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Regina wasn't sure when it had happened. How it had happened.
One day she hated the woman who had foiled many of her plans, the next she wanted to bend her over a desk and take her. She'd somehow found herself in a relationship with the pesky Emma Swan. It had started off as a hate/love relationship, mostly just sex at the beginning. They'd had a big fight and somehow ended up in bed.
And she really tried hard to keep it that way. Strictly physical. But no, Emma had to have more. And eventually, Regina had given in, wanting more herself. Now the town's savior was practically living with her. Hell, she'd saved her from more than one hateful mob since the curse had been broken.
Emma had found herself happy with Regina. Yeah, it started out as just sex but somehow the blonde found herself falling in love with the evil queen. Had they shared those three words with each other yet? No. But it didn't mean Emma didn't feel it.
Henry was at school and the house was quiet. The sheriff decided she would fix up some lunch for her and Regina since it was both their day off.
"Mm. Something smells good." Regina smiled as she walked into the kitchen and past Emma to the fridge. Once she'd grabbed a bottle of water, the former evil queen moved behind the blonde and wrapped an arm around her waist, her chin resting on the other woman's shoulder. "It still amazes me that you're actually a good cook." She teased, her breath on the shell of Emma's ear.
"Mm, well, I have inspiration to be good at cooking and... other things." She grinned and placed her hand on Regina's, loving her so close.
Regina laughed and nuzzled the side of Emma's neck. "Yes, you're definitely good at other things." She pulled away from the blonde when her phone began to ring, slipping her hand into her blazer pocket to retrieve her cell, answering it with a 'Yes?' that was practically hissed out. She turned from Emma as she listened to the voice on the other end. "And why ever would I want to do that?"
Her face suddenly drained of all color as she heard the response, the former mayor leaning against the counter top for support. "I'll be right there."
When she pulled the cell away from her ear, Emma looked at her lover. "What is it? Is everything okay?"
The former queen was still pale, her facial expression blank as she tried to absorb what she'd just heard. But Regina didn't look directly at Emma, just nodded her head and walked to the living room to grab her purse. "Nothing I can't handle. Just... politics." She headed over to the front door to grab the handle, but glanced back at the blonde. "I'll be back shortly."
The sheriff didn't like the way Regina was acting and wondered what had just transpired between the mayor and whomever she was speaking with. "Okay, babe. Call me if you need anything." Watching the brunette leave, she sighed softly and looked at the stove, cutting it off.
Regina headed straight to the hospital and made her way down to the basement, finding Whale in a small office down there. The brunette's face was more fierce than it'd ever been in Frankenstein's presence, the woman teetering between fury if he'd tricked her somehow and a completely different emotion if he hadn't. "Where is he?"
The doctor looked up and smiled brightly. Standing up, he spoke. "He's in the next room. I've done it. I've brought the dead back to life." Excitement filled Dr. Whale for the first time in a long while. "Follow me. However, be cautious." Walking the queen back to the room, he opened the door slowly to reveal Daniel sitting on the bed.
Regina could feel her heart pounding in her chest at Whale's words, the former queen's eyes filling with tears as she spotted Daniel. Her breath caught in her throat as her first love looked up at her, the woman still in disbelief. "Daniel?"
"Regina? Is that really you?" The man slowly stood up and took a couple steps toward the brunette. "I've been looking for you for a very long time and I finally found you." Opening his arms he smiled sweetly. "Come here, my princess."
Regina quickly closed the distance between them as she moved into his arms, wrapping hers around Daniel's waist. Her small frame shook as she cried into his shoulder. "I didn't think I'd ever see you alive and well again. I thought I'd lost you."
"I'm not exactly sure what happened but all that matters is that I'm back and we still belong together." He smiled, kissing her head lightly. "You look different. Beautiful, but different. How long was I... asleep?"
Regina wiped her eyes and stepped back to look up at him. "It's been a long time, Daniel. A lot has happened, some of which requires lengthy explanation." She sighed. "You've been... asleep for nearly forty years."
