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Prompt: aevilregalswift Could you write a fic were Regina tells gold that she is pregnant with his child.
Based in Storybrooke around season 6.
And to clean up some really messy things that could possibly clash with this little storyline;
Belle's pregnancy was not sped up, she's off of the Jolly Rodger and has settled into a house of her own still intent on Rumple not getting anywhere near their unborn son (ie the boat scene where she and him were not getting along at all). The Evil Queen is gone to her happy ending with Wish!Robin. They cleared up the Hyde mess. Rumple was miserable and turned to the one person who could give him the one ounce of comfort everyone has denied him - a shoulder to lean on. Regina and him have slept together on numerous occasions (among confiding in one another and so on so forth), but since Regina has wanted to hide the pregnancy from him, he hasn't seen her naked in a month (let alone without some coat or something hiding her belly from his view). At the time this fanfiction picks up, they had their first intimate night a little over 3 months ago (giving enough room for all of this stuff that was aforementioned to happen).
I know the timeline might feel a little jumbled, and I am so sorry for that.
Enjoy! Might add more onto this, depending on if you guys like it or not. :)
They were having dinner at her house tonight. It had been her decision to spend some time together, finally allowing some calm into their week considering everything that had been happening the past few months. Storybrooke never truly had a day of rest, something always seemed to pop up at the most inconvenient of times and being able to get through this dinner would surprise Regina to no end. They had spent the entirety of the meal mostly silent. She had tried to start conversation but the food on his plate had caught his attention more, he was obviously doing it on purpose. She nudged him beneath the table before standing and coming over to where he sat, currently eyeing the apple pie on his plate. "We need to talk." She leaned forward, one hand on the table and the other on her hip. She had been using her jackets as a means to hide the obvious swell of her stomach for as long as she had known but it was time to bring the father of her baby up to speed. "I appreciate the fact that you are very interested in my cooking, but my eyes are up here." For a second she thought he would raise them to meet her own, but they halted the second they reached her chest and his tongue snaked out to lick his lips. "Up here, romeo." The second his chocolate hues peeled themselves from her breasts, she felt her mouth go dry - clearly rethinking telling him about the thing growing in her womb. "I-"
"You're pregnant." He leaned back then, tilting his head as he did so. At the look of confusion forming on her features, a sly grin formed on his lips before he added "Do you think that I wouldn't be able to sense my own magic pouring from you in ways that could bring power lines down?" Licking his lips he allowed himself to get one more glance at the opening of her shirt that revealed the luscious curves of her breasts before he added; "The second the tissues that form the heart began to beat inside of you, I knew. The magic started out as something I could only sense when you were close, very close. Until it was as strong as a gust of wind, humidity in the air. Regina I can feel our power forming in that thing growing inside of you from across town."
"And you didn't think to bring me up to speed?" She had only had time to process it a month ago. The lack of her cycle, the food cravings, among other things. The nausea she had thought to be some stomach bug or a reaction to everything the town had currently had going on. All of the early warning signs she had written off since she had all but thought herself incapable of reproducing since back in The Enchanted Forest she had halted any notion of that with the simplest of potions. "How do you think it happened?"
He chose to ignore her first question and instead give his thoughts on the matter regarding the second. "Possibly the curse? It could have done something to you that helped heal the damage magic had done. Then again if that were true, it could have been broken when the curse was. We could assume it wasn't though shouldn't you have gotten pregnant long before now? With your time you had with Graham and the like."
"Graham was during the curse." She reminded him before realizing that the curse had begun to break around that time anyway; "Eh, not exactly." Her mind continued to try and figure out how something like this could have happened. All the while Gold had brought his mouth to the curve of her breasts and began placing chaste kisses along the revealed skin there while his hand dipped beneath her coat and began to rub along her abdomen. The second he touched her, the power flowing from her frame seemed to triple - the sensation causing her skin to tingle and heat to form along her limbs. He managed to snake his other hand around her back and pull her onto his lap, both legs swung over the side as he leaned her against his chest, face pressed to her cheek. "What-" She took note of the current stance in which he held her, it screamed sweet and kind. Very unlike Gold in regards to her. "-are you doing?" One of his hands still rested on her baby bump, while the other ran along her spine and his lips pressed against her cheek. "Gold?" She leaned back, a smile forming on her red lips.
"After everything that has happened..." He began, trying to will the awful events of the past few months out of his head. "...this is a pleasant surprise. And if you think you're going to get rid of it, I'll-" But before he could finish his threat, she had pressed a finger to his lips cutting off his sentence. His eyes watched as she shook her head, giving him the answer he wanted to hear - that she intended on keeping it - then again after three months that should have been obvious to him. "Good."
She claimed his mouth then, using her lips to part his so that she could slip her tongue in to stroke along his and taste him. Her hand reached up to stroke along his short tresses, nails sliding gently along his scalp before resting her palm at the back of his head. She leaned back just enough to break the kiss, almost to now avail as he pressed his lips against hers in a quick kiss before allowing his tongue to snake out just enough to swipe at her lower lip before he stalled, eyes finding hers. "What are you thinking?"
"How you'll make a great father." Her eyes darted over his features before settling back on his chocolate hues, the expression on his face one that could have broken her heart in two - seeming as if he had never heard those words in his life. "And if anyone tries to harm this child..." Regina wasn't dumb, a child made by two of the most powerful practitioners of magic in any land would have a mark on it's head before it could even come into this world. "...or me for that matter, they will reap the day the thought even crossed their mind."
His hands rested on her hip, holding her as close to him as he could as he nodded. "With the magic pouring from you, if they even tried you could probably cause them to self combust on the spot." A giggle let her lips then and she brought her finger up to run gingerly along his lips, he pressed a kiss to it. The moment felt soft, softer than he had ever thought himself to become with her - but in their current predicament he could imagine it would grow to be a thing more common than not. He couldn't wait to see the being inside of her - to see what they had created despite the world having given them obstacles meant to tear them down and make them hopeless. This would show everyone who had never believed in them that no matter how much bad they had done or pain they had caused, that they were capable of a happy ending - at least he hoped it would.
