So this is my first time writing a Swan Queen fan fiction so…yeah. I don't own Once Upon a Time or The Proposal, but I am using them for inspiration.
Emma Swan was seriously questioning what she had done in her life to deserve such a horrible morning. First she had slept through her alarm, which led her to leave her apartment in such a hurry that she left her messenger bag with all of her research at home. Her day got better when Jane, one of the morning Starbucks baristas, had her order prepared for her by the time she walked through the coffee shops doors. However, that little shred of hope she still had disappeared when just as she walked into the Gold Art Gallery she crashed into a box holding the new gallery artwork, causing her to spill her bosses apple spice all over her white blouse.
"Smooth Emma. Way to go." Emma thought to herself.
After Emma discarded the empty coffee cup, she checked the time on her watch and saw that it was 8:28. Realizing that she had exactly two minutes before her boss walked into the building, she needed a quick solution to her current wet blouse situation. She remembered that she still had a sweater from those long December nights under her desk, and quickly made her way to her cubicle while guarding the one coffee cup that hadn't been destroyed in her morning accident with her life. Emma really wished that she had switched out the sweater she had under her desk as she pulled it over her head and noticed there was a large Christmas tree sown into the front of it. It wasn't exactly July appropriate clothing. As checking over her appearance on the computer camera, the office-wide messaging system lit up.
"The witch has entered the kingdom!"
"Shit" Emma said to herself. She quickly made her way to the door that had the name Regina Mills engraved into in, with the words Marketing Director engraved under it. She watched, as the whole office seemed to transform into work mode, just because of the presence of the brunette walking down the hallway. Emma swiftly entered the room, and made sure everything was in order before her boss entered.
Regina walked into her office to see her assistant organizing a stack of art magazines that were placed on the coffee table on the left side of her office. Noting that her assistant still hadn't noticed her arrival, Regina cleared her throat louder than necessary, causing Emma to quickly jump at the presence of the other person in the room.
"Good Morning boss." Emma said, grabbing the coffee cup she had left on the coffee table and handed it to Regina. "You have a conference call in 20 minutes"
"The one about the rest of the Fall exhibit that is coming in next week? Yes, I know." Regina responded, grabbing the coffee cup, and walking around her desk to her chair.
"And there's also a staff meeting at 10." Emma said as she moved forward slightly to be closer to Regina's desk. "Also, immigration called again saying that this was the last warni-"
Regina cut Emma off " Can you reschedule the call for tomorrow, move up the meeting to 9, and call my lawyer."
Emma took in a deep breath and nodded dutifully, having it been the third time this week that she had rescheduled the conference call. As she made her way out of the room and back to her cubicle to call the artists.
Regina took a sip from her apple spice, and noticed that there was a name and number written on the exterior of the cup with the two words "call me" written under it.
"Who is Jane" Regina asked Emma before she was completely out of the room "And why does she want me to call her?" emphasizing the last two words, while turning the cup so that Emma could see what was written on the side of the cup.
Emma slowly walked backwards into the room trying to figure out how to explain the situation to her boss. Jane had always been a flirt and despite the fact that Emma had told her repeatedly that she wasn't interested, Jane was persistent. However, Emma had to admit that Jane's persistence was helpful on mornings like the one she had just had.
"Well…That was originally my cup." Emma admitted.
"And why exactly am I drinking your drink?" Regina responded.
"Because your drink spilled" Emma replied.
Regina took another sip from the cup. "Am I expected to believe that you also drink an apple spice every morning? Just like me?" Regina questioned, looking at Emma and raising an eyebrow.
Emma just nodded in agreement, before the phone started to ring in Regina's office.
"Well go on" Regina said as she motioned for Emma to pick up the phone.
"Good morning. Mills' office….Yes, Hello Mr. Glass" Emma answered. At hearing the name of one of her coworkers, Regina motioned at Emma to hang up. "Apparently we're going to your office right now…yeah…bye." Emma hung up. "Why are we going to Sidney's office?" Emma questioned.
Regina didn't respond, but instead stood up from her desk and made her way towards Emma. Looking at Emma's appearance Regina let out a questioning glance "I think you order the same drink as me just in case your drink spills." Regina leaned in to whisper the next part. "Which if you think about it, it's kind of pathetic." Regina regained her posture and walked out of her office and into the hallway, motioning at Emma to follow her.
It took a while for Emma to compose herself. She had always found her boss beautiful, and sure, she had had a dream or two about her, but she was pretty sure that she didn't have a chance with Regina. Not only was Regina out of Emma's league, but Regina was also her boss, which complicated things further.