"For...forty years? I... what happened to me? What is it that has changed, Regina?" Daniel was worried, and slightly scared of what he would find out. "Have you forgotten about me?"
"No!" Regina stepped forward and placed her hands on the side of his face gently, her heart aching with those words. "I could never forget you. I've thought about you every day since the day you were taken from me." She spoke softly, her hands sliding down to rest on his chest, as did her gaze. "Cora ripped your heart out of your chest and crushed it right in front of me. But I couldn't let you go, so I placed a preservation spell on you." She looked back up into his eyes. "I-I was lost for a long time. And now, now all those from the Enchanted Forest are stuck in a land much different from our own. It'll take some adjusting on your part."
His hands wrapped gently around Regina's as she spoke. "You put that spell on me so we could pick back up where we left off. I think we should. I have wandered a strange land of my own for forty years. I think trying to get used to this one will be fine because I finally have you by my side again."
"I used to dream that you'd somehow be brought back to me." The corners of Regina's lips pulled up in an attempt at a smile. "And I'll gladly help you adjust as best as possible, but..." She sighed. "I'm with someone else now, Daniel. It took me a very, very long time, but I eventually found someone special, that I've moved on with."
His eyes showed his sorrow. "Then I never should have woken up. If I cant have you after forty years of searching, I'm better off dead."
"Don't say that!" Regina cried out, stepping closer so that her face was just inches from his, her eyes filled with tears as he bottom lip quivered. "I couldn't bear to lose you a second time. The first almost destroyed me."
"But what is the point, my lady? We can't be together. And I obviously have nothing on the new man in your life because you won't give them up for me. For the man you claim to have been your soul mate." A tear ran down Daniel's cheek. "I'm not angry... just disappointed. "
She looked up, her brow furrowed and lips pressed together tightly as she tried to hold back her own sorrow. Regina wiped the tear from his cheek away with the brush of a thumb and kissed the corner of his mouth softly. "I can't just push Emma aside, toss her out like trash. She means much more to me than that. Please, just give me time to sort things out." She had thought Daniel to be her soul mate, but she had also fallen for the town savior.
"Emma? Y-You fell in love with a woman?" The shock in his voice was apparent.
Regina nodded and stepped back, her hands slipping into her blazer jacket as she spoke calmly. "I did."
He shook his head. "Things have changed... but being that it's a woman you fell in love with, there's no competition."
Regina crossed her arms, her jaw set firmly. "And what's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that I'm not giving up. You were always meant to be mine, not some woman's."
"We'll see." There was a palpable shift in the air, Regina's heartache and sorrow for her former lover fading momentarily as anger fueled by his arrogance replaced it. Her tone had taken on that deep, defiant quality she'd often used as queen. "I'll help you find a place to stay if you'd like, get settled in."
Daniel shook his head. "I don't need your help. Just go back to that woman. " He then walked right passed Regina and out the door.
Regina huffed, a deep scowl making it's way onto her face. "Fine! Good luck!" Never in a million years did she expect her reunion with the man to turn out the way it just had.
The stable boy sighed heavily and walked out of the hospital. He had been dreaming of this day ever since he was killed. However, Daniel was not expecting it to ever be like this. To find out the woman he loved was in love with another was enough. But to know another woman had the queen's heart broke his own.
Left standing alone in the basement, Regina slowly made her way back outside to her car and drove home. She walked inside to find Emma on the couch, a small smile tugging at the corner of her lips as she gazed at her lover stretched out over the cushions. "Watching anything interesting?"
"Just a rerun of my favorite show." The blonde smirked. "Rizzoli and Isles is the shit." Emma laughed and opened her arms "C'mere. Tell me what you had to run off for."
Regina chuckled as she made her way over to the blonde. "Jane and Maura are gayer than we are. They really should just get it over with and date." She smirked as she sat on the couch and moved so she was in Emma's arms, being spooned by the other woman.
Emma let out a chuckle. "Agreed."
