Day 1. Regina realizes she's bisexual. Dragon queen.
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As soon as Maleficent walks into the room, Regina closes the book she's been reading for the past few hours and looks at her teacher. The dragon's head is held high, her eyes burning with rage as she curses her enemies over and over again.
The quest to burn the village must have gone wrong.
Despite the fact that Maleficent is angry and roaring, Regina has to look away and bit her lip as unacceptable thoughts enter her head.
Gods, she's so beautiful!
It is not the first time Regina notices just how pretty Maleficent actually is. It's been a few months now since Regina had started feeling something more than respect for her teacher.
At first Regina was only fascinated by her appearance and the legends that were told about Maleficent. But the more time Regina spent with the dragon, the more she felt attached. She got to know the sorceress, she got to know small pieces of her life, she got to know how to protect herself, how to find happiness when all you wanted to do was give up.
Maleficent offered her solutions which changed her life.
Regina thought that the newly found way to survive the misery that's became her life was the reason she felt attracted to the woman. She thought that it wasn't an actual attraction, it was something more like gratitude.
However, it didn't take long before Regina couldn't get Maleficent out of her head. A few months after meeting the dragon, Regina started to wake up in the middle of the night, panting from the dreams which involved Maleficent and kissing and touching.
This time, Regina blamed it on her husband who made her disgusted with the mankind. She thought it was the reason why she noticed Mal, why she craved her touch so badly, why she wanted to loved by her. Regina simply missed human contact, she missed having someone who actually cared about her.
There couldn't be any other explanation why she fell in love with a woman.
It was wrong and unhealthy and she was pretty sure she could be killed if someone found out about that.
But then Regina accidentally stumbled upon this book she's holding tightly in her hands just now, the book which told stories about cursed people and witches and all kind of madness. She found a fascinating story there about a woman who loved women.
The woman was cursed by the devil himself, the book said. There were a long list of cures for this disease or curse under the story, some of them very drastic and disgusting treatments which made Regina's skin crawl.
However, it did a huge change in Regina's head. She knew now that there was someone else who liked women. She felt as if she wasn't alone. However, Regina wasn't exactly like the woman described in the story for she noticed not only beautiful ladies but also men who weren't her husband.
It didn't change the fact, though. She knew that it could happen and she wasn't just making everything up.
Also, it didn't change the fact that she noticed just how beautiful Maleficent was and that she craved her touch more than anything in her life. Not even the harshest treatments made her scared of her feelings. She felt it.
And it was wonderful.
She didn't even care if it meant she was cursed. Her life had already been miserable, she had been cursed a long time ago.
"What are you doing here?" Mal's voice snaps Regina out of her thoughts and the younger woman blinks her eyes a few times before turning to look to the dragon. "You don't have lessons today."
"I came here to tell you something," Regina starts, taking a deep encouraging breath. She stands up from the comfortable armchair and walks closer to Maleficent, her heart beating so fast, it feels as if it's threatening to jump out of her chest.
Her fear is mixed with excitement and with every step she takes she feels bolder, more confident. She feels good.
When she walks up to Maleficent, she doesn't hesitate. She just inhales and presses their lips together.
Regina Mills may be burned tomorrow for kissing another woman, she might be locked in the dungeons for the rest of her life for touching someone else who is not her husband but it all seems irrelevant now because kissing Maleficent feels like heaven.
"You, little one, don't stop surprising me," the dragon whispers against Regina's lips as they break apart to take a breath.
Regina just smiles in response and leans over to kiss Maleficent again, her arms wrapping around the woman to pull her closer.
That day Regina Mills realized that she was not like other people. She realized that she was cursed or ill for liking women, for enjoying good men company too. And if she hadn't been so dark, she would have probably felt bad about it.
Only many years later she figured out that her disease had a name – bisexuality. That same day Regina Mills found out that bisexuality is not a disease at all. That same day Regina Mills figured out that it is as natural as breathing and that there's no shame to fall in love with whoever the hell she wants.