Regina popped her head back into her office "Are you coming or not?" Emma quickly grabbed her planner off the desk and followed Regina down the hallway to Sidney's office.
Regina entered Sidney's office without knocking. "Please, come in" Sidney said sarcastically while looking up from the open art catalog on his desk. Regina sat down on one arm of a chair in front of Sidney's desk.
"Sidney, we're letting you go" Regina said nonchalantly and took a sip from her, Emma's, drink.
Sidney slowly closed the magazine on his desk. "What?"
"I've asked you many times to get Katheryn Nolan's work into this exhibit, and you didn't do it" Regina responded.
"I told you" Sidney defended "She is too famous for our gallery. It's impossible to get her to agree."
"That's funny, because I was just talking to her assistant, and her photographs are appearing in our spring gallery." Regina replied. "It's funny though, because she said there was no contact to their office by a Sidney Glass. You didn't even contact them! So, you're fired."
Sidney was frozen in shock.
"I'm going to give you two weeks to get all your things, and find another job. But after that, you are gone." Regina stood up, and made her way out of Sidney's office with Emma in tow. Once they were out of the office Regina asked, "what's he doing right now?"
"He's pacing around…wait, no now he's coming out to the hallway. He looks like he wants to hunt you down." Emma responded.
"Don't do it Sidney. Don't do it." Regina said quietly, but it was too late.
"You wicked witch! Who do you think you are! You can't fire me!" Sidney yelled accenting every word.
Regina slowly turned around smiling. "Sidney stop." She said softly
Sidney continued, "What do you think this is? Some land that you control and can rule over? You don't have any power here? And you have no one! You are going to be alone forever!"
"Sidney, Sidney, Sidney" Regina said teasingly "Do you think this will change anything? Increase your status? You. Are. Fired. If you say another word, I will have you out of here with an armed escort. You may think I have no power, but the truth is, I have it all" Regina said before turning around and continuing towards her office.
As Regina settled back behind her desk Emma asked "Is there anything else I need to know then?"
Regina turned her chair around to face away from Emma and face her computer, while putting on her glasses. "I'm going to need you to stay this weekend to help organize how we're going to set up the Fall gallery."
"This weekend?" Emma responded too quickly.
"Yes." Regina said and looked over her shoulder at Emma, while pulling her glasses down a bit "Is that a problem?"
"No it's just my Grandma's 90th birthday but that doesn't matter I guess" Emma stated, trailing off at the end when she realized that Regina was no longer paying any attention to her. "If you need me I'll be at my cubicle" Emma told Regina but was just given a slight had gesture as acknowledgement.
Emma knocked on Regina's door before proceeding into her office. "Mr. Gold wants to see you in his office."
Regina rolled her eyes and let out a sigh "You know the drill. If I'm not out in 10 minutes go in and say I have an important meeting with the investors. Got it." Emma nodded.
Gold's secretary, Belle, welcomed Regina as she walked into Gold's office but Regina failed to acknowledge her presence. Instead she walked straight into his office.
"Hello there," Regina stated far more enthusiastic than any of her other tones that day, "So what's this meeting about."
"Regina, do you remember how I told you that you needed a visa to work here" Regina nodded. "And how I told you to get in contact with immigrations" Regina nodded again. "Well" Gold asked.
"I'm getting around to contacting them" Regina said.
"Well now immigrations contacting us and is saying that your visa application has been denied on the grounds of lack of contact." Gold said.
"What!" Regina yelled.
"Yes it seems that they have been trying to contact you for the past few weeks but you haven't contacted them. It seems that you are being…deported." Gold said skeptically.
"I'm from Canada. We're pretty much the same country!" Regina responded.
"While you reapply for your visa we will be giving your position to Sidney Glass" Gold said.
"Sidney! Do you mean the man I just fired?" Regina exclaimed. She was pretty sure this was a nightmare. She just needed someone to pinch her and wake her up. Just as she was standing in disbelief, Emma knocked on the door and walked in.
"Sorry to walk in on this meeting, but Regina, you have an important meeting with the investors." Emma said quietly.
All of the sudden it was as if a light bulb went off in Regina's head as she turned to look at Emma. She wasn't sure if the plan would work but it was worth a shot. Regina began to motion at Emma to come closer to her, but Emma just looked at her with a confused look. Regina walked up to Emma, awkwardly grabbing her hand and dragging Emma to the center of the room. The second their hands touched, both women felt a spark, or something they couldn't explain.
Now Emma was beginning to think that this was a dream. She was now in fact, holding the hand of her biggest crush. Emma wasn't conscious of what was happening around her. That was until she heard Regina say those six words:
Emma and I are getting married.