Regina really didn't want to get into Daniel right now. She knew it would concern Emma, draw questions, and she just didn't have the energy for it yet. She was feeling dejected and just needed to be held. "It was nothing important." She said in regards to where she'd gone.
Taking a breath, Emma drew in Regina's scent and smirked. "Well next time it's nothing important, you're staying right here with me. No ifs, ands or buts."
"Oh is that so?" Regina grinned and turned to face Emma, her dark eyes landing on the blonde's lips. "And what are you going to do if I try to do otherwise?"
"Well I'll just have to pull out my handy dandy handcuffs and cuff you to the bed." She grinned, wetting her lips slowly.
Regina bit her lip as she watched Emma's tongue wetting hers, her eyes making their way back to the sheriff's slowly. "Now I'm just going to have to misbehave on purpose."
"Mm, I happen to be counting on that."
"Of course you are." Regina chuckled and kissed the tip of Emma's nose before moving so that her back was against Emma's front again.
The white knight grinned and wrapped her arms around her queen once again. The town didn't officially know about them yet, but they had their suspicions. Emma had fallen for the brunette. Hard. But she was so afraid Regina wouldn't feel the same way. "Regina, I..." she paused.
Regina played with the fingers sprawled across her stomach and turned her head to her shoulder so that Emma's breath was on her ear. "What is it, dear?"
Nope. Emma didn't have the guts to say it. "I uh... I'm really glad you're in my life like this. You mean a lot to me."
Regina smiled warmly and leaned back so she could press her lips to the blonde's in a soft kiss. "You mean a lot to me, too. I'm glad we moved past all that trying to one up each other crap."
"Yeah, me too." The sheriff chuckled. "All that was just exhausting. Plus, if I had known things could be this good, I would have bedded you long ago."
Regina laughed. "Is it the sex you enjoy, Miss Swan, or my personality that draws you in? Because not so long ago, you seemed to quite despise me."
"It was the sex at first. I couldn't stand you in the beginning. But I'm glad for our first time. Mm, you remember that?"
"Hmm... I don't know..." Regina smirked, feigning a memory lapse. "Maybe you should remind me of how it happened."
Emma kissed her neck. "Mm, it was when I was just sitting at my desk. You came in in that tight red and black dress of yours. You must have known it was my favorite. As the mayor that you were you came in bitching about something, I'm not even sure what anymore, but I had had about enough of your lip. However, when I stood up all I wanted was those full, luscious lips. You resisted that first kiss, but it made me want you more. The feeling of your ass in my hands was more than I could handle. I picked you up and sat you on my desk. When I pulled back and saw the hate mixed with lust in your eyes... mmm."
Regina once again moved so that she was facing the blonde, the former queen resting her head on Emma's arm as she spoke. She smirked when her lover mentioned the dress and how she must've know that it was the sheriff's favorite. She had.
Back then, Regina enjoyed driving the blonde crazy. In more ways than one. She remembered that day quite vividly, actually. "Yes, I hated you for coming into town and foiling many of my plans. Because Henry seemed more fond of you than I." She slipped her fingers just under Emma's shirt, her finger tips brushing the smooth skin underneath.
"But I also found you extremely attractive. Unfortunately." Regina smiled and looked up into green eyes to let her lover know she was just teasing. "That day, in your office, I wanted to resist you. But once I felt that sneaky hand of yours under my dress, running along the inside of my thigh, and gave in to that second kiss attempt, it was all over for me."
"You know, to this day I can't look at that desk or cell without smirking," Emma said. "I'm glad you gave in and still do."
Regina chuckled. "Me too. We should replay the events of that day sometime."
Emma grinned and nibbled on her earlobe. "Mm, you have a great idea, babe." She said, moaning softly in Regina's ear.
Regina let out a moan of her own and flattened her hand against Emma's stomach before running it up her abdomen to cup a bra-clad breast. "All of my ideas are great, Miss Swan." She teased, in more ways than one, pinching the blonde's rock hard nipple through the thin material of her bra.
The white knight had to let out a whimper, feeling the pinch. She happened to love it when her girlfriend took control. "That you are right about." She slipped out in a whisper.
