A/N Wouldn't you know it, one that's not a one-shot. It's a two parter.
Things were starting to feel normal here. Here was Fairytale land, as Henry had dubbed it. Emma had sworn it never would. But they were. Things were starting to feel normal.
Even though she didn't have a life to remember, or like Henry half of a childhood, then the rest of her life, to spend here. Something deep inside her knew. Knew that this was her home, where she belonged.
But there was a problem.
What was a princess.., without a prince?
That seemed to be the logic that Snow and Charming were going with as the weeks in Fairytale land turned into months, more and more eligible bachelors seemed to be making their presence known.
Young lords, knights, and princes. Anyone the charmings could guarantee would be able to both love their daughter and take care of her.
But Emma, as if by birthright had fallen in love with someone else. Someone that some may not approve of. Someone she may have a difficult time being with.
She had fallen in love with this someone else long ago.
Back when they were in Storybrooke.
That someone was a not a snooty prince. Not a lord, or a knight. So therein lay Emma's conflict. She didn't want to lose her mother or her father over this. She had just got them back after more than twenty-eight years of looking, and hoping.
But she couldn't lose her true love over it either.
That someone, that someone that Emma was sure was her true love. Was Red Riding Hood.
So the fact that she was her mother's best friend, and... a she, wasn't helping the matter.
Emma had just spent a painfully long time at 'tea' with one of the young man hoping for her hand. She knew the more she put up with it the harder it would be to tell her parents. So now she lay face down on her, rather large, bed. Changed out of the dress she had been wearing for tea... Really it wasn't that she hated wearing them. It just felt wrong, like another lie, another make pretend stacked on top of all the others. In Fairytale land Emma had found, she really liked tunics.
She was currently in one, it was soft and silky, and part of the reason she was seriously thinking about escaping into sleep for the next few hours until supper. It would be a very welcome way to get away from the anxiety she felt twisting around in her stomach... They didn't exactly have antacids.
Emma was so deep in her thoughts, and just a little bit asleep that she didn't notice her company until she was straddling her waist, and rubbing her extremely tense shoulders. She let out a long breath, before mumbling 'Red..' into the thick comforter of the bed.
"Emma." The brunette leaned herself almost flat down on top of her lover, whispering in her ear. Emma sunk more into Red's grip and felt herself instantly being calmed by the brunette's presence.
"God.. don't ever leave me." She mumbled more into her comforter as Red's hands kept working, and she pressed a kiss to the side of her bare neck. Working her way slowly up her neck to her jaw, then her cheek.
"I would never leave you." The red clad woman replied, in a hushed voice as if telling a very precious secret, that sent shivers down Emma's spine. Even though she was plenty warm.
These moments were probably what made it so hard to bring up the problem she had to Red. She seemed so... in love. Not that Emma wasn't. Red was just so, headstrong about it. Like they were unstoppable.
Sometimes it made Emma feel the same way, and other times it frustrated her to no end.
"Red, we can't keep hiding." The gentle massaging of the blonde's back stopped rather suddenly.
"I know." The brunette stated, starting up her massaging once again. "Or else you're going to get married without me." Red crawled off of the blonde, and lay down next to her. Pushing down the fluffy blankets so she could look her in the eye.
"I wouldn't- I don't even know what you're-" Emma's next outraged comment was cut off by lips on hers. A hand on her cheek to keep her from pulling away, for a good long time.
"I've wanted to do that since you stopped kissing me goodbye last time." Red stated, her eyes still shut, and her full bottom lip between her teeth, tasting Emma on it.
"Ru-Red..." Emma gave her head a shake, and propped herself up on her elbow. Having some serious trouble thinking. But knowing that she had something important to say. "You know this may not go well right?"
"Well as long as you're there it should be fine. As long as we're still together... You don't think this could break us up, could it?" Red went from optimistic, and smiley, still a bit up in the clouds from their kiss. To concerned, worried, and a little terrified.
"No. It could make things not so great for a few days but not break us up. Nothing could.. Okay? I'm going to stay with you no matter what. I don't know what I would do without you." Emma had moved back into her laying position. This time extremely close to Red, clasping the brunette's hands between hers.
"Okay..." Red looked somewhere over the blonde's head. Before back down at her, a hesitant smile tugging at her lips. "So how are we going to do this?"
A/N How did you feel about this one? Did it make you cry? Laugh, smile, giggle, or bust out into song? That's what reviewing is for, so you can tell me.