fix this and do what she failed to do in Camelot... save Emma. She owed that to her.
hey! :) how was that? Not too bad I hope.
I'm actually already in the middle of another Dark Swan / Camelot multi chapter but I have no problem turning this one into a multi chapter as well, if someone wants that. I mean there's no harm in having 2 dark swan stories especially if they're completely different. But if I add to this story the rating will definitely go up because... sexual tension. So please just let me know if you want more.
We can also find out what happened between them in Camelot so there's that.
As always reviews are greatly appreciated and they help me a lot so please let me know how I'm doing. :)
Thanks for reading!