"Well, I am right about everything." Regina continue to tease as she moved to straddle the blonde, pulling her shirt up over her head and bending to kiss Emma as she unfastened her pants.
The blonde lifted her hips so the queen could pull her pants down smooth legs. "Well, you weren't right about me in the beginning." She chuckled, running her left hand through soft, fluffy brown hair.
Regina tossed Emma's pants and panties aside, a smirk firmly in place. "Oh I was. You're still an annoying pain in my ass sometimes, dear." She settled herself between the blonde's legs, her eyes meeting Emma's briefly. "But you have a lot of other qualities that make up for it."
Emma chuckled. "Yeah and you're still a controlling bitch sometimes. So we're even." She smirked and spread her legs for her lover. "But, of course, you have amazing other qualities that make up for it."
Regina's mouth dropped open slightly, a huff escaping her lips. Well, she'd just show Emma Swan how controlling she could be. With some of those amazing qualities. The former mayor grinned to herself as she plotted to make the other woman scream her name. And then she got to work between her lover's legs, knowing just what would drive Emma crazy and have her begging for an intense release.
Emma moaned, feeling her woman's tongue. It wasn't long before Emma was under her girlfriend's control. She begged and screamed for her total release and once she got what she needed, the blonde fell limp and too weak to move against the mattress. "Damn."
Regina eventually made her way up Emma's body to place a loving kiss on her lips. "Well look at that. I had you wiggling and screaming beneath me and I haven't even removed a shed of clothing." She smirked, her eyes twinkling playfully as she looked into the blonde's.
Emma wrapped her arms around Regina's neck and smirked. "Mm, I was at your mercy and when I get my strength back, I will have to make you scream my name over and over and over."
Both women had their trust issues. One having been abandoned over and over, the other having been manipulated time and again. Both losing loved ones. So when one completely gave herself over to the other, it was always special. But, while having Emma in her arms had helped Regina forget Daniel for a bit, her thoughts had returned to the man. He was back, he was alive. And what should've made Regina happier than anything was really worrying her in numerous ways. "Three times over, hmm? I can't wait until you try." She challenged the blonde, pushing Daniel to the back of her thoughts again.
They had their time alone together for the rest of the day. Henry wanted to stay with his grandparent's for the night. Coming out of the restroom later with only her gray sweatpants and white tank top on, Emma noticed the look on the brunette's face. "Babe, you okay? You look like something is troubling you."
"I..." Regina's eyes broke away from Emma as she looked down at the bed sheet she was covered in, playing with a loose thread to avoid the blonde's gaze. "I just have a lot on my mind. It's nothing to worry about, dear." Oh how she wished that were true. Regina knew she should just tell Emma the truth, but she didn't want to jeopardize what they had in any way. She finally looked up at the sheriff and patted the bed beside her. "Why don't you come keep me warm?"
"Yeah, I can tell. You look worried. Is there anything I can do?" Emma asked before crawling into bed and spooning Regina with a delicate kiss to her shoulder.
Regina pushed her back up against Emma's front as much as she could, instantly feeling a little comforted by the sheriff's warmth. "There's nothing you can do, darling, except for hold me like this. It's nice, comforting."
Emma nodded. "You got it." Holding Regina impossibly closer she couldn't help to ask: "Wanna talk about it at least?"
Regina sighed, but she could rarely resist Emma these days. "Someone from my past, someone I never thought I'd see again, is back. And..." Regina took a deep, shuddering breath. "And things just didn't go well."
"Oh... Well maybe you could make amends with them. You are going for the redemption of the evil queen thing." She suggested.
"I am." Regina nodded. "But I didn't wrong this person as the evil queen. Actually, it was my mother who did the damage. But so much time has passed that the expectations of me just aren't realistic anymore."
"Well, whatever I can do to help I'll do it." Emma offered a smile and kissed her head.
"Thank you. I think this one will just require some patience, though." Regina sighed again.
She wasn't exactly the most patient person in the world.